^ this. Im not crying over a pair of gloves, it’s just that it would be nice to have them and ANET didn’t really think this through.
Please ANET, give us an option to but pieces aside from whole set. Whole set is 800 gems, so lets make it more expensive to buy single pieces and make it 200 gems/piece, but at least give us that.
@Hydra Dunno what “people” are you talking about since this is the only problem I have with this game…
You people need to be more polite and think twice… or more.
Yay for the new armor. I’m all for price in gems, but I won’t buy it simply cos I don’t want the whole set – I want only gloves. Thanks anet, no armor for me, no money for u.
I highly recommend getting dungeon armors. It’s “free” – takes only time – and aside from armor tokens you also get quite a bit of gold and few drops.
This is what I did and what I think you should 2, as I think the way your character looks is the most important factor ( stats can also be changed with transmutation stones ):
1. Go to Lion’s Arch – Fort Marriner
2. Check dungeon armors ( preview ). Without closing the preview window go to another one and add something you think looks nice. When ur “armor” is ready, write down how many tokens and from which dungeons you need in order to get your armor. If possible (you can always use gw2lfg.com) do at least 1 of each needed dungeons per day ( that way you will get 60 tokens for doing the dungeon + possible 6-9 from bag drops.
3. AT THIS POINT you can go with only berserker gear, since PvE for guardians is a piece of cake. Just learn to use dodge and time your skills.
4. When ur rdy ( got the resources ) craft ur endgame gear with armorsmithing ( prolly Knights – pow/prec/tough ) and transmute so you got the looks and the stats.
5. Setup that can never go wrong is Knight’s Armor and Berserker’s Jewelery. When ur rdy and learn a thing or two you can change that.
6. For starters I recommend Superior Rune of the Soldier ( gives vit/tough + shouts remove conditions ) for all armor pieces – around 7 gold ( you should have WAY more than that from doing dungeons ).
For weapons choose whatever stats you feel like ur lacking.
This is my build that I use in both PvE and WvW and I feel quite confident about myself, I rarely die and help my mates in both ways – supporting their survivability and DPS:
Zeal – 0
Radiance – 15 – Signet Mastery
Valor – 30 – Purity, Retributive Armor, Altruistic Healing
Honor – 20 – Superior Aria, Empowering Might
Virtues – 5
There is quite a bit of synergy between Radiance 15, Virtues 5, Altruistic Healing and Empowering Might.
Activating Virtue of Justice gives blind ( close ) and burning to your allies ( more dps ). Thanks to Inspired Virtue ( Virtues 5 ), you also give stack of might. Both boons heal you via Altruistic Healing. Thx to radiance 15, Virtue of Justice refreshes every time you kill a foe. In PvE and WvW zerg fights it is possible to spam F1 – a lot of blind, dps via burning and healing + might.
Other traits are rather self explainatory. For utility skills I choose Save Yourselves! Retreat! and Stand Your Ground! + Renewed Focus and Signet of Resolve.
I run with GS/Staff, which you don’t like, but I also use this build for other weapons and it works just fine.
This build is brilliant for PvE and ( imho ) very good for WvW. As you are likely to start with PvE farming – I think you should try it.
I hope I helped and good luck.
crossbow or shotgun ( there’s rifle right? ) would fit guardian, but I just can’t see myself using bow. sorry, no ><
so you have 12k hp, right? okay…
actually guards’ only weak side is ranged, scepter is just badly designed ( not to mention we are not fairies ). I have 16 k hp, 3200 armor, 50% crit chance, 2,8k attack and 35% crit dmg and I’m doing more than fine. 0/15/30/20/5
Not a single class in this game can withstand a killshot from big bosses ( like karka roll etc ) but guess what.. most of us know how to avoid it.
There are many useless traits, however I’d say that we have one of the best traits among all classes.
So yes to fixing scepter, yes to fixing some traits, no to more “tankiness”. We would be WAY OP.
/ on a side note – we made a small 5-ppl group of all guardians in guild and went WvW.
Small zerk went after us ( id say 20-25 ), we killed around 7, run away. You really need more surv?
It is fun imho. I don’t really whine about akitten players since I know they happen in EVERY GAME on earth where people can get “a taxi”.
What I hate about this mini game is the fact that you often jump in to a game which was on for couple of minutes and so, I had to leave many games simply because when I joined we were already losing by 160/200/even 320 points!!! Even Jesus wouldn’t help here >< Fix this Anet.
People who lost money shouldn’t get support but help.
Next time invest those 55 in a statistics course.
I do agree that skins should be unlocked account wide but being mad for not getting one is wrong. No1 ever said that if you buy coffers for real money you are guaranteed to get a ticket. You get a better chance. Still – it’s only a chance. Don’t cry, move along, next time don’t buy it.
It seems to me that you die cos you propably stand too long in AoE, don’t use dodge often enough and try to facetank everything. I had the same problem when I started doing dungeons because I was used to typical tank role like in WoW or first Guild Wars, when with the correct build you could stand in almost anything and just press keys from 1 to 5. Your Hp and armor are fine and it is true, full glass cannon guardian should be ok in any dungeons when he knows what to do. + aggro in GW2 is determined by armor so in fact you could lover it a bit to 3k and maybe let some othar guardian do the tanking while you learn the ropes. Don’t stand too long in one place, learn enemies and learn when to dodge. Positioning and mobility is key in this game. Altruistic Healing build is a good idea but even then you wont be able to stand in flames for more than 2 seconds.
Good luck and don’t worry, you’ll get better.
Nerfing wars is pointless. They might have more raw power and better DPS but all in all they have problems like the rest of us.
I am really hoping for a scepter fix which in my case is removing it. I just don’t like the flavor. I’m not talking about making guardians OP in ranged – they shouldnt be – but branch in main hand is not guardian-ish, rather rainbow-fairy. I dunno, a crossbow? Maybe rifle with some shotgun-like attacks, lots of cone dmg with conditions I dunno…
I just don’t want my HEAVY armored guardian to wield a branch. I’m not an elf. This wep is good for casters not for frontliners.