Guild Wars 2

I’ve been playing guardian since release too, doesn’t change the fact that the staff is flawed. If it wasn’t there wouldn’t be any complaints about it on this thread. So obviously you’re wrong.

somsom.5201:

tom.7468:

Agree the only thing i use it for is swiftness.

eh?

You mean you don’t use empower or auto for aoe?

Missing out on arguably the best parts of staff. Auto in a WvW zerg = badges out the whazzoo.

I’m about 70/30 dps/support, so I guess I can understand those running full support who don’t like it, but seriously if you are the least bit dps spec’d you should give it a try.

Spamming 1-2k damage with the staff’s auto attack isn’t considered dps. Empower and Line of Warding is flawed 3 seconds of no mobility just to finish of the skill is kind of stupid. The #2 skill does kind of bad damage and misses a good amount of the time because it moves to slowly (also don’t like the detonation). Most guardians I see only use it for the Symbol of Swiftness. All in all the staff is a bad weapon and it needs some work done on it

vespers.1759:

BlueprintLFE.2358:

Harbinger.8637:

Never had a problem with the staff. It crits for over 1k with my build. Which is decent for a spamming AoE range attack. Orb of Light is a bit hit or miss. Symbol of Swiftness does exactly was it’s suppose to. Empower is amazing.

I agree with Heinel, casting Line of Warding while moving would be nice.

Yeah sure it’s still more for support, but it does decent dmg with the right build.

A whole 1k damage at level 80!?!?!one no way! My warriors auto attacks are hitting for 3.5k…

guardian dps is not even half of what warrs can do. there’s no comparing them.

Guardian and Warriors are of the same profession (Soldiers) so they’re supposed to be compared to each other. Because of that I think guardians should get 2 decent ranged weapons that actually can do damage, like the warrior.

I think it should add 25% movement speed! (joking) seriously though it is pretty useless i agree i think it should add critical chance

1k damage isn’t great when your actually trying to kill someone in WvW, also the range of the staff 1 is basically melee range. Empower would be a good skill if you could move…dunno why you wouldn’t be able to move when using it.

The staff is only useful if your a full support guardian…otherwise its complete crap in my opinion.

I personally think the staff for guardian sucks it shouldn’t be solely for support. The #1, 2, 3 skills are basically useless for damage. I also think when using Empower you shouldn’t have to be stationary to cast it you should be able to move around. Also the Line of Warding takes too long to cast.

I think Smite should hit the targeted area once (like one giant blue fire ball smashing into the ground just a idea) instead of repeatedly hitting 15 times, because most of the time it doesn’t get its full 15 hits.