Dib.4612 Posted May 11, 2021 Share Posted May 11, 2021 Some quick takeaways I had from playing fractals with the new patch. 1. Videogames are more than just quick and effective. The mantras not having a preperation ruins the entire flavor of the skill. Removes nicely made animation and effects as well as nicely made skill icons from the game. It just removes the nice feel the mantras had. 2. Mantras not having a third big charge removes the entire skill and thought from mantras and makes it brainless spam to upkeep boons. 3. Replacing retaliation with resolution is just weird. Skills that had retaliation were part of offensive weapons and traits, and it's now a defensive boon. It just doesn't quite work. 4. Making resistance resist movement impairing conditions only completely destroys any skill that has resistance (Tome of Courage skill 4). To amend this they could at least have thought of replacing resistance with resolution instead. And instead of retribution perhaps some kind of offensive boon like fury or might. In short I feel like the patch wasn't thought out or tested very well. I hope there'll be another patch soon after reverting some of these changes and amending others. If this does not occur then I'm not very hopeful for GW2 balance. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nightcore.5621 Posted May 11, 2021 Share Posted May 11, 2021 100% Agree Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PookieDaWombat.6209 Posted May 11, 2021 Share Posted May 11, 2021 Yeah, I hadn't even gone in with my FB, just my alt account with a core guardian and the insane uptime i had with Reso, while fun in a meme kinda way, was also just nuts. I could go full glass or condi and basically sit in condi dmg and cleans what little hit me. I can't wait for the endless complaints about how guards eat condi dmg for breakfast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoover.6394 Posted May 11, 2021 Share Posted May 11, 2021 Give me back my retaliation!! Resolution do nothing for me at all when I HB fractal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infusion.7149 Posted May 11, 2021 Share Posted May 11, 2021 No idea why the icons for unprepared mantras was used instead of the first charge. Now it makes me uneasy when I see everything on the bar with those icons. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Armaelus.6120 Posted May 11, 2021 Share Posted May 11, 2021 Just agree for mantras : The lack of a third charge feels like a simple skill with ammos... Concerning resolution, I enjoy this change. As Protection that can mitigate direct damage, we now have a buff that can mitigate conditions. In WvW this is a great improvement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonork.2916 Posted May 12, 2021 Share Posted May 12, 2021 I think they need to buff the mantras a bit. Some power level between the first 2 charges and the now removed 3rd one. Especially on Mantra of Solace. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eloc Freidon.5692 Posted May 12, 2021 Share Posted May 12, 2021 Mantras do feel a bit more like the ammo Shouts with nothing separating them in any way other than name. They aren't complicated in the good way, but the thought put into using them is completely gone. I'm actually unsure of what to feel about it overall. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dib.4612 Posted May 12, 2021 Author Share Posted May 12, 2021 12 hours ago, Infusion.7149 said: No idea why the icons for unprepared mantras was used instead of the first charge. Now it makes me uneasy when I see everything on the bar with those icons. This is the first thing I noticed and just made me cringe a huge amount. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dib.4612 Posted May 12, 2021 Author Share Posted May 12, 2021 Just realized I probably should have posted this on the 'guardian' sub. Perhaps a mod can move the thread there somehow? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eloc Freidon.5692 Posted May 12, 2021 Share Posted May 12, 2021 15 hours ago, Infusion.7149 said: No idea why the icons for unprepared mantras was used instead of the first charge. Now it makes me uneasy when I see everything on the bar with those icons. Especially because the uncharged icons all look mostly the same versus the charged ones. They "might" be planning to use the icons for something later as they are sets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flasterko.4087 Posted May 12, 2021 Share Posted May 12, 2021 About icons... I also think that they look too similar and I hope they will think about our feedback and change icons to be more different. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lan Deathrider.5910 Posted May 12, 2021 Share Posted May 12, 2021 Each of the Mantra charges should have been the old final charge. They totally could have put part of the voice lines into each of the charges. OR, Just remove the preparing stage, have the voice line on each charge used (in pieces), and have the nice symbol animation activate on the final charge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infusion.7149 Posted May 12, 2021 Share Posted May 12, 2021 Most people never used the final charge. Even if you look at snowcrows rotation or discretize: https://discretize.eu/builds/guardian/power-firebrandhttps://discretize.eu/builds/guardian/condi-firebrand Quote Use Invalid Skill 41475 (Restoring Reprieve) and Invalid Skill 42983 (Potent Haste) but leave one charge left (unless the fight is close to being over https://snowcrows.com/raids/builds/guardian/firebrand/condition quickness/ Quote Use Mantra of Solace once at the start and then use it everytime you gain a charge. Use Mantra of Potence twice at the start and then use it everytime you gain a charge. Unlike mesmer mantras where you get a bonus for charging (through Restorative Mantras or the charging itself granting boons), there was no reason to play firebrand with mantras uncharged. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OuterOcean.2418 Posted May 12, 2021 Share Posted May 12, 2021 I love these new changes, you can no longer just sit there and just let retaliation do the dps for you. Now it's fast paced action, and now you have to git gud. Rofl I already made kids cry after I end up one shooting them with rifle warrior, all the angry tantrum whispers are flooding after that. 🤣 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Touchme.1097 Posted May 13, 2021 Share Posted May 13, 2021 (edited) I love the new changes for firebrand, no more mantra preparation while my whole team rushes fractal at the beginning and Mai Trin has become even easier to deal with. Thank you very much Anet 🙂 My only concern though is my dps as longbow Dragonhunter which is still low, probably the worst in the game now that scourge necro has been buffed and it's no longer bottom tier. The latest Snowcrows benchmark after patch hit 33k, an average player would hit much less than that, even if I get close to my benchmark it wouldn't be enough to compete with the other professions. Edited May 13, 2021 by Touchme.1097 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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