A suggestion regarding Willbender

[CrusaderCody.6935]

I enjoyed every aspect of Willbender as it was shown off in the reveal livestream, I look forward to playing it both in the beta events as well as the expansion itself. The only complaint I could even have is that it is merely let down by the kit of the base guardian class that accompanies it.

 

Since Willbender is designed to use dual swords it surprises me that none of the main hand sword skills have been changed. Considering an elite spec that is so based in fast movement and manoeuvrability it surprises me that such a skill as sword 3 (https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Zealot%27s_Defense) was left untouched, a skill that locks you in place and barely even lets you rotate whilst casting it. Secondarily when a new elite specialization only adds an offhand weapon it limits the new and interesting weapon skills that we can experience with the expansion.

 

Since Willbender is obviously inspired by many thief aspects (as well as perhaps daredevil with the physical skilltype) it would make sense to me to add another feature of thief that is dual wielding. This both adds a logical reason to change the main hand sword skills as well as fitting the thief and assassin architype that Willbender draws from. Personally, I imagine a more fluid sword 3 that you could move whilst casting and maybe even synergises with the offhand sword skills. (In my imagination I picture something like so: https://runescape.wiki/w/Flurry#/media/File:Flurry.gif). This dual wielding concept could even be extended to other guardian mainhands, a new mace 3 or scepter 3 perhaps?

 

Many thanks for reading this post.

[zealex.9410]

I think mobility wise willbender will be fine even with sword 3 left unchanged.

[Ezrael.6859]

Zealot's Defense and Ring of Warding should have been changed to use while moving a long time ago, back in October 2013 when Warrior got that change for Staggering Blow.

Zealot's Defense may have a range of 600 but only around half the hits land at that range, and it's only a single target skill.

Make it mobile or make it hit up to 3 targets in a narrow cone.

[shrew.3059]

16 hours ago, CrusaderCody.6935 said:

Since Willbender is obviously inspired by many thief aspects (as well as perhaps daredevil with the physical skilltype) it would make sense to me to add another feature of thief that is dual wielding. This both adds a logical reason to change the main hand sword skills as well as fitting the thief and assassin architype that Willbender draws from.

 

Would you like Stealth too? Anything else we can get you?

[The Boz.2038]

Jesus christ

[Kreed.2768]

Perhaps you should imagine that some of that cc build into the Willbender's kit can act as a setup for sword 3.

[Heinel.6548]

I think you can JI during sword 3, it's possible some of the new shadowsteps can also be used similarly. It's mostly a defensive or poke ability anyway as off hand sword will likely give you a bigger burst in about the same time.