Guild Wars 2

Hallowed Ground: This skill now increases boon duration for allies who remain inside the consecration’s area.
/Discuss my fellow guardians.
I think it providing stability is a better effect. If the boon duration is a additional effect then its a welcome change. However, imo they should of made hallowed ground a stun breaker.

As the devs warn this change may or may not be in the final build!

I took this as an additional effect to match the change to Purging Flames, but I guess we’ll see. Assuming that the Stability effect is staying on Hallowed Ground, I wonder if it’ll be effected by the boon duration boost? That would be a double-buff to the skill, if so. I’m also assuming this will only affect boons that are applied after HG goes down, and won’t modify the durations of those already in effect.

A stun breaker would be nice on HG, I admit. I’d be a lot more tempted to take it along in different builds if it were, and it might even let full Consecration builds see some play. If this change doesn’t do much for HG’s popularity, I think that it might be a good next step to take.

I agree. Hopefully those were the Alpha notes and someone figured out that the change won’t be very useful and went back to the drawing board.,

it’d be really nice for might-stacking

Only boon duration would be kinda lackuster imo.

Boon duration on top of something else would make more sense (current Stability + this, for example).