SOE and the Guardian community - what's the deal?

[Eggman]

<div>I am a recent addition to the Guardian community and I've noticed a troubling trend since I started reading this sub-forum. I see a lot of questions and concerns being raised in a few threads and I have yet to see any kind of official response on any of these issues. Do we have a Guardian representative that interfaces with anyone from the SOE team? If not, why?</div><div> </div><div>I understand this is a large game with a lot of issues that demand attention, but class balance has to be somewhere near the top of that list of importance. Is there anything that we, as a group, can do in order to get some kind of attention or feedback from the powers that be? Frankly, I'm not impressed with the lack of attention I have seen thus far.</div>

[Uumuuanu]

<div></div><div></div><blockquote><hr>Eggman wrote:<div>I am a recent addition to the Guardian community and I've noticed a troubling trend since I started reading this sub-forum. I see a lot of questions and concerns being raised in a few threads and I have yet to see any kind of official response on any of these issues. Do we have a Guardian representative that interfaces with anyone from the SOE team? If not, why?</div><div> </div><div>I understand this is a large game with a lot of issues that demand attention, but class balance has to be somewhere near the top of that list of importance. Is there anything that we, as a group, can do in order to get some kind of attention or feedback from the powers that be? Frankly, I'm not impressed with the lack of attention I have seen thus far.</div><hr></blockquote><p>You might want to check the patch notes around LU13.  That will give you an idea of the last time guardians were spoken to by the devs and we were told basically  ~Shut up,  go to your corner and take the nerf like a man~.   Since then Guardians have remained relatively untouched and unspoken to or of. </p><p>Sometimes we get general questions answered that apply to all fighters (like the parry/block/defense blurb from MG) but for the most part,  we are left to fend for ourselves until some Dev takes enough interest in us to communicate.  Honestly I think it has made us one of the strongest communities on the server as we are all willing to help each other out and figure out the best way to make what we have work. </p><p>Hell it even applies in game,  the other night one of the instances in bonemire booted everyone out;  when I finished zoning, I was standing there watching another guardian I know try to take down 3 heroics that had attacked her (on her own, I think her group had mostly CTD),  my first reaction without thinking was [expletive haxx0red by Raijinn] look at her go,  followed by pulling two of them off her and helping her take them down.   Would I do that for anyone, probably not since half my group was crashed out as well, including my healers.  </p><p>Guardian's have long been viewed as the original beta for the nerf bat, we took it,  we worked around it, and I think as a community we have come back as a better class and a better network.   I put in my bio a long time ago (around level 20 when I became a guardian)  --</p><p> </p><p><em>A guardian puts himself in the face of danger and laughs. He protects his fellow man with his life as his way of life. A guardian is the last man standing in battle, yet the first to give his life for another.</em></p><p><em></em> </p><p>I still to this date think that applies.</p><p>Message Edited by Uumuuanu on <span class="date_text">03-10-2006</span><span class="time_text">10:25 AM</span></p>

[Ri]

<div></div>SoE tends to cut the budget corner when it comes to PR (public realations) and I don't really blame them. Its a hard area to hire people for and no matter how many you have working it someone comes out unsatisfied.

[Wasuna]

<div></div>There sure seem to be plenty of time to reply to all sorts of other forums.

[Pudaan]

<div></div>is it time to  stop and just give in and say our class sucks and there is nothing we can do about it?

[Uumuuanu]

<div></div><blockquote><hr>Pudaan20 wrote:<div></div>is it time to  stop and just give in and say our class sucks and there is nothing we can do about it?<hr></blockquote>Uh no and no.  Guardians don't suck, we are still some of (if not the) best tanks in the game.   Can we do anything about it, yes, we keep on playing and showing everyone that we will always be good no matter what.

[Pendrag]

<div></div>Amen Brother, You have to make the best with what you have to work with... and as long as the Guardian community continues to work and help eachother we'll all be the better for it. Someday we'll get the love we deserve, until then hack, slash and defend to the end. :smileymad:

[Rah]

<div></div><p>Left when the writing was on the wall in Test Servers (pre LU 13). Came back a couple of months prior to KoS release, had a rough time gearing and dealing with the state of our class but managed to get to 60.</p><p>KoS released and I have to admit that I really do love my guardian again. There hasnt been any official response form SoE on anything that has changed but I can tell you that alot of us who were picking up the banner of do something this is all but intolerable to play are alot more quite now.</p><p>If the purpose of this thread is to find some representation for us to SoE then once again we need</p><p>1. tin foil (enough cubic feet to cover a Ogre Guardian driver)</p><p>2. Lesbian Rally bull horn</p><p>3. Send the Tuna to the FanForum charity fund . (100.00 in drinks a night included ....we must get the devs drunk enough to start to believe that anyone in tin foil is even worth hearing)</p><p>4. Tuna is the man bumper stickers, signs,leaflets and coat pins.</p><p>5. Distribution system in place to swamp "Hotlanta" with pro guardian propaganda 3 days before and after the Fanfaire event.</p><p>6. Local appearance of G4</p><p> </p><p>Rahge</p><p> </p>