Guild Wars 2

Please completely rework Guardian’s bad traits

Guardian needs a complete overhaul -.-

Reduce our cooldowns and update our traits

Why is all of the talk around matchmaking? Professions need to be adjusted. I swear, when my games lack Engies it feels way more “balanced”

Unranked is terrible

Spartacus.3192:

NeXeD.3042:

phokus.8934:

NeXeD.3042:

Spartacus.3192:

NeXeD.3042:

I’m guessing either dh’s or somwho they buff all vanilla specs.

no way will it be DH, because everyone at ANET thinks DH is in a good place and even as it is currently, all the scrubs whine that they are getting owned by Trap DH.

They don’t really balance for the low level population though…. I know it’s a higher percentage of the population but in the upper tiers dhs are garbage and we didn’t see any? (Could be wrong) in recent tourneys.

They do balance mainly for the average, most populated player base. They’re the one’s who keep the game going so I don’t know why you would say that… DH is a really good class when going up against Amber rated players so they need to walk a fine line with buffs/nerfs.

Nope they dont. They balance at the competitive level. Would be pretty silly to balance around the low skill players…. would absolutely ruin competitive play

If ANET balanced around competitive play why do they keep nerfing DH in every patch? Seeing a DH in high level play is as common as Unicorn sightings in Central Park. DH is the purest example of ANET balancing for the masses and not for competitive play.

I think everyone should be some type of DPSer. Whether it’s sustained or burst DPS, or relying on conditions. Being tanky goes against the ideal of having no trinity IMO. Just make everyone straight up killers with the ability to sustain themselves

Hey. I’ll trade you Guardian’s shield skills for Revenant’s…

Sagramor.7395:

Here’s an old, but still relevant blog post on GW2 keybinds.
https://taugrim.com/2012/06/27/guide-to-guild-wars-2-keybinds/

I never use modifier keys. I think its time I switched to ESDF

sinject.4607:

Chaith.8256:

Scrapper has massive damage numbers because it’s sustained AoE damage, the opposite of bursty single target damage.

don’t forget to mention that it’s also because each Hammer attack hits harder than backstab in terms of base damage.

“hurr durr but thief still hits harder!”; only because we have to trait for all of our damage modifiers while Scrapper’s base damage is good enough to let them invest entirely in defensive traits, even going so far as making Scrapper the only profession that can effectively use Paladin’s because they don’t need the ferocity from Marauder’s/Demolisher’s so long as they have Hammer.

aside from broken base damage, the biggest issue w/Scrapper is it’s gyros. I don’t understand how anyone can defend them given the fact Engineer had a nearly identical Turret build that everyone despised and got nerfed, when this is the same exact thing except now the Turrets can move, absorb damage/reflect (also the reflect on Bulwark gyro is too deceptive, it lasts longer than the bubble actual animation), provide a movable shadow refuge/sic ’em, and also give Scrapper an insane amount of stability in combination with Perfectly Weighted/Final Salvo.

specifically speaking the issue is with Final Salvo. this trait needs a heavy rework, it does WAY too much within one trait, and is rewarding completely passive play. the lightning field is too long and the stability is overkill when they already have perfectly weighted.

Take this +1!

Adjust.6903:

What did you guys think was the biggest PITA class/combo where your entered a game and went “fml, here we go…”

Any team with an engie, ele, and druid

I agree. Engineer has too many great skills on short CDs. Doesn’t make any sense at all. Oh, God, the amount of projectile reflection they have is seriously too much. Make their skills absorb projectiles instead of reflect projectiles. Maybe update a trait that allows absorption to become reflection. Engie is in a ridiculously strong state at the moment. When I fight Engies that know what they’re doing there’s literally nothing I can do, unless I’m outrageously lucky.

I like this idea… But maybe let’s start doing this next year. I totally didn’t participate in Season 1 X___X

Maybe make it require 3/4 seasons being a legend XD

There doesn’t seem to be a known date yet

He probably brought it up because people are always saying use staff, then swap to it before combat. Other professions don’t have to do that for swiftness, movement speed, etc.

Arcaedus.7290:

mrauls.6519:

alain.1659:

Retreat’s swiftness is corruptable. That is the worst part of it. I use traveler’s runes for my dh. It is not the best, but it is ok.

ps: There should be a trait giving movement speed, or a signet.

There should definitely be a trait… not a signet… or if it has to be a signet, make the active effect give us super speed for 5 seconds and make us invulnerable to damage too

If it was given to us as a trait, there’s a good chance it would be a major rather than a minor and get stuck in one of the trait-lines not commonly used: Honor or Radiance. I could possibly see it in virtues (removing glaical heart) too. Eh, I’d rather the movement speed be given as a utility. If I’m traveling around and suddenly need to switch from my mobility back to regular skills, it’s much easier to navigate utility skills than traits.

Imbed it into a virtue then… It definitely shouldn’t take up a utility slot. Just like you said, there may be times you want another utility in that slot. It should be part of our class, kind of like how it is for Chronomancers

DH makes us rely on ranged a lot, so why in the world are we naturally slow? We need a global solution

Kuya.6495:

We build a giant reflect wall and we make revenants pay for it.

And Engineers… They know all about reflecting things [now]

As important as meditation healing is… It should be baseline

aelska.4609:

mrauls.6519:

Maybe that one trait in valor should give us 500 toughness, rather than give ourselves and allies 150. Just imagine! It’s very crazy how Scrappers got a trait that stacks toughness!

Other classes have a similar AoE buff, so imo we shouldn’t touch it. Speaking about the scrapper with the “60*5 toughness + 20% condi damage reduction”, we do have a similar trait with “retributive armor” in valor (250 toughness + 13% toughness to ferocity conversion). But yeah, this trait is bugged and only converts 9%, ferocity sucks, and other traits are better.

