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yeah you got stuck with a bad player, that blamed their failure on you. I run full zerk on that boss with classes other than guardian and I rarely get downed in that boss fight. You have all the time in the world to dodge or move out of that huge AOE ring.

But yeah F3, Retreat, Renewed Focus then F3 is the most Aegis you can output within a given window, so no need to rebuild.

Yeah that goes back to what I said, if you’re inexperienced or new you’re not going to have a firm grasp of the fundamentals to know a bad guide when you see one. The least we (the ones that know better) can do is give a stamp of disapproval when we see something that isn’t right. That causes other players, new ones included to question the build.

Fortunately one commenter on youtube likened this build to Bearbow Rangers, unfortunately there are some players that don’t know what a Bearbow is and why it’s considered not helpful.

Gulesave.5073:

My only concern is that the new crew is being written by the same people who write Scarlet.

Actually, I have an itch telling me that our Villain Sue will be “cured” of her insanity and brought into the fold. They are lacking a sylvari, after all.

I don’t follow LS very well but I remember a Sylvari called Canach, I’d rather see him fill this role if this must come to pass.

Bash.7291:

Why can’t this thread just die! :/

Well this thread is in the Guardian forum so maybe its running some kind of bunker spec

Obtena.7952:

MastaNeenja.1537:

My only problem with this is that someone will take it seriously and throw away a lot of gold.

Why do people like to MAKE things their problem? This is not your problem. If someone looks at that video and thinks “OMG, best Guard build EVAR!”, then they deserve to lose their gold for not doing more research, asking, etc …

Seems to be that you’re trying to make this your problem, which is ironic. But hey I made a mistake I should have said “The only problem” instead of “My only problem”. Simply put I don’t like misinformation. I may for example wind up pugging someone who thought this guide was actually good and threw all their gold at it. Now I have to carry them, unless they are a jerk then I punt.

Not everyone hits these forums or other ones like it, maybe someone just got to level 80 on his first or second toon, and is still new to the game and Guardians. Research is important but all the research in the world won’t mean crap if you have yet to grasp the fundamentals of the game. We were all new at some point and what we don’t need is the wrong kind of information from the start that wastes everyone’s time and gold.

Don’t hide AP, get rid of it, it means nothing, and the rewards for AP aren’t really that impressive. The only thing that the AP score measures is your ability or perhaps rather your desire to obtain AP.

AP is just another tool to keep people playing the game and chasing that next 500 point box that’s only few more points away. Another tool, a short cut really used rather than creating something meaningful to do.

I regret to inform you OP but you have purchased the wrong game. =/

You have essentially walked into a pizza joint, ordered a pizza and now you want to send it back because it’s not a cheeseburger.

My only problem with this is that someone will take it seriously and throw away a lot of gold.

2015 … that’s probably when the fractal weapon boxes will also drop.

I couldn’t watch the whole thing, it hurt my head. I had to stop at 1:17.

I’m sure this is an attempt at satire but the narrator’s voice was too grating, because they tried too hard.

Are you doing PVE (dungeons/fractals)? WvW or Spvp?

One thing you may not be aware of is that what works in PVE will not work in WvW and vice versa. I don’t do much Spvp but I would bet that it’s completely different too.

I’m sure if they opened up the dungeons and removed the events that contest them, no one would complain.

Zaxares.5419:

Romo.3709:

MastaNeenja.1537:

it’s so nice to see red in this Forum again

Hahahaha. Even though they were brought from beyond the grave. +1

“RISE FROM YOUR GRAVE!”

Bonus points for you if you get the reference.

I used this in another risen post in this subforum the other day

Sounds like they left, it is bad party design there’s several threads on this but I don’t know how high on the priority ladder this is for Anet to fix it.

Because some people lack any real patience or empathy it is a good idea to give a heads up when you join the party that you have not seen the cut scenes and would like to watch them. Most people are pretty cool with it when you ask.

