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I agree there should definitely be an option to switch the modes, but going back to earlier having to trait twice for it (cd reduction and +duration were always the first option) would be terrible, this was one of the biggest changes I was waiting for myself . What I don’t agree with is one wanting to most of the times placing the Consecrations beneath oneself since I want them upon my ally in need, and they are not always standing beneath my feeth

Having to run to the place where you want the WoR < can apply it there from distance

Ever used line of warding?

What’s that “real gameplay” you are talking about?

Black Box.9312:

Yeah, sadly I see this getting the nerfbat in the near future.

This timeperiod when everything was burned by Guardians will be remembered warmly

Enjoy it while we still can

Tome:

- disabled all utilities
- disabled virtues

The signet still roots but… It can be combined with Merciful Intervention or SyG for example

Tarsius.3170:

I think they did put an ICD on Radiant Fire unfortunately ( or it definitely fails to proc when torch#4 is on regular cooldown

It is 10 seconds but it’s not bad at all

Played with hybrid today, felt like damage had gone through the roof. I was thinking the same about not wanting to meet another burn guard

http://dulfy.net/gw2traits#build=AgICpAOoBaQ~

Scepter/torch & sword/focus
The Fury and 25% crit chance from traits, easy 45%
Permeathing wrath is insane
Got virtue of resolve now, had to survive without it earlier

I like the ground targeting, please keep it

Torch 4 + Right-hand strength + Radiant fire + Radiant power stronk, torch 4 keeps going off cooldown almost faster than I have time to throw it (edit: WvW)

Adjust.6903:

I’m levelling my guardian as we speak. Legit answers should I jump ship or will we be fine? Only other class I have is engi. Only other class I’d enjoy is probably mesmer or elementalist. Should I stay guard?

Guardian will still be the best class around, other classes just needed compensation for how awesome Guardian is

Yeah didn’t play for long today after seeing our server is facerolling both other servers, and won’t probably play much this week

Rising Dusk.2408:

All Thief stolen skills are being rebalanced with the specialization changes, so just hold out for those before passing judgment.

inb4 steal skill that makes their attacks unblockable :DD

Stop ruining gamemodes with your farmerbuddies

i dont know what u guys r complaining about the link, i got this free program called trojan.exe and am installing it now

The current 0/0/6/4/4, what will he look like?
I liked the way Mediguard seems to be stronger in future, but yesterday after paying a closer look (I admit, I have been veeery lazy on this since there has been no news on how the new armor attributes will look like and the shown traits/numbers will likely still change) on the traits I noticed retributive armor no longer exist in its current form and will instead be competing with AH and Monks Focus as a ferocity and toughness boost instead. Superior Aria combined with Pure of Voice (good?) and having a 20% boon duration while wielding a staff instead of the 20% on all weapons while just speccing 4 into Virtues in current game, and the Virtuespec seems like a must since it will bring a) stability b) stunbreak c) condition cleanse to allies, so what support Guard would not spec into these lines? I had hoped the support Guard could somehow make up for their lack of DPS with the promising +30% damage from combo of burning & symbols but it seems unlikely now, I liked the idea of people actually avoiding carefully Guardian symbols instead of seeing them as a minor annoyance as it is now (atm standing inside your own symbol will get even squishy specs just walk inside symbol and DPS you while you Empower/whatever since the risk is too small compered with the gain [damage/interrupt]).
So, you, who have put more thoughts into this subject, what do you think?

It was a bad build it was dependant on the buffs, you are supposed to have them only as a bonus for your build and be ready to lose them most of the times.

Might was nerfed, stability was changed, now there will be less condition power, power and vitality. Next should be the +40 condition duration food nerf and perplex runes removed completely and I would be happy

I doubt the weapon skins stay unlocked

Good to see them gone. Never had any of those stacks when defending anyways, maybe briefly after capturing a camp back but then losing them again immediately when trying to 1vX that enemy zerg or roaming group

Won’t make it a good name though

Sure it’s a bug? You throw the sword, it’s a physical projectile finisher so it’s a projectile? Reflection =/= Block

keenlam.4753:

Unblockable projectile is also UN-reflectable, my friend, in case you haven’t known that already.

Nope, otherwise I would’ve left this unposted, Learn something new every day. Makes that new Chronomancer skill even more desireable in my eyes now for WvW

I like Trahearne

Softspoken.2410:

Nah. It’s a relatively low cost skill that gives a good bulk of mobility. It provides swiftness instead of a 25% boost, with all the pros and cons of that. But it costs no trait points or rune slots, and doesn’t require a specific weapon either.

I find it a plausible contribution as to why Guardians don’t have access to an always-on 25% movement speed ability.

Not even shoutbuilds use Retreat, it has an extremely high cost since it takes a whole utility slot and removes your own survivability when competing with consecrations, meditations and other actually powerful shouts. It needs to be traited for shorter cooldowns and an Aegis heal to make up for that. It is one of those skills that look good on paper but when you go out there and get in combat with other players, you notice it doesn’t work.
Outside of mapping in PvE or blocking some telegraphed attack by an AI-mob it has not much uses, unlike a permanent, uncorruptable +25 minor trait. With Lemongrass, Melandru Runes that is a permanent -90% cripple, chilled and immobilized. With Guardian you can reach a 6 second window of 98% if you have traited Purging Flames.
I’m happy the Mesmers get it, but stating freaking Retreat is a good reason to keep movement speed from Guards is a joke.

