good work
thanks for the buffs

when is it coming?

Next patch guardian helm shield strength nerfed lol guys crack me up wait for it boys it's a coming

and 40 seconds for guardian helmet still low, i would recommend 45 seconds at least, its a big usefull helmet and the shield its giving its insane

Can you add the current state of the market at test-serv, or at least a certain number of items of each type on it? Because I entered now, and there are a dozen positions set by testers and that's it
@PrintsKaspian

This isn't a big enough nerf for the guardian helm, it's arguably better in 1v1s than it was with the heal. In small scale & outnumbered fights it's absolute cancer! I'd rather have it changed back to the heal & cleanse demon capes and lava bats again, it was actually less annoying that way (sadly).

The same exact builds rely on it, it makes hit & run builds stronger, and you want to kill a small group of unorganized retards your chances are now even lower if they are running this crap.

@Retroman @PrintsKaspian

These changes do not solve any issues that 20v20 currently has. It still has casual lvl 1 and pro lvl 2 daily with no chance for new teams to somehow learn this content in a full loot mode.

Besides that lvl 1 20v20 is now a total CLOWN FIESTA. People bring 15 guardian helmets and act like zombie army, even if you wipe 70% of them the remaining players will still be able to cancel your capping and with guardian helmets they can buy enough time for the players that died to join the fight again. Basically the winner right now is a team that has less mana issues becuase it is non stop fighting with guardian helmets. Please take a look at it:
albionbuff.online/crystalleagu…es/0H0JgqWTQJ6nb2ARhMzgsg

The losing team has 7 times more deaths than our team yet they still were close to win becuase of abusing this helmet.

They managed to rework the guardian helm from OP to godly OP. Having it remove DoTs and have a gigantic shield makes the helmet best in slot by a landslide in every situation. Then somehow on top of that they made it AoE. If you want to keep it AoE the shield needs to be drastically nerfed or you could just make it single target only. Another solid idea I have heard is move the DoT cleanse over to mercenary hood instead. This would give that helm maybe a bit of life from its non existence today and somewhat weaken the current state of guardian. Another issue to why everyone uses guardian is you also let this helm keep its mobility and ability to attack upon use. Other helms such as soldier and cleric cowl are strong and because of that cannot attack or move much during the duration of the helm use. The CD of this helm in current state should be about 75 seconds for how much stronger you have made it than all other options. Your current increase to 40 seconds is a welcomed change but not nearly enough to fix this helm.

I know how to fix guardian helmet



But seriously go the way around, make it single target, keep it 30 sec and move on to really important stuff

ye, i agree as well that this helmet is busted rn and the proper fix for it would be keeping 40 seconds CD and puting it to single target only or just let the shield and remove the anti DOT thing, its too insane rn, too much shield, or you guys can keep it and reduce the shield that is insane

messed up the timers. but still 6 times a day isn't enough for people to participate. that is all, i do not actually expect you to fix it... when have you ever.

what about helmet of valor?

Does anyone not hate the new guardian helmet by now? This new guardian helmet combined with the scholar sandals might be on of the most skill-less ways to play albion, and within 2 minutes of testing out this new guardian helmet I knew people would be running this... so it's not like they figured out some amazing combo anyone would a functioning brain would have seen this coming.

And making it a self-shield only might not be a bad idea, I also liked the idea of having the cleansing of dots moved over to the Mercenary hood.

The most funny thing is they change the same things over and over and over because they either destroy it or make it OP

I would exchange at least my play test team..

@PrintsKaspian This patch hits live tomorrow, correct??

The 20v20 timer changes are a big step in the right direction. It gives casual teams more opportunity to play level 1s against teams that aren't the best in the game multiple times a day.

It's unlikely that it'll address the huge economic disincentives for most teams to play level 2s, but I'm still happy to see it.

The guardian helm change is a little light imo, but not unreasonably so. I think we'll still see it pretty regularly in the meta, but more as a swap vs DoT comps and less as 3-of-per-team. The fact that it couldn't be purged was a big deal since that's the only mechanical counter to shields besides waiting it out so glad to see that change as well.