Guild Wars 2

I posted this a couple times in the BWE stickied thread but felt it deserved its own.

Battle Presence, allies receiving our F2 passive effect, should be merged with our Elite’s Signet of Courage considering that’s the signets main job anyways. As usual, Guards don’t receive the extra heal, only allies.

That leaves an empty Virtue master slot. How about a 15% speed increase along with applying 15s of Swiftness to allies when Activating a Virtue? That would add a more diverse style of play for Guardians who want more speed but don’t necessarily want Travelers or pack runes.

That’s not to say you don’t need Indomitable Courage but this option is better than Battle Presence.

I don’t think merging them is the right approach. It will mean that you’re locked in a specific elite to gain the aoe sharing of Virtue of Resolve. What i would recommend however, is making Battle presence have an added effect that benefits the guardian himself. As it stands it adds nothing to the guardian himself. Maybe something like :

Battle presence:
-Virture of resolve passive effect is shared with Allies
- Blocking an attack heals you.

That would make it more interesting to take as it combines personal survivability with team support. Think of it in the context of Soothing Power on eles which they get a 100% increase in their soothing mist power. That also increases both the eles own survivability as well as his team support whereas our Battle Presence does nothing for our own survivability.

The trait should either remain active while VoR is on cooldown, have some sort of useful trait merged into it, or it should be scraped entirely for something else. I wouldn’t mind a trait which restores the extra 600 range that virtues used to have; it’d even have interesting synergy with DH virtues.

It not affecting allies while on cooldown makes 0 sense when you consider the philosophy behind guardian virtues, being that the passives are selfish and the actives are selfless.

I still feel that Purity of Body should be added to Battle Presence. There is no point in having it in Honor where you gain Vigor through critical hits anyway which nullifies the effect most of the time making it pretty useless without Battle Presence anyway. It also spreads out the endurance generation of Guardians across more than one traitline.

No clue what to replace Purity of Body with. But it shouldn’t be too hard.