Guild Wars 2

Norn; nothing says “I’m a Thief” like turning into a big kittening bear and tearing everybody apart.

Malediktus.9250

We guardians got nerfed every patch since release. We guardians have lowest base health (same as elementalists and thieves), while warriors have highest (same as necromancer). Warriors also got good ranged options while guardians are stuck with scepter and staff. Guardians are hardly overpowered currently.

Guardians aren’t overpowered, but my Guardian is definitely more useful and desirable than my Warrior in both PvE and SPvP. I actually prefer the theme behind Warrior more, but currently Guardian offers so much for what little is lost that there is little point bringing Warriors along when you can have Guardians instead.

Fildydarie.1496

I see this as more of an apple-orange comparison than anything else.

If only more people saw things this way.

Banewrath.5107:

If they ever sped up the scepters projectiles, expect another damage reduction to the weapon. They allready reduced it`s damage by roughly 1/3 then what it was since headstart. They did increase it`s range a little too. But for faster projectiles the attack speed and or damage would get slowed or reduced quite a bit.

Probably, currently it’s the longest ranged scepter and it’s auto-attack has comparatively high damage. Honestly the only issue I currently have with scepter is it’s projectile speed – I have no issue wielding a wand or shooting glowing bubbles at my enemy, but I would like to see a boost in projectile speed, even if it comes at a cost of projectile damage (provided the sustained DPS remains the same).

Not only is the Warrior class easily countered, it’s also the class which can be outclassed in every role by others – no matter how specialised the Warrior’s build is.

Guardian is so nerfed but yet they remain extremely popular in tournaments, where some classes are almost nonexistent due to being actually useless.

Nudal.5310

Personally I think the best DPS you can get will be Axe/Sword(Good bleeds and heavy ranged attack) or Axe/Mace(Good stun and more vulnerability).

I also play with mace offhand because of how great the utility is, but it doesn’t change the fact that in terms of pure damage, axe is the best offhand and main hand weapon in the Warrior’s arsenal.

As to condition builds on Warriors, personally I think they’re stupid. It’s one of the things that a number of other classes do so much better than Warrior could ever hope too.

Imagine the endless volleys of nerfs needed to balance 1v1…

Warrior… Guardian… apples… oranges…

Dual axes hurt, so if you’re looking for pain give them a try.

I have a Warrior, a Guardian and a Thief. And I hate my Thief, so you can guess how I like to play.

Vigorous Shouts and Inspiring Battle Standard.

Well at least he spelt “Rogue” correctly, now I guess all he needs to do is learn the Thief’s actual name. Then maybe how to play afterwards…

Banners should spawn in your hands and should be only handled by party members.

Hey, at least we weren’t nerfed, should be optimistic…

Red/Blue capes in Guild Wars 1 worked well enough, why not here?

Daecollo.9578:

I didn’t ask for a boost in damage or mobility, I asked for more control of where moves go.

Daecollo.9578:

Whirlwind Attack – 33% Movement Speed increase (swiftness) + dodge + spin, you can move wherever you want to.

Daecollo.9578:

Hundred Blades – Your allowed to move while using this, but if you do move, the damage of the next attacks are cut by 25%, if you don’t move it changes nothing.

See bolded, those would fall under the category of “mobility” to me. I will make this as simple as possible for you: Greatsword. Does. Not. Need. It. The only Greatsword skills that need some work are Rush (which needs to work) and Arcing Slice, which is pointless given FGJ. Most of what you’re asking for are boosts to skills which are working well and as intended.

Daecollo.9578:

Most of the thief’s abilities have both control AND mobility.

To me it seems you wish to make the Warrior simply more like the Thief, it is not and should never be the Thief. If you want to play “control and mobility”, play your Thief. It’s pretty simple and far more useful than calling for boosts to a weapon that hardly needs it.

Daecollo.9578:

I don’t feel its fair to use Spvp as a crutch, I don’t want to comment until I’ve actually leveled and played with the traits.

Then unless you spend a lot of gold on armour/weapons/runes and retraining skills you’ll never ever experience the various weapons and builds available to Warrior and the only person missing out due to this is you. Anybody who doesn’t take advantage of the free items and retraining in the Mists to experiment is really foolish, especially considering how fair it is – everybody can use it.

Greatsword is fine (except for Rush), it doesn’t need extra boosting in terms of damage or mobility. If you want super mobility play Sword/Warhorn with the correct traits, or go back to playing your Thief.

JonathanSharp.7094:

Short answer – no.

The reason is that we are working towards an esport based on skill. I realize some of you want your items to matter, and if you want that, WvW gives you that feeling.

But we feel it’s very important that you are on equal footing with your opponents when in sPvP. We want skill to be the single largest determinant in who wins in sPvP.

We may add more aesthetic choices down the road, and maybe the stats on the amulets can change, but overall we want to stay w/ the “no power grind” system that we have established.

Hope that makes sense!

THIS right here is why Guild Wars and it’s successor are good PvP games.

Daecollo.9578:

But with the other weapons? I will need gear to see there potential, otherwise commenting on it is not fair.

SPvP, it’s free.

