1. Slightly higher base hp. Yes I know the whole guardians would be OP with more health arguement. Yes I know we have aegisandblocks/blindspams/renewedfocus to keep us alive, but having 10k base health leaves literally no room for error. I’m not asking for kittening warrior 20k base health or anything and I would honestly be happy with the next highest base hp tier, which I don’t know off the top of my head. 10k base hp is just too low in my opinion.
2. Split Zealous Blades into two traits, one for gs damage and one for sustainability. Trying to balance damage and healing in a single trait makes it underwhelming at both while becoming OP once it’s buffed to be efficient at either. Remove the heal on hit, bump the damage increase to 10% like the radiance line X for swords is, and drop one of the many traits that honestly no guardian would ever be using for a sustain/heal-type trait.
3. Maybe add access to another damaging condition besides burning if anet wants condi damage guardian to be viable. Maybe bleeding? I dunno. One single damaging condition is too easily removed.
Am I the only one who wants to see this trait split into two separate traits, one for damage and one for sustain? Trying to find a balance between damage and healing for one trait makes it comparatively underwhelming at both, while becoming OP once it’s buffed to be effective at either. Just drop the heal per hit, bump the gs damage increase to 10% like the master trait Powerful Blades for swords in the radiance line, get rid of one of the useless spirit weapon traits in the zeal line and make it a heal on yadayada whatever hurray sustain. Just my thoughts.
True, it’ mostly guesswork right now. Maybe a miracle happens and they manage to produce something halfway worthwile – at least the strength runes preview sounded useful.
That’s why I asked if they would be worth getting, in people’s opinion. Of course it’s all guesswork but, second opinions never hurt :P
Would Superior Runes of Strength be a viable choice (5% damage if might is up), if Scholar is too expensive or would you still suggest Ranger, especially with the ferocity stuff happening? I figured since Ranger is prec/crit% it wouldn’t be as good as straight power anymore but I haven’t really looked into it.
So, in the 15/25/0/20/10 Hammer build, I was wondering if taking 25 in Zeal instead of 10 in virtues is worth it for the Symbolic Power (since hammer/gs would be constant symbol) if MoC isn’t needed. Basically, is the symbol damage increase (and 100 power) high enough to be worth it.
This may be a noob question but why don’t you take 30 in valor for the extra crit damage? The ‘meta’ is to get as much dps as you can because most sources of damage can be avoided, but you’re missing out on like 30% crit damage by not putting anything in valor.
