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Aw man, that sounds like fun! gratz. Everytime I do it, I always calculate the knockback wrong..and they are just on the edge :\

I agree with the comments above, sac some vit for crit chance/dmg; from my experiences from the front lines to 1v1s to gankers to mass enemies vs 1. You can survive on 13k-15k hp for a good bit if you have your boons up. In exchange, you can dish out a lot more damage. What are your traits set on?

SKuDDer.1860:

Damage is really the best it can be while still having good survivability. MB 3-5k crits, with auto attacking hitting for ~900-1200. The problem is that as soon as you do a 3 hit combo and mightly blow, you’ve done about 8-9kdmg and they usually flee, because of having toughness and -33% damage reduction they tend to not really make a dent in you, unless they are a thief, then they just explode you in seconds.

Oh man, I just had to agree with you on the thief part, I never experienced it until yesterday and the thief downed me so freaking fast. Somehow I rallied, and then jetted after that. But that was so surprising at first.

Hm, how is your dps btw? I feel like all your really need is to land 2-3 small combos to deplete the persons health and gearing up helps too for damage output. If you do not have enough time to land hits, increase your dps so when you land a hit, it does more damage. There are builds where you can have both dps and good defense. Once I finish farming my legendary (xD gonna be awhile) I’ll post a video too about my battles in WvW. Actually fought a few warriors really well when they tried to run. Then I got ambushed by a thief for one of the battles but I made it out alive (can’t catch me either!) haha but I use my environment to my advantage.

Tangent story that I just wanted to share—everytime I fight in wvw I always make sure I’m in range of an animal/enemy so when I’m in a jam, I JI to them, and get the heck out. But I find it funny sometimes when I’m freaking out looking for something I can click on XD

Hey fellow guardians,

Just curious, what runes do you use and why? : )

I use rune of lyssa for the 6th effect (remove all conditions and gain all boons for 5 seconds) which works wonders with renewed focus. It makes me feel like a super saiyan for 5 seconds haha but the condition removal and stability helps in dire times if we are talking about practicality. Just wanted to see what nice combos are out there!

(Doesn’t have to be serious, it could be a fun rune setup too!)

Hey Glitch,

I would like to join as well to help people in need; I have my own guild to tend to, but would love to stop by often.

Best,

Sky Avalon, SoR

SKuDDer.1860:

ArcTheFallen.7682:

Animus.6073:

Shadowscamp.8065:

Guardians have two blinks. One with 600 range and a 10 second cooldown (sword) and one with 1200 range with a 45 second cooldown. No, guardians do not have much CC relative to a warrior, but that’s class mechanics. Warrior is built to be great at CC. However, comparing a guardian to a thief, guardians have plenty of control. In fact, AOE control. I don’t see the need considering a guardian can close an 1800 range gap in an instant, which is even more powerful than the leaps or rushes that a warrior has mind you, and the guardian isn’t built to “chase” things.

They can close the gap but what happens after the gap has been closed? It opens again as soon as the target, unless it is another melee intense build, decides to dodge roll away or teleport or whatever they decide to do.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but do that many classes have more manueverable options as us? The only thing we need really is close the gap and have a speed boon on.

Close gap with JI with speed boon.
Guy doesn’t have speed boon. Win.

Close gap with JI with speed boon.
Guy has speed boon->doesn’t matter cause we are at the same speed and I can touch him. Win. (Winning meaning, actually knowing how to fight and win in close combat)

Close the gap with JI with speed boon.
Guy does some teleport.
Close gap with leap of faith. Win.

Close the gap with JI with speed boon.
Guy does some telport.
Close gap with leap of faith.
Guy does another teleport.
Close gap with sword #2. Win.

Close the gap with JI with speed boon.
Guy does some teleport.
Close the gap with leap of faith.
Guy does some teleport.
Close gap with sword #2.
Guy does some teleport.
Bind blade him and pull him back. Win.

Now if he can teleport away after all that WITH speed boon. Then yes, idk what you can do then. we need lower cds or whatnot, but I’ve never had that happen.

