Guild Wars 2

Hot on the heels of the Symbolic Avenger trait, we have our new contender:

Communal Defenses in the VALOR Line gives Aegis to everyone within range, not up to a 5 target standard.

Using this and Shattered Aegis means that you can do insane amounts of damage to world bosses (if everyone is stacked), upwards of 30+ hits on a target, and if you’re specced to do Zerk damage, you do insane damage.

A picture of my combat log is below.

This is funny! XD

Communal Defenses never had a target limit. It’s been like that since the game release, so it can’t be considered a bug.

I think this definitely needs a fix if ANet doesn’t know yet.

Did you /bug it? Also, you shouldn’t post exploits on the forums if you truly believe this is an exploit.

As others have mentioned communal defenses had always worked this way.

The reason you’ve not noticed it before was because pre-patch shattered aegis never used to hit more than 1k in a full power build ( and most people at events never ran full power builds ). Most of the time communal just isn’t worth wasting the slot for.

Post patch the damage of shattered was increased a bit too make it actually useful. But it still shouldn’t hit for more than 1.5 to 2k.

So what you see here is not an issue with the guardian skills, but insane power creep from other post – patch changes.