Guild Wars 2

Staff 5 was over the top. Honestly it shouldn’t even be an evade. Staff 2 can daze (if used right), Staff 4 condi clears+heals, Staff 3 blocks, and Staff 5 is a cc, evades, and deals damage… Staff is fine

Silverkey.2078:

It is a bandaid fix because that is the way a-net does right now: big patch every 3 months, small fixes in between. Be happy that we have this at least.

For the changes themselves: Moa reduced duration is a nerf to chronomancer, widely regarded as one of the strongest class right now. So you could say it is good. On the other hand:

• we are really back in bunker meta pace. Moa at least was one way to get a kill.
• this is probably not the best way to fix moa since it nerfs core mesmer even more compare to chrono. Moa was always an annoying skill, but it only got out of hands because of continuum split. So now they halved Moa duration to make up for the halved CD coming from continuum split… Bad balance

Rev nerf was needed. Surge of the mist is one of the most stupid skills of the game, it should not have damage on it to begin with (very strong CC + gap close + evade should be enough for one skill).

I agree… It shouldn’t do damage, or not be an evade. The damage it did post-patch was obscene. Maybe it’ll be a noticeable drop.

The way I see it, AN is just taking things slow.

About time this was changed! Good job AN

I keep hearing mixed things about what AN did to life stealing effects.

Are these sigils still the same as they were post-patch?

If not, what changed? Do they scale with power? Healing? Or is there a new static effect?

Khisanth.2948:

Cerby.1069:

sigil of force, sigil of night, and sigil of air.

Wanted to know if 2 sigil of force on one weapon set would stack…wiki said no. remember near release it had a value of 7.5% stacked.

Want to know if 2 sigil of night on one weapon set will stack? to what value? (i.e. 20% or 15% or 17.5%)

Want to know if 1 sigil of night and 1 sigil of force on a weapon stack will stack? to what value?

Wanted to know how sigil of air:
Uses weapon strength of ~690.
This sigil has a 1.1 damage coefficient.

Compares to sigil of hydromacy:
Deals about 40 damage at a 0.25 power coefficient in a 240 radius. This effect can critically hit.

compares to sigil of leeching
Heals for 975 at lvl 80 (the healing is not affected by Healing Power)but scales with medic in WvW.
Deals 974 fixed damage at lvl 80 (the damage is not affected by Power).
This effect ignores armor.

in terms of damage done. I don’t understand what does more damage here. sigil of air and its damage coefficient i dont understand.

assume i run 3000 power.

I mean say I swap to a weapon for a 10 second period. what is going to do more damage and by how much? What about a 7.5 second period? 5 second period?

How fast you can swap doesn’t matter because Hydromancy and other on swap sigils have a 9s cooldown.

The notes about sigil of leeching is probably outdated. All forms of leech should now scale the damage with power and the healing with healing power.

Wait… So, sigil of leeching doesn’t deal 900 straight damage anymore?

I swore some of those rules changed… I could be wrong

Oh man it’s Kreepr :P Good luck bud

GenoGar.5497:

Shelter is the only good guardian heal. It’s also the only channeled block a guardian has access to.

All spirit weapons have a use. Stacking burns, CC, projectile defense and such. Though bow could be more useful.

Hold the Line is mainly used with soldier runes and tanking bombs sorta. But I would like to see a CD reduction. It was recently buffed to actually have the voice lines enabled so there’s that.

Sanctuary is fun in EotM. You can deny stomps at range as well. CD could be lower.

Wall of Reflection is basically the King alongside Feedback. Also Revenents can’t reflect projectiles. They only block them. You’re using Hammer… Or Ventari… What mode are we playing in?

JI is so good… Why are you complaining about a shadow step. Warriors have been crying for ages because of cliffing and lack or teleports.

Traps can be used by non berserkers.

Signet of Courage is terrible. Nothing about it is good other than looking shiny in DR.

Renewed Focus’s 3 second invuln is an eternity. I hate this skill lol.

Hammer is actually the guardian’s #1 DPS weapon.

The only weapon that needs serious review is Sword.

The other stuff is neutral or I agree with but man… The points I said above kinda show you don’t know what guardians need right now.

Hmm seems you only focused on PvE & WvW. Honestly anything can work there to a certain degree…

Burtnik.5218:

mrauls.6519:

Honestly I feel like sword #2 should have a range of somewhere between 150-300. Revenant should be about being up close and personal.

