Guild Wars 2

JonPeters.5630:

Wanted to run a potential idea past you all. Comments welcome.

Tome of Courage -> Signet of Courage
Passive: PBAoE Heal every 10 seconds.
Active: Light of Deliverance

Tome of Wrath -> “Feel My Wrath”
Shout that grants Quickness and Fury

We like the idea of tomes and if we did this we would hope to bring them back in a future Elite Specialization.

Thoughts? Comments?

Thanks,

Jon

I would gladly take the signet that AOE heals every 10 sec (if in battle, with a shiny animation pls ^^ ) for my healing, supportive guardian if the heal is decent (maybe even giving a good amount of healing power in addition to it or give guardian +400 healing power baseline or just give healing power overall buff because it is weak as kittycat and doesn’t have a real noticeable impact – especially not over options like raw power).

Black Box.9312:

Sure, they have fancy visual effects and can deal decent damage, but people seem to be forgetting that half the reason why meditations are meta currently is because of the sustain they provide. Once the novelty factor wears off, people will realize that trap builds will have no sustain or condi removal and will just go back to what they were doing before.

Traps, in their current iteration, are just an awful skillset in general and should be reworked to promote more active play.

Though i don’t give a kittycat about meta or its builds, my 0/0/6/6/2 mace/shield/focus + staff build would still be better than any kind of trap option provided by this game. So i still want more symbols over some traps. Sure no great damage but support is quite nice ( though healing power could use a buff in general or at least give guardian +400 healing power baseline).

No thanks, but no to traps.

How about instead buffing healing power? So i finally has some meaning. As it stand in this game, if you trade raw power for toughness, healing power or anything other you always make a poor trade. The amount of defense gained in relation to the amount of power/dmg lost is in no relation. And i’m not taling about 1:1 translation.

By the way give guardian +400 healing power baseline ( why? that’s too much? as if it would have any meaningfull impact in it’s current state). After all, that`s the class most people would think of when they where ask, who the “healer” class ingame would be or who would benefit the most of it.

Well the DH in my eyes seems more offensive than anything supportive.
The traps are kinda supportive but first of all they are just controle.
Then the long CD’s on traps – that’s why i don’t like traps. Long CD’s, fairly low effect and mostly just controle tools.
I hoped to get a long range weapon, with which i could lay down 2-3 symbols, from close to long range, so i could maybe replace my staff with it.
And no that’s not like laying down traps. You’re throwing traps beneath you feet, so you have to actually be at the location you want them to be (while using a weapon intended for ranged combat). In addition, traps have activation time.
Some may find this interesting or “cool” – in my opinion they could just go on playing their rangers. Nearly the same, just less shiny.

So no i’m not happy with what was presented.
The specialisation for guardian was the only thing i was interested and had to catch me, to convince me to buy HoT. It didn’t achieve that – so now buy from my side.

Kitsune.4315:

Hello everyone! Hope you have a good one!

I had some important stuff to do ingame and then I stopped by because there was a player playing on her harp and basically spent my whole day listening to it haha…

And I came up with the idea why should not we have an actual Aria ingame? Probably it is not that hard to get someone who can sing Aria and just change the tones to her voice.

I think it would be lovely to hear a female/male voice sing in a quiet town.

I would definitely buy it haha!

Any opinions on it? :-)

Only if they finally add halftones to the instruments. It’s so frustrating if you want to macro a song, only to realise you can’t do it, because of the lack of halftones and so it sounds kitten.

That’s one possible way to do it.
So, how long did it take you to come up with this?
And how long were ArenaNet working on the guardian for HoT?
…

Still, don’t really like traps :/

laokoko.7403:

Wanderer.3248:

Dragon hunter is as to class names as Justin Bieber is to music.

That is so untrue Dragon hunter is really cool in Skyrim, just imagine what Anet can do with the name.

Dragonhunter aka Dragonkind Hunter Born aka Dovahkiin uses the power of shouts
“words of power” to create powerful magical effects.

Fus Ro Dah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsMdWEpnZV8

All the potential!

If you like it that much then please, play Skyrim not GW2. There you can Fus-Ro-Dah as much as you like.

laokoko.7403:

Dragon hunter is a really cool name. Aka Dovahkiin or “Dragonkind Hunter Born” or
“Born hunter of the Dragonkind”. Just imagine all the potential!

