I think you are right about the necro buff. People will need skills like hammer 5 guardian or block to prevent enemies closing the gap instantly . Or Anet will need to rework the whole endurance system (maybe rewarding people for a successful dodge)
Guardian's spear will likely replace x/Shield as most SotO support weapons were designed to be camped in. Plus, Staff is still needed for initial might ramp, swiftness, extra ranged and burst healing. Just imagine pushing the orb in Harvest Temple without staff 💀. Based on the video and blog post, the auto seems to be Slash - Symbol (provides Might and Fury most likely) - Thrust. The only missing piece of a Guardian support weapon are ways to provide Aegis, Protection and even Vigor.
As far as CC goes, on the Guardian description it said the symbol had a knockback. Not crazy but theres a little bit. Also the description said Guqrdians were "focusing on supporting allies and debilitating enemies." So i have suspicion there may be other CC somewhere in the set. Hard to say. Also i notice some of those attacks have the cone shape light like many of the mantras and shouts so im guessing us guardian mains will have to deal with more annoying positioning issues to provide boons with the stupid cone. I have the same fears about the Ranger stealth. Imagining it with Soulbeast burst or Untamed ambush sounds like it could be scary in pvp. Though i may play it myself if it means i can chase down deadeyes. Im actually stoked for necro, i imagine the life steal will be heavily nerfed in competitive so it'll probably just be an alternative power reaper weapon.
I really like your content. There's a specific niche a lot of other MMO communities have that was missing for this game and I think your content fills it.
Tbh, ranger's spear stealth being on hitting an enemy would be fine, after all, it would need to hit you first to acess that same stealth. but, the thing that im concerned at, its the usage of other stealth sources, to get empowered spear attacks out of nowere. and knowing how soto weapons went in therms of damage numbers. just hope that the empowered spear attacks need more than just checking the stealth box.
Dear Captain, you forgot something in regards to Necro - our main weakness is not mobility, it's being ragdolls to any stray cc. Reaper has some stab moments to go unga bunga, but that's still nowhere near let's say a warrior's ability to stay on two feet. With that being said, a big green visible channel is basically us waving a big flag and shouting "hard cc us now!" In order to get any value from it we either have to: - hard cc the enemy (and preferably long enough to do the full channel). Too often that ends up with them evading, cc'ing us faster or blinding us. - drop a big pulsing blind field hoping that stops their hard cc - which means the moment they run and we chase, we're no longer in our blind safe space.. - catch an enemy that is isolated - his friends can and will hard cc us, cause necros get dogpiled by default. - run around with dedicated support that will match our mobility (if we build for it) and will be able to provide solid stab+resistance combo. I think it won't be so bad in the end.. for the enemies that is. As for necro himself - that remains to be seen.
My memeory goes back as far as to days before HoT, years before we got really annoying cc, and to period between HoT and Pof, before we got Spellbreaker. Even then Spb didn't play with hammer though. We got Untamed, then buffs to warrior's hammer, then SotO came with buffs to Rev's and Guardian's hammers, as well as some other CC buffs and currently every F-ing class is just color variant of spellbreaker. I miss the times before CC bloat.
@captaincrapface7337 I'm calling it. Next expac they will make spec utilities available for all specs and try to remove elite specs entirely. So you can play your favorite color of class for the same roles! Ofc the yellow class might be subpar!
The stealth on ranger spear really scared me for pvp. Ranger can already burst really hard, even if spear doesn't do much damage, they can just stealth, weapon swap, and then one-shot people from invisibility. Just imagine an invisible soulbeast walking up behind you. Even if you see them stealth up and know the burst is coming, you don't exactly know when the burst is coming and it kind of comes down to a bit of luck to dodge the burst. Its gonna be rough for the baseline squishy classes. I'm really not excited for there to be more access to stealth in pvp.
