Guild Wars 2

I hate to potentially bring about a bugfix/nerf on something beneficial, but I’m sure it’ll be changed eventually if it’s not intentional, anyway.

Basically, once Overload Earth is complete and it lays down the dust cyclone at your final position, the Protection given seems to be a combination of Overload Earth’s normal 1 second pulse, and Hardy Conduit’s 3 seconds of Protection normally applied only at the start of an Overload. The result is a rather high duration of Protection if you stay in the dust cyclone after the Overload has finished, surpassing 100% Protection uptime even with no Boon Duration bonuses at all.

Now, I’m not saying this should be nerfed. I love it, myself, it gives some nice heftiness to an otherwise rather-squishy profession. But I’m going to guess that it is not the intended behavior, and I’d rather see it brought down before HoT’s release rather than after people have based a build around it. X)

Haven’t heard many comment about it. I’d post it in the bugs board. But yeah, it’s pretty much perma protection if you stand in the cyclone afterwards. Didn’t really apply it when I was play testing Tempest myself as too much movement is necessary to get max effect but I can’t say it’s a feature.