Revenant has too many skills that force dodges

Then make it a melee leap or smth. I think given it new range it actually should become a melee skill in my opinion.

Wouldn’t you want something different since you can teleport with Shiro? I mean, a leap would be nice, but power revenant doesn’t have a field to lay down to make the most of the leap.

Honestly I feel like sword #2 should have a range of somewhere between 150-300. Revenant should be about being up close and personal.

Revenant has too many skills that force dodges

I like the image you placed over the chat box, but I recommend adding a black background to it so that no text leaks. You never know what someone may say in chat.

Also, I recommend cutting down on how much you show of stomps or cleaving downed enemies.

It’s always interesting to see how Guardian performs in WvW

We have so many kittening useless traits. We literally have one build for every game mode

I think this might give Guardian some much needed healing

Sword #3 should be one giant slash that destroys projectiles while it moves in a path. It should be LB #3 basically, but a sword skill. Maybe give it a wider range.

Merciful Intervention needs to be changed completely. Medis need to be selfish. Make it so we can blink anywhere within a 1200 range and drop a fire field upon blink

Is it finally time to do so? Why or why not?

The new character boss fight needs to be revamped

Movement would be nice

hard to play? engi was over the top man

I see that someone had an order of 1.7k up. How can I tell if they just removed the listing or someone actually sold them a pair of stompers?

What is the normal buy order price for them? I’ve seen the sell price go for 2.3k~, but I’m not sure if that’s the “official” price. Can someone well informed inform me?

Delete the side comments

Thanks man. I don’t know why those websites are always so vastly different in what they say

For PvP I’d say both are very fun. If you enjoy full on melee combat go with Rev. If you enjoy a mix of range and melee go with Guard.

I’ve played a Guard for 4 years (roughly), and while it has had its ups and downs, I love the class to death.

Check out my PvP video to see what I mean

Silverkey.2078:

mrauls.6519:

You don’t understand DH. Daze helps traps trap people and interrupt potentially harmful skills. What needs to change with virtues is the time the boons trigger from the virtues traitline. Also, DH F1 can hit more than one person.

Stability and LB knockback is beautiful. It shouldn’t change.

First: daze don’t help trapping people. You can still move and dodge. If anything, daze warns you that there is a trap so you can dodge it.

Second: interrupting potentially harmful skills is great, and clearly the point of a CC. But you don’t just put a CC hoping you interrupt something good. You put a CC to interrupt something specific. While as a DH I do sometimes use traps specifically for interrupting, I often use them for their damaging effect, and the CC just becomes annoyance but not clever play. AOE CC should not be a “side effect”, it should be a deliberate choice and the skill should have CC as a main effect. I don’t mind changing one of the trap to be a CC trap. But it should not come with all of them simply as a trait.

Finally, I am not against knockback on LB, but again, not random. I think it should be attached to a specific skill for it to work properly. You may even see it as a buff.
To some extent, this is not the worst part of the DH. You pretty much expect the knock back on the first LB skill after weapon swap, so you can play with it (as a DH) or avoid it (as the enemy).

Yes it does. It can stop people from triggering skills that would help them negate the traps effect or use skills to get away.

I just don’t think some of your balance ideas for DH are plausible. I respect your opinion, and we may have to agree to disagree, but it sounds like you’re suggesting a total rework. If stability was to go on any skill it would have to be LB #2 imo. It would become OP then though. LB #3 would put it on too long of a CD.

If trap daze was removed I would expect to receive a heal on trap deploy. People would probably miss trap daze at that point. It’s not a side effect, it is an active effect. You know daze is going to happen. IMO, skills that have a 20% chance of occurring are more like a side effect to me

16 gold? Is that accurate

I need gems to gold. Is that gems to gold, or what you get for converting gold to gems?

Hi All,

Trying to figure out what the current gem to gold ratio is. I’m not at home, so i was wondering if someone could look ingame and tell me how much gold 100 gems will get you, or refer me to a reliable website.

You don’t understand DH. Daze helps traps trap people and interrupt potentially harmful skills. What needs to change with virtues is the time the boons trigger from the virtues traitline. Also, DH F1 can hit more than one person.

Stability and LB knockback is beautiful. It shouldn’t change.

