Guild Wars 2

why has the range on this skill been brought down to 600 range again.it was 800 or 900 for the beta.this skill is gonna be useless as well if range is not increased.it would be a useless skill.also using it with absolute resolution is bad as the skill procs the cleanse at the end of the animation rather than the beginning.this is a problem if conditions are stacked on a player.

ok after going through multiple emails with anet and having tried everything from reinstalling the game to using previous graphics drivers,changing startup services using msconfig,im still getting the disconnects,this happens every 2 to 5 mins.the game is unplayable.was working on record runs but couldn’t do it due to the disconnects.something is wrong with the client and i cant identify the issue.hope a deeper investigation is being done on this,i would hate to play the expansion with these issues.plz fix it.

ok thanks,ill let you know how it goes.

in my case i ‘ve been getting the blackouts every 2 mins,the game is unplayable at this rate.i have also updated my drivers but no changes so far.hope we get a fix soon as i have already bought the expansion,it’ll be a horrible experience if this goes on.

I7 4720hq, NVDIA gtx 970m 3gb, 24 gb of ram.

Guardians now gets put in combat whenever blocking,plz fix.

Hi after having played this game since launch ,i’ve never encountered this issue but over the past week or so,my game client goes all black after a minute or two of gameplay,this is really frustrating. im hoping a fix comes soon to deal with this.

i do not know if it has anything to do with the patch.i wonder if anyone else has encountered the same issue.

Saiyan.1704:

leonidash.9416:

no.this is why.think about it, most of the other classes can have HYBRID builds which can allow them to fight with damage/cc/ conditions . As for guardians we rely purely on direct damage.if we try to go with hybrid builds,we end up sacrificing so muc

I run a hybrid build, x/x/6/x/x
I’ve switched from Carrion to Berserker to Knight’s how ever I please with little to no issues. Guardians ARE one of the most balanced class in the game. Maybe not better in terms of one build owning all, like the war or engi, but we definitely have more build diversities.

What gets me the most are peels. Darn near every class can peel away immediately like the warrior. Or can kock down a crown like the Engi or mesmer. Yet us spear head guardians can’t keep you where we want you unless we change our entire build to Immobilize/knockdown, which doesn’t work for every build. And at best, that’s only for 1 person.

Most guardians have at least one skill that they can switch out before a match. What we need is a skill that causes Cripple if used in a Light combo field. It wouldn’t break us at all and we don’t have to change our entire build for it

see what you are saying kinda makes sense although condi guard,i dont know about that but on an overall note sure i agree with you but i think what you didnt get is my opinion of what a balanced class is.to me its not about not having any weaknesses, but what a balanced is,its a class that allows for many variations in builds aka hybrid builds and capabilities as a class without sacrificing too much i.e being able to DEAL with everything but not necessarily beat everything as that would depend on skill. in other words what you said about being able to peel away is somewhat relevant,i definitely agree with your idea on cripple.its maybe the most important change a guardian needs together with lower cooldowns as we have poor mobility.

now that change is what would make us a balanced class. other classes are more balanced as they have more variety,a good example is a pu mesmer which has a hybrid direct/condi damage and a lot of stealth.why do you think guardians are being removed slowly from high tier pvp matches.well the answer is cooldowns and mobility(peeling away)

Ok after reading all the comments,this is what i think, are guardians a balanced class?

no.this is why.think about it, most of the other classes can have HYBRID builds which can allow them to fight with damage/cc/ conditions . As for guardians we rely purely on direct damage.if we try to go with hybrid builds,we end up sacrificing so much,sure we fit nicely as a support role but on a 1v1 situation in a skirmish oh boy you need to be really good..for all those who said that guardians are great for wvw ,sure i agree but its always because youre playing as a support role, not as a roamer,if you do try to roam there is always something you end up sacrificing and other roaming classes will kill you which is fine as long as you are given a chance to defeat them,it all comes down to cool downs of your skills. as for pve great class,thats understandable because youre fighting predictable AI ,but once again what do we have to sacrifice? HP.a full zerker guard with full power and precison traited ends up having 11k health and we are supposed to be a melee class.

finally lets get to the nitty gritty of things for pvp.

most classes have got another class/build that hard counters them unless if youre playing a hybrid build which allows you to cater to different types of builds.with the guardian the issue is the cooldowns are way way too high.elite skill (renewed focus , which is the only viable elite) has such a high cd and its only lasts for 2 sec.the ranger signet of stone or the warrior endure pain dwarfs it, as the duration on those skills are way higher and they dont keep you stuck in an animation,thats a really big thing.please pay attention to this anet. if i was to go for a shouts build then the cool downs on my meditation skills would be too high vice versa .which makes hybrid build quite poor.

i can tell because i play a lot of pvp.once a guardian uses his elite and healing skill,most likely he’s cooked.as he has minimal mobility and cc.i can understand why anet doesnt want to give guardians mobility as it would make guardians op, but really without mobility or movement impeding conditions,guardians will eventually be discarded as a choice for pvp as the new meta is moving towards roaming builds.

