RUNICBLACK.7630

> @"Crab Fear.1624" said: > > @"kharmin.7683" said: > > I disagree. Not having a set trinity system or specifically designated "roles" for professions is what makes GW2 unique in the genre. I would not like to be pushed into a small sub-set of professions just to clear content. > > I understand that you disagree, but you have not validated your point of how this (what we have) is better. > And nowhere in your argument have you validated your point of view either, you have just expressed your opinion as if it were fact . Just to let you know texting "As a matter of fact " doesn't make your following statement a fact it is still just a turn of phrase if you have no supporting Data to go with it and please refrain from using circular logic to support your statements.

Short answer is No, longer answer is because of the Major Adept trait in Virtues : Master of Consecrations which increases the duration of all Consecration by 2 seconds and reduces the recharge time by 20% so if they were to change Shelter to a Consecration it then give the player a 4 second block which by all appearances is a do not cross red line. Now if they were to change the Master of Consecrations in some way so as to not run afoul of this then sure. (Personal opinion I'd be all for changing MoC so as to make taking Consecrations more useful because as they are presently most have very limited usefulness in my opinion). I hope this helped.

As an alternative, just remove the increased symbol size fully from the trait and replace it with the effect that the guardian receives the full benifit (boons) from any symbols that they place irrelevant as to whether or not they are inside of the symbol, thus removing the limitation of the guard having be forced to be inside of the symbol to gain any benifit from the symbols boons. While this wouldn't have a huge impact on those weapons that drop a symbol at the guardians feet it would be hugely helpful for the ranged symbols. Great examples would be the swiftness from the staff(as it stands to gain the full swiftness by staying in the symbol is utterly counter intuitive) Gaining the might from the scepter without having to be in the symbol. And finally in my personal opinion the best fix for the lackluster damage and usefulness of the DH Longbow would be to change the LB boon from Vigor(which never made sense) to a 1 or 2 second per pulse of Quickness this way you don't need to increase the damage directly but you do increase it indirectly by increasing its rate of fire and of course the Quickness only applies to those inside of the symbol(baring the Guardian with this modification of the trait) and we are only talking about boons so they have their weakness in that they can be corrupted or stripped etc.