Guild Wars 2

Think, tanky build with retal and protection, taunting… >:) that could be fun to play around with.

Im thinking if they fix the retal trait using the taunt in conjuction with the burn on block and retal bonuses as well as builds involving shattered aegis you could theoretically make hte enemy burst himself.

Shadelang.3012:

Im thinking if they fix the retal trait using the taunt in conjuction with the burn on block and retal bonuses as well as builds involving shattered aegis you could theoretically make hte enemy burst himself.

Anet nerfed retaliation due bad players killing themselves , so i dont see that comming.

I honestly would prefer taunt to not be included in the game at all. Regarding having it on the guardian specifically though, I guess my opinion isn’t too relevant anyway since I’ll likely be jumping ship to the rev.

“Aggro” mechanics aren’t very relevant in this game; “tanks” do exist in PvP/WvW because you can tolerate some amount of damage from other players so you can distract them for gettin objectives, but in PvE some monsters can one shot you no matter how much HP/armor you have, so the game is played based on the avoid of damage (evades, blocks, blinds, invulnerability skills…) instead of “tanking”.

I don’t care about “taunt” coming to Guardians because I don’t play “bunker” Guardians.

Well assuming guardians get it & ele’s don’t it could finally bring guardians more up to par with them for spvp bunkering.

Ragnar the Rock.3174:

Well assuming guardians get it & ele’s don’t it could finally bring guardians more up to par with them for spvp bunkering.

Given the general distain for conquest and the fall of bunkering in higher levels of play, I doubt bunkering will be making a return now with the introduction of stronghold. Obviously, I am assuming that stronghold is a separate queue and doesn’t suck worst than conquest.

silvermember.8941:

Ragnar the Rock.3174:

Well assuming guardians get it & ele’s don’t it could finally bring guardians more up to par with them for spvp bunkering.

Given the general distain for conquest and the fall of bunkering in higher levels of play, I doubt bunkering will be making a return now with the introduction of stronghold. Obviously, I am assuming that stronghold is a separate queue and doesn’t suck worst than conquest.

Although you’d THINK that stronghold would have a separate queue, they said in the stream recently that nope, it’s gonna be a 5v5 that’s in the same queue as the rest of sPvP.

Taunt should be an Adept trait on the Valor or Honor tree, effecting our F1 Virtue because it’s mainly single target anyways. While everyone else, like Eles, should be a grandmaster trait in their Earth (defensive) tree.

It should come easier to us since, you know, we’re Guardians.

I think it’s valuable just from the ability to interrupt. Of course you pay the price; you add another attacker to yourself. It could also save someone. The value of this is tremendous if you think about it.