Guild Wars 2

So this might not be put in the right place, but here we go.

I was doing TA Exploratory a few days ago, and my team consisted of 3 guardians, me(mesmer), and an elementalist.

Now i’ve played with 4 guardians before and had nothing extraordinary happen, but this run was quite different. I’m not too sure about the exact builds of the 3 guardians, but they were running shouts and healing.

The boons were EVERYWHERE. there was not a second in the first 2 times we ran through that we didn’t have almost every single boon on us. Our d/d Ele (happened to be running 30 water) was destroying. by the third run, i had an idea.

I switched to the signets of midnight and inspiration. and i promptly realized that it was not only completely op, but it also made it really difficult to see the top left corner of our screens.

Long story short, I’d guess, is that is there any ridiculous situations like this that’d you’ve been in as a Mesmer?

I play a condition mesmer, and I was jumped by a backstab stealth abuse thief. I immediately made as many clones as I could, popped Chaos Armor, threw down Chaos Storm, etc. It didn’t do any good though, I couldn’t see the thief due to CnD and stealth. I wasn’t even able to get one autoattack off on them.

I took enough damage + bleeds to go down, and I think to myself, “kitten#8230;” But when I look for the thief to delay the stomp, I see that they are already downed and almost dead. Turns out, my clones were able to get a few shots in, and the “confusion on death” trait was triggered multiple times from the thief attacking clones as well as me summoning new ones (thereby “killing” the old ones).

Long story short, I killed a full glass cannon thief w/food buffs, without ever landing a single hit.

well with 3 guardisn taht should not really be hard, if all of them use a save yourself and time it properly and all avhe the shout recharge reduced by 20% that meana a cd of 48sec on saveyourselves and considering the boons last 10sec from save yourselves, that is 30sec uptime and then 18 sec downtime only with ONE skill from each. And from waht i see save yoursevles is a rahter popular skill for guardians :P and considering that not their only boons giving skill i would be more surprised if 3 gaurds didnt mean a almsot full uptime on most boons. Even with 1 guard only i expect a rather high boon uptime

SYS is a personal boon gain for the guardian though, I think the real boon gain for the party in that situation came from the Ele’s aura multiboon sharing (fury, swiftness, protection, elemental attunement one) and shouts like Stand your ground (retaliation and stability, works wonders with high-power parties O.O ) and Hold the Line (Prot-Regen). Plus, one of them maybe had 15+ points in Virtues and… more retaliation, more protection/might/regen. On top of that, a possible party-wide Might on crit from Empowering Might… 6/8 constant might uptime.
There you are. Boons orgy.

Just saying, if that Ele knew what he was doing, he was giving almost more boons than the guardians.

SerMahad.4813:

SYS is a personal boon gain for the guardian though, I think the real boon gain for the party in that situation came from the Ele’s aura multiboon sharing (fury, swiftness, protection, elemental attunement one) and shouts like Stand your ground (retaliation and stability, works wonders with high-power parties O.O ) and Hold the Line (Prot-Regen). Plus, one of them maybe had 15+ points in Virtues and… more retaliation, more protection/might/regen. On top of that, a possible party-wide Might on crit from Empowering Might… 6/8 constant might uptime.
There you are. Boons orgy.

Just saying, if that Ele knew what he was doing, he was giving almost more boons than the guardians.

oops my bad, geuss it too long since i played guardian really, but still the point stand taht guardis can if specced for it give out a TON of boons still, jsut not with taht particular spell :S
Dont know enough about ele’s to comment on that but if what you say is true that just stupid sick many boons then :S

SerMahad.4813:

SYS is a personal boon gain for the guardian though, I think the real boon gain for the party in that situation came from the Ele’s aura multiboon sharing (fury, swiftness, protection, elemental attunement one) and shouts like Stand your ground (retaliation and stability, works wonders with high-power parties O.O ) and Hold the Line (Prot-Regen). Plus, one of them maybe had 15+ points in Virtues and… more retaliation, more protection/might/regen. On top of that, a possible party-wide Might on crit from Empowering Might… 6/8 constant might uptime.
There you are. Boons orgy.

Just saying, if that Ele knew what he was doing, he was giving almost more boons than the guardians.

I couldn’t really tell whether the Ele was stacking more boons than the guardians or not. I know we had perma swiftness, fury(those would be from the ele), like 6 stacks of might, aegis, and protection.

But yes, I’ve seen and played boon support ele as well, and it’s imo the best boon giver in the game.

A popular guardian build is Altruistic Healing – they need to buff their team to heal themselves. Three guardians can pump out tons of might/retaliation/protection/regen etc when given the proper motivation to do so.