9 Guardians later…
The current 0/0/6/4/4, what will he look like?
I liked the way Mediguard seems to be stronger in future, but yesterday after paying a closer look (I admit, I have been veeery lazy on this since there has been no news on how the new armor attributes will look like and the shown traits/numbers will likely still change) on the traits I noticed retributive armor no longer exist in its current form and will instead be competing with AH and Monks Focus as a ferocity and toughness boost instead. Superior Aria combined with Pure of Voice (good?) and having a 20% boon duration while wielding a staff instead of the 20% on all weapons while just speccing 4 into Virtues in current game, and the Virtuespec seems like a must since it will bring a) stability b) stunbreak c) condition cleanse to allies, so what support Guard would not spec into these lines? I had hoped the support Guard could somehow make up for their lack of DPS with the promising +30% damage from combo of burning & symbols but it seems unlikely now, I liked the idea of people actually avoiding carefully Guardian symbols instead of seeing them as a minor annoyance as it is now (atm standing inside your own symbol will get even squishy specs just walk inside symbol and DPS you while you Empower/whatever since the risk is too small compered with the gain [damage/interrupt]).
So, you, who have put more thoughts into this subject, what do you think?
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