Guild Wars 2

I believe aegis, which is a big and important part of our virtues, should be stackable.
This way the virtue of courage can stack every 40 (or 30) seconds passive, and we can stack aegis together with other utilities(retreat)/ renewed focus.

Doing so, the trait indomitable courage will be more usefull together with unscathed contender. Putting a stacklimit of 5 stacks will give you some nice blocks and also the ability to make use of the 20% extra damage while undef effect of aegis. The problem right now is that you barely have aegis uptime during any fight so this becomes an useless trait.

A stackable aegis will make the traitline virtues even more usefull. It will also give some nice posibillities in ur build with “give … when an aegis you apllied is removed”, which can burn/heal/give retaliation on every Aegis.

Stacking 5 aegis sounds like you have to stand still for 1-2 minutes before every fight to get some stacks, but there are different ways to get aegis. valorous defense gives aegis when health reaches 50%, Protective reviver gives aegis when u revive an ally or from Superior Rune of the Monk( When you use an elite skill you and all nearby allies gain Aegis for 30 seconds).

Since gaurdians have a low health pool and is designed to avoid damage instead of tank allot of damage, i think having this posibility will make a gaurdian better in doing its job and give a little build diversity to focus on blocking allot of the incomming damage(for you and ur allies).

would like to hear the opinions of u fellow gaurdians.

mmm… it sounds right… but 5 stacks of aegis are too many.
The possibility to auto-block 5 attacks mean that we can kill some classes without take damage…
maybe the cap must be… 2 or 3…

I don’t agree this should be the case. There would clearly be situations where it is unreasonably powerful and guardians would start every fight with a full stack of aegis…that’s nuts.

If anything should stack it should be damage and healing effects from different sources.

no – too op. thiefs for instance would be screwed – whole combo on our 5 stacks of aegis…

I always wondered why aegis stacks duration only, it doesn’t make sense so +1 for the idea, but 3 stacks max.

PokerTuna.6170:

no – too op. thiefs for instance would be screwed – whole combo on our 5 stacks of aegis…

You don’t have to worry that much. It’s possibly a bug which will be fixed sometimes, but right now when a thief hits someone with aegis in stealth, he won’t get revealed because he doesn’t deal any damage, but he will still eat a stack.
Another note – multihit attacks are the true bane of aegis, there are only a few ways to apply it and all of them are on long cooldowns.

I vote for perma-aegis.

While I think stacking Aegis would be too OP, I does annoy me that a single hit will cut through all of a guardian’s blocks in one strike.

For instance, if you have Aegis, Shield of Wrath and Protector’s Strike active, 1 strike will take a hit on all 3. Otherwise you could setup some nice burst if you could protect your shield before it detonates. You also lose out on potential Might on block, if you are traited that way.

Alternatively, if Aegis was to have a 1 second ( or even half a second ) block effect it would actually be a useful mechanic in zerg situations ( doesn’t just instantly get stripped away by AoE ), it becomes a useful counter to instagib thieves ( making them have to pause before unloading a full burst ) and giving some precious reaction time to evade or counter.

Ummm, if stacking aegis did become possible it would have to only be possible through a grandmaster trait. However, making default aegis stack would be OP.

i dont think having a stack of 3 aegis(5 might be op)will be to strong , since right now u can pop 3 aegis while fighting too. passive virtue of courage, active courage, retreat. But having a stack of 3 will make some traits more usefull like the 20% extra damage, since u have at least 1 second cast time with aegis on. and having 3 aegis is blocking 3 hits, i dont think this will be very OP.

It makes much more sense to me to have Aegis block all attacks for 0.5s after first attack. Stacking is just too powerful vs. one opponent.