Guild Wars 2

Both stuns and conditions can be extremely powerful and be a death sentence if the player does not have an appropriate counter. This can be a problem when both stun breaks and condition removal require separate and often heavy investment.

This got me thinking, what if we merged stun breaks and condition removal? For instance, what if stuns, dazes, and knockdowns could be removed with condition removal, stun breaks would instead lower the duration of all conditions on the player by a few seconds, and more condition removal skills could be used while affected by control effects?

Something like this would dramatically cut the investment cost of dealing with CC and conditions, combat the “condition meta” in PvP, and help out professions with a lack of on-demand condition removal. Of course this would require re-balancing in some areas, but I feel a change of this nature could positively benefit the game.

And then have all CC’s effected by condition duration…100%+, yay

There are a number of stunbreaks that do this. Plague Signet and Contemplation of Purity are the most efficient, since they are both total cleanses, but others include Signet of Renewal (A group-wide total cleanse, but screws the pooch, literally), Roll for Initiative (removes all snares, plus evades), Save Yourselves (party-wide total cleanse, except for you, but you get a bunch of boons, so happy day!), Shake it Off (party-wide cleanse, only 1), Shadow Return (3 conditions on self), and Well of Power (AoE conversion, up to 6 conditions converted per ally).

There are actually a fair number of skills that pull double-duty. Of course, all stunbreaks cleanse Fear.