Guild Wars 2

Guardian without a shield is like a cat without a tail, I know that, you know that. Based on the incoming changes I see no chance of improvement. Don’t get me wrong, I love my guard, but I just miss shield. It’s unmistakable archetype. And now we know that even Mesmer gets better shield I have a simple solution.

Replace the shield skills for focus skills and vice versa.

I just want to see guardian with a shield :-/

(Sorry for bad eng, not my native)

This has been suggested countless times, but I disagree with it for two reasons. First, people that already have ascended foci or the Minstrel will be hung out to dry. More importantly, however, is that that would only make focus useless instead of shield, which is something that we don’t really want. The goal is to make each offhand equally viable, and in order to do that they need to just rework the shield entirely, because focus is fine as it is.

What? Didn’t you hear of a guardian with a stick in offhand and blocking and saving allies….just….with….a….branch(stick)…..who wouldn’t play that class….soo op…

Branch ftw. (too much of Harry Potter)

Then you forsake all of those Guardians who made The Minstrel. This is not an actual solution.

Nah Focus skills are fine. All about the personal protection. Shield skills are supposed to be about going toe to toe with ALOT of people not just one. That being said it kills me that there are NO blocks on shield and NO correlation between shield and Aegis. Honestly shield users should be masters of Aegis. The number 5 should get a fix and the number 4 just needs to be reworked

Shield does not need to change skills with focus.

Shield actually needs improvements in its actual skills, shield 1st skill its a 3sec prot boon mostly useless due time/cd a better skill is needed, hammer beats it, dome is ok for KD and protect againt rangers/nades auto atacks mostly, but adding something would make players think twice and create more diversity.

make dome give that 3 seconds prot also and change shiled 1st skill to 3 target bash and criple or rush, throw shield(like a boomerang) etc… ???
Anything is better than the actual one…

There you go. Won’t happen, no matter how many posts you make about it. In the light of new events we might get Focus nerfed if you keep asking for Shield boosts.

I think we should take this opprotunity to all throw out what we think about the shield, and what we think needs to be done about it. Come up with something people who play guardian agree on, and then all get behind that. Because NOBODY uses shield. I love shield and I don’t even use shield. I actually prefer to use the TORCH on a DPS build than the shield.

Personally the shield needs to be usable with the mace and sword. Right now people mostly use it with scepter when they do use it, just for the knockback. Some people use it with mace but that is about to swiftly get replaced by hammer. Nobody uses it with sword because why would you knock somebody back and then have to chase them?

NumenorLord.6539:

There you go. Won’t happen, no matter how many posts you make about it. In the light of new events we might get Focus nerfed if you keep asking for Shield boosts.

that migh be true………. or even nerf shield more… lol

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Personally the shield needs to be usable with the mace and sword. Right now people mostly use it with scepter when they do use it, just for the knockback. Some people use it with mace but that is about to swiftly get replaced by hammer. Nobody uses it with sword because why would you knock somebody back and then have to chase them?

^this.

Aeolus.3615:

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Personally the shield needs to be usable with the mace and sword. Right now people mostly use it with scepter when they do use it, just for the knockback. Some people use it with mace but that is about to swiftly get replaced by hammer. Nobody uses it with sword because why would you knock somebody back and then have to chase them?

^this.

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