Accepted Remove the KB effect of Guardian

Remove the kb effect of Guardian in bossing/boss mobs

Hello @gm and friends

My name is Paid2Win but you may also know me as that guy who has killed multiple people in nameless and PB with guardian.

For those of yall who don't know, Guardian functions just like shadow shifter, on a smaller scale of 20%, with a knockback and stun if the monster is within melee range. That means it gives warrior a straight 20% miss chance before avoid formulas are applied.

Since the guardian buff, more warriors are choosing to go 1H for the survivability and memes. While I enjoy memeing as much as the next person, maybe even more than the next person tbh, having Guardian actually kb bosses within melee range can actually hurt bossing runs.

Right now any non-fixed boss can be yeeted by Guardian. To name a few, we are talking about every CWKPQ boss, Nameless, JC, Dunas, Scarga, Pap, Ravana, and PB.

Why is that bad? Guardian works around your hit box and will send monsters flying away with a stun (stun on non-bossing mobs ofc). This means if you accidentally take a melee touch hit and Guardian procs, things go flying... Sometimes into squishy party members or buyers.

That's the way the skill was intended? Literally every class has had skills modified for bossing. Monster Magnet and Blind being two of the most recent. Next.

Stand further away? We are one-handed melee fam. Our range is the smallest warrior range.

Position better? Even being constantly vigilant, sometimes warriors need to take touch damage to avoid larger hits, are rushing to reposition, or the boss gets deaggro frames with certain skills (like barrage on nameless/pb) and will walk straight through you randomly. Warriors don't have the mobility to get away quick enough or reposition, and if the boss is "behind" you and Guardian activates, it goes flying even further behind.

But won't you lose placement/needed KB? No. Guardian is a proc not an activated ability so there is no stability or guarantee of knockback. It is not a viable pin for any boss.

But I enjoy seeing stronk bosses yeeted around? Well. Me too but it's not worth it.

In closing, tldr; pls remove guardian kb from boss mobs. People already don't like to bring paladins and heroes so let's not give them another reason.

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