Is there any possible way to remove the blue flame on the guardian action-bar, or simply turn off Virtue of Justice? I would be happy to play without the benefit of Virtue of Justice if it just got rid of the distracting blue flame, but so far I have found no means to do this.
That blue flame is way too awesome. You wanting to turn it off is blasphemy. You are now officially banished from the Guardian community.
DPS guardian is currently in a good place. The problems is we are playing in a meta where most builds are so broken they do not need to worry about the same problems. Buffing another class is not the fix to the issue, nerfing others is.
Once Anet learns that making classes have weak points like guardian soft CC is GOOD. It incentives team-play rather than the 1 man army kind of game-play this meta has breed. No build should be able to do everything, guardian gives up soft CC for its really good AOE cleave.
If you want soft CC do not push a point alone…
Hehk is absolutely right, dps guardian builds are not too weak, power creep has been too prevalent. I would much rather see the so-called “apex-predators” toned down in a way that all builds have a weakness similar to ours with soft CC. Sure it’d be fun for a while if we were super OP, but I’d rather have a healthy meta where every viable build has a weakness.
First of all, the “apex-predators” coughwarriorcough isn’t going to get toned down. We all know that. And Guardians wouldn’t be “super OP” if we had some of these holes filled.
I disagree. Everything should be as effective and fun as the warrior. Warrior should be benchmark and not the worst profession. Imagine the automotive industrie would benchmark with the worst car manufacturer. What weaknesses are having cars? I’d say the driver.
Hehk, although we usually agree on a lot of things… I agree with this guy more. This way, it would highlight player skill moreso than innate profession counter classes.
Why should we glorify weaknesses and innate imbalances? Differences should be how they do it and not what they can actually accomplish.
Guardian burst comes every 45 seconds and requires you to not be looking at us
Every other dps spec (including some condi specs) can burst every 15-20 seconds. So when you talk about Guard burst, the way to counter it is one dodge roll OR improved situational awareness then they are easily telegraphed for the next 45 seconds.
Harbinger and Zelcova are right. Soft CC is our biggest problem. Defender’s flame being changed is one of many good ideas ranging from lowering the cooldown of Glacial Hammer from 30 down 10-15 (thus making it viable) to combining our symbols traits and making a new one that adds 1 second of chill per symbol pulse that way it improves the zeal trait line (which is terrible right now) and adds some more dynamic play to the Guardian. The only soft CC we currently have is water combat downed state…that doesn’t make sense considering our only hard CCs are either: telegraphed, long cooldowns, on weapons that don’t work properly, requires the enemy target to run into the ward, or a combination of these.
The problem is we’ve been voicing these concerns for over a year now only getting small buffs to meditations and stealth nerfs. So I don’t know what we can do anymore to explain how pigeon holed/far behind Guardians currently are
When you change your name via contract, it changes your name. Period. It should change it everywhere.
That is how your character is identified.
If you find it has not, please report it as a bug.
That’s my concern. I already know that is should change it everywhere. I know I would have to report it as a bug, but you know how long they take to fix bugs and my OCD would drive me crazy throughout that period.
I’m wondering if anyone has already done it and can confirm that it changes everywhere.
There are a variety of glaring issues with DPS Guardian at the moment. The most significant currently is the severe lack of mobility. Are there any plans to have another look at the capabilities of our damage and mobility options?
I’m currently forced to use runes of speed and hydromancy sigils to offset some of my handicaps… nevertheless, it’s still a far cry from where I think the damage spec should be.
GW2 pvp is GREAT ! But… Warriors are still overpowered, and they will continue to be overpowered because a number of developers who are responsible for balance play Warriors as their mains.
This was brought up in chat during the livestream where they first previewed the skills, a developer wrote in chat that they would never add a healing skill immune to interrupt, as all instant cast skills are. Which makes absolutely no bleeding sense as we already have two; Mantra of Recovery is an instant cast like all mantras, and then there is the unholy sin against game design that is Healing Signet.
Now that enough people have tested it in PvP, I think we can all agree that the skill is awful. And reducing the cast time will not make it any less awful.
What’s with this new trend of “unlocking” things in sPvP?
I hate it.
I’m a Guardian… and I already bought it… so it’s a moot point… Nevertheless, if I didn’t already purchase this incredibly useless ability (Litany of Wrath)… and it was any good, I’d be really annoyed that I would have to buy it to be on par with other players.
