Guild Wars 2

Shouts got big buffs! Hurray! Guard is now even better with a much shorter CD, sick em changes, and buffed pets for more value out of protect me. What shouts will you incorporate and why?

PS-Anet….you are kitten amazing. Rock on!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Did Guard and Sick’em! get some stealth buffs i didn’t read or are you just talking about the lower CDs?

I don’t like the functionality of guard. If it was an on demand shout (how many shouts have a one second cast time?) that gave your pet stealth and protection alone I might bring it. I find the targeted area part of the skill to be a hindrance and something I would only want to do for a cheesy exploit or in PvP.

I like the recharge change on Sick Em. With my pet living longer in dungeons thanks to the vitality buff (I’m also running a signet build so toughness as well) some of the pet buffing skills could be tempting. I’ve only done one dungeon since the patch, but so far I’ve loved the pet survivability. I ran a Stalker and the Hawk intentionally to see how they faired and I didn’t see them downed once. If things keep going well in some of the more challenging dungeons I might slot Sick Em for some crazy pet DPS. Jaguar stealth + Rampage as One + Signet of the Wild active + Signet of the Hunt active could be some crazy DPS.

There are so many options right now and as much as it’s to do with the skill changes, the pet survivability is probably the most important one.

Seems like Drake + Guard + Sig of Stone would be a pretty dang durable, especially on a healing-power beastmaster. As I recall, you can still send pets down from walls in WvW using Guard. I could see a bunch of drakes being used to quickly take out enemy siege such as catapults now.

Durzlla.6295:

Did Guard and Sick’em! get some stealth buffs i didn’t read or are you just talking about the lower CDs?

I didn’t know a drastic reduction in CD isn’t considered a buff?

slingblade.1437:

Seems like Drake + Guard + Sig of Stone would be a pretty dang durable, especially on a healing-power beastmaster. As I recall, you can still send pets down from walls in WvW using Guard. I could see a bunch of drakes being used to quickly take out enemy siege such as catapults now.

You haven’t been able to move pets down from walls with guard for a while now – at least, it stopped working for me ages ago.

stale.9785:

slingblade.1437:

Seems like Drake + Guard + Sig of Stone would be a pretty dang durable, especially on a healing-power beastmaster. As I recall, you can still send pets down from walls in WvW using Guard. I could see a bunch of drakes being used to quickly take out enemy siege such as catapults now.

You haven’t been able to move pets down from walls with guard for a while now – at least, it stopped working for me ages ago.

Hear that? It’s the point of slingblade’s message flying over your head. For what its worth, someday, I bet birds will be able to scale. Even of that doesn’t happen, I mean, dude, that was cheesy and you know it.

Chopps.5047:

stale.9785:

slingblade.1437:

Seems like Drake + Guard + Sig of Stone would be a pretty dang durable, especially on a healing-power beastmaster. As I recall, you can still send pets down from walls in WvW using Guard. I could see a bunch of drakes being used to quickly take out enemy siege such as catapults now.

You haven’t been able to move pets down from walls with guard for a while now – at least, it stopped working for me ages ago.

Hear that? It’s the point of slingblade’s message flying over your head. For what its worth, someday, I bet birds will be able to scale. Even of that doesn’t happen, I mean, dude, that was cheesy and you know it.

What point? (S)He said that guard still functioned that way (reading comprehension ftw) I pointed out it doesn’t.

I have not tested it, but I thought I read that Guard still sent pets down walls, just not up.

Durzlla.6295:

Did Guard and Sick’em! get some stealth buffs i didn’t read or are you just talking about the lower CDs?

Guard has always stealthed the pet while it runs to the target location and until it attacks from that location. I never understood why people didn’t use it in that ‘cattination’ build as you can move your jag into position in stealth and not waste time on its F2 on travel. Perhaps people just forgot about it :/

Was going to go test Guard, but I can’t get into the wvw area right now. Bleh.

Oberon, that’s just cool – twice in two days you’ve presented me with cool. I had forgotten about the extra stealth.

I already used shouts with less emphasis on Protect me…I think now, I’ll just not equip the Shout cooldown trait and put something else in its slot. Unless I decide to use S&R…

Guard doesn’t work on well still, I checked after they changed Search and Rescue to see if they changed it back

Not gonna lie, having perma prot on my drake in instances is AMAZING, NM + Guard ftw!!