[3.0] End Game Guardian Support! 90% phys/84% ele res. On a Budget.

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Antiphates wrote:

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The Ascendant's Guardian skill now grants You and Allies affected by your Auras have 10% increased Attack, Cast and Movement Speed (instead of 12% increased Attack and Cast Speed for You and Allies affected by Auras you Cast), 5% additional Block chance for you and Allies affected by your Auras (up from 3% and no longer simply affecting you), and 25% reduced effect of Curses on you. The Ascendant's Guardian no longer removes Curses and Ailments from you every 5 seconds.



Well, It looks like we have some buffs and some nerfs.

I like the additional block chance per aura for the guardian and part members- we can have 45% increased block chance permanently with 9 auras active (I wonder will vaal auras grant additional block chance as well).

It's not very clear for me is "You and Allies affected by your Auras have 10% increased Attack, Cast and Movement Speed" will affect "Prayer of Glory" and warcry skill usage, or it's something different.

Anyway, I hope this build will be updated for 3.0 :)

The changes you are referring to are related to the Ascendant's Guardian (i.e. Scion). This is all they get from the Guardian ascendancy, so nothing else is available to them. I can't see any way to build a decent support build through Scion.

I should also point out that the Scion increased block does affect party members, but it does not stack per aura (just a flat 5%). The Guardian's remains the same with a flat 5% for just the guardian.

From what I can tell there is little to no changes to the Guardian ascendancy for 3.0. Necro on the other hand got hit extremely hard. Attack/cast speed reduced by 2% per aura and the damage buff went from 10% per aura to a flat 30%. Necro support is pretty much dead, so if people still want to play support they will be going Guardian. I expect to see a lot fewer people playing support, but that's fine by me because I have always preferred to play Guardian using NEINNEINNEIN's build. It will likely be easier and cheaper to get a Shav's now which still works really well for us even though this guide is built around Victario's.

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pongsacha wrote:

are there any better or alternative choice skill apart from ball of lightning ? any recommanded?