Guild Wars 2

What does your consistent group of 5 knowing what each of you do have to do with what I’m talking about . This doesn’t keep me up at night, I was just thinking about it after today. Only thing I do on this game right now is log on and try to get dungeon runs to save up gold for my legendary. But I have to sort through the groups that are like AC All paths NEED GUARDIAN (what do you need a guardian for for easymode stuff). And then when I do get a group and they see all the extra dmg and boons they’re doing its ‘thank you guardian for all that you do for us’ =P That’s all.

Good Guardians do bring a good amount of stuff to the table I’m not arguing that. Stability like no other… Aegis which no other class gets… and especially some utilities that come in handy in specific situations. But most guards you get in pug groups hit hold the line when its up and swing their greatsword. Oh and then take credit for my boons!

I think most people have no idea what a good D/D ele in a pve group does.
I was doing CoF today and at the end of one of the paths the war in the group goes
‘our guard is amazing’
because of all the boons from his shouts keeping everyone up (or it could of been cause we were in CoF and people shouldn’t be down in the first place) but of course no
‘this ele is awesome’
I realize that a lot of D/D boons are pretty short range but keep in mind this is melee talking. So let’s see what a d/d ele with the proper build does:

Tons of might stacks from blast finishers in their combo fields.
Might, regen, swiftness, and protection from elemental attunement and swapping non stop.
AoE auras and constant fury and swiftness along with them through Zephyr’s Boon.
Lots of healing through water attunement: regen, soothing mist, cone of cold, cleansing wave, evasive arcana ae heal.
AoE cleanses.

Though I was in a group yesterday with a dagger ele that stayed in fire attunement the whole dungeon so I can see where people can get a wrong impression.
So anyway done with my rant. I don’t post ever but it bugs me that no one realizes that all the boons they have when I’m in a group could possibly come from a elementalist.

I had an issue with the amount of people hopping up and down at the start… but once I figured out a certain way through the beginning, I started to pull ahead of the group every time and was able to concentrate on the later half of the puzzle.

I did this right when phase 2 started and got the first exotic out of a chest that I’ve ever gotten. Did some events later after they patched and still got a exotic out of a champion chest… though I didn’t get squat out of the family sized champion chest. So looks like exotics still drop. Though they definitely made it so all the T6 fine mats stopped dropping.

Yeah… not sure why there’s so much whining about the tower. It’s not impossible. Took like an hour but did it as a guardian with no speed bonus or being able to see my toon at the start due to all the people. More effort less whine and you’ll get it.