Here are my thoughts on the guardian:
Symbols are great flavor-wise, but they have more traits built into trait lines than ele’s auras, but the static nature of symbols makes them a good deal less useful. They need to be instant-effect in order to be as useful as they should be. Needing to stand on them continuously makes them weak. If they are going to have so many traits, they also need to be as pervasive as auras are for eles – you should always have one in your skill set. Give sword and scepter symbols and the traits are a little less useless already.
I agree that there is a huge lack of mobility and that this is a lot more of a problem than damage. This has been pretty well articulated in this thread, and I wholeheartedly agree. Guardians need more cc, soft or hard or both, or it needs more mobility. Alternatively, it needs to have a greater wealth of ranged abilities. In a dynamic game, you cannot have a character who lacks both range and mobility. That does a good deal to lock players into point-defense bunkers.
On a personal note, I’d really like to see Elite Focus moved to adept tier. It’s really hard to justify this in a real build, but I adore the tomes. I take it, but I feel a little silly. The trait really doesn’t seem to fit that tier. Particularly considering I don’t think many people actually seriously use tomes.
Speaking of tomes actually, I think it would be nice if we still had access to our virtues while using them.
Just my thoughts. High hopes for the changes!
