Online:Guard (skill)

	Guard
Line		Support
Line Rank		5	Cost	3402 Stamina
Cast Time		Instant	Duration	–
Range		15 meters
Morphs
		Mystic Guard You and your bonded ally also gain Minor Vitality, increasing your healing received.
		Stalwart Guard You and your bonded ally also gain Minor Force, increasing your Critical Damage.
Notes Values are based on Max Magicka/Stamina 12000, Max Health 16000, and Weapon/Spell Damage 1000.

Guard being used on Bastian Hallix

Guard: Cost: [3672 / 3582 / 3492 / 3402] Stamina.
Create a lifebond between you and an allied player. While bonded, 30% of the damage they take is instead redistributed to you. The bond will remain until you recast the spell or move more than 15 meters away from your ally.

Mystic Guard: Cost: [3402 / 3312 / 3222 / 3132] Stamina.
Create a lifebond between you and an allied player. While bonded, 30% of the damage they take is instead redistributed to you. You and your bonded ally also gain Minor Vitality, increasing your healing received and damage shield strength by 6%. The bond will remain until you recast the spell or move more than 15 meters away from your ally.

Stalwart Guard: Cost: [3402 / 3312 / 3222 / 3132] Stamina.
Create a lifebond between you and an allied player. While bonded, 30% of the damage they take is instead redistributed to you. You and your bonded ally also gain Minor Force, increasing your Critical Damage by 10%. The bond will remain until you recast the spell or move more than 15 meters away from your ally.

Guard causes you to bond with an ally, which will redistribute 30% of their damage taken to you instead. The bond persists unless you move more than 15 meters away, or you can recast it to cancel it. The Mystic Guard morph increases the healing received by both you and your bonded ally, while Stalwart Guard increases both of your Critical Damage values.

Notes

• This ability was added in Update 6, and required Support Rank 10 to unlock. It was moved to Rank 5 in Update 7.

Patch Notes

1.6.5

• Guard (new ability)
  • This new ability will intercept all projectiles that are targeted at allies near you, and when toggled, will also drain your target's stamina while active.
  • Mystic Guard: Your allies gain the Minor Vitality buff.
  • Stalwart Guard: Using this ability will slow your stamina drain.

2.1.4

• Relocated this ability to Rank 5 in the Support tree, from Rank 10.

2.3.5

• This ability and its morphs no longer drain Stamina every second they are toggled on. They will continue to charge an upfront Stamina cost, charge Stamina for each intercepted attack, and disable Stamina Recovery while active.
• Fixed an issue where this ability and its morphs would not reliably intercept projectiles.

2.4.5

• Redesigned this ability and its morphs so they no longer intercept projectiles around you; instead, they are now single target abilities that can be cast on an ally to tether to them. While tethered, 30% of the damage they take is redistributed to you.
  • The tether can be broken by recasting the spell or moving more than 15 meters away from them.
  • Also fixed an issue where this ability and its morphs were not correctly interacting with the Meritorious Service item set bonus or the Magicka Aid passive.
• Mystic Guard: This morph will now grant you and the tethered ally the Minor Vitality buff.
• Stalwart Guard: This morph will now grant you and the tethered ally the Minor Force buff.

2.5.5

• Fixed an issue where this ability and its morphs could be cast on friendly NPCs and Assistants.

2.7.5

• Stalwart Guard: Fixed an issue where the permanent Minor Force buff from this morph was removing other, temporary sources of Minor Force.

5.0.5

• Fixed numerous issues with this ability and its morphs.
  • The transferred damage can no longer be mitigated a second time by the transfer target's mitigation or damage reduction. The damage is only mitigated once, from the initial target's mitigation and damage reduction.
  • The transferred damage is now correctly attributed to the attacker, and no longer attributed to the initial target. It will no longer scale erroneously with the initial target's damage bonuses.
  • The transferred damage will now retain the same damage type of the initial attack, instead of always being Physical Damage. Note that Oblivion Damage still cannot be transferred.

5.1.5

• Reduced the base cost to activate this ability and its morphs to 3672 from 4320 since they were missing the 15% Stamina cost reduction standard.

8.3.5

• Fixed an issue where this ability and morphs' transferred damage was able to trigger other conditional requirements.

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