Guild Wars 2

Lots of guardians’ complaint today, lol.

I’m going to join others to call out Anet’s suspicious absence of response after the embarrassing Fracture release, and including this one. Even worse, they refused to response to players’ input and criticism. Look at the Guardian Pre 12/10 preview thread, when was the last one you guys get a response from them.

Put myself in their shoes, I would probably be shameful to the kittenight now with all those blunders. But like mom always says, admit errors and say sorry is how to be a man. For a company like Anet, shuttinglthe door and sulking is so not becoming. How about come out and have a chat. No one bites.

Looking at their track record, Anet’s not going to come in here and talk about anything. The last “discussion” was more like announcements.

they don’t address balance complaints the next day….never have. they really never did until these “CDI” threads.

and to be honest, if they did address things on day-one of balance changes………other classes have it way way worse.

we got some negligible trait changes, a niche heal skill, a buff to sword damage, and a weird change to symbol of swiftness (not sure if its worse or better….with WritofP and 25% boon duration from traveler runes and 10 in virtues, i get 28 seconds of swiftness sitting in the symbol for its duration……using it the way i used to, i can barely tell the difference…few seconds less maybe).

From a PvE perspective:
it’s a bit worse in open world “chase the pack”/escape the Orr mobs situations, but if staff is something you use in combat, swapping with a melee weapon, you’ll probably sit in the symbol enough to almost always be in swiftness while in combat (28 sec swiftness….15 sec CD in a generic 15/25/0/20/10 symbol traveler rune build).

I think what upsets people most about this patch were the promises of something substantial this time around.

With quotes like:

“We do feel that damage guardians are not as powerful as they could be.”

“we opened up more offensive guardian builds.”

“I feel like there is a build here, but TBH I haven’t gotten it to work in our internal testing yet.”

“Another thing about this build is that you do not have all of the information you need about this power guardian right now, but I can’t reveal more without spoilers. /tease”

“I think this makes it feel more like a Symbol, which is good. We are still discussing the idea of it being 5 seconds”

“I think Dec 10th will see the emergence of the power guardian”

“The fact was this was a lackluster trait and this is a lackluster change to it. I would love to do the right thing here and have a change that MH sword wants rather than just 5% more damage.
Thoughts?”

Can you really blame us for being disappointed? All that talk hinting towards something big, and we get: +5% sword damage, that we were specifically told was “lackluster”. As for the other changes?

Kindled Zeal and Retributive Armor were not even guardian specific, just a change to the way they are calculating conversion traits across the board. Shattered Aegis was not even a buff, just a mechanic change that now lacks synergy. Searing Flames is OK, but its far from a damage guardian trait and lacks any real impact. Same with Pure of Heart and Supreme Justice. No impact.

Symbol of Swiftness? There are other threads discussing that one.

Mediocre traits stayed mediocre. Congrats.

quaniesan.8497:

Lots of guardians’ complaint today, lol.

I’m going to join others to call out Anet’s suspicious absence of response after the embarrassing Fracture release, and including this one.

While I’m pretty frustrated I’d not go down the suspicious path yet. Not sure if you work or if so, in what field, but most companies, and people, are winding down in the U.S. for the holidays. They are burning comp and vacation time or their site is closing down. Just how it is.

Now, I’m not going to say it isn’t possible but they are a U.S. based company and maybe that is it. Or, they understand their is a issue and want to check some data / facts before responding. I still say the change was made and the post was nothing more than taking the pulse on the community or change. Or, to be honest, they are letting the players figure out this power build mentioned.

Or, it is a failure to launch and they are embarrassed.