Lets break this down:
Fight —> get cc --> break cc —> JI --> get cc’d, goodbye
Fight —> enemy teleports (range 900+) --> forced to use JI —> cc’d --> break cc —> enemy teleports, goodbye
Fight --> stealths, goodbye
Fight —> crippled --> break stun —> crippled, kited like a boss.
and so on.

Like I said before every class that wants to run from us, easily can do so without having any form of cripple/snare, we will always lose this.

Hm..for crippling, we have some options in condition removers, combo finisher condition removers, and there’s dodging if you know what cripples you plus 3 forms of aegis (Ocelot don’t bash me now) and I know you cannot really predict which move does what, but out of those 3 aegis you can hopefully avoid getting hit by certain moves to avoid dmg and inflicted conditions. Sometimes it’s a matter of how fast you can kill them before they run away. But alright, I’ll give up haha I use an awkward build anyways, hope the devs hear you guys out!

EDIT: I think I’m wrong about aegis protecting from conditions so ignore that.

Hm, can I like meet up with one of you guys in WvW and have a friendly match? I really want to see what you guys mean. Because there are exceptional people I have faced to make me wonder how to keep up with them those being mesmers and theifs which I cannot really lock down on their location when they clone/stealth

And less, “oh yeah, he’ll get away” I need details. The way I’m imagining it is these classes have access to all their skillsets and weapons from the sounds of it.

Alright, so I agree in regard to theifs and mesmers are hard to kill if they decide to escape. Lol Ocelot, aegis was just a fun insert. Don’t take that part seriously, but on other regards, other than thief and mesmer which obviously has a lot of get away options, give me a build a class could have that can get away from us. I mean, I want to believe you but I just want to see the build say “Oh, ur right” and leave it at that. Anyways, just trying to help!

Ocelot.3148:

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@TheArcFallen

Wtf means we got aegis? Does it relate to gapcloser or cc the opponent?

Lol, you guys are confusing me, first you were talking about “catching up” so I mentioned gap closers.

Then someone mentioned knockback or skills to put you down so aegis helps with that. It helps with combat and deflecting moves that could put more of a gap between you two.

Then you tell me we need holding power which is relevant to combat. And I mentioned above what you can do and it’s about what to use and when.

SKuDDer.1860:

Shadowscamp.8065:

Hammer has a circle wall, a gap closer, a knockback, and a snare. A greatsword has a mobile AOE, an AOE snare and pull, albeit an unreliable one, and a gap closer. A sword has a blink, a scepter has a single target snare. A shield has an AOE knockback. A staff has a knockdown wall. You can pair all these things with projectile reflection/absorption. I’m not quite sure what the issue is. You can prevent ranged damage, you have four gap closers, two snares, one pull, and two walls. That paired with the guardian aesthetic of preventing damage is incredibly powerful already.

Lets break this down.
1. Hammer has a circles wall, that any player can dodge roll through, jump over, teleport through, or us stability and walk through it and /laugh.

2. Hammer has a knockback, that flings the target AWAY FROM you. Even though it knocks them down they havetime to get up and run before you have time to get to them, so this ability really is pointless unless you are knocking someone off the edge.

3. Hammer has an immobilize, not a snare. 2s, the thing is, its casted, slow, and you can jump over it.

4. Hammer has a gap closer? Oh please tell me what that is? Mighty blow is not a gap closer.

5. Staff has a knockdown wall, that they can just run around? Also who uses staff as a secondary it is the most waste of a weapon for guardian unless you are support.

6. Greatsword does have a nice gap closer, but its a on a longer cd that most other classes. It is also only 600 range

7. Greatsword does have a pull, but its ranges is only 600, by the time you try to use it, the [insert other profession] has already gone 900+ range

8. Greatsword does not have an aoe snare

9. 1hand sword flashing blade is nice, 10s cd, but again 600 range.

Our problem that you are not following, is we lack holding power. For a class that is based all around melee only, we have very little in the form of CC on targets.

