Guild Wars 2

I personally think, that Guardian would be in a good Spot by getting a Port, since the Meta is changing in a drastic way. Everything is getting stronger and also Guardians need to go that way. Otherwise we will be not competetive anymore.

Hello my Name is Enis Beqiri, some of you may know me from the European 1v1 Arenas I have a list of things Anet should consider changing on Guardian before Patch, because they would make Guard much more viable after Patch and would solve many balancing Issues.

Warning Keep in mind, these are changes based on my personal opinion as a experienced PvP Guardian since Beta and may not match with everyones opinion. It is simply what I personally think should change and I would like to hear your thoughts about this topic Lets get started:

1st and most important thing Anet should change on Guardian is giving us some kind of ground-target port. I know Guardians are not supposed to be very mobile, but the thing is simple. Getting focused as a Guardian in an high-class Match is mostly our doom. All the blinds, blocks and especially heals wont help, since we simply can’t get away. Thats why i love Dragonhunter as the darker side of the Guardian, because for the first time we are allowed to be a little bit selfish i would suggest changing the Longbow Skill “Deflecting Shot” into a ground-target Port with high Cooldown or changing the Utility Skill “Contemplation of Purity” into a ground-target port with full condition cleanse. Personally that is the thing Guardians need the most

2nd change which I think is necessary is to switch the Valor traits Smiters Boon and Stalwart Defender, because I as a competive Guard would never run Focus AND Shield, so I’d like to choose between those Weapons and take their matching Traits, without missing Smiters Boon. It would even make playing Shield much more rewarding since you could combine Stalwart Defender with Strength in Numbers for Bonus Toughness

3rd is to remove the internal Cooldown on the Trait Might of the Protector. I as a PvP Guardian always loved to get rewarded for blocking attacks and seeing that I get 2 Stacks of might no matter how much I block with Shelter is very frustrating. So please remove the internal Cooldown, even leave it as it was with only one Stack Might per block, but please remove the Cooldown

4th issue I would have loved to see a change in, is to reduce the Shields Cooldowns, which happened yesterday, thanks Grouch

I would appreciate it so much if Anet could make these changes happen. Just imagining them fires my motivation for Heart of Thorns I’d like to hear now other constructive opinions about my suggestions and would like to hear your suggestions. Have a nice Day my fellow Guardians

I will and will always be the one that’s loves you guys but also be your harshest critic. The changes/nerfs to guardian are unacceptable, but most annoying part is the continuation of not acknowledging anything we say or recommend.

What is the point of having forums or asking for opinions when you go completely against what we ask for or reccomend. I hate to be the bringer of bad news but it seems not having a dev that plays guardian at a high tier is hurting your development when it comes to guardian and has been apparent for years, which is why no one uses them now.

The nerfs on a lot of traits and virtue range were absolutely uncalled for. Idk why a lot of our traits revolve around retal when it’s the worst boon in the game. Shield is still an atrocious weapon on guardian even though I love shield. But considering a guardians role, it’s god awful. Our long cooldowns considering the effectiveness of them have always plagued us such as our virtues, who’s range was decreased for no reason. I assume it’s because you thought the range was too long for DH, assuming everyone should run DH.

Our traits and skill revolve around to many stationary acts. Symbols are terrible skills unless you pve in my opinion. We are still the most immobile class in the game with no access to swiftness outside staff or 1 bad utility skill. Yes retreat is an awful skill sorry. We should be the best condi cleanser in the game yet our weapon skills can’t even condi clear or heal effectively outside a stationary staff 4, staff 2, and focus 4. The heals all get negated or reduced with how much poison which is in the game. Our shouts have been so mediocre for years. Sanctuary is lackluster and on a terrible cooldown. Why don’t we gain access to resistance boon or slow? Why doesn’t sanctuary grant access to resistance while in it? More effective ways to cleanse condies or heal?

Everything I referred to only touches base for bunker guardian. Don’t get me started on dps guardian. You may think I’m being harsh but after playing so many classes since guardian has been so lackluster, my assumption was true as to how lackluster/ineffective SO many of our traits and skills are in this meta. I have never see so many useless skills on a class or bad it was until I played other classes. I mean merciful intervention? The attempt to add a terrible form of a shadow step to it, was the biggest form a fail and showcased your lack of understanding guardian from our perspective.