Once I pugged an obviously new player in AC, they wanted to watch the cut scene and a second PUG wanted to kick them for watching it… so I kicked the second pug instead. The guy that got kicked had done some other annoying stuff already and that was the last straw. So it still pays to be polite in dungeons.

Nope, no we here.

I would like to hear that someone’s actually working on dungeons again, they can fix up the old ones or give us new permanent dungeons.

Contested dungeons weren’t so bad a year ago when all the zones were filled players now it’s just an annoyance that has to be circumvented by guesting to servers that have the dungeon open, or -shudders- PUGing and letting the pug open the dungeon. I do not recommend the second one, ever.

preserve the integrity… lol

Mine capped at 200, so why do I still get the notice? Turn it off please.

Dinky

“I ate a thumbtack on a dare once, it’s still in there.”

Your comment got me curious about how other subforums fair …

So I did a little digging in other subforums and this is what i came back with. The the number by the subform is the number of red tagged threads on the front page.I took into consideration our own shenanigans and only counted threads that were a month old or less or had a red comment that was a month old or less. It’s funny but as of this count no profession subforms had any red tags that met this criteria, also nothing in suggestions either.

The Nightmare Within: 4

A Very Merry Wintersday: 2

Lore: 1

Audio: 3

Guild Wars 2 Discussion: 2

Structured PvP: 4

PvP Events: 1

To be fair this sub form had a comment from a dev about a month ago it was a few pages back. I thinking it was pretty dry before that.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/LFG-tool-Group-Merging/first

The devs posting in Audio impressed me the most with how they handled threads and responded in them.

Because unlike other groups or forums we do not get the privilege of seeing red developer comments in our topics when we voice concerns about our little and often overlooked slice of the game.

Romo.3709:

MastaNeenja.1537:

it’s so nice to see red in this Forum again

Hahahaha. Even though they were brought from beyond the grave. +1

yeah i’m really trying hard to not look at the age of the thread, just keeping my head down.

I would really appreciate some permanent content, new weapons, professions, dungeons, and places to explore. It would be awesome if it came in a box and I would gladly pay 60$ for it.

as for these updates with free content, well i’m sure everyone’s heard the old saying; “You get what you pay for.”

+1 This topic is more relevant now than it ever was before.

I’m not condoning the OP’s original suggestions just that the dungeons and probably their rewards need some work.

it’s so nice to see red in this Forum again

it’s like he’s posting from the beyond, like some kind of Robert Zombie.

Yep halberds and other pole weapons would be excellent CC weapons for guardians. Something similar to the Hammer that Warriors currently have.

I’d love some more push back, and just some plain knock down and daze options with Guard.

I like the idea of a new weapon for guardians to inflict torment but I prefer melee.

Since we have maces already and some of the maces in games are called
Morning Stars much to my disappointment that leaves Flails which are pretty cool in their own right. Also I can see other professions using chained weapons, like Flails such as Warriors and Necros. Since Flails are spikey and have chains this has torment written all over it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flail_%28weapon%29

Of course granting access to an existing weapon like a Long Bow would be easier to implement than a whole new weapon. I’d still prefer the Flail, we might actually get cool new stuff like this if we ever get an expansion.

If all you want to do is solo explore the world then by all means tank up and get what ever stats you want. Run with what ever gear you like. Healing power doesn’t scale all that great so if I had to choose between vit and heal i’d go with vit.

However.

If you decide you want to do higher level PVE content like Dungeons then you’ll need to reconsider your set up. Just know that the best guardians can do excellent DPS and still protect their team. Guardians are meant to prevent damage not repair it.

To do this you’ll need to understand your traits, utilities, and profession mechanics – Virtues. You’ll be blinding your enemies with Virtue of Justice, sword, GS and focus skills. You’ll be preventing projectiles from hitting you and your allies with Wall of Reflection and Shield of the Avenger. Lastly you can provide party wide blocks with Virtue of Courage and Retreat!. This is the basics to playing an excellent Guardian. None of these skills require any form of stat, specifically healing, because you’re actually preventing damage done you don’t need to repair as much either. This frees you up to do damage by increasing your power and crits. This is to say that you can’t provide nearly 100% Protection up time and a decent stack of Vulnerability if traited properly with the hammer’s auto attack while still doing serious damage.