We do have holding power, it’s all about timing of our abilities. Like, if someone is not more than 900 away from me, I’m not going to use JI. When I first encounter an opponent, I have aegis due to virute of courage (we all do!) so a free block when the battle begins, use short range gap closers when they are nearby. When they reach outside our combat comfort zone, whip out JI, speed boons to catch up. As long as you can get in range of the opponent, bind them, drag them back->we can do a lot of things while some gap closers are on cool down and btw sword #2 is very very short. Not only that but shield #5 can give you a second or two by knocking the opponent down when you are near.

Oh right, we have aegis too guys. Time it well, free blocks.

Animus.6073:

ArcTheFallen.7682:

Animus.6073:

Shadowscamp.8065:

Guardians have two blinks. One with 600 range and a 10 second cooldown (sword) and one with 1200 range with a 45 second cooldown. No, guardians do not have much CC relative to a warrior, but that’s class mechanics. Warrior is built to be great at CC. However, comparing a guardian to a thief, guardians have plenty of control. In fact, AOE control. I don’t see the need considering a guardian can close an 1800 range gap in an instant, which is even more powerful than the leaps or rushes that a warrior has mind you, and the guardian isn’t built to “chase” things.

They can close the gap but what happens after the gap has been closed? It opens again as soon as the target, unless it is another melee intense build, decides to dodge roll away or teleport or whatever they decide to do.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but do that many classes have more manueverable options as us? The only thing we need really is close the gap and have a speed boon on.

Close gap with JI with speed boon.
Guy doesn’t have speed boon. Win.

Close gap with JI with speed boon.
Guy has speed boon->doesn’t matter cause we are at the same speed and I can touch him. Win. (Winning meaning, actually knowing how to fight and win in close combat)

Close the gap with JI with speed boon.
Guy does some teleport.
Close gap with leap of faith. Win.

Close the gap with JI with speed boon.
Guy does some telport.
Close gap with leap of faith.
Guy does another teleport.
Close gap with sword #2. Win.

Close the gap with JI with speed boon.
Guy does some teleport.
Close the gap with leap of faith.
Guy does some teleport.
Close gap with sword #2.
Guy does some teleport.
Bind blade him and pull him back. Win.

Now if he can teleport away after all that WITH speed boon. Then yes, idk what you can do then. we need lower cds or whatnot, but I’ve never had that happen.

All of those situations can and do happen. However, I don’t see any situation you listed where the opponent snares/stuns/slows/knockbacks/knockdowns/blinds. Every profession has access to at least half of these abilities and in WvW or sPvP, you will not find people that don’t take these abilities and use them as escape mechanisms as much as offensive mechanisms. Add the natural dodge roll and blinks/teleports/repositions on top of any of that CC and your target will leave you in the dust.

I get what you are saying, but I assume that you can handle that when it comes. The build I have has two stun breakers and 3 condition removers. And most of those they’d have to “engage” in combat to do. Hit and run I guess makes sense, but

Knockdown→JI close the gap
→Save Yourselves, Leap of Faith or Sword #2

There’s many situations I know, but I really don’t think other classes can that have THAT much more on us than we can prepare for. it’s just we are more strictly pinned down and do not have a lot of variety in options.

Ocelot.3148:

@ ArcTheFallen

Rare is the case u can burst some ppl down if they try to escape, once u finish ur gap closer, he teleports, ok u go closer to him again, but he will keep escaping simply cuz they can, simply cuz we have massive CD on CC skills.
What then if they apply snare to you while running away? You will answer “condition removal”…well they can re-apply chill/cripple faster that u can remove that.
I wish i have some chill/cripple ability too on proc or skills that can be spammable as like other profession do.
I think is reasonable asking to do something that all profession already do, why do we have to be “Different?”
That’s the same argument about ranged weapon, everyone got it, except guardian since they say “you’re a support/tank and you don’t need it” etc.

And for cd, the point is to kill them before they have another chance to cd. Hopefully in excahge with a lot of skills to leave and run, they dont have as many other skills to help in other areas that could lead to their death.

