Thats just it, durring guard you are constantly lowering your shield and leaving yourself wide open to attack. Maybe if it at least functioned as it should with keeping your shield up for the durration of Guard, I'd be OK with it. So it just seems like a massive waste of potential damge mitigation and not worth my effort. While Guard is up I get hit 70% of the time. Is my game glitchng or something? Becuase I fail to see that being that effective or worth my effort. Its not like guard lasts that long in the first place, so filter out about 70% of its effectiveness and I'm left with a very small amount of damage mitigation. I suppose its true that if durring that 30% of the time, my guard is up when a massive attack hits I would be saved, but thats extremely unlikely, and I have horrible luck so dont like to gamble.