We continue to work through this issue, which is our top priority.
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Broken or not, the problem that everyone has is that the peak of Guardian gameplay is your ability to hit decurse and skull bash, the latter only being important in stopping a gpy. There’s very little a Guardian druid can do wrong or right in a game, so every game you play versus one feels ridiculous.
Two big things you do as Guardian
1.) Stand near the guy being hit
2.) If you’re the guy being hit stay in bear form
The of of what you do as a Guardian is pretty much unimportant and impacts your game very little. God forbid you’re actually a decent Guardian that removes havoc before a coil goes out and you sit on your GCD to stop it.
Sure, that’s fair. But by that same token, destro lock you just cast CC until you get kicks or a CC lands w/out a dispell for bolts that can 1shot (especially as mage/lock or double destro). As a rogue, you basically just maintain bleeds and press kidney. I dont think either one of those have any more of a skill cap than guardian.
I think so. since I can get hit by a 90k chaos bolt and it not break
And no, im not confusing it with coil… or conflag root… or shadowfury… or infernal stun… which are all on separate DRs.
To be clear; I’m not saying i dont think guardian should be nerfed-I don’t like the idea of tanks in pvp and I think they SHOULD be nerfed. But with the strength of RMP being as absurd as it is and the fact that it’s a strong majority of the ladder, I don’t mind having guardian be a counter comp to it. In fact I think that’s good for the game.
But yeah, I think sac aura needs to be removed. But I feel the same way about focus chaos pvp talent and greater pyroblast as well.
Except your window to one shot someone with a bolt is limited to about 15 seconds, requires you to drop 3-4 rain of fires… and it doesn’t one shot.
Despite what you read here on the forums, as a lock you have to actually do certain things to get damage off. You think you just let bolts fly on a fear vs double melee teams? Yeah maybe with MLD but no other comp you run is going to just be like, “Ahh screw it let the destro just slam bolts all game.”
High rated teams are going to communicate stops and even juking two kicks isn’t going to magically get your next bolt out. I’ve played Guardian druid in 3s. There’s very little to do as the spec period. You run through a list of abilities to negate damage that have a low CD and your passive POTP covers most failures you have.
Go give a DK a fear as MLD or a sheep and watch how quick you can lose. At the very least it will cost you CDs. Bear druid comps just don’t deal with any of these issues. In a setting where there is already little punishment for failure bear druid just about eliminates it.
Oh for sure. I think if you’re Qing Shadowplay or Lock+ rogue/war/ww there’s a ton of room for counterplay. But you gotta admit lock is broken too. Between highest burst, highest sustained damage, and most self healing (from a dps) by just doing your damage rotation, and the most CC bar none.
And all of that shines in double destro and mage/lock, where the counterplay to stop both players just isn’t there.
@kaivax Do you have any plans to extend the season to account for the wins not counting towards achievements? Or change the win requirements for R1/Gladiator?
Why don’t you guys make a new thread to argue about guardian druid? This post literally has nothing to do with your argument. It’s people like you that make arena forums looks like a bunch of mindless apes. No wonder this is the first blue we’ve had in here in months.
Fear usually breaks on Guardian to PotP but I still use it sometimes to push them away from their teammates. Let’s be honest hitting the Guardian versus fearing him doesn’t matter for about 95% of the match anyways. I’ve won two games against Guardian druids in under a minute though because of the things I noted above. DH ignored me during a dark soul infernal and I had stacked RoF. Bear druid was off doing his own thing. Somehow, be it a miracle of god, we caught the DH with his pants down, and he didn’t use a single CD to negate damage. Sham was blinded. Massive failure on their end, sham could have trinketed blind. Other time we played them I just slammed the Guardian and he went to swiftmend himself out of LOS of his sham and I immediately coiled and we connected onto him and killed him.
