Guild Wars 2

I wouldn’t be oppose to having Orb of Wrath home in on its target as Ray of Judgement does but attacks are slower.

Honestly, you come off as someone who doesn’t know what support even is.

You seem to have a pretty big generalization on how a particular Guardian is traited. For instance, using Scepter / Focus has the potential to provide Might on crits through EM (and if the fight calls for ranged), Chains of Light adds 3 stacks of Vulnerability, and Focus provides Blind, Regeneration, and Condition removal.

Stop worrying on how someone else is playing their character and you’ll be better off. If you’re that concerned about optimal play (a la Berserker Warrior COF 1), then join a guild, or find four others to run high level Fractals.

The only changes I’d make to Guardian one-handed sword is make Flashing Blade a non-targeted teleport (so you teleport the range with line of sight still taken into consideration) and work on Zealot’s Defense. ZD is good on paper but fails horrible in application.

The root has to go and I feel as if the range should be increased from 600 to 900. Or remove the root and for the duration, make it reflect projectiles.

Any plans to make Smite a symbol?

No one mentioned or referenced any AH build. And this is getting sad that people talk down on a very good build and the armor to use it can be used for other builds if desired.

If you’re looking to see how a good Guardian plays offensively (with a group), take a look at Amin’s videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/JDHarris66?feature=watch

He lists his builds in the description so take a look to see it in action rather than some “ultimate” build nonsense.

I received my Dusk after two trips to the Mystic Forge using level 80 exotic greatswords.

Sandra Martino.3870:

Well the problem is no1 seems to care enough so the dev`s wont put any energy in it.

Despite the complete lack of attention that Scepter has received from ANet’s development team, I think that they do care but don’t really know what to do. If the state of the game held by GW2 Guru was any indication, they said that Guardian’s are in a good place. Yes, our class is in a great place but that doesn’t mean we have our issues which is what I think they’re overlooking. I’ve only played one other class, Engineer, and they had its fair share of issues which for the most part, were resolved recently. I wouldn’t put it past them to put Guardian’s as a low priority to update Scepter.

Ildourol.2803:

Longbow… just no
Remake scepter…yes making auto-attack faster

We don’t need a new weapon as we already have two ranged options. One being for long range and the other for short/mid.

Scepter needs some tweaks in regards to the 1 and 2 abilities but that’s about it. Coming up with a new weapon to use is more of an undertaking than modifying a current usable weapon. For instance, traits will have to be added/modified, more abilities that need to be tested for balance…

Just because what we have now has its shortcomings doesn’t mean we need a new ranged weapon.

Andy.9137:

Incarmine.1953:

You can also trait virtue of courage to be a stun-break

I don’t believe that is true. You can trait virtue of courage to give you 3 seconds of stability, but it is not a stun break.

With the Shielded Mind trait, activating Virtue of of Courage will break a stun.

It has nothing to do with arguing with people. When someone makes an assertion with nothing to back it up other than, “it works”, and with no stat sheet updating, it makes it very hard to believe that person. So I provided a way of testing it out for someone who wants to make sure it’s working.

People saying it just works with nothing to back it up is the equivalent of saying Magic Find works on chests because they had a set of MF on and wound up getting an exotic. When people say that they can feel the difference, or see the difference (with white damage), then that provides nothing on whether something works or not. Not that it matters to me if it works as I don’t go into that line, but way too much fud gets spread around with the above responses… as an example.

Looking at the white damage over an opponents head isn’t going to tell you much at all. Take a look at the combat log over the course of time by using Whirling Wrath and Zealots Defense and see the increase of damage done per shot; base of 150% of standard, modified by power and critical damage stats.

Saying it works is easily countered by saying it doesn’t.

Unless you can provide definitive proof that it is working, this is one of those things that I’d probably not use and choose another trait.

I’d like to join as well. My availability is M-F 6pm-11pm ET and all day Sat/Sun.

The only thing that gets me and is just a bad move by John Peter’s is that his first post sounded like there was a legitimate problem that would get resolved. Now his second post has a whole different attitude and that the 40ms was in fact intended and in short, lowered the shortbow’s 1 ability effectiveness.

John Peter’s trying to pull a fast one by the Ranger forum is more troubling to me than anything else.