All I saw was a bunch of traits being put together without much thought, and not putting them in the correct trait lines and tiers. No revamps to the core issue of guardian considering the reason we are out was due to the lacklusterness of our skills to begin with. Combining bad traits won’t fix the issue of you put little thought into it without taking the communities advice.

I have always had faith that maybe one day you guys would do something spectacular to put guardian in line with other classes like you did with member hopefully and Warriors, when they were awful. But if you don’t listen to us and just do what you guys want to do then all I can say RIP to guardian and the meta because we’ve tried helping.

Yours truly,
Morfeus [Apex Prime]

Guardian Changes aka “We don’t care.”

Soooo my name is Enis Beqiri, I’m playing Guardian in PvP pretty much since Beta of GW2, many of you might know me from the 1v1 [Angz] Server and though the years I’ve learned that Anet doesnt care much about us at all, since we’re pretty good balanced, what isn’t the case at all.
We had exactly TWO (!!!) builds which were viable since Beta

1st Offensive Meditation Guard
2nd Bunker Shout Guard

All Anet did in this Patch is the same thing they do always. PRETENDING to change something for Guardians, by combining some lame traits, just to make Guardians think they did something.
The Meta is changing in an alarming Rate?! YEAH, but not for Guardians. At the moment we’re let’s say playable, our way of sustaining by outhealing Damage is weak, but we do good Damage as Offensive Guard and are not used, but playable as Bunker Guards.

While pretty much everything got a Buff Gurdians got like 3 new Traits, which are weak as hell and some combined stuff which nerfed Offensive Guard AND Bunker Guard

1st Offensive Guard: 1 Seconds Cooldown on “Might of the Protector”?! I loved to use Shelter to Stack up Might in Teamfights. What you are trying to tell me is, that when i block like 15 hits with shelter I get 2 STACKS OF MIGHT because of internal Cooldown?! IS THIS SERIOUS?!

2nd Bunker Guard: After HoT Bunker Guards are going to be replaced anyways by Revenants as a Bunker Support Class, trust me. And even then making Bunker Guards choose between “Pure of Voice” and “Writ of Persistence” ?! I never liked to play Bunker anyways, but alot of Guards did, so its disgusting to see what happens to this Spec.

Even Surveys say that Guardians are the least minded class in Game, since Anet thinks WE ARE PRETTY WELL BALANCED.
I don’t know about your Devs Anet, but I don’t think you have a Dev who plays a High-Class Guardian. Otherwise Grouch wouldnt present a Build on Dragonhunter which drops 4k Burn on a PvE Target which would NEVER NEEEEVER work in real PvP, since no Person would EVER engage on a Guardian THIS way.
So I, as a High-Class Guardian since Beta will tell you the Truth. GUARDIANS HAVE A TON OF PROBLEMS. Let me just tell you a few, if you want some more just pm me Ingame.

1st We have the lowest amount of viable Specs ingame, which are getting nerfed.
2nd We have the most of non used Utility Skills and Weapons (for example Shield) compared to ANY other class
3rd We have the WORST way of sustaining despite being a defensive Class – OUTHEALING THE DAMAGE. It doesnt matter Anet if you Buff our Heal a little bit so we can outheal for example 1000 insteat of 800 points. 200 POINTS ARE NOTHING. WE NEED A RELIABLE WAY OF SUNSTAINING. All the heals, blocks and blinds, doesnt matter anything, if we’re too immobile to AVOID Damage. I would suggest something like a Port or something in HoT on Longbow instead of this useless “Deflecting” Shot. It would even be okay since Dragonhunter isn’t the same altruistic Class Guardians are. Sometimes even we Guards just need A LITTLE MOBILITY, to avoid some trouble. Come on it would be just one Port and not 50 Waterfields, 30 Explosive Finishers, 15 Medikits and Perma Stability just like another class *cough ENGIS*.

