I dont even know which dev is in charge of Guardian, but that person has butchered our favourite class for a while now.
They absolutely butchered Guardian traits.
2 of Zeal Minor traits dont work with half our weapons.
Fiery Wrath: Nerfed by 3%.
Wrathful Spirit: Unused because it’s so bad.
Shattered Aegis: Nerfed badly, only used because the other choices are also bad.
Symbolic Avenger: Nerfed by 10%.
Healer’s Retribution: As bad as Wrathful Spirit? Wait, actually way worse.
Amplified Wrath: Nerfed with internal cooldown.
Perfect Inscriptions: Nerfed to give useless aura instead of condition removal.
Radiant Retaliation: What is this I dont even…who other than troll builds uses this?
Courageous Return: Completely ignoring that it is bugged. Does not work when you also have Indomitable Courage active. Meanwhile, Mesmer’s even tiniest bugs are being fixed.
Might of the Protector: Nerfed with internal cooldown.
Vigorous Precision: Nerfed a total of 3 times, including the nerf to Vigor itself. Admittedly, other classes also got their Vigor trait nerfed.
Selfless Daring: Nerfed to half of it’s potential just for PvP, followed by making the PvE version also halved.
Glacial Heart: Made to compete with Absolute Resolution. It’s as good as gone forever.
Battle Presence: Does not work anymore when Virtue of Resolve is on cooldown.
That’s over half of our traits that received hits with the nerf bat.
I also want to just mention our joke weapon, the Shield, icon of our class.
Then they give a horrible clown name to the Elite Specialization: Dragonhunter!
Because the Dragonhunter’s Virtues were subpar compared to the Guardian ones, they decide to make them comparably worthwhile by
All Guardian Virtues: Nerfed to 600 range…
But the Dragonhunter’s Virtues are still subpar even when compared to the now butchered Guardian’s Virtues.
Along with the fact that some Guardian traits do not work with Dragonhunter’s Virtues(e.g Wrath of Justice),
We also get terribly unimaginative compulsory(minor) trait: Pure of Sight.
Pure of Sight is bad design
1) I can design an elite-spec weapon that should Cleave. I then make it not Cleave. I create a minor trait just to make the weapon Cleave. There is no possible way to actually use the elite-spec weapon without Cleave(because it is minor). I filled a minor-trait-slot with something that should be baseline.
Similarly,
2) I can design a Longbow that should do X damage. I then change it to do X – 10% damage. I create a minor(mandatory) trait Pure of Sight that now makes the Longbow do 10% more damage. I just stole a minor trait by artificially creating a weaker version of the original(X damage) Longbow. (Yes, I am essentially saying that you nerfed/stole 10% damage from Dragonhunter Longbow just to make Pure of Sight trait)
This is comparable to:
Create a disease, spread it in the world, create the cure, make everyone pay $50 for the cure. You are now a millionaire.
Create a problem(nerf) with the elite-spec weapon. Design a minor trait(that everyone must take) to fix(un-nerf) the problem. You now have 1 less minor trait to design…
You get the gist of it. This is a scammer’s way of designing things.
The following things should never be on elite-spec minor traits:
Cleave, Damage Bonus, Reduced Recharge, Increased Range, Increased Number of Targets.
Because you stole from baseline of the weapon/skills to make those traits.
P.S: If these were major traits, then that would not be a problem, because players get to choose between taking the Bonus Damage or not. The fact that Pure of Sight is a minor trait means that we lost a minor trait, because they took some damage from our baseline to fill that minor trait spot instead.
I want a new dev that evaluates and balances Guardian fairly compared to other professions.
I want a new dev that doesnt just slams the nerf-hammer on half of our traits.
I want a new dev that makes the Dragonhunter as fun as $50 worth.
