Guild Wars 2

Another reviewer showing the guild pane with the server showing :/ Now for days in map chat I’m going to hear “anyone from space monkey mafia here?”. As if the server needed more draws to bring in more people…

Well I rez downed players all the time, just don’t expect a rez from down/defeated if it’s going to kill me just to try. You’ll either have to wait till it calms down so i can rez you in safety or walk back.

Don’t worry, they will all try to transfer to henge and just get the “this server is full” message.

Currently I’m running with a GS, which is my favorite, but I can only use it in small group skirmishes or I get stomped into the ground. Backup with scepter+shield because well I like the shield skills and the scepter gives me long range until one guy gets separated from his group then I immobilize>judges intervention>swap to greatsword and whirl him into the dirt. And carry a staff in my bags for defending, because I can hit people safely through the gate. The elite skills I just don’t like, at all…

Still trying to figure out how to make it all work. It feels bad to be a melee in wvw, which is what I want to do with the class, but just way too squishy, and in order to balance that out enough then I just don’t pack enough power to really take someone out so idk. It wouldn’t be bad if our ranged options were better. Just feel useless unless I can catch someone away from their group.

It only cost me 6 gold to get all the gems I needed and I got my 3 extra slots.

I just don’t like it because it’s too support, and the supports kinda meh as well. Sure those few seconds of might stacks is great for everyone around, me, but it’s not like I can swap to greatsword and get some damage off with it, it’s falling off me too fast.

A lot of people bring up it’s great support and say that it’s fine because of that, but I’m sorry it’s not fine. That line of thinking right there is a prime example of the “standard mmo” model of thinking that people still need to break out of. This is a game of being capable to do all roles at one time to varying degrees, not doing one role to the exclusion of all others…

The only thing the staff is currently good for is hitting people through gates and buffing groups with might for a couple seconds just before a big zerg hit, then you weapon swap and don’t look back.

The weapon needs work.

I am henge, there is no alliance with stormbluff.

We make up for it with our healing is why.

For hardcore pve raiders, I don’t think it will. But for the hardcore pvp’ers who casually pve, or just the casual player in general this game wins out imo.

It certainly won out for me. (someone who is only interested in casually pve’ing but mostly focuses on pvp.)

I really like it, it makes it easier for anet to balance the game, and with weapon swapping you get access to more skill to synergize better. It’s much better than say in a game like WoW where you get tons of skills but you only ever really use a few of them and the rest are useless or extremely situational at best.

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DusK.3849:

Hammers are getting some love down the line, aeon, don’t worry. Some ANet rep confirmed it in another thread.

I actually haven’t tried a greatsword warrior, and I will eventually, but I love my greatsword guardian. I dunno where you guys are getting the “it’s not fluid enough” stuff from. Maybe you’re just not using Leap of Faith in situationally, or don’t understand how well the pull skill at 5 changes the fight to your favor.

There’s casting bars on auto attacks causing slight delays in your fighting, and the skills don’t work that well together.
Great Sword Guardians feel like they were given a bunch of skills that were all somewhat situational as opposed to being skills that just worked well together to form a solid fighting skill set.

Plus their dmg (outside of their roflcoptor move) feels a bit on the low side to me compared to my Warrior.

I do hope hammer does get some love, the casting bar on the third auto attack swing is too long feels very clunky, most of the moves just don’t feel fluid it feels too slow. I just really don’t like the weapon though it has some really amazing skills, namely the banish skill and the ring of warding skill.

I play an Asura Guardian myself, and quite frankly, I like their greatsword skills better. The problem however is as a guardian your utility skills and traits aren’t set up like a warriors where you can just dish out the same kind of damage, you have a serious lack of fury and might generation to really put out the numbers and have a really low base health as well, also you are very easily kited. you get a lot of retaliation and blinds among other things to keep you going. Overall it feels squishier than a warrior and there’s less damage output as well, so your offense isn’t much of a defense. It’s especially bad in WvW though I am trying my hardest to make it work anyways.

So that’s just something to keep in mind.

It’s not any better for the winning realm. It’s not fun to just crush a dead enemy at their spawn all day, it’s fun to defend and assault, and that’s not happening if you aren’t able to fight back. Also it makes the winning servers queues horrible because all the losers just free transfer over and flood the queue.

It’s not the alliances that are at fault here, in proper WvW they will be matched up against servers that are just as competent as they are and there will be good competition. the non competitive servers will move down the list and fight other servers just like them so it wont be so imbalanced.

Alliances are actually suffering greatly atm because the teams they beat are flooding their servers and their queues making it so the alliance members can’t even get into WvW in the first place. It’s terrible right now.