I don’t know, the person would have to have a lot for my build. 2 stun breakers, 3 condition removers, 4 ways to close the gap, 3 speed boon buffs. Ah, but what am I saying, I don’t play spvp, but it’s worked for me in encounters all around from front lines to gankers to drifters in numbers up to 3. But yes you do lose different things with the build I’m suggesting, and I do not use hammer. But idk, if you just want to get to the opponnet and finish them, this could be a consideeration.

As for being crippled, signet of resolve/virtue traiting/rune of lyssa all 6. Helps. Or whirl combo finisher to JI so you remove condition and close the gap.

Animus.6073:

Shadowscamp.8065:

Guardians have two blinks. One with 600 range and a 10 second cooldown (sword) and one with 1200 range with a 45 second cooldown. No, guardians do not have much CC relative to a warrior, but that’s class mechanics. Warrior is built to be great at CC. However, comparing a guardian to a thief, guardians have plenty of control. In fact, AOE control. I don’t see the need considering a guardian can close an 1800 range gap in an instant, which is even more powerful than the leaps or rushes that a warrior has mind you, and the guardian isn’t built to “chase” things.

They can close the gap but what happens after the gap has been closed? It opens again as soon as the target, unless it is another melee intense build, decides to dodge roll away or teleport or whatever they decide to do.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but do that many classes have more manueverable options as us? The only thing we need really is close the gap and have a speed boon on.

Close gap with JI with speed boon.
Guy doesn’t have speed boon. Win.

Close gap with JI with speed boon.
Guy has speed boon→doesn’t matter cause we are at the same speed and I can touch him. Win. (Winning meaning, actually knowing how to fight and win in close combat)

Close the gap with JI with speed boon.
Guy does some teleport.
Close gap with leap of faith. Win.

Close the gap with JI with speed boon.
Guy does some telport.
Close gap with leap of faith.
Guy does another teleport.
Close gap with sword #2. Win.

Close the gap with JI with speed boon.
Guy does some teleport.
Close the gap with leap of faith.
Guy does some teleport.
Close gap with sword #2.
Guy does some teleport.
Bind blade him and pull him back. Win.

Now if he can teleport away after all that WITH speed boon. Then yes, idk what you can do then. we need lower cds or whatnot, but I’ve never had that happen.

Idk, I feel like we have other options. If you are a keep wrecker type person, it’s harder to see our use in wvw since most of the time is spent taking down the door however at camps, we rock. Every camp I raided, I always did the intial charge and brought the small militia in after causing chaos. And we do have the scepter…but it kinda sucks. Anyways, what I’m saying is that if you want to help out in wvw, use staff and empower the ppl around you, use virtues, use tomes. If you just want to break the door down with your own strength, get lots of health and toughness, and do as much as you can before retreating. If you just wanna play it safe and break stuff then another class may be better for you (and this is all in regards to door breaking on keeps). Heck you can be a arrow cart master too to help. But it really depends on your wants.

Best.

Hm, I have never had a problem of getting kited. I usually have speed boons up a majority of the time. But I think any flaw can be made up with builds (except range—those dayum archers on high ground). But as with any build, you cant do everything. I use retreat, save yourselves, and JI as my utilities and use gs and sword/sheild for weapons. I have two sources of speed boons and 4 moves I can use to close the gap between me and my opponent. Very few (if any at all) classes can run faster than us it’s just a matter of catching up to them. But you can do that with JI, binding blade, sword #2, and gs #3. But I built myself around not being kited and closing the gap—if you dont want the utilities I mentioned/weapons then…you have to accept that your build has some flaws. But yes, it’d be great if we generally had more stuff.

So I don’t mind either side (elitist or pug) and I will join whatever kind of party—BUT I hate groups that do not communicate what so ever—which tends to be the elitist group most of all. “Oh yeah, let’s skip everything and wait for people who do not know how to do the dungeon to catch up—oh no wait, we are just gonna start it anyways and make whoever cares in the party to have to carry them through while we fail at this next party without the whole team.” I don’t mind carrying people, but seriously, play as a team or go home—you are wasting my time more than pugs. Like seriously, I get more replies and “tys” in the open world than in dungeons.