Ever considered, you know, using a different weapon, Daecollo?

Daecollo.9578

A lot of abilities just feel like they control what I do, heres an example.
Greatsword

Stopped reading there, the Greatsword is working as intended except for Rush, it does not need any improvements at all. It’s also the most boring and selfish weapon in our arsenal.

AsteriskCGY.5931:

And another bit is ranged can still deal damage if they screw up on a dodge while learning a fight, melee is pushed out of ranged and thus not doing anything. Makes for a less fun learning curve.

Ranged is easier, it’s the nature of these games.

Personally I don’t want to see them make current content easier, but I would like to see in the future some boss fights that require you to be close. As I previously said – spending 90% of my time at ranged on Warrior or Guardian is horribly boring.

Recently.1043

Just bring a range weapon for swap always. Not a huge deal, you will learn through trial and error what bosses you can melee in and what bosses you want to stay in ranged for.

I would like to see some bosses that you HAVE to melee against, now wouldn’t that be something? It’s not really fun spending 90% of the time on my Warrior with Longbow/Rifle or Sceptre with my Guardian.

In its current form, Longbow is mostly useful for two things: Defending in WvW and for getting the fire shield/burning bolts from Combustive Shot’s fire field.

FDS is THE sword, please put it back in.

Yeah, Humans are the Elves of GW2; Culturally developed, ancient race that once ruled much of the world. Now their time has passed and the younger peoples have surpassed them in power and technology.

They’re completely different in playstyle, despite using the same weapon. The true sniper is a range-traited Longbow Ranger with their 1500 range; this being said, the Rifle Warrior is a longer ranged fighter than the Rifle Engineer. Though I dare say the Rifle Engineer is more useful for group situations.

All my shouts and warhorn skills tend to draw lots of agro I’ve noticed. I can “tank” well enough for a while if I keep running and avoiding. DPS Greatsword builds bring nothing to parties – everybody in this game can do DPS, some can even do it while contributing more to their party than getting other people killed because they tried to rez your paper cannon kitten

I’m not a Wammo, I’m a Paragon!

Soulwatcher.2604:

Varyag Guild Wars 1 was a whole different animal.

True, but it survived fine without WoW players and “the sky is falling” MMORPG jumpers.

Soulwatcher.2604:

Funny how I see Guild Wars 1 players making daily posts/threads about how much this game sucks and Anet is a sell out.

Actually, I’d say Anet have made the only MMORPG since Guild Wars 1 that was actually worth paying for.

Video James.9218:

#1. It defies their very concept of honor.

Maybe the Norn Thief in question is a combat pragmatist?

Video James.9218:

#2. They’re freakin’ huge.

So are crocodiles, but they still remain one of the best ambush predators on the entire planet.

Soulwatcher.2604:

@tol I got a full set of exotic armor/jewelry before DR was in place and it was a huge grind. If I were a new player today and tried to get exotics I would just give up on the game.

This is funny, because I have full exotic armour and jewellery which I obtained without grinding. Actually, most of it obtained with gold I made through explorations in the high level zones and selling the loot/crafting resources I found along the way.

Guess grinding isn’t the only way to get stuff.

Kimbald.2697:

GW2 can not survive if all the wowplayers would leave for good.

Guild Wars survived well enough, it still is as a matter of fact.

Personally I don’t care what games you play or played. The type I don’t like are the MMORPG jumpers; these guys are usually “WoW veterans” with three second attention spans whom are “sick of WoW” and jump to every new release MMO for a month, then complain on forums that it’s not good enough (usually because it’s not enough like WoW) and then repeat the cycle ad infinitum. The ones around here often complain about the lack of mounts, seven dozen equipped skills and keep calling Ranger “Hunter”… but I’m getting a bit off topic here.

Well I personally switch weapons…

Overall though, I prefer a system where you have ten equipped skills and they all do something noticeable, as opposed to the system where you have fifty skills (half of which do nothing or next to nothing) cluttering up your interface.

AlexanderFaust.4518:

lol, since ya didn’t watch the vid.. guess you’ll never know :P
Engi is actually pretty boring tho..

I don’t want to know really, I dislike easy mode builds and I have no plans to play the Elementalist. I typically find that archetype to be really boring overall.

TransparentlyOpaque.1824:

I did not look at the video, the url looked like it was a scam site- youtu.be ?

Uh, no, it’s not a scam site…

superkeggles.4617:

target them CTRL+T

This, especially if you’re running with a few people and can quickly bring the Mesmer down.

AlexanderFaust.4518:

It’s like you didn’t even watch the vid I posted….

I didn’t; don’t feel like watching some English guy go on about stacking boons on Elementalists for thirty six minutes.

AlexanderFaust.4518:

lol, would LOVE to hear how porting around and blowing people up is “boring”. :P

Because Engineers do it with more style. :P

TransparentlyOpaque.1824:

Varyag.3751:

Most professions have easy mode builds.

Tell me what the elementalist easy mode is please?

Maybe don’t know what the word “most” actually means; but I’m not playing an Elementalist to find out. They’re boring.

Most professions have easy mode builds.