Dragon Hunter’s Utility skill:

Wuld Nah Kest (whirlwind sprint):
The Thu’um rushes forward, carrying you in its wake with the speed of tempest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHJgg7VMAro

Strun Bah Qo (Storm Call)
A shout to the skies, a cry to the clouds, that awakens the destructive force of SKyrim’s lightning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhCUQ-_2sVY

Yol Toor Shul (Fire Breath)
Inhale air, exhale flame, and behold the Thu’um as inferno
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gDabdtU0n0

Dragon Hutner’s elite skill:
Fus Ro Dah(Unrelenting Force)
Your voice is raw power, phushing aside anything-or anyone- who stands in your path
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsMdWEpnZV8

As someone who played over 1000 hours of Skyrim i can safely say, you played too much of it.
Leave the dragonborn in skyrim.

choovanski.5462:

I love how ya’ll are hating on skills that you’ve never seen the tool tips for. regardless of what they do they are going to give you stealth from trapper runes, so stealth dragon hunter is going to be a thing in WvW roaming and got dang will it be gnarly.

If i want to lay traps or be stealthy, i go play a ranger or thief, not a guardian.
Neither the name nor the traps are suited to the theme of the guardian.

In addition as mentioned in other threads there is gonna be a trap nerf (activaton delay) and traps already are weak. I used them on ranger and thief ( even mines on engineer as they funtion like traps) and they have a small activation radius and the damage inflicted is rather lackluster, plus a rather long cd.

Maybe if those traps create symbols and can be activated by pressing the same button again and have a large area of effect it could work. After all, stationary targets don’t activate them.

So yeah i didn’t see the “new skills” (yet), but i’ve seen those which other classes have and are lined into the same category. So it’s my opinion, that i would rather like to get more symbols.
Also if you have to use one specific rune set just to make a specialisation work in a certain category, over other more supportive variants (which the longbow is supposed to be on guardian, a backline support weapon), then i’m not sure if that is the right thing.

I would rather have some symbols, i like them.
Every weapon for guardian should have them.
Symbols for everyone

Rylen.2147:

Saiyan.1704:

Guardians Got

• More CC
• More Peels
• More Conditions
• More Ranged Weaponry

Everything the community asked for has been granted. I’m so excited I could pee!

Where is my shield buff?

I was aksing myself this too :(

Name is generic as kitten, fitting for a warrior or a ranger…
And then traps… seriously? A zealous warrior, blessed with holy might, throws traps?
Seems legit.
And the wings? Oh nice, for a split second on activating a virtue – hm.. where did i already see this… ah yes dragonknight in ESO for example.
At least on good thing this message has – guardian is my one and only class and because the new specialisation was the only thing interesting me for the expansion in the first place, i can safely say now, that i will not bother anymore with it nor will i buy it.
Dragonhunter…. pff.

My Guardian – Tyrael Götterklinge

Tenrai Senshi.2017:

Gemenai.3807:

I’m still dreaming of the day, when an army of angel like guardians rules the WvW with seals, consecrations on the field and hymns in the air.
Already got a guild for that purpose ( though i’m actually the only on in it, partially because i just had a 11 month break) – maybe someday, all those with a guardian in their hearts and a paladin fetish in their minds will rise

Then I’m sure you’ll be happy with the new guardian specialization, if the preview art is anything to go by…

http://tinyurl.com/nyshoxh

Yeah saw the picture^^ I heard that those wings you could get as skin while aquiring the new specilzation? Either way – I WANT!

Zackie.8923:

Gemenai.3807:

I would like to have white feathered wings and in general things that make my guardian look more “holy” or “angel like”. Or cross themed weapons (gladly with some ghosty-blue fire) . A hood would also be nice ( and no the grenth thing oder that other one with demonic smiley doesn’t fit my imagination).
And maybe some more items with the ankh theme of the guardian like the shoulder plates or the helmet.

hell yea homm has awesome looking angels

I’m still dreaming of the day, when an army of angel like guardians rules the WvW with seals, consecrations on the field and hymns in the air.
Already got a guild for that purpose ( though i’m actually the only on in it, partially because i just had a 11 month break) – maybe someday, all those with a guardian in their hearts and a paladin fetish in their minds will rise

I would like to have white feathered wings and in general things that make my guardian look more “holy” or “angel like”. Or cross themed weapons (gladly with some ghosty-blue fire) . A hood would also be nice ( and no the grenth thing or that other one with demonic smiley doesn’t fit my imagination).
And maybe some more items with the ankh theme of the guardian like the shoulder plates or the helmet.