Haha I had the same problem last night and wonder now if we were in the same group? [Sky Avalon]

What if I told you…

Guardians can actually be whoever they want to be.

PS: Ask how we can be tanker/do damage and our flexibilities. Don’t make claims that just lead towards ongoing horrid discussions.

Hm…why did you join a guild with members like that anyways? But usually people do appreciate it if you try to work with them when it is their party. I stand on both sides as a party leader and party member. If I am the leader, I’d hope that people try to work together and give me a little more influence. And same goes for the other side, if I joined a party, I wouldn’t have cared what the people did as long as it doesn’t jeopordize the actually dungeon. As long as the boss can die, I’m good. But I’ll mention to the person dying that they probably should have waypointed to speed things up. Or maybe take the time to say “Dude, I can’t get to you, can you waypoint back?” or something. Communication is key, not dictation or expectation. People work well together if you try less complaining and show them what’s up. You beat the boss, without him/her, you definitely have all rights to tell them that they need to waypoint back next time.

If you need any help with anything in Sanctum of Rall, let me know. You can just roll with my members and see if you like them before joining, but even so we like helping non-members most of the time.

Can’t really sell my guild because it’s quite inactive, but if you need help with anything in Sanctum of Rall, let me know.

Correction: PvP and PvE I think you mean.

Anyways, too lazy to do math, but greatsword has a great variety of options for different occassions. Generally, people who like speed go for greatsword.

Whirling wrath : Greatest physical aoe, works well with crit chance and dmg

Leap of faith: Blindess, and mobility; can be used for transportation and closing the gap in combat

Symbol of wrath: Retaliation(lulz), and light combo field (very useful for the spin finishers which lead to CONDITION removal—another condition remover at your disposal)

Binding blade: Great control and setup move. You can use it for offensive and defensive. Offensive use can be to get your enemies close to you for combo setups. Defensive use can include pulling enemies from your allies or knocking them down when they are about to do a move

PvP from experience in WvW: Greatsword is amazing in closing the gap—it adds yet another move at your disposal to catch people who are on par with your foot movement speed but are a little ahead. Binding blade is soooooo good in battles because of the 10 second period it allows before you “pull”. This allows you to tag your opponents and whenever they try to run or do a heavy move, you “pull” them and disable them from what they were doing temporarily (up to 5 ppl too!).

PvE: Same thing pretty much. Use leap of faith to get to your enemies faster, use binding blade to control them or stop them from doing moves (for example, a graveling is about to howl—pull them down to stop them) and then whirling wrath does wonders in aoe dps. Also, have some conditions on you? Np, Symbol of Wrath->Whirling wrath and done. That and signet of resolve should be sufficient in most cases.

Edit: Also, binding blade can sometimes break confusion when an enemy goes stealth and disappears and your camera is all over the place. You can wait a bit and do binding blade and the blades will auto target nearby enemies—auto targetting rules. In PvE, for mob tagging, binding blade will also hit mobs before they actually render if you time it right. So you always get the first hit before zerg hogs it.

Not sure if you guys remember this person, (I forgot the name myself), but near the end when you are in Orr fighting—I think it was the part with escorting the tanks there was this Sylvari group which had “stealth” formation. That was by far the most useful npc I’ve encountered-let alone the npc snipers that followed…And as a side note eff Logan, that coward

Solution to speed runs—gate the doors to the next event. That will pretty much stop it, however, probably will rage the dungeon community, speed runs happen when they happen. What they really need is a better group finder so you can run with people who speed run if you want to speed run or people who take their time.

Join the bandwagon in Cursed Shore and ask “Where is Plinx event?” then follow the crowd. #iwishtherewereotherplaces

http://starcraft.wikia.com/wiki/Zerg

aka just use your karma, put whatever you want in your bank, get your 2nd char to retrieve it.

I feel like most of the stuff you buy with karma are not soul bound until you use/wear it. So you should be fine? Someone correct me if I am wrong.

