Guild Wars 2

Vigor’s easy to design against. PvE content being trivial because of dodging would more aptly suggest that bosses, elites, and mobs aren’t adequately applying the conditions to counter it, or the fights aren’t complicated enough to make you miss a telegraphed or instant ability from one or more sources, or simply bosses aren’t attacking quickly enough.

The availability of perma-vigor was cut back this last patch but not by much. There is certainly something about it to consider.

Hm… If vigor makes content trivial where other options aren’t viable, cutting vigor’s effectiveness would likely lead to it also being thrown into non-viable status as it wouldn’t effectively keep you alive. If you can’t dodge when you need to dodge and your build depends on vigor to make that possible then content doesn’t simply become non-trivial, it breaks your build. I’d rather see more options other than vigor being buffed, and bosses using abilities to counter boons like vigor rather than nerfing the boon itself.

The game’s combat should be very fast paced. A second here a half second there can make or break a fight. There’s still downtime on dodging for players running vigor, and it isn’t insignificant.

Dodging effectively in pve may make the fight seem insignificant to you, but to many it does give a bit of a rush seeing their character skirt danger by the skin of their teeth. Evading everything doesn’t mean you were never close to death. It’s often the case that the amount of vigor and endurance regeneration was just barely enough to avoid devastating effects… and other forms of mitigation would have been insufficient or otherwise unavailable to keep you alive… and support/control aren’t in a good enough state right now to cover you as much as they’d have to if endurance regen was nerfed in any significant manner.