Paragon – Excellent support, wings, cool dance, awesome armour, javelins and greatly underused; being a Paragon is like belonging to a gentleman’s club.

Ritualist – Very well-rounded, almost like an Engineer from FPS games. An army of spirits destroying any enemy who comes near you is a sight to behold. Plus, their armours are just too kitten cool.

I’d actually prefer a simple system kind of similar to Damaste’s. Simply put, you have Aggressive and Defensive stances that would grant different weapon skills (and toughness/power bonuses) depending on what stance you were currently in, similar to the Elementalist’s attunement system.

Of course, firstly it’s too similar to that system AND it would require too much work/balance for something that really isn’t needed, so it’s just a fantasy more than anything.

Mending. That’s what you should use in endgame PvE and all types of PvP.

adalhs.1986:

Here’s a pic of my human, I consider him beautiful, but I really see no femininity in him.

Not masculine either.

Swarfega.6097

The guardian has access to neither. So what’s the point?

Good point. But to add, an evasive skirmisher weapon doesn’t really suit the heavily protected defensive juggernaught that Guardian portrays.

Adding the 2h axe as an AoE melee weapon wouldn’t really be worth the effort, considering we already have considerable melee AoE with hammers, greatswords and 1h axes. May as well just add 2h axes and give them greatsword skills.

Never had too much trouble with Guardians, they’re powerful sure, but unless they’re traited for defence they won’t last a great amount of time anyway. Those heavily defensive ones that take forever to kill I usually just ignore… and go for the guys that will actually deal enough damage to be worth the trouble of killing, going back to the Guardian when we’ve killed his team. At range they’re pretty hopeless currently, their Sceptre’s auto-attack is a really slow attack and pretty avoidable, so you could choose to bring them down with a Rifle if you like.

Sword + Warhorn.

Eveningstar.6940:

Yes, that’s a fair concern. There’s always a question of efficacy and skillset that—at least in this game—is intimately tied to style. Because specific weapons have a specific tactical use, you have to ask yourself, ‘What skills will a Longbow provide to a Guardian? And how do you balance giving an already strong class another strong option?’

Very good points, I find it difficult to think of a way the Guardian could use Longbow without encroaching on either Ranger Longbow (sniper) or Warrior Longbow (aoe conditions) territory.

Eveningstar.6940:

One of the problems with Scepter isn’t that it’s a bad weapon—it’s not, honestly. It’s that it’s a limited weapon. Scepter has no boons. No symbols. No real trait support whatsoever. No significant synergy with Torch, Focus or Shield. It has nearly zero tactical variety, which makes it peculiar among Guardian weapons.

I agree with this and this is exactly why new weapons shouldn’t (and won’t) be added for some time to come; some weapons need looking at and altering, Guardian’s Sceptre among them.

frostflare.6390:

*1. Arrow of Truth-Shoot an arrow in a straight line at the target hitting all enemies in the line of the arrow.

• 2. Alignment-Fire multiple arrows at the target, each arrow dealing damage and stacking a single vunrability(7 stacks). Allies caught in the way of the arrows are healed for each arrow that hits them.(Minor healing).
• 3. Symbol of Zeal- Lay down a symbol at target area that gives allies Vigor and damage foes.
  *4. Beacon-Arch an arrow into the sky creating a brightlight under the target area. Enemies directly under the aoe are burned and allies receive fury.
  4-a. Illuminate- The beacon expands all of its light in a final burst, blinding enemies and granting regeneration to allies. Increase the recharge of Beacon
  *5. Zealot’s Arch- Send an arching arrow into the field that explodes in flames creating a fire field and burning enemies.
  5-a. Zealot’s Intervention- Port to the fire-area made and send out a wave of flame that purifies a single conditon from each ally in range, and burns enemies caught in its wave. Creates a blast finisher.Increases the Zealot’s arch cooldown.

Truely comeing up with a unique concept in a weapon thats both unique among the class, and classes is not that hard.

There’s nothing unique about this; you’ve just combined Ranger’s auto attack (Long Range Shot) with their Piercing Arrows trait and also taken Ranger’s second attack (Rapid Fire) plus adding vulnerability and healing to it. While skills 4 and 5 essentially render Longbow Warrior useless (especially were this Guardian Longbow to have 1200 range untraited), because these skills AoE Blind and Burn but also with condition removal.

And to those guys who are complaining about having to use a Sceptre: You’re playing a magic class, essentially a hybrid of heavy armour and protective magic, of course you’re going to be using some of the weapons found in the scholar classes.

I wanted my Engineer to look like an old man with a moustache – but he looks like a teenager with a village people moustache and white hair.

Snowy.1469:

Being Welsh with several Irish friends, I find it very irritating how nearly every single Sylvari name that’s Welsh or Irish is mispronounced or has some sort of dodgy spelling. Caithe should just be “ka”, Trahearne should be “tra-hay-an”, Iowerth should be “yor-werth”, Niamh should be “neev”, Aife should be “ee-fuh”, etc.

“Vyacheslav” was mispronounced too, but it’s not really worth raging over.

More actual facial hair is needed.