I use gs and 1h sword and shield. Get 20% 2h skill cd reduction from the honor trait (20 pts). To survive, get 30 valor for altruistic healing. Also, put 5 points in virtues for the virtues buffs. That leaves you to about 15 points left to invest in whatever! Also, if you are a fan of skill cd reduction, get the shield one as well in the valor traitline (it gives you +90 as well for weilding the shield which is nice).

Max out valor for survivability (you’ll want that if you want to do dungeons and level up even faster) but if you just want to explore and do whatever to level up, get 5 in virtues for the added effects to your virtues and try some radiance focused builds? A lot of Guardians avoid investing in zeal too much so I think 5 or 10 is fine. But max valor is usually the case, if you want better usage for the gs, try 20 in honor for the 2-hand cd reduction.

IMO the best thing to do with sanctuary is to lock non-stability type npcs or players against the wall knocking them down over and over again while you are wailing on them. But I gave up sanctuary for JI due to its massive investment for small return.

Perhaps they use stability xarrli? But blinking can also get you out of it; I do not think dodging will. I would say drop the 10 sec remove condition and use signet of resolve. I do not think you need all of those condition removers (2 should suffice). Intervention is the best for striking; then use retreat and renewed focus to escape. I personally like using gs. I don’t use a hammer much but perhaps you could JI→bind blade with gs→ring of warding→retreat and let your team finish them off or just fight them. GS has a high dps with whirling wrath so you can get some good dmg out from it too while waiting to swap back to hammer.

On a side note, I wish flamethrowers were a projectile.

So uh…we have a wiki. See notes there:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mystic_Clover

But if you want the tl;dr. 1 recipe is statiscally proven to give at around 1/3 the chance. 10 is currently unknown because no one has really invested enough to prove it. Try to refer to wiki for questions like these don’t believe rumors.

To the first part no, it’s only direct damage.

And for the armor, at each level of rarity, the stats are generally the same (only diff is what they include pow/prec/critdmg or pow/tough/vit, etc). They are equal and you have taken Anet’s words out of context. Heck, read other threads on how much people have complained about equality in this game. Read other complaint threads and add on to their list. I’m not defending gw2 as the best game of all time, but be open to some change. GW2 was made for a lot of flexibility for players of all kinds. If you want something traditional then try something else; but don’t complain in this threads please. Go to a review site or something. I’m saying this not to tell you “oh, im a fan boy blah blah blah go reroll or qq and quit”. No. I’m telling you this because seriously, what in the world do you want us to do? Hop on your train, agree with you and leave? Threads in the gw2 forum are supposed to HELP people. If you need help on how to see the good in this game—tell the forum. Otherwise please take all this negative energy somewhere else.

So uh, I played maplestory and Dragon’s Nest before this, don’t know anything about GW1 and one of my friend’s dragged me here. But as a person who chooses games based of their combat system, I’d beg to differ on that trait. Lol. I’ll play you any day on any fighting game, and out of all MMOs I’ve ever watched and played (Dragon’s Nest was pretty good) GW2 has one of the most active fighting systems I’ve seen. Finally, dodging matters—not evasion. Finally when you land a hit it hits, eff accuracy when I’m directly making contact with you. Of course, it’s not perfect, but it’s no where below good. I do agree that enemies and other factors that affect combat need fixing. And having more skills would be great—don’t care about weapon variety, heck, I’d like to have more weapons if I could but having more weapon skills to trade out or more utility skills to buy would be cool too. I really find it hard that you do not like anything about this game. I mean, idk, I play a game of tetris and I have fun. But sometimes people get too much hyped and get disappointed. I’m sorry your experience wasn’t that great and hope you find something more suitable to you. glhf

Hi, Sky Avalon here.

First off, I would like to say that Arkania is a small guild (which has plenty of benefits) so we are really close and know how to work together.

We run dungeons often (mostly ac, ta, and cof) but we are moving on to try the others and learn how to master them.

Unlike other guilds, I am not really recruiting (if you want to join, great!) but would like to offer you guys an invite—let me explain.