Yeah I dont know if even one Dev will read this and make this go threw his mind, but me and alot of other Guardians I know are losing the fun in GW2, I’m even considering to don’t Buy Guild Wars 2 HoT, which would be sad, since played Guild Wars 1 since I was a child. There are good Guardians around there Anet. And if you don’t have someone to care about them, ask some of them. I’m sure they’ll help you out.
And to my fellow Guardians. Let’s make Anet see this Post, after all we share the same Class

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Well Guys many of you probably have seen the last stream and I have some thoughts about it. Actually there are 2 playable Specs for Guardian:

a) Meditation Offesive Guard
b) Bunker Shout Guard

My opinion on the last Stream is that Revenant will make Bunker Guard pretty much useless, since it has more Team Support and strong Bunker Potential PLUS High Condi Dmg. So we Guards are left with only Meditation Offensive Bunker and some weird gimmicki Condi stuff. Also i personally wont play the Traps cause i dont think they are worth it. (Hard to catch people, no sustain etc.)

(I really dont care much about Bunker, since I play Offensive Guard since Beta of GW2, i just want to see making Anet Meditation Guards much better, since it will be the only playable Spec and we lack extremly in Mobility. Healing is probably the worst way of sustaining, better is to avoid DMG. So i want to see a Port on Longbow just like the Thiefs one please, just with a High Cooldown)

Have a nice Day

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Ok, i have seen topics on making it a trap and I just completely disagreed with that idea.

So made this thread to get thoughts/ideas on HS being a signet

HS is a decent heal with good party support. It drops the longest water field in the game and applies regen and removes conditions periodically. Seems pretty good.
Add into that signet mastery for might, opening strike and cooldown reduction. Seems a bit powerful in all honesty so increase the signet duration to say ~36secs.
Puts the cooldown with mastery back to around 29seconds which is pretty close to what it is already at. Maybe even decrease the water field from 10secs to 8secs?

Seems pretty good, right? So what about passives? Needs to be something that in all honesty wont make the heal mandatory.

HS Passive Idea 1: Heal yourself every time your pet attacks (set amount, doesnt scale with damage given)
Passive Idea 2: Heal your pet every time you take damage/attack (Dont know if the heal would be better on attack or on damage taken)
Passive Idea 3: Your pet periodically converts conditions on itself into boons (since the actual spring cleanses conditions, a passive PET condi cleanse isnt soo bad)
Passive Idea 4: Boon Duration or Condition Reduction on you AND your pet (reduction might be better since there is a trait for boon duration already, something like 10-15% maybe)

Ideas, thoughts, feedback?

Edit:
Passive Idea 5: Apply a random boon do you and your pet while in combat.

Vigil.8205:

Greetings, I fairly new to pvp but

…. I still want to start talking about pvp balance even if I have no idea about the game.

Seraphim weapons, a sister and opposite BLT weapon set to the shadow weapons (Similar to how Entropy and Genesis balance each other out.

Have a light/angelic theme to them, countering the shadow skins dark/demonic style

For the sake of input/output.

Guardians have been lacking in:
- Ranged attacks
- Soft CCs
- Mobility
- Condition builds (some may argue)

Devs tried to provide Guardians with
- Long Bow
- Immobilizes
- Another leap
- Modified burning mechanics

So they met each disparity with a response, just not the way we expected. Does it make it wrong? I don’t know yet.

Quincy :/

~15 chars

I have to say that I don’t sympathize with most of the proposed changes.

Only a few of them are well thought over and justified.
I won’t go over all of them, but some to point out.

Steady Focus… You’d like such as 10% flat damage boost (that is a lot, actually on par with Predator’s Onslaught) to be penalized less.

Enlargement is a 25% damage boost. You are reading that right, 25%. That’s a table turner. Stating objections like “we want to have full reward from it all the time” is ridiculous.

About Strider’s defense… This is the very trait that is going to put us into WvW zergs. Front Line ranger will negate roughly 50% of the enemy projectiles. And you want it swapped. I’m saluting to you, Sir.

Most Dangerous game… You do realize… That you are asking for 12 might when below 50%HP? Nope, that doesn’t feel right.

About spike trap … It’s a day and night difference to ress your teammates with this one. I believe you didn’t forget about the synergy with Rune of the Trapper.

And so forth.
Some of the points you made are really good, though…
… But some like these I pinpointed out … It’s clear that you want to justify rangers too much. Not only we will have unique mechanics that will put us at a rightful place, we’ll get more team support that we needed, we got everything we asked for concerning longbow …
… And you still want it without any single risk or trade-off whatsoever?

Nope, I’m not fine with that.

My suggestion:

Armor Closet
This item holds 6 armor skins together for your class. Double clicking instantly changes the appearance of your armor to this set.

or

Simply holds 6 pieces of armor so you can quickly change the armor you are wearing by double clicking.

