Guild Wars 2

My preference is leaning towards Guards getting axes as their condition weapon. My ideas for the skills:

1. First two attacks are nothing special while the third strike places a symbol that lasts 2- 4 seconds and immediately inflicts 1-2 stacks of torment while adding 1 more per pulse.

2. Some flashy spin attack that cripples

3. Toss your axe at your target pull them to you (or vice versa, but I think pulling them to you would work better with the symbol). A cool effect for this would be to have a spirit chain attached to your axe that you pull on when it hits the enemy.

Whenever I visit the forums and read anything involving armor in PvE it’s always the same thing. It’s zerker or nothing. If you prefer zerker gear over anything else, that’s fine. But I personally prefer knights armor and have always been perfectly fine with the amount of damage I do. I do not buy the “damage saves time” argument. I agree that more damage will make the dungeon/fractal end faster, but me being in knights gear wouldn’t prolong it more than a a couple of minutes. If you’re going to complain over such a trivial amount of time then you obviously don’t have the time or the patience to be playing in the first place. Never have I felt that I was dragging a team down by not using zerker gear. But the forums always manage to give me the feeling that if I’m not wearing zerker gear then I am a bad player, should feel bad, and should stop playing. Is it true? Does not using zerker gear mean I should just kitten off to my own dark corner of the game since I apparently have no place in anyone’s group? Or should I just skip all that and uninstall?

I would also like to remind everyone that this game is a very casual game. Telling everybody to go with a single gear set unless they want to be bad makes you sound like an elitist. Advising that zerker gear is more useful is one thing. But when a lot of people openly say that non zerkers have no place in groups and are terrible players, it starts to be a problem.