Ferus.3165

could the trait "Resolute Subconscious" also get the treatment of being activated when using a heal skill? Because right now the skill grants 3 seconds of aegis once when you get cc'ed with a 60 second cd and that is pretty abysmal in terms of useability.

It will cleanse one condi yes. And you are dreaming if you think heal skills would be instant or that the stunbreak part of the skill won't be lost. Lesser utility goggles main reason was the additional stunbreak and not the 2 seconds of resistance (even if it is 3 now and one condi cleanse lol). In pve noone takes that skill anyway and in wvw and pvp the stunbreak part was what made the skill ok. It just got randomly deleted from existance.

i am afraid it turns out worse than what we have right now ...

there is nothing to discuss because this is the truth. There is no direction for anything. Any dps rotation feels random just like it's totaly random which class will be good and which class will be at the bottom of the barrel. Skills getting buffed or nerfed not by 5% or 10% but by huge amounts of several 100% or the damage gets taken away fully. Extreme differences occur even in open world where some classes are so braindead op and easy to play and littered with sustain and inbuild tankyness while having multiple times the solo dps of other classes with far less surviveability. I mean the offensive and defensive jade tech protocols help quite a lot with reducing the power gap between classes but it is such a bandaid fix and super annoying to reapply this buff every 1-2 hours.

there is an enormous difference in what classes can do on their own. Generally all classes are "viable" for open world but some classes are simply so much better you will simply breeze through any open world content without any kind of effort. Untamed is one of those classes. You can also try harbinger if you have the condi gear or reaper with just normal berserker/marauder stats. 15k-20k (depends on your gear ofc) solo dps with reaper and just shroud autoattacks is completly normal. Anything below elites just melts away so fast because mobs are not made for this kind of dps in open world. And at the same time you are also incredibly tanky because of your second hp bar. Harbinger deals even more damage with just facerolling and pressing shroud 2 on cd but has a bit less cleave (but you give perma quickness to everyone around you). You also have less hp but you are ranged. When you want equal damage as a solo warrior you have to go pretty much full glass. And if you want equal sustain you will deal alot less damage. If you have EoD you can also use the Jade Tech offensive/defensive protocols on any open world map. Then you can basicly use any raid build because you have all boons at any time and everything just dies so fast the game feels more like diablo than guild wars.

Hundred blades wasn't even buffed.

ha the same thing happened after the feb2020 patch when the damage got nerfed in wvw. Core warrior got nerfed hard and spellbreaker had the unnerfed version of arcing slice for several weeks before it was fixed. Just this time it's the other way around.

What do you care about when playing a class? The looks and lore behind it or the general gameplay? Do you prefer easy to play classes or do you like classes with a higher skill ceiling and/or high apm? Do you need several different build options for your class or is it enough if your class is good at e.g. dps?

A big problem here is superspeed aswell. Sword 2 or dagger F1/2 will not hit targets that run in circles around you while they have superspeed. Those skills were not designed with superspeed in mind but today superspeed is so abundant that this is a really big problem for those weapons. Sword 2 is alot more unreliable in general but even dagger will never hit a target moving with superspeed.

I agree with all points. It is very obvious (sadly so) that anet did not have the same manpower for EoD as they did with PoF and HoT. The maps look barren and bland (echovald is the worst expac map in the game, everything looks the same and so ugly with that green fog everywhere) and half of the new elite specs aswell. No runes and barely new attribute combinations, nothing for pvp and wvw. I really hope the steam sale will be a great financial success so we can maybe see some updates and improvements to existing content in the future. Maybe we are lucky and get a rework for bladesworn in one or two years, but atm idc about bladesworn at all.

it doesn't just seem broken, it is broken. Same goes for daredevil after the SA rework. You either stick with the boonball or the small horde of thirsty thief players (huge majority of all roamers play this class .. i wonder why) that is always present around the boonball is going to teach you how a real gamer is playing this game. FUN.

we got an imposter among the warriors here.. Kleptomane.2798 is a kitten necro

Any rework for sword would be nice. And your suggestions would actually be really awesome. Anything to remove the aftercasts and clunkyness of this absolutely outdated and almost worthless weapon. The mobility part of sword 2 is the only thing that keeps it "semi alive". But because there are only about 5 devs working for anet and they are busy with different things in this game any rework other than pure numbers changes is just wishful thinking and is (veeeery likely) never going to happen.

too bad it will take years for the random crowd to acknowledge that guard is not op. Tbh Firebrand is fine the way it is now, maybe qFB dmg is a little low but you have utility in the form of your tomes and as long as the quickness stays FB will be used in pve. Dragonhunter and Willbender however are in a sad state right now. But noone cares about that because the current circlejerk is that guard is op and should be nerfed into the ground. You cannot talk to the circlejerk people, they live in their bubble and are unable to realise what this patch did to guard. This reminds me of what happened to warrior years ago when the circlejerk opinion was that warrior was op and should be nerfed into the ground and that circlejerk continued untill most of warrior was trash. The warrior forum activity back then was extremely low so noone spoke up to it. I have not played guard for long and i liked the cWB and DH gameplay but right now it's simply not worth it to play guard for the dps role anymore. Support FB is all that is left atm. Maybe the nerf to guard was accidental though, you never now with anet, and they did not take into consideration how big of an impact sun spirit would have on guard, so there is a chance that WB will receive some buffs in exchange for it.

