1) Either remove trinkets or put trinket users in a different tier. I have no problem with dying to someone else's skill, I can deal with being defeated by better equipment, but having people on your team at twice your HP After Guardian buff on you is just ridiculous in T2.
2) Take out the randomness of the respawn timer. 22 seconds to respawn? Seriously?
3) Make Guardians able to knock others back with their shields. Fighting a cloaked Recon while defending a point as a Guardian is fun. Fighting a Striker is boring and ends in seconds with the Guardian's demise.
4) If not already implemented, allow Guardians to have their shields to have the stats of the shields they have equipped. Dragon Scale shields would be amazing in Lockdown (Piercing and Elemental defence for toothpicks and Polarises)
I will always and forever agree with 1, since I'm a Guardian often tanked by Strikers.
As far as 2, I haven't QUITE figured it out, but I believe I have an idea as to what it does. When nobody has died yet, the respawn counter never runs. When the first person dies, it seems that he suffers a 25-second respawn time. If, however, anyone dies before this respawn is up, he respawns sooner.
EX: P1 Dies, 25 seconds to respawn. P2 Dies 10 seconds later, he only suffers a 15-second respawn. Ya see?
This system seems to keep re-running at 25-seconds, so if you die when just so happens to be at 5 seconds, you get a fast respawn. If it's under 5 seconds, it seems to restart you to wait until the next respawn time. So if it's at 4 and you die, you have to wait 29 seconds to respawn.
This is all speculation based on my personal experience, but that's just how it looks like it works to me.
3): Guardian's actually defeat Strikers commonly while guarding CPs. The only time a Striker has an easy win over a guardian is when they back up and Polaris spam you to death, while waiting for teammates to come finish you off. Strikers have to move in for the kill sometime, and unless they have a Polaris, have a suicidal tendency to rush in with a Gran Faust; making themselves easy prey for the Guardian.
So yeah, not sure why a Guardian would lose to a Striker easily.
4) You might think so, but you're dead wrong. Press "P" after going in a LD game. You'll notice that the Guardian's Shield is extremely powerful compared to any shield you can possibly have equipped. The Guardian Shield has every kind of defence, yet somehow seems to scale based on your armor (Not your shield). Your shield makes no difference, but for some reason can still determine which Tier you go to.
~Sev