Guild Wars 2

Adam.3716:

You have know idea how much I want to use shield in my medizerk build. Currently running sword/focus scepter/torch. I have the mad moon skin sitting in my bank being completely unused. It would just hinder my builds capabilities so much to do so.

I know your frustration. I recommende u have the shield in your inventory and slot it when u are in towns. Thats what i do.

Ranor.5261:

I am greatly disappointed with the shield, it’s our class icon and yet it’s practically useless in PvE and highly situational at best in PvP. Even engineers have better shield skills, we ought to at least have one skill with it that also acts as a block.

+1 this, i couldnt agree to a better summary

Mikau.6920:

Black Box.9312:

Velho.7123:

I’ve been watching all this shield dislike, and I’d like to give some good points to this weirdly seen weapon of ours:

Shield of Judgment: Low damage, 5 second protection to five allies

I know it seems ridiculous giving some short protection to five people compared to the Hammer’s permanent protection, but look at other classes’ protection sources and see it is pretty rare, just like our stability, we have it so easily we don’t give it it’s credit. I know the damage is low, but don’t forget Protection is one of this game’s strongest buffs.

Shield of Absorption: AoE 360º 5 enemies knockback, with a 4 second(bugged, I know) projectile absorption

Although rare, we do have the longest blowout with Banish (750), but an AoE knockback is still pretty unique, while also defending from as many projectiles foes can fire at you, even from a gatling gun, and having the option to detonate the shield for a considerable AoE Heal.

Please understand that we may be too used to our easy protection and projectile deflection with Symbol of Protection, Wall of Reflection and Shield of the Avenger, but the Shield is not lame, but just maybe not on par with our other weapons/utilities.

But even when you just compare it to other offhands it shows how weak it really is.

Guardian shield has: 3/5 sec protection with minor damage; knockback and either heal or projectile block bubble that roots you, preventing other actions.
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Guardian focus: Bouncing blind, regen, and condi clear; 3 block blast finisher that deals massive damage if all 3 blocks are not used.

Warrior shield: Stun w/ leap finisher; 3 second duration block (this alone is better than both guardian shield skills combined).

Engineer shield: Mobile projectile reflection bubble that can be detonated for knockback; block that also stuns which can be thrown for a bouncing daze instead.

Necro focus: bouncing regen/vuln stacker; boon strip that chills and deals strong damage.

Ele focus: 8 different abilities, including a projectile reflect that cures 3 conditions, a 6 second wide radius projectile block, and an invulnerability.
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There’s a certain aspect of relativity to balance, and when you have all of these offhands that are clearly superior, it should be rather plain to see that guardian shield needs to be changed in order to be viable.

In this comparasion, consider only Swirling Winds (Elementalist focus #4 on air) with Shield of Absorption:

• You are not rooted from using this skill; (+)
• Does not Knockback; (-)
• Have higher duration (6 sec); (+)
• Does not take out your actions to keep the projectile absorbtion. (+)
• (I won’t put detonate on table because the healing is only symbolic)

This comparasion only shows that:
A – The shield #5 is only a AoE knockback with 30 sec CD (which is a lot worse than the engi #4, that can reflect and move);
B – This skill takes out Guardian Action to keep. But Wall of Reflection does it a lot better (does not requires root; have higher uptime; does not take out Guardian actions). I know that I can not compare an utility to a weapon skill, but this skill is just too weak;
C – Not only that, but we aren’t using Focus or even Torch that would do a lot of things that really have an impact on the combat.

Conclusion:
If the #5 were just like Swirling Winds, it would be infinitely better (we would lose a knockback and a symbolic healing that is the same as nothing) or have an AoE knockback with 15 sec Cooldown, but no projectile absorbtion or secondary effects (they add nothing to the fight). This only shows how bad this skill is.

And not only #5 is bad, but the #4 is as well, making the Shield on Guardian the worst weapon in the game. Still, there is no reason at all to take shield over torch or focus, in fact, you can use shield if you want a 30 sec CD AoE knockback and only this. The #4 have so little impact (even if you hit allies) that does not worth a mention.

