Guild Wars 2

since there is almost not a single guardian that does not use stand your ground why cant we have the choice to have it as trait than always and forever have a slot kept for it?
as a shout guardian the only shout that i can occasionally not use is save yourselves the other two seem mandatory .
and then you wonder why no one uses signets or spirit weapons , its because at the time its impossible.

Explain the trait?

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Explain the trait?

automatic activation like warriors dogged march and shurg it off

Dogged march Is a condition duration reduction, not an actual skill use. I think you might be confusing it with the Endure pain trait that activates at low health? As far as a trait for Stand Your Ground, I am fully against it, as I am fully against the warrior traits. Skills like that can be pretty decent game changers. SYG for group stability, and Endure pain makes you pretty much immune to damage for a decent amount of time. Both become somewhat OP when you get a free use AND the actual skill.

As for Shrug it off, a decent amount of warriors don’t take it because A) they have enough condition removal as it is. It activates at such a low number of conditions it can very easily be wasted at the start of a fight. C) There are ALOT better traits in that line than shrug it off, and also it is only decent for a shout healing warrior.

im against op traits too but how are classes going to reach a certain level of balance if they dont all have the same level of powerful traits

at the time its almost impossible for a guardian to do not have stand your ground on skill bar , atleast at pvp

You mean like the automatic Balanced Stance.

Honestly Warriors just screw up the game balance entirely. The game was supposed to be skill and twitch based, like an action game.

Then they give Warriors passive healing, respresenting the best personal heal in the game.

Passive Stability when CCd, no skill or reactions required.

Passive condition removal Shout when receiving a condition.

Passive direct damage immunity at 25%.

Direct damage immunity skills, condition damage immunity skills.

It’s just a balancing joke really.

But we do have Indomitable Courage for Stability, Protection and Retal from Virtue of Courage – perhaps think about “fixing” virtue cooldowns and durations instead?