Guild Wars 2

A friend tried it out in WvW earlier and crit for 6K+ damage or a semi-glass build.
Traited, it does a 2 second knockdown on a 6 sec cooldown for up to 3 casts.
So…thoughts from Guardian mains if they will take this skill now for WvW/PvP fights and which utility would you replace it with?

Tried it. The cast is very obvious/slow. You may be able to make it work in a group, but solo it won’t work very well since you won’t have any large bursts to follow up with (unless you sacrifice some sustain on the utility bar).

Arcaedus.7290:

Tried it. The cast is very obvious/slow. You may be able to make it work in a group, but solo it won’t work very well since you won’t have any large bursts to follow up with (unless you sacrifice some sustain on the utility bar).

My friend used it in combo with scepter immobilize then Stun to control his opponent.
He also used it in conjunction with F1 pull then Stun for more CC uptime.

Like you said, I think it would require some form of control first in order to pull it off since the tell is quite obvious.

Seems like a very strong control utility to have though for 3 stuns over 6 seconds each. Against classes with low stability access, with the proper set-up and combo, a guard could probably eat through their stun-breaks quite quickly now.