This won’t end well…

I admit I am jelly, they can finally break the chains of traveler runes when they go roaming

Softspoken.2410:

Probably because Guardians have Retreat! as a utility skill.

This is a joke, right?

Oh boy, that movement speed trait is impressive, and a minor even. And combined food and runes that reduce condies, gonna be sweet

Yeah, it’s best to move on guys. I’m not a fan of the name either but it would be insane to waste any more resources and time on it, I want my frigging expansion preferably this year. This specialization will be the DH with traps. I can still armour and dye him up to look like a shiny knight and the weapon skills got all the light blue effects, so I’m satisfied.

You would be spamming these threads in the profession balance forums if they’d still exist And no I didn’t read through your history, I remember your threads for getting infracted by replying in them

Lel 8 months later and OP is still sour about Guardian. Gee darn, those mean Guardians still rolling over you?

Asmodal.6489:

I fear we will get eaten alive. Condi cleanse will be a Problem on trap guard. If there ever will be such a Thing. (Full traps) .Heal Trap should get a condi cleanse. None of our weapons have a reliable form of condi cleanse so we have to cover this by Utilities or virtues (Long CD). And at the end of the Day we still have a swiftness issue that either Forces us into the Same Old rune sets or locks another utility.

We will See

The longbow brings projectile finishers so in theory you can cleanse a few condies with them (I know, won’t work that fine in midcombat but you know, it’s something at least)

I was wrecking Warriors before it was cool…

Gromit take your head out of your butt

So it needs teammates with you to be efficient, or am I understanding this wrong?

>__>

it applies 1 second of them, 10 seconds only if you decide to hang around inside the trap

rely less on stealth and more on your own skills

Genesis.4671:

If these changes end up happening I think it’s because they plan to turn Tomes into an actual weapon class.

Who wouldn’t want to wield a magical book as a weapon!?

https://youtu.be/N9ytrX0wweA?t=1m5s

Wouldn’t mind at all since I already use the Arcanus Obscurus-skin on my focus Reading is radical!

Thanks for the reply Jon, really appreciate it

Can someone point out the 4k burning tics for mepeople keep referring but I didn’t notice?

This is hopeless. I’m out.

Ithilwen.1529:

ANET just stated that they want to make Mesmer unplayable, except to supper gamer kids with maxed out computers and no life to speak of. The real joke is “Skill Based Play.” That’s ANET’S code for “requires multiple combos and perfect timing to be workable.”

What does player skill and knowledge of a class have to do with being “gamer kids with maxed out computers”?
You want Chronomancer to be faceroll? Spam condies without a brain?

This is so ridiculous. ALL classes should have high skill level required, nothing is more horrible than having builds that carry bad players, that then makes them think they are good.
You should be happy Chronomancer will be one that when mastered you know the player is actually good.

P.S. I really hope the Chronomancer will be considered “unplayable” by the seemingly ‘average gamer’ so I can learn it and get even more buffs from all the “unplayable”-qq

Why are people so obsessed about getting to do a few events in a PvE map?

Hmm all the arrowskills will count as physical projectiles (AA has 20% chance, both else seems to be 100%), so that’s some personal condie removal right there when shot through any of your light fields, like bow #4

Less rooting when using them! It is very dangerous to be a sitting duck in GW2 combat where you want to be moving around

dulfy has them all covered now!

http://dulfy.net/2015/05/08/gw2-dragonhunter-ready-up-livestream-notes/

don’t forget to tune in on http://www.twitch.tv/mattvisual for aftermath talk

Nice, revealed and 25 stacks of vulnerability on one trap and knockbacks in closerange with longbow every 7th second

I thought it would be cool to make a general thread about the stream and try to keep most of the stuff focused in here so you don’t have to crawl through 10 different ones about the same subject, but of course everyone is allowed to do as they please.

Ready Up will air live on the Guild Wars 2 Twitch channel this Friday, May 8, at noon Pacific Time (UTC-7) @ http://www.twitch.tv/guildwars2

While you are waiting you can play around with that_shamans specialization calculator and theorycraft your own combinations. Shouldn’t take long after the stream for the elitespec trait to appear there

The closer it gets the more hyped I’m getting, what interests me most is what sort of combo fields, if any, the traps will be, their cast-times (combined with activation time), cooldowns and of course the damage/conditions they will apply, new possible combo finishers from F1 and F2, and the Wings of Resolve just looks phenomenal (imagine male Norns and Charrs)

edit: linking dulfy.nets images from http://dulfy.net/2015/05/08/gw2-dragonhunter-ready-up-livestream-notes/ here:

The new F3 should also make proccing blocks less random and makes it possible to combine stuff like Rune of Defender with the healing trap

Darkness.9732:

Moreover MANY of you have always wrote that ranger is strong and without problems or limits.
Now dragonhunter reminds a ranger in its mechanics…..SOOO Why do you complain then ?

You in the correct forum? Rangers are like the easiest to kill with Guardian, including the trapper rangers and Pewpewrangers are one of the classes you can staff spam to death

What an awesome intro, well done

Yeah I’m just addicted to the unremovable/corruptable +25 movement speed when it comes to WvW roaming, one of the problems they now bring for hybrid mediguard is the loss of 30% condition duration from Zeal, currently I’m running a celestial version of it and part of me is sad that it won’t probably work anymore after burnchanges, but the other part is happy with theories of new and possibly better builds

Azzer.8137:

All you guys names are worse than Dragonhunter except for Zealot-

Your statement is completely false