Any plans for auto-blocking?

[Nexxus]

Not a fan of autoblock, not either to spam every 18s my shield guard (spam more when it's bugged and doesn't look my guard is up).

But i'll be a fan if they make possible to use guard as a stance, offensive/deffensive, the guard doesn't wear of until it was canceled manually.

Shield up: More defense, more enmity gain using skill, less damage dealt.
Shield off: Less defense, more damage dealt, more accuracy.

[Lienn]

Not a fan of autoblock, not either to spam every 18s my shield guard (spam more when it's bugged and doesn't look my guard is up).

But i'll be a fan if they make possible to use guard as a stance, offensive/deffensive, the guard doesn't wear of until it was canceled manually.

Shield up: More defense, more enmity gain using skill, less damage dealt.
Shield off: Less defense, more damage dealt, more accuracy.

This indeed would be a much better way of dealing with it than auto-blocking. Having guard with a 30 sec toggle recast, just like defender...you use it once to raise shield and it will stay up for 30 min or until you use it again to lower the shield. However it would still mess with wield rate and block rate. You guys ned to think that shield triggers way more frequent than parry exactly due the effort required to use it...if the shield stay up full time its very possible that it turns out to be a major nerf at GLA tanking skills (whic is already kinda bad since 1.18)...