Gwaihir.1745

Aegis is weak; this guy isnt experienced enough with the game to actually know what he wants nerfed.

Nope they have no ground to stand on running a closed group and saying they lack numbers.

Anet doesn't give a rats kitten, because 'guard should have tradeoffs'. Pretty sure they consider this one of them.

They removed radiant guard I see no reason why this should be immune to the nerf bat.

Anet went from 'wed like to do smaller, more frequent iterative balance changes' a year ago to 'we just dont do balance no more'.

GW2: Status Quo Boogaloo

How do you have this much trouble finding a name? I'm constantly surprised at the names I find open. Like Gary Watergate is still open? Sir Wranrap wasn't even taken. Maybe its a lack of ingenuity that is limiting the pool of names you have to choose from.

How are you all using yards as a the unit of choice here? Is no one going to call that out? 450 yards is like the distance from valley keep to bravost, not the distance of a dodge roll. Just use units kitten.

There is very little defense for some of the hardest skills in the game to land doing no damage, as well as ridiculous long cooldown times on proc traits that made them useless. Take banish on guard hammer 4, among the hardest skills to land in the game is now utterly useless to the class. It was a skill that was designed to supplement the hammers damage, but now it just knocks your opponent away and without the heavy hit attached to banish you basically gave your opponent a free out. They should have reviewed these skills on a case by case basis not just high orbit nuked cc skills.

Op mains mesmer and sidelines as an ele, with next to no experience on guardian in pvp whatsoever. Isn't gw2efficiency great.

Too many tradeoffs for little benefit. Too low damage to be a glass cannon. Too many self roots and long animations allow your enemy to escape with ease. This is my last reply here until anet chimes in. They have plenty of feedback regarding the issues. Either they can handle them, or they cant have my money.

You mean the one begging to be dazed every single time? Not remotely good competitively.

Congratulations to OP for being the reason things don't get the balance tuning they need. Well done, you are the problem not the solution.

F1 should get a 3 second quickness. It is thematic for justice and would fix its issue.

No, sword 4 is bad. Its a hard to land autoattack with a super long delayed pay off for hitting it. May as well take hammer and roleplay as what radiant once was before anet nuked core guard. Oh wait hammer is useless and you may as well not slot wb line in that case.

Its redeeming factors are being gatekept by the ridiculous design decisions. Its like anet said guardian can have mobility, but between every movement skill and the actual attack, we are going to root the guardian for 1/2 second and then perform the attack. Even sword 4 somehow got this with a super long delay after landing the initial attack. The gimmick to sword 4 was supposed to be hard to land initial attack, not land it and then @#$%^&* track them for 2 more seconds until the crosscut executes. We wont talk about the mediocre damage on it yet because they have way too much to fix already.

Ah the +240 power -240 toughness didn't clue you in right off the bat?

No, the spec is a glass cannon. As it is the class isn't doing enough damage. You can slap a wb down in a few hits, it needs to be able to do the same to its opposition.

As someone noted on the first page, all the shadowsteps have a rediculous animation between the shadowstep and the attack itself, f1 also has this. Why the hell is this a thing anet. Any moving target basically get a get out of jail free card just for moving because it makes the attacks miss. This is beyond dumb.

Yeah this feels bad. Its a duelist that runs up to you and the executes a ???? because it cant follow up. I dont think anet realized how glassy core guard really is, and then you take the wb line to double down on the glass and it just does not work.

F1 virtue: Animation need to execute faster. Right now it rushes to the target and then stall the hit, easily allowing them to escape the hit. Sword 4: Same issue. The first hit is already hard to land, and the following up attacks that actually do damage take far too long to occur.' Traits: Many guardian traits are specced to upgrade virtue passives. There is no synergy here. Overall: Feels bad. Damage is way too low for the tradeoffs being taken in survivability. I can output more damage in pvp/wve on a core guard. Like a glass cannon without the cannon attached. The cast times are clunky and the damage coefficients are super low on sword 4-5 and the physical abilities. In marauders in wvw the physical skills are hitting 400s on a regular basis.

Its the same as saying "the enemy is below 30% hp thats it I won.". Have you won? Pretty sure you lost when you hit downstate in any scenario where your buddy isnt carrying you in a 2v1. Whos going to win? The guy who can spike you or your piddly downstate dps? You're just dragging it out hoping someone will pick you up.

Oh if you want to go down that road, lets talk about how that is purely conjecture on your part. You haven't provided any substantial argument proving it supercedes thief nor mesmers capabilities, nor do you seem the understand the roles anet has set to them. Because it's quite obvious to everyone in this thread that a thief is a better a thief than a gimmick dh build, and it would be readily apparent to you should you lose the cognitive dissonance you created by defending an invalid point from the get go.

Alliances would probably kill the game mode further anyways. Theres no chance anet figures out a working system of balance for it, after all this is the company that has reskinned the same gimmick currency for the past 3 years and called it a new mechanic each time they release a new pve map.

If you're getting punished by a build that has 1 stunbreak there is nothing anyone can post here, nor anything anet can ever nerf that will make you semi-decent at pvp.