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Just read brutaly’s guide, it’s sticked here in the forum. Pretty much every answer lies there.
I play 0/5/30/30/5, imho valor and honor traits are too good to miss.
The best place to put berserker gear is indeed trinkets because they give good critical damage conversion rate. From armor/weapon you can get the tou/vit you need.
My favourite weapon is hammer.
GW2 support is really good, I definitely agree!
Opened two technical tickets, got quick and useful answers.
Greetings from me too, I’m just a casual player but it seems to me we have pretty good players here!
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However considering how much other professions are affetected by the food nerf, it’s pretty much a buff for us!
Since we have rather opposite opinions on that matter and we won’t reach consensus, shall we at least try to divide necessity of AH/MF in different game types? I can’t comment WvW but for me it’s completely unnecessary in PvE and let’s say 50/50 necessary in PvP. Now, I know this answer won’t satisfy you but I play computer games for fun and where’s the fun when you play build with absurdic survivability. I’d rather spent quality time on the floor and analyze what went wrong than be satisfied with my rather above average survivability. I had exactly same attitude in gw1. I was playing builds that were straying from meta in gvg yet they were (imo) more fun, less stagnant and gave more satisfaction once you mastered them.
Ok, but you cannot say that AH is not technically the best just because it seems easy-mode to you and so you have not fun!
Conclusion for this thread:
60 Skill Points – Gain Stealth a few secs.
I’m sure that’s what all of you imagine when you read about shapeshifting norns… gaining stealth for a few secs to run away. Impressive…
Ahah pretty much!
In my opinion ANet did a very bad job on our elites, not because of the fact that they aren’t strong enough (was clearly stated that racial skills would have been subpar) but because they aren’t fun at all. How can you enjoy such a flavour transformation if it only last 30 secs every 4 minutes??? I really cannot get the reason of such a long cooldown on skills that has no impact on game balance.
forget the cooldown… give it to me 24/7 and I wouldn’t use it either… I’m half my character while transformed.
Ok, I agree, but roaming the map in animal form maybe fun, at least it would add a bit of flavour and diversity.
But with 30 sec duration and 240 sec cooldown no-one can have fun, nor have a minimum of flavour and immersion… it’s simply pointless.
5. Even with SoJ and protection it seems to me that +100 vitality with 16k total health is a 6,25% resistance increase to burst, while +100 toughness with 3k armor is only a -3,33% to damage.
The first part is correct but the last part isn’t necessarily correct. That is in fact where we mostly go wrong, toughness increases the relative value of healing. I had a column i didn’t post where it was displayed how fast the healthpool was restored on different levels of toughness and the differences are significant with the same healing power in both builds. Also why i favor clerics over magi from a pure survival perspective.
Yes, I agree, my statement was only related to burst damage, where healing cannot help you. Here a bit of vitality maybe useful, depending on player skill. I know I sometimes make mistakes in avoiding big hits so I go with 17,5k health.
4. I don’t know enough about healing power but from my math precision should be just enough to trigger on-critical effect reasonably often. Past this point power is better for DPS. This makes critical damage too not so over-the-top to me.
To me vitality must be handled in the same way as precision: it’s useful until it make possible to survive a burst, but past this point toughness is the winner.Given these considerations I go for a mix of knight and soldier.
Well in a pve environment that might be true but in pvp you want them to trigger as often as possible and as reliable as possible. The same is true in precision the more often it proccs the more reliable and predictable it becomes which is key in pvp.
One of the biggest healing sources is also omnomberry pie which seems to have no internal cd and that is huge on a high crit/toughness build.
No ICD on omnomberry pie??? That’s huge, I thought it was 2s!
However if you stack precision for on-crit effects predictability I can only agree.
I realize that i was unclear about my intention when posting, sorry for that, i dont think one excludes the other. And personally i find these armor vs vitality and precison over power discussions a bit moot. The reason why i think so is that we infact have three different stats on each set so we are infact forced to combine stats and cant stack one or the other to excess. The only stat we might be able to stack in excess are toughness since we have a gear that combine pre/pow/tough and ofc clerics that are also useful when stacking toughness and heal power.
