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Guardian balance changes Nov 26

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I don’t see the difference in Hammer?

I’ve been using Hammer traited with symbols for a while and I’ve noticed no difference. As for #5. I’m certain it’s always been a Light Field, just not in text on tooltip.

Fractals will never be GW2.......

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Thread is beyond stupid.

Because people don’t do high fractals that means EVERYONE hates fractals?

What about all the lower fractals?
I myself quite enjoy fractals, so your comment is already false.
Who gave you the right to speak on behalf of everyone else?

Just because you don’t like something, doesn’t mean everyone shares the same opinion.
Also, why on earth would they remove fractals? If indeed no one did play them, they would still leave them in-game.
I can’t understand why you would want them removed, if you don’t like them, then don’t play them. It’s really that simple.

As a norn...

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Camera sucks at Maw. If you don’t have Maw on quick target, tab target is horrid. Selects everything but Maw. Physically have to move my camera around and click everywhere just to get Maw targeted.

Armor advice for new guardian

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Well, PvT is a great gear set for any situation on Guardian. I use mine all the time, and I swap out trinkets for the situation I need.

Mesmer Greatsword range bug

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The tooltip states 1200 though, as do the others. I understand that skill 3 outside perimeter of the AoE circle is 1200 (I hope). Though, skill 2 doesn’t reach the distance that skill 1 does. Neither does skill 4.

If I’m attacking a stationary unit from the edge of 1.2k range, I can damage with #1, but #2 and #4 say “out of range”.

Is skill 1 attacking further than intended, or is skill 2 and 4 not reaching as far as intended?

What do you think about HP guardian?

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I’ve mained a Zerk Warrior for a while, and I often play full tank in SPvP because it’s a troll build and great for node defense. I tried playing a bunker Guard and thought they were awful compared to Warriors.
Though, after I dropped a few hundred gold into a Guard and played it for a while I’ve now realised how great their healing is, even as a DPS. Vigor on Crits, Heals on dodges, heals when applying boons or 2k+ heals on meditations. Personally I love playing Meditation build traited. Can’t beat a 16 second CD 2k+ heal, fury gain, condition cleanse and AoE damage.

Thanks ANET!

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I am sure they will this as a accomplishment 1 happy person out of several thousand they upset. I bet there also hopping you show your appreciation by dropping a grand on the cash shop. Cause someone has to support them after this last screw up.

This is exactly why changes get blown way out of proportion.

“1 happy person out of several thousand”.
Please, tell me where you got those figures?
OP is happy, and I’m happy. You’re already wrong.

If you have an issue with the recent patch, then post in a consolidated thread of players feedback, or crate one of your own. Moaning about it with I don’t like it, so it’s bad as your argument isn’t helping anyone.

Thaumanova Story mode bugs

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We killed the last boss and after the chest we got ported out. We’re back at the lab, but there’s still an objective in the instance (at the end of the room with fire).
I’m not sure if we missed or skipped something. We placed 2 cooling rods into that room and progressed onto the last boss. Though, the marker on map still remains.

Thaumanova Reactor: No WP to respawn?

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Revive orbs work.
If you die during boss, get the person with orbs to relog and revive then get everyone else to do the same.

So What Armor is next?

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Why create a thread about this when there already is one. Especially when they’ve actually put some effort into it, unlike your ill attempt.

Did anyone notice...

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Similar.
Just wiped on that boss though, the attack he does at like 40% when he destroys tons of floor is painful.

No option to respawn at checkpoint in story.

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There’s already a thread here

Thaumanova Reactor: No WP to respawn?

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Sucess!!!!!!!!!

Seriously though, I always stand by devs because I appreciate how demanding their job is. Though, this is a pretty bad fail. Something so simple and obvious having such a large impact on the patch.

Not even released and already bugged?

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Sigh.

Whether it’s fixed or not before release, how on earth would you know beforehand whether it has or has not?

already 27.11.2013

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It’s not late yet. They typically launch in my zone at 1pm and it’s 1:02pm right now.

I’ll try that one at work tomorrow.

Drag... ores instead of Emp.. fragments

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Don’t ask me where, but I have atleast 10 stacks of Emp fragments on my throwaway alt, yet only 2 stacks of drag ore.

Solid solo PvE build for a new 80?

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Hammer with 25 / 15 / 0 / 30 / 0 Is pretty enjoyable, focusing on Symbols.
You have 100% protection and retaliation duration (in combat) and constantly heal through symbols aswell.

Virtue of Courage

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Mhm, I love taking screenshots of my Guardian but having to continually find a nearby mob to lose my Aegis is just plain annoying.

Wand vs Greatsword. Single-target DPS?

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Good luck!

lol @ that pic

I get the feeling that post was only created just to use that picture on something.
Just me?

any Unscathed Contender group comps?

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It’s not a very good trait. Any direct damage removes Aegis and Gw2 is full of AoE attacks.

