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Guardian 9.1 Frequently Asked Questions

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1. Covenants What covenant should I choose? Disclaimer: There have not been any significant changes regarding balance, what was good in 9.0 will remain good in 9.1. It is important to state that every covenant works well, and can pick one you prefer without hindering yourself. If you are raiding: It is very likely that NF will stay on top as burst damage is always valuable in raids, so if you were NF and wondering if you had to swap do not worry about it.
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On Diminishing Returns

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I originally wrote this article back in August 2018, and decided to shelve it to focus on other work. Please pardon the dated references to Uldir. I’ve seen a lot of questions surface recently about diminishing returns — what they are, how they are (or aren’t) related to damage reduction, and what stats are (or aren’t) affected. Let’s talk about it. Be warned: we’re doing a deep dive into the theory of diminishing returns and damage reduction.
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Defensive Trinkets

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Tanking trinkets in BFA suck for survivability. That’s fine, you probably shouldn’t be relying on your trinkets to survive anyway. Remember that your main stat is good defensively in this expansion, and take whatever high item level trinkets with your main stat as the base stat that you can. Know what secondary stats are good for your spec, and try to get trinkets with your main primary as a base and main secondary.
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BFA Guardian - Talents Feedback

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This is a mirror of the post I made on the Beta Class Forums. I’ve saved a record of it here in its entirety for posterity when the forums are closed. Feel free to follow along while the thread is open here. Hi everyone, I want to talk about talents today. For the most part, Guardian talents are in a pretty good spot. But there are some problematic rows that didn’t play out well in Legion and I’d like to address those here, as well as offer some potential solutions to fix them.
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BFA Guardian - Gameplay Issues

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This is a mirror of the post I made on the Alpha Class Development Forums. I’ve saved a record of it here in its entirety for posterity when the forums are closed. Feel free to follow along while the thread is open here. Let’s talk about Guardian Druid. While I don’t think anyone would argue that Guardian wasn’t the king of Legion raid tanking, nobody would argue against it being the most dull either.
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Guardian Tier 21 Analysis

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Let’s talk about the Guardian Tier 21 set bonuses. First, what are they? 2pc: When Gore is consumed, the cooldown of Barkskin is reduced by 1 second. 4pc: When Barkskin fades, all healing done to you is increased by 10% for 20 seconds. I want to talk about what each bonus does, how they may impact gameplay and talent choices, and then I’ll give my overall impressions of them. The TL;DR of this document is that Tier 21 is terrible in the best case, and detrimental to survivability in the worst case.
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