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Hello Guardians,
So I wanted to talk about the bigger discussion topics for the Dec changes for you as well.
Shattered Aegis
As soon as I get in on Monday, I’ll post the damage #s on this and the power scaling. I think a meaning ful discussion about this change is going to require that. One danger here is that big WvW zergs using this could be really powerful, but I will say that the numbers are decent.Supreme Justice and Kindled Zeal
I feel like there is a build here, but TBH I haven’t gotten it to work in our internal testing yet. This is as good a place as any to talk about stat conversion traits.Currently they do not convert 100% of a stat because certain stat bonuses such as those from signets do not get converted. For that reason we are being conservative but normalizing all of our conversions to the follow #s for now.
Minor: 5%,7%, and 10% respectively for adept, master and grandmaster.
Major: 7%,10%, and 13% respectively for adept, master, and grandmaster.I’m not sure this will be enough, but I do not want these traits to be overpowered as I feel they are fairly passive. That being said, I think they are good simple traits and with 12 traits per line it is absolutely fine to have some passive simple to understand traits.
Another thing about this build is that you do not have all of the information you need about this power guardian right now, but I can’t reveal more without spoilers. /tease
Symbol of Swiftness
To clarify the new Symbol of Swiftness will give you 4 seconds of Swiftness every single pulse regardless of if you have swiftness or not. This is a improvement in many situations and a slight loss in the situation where you were using the Symbol as just a one time buff. I think this makes it feel more like a Symbol, which is good. We are still discussing the idea of it being 5 seconds, but there is some danger of that going pretty high with boon duration.Power guardian vs Condition guardian
I think Dec 10th will see the emergence of the power guardian, but I think that the condition based guardian still has a ways to go. Ultimately this is because it is hard to cover the burning and frankly you need a good reliable second or even third condition that guardians simply do not have right now. I think for those professions lacking that 3rd damage condition we are looking at supplementing them via runes and sigils rather than skills/traits right now but that won’t be something we attempt until the build that follows the Dec 10th build.I think that is everything for guardian and hopefully you enjoyed a few half spoiler/half teases.
Thanks,
Jon
Link the the guardian sub-forum
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/guardian/Guardian-December-Patch-Preview/page/2#post3140287
Hello Jon,
Can’t we split Shattered Aegis in spvp/wvw? because I think if this trait be really good we can start to use “retreat”(right now this shout is really bad) and people will have alternatives to be mobile in spvp and this change in symbol of swiftness will not be so impactful.
I’m a little afraid with this slow changes in guardian I know we are in a good place since launch and I played with guardian even before bwes and I know this is the hardest profession to balance. But I think sometime guardian will be in the same spot ele and mesmer are now.
Let me explain why I’m thinking like that:
1) With other classes gaining acess to break stun and stability more easily guardian is now loosing your style and this is happening because if we compare with other classes like war/eng guardian have huge cooldowns in yours CC skills and this skills only do the CC and nothing else (i.e. Line of Warding, Ring of Warding, SoA) so its easily counter played.
And for this reason hammer guardians are been instinct huge cds, skills are too slow and banish is hard to land and now launch is nerfed.
2) Elite Tomes are lacklusters but could bring amazing gameplay i think with boon hate/boon stripper and now necros are strong we can have stability back or at least a break stun in some skill inside this elites just to see what happen. And with the recent changes warrior can be more tanky and give a lot of support with shouts and Battle Standard.
And I think its time to change skill 2 for this 3 weapons Sword, Scepter and Hammer. If the skill 2 in this 3 weapons were area effect and be a symbol we could have a lot of build diversity. (I remember the 1st time I played guardian sword 2 was area of effect and was really amazing).
Hope you read I have more thoughts to share but i didnt want a wall of text.
Ty =)
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