Actually, your post doesn’t provide any compelling evidence whatsoever for guard being overpowered. It’s mostly just you whining that people don’t take you seriously because you don’t pvp exclusively. The real reason you’re bad isn’t that you don’t pvp exclusively, though. It’s more along the lines of you having no idea what you’re talking about, imo.
If guard wasn’t in the game, pretty much all pvp would just be tunneling the squishiest player. Picture a 4v4 dps solo ranked match everywhere you go, because who would tank if they can’t use guard to peel, and who would heal if you just get piled on by four dps and stunned into oblivion? Guard gives tanks a reason to exist in pvp, and it also provides counterplay and introduces strategy in getting kills. This whole “ZOMG REGS ARE OVERRUN WITH HEALERS AND TANKS” nonsense has more to do with match making than an actual balance issue: if a team has multiple tanks and healers of course you aren’t going to be killing anything with the terrible regstar dps who populate the average war zone and this forum. Now I know counterplay, complexity, and strategy are pure anathema to most of the terrible people who are posting in favor of this thread, and I’m sincerely sorry for making you all have to consider them.