Your thoughts on "Warden's Paean."

[Cetonis]

Doesn't his shield also reduce damage done from that side to 0? I mean preventing slow would be nice, but you still don't want to be hitting him from the wrong side.

You know, I don't actually know. Fully possible that I'm being an idiot here.

[FateAudax]

Bear in mind that Warden's Paean doesn't block all detrimental effect such as Vulnerability Up.

[Nanga]

I've been using it at Ravana's Ex. There's no use in Bismarck Ex and no other fight yet, but it's got potential. Can see it being a good support skill in the near future if they put maybe a longer CD and remove the casting time.

I agree with the usability on Ravana-Ex. You can drop it on two of your best DPS, and they can continue to DPS the snot out of Ravana-Ex and not get the slow and/or damage-taken+ debuff. In other words, put WP on two melee DPS and they won't need to run away with the group before Ravana jumps.

Edit: I personally have not done this yet (tossing WP on people for ravana-ex), but was thinking about it today in between groups.

[The_Last_Dragoon]

I've actually yet to see Wanderer's Paean block anything that would make it remotely useful. Maybe if it blocked all of the debuffs that it could block (since it really doesn't block much) for the entirety of the 30 seconds then people would think more about using it. I also find it funny that the only reason why Wanderer's Minuet seems so weak is because Sidewinder is glitched and you can use it outside of WM. I smell a hotfix about to come over that tonight though.

[Zophar]

Bear in mind that Warden's Paean doesn't block all detrimental effect such as Vulnerability Up.

It does some times. Try it on the Naboorie things in Hinterlands. It blocks it from them, but not things like dungeon bosses

[SasakiNori]

only reason why Wanderer's Minuet seems so weak is because Sidewinder is glitched and you can use it outside of WM. I smell a hotfix about to come over that tonight though.

Sidewinder is not glitched. It's one of the dozen skills that currently has an incorrect tooltip. If you check up on the japanese tooltip, which were all updated accordingly, you'd see that Sidewinder is not a WM-locked skill.

[stuscott]

I have yet to find a viable use for this skill - looks like a PvP skill. Takes longer to cast than a healer's Esuna and doesn't work on debuffs that would make it useful (WAR Berserk pacification, for example)

[nbiscuitz]

I just hope they don't take away our non-WM sidewinder...Otherwise we have nothing in the expansion, wooohooo

On topic, i have never used the paeon and probably never will, unless there is a forced mechanic which most likely won't be any.

[Zophar]

I feel like a good use for it will eventually come to the surface, but who knows? I mainly just use it for kicks on some solo fights. Occasionally blocks a poison or a vulnerability down or something lol

[ckc22]

IMO it's probably the single worst ability added for any job in all of 3.0.

Maybe if it was instant, on a CD, and aoe it would be worthwhile.