Guild Wars 2

I’m not happy with the way this skill was buffed with the patch.
Basically you now have communal defense and the aegis from protector’s strike canceling each other out. Keep in mind the cd of PS is also shorter than communal. Making it feel almost redundant if it didn’t have a slightly larger Range (170 vs 240).
I would rather have seen a reduction on the ICD of CD and maybe a range increase.
Opening options for aegis support builds with Pure of Heart or Shatterd Aegis.
Changing PS to be a durational block for 1/2s-1s could have been a way to go, many have suggested so, not gonna say that’s it’s the right way.

It just feels like the balance team missed realising that these 2 things don’t function well with another, and will often cancel each other out.

The same foes for Defender’s Dogma. The trait that refreshes F1 proc will cancel out an already activated F1 from attacks. It’s one of the reasons why burn DH sucks compared to core builds.