Guild Wars 2

This ability needs to be subject to the universal 5-target cap that is imposed upon buffs and AoE.

Can you elaborate why?

It would make it completely useless in a lot of situations.
Is it strong? Yes.
Is it wrong that the Guardian is the only one with such abilities? Maybe. Probably.
Is it overpowered? No.

It is not a Boon or an AoE, it is categorized as a Ward.
It also does no damage and zero healing.

I would suggest stop running into it, first off.

Second, that would completely ruin the ability in WvW. It has a prohibitive enough cooldown and cast time to keep it from being overpowered as is.

Yeah, I do not see it as overpowered… Long cooldown, lasts 5 seconds. And I think you can even “roll” through it… Not 100% sure, but I think if you roll through it, you will evade it (someone correct me if I’m wrong).

Things without target caps are abused heavily in WvW. Line of Warding, Wall of Reflection, Portal Entre, etc.

A small handful of guardians forcing dozens of people on your team to use Stability or Immunity cooldowns to bypass their Lines of Warding is why it should have a target cap; no you cannot dodge through it. The target cap is also applied to everything else in the game that has a positive or negative effect on players. There might be technical reasons behind it not working with this ability, but I am reiterating it should be limited in effectiveness like everything else is.

Nokaru.7831:

Things without target caps are abused heavily in WvW. Line of Warding, Wall of Reflection, Portal Entre, etc.

A small handful of guardians forcing dozens of people on your team to use Stability or Immunity cooldowns to bypass their Lines of Warding is why it should have a target cap; no you cannot dodge through it. The target cap is also applied to everything else in the game that has a positive or negative effect on players. There might be technical reasons behind it not working with this ability, but I am reiterating it should be limited in effectiveness like everything else is.

The game is full of skills that have no limit on the number of effected players. Necro wells, guardian symbols, mesmer temporal curtain, mesmer feedback, most if not all of the ele ground targets, ele magnetic aura, thief choking gas, thief smoke screen, warrior banners,…

I could go on but these are the everywhere. Do some research next time you post please…

Nokaru.7831:

Things without target caps are abused heavily in WvW. Line of Warding, Wall of Reflection, Portal Entre, etc.

A small handful of guardians forcing dozens of people on your team to use Stability or Immunity cooldowns to bypass their Lines of Warding is why it should have a target cap; no you cannot dodge through it. The target cap is also applied to everything else in the game that has a positive or negative effect on players. There might be technical reasons behind it not working with this ability, but I am reiterating it should be limited in effectiveness like everything else is.

Forcing your team to burn Stability is the whole point of a handful of Guardians controlling an area.

That’s what Guardians are designed to do.

There are a slew of similar threads complaining about other classes’ signature skills: thief stealth too strong, Ranger AoE too strong, Necro/Mesmer boon stripping too hard to counter etc. etc. Find a counter-strategy.

Also, the statement that the target cap is applied to all positive or negative effects on players is simply untrue. The Heal on the Guardian Staff skill empower, heals vast numbers of people in its target area. I’ve seen a dozen or more get the heal.

kousei.5914:

Necro wells, guardian symbols, mesmer temporal curtain, mesmer feedback, most if not all of the ele ground targets, ele magnetic aura, thief choking gas, thief smoke screen, warrior banners,…

All Elementalists ground target abilities are subject to the 5-target cap. So are Necromancer Wells, Warrior Banners, Choking Gas, and Guardian Symbols.
Magnetic Aura has a target cap of 3.

Tsk, tsk. As someone once said:

kousei.5914:

Do some research next time you post please…

I’m not going to argue back and forth about this but I appreciate you bumping this thread for me!

Is this thread real? No, it shouldn’t.

you can both dodge through it, and use Stability to walk through it. seen this countless times in WvW and PvE where people/npc walk/roll though my LoW without boss’s buff that makes them immune to it.

Maybe there IS a five target cap on Line Warding!! :O I’ve never seen five people get stopped by it at the exact same instant! Similar to how area of effect skills only hit five things at once.