I aim our guild to be a drop by and get some help guild—if you want help, rep the guild and we will help you!

Yes, we will help you with DUNGEONS, PROTECTION services in WvW if you need to get map completion or that jumping puzzle, and we will aid in quests. If we have a larger recruitment, we could even help farm with karma banners, gold banners, exp banners, etc. If you don’t want a commitment and just need some help, hit me up in Sanctum of Rall!

PS: Must be in SoR to redeem offer.

Hit me up, I have my own guild to run but my members like helping people with dungeon runs all the time. I’ll drop by time to time. Sanctum of Rall over here.

Yes, sorry, I didn’t want to name names, but I wasn’t talking about you Krunch, have fun with your future games!

Ynna.8769:

DanH.5879:

I for one barely scratch a guardian (too much Toughness), and when he finally reaches 1/2 hp, uses heals to 100% ! And yes as a Thief I lost all my initiative all 15+ points.
Kill him if you can !,I have tried different builds, never won even 1 time, and no, it is not 100% skill….

Thieves aren’t very strong against Guardians (but from what I hear, they’re pretty good at plenty of other professions), but that doesn’t mean they can’t win. Also, it’s important to know what kind of Guardian you’re up against. Most Guardians seem to run a bunker build, since the rest is less effective.
In order to beat them, you’ll have to rely mostly on condition damage and other kinds of sustained damage. Burst isn’t very useful. Also, try to put Poison up once the Guardian starts losing health.

And you know what I find curious? That so many players come to this (sub)forum claiming we are overpowered, but no-one comes here asking for our weaknesses, or how to kill us.

This.

I would like to call all the people who say guardians are dead to this thread and try to talk sense to them. Now this is your kind of thread!

Also, can people please quit talking as a group? On both sides, this is an opinion for yourself—just because you want to leave doesn’t mean the whole world is leaving. Okay, maybe some maps are low in activity, but have you waypointed across the entire gw2 world? Have you been to lion’s arch? Why is there overflow still? Have you been to different servers? Have you noticed how long it takes to queue for wvw? Lol, like seriously, if people were leaving it’d help me get my badges of honor faster. Just talk for yourself please or at least have some better facts—not possible reasons that may or may not apply.

Kruunch.3714:

Presumably ANet wants player retention (like any MMO) to sell their future expansions (and of course, their online store).

I think that probably a majority of gw2 players are still playing lol. And this game still has much room to grow—you do realize that not everyone is hardcore or even familiar mmo players, that huge list someone mentioned earlier about things to do is probably not half finished for most people and there’s more and more people coming to play as well. Gw2 will definitely sell its expansions, but whether it’s good for people who want “end-game” material (to whatever that means), who knows. A game is made to play for fun. When I’m lvl 80 in real-life (80 yrs old btw), I doubt I’m gonna look back on my gw2 life and say “dayum, glad I got that tier 1,000,000 armor set”. I’m just gonna reflect on how gw2 was a great $60 spent compared to most rpgs that end after playing one run through. MMOs have a community and an active development crew that tries to come out with ideas as much as they can. I think they are doing the best job they can do given a no-sub fee. But alas, time to move on and come back when you feel like it’s worth playing again. Glhf

Yes! Don’t be discouraged! I think the best way to handle this is for each dungeon run you do—pay attention to your teammates; if they are cooperative and seem like someone you’d like to party with again, add them to your friends list. I feel like sometimes just like in real life, you just need to find the right people but once you find a good group, you are pretty much set.

I love running ac dungeons, if you ever need help with that, I can aid—and this is to anyone who just needs help to get that experience and knowledge base. I know most of the different routes you can take (aka when to skip, but I don’t mind fighting either because boss fights are funn) so I can inform you along the way just in case you want to consider those options or at least be aware of them in the future if you accidentally party with some impatient players. One thing I can gurantee is that you can never let me down. I fight for myself, if I die, I tried to rez as fast as I can to get back on track, no blame, no stress. Also I have a few guildmates who play for fun and who are willing to help.

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