Guild Wars 2

So basicly that skill is a 7s block against everything which is really broken but it’s also a defensive skill (stunbreak/stab/block) with casttime which is really inconvinient and clunky.

I would say they should nerf the duration to 3s (4s traited) but make it instant in return to make it less broken and less clunky. I would so prefer that version of the skill. :<

Everything from the front, yes.

Attack from behind.

Good suggestion!

I’d like to keep it at 5 seconds as it is. The duration is 7 if you trait into it.

Edit: The long CD pretty much justifies the duration.

I wouldn’t mind it being reduced to 3 seconds base if & only if they drastically reduced the CD to like 35-40 seconds.

As is many guardian abilities are on extremely long cool downs & or have far to long a cast time thus rarely ever see use.
Courage is the rare exception because of how useful it truly is.

Farzo.8410:

Everything from the front, yes.

Attack from behind.

I don’t think I’ve gotten hit from behind in any duel so far yet and I’ve done hundreds of duels on DH since the expansion. Even if you’re too bad or too lazy to turn the camera fast enough you can still just autoturn because the game allows you to. :<

Ragnar the Rock.3174:

I wouldn’t mind it being reduced to 3 seconds base if & only if they drastically reduced the CD to like 35-40 seconds.

As is many guardian abilities are on extremely long cool downs & or have far to long a cast time thus rarely ever see use.
Courage is the rare exception because of how useful it truly is.

40 seconds cooldown sound reasonable.

Ragnar the Rock.3174:

I wouldn’t mind it being reduced to 3 seconds base if & only if they drastically reduced the CD to like 35-40 seconds.

As is many guardian abilities are on extremely long cool downs & or have far to long a cast time thus rarely ever see use.
Courage is the rare exception because of how useful it truly is.

^exactly this.
Guardian if wasnt the poor decision on the old traits/utilities, class atm with the add of the DH would be really really amazing, we have alot of old stuff that is more a waste of utilitie than we will ever find a decent excuse to use it.

Spirit weapons, Sanctuary, ,our new elite signet is impossible to use on a fight due the amounts of cc, some grandmaster trait collision (in the sense we had far better options before big patch).

Guardian is almost there, for sure it might be the only class that can have everything working with a small tune.

Other classes Anet to catter the players must be paying with tune up output damage.

Nah, i like it the way it is. Not sure if the stunbreak is instant like fragments of faith is. If it isn’t, it should be.

i think it´s perfect the way it is.. i think the devs said sth about beeing vulnerable from behind or sth like( i think this would be a good idea).

using mace/ shield staff with DH, works well , pitty is has alot of stuff not showing, INC tooltips fixes.

Finally bunker guard is fun to play on wvw and fun to support alies.

I like the idea of 3 sec (4 sec traited) + cooldown reduction to 40 sec when traited for as well as making it an instant cast.
They should also make Orb of Light a blast finisher upon detonation, so we can have some kind of balance on BF between all 3 heavy armored classes.

Lets be real Rev gets 4 blast finishers in total between all weapon sets, Warrior gets 3 + 1 more (Mace F1 when in Berserker mode) , thus resulting in total of 4, as well as on how often you can use Berserker mode when traited for it, while Guardian gets 2 BF in total.

Keksmuffin.1450:

So basicly that skill is a 7s block against everything which is really broken but it’s also a defensive skill (stunbreak/stab/block) with casttime which is really inconvinient and clunky.

I would say they should nerf the duration to 3s (4s traited) but make it instant in return to make it less broken and less clunky. I would so prefer that version of the skill. :<

kitten off you sub Guardian don’t come in here trying to nerf a class that fought for our class to be better. I don’t see you complaining about a wars Endure pain/shield block, rangers greatsword block or engis shield block. So why come in here and kitten about an attack that can only block attacks from frontal assaults?

Why would you nerf a class that doesn’t need to be nerfed? I suggest you to go in Mesmer and Engineer forums, because their Elite specs are broken right now (one can just one shot you and get back all the skills, hp, endurance, the other can just tank and faceroll a group of players with loads of conditions…).

Keksmuffin.1450:

Farzo.8410:

Everything from the front, yes.

Attack from behind.

I don’t think I’ve gotten hit from behind in any duel so far yet and I’ve done hundreds of duels on DH since the expansion. Even if you’re too bad or too lazy to turn the camera fast enough you can still just autoturn because the game allows you to. :<

Yeah good thing duels don’t matter in pvp and the game isn’t balanced around them.

i love these threads… makes me think back three four weeks and all the unfounded DH bashing just to see now that we get one after another QQ thread and have already hit by the nerf bat.

OT:
F3 is probably DH strongest asset at the moment so I would want to wait a litle bit on discussing any toning down. IF we reduce the druation the trait needs to increase it A LOT. having it add 1 second would render the trait useless the size increase is nice but the other options are already superior if you go support or dps.