I pretty much only play guardian. I also play exclusively PvP (for the most part). I’m sapphire and I’ve been playing for around a month now. So this is just my perspective on everything.
There are a lot of things that I like about guardian but one thing that I really LOVE is the blue fire. I just feel like a firebending Azula kitten. It looks dam good. Like really freaking good. When you see blue fire, you know a guardian is around somewhere. SADLY, IT DOESN’T FUNCTION ANY DIFFERENTLY THAN NORMAL FIRE…Other classes, especially the meta ones, have so many different conditions (damage) in addition to burning. While guardians have fire, and arguably retaliation which I believe to be a thing of the past. (And chilling on hammer if you spec the trait…)
This is an aesthetic that ONLY guardians have access to. Instead of making this just some shallow recolor, I would LOVE to see some actual gameplay value when you see blue fire on the screen.
Ideas- (Just pointing out goals and a general direction) -
1) Make blue fire a separate condition from red fire. (You can still see both blue and red flames fairly easily, if you’ve ever played guardian) This gives guardians ‘another’ condition while still remaining within the theme.
2) Make blue fire have a different effect than red fire. This is another part of making blue fire distinct and different. So in terms of theme, torch 5 cleanses conditions off allies. How about making it ‘cleanse’ boons off enemies (over time), nearby allies lose conditions, but this fire deals less damage. Or something like that. I’m not the best at these ‘new’ idea things but it MUST function differently.
ANYWAY, I don’t usually like posting balance change stuff, but the guardian forum is dead, and I LOVE this profession kitten. I mean there are spirit weapons too, which I guess maybe turn into something like the engi kits? but one step at a time. Anyhow, this is something so core to the identity of the guardian that it makes no sense that it has zero difference in functionality. I just want a good balance patch man