Guild Wars 2

I haven’t seen this mentioned anywhere, but chances are that Save Yourselves will get a much appreciated hand with the new boon Resistance.

I could see SY getting more play, especially in zergs. It would no longer be a 50/50 shot at killing yourself. In all game modes though, I could see it become one of the best party cleanses in many situations.

#HoThype

It sounds like they’re adding adding “Boon Resistance” to Skills that make you “Invulnerable”, “Can’t be effected by conditions” etc.
SY absorbs party member’s Conditions, it doesn’t make you invulnerable in any way. It would be silly to give it a big buff like Resistance. Then again, Anet could just say,
“Hey, let’s buff this!”

I wouldn’t be surprised if they buffed alot of our skills so we don’t fall behind compared to everyone else.

Our Elite Focus is getting a 2s Resistance Boon. It would be cool if our Shelter did too, but I doubt it.

Saiyan.1704:

It sounds like they’re adding adding “Boon Resistance” to Skills that make you “Invulnerable”, “Can’t be effected by conditions” etc.
SY absorbs party member’s Conditions, it doesn’t make you invulnerable in any way. It would be silly to give it a big buff like Resistance. Then again, Anet could just say,
“Hey, let’s buff this!”

I wouldn’t be surprised if they buffed alot of our skills so we don’t fall behind compared to everyone else.

Our Elite Focus is getting a 2s Resistance Boon. It would be cool if our Shelter did too, but I doubt it.

By my last count there is a good 25+ weapon skills, utility skills & traits that need adjustments if not complete overhauls on the guardian.
The necro also has a good 20+ that need adjusting/overhauls.

So hopefully they do take a serious look at them and adjust them.

As much as I want it, I don’t want SY being borken. Though If they do add it to SY the most resistance you can expect at most 3s seconds. Just enough to give you a few good seconds of fight to not die to every soft CC condi, and damage condi you pulled from your allies.

Saiyan.1704:

It sounds like they’re adding adding “Boon Resistance” to Skills that make you “Invulnerable”, “Can’t be effected by conditions” etc.
SY absorbs party member’s Conditions, it doesn’t make you invulnerable in any way. It would be silly to give it a big buff like Resistance. Then again, Anet could just say,
“Hey, let’s buff this!”

I wouldn’t be surprised if they buffed alot of our skills so we don’t fall behind compared to everyone else.

Our Elite Focus is getting a 2s Resistance Boon. It would be cool if our Shelter did too, but I doubt it.

Shelter with Resistance would be so good. No need to pop condi cleanse before the heal tick!

Saiyan.1704:

I wouldn’t be surprised if they buffed alot of our skills so we don’t fall behind compared to everyone else.

i would be

Saiyan.1704:

Our Elite Focus is getting a 2s Resistance Boon.

Source?

Yeah, having resistance included in SY would be really broken. Sucking all condis in but not being affected by them. It defeats the point of the ability, which is to “sacrifice yourself”, in a sense.

Mind you, the ability already kind of violates this principle because you can just pop it when you want to gain the boons and not suck up any conditions in the first place.

The only bits we’ve seen of resistance that I know of were from the revenant in the points of interest video. That class seems to have it worked into it’s mechanics with low duration (2s) and high applications. I don’t think that’s how it’s going to translate to other classes. I haven’t heard anything about any invuln skills getting resistance (even though it would make sense to not die during a Renewed Focus to conditions).

I don’t see any issues with it being attached to Save Yourselves with the current boon durations. 5s for PvP and 10s in WvW/PvE. Really, what better guardian skill to put it on? Shouts are aimed for defensive builds more than any other skill type. I think it would really give a hand to bunkers that are slipping out of competitive play.

Shanks.2907:

Really, what better guardian skill to put it on?

It could easily go on purging flames. In fact, I bet they would’ve put it on purging flames if resistance existed at the time they changed the skill to lower condition duration while you’re inside of the field.

Sanctuary is also another good choice. It doesn’t last that long and has a very long cooldown, so it wouldn’t be particularly powerful. But resistance would fit nicely with the purpose of that skill.

Other than that, there’s always signets that could use some loving. Giving one of them some sort of resistance capability would make them more attractive than they are now.

Then there’s always the possibility that it could be incorporated into a trait or weapon skill somehow.

Jaxom.7310:

Saiyan.1704:

I wouldn’t be surprised if they buffed alot of our skills so we don’t fall behind compared to everyone else.

i would be

I would be too. Also, be prepared for a stability nerf ho ho ho.

Resistance Boon belongs on Shield. And possibly other skills, but definitely Shield.

Yamsandjams.3267:

Yeah, having resistance included in SY would be really broken. Sucking all condis in but not being affected by them. It defeats the point of the ability, which is to “sacrifice yourself”, in a sense.

Mind you, the ability already kind of violates this principle because you can just pop it when you want to gain the boons and not suck up any conditions in the first place.

You can also just use it while channeling renewed focus to remove all conditions from allies without gaining any.

hans.2460:

Yamsandjams.3267:

Yeah, having resistance included in SY would be really broken. Sucking all condis in but not being affected by them. It defeats the point of the ability, which is to “sacrifice yourself”, in a sense.

Mind you, the ability already kind of violates this principle because you can just pop it when you want to gain the boons and not suck up any conditions in the first place.

You can also just use it while channeling renewed focus to remove all conditions from allies without gaining any.

Nice, hadn’t thought of doing that before, although I imagine it’s not a situation that comes up very often.

In this case though, you’re popping a 90s cooldown elite that can be quite valuable. You’re expending something extra in order to counter those conditions, rather than just getting that for free.

DroidDreamer.2861:

Resistance Boon belongs on Shield. And possibly other skills, but definitely Shield.

Resistance procs in 2s intervals while channeling shield
= 4s aoe Resistance Boon after shield is channeled.

I wouldn’t mind that buff. I imagine it being a trait addition… even then I would prefer “Shield skills offers Aegis” trait more than anything…