Guild Wars 2

The idea of a guardian should always be defense is their offense so why not change Shield of Judgment to represent this?

As of now Shield of Judgment Grants 3 seconds of Protection in Structured PvP.
The player who used this skill is always affected and isn’t counted toward the five ally limit.
Enemies damaged and allies buffed use separate 5 target limits, so this skill can actually affect up to 1

To what I think would be a good change is a block that re-directs the damage back to the attacker.
I would like the shield to block up to 3 attacks to which direct damage that was going to be done to the guard be re-directed to the attacker. The skill would last 5 seconds but would end if the 3 charges where used up.

I know this would change the out look of the shield to all guards if this change would come and would be a more used secondary weapon in the guardians tool belt.

Tell me what you guys think, would this be something that could be viable in the game?

If not tell me why.

Guardian shield just need to be buffed overall. It baffled me that ArenaNet thought that Guardians didn’t need any change or addition at all the last patch with the Grandmaster traits.

Sword #3 skill needs to be redone as well.

Well lets look at the other shield skills in the game.

Starting with Warrior:
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Shield Bash ½ 25 Bash your foe with your shield and stun them.
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Shield Stance 3 30 Block attacks.

The Engineer:
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Magnetic Shield 3 30 Create a magnetic field that reflects projectiles and can be released to push back foes.
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Magnetic Inversion Release the magnetic field to push back nearby foes.
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Static Shield 1½ 40 Electrify your shield, preparing to throw it at foes. If you are hit, the shield discharges, stunning your nearby attacker.
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Throw Shield ¾ Throw your charged shield. Dazes foes it hits on the way out and back.

Engineer shield does a lot huh?

Compare the shield skills with one another and see why guardians rarely use a shield.
This is part of my argument as to why guardians need a block to replace the 4 skill.

For sword skills, the one thing that hurts it the most is a soft snare ability on it, if we say put chill on the second swing and pumped up the dps on the third? Or we re-do the teleport ability to act like the mesmers great sword 2 skill and teleport us to that location while leaving a symbol of fury ( This symbol grants the guardian with 7 sec of fury).

Reduce the cooldown on Guardian shield abilities, give the #4 shield skill a one second daze when it hits enemies. Remove the root from the shield #5 skill and make it pop up where you were walking.

I want the engineer shield for the guardian!