To me soldier+knight is perfect because they work very well together. Power and toughness are primary on one and secondary on the other, so you can go quite high in these attributes, which are the ones that more benefit of high values. Mix and matching the pieces you can get the only other 2 things you need: enough precision for on-crit effects, enough vitality to survive burst, and the best balance depends on player skill.
Condition damage on guardian is garbage to me, critical damage is meh at best (apart when you get 1% for 5—7 stat points like in jewels, runes or food).
Healing power maybe really good but I don’t use it very much, so I can’t say.
Conclusion for this thread:
60 Skill Points – Gain Stealth a few secs.
I’m sure that’s what all of you imagine when you read about shapeshifting norns… gaining stealth for a few secs to run away. Impressive…
Ahah pretty much!
In my opinion ANet did a very bad job on our elites, not because of the fact that they aren’t strong enough (was clearly stated that racial skills would have been subpar) but because they aren’t fun at all. How can you enjoy such a flavour transformation if it only last 30 secs every 4 minutes??? I really cannot get the reason of such a long cooldown on skills that has no impact on game balance.
Yes, usually Power is better, I have to agree.
But you shouldn’t put every point there: in your case, for example, with 2k points to spend you should put 366 points in precision and the rest in power.
If you had 100% critical damage you should have put 716 points in precision instead.
The problem with the formula lies in the fact that with OLD DAMAGE I meant the damage without taking critics into account. So when you add 1050 and then 1050 again you get a 50+50 damage increase, that is correct.
In your link sadly I can’t see the graphic but the formula is surely right.
Ah ofc, that makes sense. So you could say OLD DAMAGE ~ Power.
The link can’t provide any graphics. You substitute AAA and CCC with your own numbers, click “=” and get (x , y)=(… , …) Thats the perfect distribution for Power and Precision.
Awesome, with Wolfram it’s easy win indeed!
By the way there’s a fault in my formulas so better stick to yours.
I think we do agree, but with the caveat that I don’t think any other weapon or trait should be must-have.
Fine to me.
Thank you OP ^^
After you put all the “bugs” and faults of this profession, I immediately deleted my Guardian
(after salvaging Exotics for Ectos ofc
)
When they fix it in couple of years, I’ll make new one ^^
Many complaints but it’s still super strong!
Ok so it seems we all agree.
Zeal should have at least a viable grandmaster option but it should NEVER become our must-have trait.
The same for scepter.
@Codo: I see this all the time, but when someone gives us a tool, that tool should be a viable options. If Arenanet doesn’t want Guardians doing a lot of damage, or doing anything at range, don’t give us access to things like Zeal or the Scepter, instead of pretending we can do it, but then giving us subpar tools.
It would be like giving the Engineer a Mace, but having all the attacks on it suck, because Engineers aren’t supposed to be good at melee fighting. Just remove the kitten Mace, then.
I cant accept the poor range options just because we are being categorized as "best melee class. Scepter skills need some improvement, if that remains to be our ONLY range weapon. I’d love to see some staff skills being reworked to offer range attack instead their current state.
Spot on, this is what i call balance with in the class. Atm Guardians are in very poor shape in this area, the internal balance and i think this is what Anet should focus on, to make all lines and weapons to do their job, atm Zeal and to some extent Radiance isnt balanced with with the other lines.
If it aint working and Arenanet has no intention to make it work, then remove it.
I think that here we come to a matter of personal preference. VIABLE is different from COMPETITIVE. In my opinion if a range guardian is not viable it’s indeed a game design fault, if it’s not competitive it’s alright to me. This because I can understand that an engineer would want to use a mace for a specific task, but I can’t understand why he should use it as well as a guardian.
This cause professions, like classes in a RPG game, should fit playstyles. If I want a melee character I should go warrior or guardian, period. Playing other professions in melee should be fine but not over the top. If we want every profession to have the same performance in any field we’re just saying that we don’t want different professions, but only one. Or that we want different professions for aestetycs reasons only.
For example I really dislike how races were handled in GW2: reducing them to an aestetyc choice with no impact on gameplay made them lose part of their meaning.
But I understand that this is just my opinion.
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