So in a sense you can have your cake and eat it too.

yes there’s no team support with AH, it only affects the user. EM is nice but if you have other members on your team that are eles, or engis that stack might with fire fields EM isn’t quite as useful.

EM also has a cool down so on a good day you can only keep about 5-7 stacks of might up.

If you’re talking about foo’s guide the link is in their signature. It just got unstickied not deleted.

Not picking on Eveningstar or their guide as it was very helpful but it is over year old and that account hasn’t posted a message in 10 months. That doesn’t seem right that they would drop your guide for lack of updates.

I would suggest putting your new updates in your guide and we can all request for it to be sticked again. It needs to get bumped to the top and what better way to do that than with an updated guide?

Yeah that was the closest thing to a condition guardian, how many of those do you see running around? Every other class can can do conditions and have multiple sources of varied conditions they can apply, also condition damage is kind of a big deal in player vs player content. So we get to bring Burning to that fight … yay..

in the mean time, anyone who can crit proc bleeds or have bleeding just built in to their auto attack can wear out our condition cleanses and then chew through our relatively low health pool. I don’t have a problem with Guardians health pool in most cases i understand why it is that way, but with so much condition damage flying around it makes it more noticeable.

I greatly envy, eles, mes, thieves and rangers who have crit damage coupled with precision, instead Guards have it with toughness. I’m sure there was some balance thought that went into that but where’s our condi proc on crit? As previously stated everyone else has one built in as a minor trait. If it was a good enough trait I would take it as a major trait. Unfortunately Guardians can only burn and that’s all because we have it tied to a mechanic that allows us and only us to burn with every 5th attack. The only way this is truly worth its while is if you go 10 into Zeal and then 25 into radiance, burning is probably the worst condi you can apply. Bleed at least stacks, poison reduces healing. There’s no way i’d expect we’d get something better like confusion or torment. I think Radiance minor traits are some of the best, so this may explain why we don’t have a proc on crit condi. So yeah most guard DPS builds end up with 300 condi damage as a byproduct.

Will that ever get changed? probably not.

Sorry, but they can’t fix it, they have to make sure the carebears and carrot chasers have something to do every two weeks before they get bored and wander off taking their gems with them.

Fernling.1729:

Ethics.4519:

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Can we just necro all the dev threads so the whole front page contains dev posts?

I mean, in typical fashion, ARGH robert! Can we have an update. It’s been over a year? Are you guys still gathering feedback in your post-arenanet employment?

Robert was let go awhile back.

Yeah we know he’s gone but we miss seeing red in this Subform.

¬_¬ what’s going on here?

well now you have me curious

the image is from altered beast, at the very beginning of the game the wizard in the picture commands you to Rise from your grave! Which is sort of what happened to this thread.

Seems like i’m getting a lot of use out of this image lately.

This is strictly PVE speaking

When I run a shout build I use HTL SYG and Retreat

But it largely depends on the situation, you should be flipping your utilities around, because sometimes Wall of Reflection for example is just too valuable to not have.

I almost always have retreat in my skill bar because a party wide block can mean the difference between a win and a loss. Being able to do this 3 times within a short amount of time is just awesome. Virtue of Courage > Rewed Focus > Virtue of Courage then Retreat! That’s a lot of party wide damage mitigation.

Despite it’s name I think Save Yourselves is probably the most selfish shout you can use. I rarely run with it. I think it’s more valuable in solo play than group play. I am aware it has some good condition removal potential but, generally speaking your party doesn’t get hit with multiple conditions in PVE that are going to make it quite as useful.

