Guild Wars 2

Very few of the elite skills across all of the classes are sort of fire-and-forget or one-shot kind of things that you just sort of work in to the rotation. There are certainly plenty, of course, but the standard design for elite skills does seem to be that in general they are the sort of thing that you don’t just fire off with and go. Guardians do have the property that we don’t have any elite skills that are even close to being that way.

It’s absolutely true that if I could put a normal utility skill in the elite slot, I would do so in a heartbeat, but that’s not unique to guardians.

I’ve done Troll’s End on my norn (I assume a lot of people have), but it’s absolutely the case that it’s much more difficult. There’s dramatically more randomly flailing the camera around and spinning your character trying to get a view of basically anything useful than when I do the same puzzle on my Asura.

Moreover, I suspect that it can only be a matter of time before (if it’s not already the case) botters figure out how this stuff works and simply route around it. You probably decrease botting efficiency somewhat, but you only stop the less sophisticated botters with anti-farm code; as long as there’s a remotely efficient way to automate farming, botters are going to do that thing. If you don’t want botting to be a thing, I think you need to hit botters more directly. (It’s possible that less sophisticated botters make up the bulk of the botting population; it’s hard to know as an outsider.)