Spellweaver Guardian

Having temporarily retired my lvl 50 ranger, I've been playing spellweaver for a while (interesting differences!). Regarding the SW Guardian's power: the skill descrip says it fires for 10 seconds (and watching it, it seems to fire 1/sec, for 10 shots) to deliver 100% of my base damage. Question: is the total guardian attack worth 100% (ie, each shot delivers only 10% damage), or is it 100% damage for each shot, thus the guardian is delivering 1000% over the 10-sec time?

The effectiveness of the guardian leads me to suspect the latter, but given how BP thinks ...

 

It is the latter. And I have not figured out what triggers the taunt of the Guardian ether. Most times it does not work.

 

I've done 1.5k m2 5k solo runs using the Guardian and he seems to taunt in two cases - 1. if he is hit by a mob, for example you have placed it right in front of a knight in m2. 2. If he gets aggro from any mob in the area. That is if you either do not attack or you are far from a certain mob, or he got an aggro on certain mob by making few shots.

I have learned to place it so he taunts right away, and works in almost all cases.

And yes, it is a bug, mentioned several times here in several threads, as well as the other lang forums. I have not seen any reply from mods on the matter though.

 

Yeah, I've noticed it doesn't seem, generally, to take immediate effect. Usually the guardian has to shoot first.

 

Well I have had it die and it timeout with out it taunting. Placed it on the other side of a wall still nothing. Just seems to work sometimes and other times it does not.

 

That's weird.

@Mindship, please mark the thread as a bug. Perhaps will get some attention.

 

i been seeing the same thing,the mobs have the taunt icon above their head but most still run after me.
it should work right away and not have to wait till guardian shoots something or ur toon be close enough to a mob to trigger ur
guardian to shoot as well.
i think the perimeter of how far away ur guardian is cast from u should be extended(being how close u need to be to a mob for the guardian to to start shooting n taunting),because it will not shoot until u walk closer to the mob.
plus if ur to close to a mob the guardian's taunt doesn't attract the mob till 2 or more seconds later,and that is only sometimes. lol
maybe write to CM's in 'ask the CM's thread would help.
be great if it worked right.

 

No problema. I didn't know you could do that after the thread's made. How do I do that?

 

Hello everyone,

The broken guardian taunt is a known issue.

Cheers,
Anyki

 

Thanks Anyki. Is it also known if that is going to be addressed anytime time soon? thanks

Nevermind @Mindship, I dint know it is impossible after thread is created

 

That is information I don't have. When the fix comes (whenever that will be), the information will be released in patch notes.

Cheers,
Anyki

 

Question regarding the Guardian of Flame talent: it says, "allows Guardians to shoot Fireballs" -- capital 'F' -- "burning all foes around them." It doesn't give stats: no dmg%, range, etc. Is this because the Guardian Fireball is the same as the separate Fireball skill? If so, then increasing Fireball skill dmg by 15% should benefit the Guardian Fireball ... or are the Guardian's balls different?

 

as far i see the guardian does 1000 of an 1800 base damage no crit hit on souls map1 pw test.
regular damage from magic missile 900ish, so 100% of guardian is 1000ish.plus burn tick.
u never get full damage because of mobs res n armor.
but idk i think guardian is fine
and they should add slowing 9 meter radius to him or heal with ur toons fireball,magic missile healing is not that great.

 

I've never tested it on different spells (MM vs FB) but all pets use a % of summoners base damage as their own damage. It is somewhere around 60%. It would be interesting to know if something like a skill change for pets and boosts to that skill on gear/talents increased pet damage. I would speculate that level of complexity is not programmed in, but may be surprised.

 

Thank you, gentlemen. I don't have to wonder now where to heist 3 talent points from.

 

Best place to test pet damage is swarm fields. Here mobs have very little armor so you deal more damage and you can see more of the raw damage. I like to pull up a staff with a huge amount of damage summon and back to wand.

 

The other thing you can do to test is remove your weapon and anything that gives you a damage gap. Then you have a single base damage and every hit hits the same. That allows you to calculate the monster's resistance/armor (both 50% against same level). It would also allow you to compare your summoned minion's damage to your normal fire ball damage and find the exact % difference and if the 15% damage applies to the guardian.

 

^ Intriguing.

Things to try when bored of the daily grind.