Feral Guardian worth using yet?

Sogreth

From the looks of it. No. Still can't change weapons.

This skill isn't powerful enough to waste an Ultimate slot. If you plan to change weapons, you would need this skill on both sets, hence wasting an Ultimate slot. Why can't the bear just stay summoned?

It would be like dotting an enemy with the Bow's Poison Injection, then switching to a staff, and the dot goes away. Or using Secluded Grove, then switching sets that has another Ultimate and the spell goes away instantly.

You still wouldn't be able activate the Bear's ability if you switched sets anyways, so he would literally just be soaking some damage, and hitting like a wet noodle. They could even "Nerf" the Bear's damage if you switched weapon sets, so the Bear could deal like 40% less damage if you switch to another set (that didn't have the summon). At least this way, it wouldn't die instantly just because you quickly switch weapon sets, maybe to use another skill.

olsborg

Thats how permanent-pets work in this game, is it good? I wouldnt say so.
Pets are terribly implemented in this game. Look at sorcs, they have to use 2 slots per pet if they want to use them. (not to mention the AI) Persistant/permanent pets should be revamped completely, because the wardens bear and the sorcs deadric pets arent rly performing well (pvp pov)

SanTii.92

Sogreth wrote: »

From the looks of it. No. Still can't change weapons.
This skill isn't powerful enough to waste an Ultimate slot. If you plan to change weapons, you would need this skill on both sets, hence wasting an Ultimate slot. Why can't the bear just stay summoned?

It's not that the skill isn't powerful enough, but as you point out the issue is that it's not versatile enough. Double barring on an ult that only provides single target Dps just can't compete vs the Aoe capabilities of elemntal storm for trials, or the support from secluded grove for Pvp. The ult will never be competitive enough, for other than duels or skele parses, until we are allowd to single bar it.

AverageJo3Gam3r

Make it a 45second summon, shorten the summon animation to the 1.5 seconds.

Waffennacht

I'm really really trying. If you can peel a player off onto their own it can be deadly. The moment several players are involved the effectiveness of the bear is very limited.

The CC immunity seems interesting if you can focus down on a player, still not entirely sure how far the bear will travel to try and connect when you give the command.

Trees is always useful, DboS is always useful, it's very difficult to make the argument giving up both to run the bear.

In duels it's really good, but that doesn't reward you anything