I could see it working for a build that uses Sword or Judge’s intervention where you can get the drop on someone. Though, take any damage and it’s basically a useless trait afterwards.

Virtues' Recharge

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The fact that you have to go deep into Virtues tree just to make them worth actually activating disappoints me.

Guardians have a very low health pool, and as a DPS guardian I cannot go into Virtues tree without missing some vital traits elsewhere. That means my Virtues are rather poor (besides justice). That combined with a very low health pool makes me extremely squishy.

Virtues really do need a buff.

making 100 gold per day

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It’s not hard. Though, it does require a good amount of starter cash and substantial knowledge on flipping in order to turn good profits daily.

Easy flips can be done when new updates are announced. For example, the recent update that added a new TA path. I bought 2,000 powerful potions of Nightmare Court slaying for 50 copper each and then sold them sometime later for 1 silver and 80 copper each as the update came closer.

Mace + Focus Build?

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You may want to specify whether this is for open world PvE/Dungeons/WvW etc.
It would help people know what you’re looking to achieve.

Orr Map completition bug

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I had 59/60 for ages. I assumed it was down to me not visiting Orr with the storyline. Though, I was exploring Orr yesterday on my Guardian and I found my last spot. It was also the Catacombs. There’s a skillpoint really close nearby, but you have to actually enter the room to “un-fog” the map.

Finally I got rid of my Orr explorer achievement from my achievement pane!

Mace + Focus Build?

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Mace is a great weapon, the problem it has is sticking to enemies. There’s no gap closer and it’s attack range is rather small.
Guardians are notoriously slow even with Runes of Speed/Traveler. You can be kited very easily when you don’t have gap closers.

Whenever I use mace as an offensive weapon I feel like I’m forced to use Judge’s Intervention just to be able to stick to my target a bit better.

This is from a PvP perspective, for PvE go ahead :>

Mesmer Greatsword range bug

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I’ve found on countless occasions that I can attack a foe with my Auto attack on greatsword (1200 range) but when I use 2,3,4 they all say out of range. These are also 1,200 range. Please fix. It’s rather annoying in WvW when I can’t get a berserker off to tag a zerg.

Weapon's for all.

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It would be far too much work for both.
New races = new story, new armours, new weapons, new NPCS, new maps etc etc
All races able to use every weapon would mean they’d have to change animations and a lot of traits, in fact.. they’d probably have to add an extra few teirs to traits just to factor in each weapon.

Mesmer Aoe

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Every attack on the Greatsword hits more than 1 target.

Passive mode for wvw

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That’s the challenge of it, they wouldn’t have added the ability to map complete to a PvP zone if they didn’t expect it to be somewhat difficult.

Allow boon dismissing.

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Please allow us to rightclick boons on ourselves to dismiss them. I myself love to take screenshots on a daily basis whether it be of something I see or my characters. I adore my Guardian’s Norn T3 armour, and I tend to find myself taking screenshots of it a lot.
The one thing I really hate is having this eye sore Aegis shield everytime I have my weapons drawn.

I try to lose it whenever I can, but majority of times I simply cannot due to the area I am in.

Please allow us to dismiss buffs, it would make some of us really happy.

20g to any guardian that can down me in wvw

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I’ll do it if you don’t attack back.

Time Warp

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Time Warp is probably the best elite in-game.
On paper the cooldown looks long, but when you’re actually playing in-game the time flies in.

Feedback on pvp

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If there were a lot of them at the same time, it sounds more like a Blast finisher interacting with an ethereal field. (In this case Feedback being the ethereal field). Anyone in the team using a Blast finisher within an ethereal field would apply Chaos Armor on all the team members. The Chaos armor itself does not reflect projectiles though.

You can read more about the combos here

Thanks that looks kinda complicated, I hope there is blast finishing guide for dummies.

Try reading the table located here

When a field is placed down;

  • Using a blast inside the field will create a AoE effect determined by what field was on ground. If it was a fire field, you’ll give AoE might. If it was an Ethereal field you will give AoE chaos armour.
  • Firing a projectile finisher THROUGH a field will cause an effect on you or the enemy. For example, firing a projectile finisher through a fire field will cause the enemy that is hit X seconds of burning.
  • Using a whirl finisher inside a field is a mix between blast and projectile, depending on the field, you can heal or cause an effect on an enemy (these ones aren’t so good in my opinion).
  • Leap is similar to blast, except the effect only works on yourself. For example, leaping through a fire field will give you a Fire aura and an Ethereal field will give you Chaos armour.

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What is your favourite hammer + why?

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Entropy and Magmaton.

The aura effect on Entropy is really nice.
Magmaton is such a cool hammer for being really basic.

I would like my 250 ectos back please

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Lol..

This is like buying a new TV for £1000, waiting months for it to go down to £400 then going back to the shop and asking for £600 back.

Not going to happen.

How would you rate this?

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Staff/Hammer are my favourite. I really like the Sword abilities, but the default attack animation is disgusting.

