Guild Wars 2

Emrad.9260:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kKLgSTkCEo

A quick youtube search, and while I cannot be certain that it weighs what the video say it does, armour tends to distribute it’s weight across the body, so I don’t see tumbling as that unrealistic.

That’s not a full plate armour. That’s a chainmail with a breastplate on top + vambraces and leg armour.

PS: Though you can possibly make a roll in gothic armour. It was made for mobility in the first place yet it counts as full plate.

Blocking as an action like dodge would be too much. With lots of vigor+mace+shield+high tough and vit+banners a warrior would be impossible to kill.

Making block to provide a boon that lasts for X so that you could do damage would be much more appreciated. You could possibly increase it with boon duration and some runes/traits (increase block duration for 15-20%?)

I play all of them in sPvP (warrior, guardian, thief) and I’ll put it like this:
As long as you can survive the initial burst a glass cannon thief is a dead thief.

Warrior: go shield block, turn on EP, kill the glass cannon thief
Guardian is tough on his own with his almost perma protection, bubbles etc so I never had any problems with thieves here

The most irritating part is when a thief goes heavy stealth+blind build(i.e. D/P 10/30/30/0/0 or 0/30/30/10/0). As a melee you’ll get very irritated by the fact that you can’t hit the thief In any case you can still counter that as well.

By the way heavy stealth+blind build works against other thieves (glass cannon / backstab) as they won’t be able to hit you

So no, there’s no problem with glass cannon or backstab thieves