Edit: another picture , another picture

Toast.1495:

Why not make the 3rd chain skill for sword be the double lightsaber slash from some of the alpha videos? That would solve the issues of cleaving, arc, projectiles, and it’d look pretty boss too.

There’s two things that zealots defense needs. One, it needs to allow slow movement rather than rooting you. And two, it needs to hit up to five targets in a line.

As for sword needing a symbol, I could see putting it on flashing blades, honestly. Teleport to your target and sear a symbol on the ground that pulses blind.

Oh yes, please! I really want to use the sword, but until yet without a symbol it doesn’t fit into my symbol orientated build. If it gets a symbol, i would even think about changing my mace/shield + staff to mace/shield + sword/focus.

As much as i would like to have a female norn guardian/valkyr squad cover may back, i think it’s more fun to play with real players.
Those AI allies wouldn’t enthuse players to play more together.

Allthough i really wish there were a easy way for players or an incentive to actually play together. All the time i wander around doing some rnd events here and there.
Sure there are other players but no interactions ( beside combo attacks and the occasional revive) and after the event is over everybody goes there own way.

The thing is, i don’t play much and my last break from the game was about 11 months, so i didn’t join a guild yet but instead created an own.
It is dedicated to the guardian class in a more supportive way of playing ( like the trait strength in numbers as maxime).
I don’t think that i will ever have that glorious guardian army/guild, cause i don’t think among all those meta and berserk players is anyone interested in such a guild, but hey i can earn enough influence to sustain guild flags und slowly building improvements.
Allways gives me a smile, if someone takes the time to thank me for the flag(s).

TL;DR many players, but small actuall playing together – allways doing more my own thing

none.9681:

Tengu? Who cares about Tengu…
Give us Skritt!

Hmmm, Deep Sea Dragon’s name begins with ‘S’? Got it!
Next expansion: Skritt join the fight against the new dragon ‘Shiny’!

Skritt, yuck …
I want Krait

I hereby request the reappearence of the feather-backpack ( wasn’t ingame for about 11 months so i didn’t watch updates or news and couldn’t get it) in black&white and a halo or crown skin for helmets, so my guardian can feel even more holy and shiny

Of course not lore breaking, but if i think of a guardian, the first picture in my mind is that of a human guardian with mace/sword + shield and heavy,golden, angel-like armor.
And thinking of angels i don’t know a popular angelic gunslinger.
If we talk about a steampunky charr guardian, than that would be a total other story.

In short i would say, most people think of the guardian more like an angel-like knight than a van-Hellsing in plate armor.

Taking a look at the Zeal trait line, i really wish i could spend18 trait points, instead of just 14 I would stay with my mace/shield + staff – so 6 points in valor and honor. The 2 points left would likely go into virtues again.

Valor : I + IV/V (depends on how the shield synergie is further reworked) + VII
Honor: I + VI + VII (yay free heal ^^)
Virtue: III

How about giving shields in addition with stalwart defender the ability to give you 6 sec protection (internal CD of 8 sec) for a 33% chance everytime you get hit.
So the shield could actually feel like a “shield”.
You could get a >theoretically< downtime of 0 sec by increasing your boon duration and it would still be just a chance on damage received.

In the german section i also mentioned ( in addition with stalwart defender of course)

giving the shild 4, a circle area of effect instead of a cone and granting protection to 10 instead of 5 targets ( + maybe 1 extra second of the boon).
Giving the shield 5, the ability to generate a 5 second symbol which grants random boons ( 1/second/tick)

But maybe with those addition to 4 and 5, some may argue that it would be over the top.

Swapping third attack of mace chain with 2 of mace so it kind of works like a hammer.

What i would like to see, would be that the mace abilities on 1 and 2 would be like the ones on the hammer.
So i could create a symbol (regeneration) with every last hit of the combo chain.
And maybe the 2 could become a single target hit with powerful direct aoe heal.
I´m really into mace + shield ( although shield is not the best off-hand)but would also like to play it with crithammer build.
So sadly i´m forced to hammer =(