… or make #5 root u for 4 sec. Allies inside gets protection and dmg taken by allies is shared with u (guard).

Tron.3471:

i NEVER ever feelt it that it roots me while getting hitted in the face.

But thats exactly what it does…. Shield 5 does not stop people from hitting you because they still can walk through the bubble and the projectile defense is ridiculously short.

Guardian shield does not bring anything better than what we already have access to. This is the problem with shield, because there is never a reason to bring it over another weapon. You can get perma-protection from hammer and superior reflects from utilties and sword without gimping yourself by equipping a shield.

A shield should have the best defense abilities for guard (because its a fricking shield) and currently it does not, and no amount of cooldown reduction will change that.

Just wanted to troll u by saying u forgot the base defense stats the shield gives and the toughness from trait :P

whatever the outcome i love the twist, even though as u say its hinted from time to time, that this might be… im still gonna stand my ground on the fact its a difference of being created by a dragon and a dragon minion.

its not gonna be a civil war for the same reason it wasnt any hate for everyone but sylvari that turned into Zhaitan minion when dead, or sometimes not even dead. Or the branded for that matter. Noone says hey, its a branded charr lets kill all charrs.

Yes sylvari is a dragon creation, doesnt mean that all sylvaris is minions.

sry missread. I thought u guys meant the “dark secret” was that caithe was a murderer :P. Maybe thats it, Scarlet maybe never knew that Caithe new about the dragon spawn thing. But actually ment that Caithes big secret was the fact she killed Wynne and just later on tried to reveal that by saying “ur fantastic caithe is a murderer”

Why?! how? is it impossible that Faolin told Scarlet that Caithe killed Wynne in cold blood, cause Faolin was there but didnt know why Caithe did what she did. I see a great possibility that Scarlet and Faolin met at some point.

She fooled me of atleast 1k gold,.I was going to sell it on TP :S

I agree but Why not use fleshwurm and Necrotic T to port through those lasers. I belive u actually found the Only place in any dungeon necro is a good choice ????

I get the same today while loading mad kings labyrinth. It will not lock the character though, but i need to restart the game from gw2 start window.

The bubble will be interrupted and destroyed if u start to move right after using #5. So u have to wait atleast until the cast duration is finnished before moving.

Something must be done to the guardian shield,. all suggestions is a lot better then its current state. Only reason to use shield as guardian is because it looks way cooler then focus. I have shield when im in a town. I use Focus 100% of the time i fight over shield. Focus even has a blastfinnisher on 5 if not destroyed, and will block all types of attackas 3 times. Shield only absorbs “eats” projectiles and u risk to upset ppl with the knockback + freaking lightfield. If u use a shield as guardian be prepared to get yelled at. Or be very cautious when u put down 5. #4 doesnt do much but it will not make ppl mad.

I belive OP did read on his biology but forgot the geology class. Fossiles takes millions of years to create, and is just a print of the animal plant on rock (former seafloor) created under high preasure under millions of years to make to the surface.

I still think its fair that we fight risen as not totally decomposed, both with reallife arguments and gw universe magic. So i say lore is solid enough on this point

mimic doesnt absorb the first projectile/misslie. First projectile will hit u and u can mimic it, the rest of projectiles coming at u during that 4 sec bubble will refelct missilies though. Dont know if its a bug or wrong at the description.

What is the big rock with carvings inside queens throne room?

Is it one of the bloodstones? Sry for my lacking lore knowledge.

Hey all!
I´ve been playing mmos for some years now and something that i have allways thought about is why we say “dungeons”. Does any1 know when “Dungeon” as a Word for (special mission instances) got named a dungeon? Was it original a dungeon instance in an mmo? Was it just called dungeon out of the blue?..

When i do dungeons i allways have a big smile on my lips and Think, why do i call this a dungeon, where does it come from, who invented the concept Word “Dungeon” to discribe a instance based mission?

I dont have a better name for it, and i dont disslike it, im just curious.