I know ppl are all ready dooming about warrior, but staff was so good it could almost carry warrior on its own. If spear is at least half as good as staff, it will still end up being warriors 2nd best weapon
Guardian resistance symbol has an aoe knockback on cast sadly. The rush and heal allies while damaging foes could literally have been used for warrior sword 3 aoe (minus the healing part) but who cares. Ig this will incentivize spear builds for smallerscale supports. Ranger's, with smokescale, spear, sword and warhorn are gonna become a real pain I suppose. Lots of stealth and combine it with untamed strong pets or druid constant stealth and superspeed, it might get annoying quickly. Can't wait to see necros run with sword ddouble leap reaper 2 or harb 3 and 4, then a spear port, add a nice worm port too and maybe spectral walk all the way back to where you came from. Willbender 2.0? at least they will be mostly power, but hey, slap cele and it will probably still work.
100% agreed, specially with ranger's spear; the moment i read the blogpost i said to myself "I'm so fking glad i stopped doing pvp, it's already retarded enough"
I'm sorry, what's this about "empowered", Crapface? Is this a spear only thing, or will other weapons have an "empowered" thing going on? Cause i really wanna see what an empowered 100 blades looks like. Or an empowered "flaming flurry". Mainly cause I'm hoping that'll just summon down meteors 😅
"Empowered" skill is a skill that is stronger when certain conditions are met. In this case - Guardian's spear exclusively has ways to empower its skills, specifically skill 2 with more healing, and skill 5 with giving you its bonus wherever you are for the entire duration. For now its Guardian spear exclusive feature, in text colled "Illumination"
More ranger favoritism lol. I still feel a bit guilty, but I’ll get over it as I get revenge on those thieves and mesmers who stealth ambush and stealth run away in wvw
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I think you are right about the necro buff. People will need skills like hammer 5 guardian or block to prevent enemies closing the gap instantly . Or Anet will need to rework the whole endurance system (maybe rewarding people for a successful dodge)
Remember *There were only 8 Bullet Points* Describing Spears. Warrior is probably the 9th that reads "Basic Spear Moves"
Shhh, you'll spoil the surprise!
AHAHA SO FUCKING TRUE
Guardian's spear will likely replace x/Shield as most SotO support weapons were designed to be camped in.
Plus, Staff is still needed for initial might ramp, swiftness, extra ranged and burst healing. Just imagine pushing the orb in Harvest Temple without staff 💀.
Based on the video and blog post, the auto seems to be Slash - Symbol (provides Might and Fury most likely) - Thrust. The only missing piece of a Guardian support weapon are ways to provide Aegis, Protection and even Vigor.
As far as CC goes, on the Guardian description it said the symbol had a knockback. Not crazy but theres a little bit. Also the description said Guqrdians were "focusing on supporting allies and debilitating enemies." So i have suspicion there may be other CC somewhere in the set. Hard to say. Also i notice some of those attacks have the cone shape light like many of the mantras and shouts so im guessing us guardian mains will have to deal with more annoying positioning issues to provide boons with the stupid cone.
I have the same fears about the Ranger stealth. Imagining it with Soulbeast burst or Untamed ambush sounds like it could be scary in pvp. Though i may play it myself if it means i can chase down deadeyes.
Im actually stoked for necro, i imagine the life steal will be heavily nerfed in competitive so it'll probably just be an alternative power reaper weapon.
I really like your content. There's a specific niche a lot of other MMO communities have that was missing for this game and I think your content fills it.
Ranger's weapon being one of the bests (again)
Another ANet classic
Tbh, ranger's spear stealth being on hitting an enemy would be fine, after all, it would need to hit you first to acess that same stealth.
but, the thing that im concerned at, its the usage of other stealth sources, to get empowered spear attacks out of nowere.
and knowing how soto weapons went in therms of damage numbers.
just hope that the empowered spear attacks need more than just checking the stealth box.
Dear Captain, you forgot something in regards to Necro - our main weakness is not mobility, it's being ragdolls to any stray cc.
Reaper has some stab moments to go unga bunga, but that's still nowhere near let's say a warrior's ability to stay on two feet.
With that being said, a big green visible channel is basically us waving a big flag and shouting "hard cc us now!"
