Antioche.7034

Short version, Condition Firebrand and even Guardian in general isn't in a very good spot at the moment in PvE. The only reason people call it 'strong', is because the class is very versatile, which's totally different from being broken. - Radiance DH is okay, but it's not a meta DPS in any gamemode currently, it's actually one of the worst classes in raids and sub-meta in fractals - Virtues DH is fine but depends a lot of the group and boss, making it very hard to play correctly in pug - Condition FB is fine, its bench is only slightly below top-tier condition classes for raids. For fractals, it's one of the best condition classes due to the fast ramp-up from burning. Mainly used in 100 CM for its utilities, does okay on the rest but not better than meta classes correctly played. - Quick FB is currently inferior to StM chronos in many ways in raids, it's only used in fractals since chrono won't benefit from good slow uptimes - Heal FB is inferior to Heal Renegade in almost any situation in both Raids and Fractals, given that Quick FB does more DPS than normal Alac while being given the possibility to retain all of its utilities. Better going with Heal Ren in almost any situation. TL;DR : The first strenght of Guardian is to be very versatile, i.e it does everything okay. The second one is that the rotations are not really complicated to execute, although there are many variations and reaching benchmark is still very hard in my opinion. Qfb/DH with FMW is still meta in high-end fractals, and Virtues DH for some raid records, but that's about it. There's no way Condition FB can be considered as OP.

> @"TaurusZA.5493" said: > I only have one character that I know how to play properly - a warrior / bannerslave. I was getting really good and accumulated over 100KP in fractals, well on my way to Fractal Prodigy. > > Unfortunately Sunqua Peak has ruined this completely for me, to the extent that I now no longer want to play fractals. This boss requires condi DPS, and at best the condi berserker's DPS absolutely SUCKS. I have tried and tried and tried, and I can't do this fractal. No matter what. So it's either learn to play some new character from scratch or quit fractals altogether. Nowadays it's impossible to find a decent group for the other fractals, since most parties start including 100CM. I just can't do this fractal. > > Thank you, A-Net, for ruining my favourite part of the game. I think 100 CM has ruined fractals for a lot of people. Mostly because it completly ruined LFG. I was at 450+ old KP and I played fractals like thrice since months, despite playing raids and other gamemodes almost daily.

> @"dani.5680" said: > Impossible for new players to get in a new raid! All require 150+ LI and all training require ascended so you are in a farming space of over 3 months for ascended gear just to get in the training! Then 1 year to get those 150 LI! What the hell is going on? > Most of training guilds take you on weekends if they are free, if not, not! > So as a new player you have to farm 1year to be in a LFG? Thats stupid isn't it? Literally everything you said is utterly wrong. Getting ascended is incredibly fast and easy, and most trainings do not require armor to be ascended. Except armor, getting everything ascended is doable in 2 days for an experienced player who has time. 150 LI do not take a year to get. In a couple of months you should largely get that if you devote time to raids. It is incredibly easy to get into raids if you do a modicum of effort, which is searching a training community or a guild. Go to www.snowcrows.com to find links to all the training communities and find out which one seems the best for you. Seeing you advance obviously wrong numbers, I can only assume that you did not do this modicum of effort.