It’s a nice trait, but look where it’s placed! Honestly, it should be a minor trait. It would synergize so freaking well with aegis.

Ubik.8315:

Function gryo is just on far, far, far too low a cooldown. If it was 75s CD then I doubt anyone would complain.

Honestly in my personal opinion, most scrapper abilities are on extremely low cooldowns relative to how much they do (even more so that other HoT abilities, which are all ridiculously spammy).

I agree.

Hey Guardians! This season is finally coming to a close. After the next balance patch hits I will create a PvP video with commentary. Stay tuned!

Make sword 1’s auto attack chain have a range of 150… Remove the 3rd part of the chain’s projectiles… Remake it into a normal slash that deals like 2.4k~ damage (since the mini projectiles do like 900 each).

Make it so sword 3 is a single projectile that covers a radius of 300 and works like lb 3

I don’t think we have a large enough player pool to accommodate a split between solo and party queues. I think this is the reason they haven’t implemented it again.

Jaxom.7310:

there’s already too much reflect in this game ><

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/pvp/The-amount-of-reflection-in-this-game

Haha. Too true!

Aeolus.3615:

IMO we dont need passive speed, IMO only 1 or 2 classes should had access to that, Carl used to call guardian tanky and beefy, guardian is nothing like that, and that is the reason they dont give the speed boost, guardian is a class to hold and delay, but is not working also.

Maybe that one trait in valor should give us 500 toughness, rather than give ourselves and allies 150. Just imagine! It’s very crazy how Scrappers got a trait that stacks toughness!

I think we learned a lot this season…

•Each profession has a lot of underwhelming, non-competitive traits
•Balance is okay, but lacks variation
•The amount of projectile hate is strong
•Protection is one hell of a boon
•Queue times were too long
•More balance needs to happen around professions rather than amulets
•Dev’s are not sure what to do with Guardian (maybe we can help)

What else did we learn?

alain.1659:

Retreat’s swiftness is corruptable. That is the worst part of it. I use traveler’s runes for my dh. It is not the best, but it is ok.

ps: There should be a trait giving movement speed, or a signet.

There should definitely be a trait… not a signet… or if it has to be a signet, make the active effect give us super speed for 5 seconds and make us invulnerable to damage too

Zealous Blade…

Increase the healing to 150 p/hit… watch melee viability go up…

or…

Make it work with any weapon… Like Revenants… Who didn’t get pigeonholed

What I hate about shields and back items is how the back item will appear on your left arm when you wield your shield

Make F3 aegis proc every 15 seconds

& lower weapon CDs. Buff torch and shield

I try to look cool

F2 should do damage and immob without being traited to do so

I think the best tip I can give you is to watch my videos

ANet did this to populate PvP a little bit more…

Please remove the cast times.

ares.1032:

Thanks a lot for the response.

So as you have mentioned I’ll go for an intel, if I add 20-30 euros I can buy better pcs with intel however I don’t know if there is a lot difference for gaming between different i5 processors.

I got the option between:

I5 4440, 4460 , 6600 and 6700.

Greetings

6600

Heavy armor robes

I’m current unsatisfied with the current state of Guardian. I’ve poured so many hours on it that I find it hard for me to play anything else seriously. I want to start dedicating more hours to other professions, but I see “flaws” or think about things I miss and go back to playing Guardian.

What can I do to get myself to play other professions more often? Maybe even find a new main.

It is sad to see so many Guardians constantly recommend that other Guardians use retreat, save yourselves, or staff to compensate for our sluggish movement speed. Why should we have to sacrifice utility slots for “certain” skills? Retreat is good, but we shouldn’t have to rely on it. Please stop recommending those skills to other Guardians. We NEED to be revamped!

I agree! Also, scrapper has too many useful CDs. As stupid as that sounds, it’s true. A lot of their trait CDs need to be higher! 5 second CDs. WHAT???

Yes, remove it. Also, lower the uptime of gyros.

It can be repaired… It’s just a matter of AN devoting time to fix what is now broken

Do you know how many times test of faith has been nerfed? o.o

Dude, the fact you’re seeing people use dragon’s maw speaks volumes. You’re not playing at a level where people just trash DHs

That doesn’t make sense. Why should a jack of all trades be more masterful than someone specialized to do one thing (offense or defense)?

They all hide their “parts” while stowed… in preview anyway…

Dreamthistle GS still shows GS animation even when its stowed. Bugged or?

We need to talk about Engi & druid too…

Terrible balance…….

Buran.3796:

Marauder is great for WvW raids and roaming, and more than enough for regular PvE content.

In fractals and PvE raids you should aim for max dps; you can argue about “only” losing a 5% dmg, but that tells me that you probably are on budget with your gear (probably a single ascended armor used in each game mode) which means that you won’t be wearing scholar runes (another 10% dmg loss) or specific sigils in the weapons (more loss) nor the top tier food.

So, at the end you probably will lose like a 15%-20% of damage, which is irrelevant in dungeons but critical in high level fractals and PvE raids. This, taking in consideration that Guardians aren’t the best at the dps ladder could lead to some animosity against you in pug games.

I’m not on any type of budget… I have gear for PvE and WvW, and I choose to use marauder… I can do w/e content I need to do w both… Each gearset has different infusions and runes, plus weapons…

Unless you’re looking to run with “elites” AKA people that let certain things dictate what’s acceptable to bring, you’re fine.

Don’t trip man

Even for raids, marauder is a great choice. You lose what? 5% damage. Pfft