Guild Wars 2

I’ve been playing my Guardian quite a bit and playing around with weapons, and by far, the most fun is the Two Handed Sword. Binding Blade + Pull, drop Symbol of Wrath, Leap of Faith inside for Retaliation + the damage, and finish off all the pulled enemies with Whirling Wrath. It’s a GREAT synergy that’s both useful and fun to use. By comparison, shield + 1 hand weapons are pretty boring. It’s not so much the damage that’s an issue, I recognize that the Greatsword is a more offensive weapon, it’s the cooldowns, they’re huge. The Shield of Judgment and Shield of Absorption take 30 and 40 seconds respectively to use again, even when specced into the IX talent, 24 and 32 second CDs are still pretty long compared to the Greatsword’s.

My suggestion is basically to modify the skills so that they have shorter cooldowns, but also shorter durations to balance them out. For example, Shield of Absorption could be cut down to around 10-15 seconds CD but only protect for 1/2-1 second and maybe remove the knockback aspect. This would, IMO give more fun options for Guardian melee play instead of 90% of us wearing Greatswords all the time.