Guard Needs Fixing Now, or Why We Have So Many Burst Damage Whines

I can speculate all I want about what I think Devs do for whatever reasons I believe. But, it doesn't make it true.

So again, where is your official source that Burst was specifically based around Guard?

You claimed it to be true, so the burden of proof is on you.

Otherwise, you want Guard to be nerfed based on your hypothesis, with no real evidence? Then you are a hypocrite for saying OPs were nerfed for that very same concept.

Guard is simply too strong. It is driving all the burst damage AND premade whines on these forums. Which means this one ability is causing probably 80% of the PVP balance discontent in the game.

There is a huge disconnect between people who have guard and people who don't. The 50% damage link guard provides means that burst damage has to be huge in order to be any threat to organized groups. But that means that all the unorganized PVPers who don't have guard get absolutely blown to pieces by burst damage.

As long as guard continues to function as it does you will just see a merry go round of burst whines and nerfs. Either burst damage will be tuned to guard, in which case it will be too high for the unorganized who will cry on these forums, or it will be too low and no one in organized groups will ever die, prompting whines about premades on these forums.

Somethings needs to change. I like the concept of Guard as much as the next tank, but the current implementation is just too strong. The obvious choice is to make guard not reduce damage but grant the tank's mitigation skills to the guarded person, but BW has worked themselves into a corner because most skills arn't mitigable.

Another option would be to put guard on a cooldown, but that has problems too. If they go this route the best option would probably be to give it unlimited duration but only let it be switched to a different target out of combat. This transforms guard into a very effective way to incentivize people to not hit the guarded target, but doesn't allow you to swap it around to whoever is getting hit.

I think the best option may be to make guard less effective, for example by having it reduce damage by 25% but continue to transfer 50% (or perhaps 35%) of the damage to the tank. This means guard is not always just a no brainer because it will actually increase the amount of damage the group takes, although it will spread it out better. Making it into an anti-burst ability but not an anti-damage ability.

This is easily the biggest problem in pvp balance, although most people don't realize it when they whine about things they don't understand are ulitmately all tied into Guard functionality. So lets get some other ideas out there for how to fix the problem.

You dont seem to really understand how to pvp. The fact that you've ignored the multiple posts pointing out how an organised group can pull apart a guard team within the existing game system says a lot.

Cut out all the smoke and mirrors and you get what this really is, another PUG vs premade rant.

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This is complete and utter nonsense. It's like demanding someone prove BW balances PVP healing around how much PVP damage there is or vice versa.

It's self-evident in the word "balance."

For example, look at all the people in this thread whining about how tanks don't have survivability and are useless aside from guard. Ever wonder why that is?

All things are interconnected. As long as you have guard in the game tanks will continue to be bad at mitigation and bad at doing anything esle because 90% of their value is going to be tied up in one passive ability.

This is complete and utter nonsense. It's like demanding someone prove BW balances PVP healing around how much PVP damage there is or vice versa.

It's self-evident in the word "balance."

For example, look at all the people in this thread whining about how tanks don't have survivability and are useless aside from guard. Ever wonder why that is?

All things are interconnected. As long as you have guard in the game tanks will continue to be bad at mitigation and bad at doing anything esle because 90% of their value is going to be tied up in one passive ability.

How about this:

If you are being guarded, your resolve meter cannot fill.

Leaves a good L2P counter of CC'ing the healer long enough.

I play a tank, I use guard all the time, even when I que solo. And its not even 50% mitigation, its 50% damage transfer, hell I have been killed just because the person I was guarding got the hell beat out of them. Any "burst" complaining about guard doe not know what the hell they are even talking about. You want to kill a guarded target, cc the guarded individual and burn the crap out of the tank, then move to the guarded target.