Guild Wars 2

I didnt understand this nerf, this skills was really situational

The good start for PvP is remove the casting in Tomes, starting from this and tweak the skills variable, right now its very inviable, I dont kitten care about this Tome animations, I just want them to be useful.

Hey everyone this is my feedback from firebrand during this first weekend from PvP aspect.

I’ll be very direct on points, but first the main problem of Firebrand:
- Cast in Virtues are insane, the response of casting a tome to casting a skill is really slow and you die before you can react sometimes. Like 1 1/2 seconds to casting most of the skills. Many times I canceled my virtue due a dodge of defensive skill making my virtue enter in a long cooldown.

Tome of Justice:
Good overall, all tomes have 2 skills with 240, 1 with 360 and 2 with 600 range.
- Casting time should be reduced to 1/2s for Igniting Fire, Heated Rebuke and Ashes of the Just.
- Casting time should be reduced to 1s for Scorched Aftermath.
- Radius increase to 300 for Igniting Fire and Heated Rebuke.
- Igniting Fire should have blast finish.

Tome of Resolve:
The healing power should scale better with this Tome, nothing good at time, you can’t outheal when you enter this tome, most of the time, you dont have time to recover yourself.

- Radius increase to 300 for Radiant Recovery & Azura Sun.
- All skills of this tome should have their casting time reduced to 1/2s
- Radiant Recovery should have a blast finish to have more synergy with Shining River and Hammer, Focus blast.

Tome of Courage:
- Radius increase to 300 for Daring Challenge & Valiant Bulwark
- Casting time reduced to 1/2s for Valiant Bulwark
- Unbroken Lines should get 5 stacks of stability.

Axe:
-Symbol of Vengeance should add a little of quickness as a boon, like other symbols and casting time reduced to 1s.

Mantras
All mantras need a rework in range maybe 600 range in cone or 360 in radius and the pre casting time reduced to 2 1/4 like mesmer mantras and casting times reduced to 3/4.

Mantra of Solace
- Should have a better healing power scale and base heal for the first 2 times better.

Mantra of Flame
- Scale with condition damage

Mantra of Truth
- Scale with power.

Mantra of Liberation
- Unhindered Delivery should add the all this buffs Ashes of Justice, Eternal Oasis, Unbroken Lines.

Traits:
- Stoic Demeanor: Rework this trait to add something more useful than slow at least something that increase enemies cool down when you disable or imobilize or something like when you have quickness you have superspeed or healing, because this trait doesnt feel as a major grandmaster.
- Loremaster: This trait could add some extra improvement to Tomes passive like a little of extra quickness each seconds.

Bugs:
Renewed Focus is not recharging tomes.

Did they nerf the Hammer and Shield damage while scaled them with atributes?
The hammer damage now is 592 with marauder, what the kitten?!

Hammer of Wisdom: Fixed a bug that prevented Hammer of Wisdom damage from scaling with the guardian’s attributes.
Shield of the Avenger: Fixed a bug that prevented Shield of the Avenger damage from scaling with the guardian’s attributes.

Second Syg.7219:

Ratings are calculated by the Gw2 PvP Player Association. Ratings are calculated by a complex algorithm that uses input from 1000s of players.

What? Explain this.

Nova.3817:

i think build templates should be a absolute must…and to be honest i cant see why its so hard considering that they already have the tech in place….

the only issue i could understand is that there would be errors with equipping weapons in the builds that may not actually exist in your inventory…

The template already create weapons if you don’t have them in the inventory

+1
I would like it too.

Just revert please

Sword of Justice and Hammer can compete vs smite condition, trading cond cleasing for more dmg and cc. Will need to use sigil of cleasing and escape in bow.

yeah, just add tomes to the animation please.

Just make it real, I don’t want to have one guardian for each build.

SneakyTouchy.6043:

You can practically game the system now by running a 4 man of all different classes and queing at the same time to get paired together.

most likely you are right, i think anet is giving priority to class balance over mmr, but can you explain this?

