Willbender initial and ongoing thoughts

[Poledra Val.1490]

First the good part, the mobility is excellent its very fluid overall enjoyable to play and move around with.

 

Now the second part, the class in PvP feels utterly underwhelming.

 

Damage is very low even on zerk amulet the class is also littered with a lot of bugs in both tooltips and in actual numbers during combat.

 

Sustain is literally bottom tier at the moment on this spec in my opinion the Willbender heal is also extremelly underwhelming probably one of the poorest to date on Guardian.

 

Some of the traits are interesting but i find way to much give and take on a lot of these traits in comparison to other specs.

 

Overall this spec needs some tweaks/buffs to make it at least semi relevant in PvP at the moment.

 

Curious on other peoples thoughts on this, clearly this is still a beta so many things can change in the next 6 months.

Edited August 17, 2021 by Poledra Val.1490

[UNOwen.7132]

I am pleasantly surprised to see the virtues have a longer cooldown in PvP than the PvE version we saw on stream. I'd have to run the numbers on the mobility, but if its lower than thief, sure, give it some damage. If its on the same level as thief though? Sorry, thats the drawback to having that mobility, you get no damage and no survivability.

[Dusty.6084]

The mobility seemed like a meme to me. DH already runs double blink and maybe rune of the trapper just with their heal and ring of blades - their F2 also is a long range jump. I felt less mobile. 

[Noir.8561]

We could give them 30% damage reduction traits , like the Daredevil ones

[Darknicrofia.2604]

The mobility is there so you can run back from spawn faster.

[OuterOcean.2418]

21 minutes ago, Darknicrofia.2604 said:

The mobility is there so you can run back from spawn faster.

Yep, run back to die again.

[Darknicrofia.2604]

Harbingers have more functional mobility than the "speedy duelist" spec feedbender.

[Pyrial.2917]

Dh with trapper runes makes WB pointless.  Mobility, stealth, and ranged damage with the same health pool.

[Brokensunday.4098]

Mobility is good, damage is mediocre, you literally just trade mobility for sustain in this spec compared to dh and core (fb is garbage so not compare to that).

[Tharan.9085]

I agree with most points, their healing skill is the strongest guardian currently has tho

[Exile.8160]

2 minutes ago, Tharan.9085 said:

I agree with most points, their healing skill is the strongest guardian currently has tho

Too buggy to be any use right now tho.

Edited August 18, 2021 by Exile.8160

[Tharan.9085]

3 hours ago, Exile.8160 said:

Too buggy to be any use right now tho.

only bug I have experienced with it, is that it blocked more then 1 attack which made it even stronger.

[Gwaihir.1745]

6 hours ago, Tharan.9085 said:

I agree with most points, their healing skill is the strongest guardian currently has tho

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

[Poledra Val.1490]

6 hours ago, Tharan.9085 said:

I agree with most points, their healing skill is the strongest guardian currently has tho

Its to buggy its certainly not the strongest imo, along with the fact one of the bugs it has is if you precast the heal go into a fight whether its 1v1 or a team one....and you happen to get cc'd instead of a normal hit the heal does not proc.

Edited August 18, 2021 by Poledra Val.1490