Warden requests

athena9205 · July 24

Can we please have a major change or removal for the following:
winters embrace line:
Crystalized shield. This is worthless imo. A shield similar to iceheart would be better. Something that does AOE frost damage and protects the caster from more than just projectiles.
Frozen gate: get rid of this. There is no worthwhile use for a frozen gate, since you can't use to transport yourself to another location. I recommend you replace this with a frost breath channel attack. Since the last 4 classes and refreshes have had a channeled skill, a frost breath attack would do very well.

Green balance line
Natures grasp. Convert this into form of leash similar to the DK. Attach to an ally or object and draw yourself to that location, healing yourself, the target and any within range. other morph make a leash that pulls the enemy in, immobilizes them and leaches health, restoring nearby allies health

living vines, make a morph version that acts like murkmire vines. striking at foes and slowing them down

Soarora · July 25

Crystal shield is useful for things like main tanking Cloudrest and it’s a major part of my PvP build.

Frozen gate is incredibly useful for blackrose prison and, of course, teleporting people to the spot you parkoured to in overland.

Nature’s grasp and living vines I agree need help though.

Aristodemus · July 25

I use Crystallized shield as an essential part of my Magden PvP builds and would hate to see it removed. In fact, if any adjustment is made, lower the total projectile defense and make it effective against melee attack as well.

ItsNotLiving · July 25

Just let me summon my animals.

athena9205 · July 26

why can't the devs create a 4th line specifically for PVP and remove those skills useless to PVE like the gate and shield

tomofhyrule · July 26

athena9205 wrote: »

why can't the devs create a 4th line specifically for PVP and remove those skills useless to PVE like the gate and shield

Useless to PvE? Two posts above literally explained how both of those are useful in PvE.

I do use Gate on my Warden when I'm tanking with him, but I'll admit that that skill really has nothing to do with ice and everything to do with "lol derp this is the tanking line." As such, I'd be perfectly okay with moving the functionality of it to something like Green Balance, where it would make just as much sense as it does now, but then freeing a spot in the ice line for a frost damage skill.

My big thing I really want to see is them to keep the same three themes (since my Warden was built with all three themes in mind), but with everything shuffled. I want the frost damage. I want the plant damage. I want the animal support. I want to see what the fatecarver-expy is - I'd assume a frost beam is the obvious choice, but I'm secretly hoping for a channelled swarm of fleas because it would make me laugh.
(I'd also like to see this release in U51, but the longer we go with zero news whatsoever, the more I fear it's not coming yet).

Kendaric · July 27

I'd love to have a plant based CC ability and damage ability. That would allow us to finally play as real druid characters

acanca · July 27

Here is my addition to warden requests

-Continue the trend of giving infinite sustain to reworked classes
-Give warden an actually useable spammable, currently no build that im aware uses a class spammable.
-Dont balance warden around its class masteries because those seem really easy to take away. For best results, disable wardens class masteries entirely during pts and when wardens strength is clear, give us some class masteries to work with.

-If you are thinking of giving warden a beam, please consider making arctic blast the beam and please consider making the beam a large circle around the player. Also please consider letting it keep the higher chill proc rate.

I hope warden rework ends up having the same polish as dk and ww one.

I wish the devs good luck

athena9205 · July 28

acanca wrote: »

Here is my addition to warden requests

-If you are thinking of giving warden a beam, please consider making arctic blast the beam and please consider making the beam a large circle around the player. Also please consider letting it keep the higher chill proc rate.
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the arctic blast skill trio is one of the best things Warden has right now. Admittedly the heal portion of the damage version needs changing. if you need to heal, then you are in combat and under duress. Having the heal be out of damage range means you are likely out of combat and there are better heal options than that.

I like high AOE surround damage with the delayed stun. It is central to my Ice build. whereas the ice gates and ice shields are not. Those two, no matter what others say, I believe are useless in PVE. They cost too much on a class with very little resource return. They have very limited use in PVP and perhaps some niche uses in other content. A frost beam would be much more useful and more importantly be use more often than the gate or shield.

brandsnipe · July 31

Crystallized slab is one of my favorite warden skills, pair it with 35k+ health and nobody will hit you from a distance.
I never run frozen gate but I can see the use cases for it. I mostly PvP on my warden and would like to see frozen gate able to teleport enemies onto a keep wall during a defense but it'd probably be broken or used for stealth captures. Someone here made a morph called squall strike.
Living trellis is almost always on my front bar for PvP, you'd be surprised how much it helps with survivability. Leeching vines is not.mich different than the other morph so i would turn that into poison ivy, where attackers take poison damage and the damage increases by a % per tick.

I don't think warden needs a lot. Give me an on demand stun and play into the status effect. I have seen unique solstice mechanic idea thrown around that would buff skills based on your stack of summer or winter.

One thing I would love but won't get is to have a fuse ability with my bear where i would turn into a bear for 15 or 20 seconds. I don't need a skill bar, just buff my speed and damage and make two buttons do two different things

ItsNotLiving · July 31

brandsnipe wrote: »

Crystallized slab is one of my favorite warden skills, pair it with 35k+ health and nobody will hit you from a distance.
I never run frozen gate but I can see the use cases for it. I mostly PvP on my warden and would like to see frozen gate able to teleport enemies onto a keep wall during a defense but it'd probably be broken or used for stealth captures. Someone here made a morph called squall strike.
Living trellis is almost always on my front bar for PvP, you'd be surprised how much it helps with survivability. Leeching vines is not.mich different than the other morph so i would turn that into poison ivy, where attackers take poison damage and the damage increases by a % per tick.

I don't think warden needs a lot. Give me an on demand stun and play into the status effect. I have seen unique solstice mechanic idea thrown around that would buff skills based on your stack of summer or winter.

One thing I would love but won't get is to have a fuse ability with my bear where i would turn into a bear for 15 or 20 seconds. I don't need a skill bar, just buff my speed and damage and make two buttons do two different things

A morph of the bear where you both do 25% more damage and take 25% less damage but if the bear dies while it’s active you also die.