I believe I drew this a year ago and I’m still sayin’ sylvari could use some flower beard facial hair options. (left to right: rose updo, vine dreads, leafy fauxhawk, belldrop head, short cattail crop? + FLOWER BEARD!)

I was kinda missing these non-objective and totally uninformed topics that OP tends to make.

So what is your argument this time Ragnar?

“Engi feel stronger”….

Well, i “feel stronger” when i get drunk, but i aint getting any stronger by drinking. So your feelings have little to do with balance i am afraid.

Foreign.3062:

I think there should be a ‘Mini Me’. It’ll be your model (with armor), with your weapons and back piece.

i like this idea, but make it so you can choose 1 of your other characters as well, so i could be going around on my ranger with my current character or else switch it to my mesmer as my mini.

Dear ArenaNet. Can you PLEASE make it so that when i tell my Wolf, Fern Hound, Alpine Wolf, Krytan Drakehound, Jungle Stalker, Polar Bear, Brown Bear, Black Bear, Murwellow, Pig, Boar, Siamoth, Warthog, Black-Blue-Red-White-Pink Moa to PLEASE, for the love of god. USE THEIR F2 ON MY LOCATION WHEN THERE IS NO TARGET SELECTED.

Ive been killed so many times by now, because Mr Wolf decides to run across the map and back to perform his howl, because 2 minutes ago, i had a enemy selected.

in advance, Thank you
Sincerely, patient ranger player.

New toy – Crawling Guide “Crawl like a True Soldier” – when we use it we start crawling (mechanic of move toy, you equip it and press 1 to use). It would be a new meta in WvW, cuz crawling is exemplar behavior of warfare.

Bring back old gw1 weapons.

> Opens GW2 Forums
> Sees about 20 posts complaining “Rangers are OP”

Alrighty, these are the challenges I like the most, so here we go! Incomming wall of text!

Ehecatl.9172:

… I dodged his Rapid Fire

What is this “dodging” witchcraft you speak of!? The community has made it very clear that the only thing to do when facing a ranger is to stand still and face tank a burst attack and then come qq on the forums.

Its hillarious how making a skill, which was previously one of the worst choices other then AA spamming, into a burst that is barely on par with backstab (almost same CD too if we take into account revealed time), yet there is at the very least 7 ways to completely counter/avoid it.

And still you guys cry this much

I’d love to see the god costumes from GW1 return as outfits.

• Dwayna
• Grenth
• Melandru
• Balthazar
• Lyssa
• Kormir

Heya all!

Lately I’ve seen human gods backpieces, for only Dwayna, Balthazar, Lyssa and Grenth. But what about Melandru and Kormir?

Also, there’s a few gods weapons.. but it’s too few weapons.. and not all the gods has his/hers own weapon..

Dwayna – Wings of Dwayna
Grenth – Tear of Greath
Melandru – Melandru’s Graze
Lyssa – Lyss and Ilya
Still, there is no Balthazar or Kormir weapons….

And now for the armor part.
There’s some absolutely amazing artworks on the gods armors..!!! Why haven’t these been released during these past 2 years?
I would LOVE to create my own human gods.. hehehe.

I only found Balthazar, Dwayna, Grenth and Melandru’s armor artworks.. but please, release these armors just like you did in GW1..

I feel you. Playing at “top tier” where I REALLY need that condi clear NOW I can’t afford to try to run into 600 range of my pet. Not to mention if it’s Kyhlo and my pet is running ALL AROUND the clock tower and is rarely withing 600 units. Sure, I can swap and then clear, but then my pet dies, or that epidemic necro takes advantage when they see the signet of please epi my pet! symbol pop up.

This change would just be a QoL change for the ranger. It wouldn’t be OP, but it should do exactly what was suggested. Clear from allies within 600 radius of pet but always clear from the ranger.

Too many fights, and therefore games, can be lost by trying to clear from yourself and having the pet be at 601 range.

I will host a live stream tonight, sPvP power lb/gs with signets (gettin re-used to signets before signet of beast becomes default function).

Stream will be going live at twitch.tv/prysin
Time: 21:15 GMT +1
Region: NA

Note: I’ve made outlines for all the ones I haven’t provided recipes for, but I haven’t made them yet. I have a limited alcohol budget so it may take a while before I can post all of them, but I’ll update the thread when I do.