Coloring my Guardian

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Braham + Primeval for second picture

Colouring is all personal preference really. I absolutely adore my Deep Glacial Teal dye from Flame and Frost patch. I bought it for 25g or so not too long ago, though it’s around 70g now. If you have the cash to spend, then I’d definitely look into some of the F&F dyes, they are really nice.

Immobalize Stacking

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:( someone else can’t dodge and use condi remove…

Both metas are pretty much an l2adapt issue…. especially as an elementalist (according to sig)

Sigh.. I honestly hate comments like these.
If it were as simple as “dodge and condi remove” every single Immobilize then there would be absolutely no use for immobilize at all. Stop being an elitist.

When will Waypoint bug be fixed?

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Oh, I only get this on rare occasion when I WP into LA. I guess it’s down to the area being crowded. Only had it a couple times and never anywhere else.

Alone in the Guild Bugg.... Again

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Getting the guild bug myself.

Ring of Fire [GODS]

New rune and sigil! Discussion time!

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Aegis is an absolutely dreadful buff. To run a full signet build just to use that would be extremely silly.

Aegis would be useful if it actually absorbed X amount of damage, but no. Any random hit and you lose the buff.
Really don’t know why they thought this was a good idea, unless they plan to update Aegis (which I highly doubt).

Squirrel tank

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I play FULL tank in SPvP a lot, you have little chance of killing anyone, but you can hold a node extremely well. The only problem is, I run banners with perma regen. For WvW, that won’t be so good since you’d have to carry them with you, or run the risk of someone else moving it.
That being said, if you trait banners you can place the banner and by the time it’s near it’s end duration, you’ll have accumulated 30+ seconds of regen. Which would allow you to escape a zerg (provided they don’t chase you for ages) and reapply.

I’d probably run something along the lines of this
Sword/Sword also wouldn’t be a bad choice for the swap set. The mainhand is for mobility. The offhand has a decent block on a low cooldown. If you are hit by ranged projectiles you will continue to block for the duration, though a single melee hit will be blocked and then end the skill.

EDIT: I wouldn’t bother with Healing Power, it scales really poorly on Warriors in my experience.
EDIT: Personally I play with Spiked armour, since it’s got a low cooldown with decent uptime (even better with next patch). Due to it harassing the enemy. It would also be beneficial in WvW to tag enemies for loot bags, but it’s all about preference really.

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Attempting to create a 'true' mesmer build.

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No build makes your illusions any more confusing. They are the exact same from beginning of the game until end. The best you can do is go Asura (or even a large Charr?), spam illusions/clones/phantasms and utilize stealth as much as you can.

Random Radiance Trait Ideas

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Zone of Peace and Inquisitor’s Mark would be pretty OP.

You can trait Consecrations with 10 points to get reflection wall on a short CD, would stack way too much Confusion :P
Mark aswell, there’s some sigils out there that can proc every few seconds. Torment would be far too easy to apply.
Would probably also have to have a maximum number of players it can hit (forgot if there already is or not)

Staff should have it’s cone decreased and apply randomly 1 stack of either Bleed/Poison/Cripple/Torment/Chill for a second. Not sure how it would be, but it would be interesting to see.

[Focus] Ray of Judgement change?

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Sure, blind is always helpful. Though, I already have Blind on my f1, sword 2 and GS 3.
Another blind is helpful, but taking up a weapon slot on an offhand weapon with a long cooldown isn’t where it should be in my opinion.

The RoJ in Gw1 was an elite skill, and it had a great effect. Comparing both, Gw2 version is a huge let down.

Who is the easy target ?

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I always enjoy running into a Ranger or Mesmer in WvW with my Condi Necro.
Both die relatively quickly if you manage to get your heavy condi’s on at beginning.

Spirit weapons

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Spirit weapons are ONLY even remotely useful in SPvP, where you can defend a node against an attacker with them. Though, that’s about as far as it goes in my opinion. Their health and damage are pitiful and their cooldowns are few too long for what they do. They also require a huge chunk of your skillpoints to be traited and leave you with little room elsewhere.

Signet build?

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That runes will be great for all but the guardians.

Bring aegis to warriors, thief, etc! they need more damage mitigation! they havent enough blocks and evasions. Bah, arenanet really need new ppl on their balance team. Is not an offense, i dont know how to tell it without say it like a offense, every change i see is worst for the game and the game is getting worst and more unbalance in every patch.

After that patch i will be see a lot of aegis spamming thief and warriors, hitting for a LOT. With high mobility and a lot of blocks and immunity (warriors) and blinds /evasions /stealth (thief)

GG DPS guardian, you get nothing and every other class get one of your signature skill.

Aegis is a dreadful buff, I couldn’t care less if they added it to other classes.

Virtues' Recharge

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5 points in Virtues is a huge step up.

Greatsword / Staff Question

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Hammer+staff with AH following a zerg or even a small group is what I find really enjoyable. The healing you gain is incredible.