2 things you can do anet to fix all these issues are:

1.INTRODUCE MOVEMENT IMPEDING SKILLS to the guardian,they would still be different to warriors as warriors have both mobility and movement impeding skills and thats fine if we only have movement impeding skills. mind you warriors also have great damage mitigation like endure pain and an awesome cleanse (cleansing ire and berserkers stance) so i dont think that it would be unfair,i mean you did give mesmers torment on auto attack.so it wouldn’t be a great deal to give guardians cripple on certain skills

2. REDUCE COOL DOWNS ON SKILLS ,this alone will revolutionize the guardian as a class trying to keep up to the meta,cool downs shouldn’t be anything more than 27 seconds untraited.this change here will allow for so much build diversity.

aha interesting.well first of all i commend anet for reworking the guardian spirit weapon skills .they are now somewhat viable in pvp but personally i use the hammer only because of the cc and none of the others because its a waste of utility in tpvp but maybe not for solo 1v1 fight.

one point you made which i definitely agree upon is that the dps of the spirit weapon is very low(other than command skill if traited) and their AI is quite poor. the spirit weapon need to have the ability to lock on a target. a good comparison will be a regen beatmaster ranger.if traited the beasts do really high damage every few seconds whereas the damage on the spirit weapon AA is very low.

last issue is the fact that it takes too many traits to get what is needed out of spirit weapons.there are a total of 5 TRAITS to get what is needed out of spirit weapons.those are a waste of traits.specially in the zeal trait line.combine some of these traits like reduce weapon skill and reduce command ability cooldowns by 20 percent.

in point form my recommendations to the awesome anet devs:

1. rework the spirit weapons for better AI and increase range

2.Increase spirit weapon auto attack damage

3.combine the spirit weapon traits to avoid wasting trait points and opening more “hybrid builds”.
(which are usually poor for guardians,most of the time its an either /or situation which would not be the case if we had lower colldowns on skills in general.everybody knows once a guardian pops his heal and elite,he’s done.)

ok very interesting points but i’ll just put it out there.see i do pvp and pve,love it but to me i like seeing high dps numbers and i dont mind sacrificing hp or toughness.once you get to elite levels you know that youre a really good player when you can rely on utility skills to keep you alive rather than health or toughness .being able to dodge and use appropriate skills to keep me alive makes me feel like im at the edge of competitive gameplay.guardians is a need in most parties.specially in fractals and dungeons for the amazing utilities they bring to party excluding their boons.see adding 2k hp or dps to guardians will not make them overpowered in comparison to the other classes like warriors or elementalist.but it will keep at a sweet spot to push their capabilities.also the above posts about off hand weapons also intrigued me,im about to make my second legendary for my guard.i really want to make a torch,i feel its better dps than a focus but i could never prove that.does anybody have any thoughts about this.

adding 1 or 2k BASE HP AND DPS will balance the guardian to be in the best sweet spot.if you cant give both then one or the other.it will still make players who main guardians satisfied and at the same time its not a huge buff in dps or hp. we have only heard that guardians are really balanced and nothing else should be done for that class in a long time but to be honest how can you put a guardian in the front line if you remove mobility,health and dps.boons are good but that doesnt mean that it is all the guardian needs.we should remember that it is a melee class,not all guardians are shouts guardians so the boon can be kinda minimal if youre like a meditation build.just give it a thought.you’ll make a lot of people happy.? let me know what you think about it?

HI arenanet,

this is the only game I’ve been enjoying lately but for the first time on Sunday my client started lagging bad and for the first time on my new laptop, i got a blue screen of death.this made me very much frustrated to point of being very much dissapointed. .I would like any kind of feedback and advice what can be done about this.i have all my important documents and contents on this pc. I.I hope you can fix this bug. I’ve found that the lag peaks on dungeons and fractals not very much on anything else. Hope this helps.

sincerely
Leonineash

hi arenanet. i was wondering when are you bringing back the molten alliance in story.because i loved the molten alliance mining pick,the chop-it all-logging axe and the consortium harvesting sickle.i missed the molten alliance content.i could have bought the nightmare skins but not my style at all.hopefully we can get these cool skins again.i would buy all three.