Guild Wars 2

You guys find “Strength of the Fallen” way too risky for competitive play. I mean the degeneration decrease makes it no go as letting your enemy bleed off point is a very common tactic teams utilize to stagger respawns. Just saying this cause I’m a fan of shield but when not using focus mastery, I find “Strength of the Fallen” way too risky and “Smiter’s boon” underwhelming (plus it can be interrupted by smart eles). I’d much rather have degeneration decrease taken off or changed it with something else.

I understand “Smiter’s boon” is kreygasm for medi guards for this concern is mainly for non medi bunker guards.

Short answer: I miss Purity…

If you don’t play using a focus in a bunker build you already have a great loss in competitive.
But in your case using Strength of the Fallen is useful. The bunker is the main support of a team fight if he dies, that is difficult, your team mates can revive you more easy with this trait, and as a bunker if you go die you should die in the node, never outside, to contest the most time possible.

SnowCow.5914:

Short answer: I miss Purity…

Purity is now part of this trait. it slows degeneration in downstate by 33% and removes 1 condi every 10 secs

Seriously ?? .. the trait is amazing compared to the old plain purity. The ONLY reason you have an issue with it is cause you die in pvp and don’t want to take longer to respawn ? That’s not enough of a reason to NERF (yes that would be nerf to take out the degenration speed reduction) for players who KNOW when to peel off of a losing fight and rotate correctly . Nor would it be fair for WvW players and/or PVE players.

You have tunnel vision cause you die in pvp .. get over dying .. don’t request nerfing of the class to make up for your bad playstyle :/

Ey Tesla,
I have to agree with you on ‘’Strenght of the Fallen’’ that might have to be rework to adapt to Conquest pvp mode.. (poison dsnt really affect you if you get rez tho)
But Purity is still part of the trait wich makes it the only viable option to chose if you want to play with a Shield..

baroi.3264:

If you don’t play using a focus in a bunker build you already have a great loss in competitive..

• This is not true, you should know that you have to twerk your build depending of the Map or comp you will be facing..
  Sometime the CC, Prot and peel from the shield can gives more compared to the focus.
  But it is very situationnal…

x indigo x.6981:

You have tunnel vision cause you die in pvp .. get over dying .. don’t request nerfing of the class to make up for your bad playstyle :/

• I doubt that it is a L2P issue, you obviously dont know Tesla and like I said It is not well designed for the PvP Conquest Mode(Cause of bleed tostagger respawns) theres no nerf been ask just a fix.
  But I understand the good between the lines….