Horst Hortensie.5420:

My tip on the Queen: Queen Jennah is actually hostage of the shining blades.

No please,! I need some good guys still running in DR. As for now Reading all the posts i only trust Seraph under Logan command and shining blade as solid Royal guards

its beginning to be too realistic with “the world doesnt come in just black and White” scenarios. Let the Hollywood spirit with clear good guys bad guys flourish in Tyria

Dont forget that we allready did get “some” evidence of Orr cleansing. After the devs officially told that zhaitan was defeated they cut the risen population in Orr significantly. I will never forget first few months i played my PS in Orr and it was impossible to run around in Orr without engaging Risens, and when u killed one, more spawned like five sec later :P.

This is what wiki tell when searching for bandits.

copypaste: Bandits have been seen throughout Kryta and the Brisban Wildlands, where they are in surprisingly large numbers. They are in an alliance with centaurs in the war, supplying the centaurs with both materials and enslaved villagers. They are also attempting alliances with the Inquest and Nightmare Court.

Rumors indicate that many bandit organisations are tied to the White Mantle. Several ministers and parts of the Ministry Guard are secretly supporting them. There is strong evidence of support by Julius Zamon and Caudecus Beetlestone.

Oh my god that… im stunned. This is a theory i was waiting for. I might think u nailed it.
My only concern is that u guys are better theorycrafters/storytellers then Anet

Found this guy in refugee camp I wouldnt buy anything from this merchant. Any1 tried to buy from him and see if he steals your foundings?

Ashadow.6874:

Because no one bothers with the actual personal story:

Trahearne did his job, and left the players to do their job. (Sylvari characters’ “Wyld Hunt” is to slay Zhaitan. Trahearne never claims to do this.)

DESTINY’S EDGE tries to steal your credit. Not Trahearne. Stop qq’ing because Trahearne is amazing, and start wondering Destiny’s Edge (and Logan) takes your credit.

agree! But the roleplaying in this game is somewhat lacking. I checked with leaders from Vigil, order of whispers and priory. NOTHING about LA is invaded by Scarlet and theories on why. I hoped for some clues, but they are just just talking about risen on claw island and yadda yadda yadda. Logan and his leutanant talks about thieves within Divinity walls for god sake :P

+1 crossbread dragon

I Thank u for the good and constructive/ educational respond. I must admit i dont have much knowledge on the lore in GW. I have one more question though why i think it may not be forest dragon (can be lacking in lore again) but we know primordius use minions as a weapon of choice (like scarlet) and if scarlet have seen this dragon, it would explain the dredge flamelegion as first minion choice (dragons choice). Then she tries new twisted minons of her own. I admit the nightmare/krait does speak for jungel dragon and so does the painting in her lair with the vines around the pale tree. But that could be fig.speaking that the pale tree is getting the roots choked by fire and smoke. jungel wurm is just a side effect imo of scarlets drilling and probeing, and not something that was intendent (might have missed some in livingstory saying different).

hey! did a search on primordus on the forums, but i couldnt find anything on this dragon. I belive on my research that scarlet is corrupted by primordus. The first elder dragon to arrise in Tyria. Primordus dwells deep into the earth (scarlets vision on abyss, her probes and the big drill). Primordus loves fire and earth minions (flamelegion and dredge). The painting in her lair looks like primordus to me. This is the first big live event and Primordus was the first dragon in Tyria (Primordus -> First). The leylines is how the Asura powered their gate network with magic bleeding from Primodus. Did i got it spot on? did i miss something.

yea! unplayble for both my gf and me atm.

same… never seen this until a few minutes ago

As the necromancer minions at current state more looks like some kind of demons. It would be more necrotic to actually spawn “risen”. Instead of that awful dead rats it should spawn peasents. Instead of that scorpion thingie with legs it skould be a risen noble. The bad Ghost should be a defiler and so on. Im in the impression GW2 necros is more Warlock then necro. I hate the minion looks at it current state and refuse to say they belong to necromancer. So either make new minions with new abilitys or just let us have new skins on current.