Guild Wars 2

For those of you who do not know, this skill basically gives the mesmer a boon and the enemy a condition for each time the mesmer is hit. However! It was put on an ICD of 1 second for handing out conditions and boons. The part mesmers are sore about is that this ICD is on themselves and not the enemy, which would be like the equivalent of the elementalist’s Fire Shield[Burns foes and grants might for each hit with a 1 second CD for each individual attacker]. For Fire Shield, it basically means the if two attackers hit at the same time, both get burned and give might. Then if another attacker hits after half a second, it procs again. For Chaos Armor, it simply means if two attackers hit at the same time, only one of them gets a condition and the mesmer gets only one boon.

The simple fix, I believe, is making Chaos Armor work like Fire Shield where it puts a 1 second CD on each attacker instead of itself.

Thoughts on this?

According to this http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Chaos_Armor it is already as you say. Well ok half of it since the boons really have a icd of 1 second but the condition application has a cd per attecker. So it is the same more or less…

Asking for a buff by calling existing functionality a bug?

Perhaps this is intended, fire shield is weak compared to chaos armor.

In this case spectral skills for necromancers should be reverted so that we get all the life force per hit. Great idea!

But seriously if you take that away chaos armor can get really strong really fast. It could mean giving the mesmer 15 seconds of protection because they got hit. It wouldn’t be terrible for all the enemies to receive the condies, but the mesmer should not get all of the boons.

Yes, well, this was a mistake on my part, having had a misinformed idea of the nerf. I retract my complaint and revise my opinion in thinking that the current version is balanced well enough.

Chaos Armor is ok, but like many other of our skills/traits pretty random and can screw you over as much as it can help you.

Being able to get protection on demand with the old Chaos Armor was really useful against thieves and other burst builds, now you must yourself get hit to get anything and be lucky to get the protection you want.

Personally, i would simply reduce the cd of the skill if ArenaNet feels ok with what it’s doing. Eles generally have more skills at their disposal and are balanced with higher cds in exchange.

TBH, chaos armor is one of the best auras :P (would be funny if it qualified as an aura for eles).