When the guardian throws up Reflect and you see the shiny shield wall glowing in the air in front of you please continue to attempt to shoot the guardian standing on the opposite side of it, because at this point the reflective shield will be performing it’s intended function, it’s not broken because you chose to keep shooting. Retaliation’s purpose is similarly the same to discourage you from continuing to attack or make you at least weigh the risk against continuing your assault. Don’t want to die from retaliation don’t attack when it’s up send the pet into die or just pause and set a trap and let them come to you. Personally I liked Retaliation before the nerf, but I’ve had to adapt since. Nerfing never was and never will be the key to keeping players happy I believe since someone always get shafted, better to buff the remainder. They busted my retaliation once already I respectfully request you leave it alone.
No real problems with Thief as a guard staying alive anyway. My biggest problem is when the Thief jumps in to attack starts getting his tail end kicked and decides to run away and then come back to bother me again after he ran and I didn’t feel like chasing him. No one likes chasing a thief as a guard. After 4 or 5 times of this it gets old, the thief doesn’t kill me and I am a bunker with moderate DPS so I don’t have the burst to kill them before they decide to run again. No reason to nerf the thief just give me a way to catch him that reaches as far as his sword teleport so I can end the harassment and save myself the time of chasing them, or give me the option to challenge him to mortal combat sorta like a cage fight, it can even have spectators and an npc to place bets at to win tokens to spend on siege equipment. Nothing more satisfying then stomping a thief that has been harassing you and the reason I know this is because Ive watched small legions of people scourer the map looking for one thief just to have that opportunity. Could sell flares that reveal the thief’s location and sell some that tell me which one is the real mesmer giving us something worth while to spend our tokens on. No reason to nerf them. Just buff the rest of us. Guardian with stealth would be fun, yeah I could get used to that….
I apologize in advance if this is not the place to talk about this topic. First time forum poster so please have some patience. I picked this forum because sPvP is where the situation occurred. I was in a sPvP match today with a guy and he stood at the entrance of the map the entire match with his glory booster on and did nothing. I asked him if he was going to just stand there. He replied I should blame ArenaNet for their design of sPvP because he couldn’t finish all his dailies in tPvP. Boasting later he would still get credit for the match even if he did nothing. I will post a screenshot of what he said. This type of behavior has the potential to ruin the fun in sPvP. I would like to suggest a report option that contains the category Freeloader. Everyone who has done any pvp knows what it means to be outnumbered. Standing around enjoying the scenery and 3 seconds later you’re down. No reason to be upset just part of the game, but when someone refuses to play the game and gets rewarded without helping team mates and his team is still getting overrun, now that is wrong and worth getting upset over. Worse he blamed his behavior on ArenaNet, he didn’t have the audacity to even admit what he was doing was wrong. Looking for options on what to do in this situation should it occur again.