In order to get any value from it we either have to:
- hard cc the enemy (and preferably long enough to do the full channel). Too often that ends up with them evading, cc'ing us faster or blinding us.
- drop a big pulsing blind field hoping that stops their hard cc - which means the moment they run and we chase, we're no longer in our blind safe space..
- catch an enemy that is isolated - his friends can and will hard cc us, cause necros get dogpiled by default.
- run around with dedicated support that will match our mobility (if we build for it) and will be able to provide solid stab+resistance combo.
I think it won't be so bad in the end.. for the enemies that is. As for necro himself - that remains to be seen.
My memeory goes back as far as to days before HoT, years before we got really annoying cc, and to period between HoT and Pof, before we got Spellbreaker.
Even then Spb didn't play with hammer though.
We got Untamed, then buffs to warrior's hammer, then SotO came with buffs to Rev's and Guardian's hammers, as well as some other CC buffs and currently every F-ing class is just color variant of spellbreaker.
I miss the times before CC bloat.
@captaincrapface7337 I'm calling it. Next expac they will make spec utilities available for all specs and try to remove elite specs entirely. So you can play your favorite color of class for the same roles!
Ofc the yellow class might be subpar!
The stealth on ranger spear really scared me for pvp. Ranger can already burst really hard, even if spear doesn't do much damage, they can just stealth, weapon swap, and then one-shot people from invisibility. Just imagine an invisible soulbeast walking up behind you. Even if you see them stealth up and know the burst is coming, you don't exactly know when the burst is coming and it kind of comes down to a bit of luck to dodge the burst. Its gonna be rough for the baseline squishy classes. I'm really not excited for there to be more access to stealth in pvp.
This game doesn't revolve around pvp ....in any facet, balance was nvr intended for it
I don't have to imagine invisible soulbeast, i have to deal with them on daily basis.
They said the guardian spear's symbol knocks enemies back as you cast it
I know ppl are all ready dooming about warrior, but staff was so good it could almost carry warrior on its own. If spear is at least half as good as staff, it will still end up being warriors 2nd best weapon
Guardian resistance symbol has an aoe knockback on cast sadly. The rush and heal allies while damaging foes could literally have been used for warrior sword 3 aoe (minus the healing part) but who cares. Ig this will incentivize spear builds for smallerscale supports.
Ranger's, with smokescale, spear, sword and warhorn are gonna become a real pain I suppose. Lots of stealth and combine it with untamed strong pets or druid constant stealth and superspeed, it might get annoying quickly.
Can't wait to see necros run with sword ddouble leap reaper 2 or harb 3 and 4, then a spear port, add a nice worm port too and maybe spectral walk all the way back to where you came from. Willbender 2.0? at least they will be mostly power, but hey, slap cele and it will probably still work.
I wonder how unleashed ranger untamed will interact with the stealth spear skills. Will that mean a empowered 2-4 and ambush 1
Well, yeah
100% agreed, specially with ranger's spear; the moment i read the blogpost i said to myself "I'm so fking glad i stopped doing pvp, it's already retarded enough"
I'm sorry, what's this about "empowered", Crapface?
Is this a spear only thing, or will other weapons have an "empowered" thing going on?
Cause i really wanna see what an empowered 100 blades looks like.
Or an empowered "flaming flurry". Mainly cause I'm hoping that'll just summon down meteors 😅
"Empowered" skill is a skill that is stronger when certain conditions are met. In this case - Guardian's spear exclusively has ways to empower its skills, specifically skill 2 with more healing, and skill 5 with giving you its bonus wherever you are for the entire duration.
For now its Guardian spear exclusive feature, in text colled "Illumination"
Maybe I'm blind but I think ranger knocked imp down after leap...
I'm certain it was pet skill, not spear skill that applied the cc.
Specifically this skill:
wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Brutal_Charge_(canine)
@@captaincrapface7337 I see, I forgot leafdog have this skill...
More ranger favoritism lol. I still feel a bit guilty, but I’ll get over it as I get revenge on those thieves and mesmers who stealth ambush and stealth run away in wvw