Guild Wars 2

Does anyone have a full list of guardian needs and buffs from the start of gw2?

Power creep, not only from players but mobs has basically totally overcome armor. Armor needs to matter again. All of this one or two hitting a heavy armor crap needs to stop. If skills and abilities are going to scale with percentage then protection provided by armor should too.

The Great Al.2546:

This is the second expansion in a row where Ele elite spec traitline is extremely boring.

Trait lines are supposed to change your play style (see: holosmith). The traits are either % damage buffs or %health/barrier buffs. Please make the weaver trait line fun.

Also sword is somehow a weaker dagger with worse range. I don’t understand how this happened.

Guardian will take your druid away, and can have firebrand.

Sounds to me like some artist time is mostly what is needed. If they programmed correctly everything should be object oriented. If not it’s their own dang fault and should probably be corrected anyways under the guise of optimization. As far as the wings already in game, given them renewed art differences.

Keyang.3729:

but you’re already inside a house

Not in the Char home instance.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Unfortunately, that is not possible at this time due to technical limitations.

Good luck.

Such a lazy response. They have the capability, just not the desire to write the little bit of code. Heck, the whole system could use a Dx update anyways.

Personally I have my favorites, but I mainly just use them to reduce the cost of porting by getting closer.

I’d rather see a CCG or something similar. Some strategy, not just mindless clicking.

Elite specs are taking away from the game more than adding to it. Core class concepts are being stolen away by other elite specs and new mechanics(barrier) have been added to classes that have no reason to have it.
Balance between classes is all over the place. Not a chance to “Play the way you want.”
No consideration was made for skill and trait synergy, pushing strange focuses on one or two skills.
Mounts were never needed.
Every class should have a reason to be in a raid, even if it’s as mundane as each class can hit a button to skip trash or steal a buff from a boss for each class present.
You want to make people happy? Make the home instances custom like guild halls. Pick your home, farm, livestock, all from different art packs of all races. Make the supplies come from a procedural dungeon.
The game could use a competitive CCG or something. Some may disagree, but it might be a good way to pass idle time.

Anyone remember the quest in factions that pitted two groups up against each other to race to a gate to get part 2? Was this popular or exciting for anyone else?

Just had an interesting idea that might be fun. Players could do a one of 3 or 4 quest lines that give them access to different elite specs, waypoints, or buffs. These specs and buffs would be across all classes so they would have to be pretty tame as to not cause too much conflict. But if one wanted, they could just sign up to do a different quest line to switch.

Since everything is getting pretty homogeneous as far as classes go you could have the specs be the general dps, tank, healer builds. They wouldn’t have to give access to a new weapon, but could instead give a permanent or periodic buff.

As for plot to back all of this up, they could have the players attempt to get the aid of remaining gods to assist with the dragon problem or to retake can the, elona, the frozen north, or to help with dealing with Ryntlocks story ark.

Made a post ages ago stating that guardians are in a bad spot and they should be made to actually guard again. I was shot down quite hard by the community. Barrier is totally what aegis should have been. Armor should mean much more than it does. When mobs can one hit a heavy armor what’s the point?

I’d like to see aegis block a scaleable amount of damage before dissipating. I’d live to see armor matter and see heavy armor on the front lines. I’d like to see light armored classes get a damage boost across the board. Self heals need to improve greatly so that healers are nice to have, but good play can be enough with self heals. Minions and pets need to be smarter and have better controls.

Druid is probably the least affected by the issue, but their symbiotic relationship with their pet has been seriously ignored.

I believe that many of the classes have lost much of their identity, as is typical of growing moms. Heavy armor means nothing, the typical tank these days is a mesmer. Guardians guard abilities mean nothing and are stripped instantly by a piddly Condi. Rangers pets are basically meaningless and rangers age forced into healing roles that were supposed to be covered by each classes personal healing ability. Many more examples exist that I’m not going to list…
I think elite specs are nice and all, but they really should enhance the core of a class or give an alternative method to the same core of the class. My question really is how do we get back to where we need to go from the chaos that we’re at? And what do people believe is at the core if each class in their mind?

Not to mention people who paid for extra profession slots.

You just wait, I bet druid tank will be the next best thing on expansion.

The raids are forgiving, the meta and people’s elitism isn’t.

Well as nice as that sounds, it would be overkill. We have what, 4 ways to give us aegis? That would be 8 seconds on invul. Most of those recharge fairly quickly. I’d rather see the trait give us 2 to 3 seconds of protection after aegis drops. I’m totally ok with the initial invul though.

I would rather see retaliation splash an aoe around the offender. That might spread out swarms some. As for aegis maybe have it so that when it’s removed it gives the player a 5 seconds of protection.

