Guild Wars 2

Why doesn’t protection decrease condition damage by 33%, it always bugged me from the start that protection didn’t PROTECT you from condition damage its still a form of damage so why shouldn’t protection work against conditions. With the change to vulnerability working with condition damage I think its fair that protection work against condition damages.

imagangsta.1349:

Why doesn’t protection decrease condition damage by 33%, it always bugged me from the start that protection didn’t PROTECT you from condition damage its still a form of damage so why shouldn’t protection work against conditions. With the change to vulnerability working with condition damage I think its fair that protection work against condition damages.

Protection is for direct damage.

Resistance is for condition damage.

I know how protection works I’ve been playing since beta. What I’m saying due to the recent changes to vulnerability working with condition damage Protection should work against condition damage. Its a fair trade-off.

imagangsta.1349:

I know how protection works I’ve been playing since beta. What I’m saying due to the recent changes to vulnerability working with condition damage Protection should work against condition damage. Its a fair trade-off.

Going by that logic resistance should work against direct dmg then too.

Taku.6352:

imagangsta.1349:

I know how protection works I’ve been playing since beta. What I’m saying due to the recent changes to vulnerability working with condition damage Protection should work against condition damage. Its a fair trade-off.

Going by that logic resistance should work against direct dmg then too.

Where is my condition to negate boons?

Taku.6352:

imagangsta.1349:

I know how protection works I’ve been playing since beta. What I’m saying due to the recent changes to vulnerability working with condition damage Protection should work against condition damage. Its a fair trade-off.

Going by that logic resistance should work against direct dmg then too.

There are already skills that negate physical/direct damage, such as warriors endure pain, rangers signet of stone etc. Protection should be universal because vulnerability went universal there should be a yin to the yang, especially in MMO’s.

No, I dont think it should, as it woud break the PvP balance making the classes that dont have protection, like warriors, lose out on that. I do know that warriors have resistance on healing signet BTW.

And the way I understand protection is it makes a sort of shield that softens blows around you, why would that decrease condi damage, logically, it would even increase burn damage/poison duration as it would “trap” the heat/fumes inside by slowing their escape.