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I’ve been playing this game for 3 years and it appears that players were more civilized then now. Recently I have created a necromancer (I played all in pvp except necro and ele) and learned to play the condition build, today I get into an unranked arena and I failed to stomp an enemy to rescue my ally since I did not bring stability. Then my teammate blame on me for not having rescued him and I apologized. We ultimately lost the game but then the guy wrote in team channel that it was my fault and said “don’t play unranked if you are not good” and the other one said I am “kitten”, and that I am supposed to tank for holding point (which is not my build), as if I am the only one who contributes to the losing. I was speechless.
Indeed, I was offended, and this happened like hundred times, in PvP and in dungeons. Apparently the GW2 community has degenerated these years. I was expecting the community always be better than that in LoL but those people really made this game newbie unfriendly.
If you spent your time reading my stuff, I would like you to share your feelings.
They brought too much future elements in this game (waypoints, Asura gates…) and there are screens and holograms everywhere. I’m not saying it is bad. It just feels that way. And those scientific terminologies make me feel that they are nerds in some American Sci-Fi movies.
Illusionary Leap doesn’t have a correct tooltip now either. It doesn’t even have a correct skill name! It should be Illusionary Charge But I’ll Potentially Stop To Admire Stuff, with a description explaining that the clone will charge towards your target, but randomly stop if it sees something interesting on the ground. Such things may include rocks, strands of grass, pebbles and ants.
Illusionary casual stroll is what we called it in the betas.
It should be Illusionary Charge But I Am Too Lazy To Climb Slope.
Yeah Anet wants everybody to play condition. Too much hilarious nerf on mesmer.
If you think Warrior is better than Guardian for WvW or that it will be after this update you must be bad at playing Guardian.
For anything else than 1v1 Guardian will still outclass Warrior, same as now.
You must be very pro playing as guardian. I would like to see your build of some of your video. Let’s look the question “For anything else than 1v1 Guardian will still outclass Warrior, same as now” objectively. Yes, indeed in PvE dungeons and fractals Guardian is not that bad because most profession use zerk build anyways. You can easily dodge/block bosses’ skills with your weapon and utility blocks and choose your range/melee depending on the situation. The reason why people prefer guardian in fractal is also because of their presence can increase significantly chances for warriors, say, to be attacked. I agree that the incoming vigor and boon duration rune nerf will not have significant impact on Guardian.
Let’s talk about WvW situation. My Guardian has world rank 23x which is not that bad (maybe noob to you). In T1 server I want to state that Warrior is better than Guardian in front of zerg because their stances (and passives) can make them immune to damage/condition/cc in the first 6 seconds after zergs collide which is decisive to the battle. With full soldier build Warrior can hit up to 30k hp and they have more stability than guardian. While being immune to everything they can cc using hammer build. Currently the most viable build for guardian in WvW is hammer/staff for permanent protection and heal on boons on allies + shouts converting/applying conditions on allies with increased boon duration. The incoming boon duration nerf will indeed reduce guardian’s support role and vigor nerf will reduce guardian’s chance to dodge heal, a large piece to Guardian’s survivability.
In PvP good Guardian can 1v1 Warrior and vise-versa, thank you.
You should brainstorm your arguments before you say something and don’t assume you are better than everybody else.
Yes, I play guardian as main but in pvp I hardly lose to guardian when playing mesmer.
I have played guardian for a year. Now I just found that guardian is just a handicapped warrior. Guard has already low health and we need to sacrifice Pure of Voice for 3K HP. The boon duration runes will be also nerfed. Warrior has greater mobility (great for WvW roaming), more health and more dps. I found that Warrior can be as sustainable as guardian because of greater health and condition reduction. Since they will make ascended gear account-bound and I also enjoy playing my warrior alt, I am ready to switch to warrior.
Now I am very confused with guardian’s awkward position among all professions. It looks like Anet wanted to build a profession with lower health but strong passive healing and condition curing. But now after a year of playing I found that the passive heal is useless compared to warrior’s double passive heal (seems healing signet will be only nerfed by 8%). With elementalist’s new stone heart, guardian will be less tankier than ele, and warrior as well. And for condition removal? Every profession in condition build except guardian can kite you to death even if you are fully equipped with condition removal trait and skills.
Yeah you can say I am whining but that’s the reality. Does anyone shares the same thought with me? Switching to warrior?
Played guardian for a year, so disappointed they are just going to make guardian a handicapped warrior. BTW they still haven’t improve Litany of Wrath… Boon guardian and zerker are the two most common build at the time. They gonna nerf boon duration runes and zerker builds. Also nerf vigor on crit.
None of these new Grandmaster traits for guardian will be viable. Given elementalist cannot be crit while attuned to earth, thief can stack confusions worst than mesmer (with perplexity runes). Now what’s is the purpose of having a guardian which cannot dps, tank (already one of lowest health), and support with boons. I suggest to remove this profession so I will focus on mesmer.
My “projectiles” get reflected and damaged myself while hitting thief using dagger storm. It happened to me several times. Did it happened to anyone? This is ridiculous because it is supposed to block projectiles and if they are really projectiles there should be a projectile finisher.
