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

The problem is, our OP Troll just wants to derp down the healer - making tanks useless in the process. He doesn't understand how guard works, as his opening post stated, and he's now clarifying it, to try and make it look sensible - although, he still looks like he clearly doesn't know what he's talking about.

Tanks, make his style of playing useless, and he's probably lost a bunch of matches today facing people who knew how to defend the healer. I've had a bunch of matches today with a PUG healer, who begged me to group with him after one match - because I enabled him to heal, and would protect him. He loved it. People would try and zerg him, and would effectively bounce - because their damage was effectively nil. No one tried to zerg me, because I'm a crappy tank with no burst and crappy sustained pew pew.

Didn't matter that - eventually - I'd be able to bring them down (and damn it took a long time often) - they just saw the healer and zerged, and let me control the fight. He's whining for making that useless, probably in retaliation for Operative Nerfs.

Tanks, are actually VIABLE and have a place in PvP. And it's people like the OP who cannot adapt to it, and can only QQ MOAR because of this. It's a rare moment when I'd say props to Bioware - but they've done something awesome here. Making tanks have a place - that isn't full of antifun - like forced targetting.

Only if you're dumb.

It would certainly make its use situational, though, and not a mindless no-brainer in every situation.

Anyhow, it's just one possible suggestion. And it would be in conjunction with taunt changes to make taunt a more viable way to mitigate damage.

Easy solution, have one or two guys hit or CC the healer to interupt their heals and burst down the Tank, happens to me all the time in WZs as it is as a guardian. Guard is fine.

You just can't read. It's seriously funny watching you dig a deeper and deeper hole for yourself.

Many of us were completely unaware that the tendency of bad players to stupidly focus on a guarded target (usually while also ignoring the guarding tank's taunts) was a "PVP balance" issue.

We've been assuming it was an L2P issue.

Silly us.

qft..

Teamwork supersedes any ability.

Still waiting for some reason that guard mechanic is unbalancing gameplay. I understand why it's frustrating players, and I understand the point being made about it's flat reduction to burst damage, but those things don't suggest an imbalance so much as a need for strategy and coordination. A tank can only guard one target at a time.

I can read, very clearly - you just can't communicate well. There's a difference.

And considering that you can't communicate well, therein probably lies the problem you have with guard in the first place.

As countless others have said - the problem isn't with guard, except in your head. And mostly - that's probably because you can't two-shot players out now.

The only problem here is you. If only you could invest as much time into getting better as you do in whining about how things beat you, you'd be a rank 100 God of PvP already.

The OP's impression is that all healers will have a GuardBot, and that there is only ONE way to fight them. There is absolutely no other scenario.