Guild Wars 2

Does blocking one attack REALLY warrant a 90s cooldown? Would be fine at 45 seconds, IMO.

Ludus Rex.1562:

Does blocking one attack REALLY warrant a 90s cooldown? Would be fine at 45 seconds, IMO.

Yep, way too high.

I like all the Aegis traits, but they’re just so unbelievably stingy with actually giving us Aegis to use.

Valorous Defense should have a 45 second CD.

Shield #4 should change from a cone to have a shout’s radius, and should give AoE Aegis as well (Why wouldn’t our shield cast Aegis, the shield spell? For heaven’s sake, let it block).

Retreat might be more viable as a primary mode of transportation if the CD went from 60s to 40s, and the extra AoE Aegis procs might actually feel frequent enough to be worthwhile, which is not where this skill is at for me currently.

All these ideas sound nice but there is a problem, and that is a major one as well. Changing those things would imply a buff, and Guardian would never get a buff. We either get a nerf or we get Anet “buff” and no one wants those.

If you want some more realistic things to change it would probably be that retreat should be changed to 40sec cd. Add cowardice as a condition: If you deal any damage you instantly down yourself, last 30 sec and scale with your own boon duration.

Now that looks more like a Anet buff to Guardians.