Fortified Stance is broken

[Grond]

<DIV>I was fully buffed last night when I was skimming over my skills.  I noticed that Defense wasn't quite as high as I assumed it would be.  So, I drop every buff I have.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>- 250 Defense</DIV> <DIV>- Casts Fortified Stance Adept III (Gives 11 Def)</DIV> <DIV>- 261 Defense</DIV> <DIV>- Casts Call of Protection Adept III (Gives 14 Def)</DIV> <DIV>- 264 Defense</DIV> <DIV>- Take off Fortified Stance</DIV> <DIV>- 264 Defense</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Thus, as you can see, Fortified Stance and Call of Protection do not stack.  These abilities are in two completely different lines, and do not share the same timer.  One lasts 12 hours with 3 concentration bubbles and has drawbacks, and the other is a 10 minute group buff.  So right now we just go into Fortified Stance for the small mitigation (albiet our only mitigation) buff.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Grondax Ix'Thania of the Shard</DIV> <DIV><BR>Officer of Genesis on Highkeep</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Level 50 Guardian / Level 50 Woodworker</DIV>

[Ibis]

commanding presence and the training option for braskan's desperate rally also augment our physical resistances and thus raise our mitigation %. fort stance is not meant to give additional defense with call of protection as far as I know, and would futher trivialize the game.  I would like that since they do not stack, that our spells be re-worked to make more sense, but originally CoP was not a buff we were intended to keep up all the time, none of them were, and I believe we will receive an adjustment to how all our buffs function before they allow these to stack. periods and I disagree. <div></div>

[Shizzirri]

I'm sure its not intended to be this way if it was you'd get 14 from Call of protection, 11 from stance, and another 10ish from return to battle depending you your version which would max out your defense (285) and I'm sure sony doesn't want guardians to be able to do this by themselves.  The other factors on stance work the mitigation still goes up.

[Grond]

<P>Yea, I'm not saying I want them to pump my defense anymore, especially with the cap coming.  Even at 3 minutes I'd keep call of protection up all the time tho, which really takes away from the effect of Fortified Stance.  Maybe they could get rid of the defense bonus granted, and boost the mitigation to about 7 %.</P> <P> </P> <P>Grondax Ix'Thania of the Shard</P> <P>Officer of Genesis on HIghkeep</P> <P>Level 50 Guardian / Level 50 Woodworker</P>

[Aren]

<P>Yeah, not broken it just doesn't stack</P> <P>I never used any of the stances until Fortified, because of the mitigation bonus it adds.</P>