"My talent has a two-hundred-second cooldown. It isn't ready yet."
"I'm still standing, aren't I? Just keep the heals coming."
The team had only recently formed. It was a temporary fixed team assembled according to the members' combat strength and talents, with players drawn from different guilds.
Although most players now met the requirements to enter the Sword Cavern, the gaps in their combat strength remained enormous.
Differences in class composition, talents, and equipment often created glaring disparities within previously established fixed teams.
Under those circumstances, they might not clear even an easy-mode dungeon without trouble.
As a result, dungeon teams had adopted a temporary transitional approach: players with sufficient strength and experience would clear the dungeons first, rather than waste their limited weekly attempts.
Grouping players of comparable strength usually prevented imbalances in coordination. Once the members of a fixed team had all improved enough, they could resume challenging dungeons together.
The most scarce yet most abundant class in God's Domain was the Shield Guard. Powerful Shield Guards with outstanding defenses who could reliably tank damage were few and far between, and elite teams had already snapped them up.
Meanwhile, Shield Guards with average combat strength and inadequate defenses were everywhere, unable to find teams willing to take them.
A Shield Guard only needed to pursue damage after securing their own survival. Those with weak defenses generally dealt little damage as well, so few teams wanted them. Most groups would rather bring another Priest for greater staying power.
Some teams without a Shield Guard therefore had a high-damage physical class temporarily handle tanking duties. Linghu Zhazha was one such player.
His talent, Defensive Guard, boosted both his defenses after he entered combat. The lower his health fell, the greater the defensive bonus became. The effect lasted until he left