[Poruku]

Bodyguard is really good, guys. I totally did not lose to bodyguard recently, so I'm emotionally stable I swear.

Seriously, that thing has slowly crept up into the PvP meta and now any tanky boy worth their weight in salt is rocking it. Now that you can have boulder heavy armors as well, combined with some varied DR, you basically enter the boss phase when they get low.

Hits of 200 can easily get reduced to below 50 damage, the only way to truly get through that stuff is by using multihits, which is something not everyone has access to. Damage over time effects are also good against it, but again, only a select few.

Now add in other factors that make it difficult to finish the fight such as last chance, phenex revive, the life saving charm, etc, and you're looking at a monster in red hp. Add in avalon and other healing, and it's going to be nigh impossible to ever kill this guy.

I would know, I play a phenex with pacifist boon who slaps on bodyguard (with 170 SR and 100 CE). I think most builds in this game could basically never kill this guy if he's played defensively. 

Anyway, point is, it's good. I think it only needs a small nerf to be balanced again though. There's other good armors out there, and it's competing with them, only recently resurfacing in the meta. I think a solid nerf would be to simply reduce the DR from 50% to 35-40%. Just something to make these people still take some damage.