Guild Wars 2

Barrier

• Grants the targets a secondary Health bar on top of their existing one.
• The Barrier absorbs incoming Damage and Condition Damage while active, until it runs out of strength or the Boon disappears.
• Stacks Intensity (To avoid Perma-upkeep)
• Does not Block incoming attacks, CC or debilitating/impairing Conditions, nor the Healing Reduction from Poison.
• Barrier strength scales with Healing Power.
• Toughness mitigates Damage to the Barrier, but Protection does not. Regeneration or Healing does not regenerate lost Barrier hp.
• Corrupted into Poison.

Visuals

• Around the Character: A blue bubble, semi-transparent.
• Covers the Health Bar in a Blue Tone and causes it to display HP/Barrier (Example: 19000/2500).

Magnitude

• Base Barrier Strength: 500hp per Stack
• Scaling with Healing Power: 0.67 (Meaning 600 Healing Power increases each Barrier Stack with 400 extra hp).
• Max Stacks: 5
• With 1200 Healing Power, 5 stacks of Barrier will provide you with (500+800)*5=6.500 Extra hp for the duration of the Boon.

Skills and Traits that could grant Barrier

• Guardian
  • Protector’s Strike – When not blocking an Attack, grants Barrier (2 stacks, 3s) to nearby Allies instead of Protection.
  • Shield of Judgement – Grants Barrier (2 stacks, 4s) to affected Allies along with Protection.
  • Signet of Courage – Active effect grants Barrier (5 stacks, 4s) as well.

• Engineer
  • Med Blaster (Med Kit skill #1) – Additionally grants Barrier (1 Stack, 2 1/2s) to an Ally in addition to Healing them.
  • Throw Elixir R – Additionally grants extreme Barrier (5 stacks, 4s) to affected Allies.
  • Overshield – Grants Barrier (2 stacks, 5s) to nearby Allies when activating a Shield Skill, rather than Protection.

• Mesmer
  • Master of Manipulation – Grants Barrier (2 stacks, 3s) rather than Mirror upon activating a Manipulation Skill.
  • Illusionary Membrane – Grants Barrier (2 stacks, 4s) rather than Protection upon gaining Regeneration.
  • Prismatic Understanding – Chance to gain Barrier (1 stack, 5s) rather than Might while stealthed.
  • Persisting Images – Phantasms Spawn with Barrier (2 stacks, 3s) rather than Retaliation.

• Necromancer
  • Spectral Armor – Grants Barrier (4 stacks, 4s) on top of Protection.
  • Spectral Walk – Grants Barrier (3 stacks, 6s) on top of Swiftness.
  • Spectral Wall – Grants Barrier (3 stacks, 5s) on top of Protection to affected allies.

Why?

Interesting idea – reminds me of mass effect.

Not too sure if cluttering the game with yet another boon is worth it, but I like that it is well thought out and presented.

This is a nice idea, and very well thought out. Especially with the traits and the stat scaling. I could totally see this in the game. But how would is display if say, an player in WvW saw an enemy with some barrier going on? Would the end of their health bar be a bit blue?

So you want to give every class the ability to have death shroud essentially… do you hate necros that much?

Solomon Darkfury.3729:

So you want to give every class the ability to have death shroud essentially… do you hate necros that much?

But necros would have double death shroud. Necros would be the epitome of undeath if only because they’d never die.

I’m somewhat against the idea of this barrier thing. …Unless it scales with Healing Power. =P

RSLongK.8961:

Why?

Because we need more Boons Scaling from Healing Power, in order to make it a more desirable Stat. Furthermore, as a Boon it’ll be completely counterable as well.

HappilyInsane.5840:

This is a nice idea, and very well thought out. Especially with the traits and the stat scaling. I could totally see this in the game. But how would is display if say, an player in WvW saw an enemy with some barrier going on? Would the end of their health bar be a bit blue?

Yep, that’s the idea. Normally, enemy Health is Red, but if they have Barrier it’d turn Blue or Purple-ish, while displaying Health/Barrier side-to-side such as 24.000/2.500.

Solomon Darkfury.3729:

So you want to give every class the ability to have death shroud essentially… do you hate necros that much?

Hate? If anything this is a buff to Necromancer’s Sustain! The Barrier would cover even in Death Shroud, since Shroud replaces the Health bar while Barrier merely Covers the Health Bar. Especially considering that Necro is one of the professions I imagine with proper access to Barrier, since Regeneration doesn’t quite work for them.

it reminds me of barrier healers in rift, pretty good idea, I like it

I like the idea but the question for me would be; who gets this? Do Guardians really need this? Do Mesmers honestly need such support?

But thinking about it, I honestly couldn’t tell you who would get it but I could probably tell you who definitely shouldn’t: Guardian, Mesmer, Elementalist, Thief or Necromancer….or Engineer, for that matter…and it doesn’t fit the theme of Warrior…

Idd rather see something like retaliation for condition damage. Deal a fixed ammount of condition damage on your enemy depending on how many condis you have and your condi damage