Normally I’ll start with Glint. I feel too squishy in Shiro. If you’re trying to catch your opponent from afar it’s best to start with Shiro, though, so you don’t get kited

Gaile Gray.6029:

Randulf.7614:

Back in my day, you had to farm for 75 ectos and be rank 5 Deldrimor to be able to afford those.

I don’t know, these kids have it easy

Yeah, yeah, Randulf, and don’t forget “farm in the snow, uphill, without a weapon, and no armor, and… !”

Happy you guys are happy about this. I loved my CGs in GW and love this chance to sport them in GW2!

Will we ever get a chaos armor body suit?

I appreciate the love Nikachu! I’ve gone through depressing moments in GW2 as well. I’ve hit points where I’ve felt useless to any team I was on, but I believed I could make something work. I will continue to play Guardian to the best of my ability, and hopefully inspire more people.

Can’t wait to get home!

Aww, you guys put a smile on my face.

I will keep uploading videos… so subscribe if you want alerts on when I upload them! xD

If you guys are interested in seeing anything specific in my videos let me know.

Only a couple are truly viable for my profession :/. Making more weapons viable would mean more people would grind for the materials to make them, or give players an incentive to buy gems, then convert them to gold to buy them off the TP.

AndrewMcLeod.3857:

A few players have noticed that new items can be obtained in the Mystic Forge since last week’s update. We added a number of new items to the possible rewards for combining rare weapons in the mystic forge, including Bloodbound weapons, Aetherized weapons, Shadow of the Mad King weapons, and some orphaned skins from Living World season 1.

This was a part of a bigger update to the mystic forge which wasn’t quite ready for this patch, so we pulled most of the changes as well as the release notes. However, since this change did go into the build, I wanted to let everyone know about it.

Good job on this… I knew you guys didn’t want non-legendary skins to rise above legendary skins price wise on the TP :P

Thanks !! I do find it to be very viable, especially with the changes made to other professions. We’re still squishy, so if tons of mistakes are made, a DH will go down fast!

Subscribe/like if you have a YT account by the way.

Hi All,

This is my second PvP video. Check it out and let me know what you think.

More to come in the future.

My first video.

I think they will be too. This will help the meta. I see less eles though. Not sure why!

Can someone explain to me why every teef uses lead attacks now? Teeves seem a lot stronger (not a bad thing)

Engineers are more vulnerable than they were pre-patch. I feel they’re still a good 1v1 class, but they can’t 2v1 live forever now

Shouldve been the longbow

How can I fill up the reward track as fast as possible? What actions can I do in WvW?

That last sentence hurt, bro

This is the build I run. I hit legendary x3 in S2. If you need a screen shot feel free to ask for one…

Here is a video where I use the build

I’ve done a couple unranked matches since the season ended, and I feel like I will do alright this season as long as matchmaking isn’t fooked

That’s how guardians feel when they try to stay in melee…

After playing a couple matches I don’t think this meta will be too terrible.

Now… what worries me is how they will change matchmaking. I can tell when I’m playing with and against competent players and when things are one sided

DH vs Necro
As long as you have sigil of generosity on longbow this isn’t such a bad fight.

DH vs Mesmer
I noticed it was much harder to fight mesmers. The mesmers I fought may have been tankier than normal mesmers, but I do feel one must pay attention while fighting a mesmer. Once again make sure to have sigil of gen.

DH vs War
Sigil of gen will help here as well bc most warriors rely on conditions now. It’s pretty easy to kite some of them. The tankier warriors can out sustain us if we waste CDs

Everything else
Thieves aren’t as easy to blow up. Condi rev might be harder to deal with for some reason, but power rev is doable to a certain extent. As long as you kite the rev you should be fine. Druid and ele aren’t ideal to 1v1 anyway. If you have to for w/e reason, I feel it is possible for us to kill druids. Don’t try to stay on the point for too long bc of their ability to lock you in place/daze.

I don’t know why metabattle removed traveler runes, but I have been using those runes for about 2-3 weeks now. I don’t think I’ll go back to using Pack anytime soon.

I’m happy engineer got put in line

I played a couple unranked matches yesterday, and I fought some notable people. Seeing Warriors on my team is a good feeling, because I know they will help shift the meta. They help “balance” out matches. I have high hopes for S3, and look forward to seeing where things will go from here.