Hi all,
I wanted to communicate some changes we are making to guard for 6.1.4 that are going to be live on PTS soon. We�ve heard your feedback about Guarding in PVP and we are hoping to address some of those concerns with this change.
We�ve added a 50% damage penalty to DPS disciplines while they are guarding allies. The full text of the new DPS guard is:
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�While active, the guarded player takes 5% less damage and generates 25% less threat. In addition, so long as you remain within 15 meters of the guarded player, 50% of all incoming damage from enemy players is transferred back to you.
You deal 50% less damage while guarding.�
All this means is that while you guard allies as a DPS discipline, you do less damage while you are guarding that ally. It�s worth noting that this only applies to the DPS disciplines, Tank disciplines do not suffer this penalty and can freely guard as usual with no penalty.
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