Guild Wars 2

RabbitUp.8294:

SlayerSixx.5763:

RabbitUp.8294:

Tomes are instant casts.
Cooldown: 15s for all 3 tomes. 0 cooldown doesn’t work because of the traits.
Pages:

• You have no pages when not wielding a tome.
• When you open a tome, you don’t gain 5 pages, instead you gain 1 page every 0.5s while wielding the tome (in-combat only)
• Skill #1 cost no pages.
• You lose all pages when you drop the tome.

Remove stability from #1 of Tome of Courage and add a small amount of barrier.

Rework Legendary Lore: Now applies an effect around you when you equip a Tome
Justice: Burn foes around you
Resolve: Apply regeneration to nearby allies
Courage: Apply aegis to nearby allies

It doesn’t ACTUALLY have to interact with the traits that reduce virtue CD (you could alternatively add a clause that converts virtue CD to tome ability CD).

Also, I think that it’d be smoother to allow you to recover pages faster when out of combat, like every other resource in the game (like HP and initiative).

The cd reduction trait is not the problem, the problem is with other traits, like blind on F1, condi cleanse on F2 and stun break and stability on F3. Those have no internal cooldowns, so you would be able to spam them. And other traits that give boon on virtue activation, you would get permanent protection, regen, retaliation without any cooldowns.

With all of the boon stealing/ boon ripping/boon corrupting this game is about to get, there will be far from perma boons stated above.

Firebrand is a very unreliable support class for both pve and pvp, when you blow all of your emergency buttons/tomes which are supposed to be the the literal, main source of this elite specs power, when they go on cd for 50-90 seconds and you cannot access them again, and Renewed focus doesn’t even reset the CD by the way, you are out of luck. so that being stated to being with, lets talk about the rest.
I love the theme of Firebrand, it is something that has so much potential to skyrocket guardian into a really good spot for team support through the whole game, and also has potential to have viable builds to be a tank or frontliner, kind of reminds me of paladins, or a mystic knight. I would suggest tossing the idea of a simple CD reduction buff out of the window, and introduce a system that’s already present in the game like rev’s energy mechanic or thieve’s initiative, and give the tomes a 5-10 second CD per swap. The pages will recharge passively over time, like energy or initiative or you can make it so the ONLY way you can recharge your pages are by meeting boon thresholds, like apply aegis X amount of times to rebuild pages in your tomes, or X amount of regen, etc. You could add boon thresholds for all boons, that way you have variety of how you can gain your pages back, like you need 5 stacks of might applied to get 1 page back or 2 procs of aegis for a page, or 3 stacks of regen for a page, those are just examples.
You could also mix and match that type of system with the right balancing, now of course if the tomes are more easily accessible then you will have to sacrifice the current insane damage the tome of justice does to a respectable amount, and reducing the healing very slightly in the tome of Resolve, Tome of courage I dont really see that needing any nerfing, it provides nothing that can heal or deal massive amounts of damage but has great support. I wouldn’t make tomes into kits though, that would just make it very awkward and more frustrating to make builds and fit in needed utility.
The axe weapon also needs to be worked on, nobody uses it, the other weapons offer more utility and functionality than the weapon meant to go with the class. Besides all of the negatives though, firebrand is okay at provding support/bunkering or doing dps, it does make a great tank though, which is why I am liking the Firebrand myself, I do hope some changes are made.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Reportedly fixed in today’s update

Fixed a bug that blocked recipe updates for Toxic, Bountiful, Furious, and Magnanimous utility consumables.

oh sweet dude, love you for that. thanks for the info

dont worry about it guys, they thought the second hp bar that allowed us 5-10 more seconds of fighting was too OP so now its good to tank 1 burst skill, after all we have access to 20 stacks of stability and 10 second AoE stuns, we were too broken, so they took away our only defense.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

One of the devs says it was a bug that the recipes didn’t change entirely.

where did you see that?

So I see that you state “making crafting utility items cheaper” but all of the sharpening stones still cost a good amount of gold to make, and take the same exact mats prior to the patch, and now the stats given from them don’t really make that much of a difference. Idk if anyone else has noticed this? I’m aware that the bonuses from them were reworked but my point is the gold to benefit ratio is totally not worth it now.