Guild Wars 2

I agree with the title. There are a lot of fun things in this Spec that are being overlooked.

1.) In combat mobility. With Axe 3, the two new deceptions, Blink, and Jaunt we are all over the place. This is tremendously fun and thematic. I’ve had a lot of luck in PvP and WvW roaming with this mobility today and it’s been a blast.

2.) The animations are gorgeous. The false mirage is especially nice, but I also just like the very watching my mesmer leap around like a thief. The Chronomancer is a master of time, but the mirage feels like a master of space.

3.) Clone retargeting is something that we’ve wanted for years.

4.) A fairly nice burst (stealth, Mirror Images, Axe 3, dodge/Ambush, F1). Axe in general has been hitting hard for me, as long as set up my attacks from stealth or with a pistol stun first. This may be clunkier than Chronomancer, but felt very rewarding.

This is a good foundation to the spec. It is something that can be built on. Our feedback should try to build from these foundations, not to fight against them. Here are some minor tweaks that I think could really help Mirage out.

1.) Since we’re so mobile, I’d love to have straight damage buff when we’re behind / to the side of enemies. Reward us for leaping around.

2.) As others have said, we’re still slow. Give us a 25% speed boost or something for your UT of combat mobility.

3.) Setting up Ambushes is fun, so give us a little longer to do so. Heck, the Mirage dodge could last slightly longer than usual to make up for its lack of mobility. More stuns or CC could also help, but may be OP.

4.) The shatter traits confuse me. If I want a shatter build, I should play Chronomancer. So why not do something different? Let F1-F4 focus on buffing our clones and phantasms. Keeping our illusions up will help us blend in, reinforcing Mirage deception.

Black Box.9312:

Silhouette.5631:

What bothers us most isn’t that guardian doesn’t get some attention. What bothers us most is how little the attention the guardian would need to fix 90% of its problems

Honestly, this. The class has so much potential, but just a small handful of silly design choices (a melee class with very limited CC & mobility, the apparent obsession with projectile-based melee attacks, a shield that feels more like a wet noodle than a shield, etc.) are really holding it back so hard, and it really wouldn’t take all that much effort to fix these issues.

Holding it back so hard from what? We are viable in every game mode and are welcomed by all parties. I agree there are things to fix and tweak, but when I’m on my other characters party members regularly ask me to switch to my guardian.

As others have said, it’s ok. I like it a lot in PVP, because being able to reposition your opponent can be extremely valuable. #4 is lackluster, however.

I expect to see Wells thrive in WvW, but they don’t seem to offer enough oomph in PVP to replace our other essential utilities. How do we give up Blink and Decoy?

I’ll try them, for sure, but their bite doesn’t seem strong enough to make up for reduced survival.

Saiyan.1704:

Majic.4801:

Ezrael.6859:

The accuracy of your Shortbow and Longbow are nothing in comparison to how abysmal the Scepter is in terms of velocity and tracking.

So does that mean “obstructed” errors for professions other than Guardian are somehow unimportant?

Not quite following the logic there.

Scepter attacks are incredibly slow to the point where we want every molasses death orb to hit. Zealot’s Flame can be a single burst attack that, more often than not, can determine whether or not we win or lose a fight.

Other than that single knock back skill, Rangers do not have that issue as their skills are fast, trackable, on a relatively short CD, and your heart doesn’t skip a beat every time your potential 4k Zealots Flame gets “Obstructed”.

Sure. Guardian has bad ranged options, we all know this. It doesn’t mean that the obstructed glitch doesn’t effect others. It’s a bug that needs to be fixed universally.