I had 2 interesting matches this season

First situation was when I was doing my placement in a duo with CJ. We got solo players in our team versus mooobs, zeromis, nos & wakkey… like nos said in the stream “enjoy the free win”

Second situation was this week, I was playing in my alt acc that had only 1480 mmr in a duo with Ring that had in that moment 1620mmr.
We got Cj and Destroyer Free in our side and zeromis and a friend in the other team. We won, my alt acc didnt represent my skill, but why should MM put me versus top 10 players with only 1480 mmr?

+1
I’m asking for this along this 4 years

We were waiting 3rd round and now tournaments is closed. =/

Nice gameplay dude!

Yeah, meta was very balanced before patch.
Build diversity exists for unranked/ranked… you play what you want, i can play any good build in my guardian for fun and works.
But in tournaments, players with high level and equal chance of wining… they deleted some classes from compositions.

Acandis is right, just overpower this daze spam. Add CD to daze in choking gaz.

No response from Anet?

- 25% Moviment Trait

- Change the Dmg trait on Wings of Resolve to knockdown.

I already had the spec before HoT.

;)

my azure flame is ready

+1 to CC, Ranged Dmg and Mobility.

In PvP was 100% of chance to get it by reward track. I farmed 4 of them. You should did the same.

I do not like to enter these topics about matchmaking, because in the end is about the experience of the players.

Let me do only more example of things that happen to me. I have my team and other friends that only play pvp, with them i go ranked… BUT Im from a PvX guild and I like to encourage people to learn PvP. So I queue (with TS Communication) with 4 noobs and only me with experience in unranked… sometimes i can carry the game but sometimes my team mates are losing 1v1 and fights that I’m not in… no matter how much i communicate i can’t make their individual skills better.

in the other hand my experienced friends only send invites for ranked and we go extremely well without TS communication because everyone knows what they need to do, how to lockdown, how to rotate when they die or win fights…

So you need to get a team bro, like me =)

And you can do esports in the real tournaments, not in ranked and unranked…
I usually only use ranked and unranked to test strategies and builds, improve my play skill.
And ALL matches seems to be fair.

PS: did you cry about a 1+1+1+1+1 vs 2+1+1+1, (500×300) really?

Bio Flame.4276:

Just fought with a PUG against a premade team of at least 3 guys from same guild.
To make matters worse, they have the kittening annoyingly OP Engi Cancer build.

It wasn’t even a contest, we lost 500-200.

Naturally, I am guessing that Josh/Evan will come here and spout some nonsense about their matchmaking algorithm, saying this and that and whatnot. In the end, everything was fine and fun and balanced.

Because, hey! The algorithm > any opinion from any number of players.
Keep being stubborn, ANET!

PS – I immediatly got paired on a PUG team vs a 2+1+1+1 team. No Engi Cancer builds, what it wasn’t a fun/balanced fight. 500-300. Just couldn’t deal with their 2-man coordination with a PUG team.
Another example of how good the algorithm is, probably….

People that qq about matchmaking in forum, its not a huge base, 60%+ of them are unskilled players that don’t accept the defeat. Teamspeak and coordination are good but in the end experience and playskill is more. Sometimes if you are a good player.. you can carry team.

For me playing solo or with group, i usually don’t have problems, hard to get a blow out.

Ill only say: amazing buffs!!

First build I’ll use in my med guardian

GS, Scepter/Focus

ZEAL
Symbolic Avenger
Zealous Blade
Zealous Scepter

VALOR
Monk’s Focus
Communal Defenses
Smiter’s Boon

VIRTUES
Indomitable Courage
Absolute Resolution
Unscathed Contender

I can see my huge cleave incoming on downed people.

darres.8203:

where the hell did all these players come from

i did the same question.

I know this is not fault of Anet or anyone, but I’m really surprise how fast the 64 team slots were filled. My team mates were working in the roster for a long time and now we are not inside the ToL and many other competitive players are not registered that i know.

from where these people sprouted?

bump

bump
.

++++1. REWORK THIS!

Good job Acandis!

Chaith.8256:

• This leads to the realization that medium to high MMR players can only attempt to achieve quality matches, with a competitive win rate representative of their skill, without severe handicaps, when they queue as a full group. This further limits group playtime to a couple hours a day, where a group of 5 competent players can be organized and continuously play. This creates a further disadvantage in win farming compared to low MMR solo queuers.

The real true.
In my case I’m only playing with full group in ranked during the prime time. I’m getting really cool matches. But its impossible to achieve a good rank, I’ll stay in % forever with this algorithm.