EXPERIMENTAL OOZE BOOZE (asura)

• 2 oz ice
• 2 oz crushed pineapple with juice
• 2 oz coconut rum
• 3 oz blue curacao
• 1 tsp grenadine
  1. Blend the ice cubes and pineapple until slushy.
  2. Add the rum and curacao and blend thoroughly.
  3. Pour into a laboratory flask, then add the grenadine and stir lightly to create a mottled blue-and-purple effect.

GLADIATOR SWILL (charr)

• 1.5 Tbsp of extremely fine (Turkish ground if possible) dark roast coffee (use decaf unless you want to risk a heart attack)
• 1 c water
• 2 oz whiskey
  Soldier Version: nothing added
  Fahrar Version: milk rations (recipe below)
  1. Pour water into a small saucepan. Add the coffee but don’t stir it in, then put it on the stove, uncovered, at medium-low heat. Keep an eye on it to make sure it doesn’t come to a rolling boil, or else it will become too bitter.
  2. When the coffee starts to bubble slightly and develop a light foam, remove it from the heat.
  3. Optionally, let the foam dissipate and then put the saucepan back on the stove until the coffee begins bubbling again. This will help the grounds settle.
  4. Pour slowly into a tin cup, trying to keep most of the grounds in the saucepan. Some will inevitably get in the cup and that’s okay; they’ll settle to the bottom as long as you don’t chug it.
  5. Stir in the whiskey and (optional but recommended) milk rations to taste.

Milk Rations (original recipe from here):

• 12 oz canned evaporated milk
• 14 oz canned sweetened condensed milk
  1. Whisk together the contents of both cans until thoroughly combined.
  2. Store in the fridge and use the leftovers for your coffee—I strongly recommend making the iced coffee in that link!

VICTORIA’S RED WINE (human)

• 1 bottle of red wine
• 1 c brandy
• 1 c orange juice
• 2 Tbsp lemon juice
• 2 Tbsp lime juice
• 3 Tbsp grenadine (or to taste)
• 1/4-1/2 c each of cubed apple, kiwi, cantaloupe, and orange (plus some orange slices for garnish)
  1. Combine all ingredients and leave in the fridge for at least 2 hours, but preferably overnight.
  2. Ladle into wine glasses filled with ice to serve.

CELEBRATORY BEER (norn)

• 12 oz beer
• 1 Tbsp salted butter
• 1 1/2 Tbsp molasses
• 1/8 tsp cinnamon
• 1/8 tsp ginger
• 1/8 tsp cloves
• a pinch of nutmeg
  1. Heat the butter in a saucepan until it’s light brown, then add the molasses and spices. Stir and continue heating until it bubbles.
  2. Add the beer, stir some more, and continue heating it until it’s hot but not boiling.
  3. Pour into a stein. You might be able to make it foam if you pour it from high up, but you also might pour it all over your kitchen counter. (Guess which result I got!) If you think it’s worth the risk, give it a shot.

AUTUMN NECTAR (sylvari)

• 1/3 c chilled dry champagne
• 1/3 c chilled pear nectar
• 1/2 oz lemon juice
• 1/2 oz elderflower liqueur
• a few clean, organic edible flowers for garnish (I recommend cucumbery borage or spicy nasturtium; make sure they’re food-grade!)
  1. Pour the champagne into a champagne flute.
  2. Add the remaining ingredients, stir, and drop in the flowers.

urieldhynne.2743:

The future of roaming belongs to nike warriors.

Nobody can catch you > bunker in a position.
Nuke in seconds > high damage over time.
Reset the fight nuking-running/nuking-running > fight till die.

And warrior have everything, condi, CC, mobility, tankiness, immunities. The most versatile class in the game by far.

Shattered mesmer is going to be nerf and still without mobility and chasing power.
And more antistealth mechanic coming.

The mechanic of nuking and running is just SO good, and works SO great, letting you a free out of combat card that never fail.

For me, in the future, the same amounts of Thief and now more and more Warriors. Both with the same mechanic, nuking hard and resetting the fight.

please tell me how to land any “nuke” damage on any non-afk target with a GS. Im truly interested, cuz all i see warriors doing is print up to my ranger, try 100b through 3 seconds of evades then run off when it fails.