Guild Wars 2

Sooooo, this thing doesn’t prioritize yourself at all? I’ve tried running CoF p1 with mace for testing, popped PS to block the aoe explosion last boss does, it triggered the damaging part and yet I’ve got 2.5k damage incoming. I suppose it blocked someone of my party then. :|

“Blocks the next attack directed at any ally within range and counterattacks, dealing point-blank area of effect damage to up to 5 enemies near the guardian. If an attack is blocked the shielding effect ends.

It seems not. It only blocks for the next incoming attack once for anyone inside your PS radius. So let’s say if an AoE is targeted to an ally inside your PS it will block for him and you will get the full dmg.

#AdvancedGuardianSuperiority I guess.

It can also be triggered by ranged attacks & is the only block with a melee counter in game that can be triggered this way.

If it would just continue to block unless struck by a melee attack then it would be so much better.

99% of the time the block applies to the person who is standing closest to the attacker with aoe and projectile skills