Guild Wars 2

Seeing the changes to stability and the consequences thereof got me thinking about protection aswell.

Personally I am in favor of those changes as they as they take away the permanent access to stability on groups of 10+ Guardians and Warriors and removes the ability for those groups to ignore a great number of enemy abilities. Timing and awareness now pays off while the old buff and forget mentality of the Guardian and Warrior train (I refuse to call it a “melee train” because all other melee based builds of other proffessions are not on board that train).

So that leads me to ask for the same changes to the protectio boon as were applied to stability, at the moment permanent protection is easily achivable stacking its duration like it was previously done with stability, I propose the stack mechanic of stability to be applied to protection 1 stack should reduce the damage of 1 incomming attack, like with stability this should have next to no influence on small scale fights but it would remove the ability of large groups to permanently ignore 50% of incomming damage and thus be able to sit in large concentrations of AoE effects while outhealing those. With this change we would further the idea of having to respond to what the enemy does instead of just ignoring that and stack in one spot.

Let’s embrace the “move or die” meta and finally ditch the “stack and buff in one spot” meta.

a squishy class like eles would suffer a lot more than most classes will.