it has been so long since hammer was useful, i don't even remember it anymore... and anet did nothing in all those years to improve it, they even knocked it down further with the feb2020 patch. But hammer is not the only weapon that needs a complete overhaul. Sword offhand is at the same level of power as hammer, meaning it's absolutely worthless. Sword mainhand is almost as bad and is also in dire need of a rework. Well rifle and longbow aswell... and many individual skills on other weapons that are stuck in the year 2012. The only way for this game to actually come back to life again is if anet is willing to put in the work and remove the dross that accumulated over all these years. All those useless, clunky and outdated traits, skills and abilities have to be reworked and/or replaced by actual useful skills. Yeah as if that's ever going to happen 😉 Oh and another thing that has made hammer worse even in pve: the introduction of breakbars. Prior to breakbars warriors could stunlock npcs for a very long time as a means of defense. This is no longer possible as almost every elite mob and higher (so especially those npcs that are dangerous) are immune to cc for 95% of the time.

delusional, absolutely delusional. You have become the very thing you swore to destroy. It's the same thing that is happening to guard now that happened to warrior all those years ago. FB has already nothing left but it's quickness generation. The other guardian elites are also extremely underperforming right now. Bladesworn is pushing 39k dps while willbender has a hard time with even 33k and DH is not even getting close to 30k. FB dps build is also dead. And that alone would be fine (for FB not for Willbender or Dragonhunter) because FB is still a good support, as long as the quickness remains. But stop with your unjustified hatred towards other classes. Anet should put effort into warrior and improve weapons and skills for warrior and not nerf another class into nonexistence. I agree with most of your posts here but this ignorant guardian hate especially here in the warrior forum is really something i have a very hard time to understand.

The circlejerk is a reaction of miserable players wanting others to be as miserable as they are. Warrior was meta until banners got removed. And that happened because banners were the only thing holding the mediocre warrior dps class together. The same goes for quickness and firebrand now. And the other two specs guardian has are already forgotten. I understand that it is hard for you to face reality and change your views even when presented new evidence. Or you could simply gather your own information and playtest guardian. But you probably don't play guard and never even did and have no idea what you are talking about. A normal reaction would be to try and convince anet that what they did to warrior was a mistake. Trying to get anet to take away what other classes have is just sad bahavior (and even worse when what you say other classes have is not even true) and shows that you don't care about this game at all. You just want to be mad and lash out and spout random phrases that are for the most part not true or mean nothing.

catalyst was nerfed because it was able to deal 46k+ dps and provide quickness aswell. Neither berserker would be capable of such dps nor is any other quickness providing class. Also there would be an easy fix to berserker dealing to much dmg as a quickness provider. Just read my post above yours.

many people here have been miserable for so long that they only want others to be miserable aswell. It's sad actually that power mechanist got nerfed so quickly again. But the ways of anet balancing are unfathomable.

Dragonhunter has garbage dps and is a selfish melee dps spec, willbender has mediocre dps and is a selfish mostly melee dps spec again. So where is the love for guardian?? FB has only quickness going for it now. Noone will take FB for it's dps anymore because the patch nerfed cFB significantly. Aegis on firebrand is mostly a thing of the past because the mantra has no aegis anymore and advance has 30 cd for a single aegis application. Oh yeah and fb still has group stab on demand, but noone would even look at fb anymore if it were not for the quickness generation. That is literally the only thing guard has going for it right now. And warrior does way more cc than fb so don't even start with that. Every class has some way to use cc in a fight. probably a bit more than 33k with allies but still trash as dps when you have other dps classes ranging into the 40k again. Willbender has about the same dps and dh doesn't even reach 30k anymore

almost a good idea but e.g. for berserker the quickness should not come from a minor trait. You should have to pick a grandmaster trait for that. Simply replace this with the eternal champion trait (useless trait anyway) and that way you can pick power/condi dps or support. That way dps zerker could still be buffed to reasonable levels and support berserker would still deal mediocre dps while giving party quickness. Too bad anet devs don't read these forum posts.

i have over 5k hours on warrior, i know what state warrior is in. This does however not have anything to do with guardian and firebrand. Just stop with this circlejerk ah the blue child a fb so op so ez to play, you gain nothing from it and warrior will not be magically fun to play or fixed in any way if fb will be gutted like warrior. cFB is already worse than warrior now. Quickness application is all that fb still has. Take that away and you have warrior 2.0. Would you be happy then? Btw. cwillbender is at 33k dps now, and it does not bring anything to the table either and is a pure selfish dps spec with 8k less hp than warrior. That would mean that warrior is absolutely viable in all "sorts of content".

funny how the circlejerk just goes on and on and on.. yet people have no idea what they are talking about. cFB has been nerfed so hard it won't be played anymore. And it depends if the other quickness classes like harbinger or scrapper will deal more dmg than qFB because if that is the case even qFB won't see the light of the day anymore.

I achieved similar numbers. I started playing condi willbender a few weeks ago and while i am far from being benchmark level i consistently got to 36k dps without infusions. After this patch even with infusions i only get to 30k. So it seems to have been a pretty substantial nerf. But considering you get pretty much the same dps as a power mechanist throwing bomb kit autos i don't really think willbender is worth it anymore, because mechanist is ranged and the boss can move as much as it wants and the dps still stays the same (good chunk of willbender dps comes from lingering aoes on the ground).

tbh i actually thought banners would at least pulse the boons every second... strength banner doesn't even have a 100% uptime of two (2 !!!) might. wtf