I believe our problem is that guardians is that we don’t terribly have much to offer that someone else doesn’t offer better. We don’t top dps. We have crap for buffs minus aegis, and people shouldn’t be getting hit anyways. If they do, druids have more than enough heals. Our heals are mediocre. We could tank, but there are better choices. Same with kiting, roaming, etc. We simply need something unique to offer or at least something more significant. Perhaps a change to aegis.

I wish I could say that I saw this coming and tried to tell people we had very little to offer to group play, oh wait, I did. I was told by dozens of people that guardian was in a great place and didn’t need any mechanics to distinguish themselves in groups. So as much as I love guardian, we’ve screwed ourselves by being compaciant.

1. No. I have all the consuming items. Thus they get turned into treasure.
2. No see above. World boss runs seems to work best for farming for me.
3. Some of them take a long time or money(mawdry) others can be done by following a simple wiki(princess). The most annoying imho was the wintersday only one. Being time gated sucks.
4. While they’re nice, they clog up inventory. I prefer the newer currency that can be made into magic. Although I wish they were depositable too.

Lord Faren. Nuf said.

Guardian spear would be nice too to bring them back into old Paragon days.

Guardian rifle healing spec. Cuz they need a ranged healer and rifle healing would just be amusing.

While I like the idea, it’s just one more infinite item clogging up my inventories.

Linking skills is a silly thing. Yes we can heal a bit. Yes we can give aegis periodically. Our dps is fair. However our party buff (aegis) is so easily stripped that it’s almost silly to bring extra skills for it. Especially when most people just heal through any damage taken these days. I’m only saying that the class as a whole should drop some of the silly pointless stuff and stop to trying to be a dps main and instead have more class bonuses, traits and buffs based on guarding. Why bring a guardian over a warrior who brings better buffs? Guardian just feels like a mushy homogenous mess.

As much as everyone seems to say Guardian is in a good place, so many of the recent posts are asking for weapon redesigns or buffs. I do believe guardian is ok in pve and wvw, but kinda lags behind a bit in raid and a little in fractals too.

So, throughout the patches over the years, I feel as if the Guardian has been homogenized. They’ve been haphazardly pushed into a dps role in which I believe they have no place being. Bosses easily strip Aegis, or are simply healed through. Guardian need to be sent back to it’s roots.
Things that I believe would fix this would be things such as:
-allowing Aegis to stack up to 5 times.
-letting healing from guardians to overheal up to 50% extra health
-giving them a larger health pool and giving them a signet to soak some damage at a reduced rate from allies.

Now, I’m not saying all of these at once. But one or more would certainly help. I was also curious if anyone had any feedback or other ideas to bring back the core of the class back?

Just had a strange thought, what if the purifier is purifying torment into a healing boon? We do have the Murssat to deal with at some point. We also have been going down an ancient magics mastery line.
I just really want guardians to be true to their namesake again. I’m really getting annoyed at filling a dps slot and being pushed out at healing support by basically half the classes.

I’d pay for an item to unlock all the same spots on a different character. Just don’t give the rewards except world completion.

I’d rather see a rifle or pistol guardian that can ranged heal or even better ranged protect. You know be an actual guardian. Druid heals are great, but if a guardian could prevent just as well as a Druid can heal, that would be an interesting thing.

I realize that, I’ve sent messages to the listed account. It’s always been like no one is home.

I’ve also tried looking into buying a boss kill. I just can’t seem to get a group capable of a Sabathia kill. My issue tends to be that all these raid sellers just idle in LFG and never respond. I must have sent a dozen messages to get a price quote and nothing. Also recently had a guild group that needed an extra dps for Gors and had the nerve to tell me 18k dps wasn’t enough for a guardian, this was after the kill and after every one of them ignored ground smashes and like 6 of them got egged twice. People are just getting lazy at learning mechanics. So even if I am able to buy a raid, I’m very nervous about the quality of players these days. It’s not like the mechanics are hard to learn.

I’d like to see a rock paper scissors approach to fields. Each class would have 2 or three other classes to synergize fields with. So a necro might drop a field, and other certain classes can blast it. It would promote more diverse raid groups.

I’d rather see more class interplay. Like each class has lingering fields that con only be blasted by 2 other classes. It would bring more group diversity.

You have to kill a major boss.

Yes, the gear really helps, however even beyond that people tend to list crazy requirements. 300+ LI for example. Even a new person can be competent at 50 or less for most bosses. It’s also rather silly how the raids exclude many out of them due to meta. I know I personally as a hammer guardian got kicked from a group for out dpsing some terribly bad Temps. They thought I had somehow hacked their dps meter to get into their group. It’s just breeding a very toxic environment.

Ticket #934765
Pls and Thx, I’d really like to get back to my main after a pointless name change request.

It’s been over 4 days since my ticket has been updated. #934765 Really getting anxious not being able to play my main character because of a forced name change that makes no sense.