Return of Reckoning

You are very wrong, my friend.
TTK is currently very fast.
Your observations must be due to your style of play.
You probably go into sc solo ( nothing wrong with that) but use useless aoe spec in sc and/or don't assist other dps. Hence your frustration. I've seen many times how pure pug destroys ...

The “Pass It On” tactic works on a target that has a “Shrug It Off” buff, healing everyone around the target except the person with the buff.
There is a discrepancy here.
You give the Shrug it Off buff to the target that will need the most healing and the tactic no longer covers that target.
I think ...

This is an mmo. Acquiring equipment is the absolute basis here. If you do not accept this I recommend moba or gw2 arenas. For me gw2 is a failure where you go in and choose the equipment you want but you might like it.
I also disagree with you that low level is worthless in a scenario. As a tank ...

Ysaran's idea to make the damage from the guard unavoidable, so that it can't be blocked or parried, is not bad.


This is an idea that makes no sense.
It's like the former slayer Ramage (100% ignoring parry/block) is available to everyone as far as guard dmg is concerned.
Where do you guys get ...

This is not a problem.
The problem is that people have already been several times with relics and have not received credit.

The other day I called out the balance team for DOKs / WPs outperforming other healing classes already across all types of content...

... and now they get buffed even further. Absorb shield with only 10 secs cd while all other healing classes have 20 secs cd on theirs, while buffing the next ...

Ehh... we currently have way too many armor pen in the game. I'm sure the devs know this and in the upcoming dps balance patch they will take this into account and reduce armor pene rather than expand them. After the recent changes TTK is extremely short.

And the very idea to add anything else for ...

In my opinion, even as there are liniments, nothing prevents there from being potions for single statistics such as ws, initiative and a liniment or potion for fortutiude.
The larger the assortment the better.

I think it is due to lag.
I'll take your post on the opportunity to bring to the devs attention some bug that affects m2 FM.
It often happens that despite the use of FM the slowdown still persists . Sometimes for a short time sometimes longer. Same as on other anti slowdown abilities.

I have been avoiding posting this not to restart a different fight but the problem the OP is describing is not with guard it is with healing and/or single-target damage nerfs.

In the original game, guard was applied to healers first and mdps second. And that was because healers had less healing ...