But then again it seems a lot of the skills in this game are way too short of duration.
It’s unfun thinking that you can defend or heal people only to find that the power runs out as soon as you’ve clicked it. My other gripe is that the passive defense on the Guardian feels like he’s NOT in heavy armour, or that heavy armour doesn’t do anything (which I’m guessing is true). The class feels very weak in many respects: Low Armour, Low HPs, Low Defense, Low Healing, Low DPS.
Sometimes, the Guardian feels abysmal. You end up thinking you can do something fantastic with all those great protection and defense and heal powers, and you can! But for 1 second every 30 seconds. There is a lot of room for improvement.
Guardian Class Assessment Grade: C- (requires aid)
The elites are so poor that I would rather put a normal skill in there. Why can’t we have a tomes be permanent like Kits are on the Engineer?
Got my Guardian to level 32.
A horrible, complicated class without the survivability or healing it claims to have.The problem is likely on your end, because both healing and survivability can be quite high. . What are your specific issues.
It all boils down to this: *Everything hits me way too hard. *
Hmmm, that’s strange. What weapons were you using? And what utilities? Where you dodging actively? How are your experiences with other professions?
If you want high survivability, I’d advice Mace/Focus or Mace/Shield. Sword and Greatsword are also great picks, because of the large number of blinds.
I know how to dodge, but not when – you get no chance to dodge vs some mobs (Avalonian Rangers 2-shot everybody) and against players, it’s usually on recharge.
Other classes are better in many ways.
The engineer is fun and seems to have more utility than all the other classes added together. The number of tools this class has is ridiculous. They get good range, decent attacks and feel they can contribute without laying down enormous numbers. Except with the flame-thrower.
The Mesmer has so many illusions and invisibility spells that you can hardly fail to get a mob/player to attack something that’s not you. Suffice to say, it has much better survivability than the “heavily armoured” (what a joke!) guardian who can barely scrape through a fight and usually has to kite using the Sceptre against tough mobs. I feel like a feeble, wishy-washy class with poor design behind it.
At the moment I’m experimenting with all of the weapons. The Greatsword’s damage is really nice and you can do some solo combos that would remove conditions from other people – who, ironically, don’t necessarily have to be there for the combo to fire off.
The Hammer’s Ring of Warding and Zealot’s Embrace are useful for chasing down/trapping fleeing players.
The Sceptre seems so-so, but at least has some range. I’m still practising with the torch -trying to master Zealot’s Flame.
The 1h Sword is really sweet, lots of nice utility and damage.
The shield has nice powers but I want it to add something for passive survivability. It’s a shield, and should protect by default.
I’m not happy with this class. Am I missing something special or is it really as difficult, and unfun as I think?
Got my Guardian to level 32.
A horrible, complicated class without the survivability or healing it claims to have.The problem is likely on your end, because both healing and survivability can be quite high. . What are your specific issues.
It all boils down to this: *Everything hits me way too hard. *
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Got my Guardian to level 32.
A horrible, complicated class without the survivability or healing it claims to have.
Not only is this difficult in PvP, this is very troublesome in PvE. Melee is punished a great deal more than ranged in a number of ways.
Rolling another class doesnt fix this problem.
This^^
Bug report:
Guardian != WvWvW
On the one hand I understand the case for a raise of the cap.
On the other hand, I think the case for combating the invisible zerg involves not raising the cap.
My guild want to be able to play together. The queues make it impossible. No wonder it’s just zergs everywhere – I encountered an organised guild group for the first time today, and they destroyed zerg after zerg. We can’t counter them because the cap prohibits our guild from joining together.
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