Guild Wars 2

Shelter nerf or bug?
warrior elementalist hunter can knockdown me when i am using shelter. wtf is going on today?
its suppose to block all attacks when i am using this

tested it again and same results, well pausing my gameplay till next update, cheers.

Ragnarox.9601:

Shelter nerf or bug?
warrior elementalist hunter can knockdown me when i am using shelter. wtf is going on today?
its suppose to block all attacks when i am using this

Certain attacks are listed as unblockable, and possibly some of those got changed for those classes. not sure though.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/?search=unblockable

Haven’t used Shelter in a while, but didn’t we used to crouch down with a little round bubble? Now it looks kinda like the Mesmer ‘Mirror’ heal (without the distortion).

Unless I’m getting things mixed up here…

I’ve been feared out of shelter as well. Yay..

This kinda changes the dynamic of Shelter. The trade-off with Shelter is that you gain less healing, but in exchange got a powerful block. If enough “unblockable” skills exist (and I have no idea how many there are) or the meta shifts towards unblockable attacks, Guardians will be left with no choice of healing skill in sPvP.
Admittedly, this is a “worst-case” scenario.

Haven’t been really playing for the last few days (only doing my Daily) but that change/bug would really weaken the guardian and the “Defender’s Flame” trait i am currently using.

And i still miss cripples.

Hmmm, so effectively we should get 2s of Stability next to blocking attacks because it’s not doing what it’s supposed to do.

I’ve been trying Shelter yesterday in Sorrow’s Embrace (because of the Might on Block) and even though the health gain is abour 50% lower compared to my signet, it would have its place in the world if it would actually block all attacks.

However if it’s not really blocking all attacks if mobs/players can just knock you out of it with a simple CC, then something might be in need of modification.

Makes you wonder what other things those balance ninjas might have changed… Let’s hope it was just an accidental side-effect of fiddling with the code (that seems to happen a lot) or the OP getting hit with ‘unblockable’ abilities, but we might want to test Renewed Focus too and see if people can’t simply fear/knock us out of that as well…

However, a Necromancer can make his marks unblockable I believe. And their fear comes from a mark as I recall… So that one might be valid as you can’t block an unblockable attack.

Sanctuary won’t register unless you move around inside of it when you drop it.

I’ve literally had this happen many times where I drop a sanctuary on top of myself, get rooted, and then get nuked down because the game doesn’t register me inside of the sanctuary.

So when you drop your sanctuary, make sure to move around inside of it or the game doesn’t think you’re in it.

Ynna.8769:

This kinda changes the dynamic of Shelter. The trade-off with Shelter is that you gain less healing, but in exchange got a powerful block. If enough “unblockable” skills exist (and I have no idea how many there are) or the meta shifts towards unblockable attacks, Guardians will be left with no choice of healing skill in sPvP.
Admittedly, this is a “worst-case” scenario.

Unblockable attacks are things like traps and marks. Which makes sense – these are ‘area denial’ abilities, you are not supposed to stand in them. To be frank, Symbol damage should be unblockable as well. I am not aware of any ‘direct’ unblockable attack – and you are right, these would screw the game badly.

Unblockable fear mark for necros is op against shelter. It makes sense maybe for normal block abilities like weapon and shield blocks but it should not work against shelter.