Tiale.2430:

Ty Anet! I was waiting this new system.

<3

I take back what I said. The farm is still there.

The only reward I need

Glory and blood of my enemies!
hahaha

Ty Anet! I was waiting this new system.

<3

nightblood try to use sigil of rage in GS, its amazing, you’ll see your WW 100% better.
I use rage + air or fire.

Hunter.4783:

“accredited” players, are nothing but more vocal posters. Did they finish some secret guild wars 2 collage or something? Are you joking me? You really think for a second this ultra casual MMO has a huge skill discrepancy between beginner and “pro”?

lol

Guardian is LIFE.

In the leaderboard we can sort by ranked, points, win and losses. Is it not simple to add the option to sort by win % or I’m forgetting some variables?

Skills edited for my taste.

1. Puncture Shot- Fire an arrow which pierces enemies, damaging and cripple them in second or third atk (magical atk chain).
2. Light Arrow – Charge up energy, creating a powerful attack which pierces and blind through enemies.
3. Symbol of Battle – Fire a slow arcing arrow which explodes on impact, burning targets and searing a symbol of battle into the ground.
4. Protector’s Chain – Fire an arrow attached with a chain of light. The chain will attach itself to the target doing dmg over time, pulling in and immobilize other nearby enemies.
5. Zealot’s Fire – Fire an arrow that damage and knockdown enemies in target area. Blast Finisher.
GG

I also believe that a berserker composition would be cool, but with a great synergy group.

Justin ODell.9517:

uberkingkong.8041:

Where are all the good players at yo?

Define good? Your rating is average, so you should be getting matched with the average player.

I love when this happens!

creepmatic.9435:

What special new role will the LB guardian take in WvW Zergs/havoc, or how will LB make guardian more viable in pvp and not bite on the existing professions.

Its the same question for Engineer Hammer meele, necro great sword melee, ranger druid magical staff… we will only see the new rules when they come to the game, and a new meta will be created.

Friend, its about the role and game pool.

I can talk for PVP.. We have 2 viable roles in the moment…
-Zerk meditation
-Cleric bunker
Have people that are trying to use celestial and condition builds in the moment, but its not viable in the competitive, because they don’t have much sustain like an El d/d, eng or war.
Maybe with the new spec we have more game play modes using celestial and condition builds, we need to wait to see the new traits too.

I chose Bow because we have only 1 weapon with long range, scepter, its better in the moment than in the past, but we can have another option.
We don’t need off hands because we have good ones, like focus.
Axe for what? do it will be a gap closer? more dps than sword?

Its not about “if i need a ranged weapon, i go to Ranger”. This is not the fact that a team choose the composition. Its about more strategy and different dynamics that you will encounter to fight. And more options to beat another class alone.

PVE- We really don’t need a guardian with longbow in the actual game, you need only to stack and do dps.
WvW- Guardian have a lot of space in the moment, i don’t know if longbow will be used in zerg fight, but in a roaming situation can be.

creepmatic.9435:

Can’t wait to see LB guards in dungeons…

Sorry man, I don’t consider PVE players’s opinion. hahaha

I’m looking for some extra dinamics to fight other classes in PVP, not about support anything in a dungeon.

and here is the gif of guardian again.
http://i.imgur.com/rT2hdgE.gif

Many replies here about axe, warhorn and “double shield” (WTF).

Who real plays Guardians knows that we need more ranged options and a more mobility specialization. Anet said that will implement the classes in what they are bad. So its not about Guardian concept… it will be another new class.

THE BOW WILL COME TO US.

Odysseus.8095:

Tiale.2430:

People just like to complain… in the past people complained to go against team like mini ken, caed, tammy pre-made teams and got smashed by them, they in the primary leadboard positions and you in 200, 300+. Because didnt have enough people to play.

I suppose now that mmr works well, if you are going solo you are playing with people in your skill play level… if you are playing in the group the other team will have mmr to compete. I’m not in a leaderboard, but i have like 80%+ win rate, and i got some cool battles and other good names in the opposite team.

People who cares about the competitive, in the moment don’t look into the leader board.

LOL “tammy”

haha my bad. I should say Tany..