Fact… new players will be at a disadvantage with this system. I thought you guys didn’t want that… ???
Now I’m hearing this from the last developer presentation “Ready Up”:
“New stat combos will be unlockable in PvP soon and maybe with skill points (not in the next build). Most likely to appear in the feature build and will be account bound.”
I was having a very interesting discussion with a very intelligent man in my guild. The name of this man is Hiba. He is probably the smartest person on earth.
We came to the conclusion that the Copper-Fed Salvage-o-Matic should salvage PvP gear at the cost of glory.
It is clearly a brilliant idea as are all ideas coming from Hiba. If you disagree with this idea, you are probably terrible at this game and should feel bad about yourself.
This sounds like a VERY long way off plan though, which may even not come to pass (ranks being removed was also mentioned and thats been veto’d). I think you’ll be able to regain your resources by the time the change happens if you need to at all.
I’m not so sure about that. The tone of the video makes it sound like it’s not that long off. I would rather save my gold for a year… I’ll still be sixty gold richer either way.
There was a PvP video released recently with Grouch and two other ticklishly wonderful dancing dynamite ArenaNet PvP developers… they said something about their ultimate goal being to remove PvE and PvP gear and just have “Gear”.
If this is the case, should I hold off on buying the PvP tier 3 Heavy Armor for my Guardian?
Why?
Well, I already have it in PvE. If I spend the gold to get it now and then later I end up having two unnecessary sets and a lot of money down the drain I would be really ticked off.
I really hope I can get some developer feedback on this.
Could I report people for botting when they leave their team behind in a 5v5 to split far?
I mean that must be a computer program because any one with a brain would not do this.
I don’t play an Elementalist and I probably never will. Nevertheless, I sincerely feel sorry for the players who do enjoy playing them.
I think there is a major oversight by the developers and the players alike. What they really need is a major boost to their survivability. The old dagger/dagger cantrip build was really good, I’m still not sure why that build got nerfed and everything else got buffed.
Oh well… that being said. What does the community really feel about Elementalists?
So how do you guys feel about a Gem Store item called a Transmutation Emerald which would flip an item to an Account Bound state with a twist?
How it would work is that the item would become Account Bound after activating the Emerald and then become Soulbound on Equip (this technology is already in the game).
I think this would be super helpful for people switching mains and extremely profitable for ArenaNet in the long run.
If someone is crazy enough to spend 10-30 USD EVERY time they decide to unsoulbind something, then kudo’s to them. It’s not unlike the situation in the past where people rerolled and leveled brand new level 80’s to get them to look just like they wanted them to look… or with the name they always wanted… and then BAM… makeover kits and name change scrolls hit the scene.
It’s the nature of the beast and a totally reasonable way for ArenaNet to make some money.
Did it get nerfed since the livestream? I haven’t touched it yet but when the developers demonstrated it they healed 16K in under a second by AoEing into a crowd.
Even if it healed for 100k during a crowd AoE… how practical is that generally?
In SPvP, as a control guardian or a bunker, pretty darn practical. Your job isn’t to get kills it is to stymie the enemy’s effort go get kills. If you die guaranteeing your four teammates an ace and a control point or two you have done your job excellently.
So you’re saying that the heal is good in sPvP? Maybe if the point was riddled with minions… and that’s a big maybe. Bare in mind, you have to activate the heal to get the temporary effect…
Or were you expecting god mode for 378 seconds with a 14 second cooldown?
Should I respond to this? Okay… I will. The heal skill isn’t practical. Let’s say you heal a lot during AoE situation… okay so what? How much healing do you generally need during team stacked AoE situations usually? So okay you have a lot of overhealing during AoEs… Everywhere else the heal sucks.
Did it get nerfed since the livestream? I haven’t touched it yet but when the developers demonstrated it they healed 16K in under a second by AoEing into a crowd.
Even if it healed for 100k during a crowd AoE… how practical is that generally?
Are there any plans to address Mesmer damage in PvE. When compared to all the other zerker specs we have Elementalists at the top, Warriors a little behind etc… but Mesmers are at the bottom barrel.
For the record, I play a Guardian. I’m just curious as to why Mesmer damage isn’t up to par with all the other PvE damage specs, especially since the class is so squishy and situational.
I’d love to get some feedback from the community and the development team.
When the game just launched we used to have some really cool chats in game about lore and whatnot. I haven’t seen her log on in forever. Does she still work for ArenaNet?