There’s no question that SYG is probably the best shout we have party wide stability at just the right moment means that a lot of annoying things like Kholer and Alphard’s scorpion wire are useless, you can use Retreat! too if SYG is on cool down. On top of that it’s a stun breaker, this has so many useful applications in PVE and WvW, probably spvp too.

So that leaves Hold the Line, I like this shout, its my default shout i use when i want to remove conditions but it’s always the first shout I trade out when I need something like Wall of Reflection instead. It does it’s job, but it is rather pointless if you have a hammer, even with the regen. On top of that you don’t need protection so much if you can dodge or utilize your blinds and blocks well.

This is a good idea.

zerotwo.4731:

The only way Anet could get players to stop stacking would be to have the dungeon path different EVERY time you entered it.Doing battles you never fought before would be the only way. Stacking allows us to get done that tedious dungeon path we do as a daily run. Some of this is achieved in fractals where within the fractal you can go different paths but since its not random enough players choose to stack for the buffs and quick kill.

I dunno the few times when we get a new dungeon i start looking for good places to stack up on my first couple of play through. I think the only way to stop stacking would be to remove walls and obstructions. Half of stacking is the old tried and true pulling tactic anyway, pulling isn’t bad, right guys?

mooty.4560:

Lord Kuru.3685:

Come to think of it, perhaps Anet should create more mobs that use combo fields — you have 2 mobs, one who creates a field, the other who blasts .. you have to keep them apart or else their combo makes them super powerful. That can perhaps encourage you to split your group in order to separate the mobs.

I actually think combo fields are under utilized outside of places like WvW. In particular, in PvE, there tends to be a lot of AoE skills that offer combo fields but they’re just carelessly stacked upon each other for the damage effect and not the benefits of blast finishers. Correct me if I’m wrong but I believe that only the oldest field is triggered when finishers are used.

Well if you have a group of players that work together every day you can get the most out of combo fields because players start working out rotations with each other. This is one of the things that separates PUGs from an experienced team of players. Combo fields practically encourage stacking or at least playing within close proximity. I agree that the majority of combo fields are going to go to waste in PVE because of all the PUGs formed. If i wind up PUGing myself I don’t expect much in the way of combo field usage.

As for your question, yes the oldest field is the one that triggers, hammer guardians for example need to be aware of this when playing with Eles and Engies if they are trying to set up might stacking. Although I suspect if your DPS is good enough you could run one fire field have everyone blast finish to stack the mights then charge in and kill everything before your might wears off.

As far as combo field and mobs, sure why not? I’d love to see some mobs do that, variety is good.

Do you remember when Spirit Weapons didn’t have a health pool and couldn’t be targeted? Pepperridge Farm remembers…

I saw one of these in a WvW map, i was sad

ProtoGunner.4953:

This feud aside, it seems more and more that if they can make money with this gem store driven updates there is no need for new real content (i.e. Cantha, Elona, new Dragons, Professions etc.). Money reigns. Good were ye olde times of Guild Wars 1…

This is exactly how I see it, instead of getting something super nice occasionally like a well done expansion, with new Professions to play or places to explore that don’t go away two weeks later were are just going to get shoveled sub par content until we are fed up (or bored) and find something better to play.

When I look at the scope of GW2 and how it was designed I think Anet had big plans and then something drastic happened and now we got this …

Pic says it all

Adding Lollet could have been an after thought for all we know, and it probably was. Sometimes I think too much credit can be given.

Either way I wouldn’t read into it too much, after all they could have had a caaaaarazy idea to put her in the Abbadon Fractal….

I feel dirty when i get hit by agony that i can’t avoid…

If they nerf Vigorous Precision again I will be a very sad guardian. =(

edit:

actually i thought about this some the change to Vigorous Precision was probably for the better, back when they changed it the first time around I was using AH setups.

Anyway I like vigor, I like dodging through enemies and swording their backside, oh and survival is good too.

I made a cleric guardian once, i wasn’t happy.

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