1. Skin: Appearance and attributes should be separated, I spent tons of money for transmutation, especially after the release of ascended gears.
2. Ascended Gears: Love the weapon design, but they should really be a skin allowing players to choose color and should not have greater attributes than exotics. The ascended armor is a complete failure (ugly like hell from my perspective). I transmuted them as soon as I got the full six pieces, and now I rarely go to GW2 after “ascended” all my gear. See how Bolt of Damask difficult to craft? At the beginning it was fine, because the material is cheap (7 coppers) and now it is hitting around 2 silvers. It requires ridiculously large amount of materials (300 silk scrap for a single bolt of damask). And for mid materials, like linen scraps, we can hardly acquiring them because nobody plays in mid-level area.
3. Legendary weapons: You can get it by paying golds. To acquire the precursor you have no choice but to dump tons of rare weapons into the mystic toilet. I don’t like the appearance either, just making you shining with ugly rainbows. Rainbows everywhere.
4. Nobody plays in mid-level areas: Those areas are useless but to leveling. Everybody is farming dungeon, farming fractals, farming world bosses, way-point, farming, way-point, farming champions (newbie areas and 80s areas). The award given by completing world events is pitiful (only 1 silver or something + karma + experience). Other people are just taking queue for WwW and afk in Lion’s Arch, making the whole city lagging like hell. The world is vast and beautiful and I like it, but since I got my map completion I rarely come back to these areas because there is nothing else to do. This is a waste.
5. Living-Story: Rarely new maps and skills get released (Southsun Cove + Labyrinthian Cliffs + healing skills are good by the way) Every living-story is dedicated for fanatics hunting achievement points. Everything is farming. I love the epic world view of GW1 and I would like to see it more through living-story (gods, other dragons, etc). The original contents of GW2 is good and epic but several living-story are just ridiculous: some kitten air bandits, Scarlet, festival events (most of living stories are festivals) just not epic enough.
Anet please do something. My friends are leaving GW2 and I don’t want to be the next because I am so tired.
I agree that Litany of Wrath’s cast time is way too long consider the 20% returning healing. This skill is useless unless they increase the base healing or decrease the cast time. Note that warriors have Defiant Stance with only 1/4s cast time and thiefs have Signet of Malice that heals passively.
Today I realized that the ascended chestplate requires a vision crystal (500 raw ascended material for each kind) whereas other 5 pieces requires a lesser version (200 for each). However because I was too urged to craft these armor so I crafted six lesser vision crystals. Ultimately the extra lesser vision crystal becomes wasted, in my case, since I am not planning to craft another set of ascended armor. I am wondering if there are other players who commit the same mistake like I did because the fact that only the chestplate costs more whereas all others five cost less is incongruous.
I am not saying Anet should replace vision crystal by the lesser version for the chest plate since it is my mistake not to consult the list first. And I know that changing this is unfair for those who already crafted the whole set. But notice that getting these ascended materials, especially dragonite ores and empyreal fragments, is time consuming. I don’t think it is a good idea for these materials to be wasted.
My suggestion is to make one of the following recipes available to the mystic forge :
Recipe #1: 2 lesser vision crystals + 1 empyreal star + 1 dragonite ingot+ 1 bloodstone brick = vision crystal (2 augur’s stone = 40 skill points)
Recipe #2: 1 lesser vision crystal + 3 empyreal stars + 3 dragonite ingot+ 3 bloodstone bricks = vision crystal (1 augur’s stone = 20 skill points)
This is only my humble suggestion. Since Anet released the lesser version I think they know how hard to get these materials. I reckon that adding one of these recipes to the mystic forge is not technically difficult because it requires four kinds of item. Finally, I believe that i am not the only one who made such a mistake, and there might be more. For everybody it is frustrated to have these materials “wasted”.
Thank you for reading my complaing and thank Anet in advance.
Cheers.
I strongly agree that longbow should be added as a Guardian class weapon. Anet should elaborate the idea of blue flame projectile with longbow, I find this very cool. Also what is incongruent is that guards have Bow of Truth but cannot master this weapon. And, because guards require Grandmaster Huntsman to craft ascended torch, it would be awesome to add longbow since it would be silly to level huntsman to 500 only for torch.
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While the CD of #5 skill Judgment of Tome of Wrath is way too long and there is no longer stability granted, Anet should really make it immune to blind when casting the skill like engineer since a simple blind can easily prevent the skill from hitting which is ridiculous because there is no condition removal while holding a tome. I can say that I only used this skill in PvP and WvW no more than ten times since I started playing this game a year ago.
Hello there, I choose a Zenith Dagger instead of Torch. I play a guardian and dagger is no use for me, and I wanted the blue flame of that torch…I really really want to have that torch. I previewed all weapons before I made the choice…I am just so confused. It would be appreciated if you can refund it for me. Thank you very much.
Hey, me too, I play a guardian and I choose the torch for the second time. Before that I selected the torch because I like the blue flame, but I end up getting dagger instead. I’m so confused.