champion farming has advantages too, like teaching people
how to utilize their class skills to run faster.
how to tag mobs better.
how to burst the boss to tag it when he is almost dead.
how to avoid getting damage from mobs so that you are not in combat slowness.
how to hone your reaction timing by waypointing etc
Symbol of Swiftness
To clarify the new Symbol of Swiftness will give you 4 seconds of Swiftness every single pulse regardless of if you have swiftness or not. This is a improvement in many situations and a slight loss in the situation where you were using the Symbol as just a one time buff. I think this makes it feel more like a Symbol, which is good. We are still discussing the idea of it being 5 seconds, but there is some danger of that going pretty high with boon duration.
Jon,
I like a lot of where you’re going with the Guardian here, but I am a little concerned about the Symbol of Swiftness change. Not as a matter of balance but just as a quality of life issue. 4 seconds of swiftness on a 15 second cooldown is pretty much useless as a means of traveling for a solo Guardian, and the symbol is one of the better ways for Guardians to get around. Having to stop and stand in the symbol to get the full ticks of swiftness while traveling long distance is just going to be counter productive and annoying. And I don’t like the idea that this skill is being balanced around the zerg rather than solo players who probably are only running one source of swiftness to begin with.
Math wise you can now sit in the symbol for 3 seconds with boon duration and end up with 9 seconds of swiftness which is more than you would have had before. I do still think it may need to be 5 seconds to account for the fact that you only get it every second so by the time you get the second one you have lost 1s of the first one.
Jon
but the problem is that within that 3 seconds of sitting in the symbol, you would have moved a certain distance already. now you have to stop to move faster… that’s the problem. now it feels like i am being CC by my own symbol.
Honor VI – Pure of Heart. Increased scaling with Healing power from 25% to 40%.
:Nice but it is still overhealing alot. You need to understand that this will always trigger when we have full health the first time, and after that. It depends whatever we are virtue or shout to even make it useable.
This is exactly what’s wrong with it, thanks for putting it into words.
Maybe they could put a slight delay on the heal, lets say 5 secs. That way it actually heals damage.
place symbol everyone run past, 4 seconds each which is pathetic
place symbol, everyone and their grandma park in the symbol to stack swiftness, but with aoe cap, the best case is you get an effective 12secs, worst case you get effective 0seconds.
but perhaps the biggest problem now is that i have to stop to move faster… which is dumb. it can mean life and death especially when running from zergs.
monday tuesday = server with most player kills wins or most objectives captured wins etc.
wed thursday = classic ppt victory
friday = karma train days, server which karma train the most wins / most jumping puzzle completed wins ( this will lead to mayhem in jumping puzzle which is awesome imo)
I lay there even when I know there’s no one in there to res me. It’s fun to watch three or four people stand around watching my corpse whilst I cook tea or do the dishes.
ok i just tested it out, you can proc two ticks of the symbol just by running through it but you got to position that symbol well. so you can get back the original 8 seconds. but i would rather have the old version back as this double tick will probably not work for others who run through the symbol as it is not timed for them.
vid for the people interested, bigger symbols is much easier to proc.
Symbol of swiftness. Would just love it to give 10 sec of swiftness and stack 2-3xwith other guardians.
Kindled Zeal – totally useless – how about symbols apply a 2sec chill, 10 sec cd
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Just think about it…
" OMG a zerg is comming" —- change to staff — cast Symbol of swiftness — " please let me stack duration guys, thx" --— run.
Useless change, right now I have 85% boon increse and it still is difficult to move as fast as the other classes. (not using retreat of course)
will it be possible to cast the symbol of swiftness such that you take 1 second to run through the symbol and proc it twice to get back the 8seconds? bigger symbols? it seems to take 1/2 second to run from the edge of the normal size symbol to the other edge, and we still have to time the symbol periodic proc….
i think i would prefer back the old one but just let it stack properly with other swiftness sources. that will be a real massive buff.
It is not based on damage, it is based on who DESTROYS the gate. you get credit if you are the person to actually break the gate down.
This is obviously much more likely to occur with a ram, but you can easily test it as I did this morning. If I used a ram the entire time but stopped and didn’t get the final hit then no credit. If I sat on the ram and did no damage but then broke down the gate by correctly timing the final hit I got credit.
It is not based on damage, it is based on who DESTROYS the gate. you get credit if you are the person to actually break the gate down.
This is obviously much more likely to occur with a ram, but you can easily test it as I did this morning. If I used a ram the entire time but stopped and didn’t get the final hit then no credit. If I sat on the ram and did no damage but then broke down the gate by correctly timing the final hit I got credit.
Yeah them are better confusions you guys are suggesting. Heck at the very least randomly mix up your controls, like up becomes down, right becomes up, etc..
i don’t think it is working as intended or it’s bugged or something. i am sitting on 3/50 now but i have no idea how i get 3 even after i downed so many gates. it feels like rng.
merc camp is still not working either. killed hyleks orge etc but still nothing. i got the event completion notification but not for the living story achievement.
should have made it valkyrie wing helm with 2 wings coming out like the male version but make it an open helm so i can see my gorgeous character. and show my hair~!
Ever game has RNG, and i can live with that. I got over 1k hour in this game, 7 lv80 and only below 10 times i got exotic gear as drops. Therefore i have give up legendary and working slowly towards ascended weapon.
But RNG is RNG, i got a DAWN from a lv60 shark 2 days ago.
i remembered one of the best feelings i had was in helbreath, going into the middle contested areas, no waypoints, no fasttravels, it was a journey fraught with all sorts of dangers. It was amazing.
there will always be the egoistic elitist that blast you for being ‘that guy’ and the helpful nice people that will encourage you.
so, it’s basically life. you shouldn’t have to worry about being ‘that guy’. because not everyone plays to be the best, most actually play to have fun!
