Guild Wars 2

It would be lame to “fix” Guardian shields, because they aren’t broken. Their is nothing wrong with mitigation in the game and adding (anymore) passive mitigation to shields will just reward bad players.

I’ve heard people say a couple things about the current shield skills that don’t make sense to me, including “a front cone that adds protection to allies is useless for a tank because we’re always in front of our party.” Smacks of a “this is different than WoW, and I don’t like it” comment. If you’re tanking in GW2 it doesn’t seem like you’re “always” supposed to be anywhere. If you are, you’re not making use of the active mitigation skills anet gave you…ergo bad tanking. Please don’t just stand there; you’ll get your party killed.

But let’s say this is a conversation about WoW, is a front cone spell that applies protection useless to tanks? No. It’s freaking ideal! Go back to tank school. Where are you supposed to be? Where are your DPS players supposed to be? If you’re tanking in WoW (for all but a few raid or special fights), you hopefully took responsibility for TURNING your enemy around so it’s BACK is to your DPS players…which would put them directly in front of you ready to receive protection from your front cone. Would you rather have the spell AOE from the center, wasting power on your backside where you’re DPS players and healer should definitely not be standing?

I’ve also heard people say that the focus spell Shield of Wraith should be a shield ability instead. I disagree. Pop the button and you can ignore 3 attacks is a very boring tank skill compared to the area push back and front cone AEO. And Shield of Wraith does nothing to protect your party. It’s a panic button spell for casters that also does AOE damage in case you “waste” it. That’s why it’s on the focus, and it should stay there.

That’s all. Pro-Guardian Shields as is.