Guild Wars 2

Very well said OP. I just recently came back to the game (I played briefly at launch) and was extremely disappointed with my Guard main still not having either a tanky build or supportive build. Those are the two reasons I chose Guardian, and was hopeful that Firebrand might give us those, and while it seems to be the idea behind it, the mantra mechanics and cone based frontal aoes just ruin the whole spec. I’m still holding out hope that Anet will realize this and “fix” the profession soon to make us a viable option to Chrono tanks and Healing Druids, but if after 5 years that hasn’t happened, I’m not sure how realistic it is to expect it to happen in the next couple months

I would love some spear skins for my Guardian’s staff so I can relive my GW1 Paragon days

My suggestion would be to have the staff no. 1 skill as a 1200 range AOE on hit attack similar to the Ele no. 1 staff skill. Orb skills on both weapons need to be completely redone and should be instant hit as the “slow moving orbs” are almost useless in WvW (can’t even hit downed players that teleport around with them at times) and trying to see where that orb is (on the staff skill) to either damage foes or heal allies is nigh impossible with all the AOEs. Basically Orb skills should just be changed to Light Rays similar to Focus no. 5 skill. As others have suggested, make the staff the 1200 range weapon all around (and please reconsider changing the no. 4 staff skill as well, the channel on it feels too long to me) and the Scepter as the 900 range option.

Great to read that Karl Can’t wait to see what changes will be made to it, as it looks great animation wise but I don’t find much use for it currently and would love to use it more.