For an up to 7 second cool-down (If traited for burst), and about a half-second tell time before you get hit, it’s starting to become one of the most highly abused skills I’ve seen most warriors use nowadays. It hits way too hard with any power warrior with high adrenaline regen for a skill to hit that hard every 7 seconds. Compared to most other burst skills from any class that can hit about as hard as an evicerate can, usually they’re balanced out with either long cooldowns or long channel times or are otherwise generally hard to land much like Hundred Blades or Churning Earth for Eles or even a thief’s backstab to some extent, in which you have to hit someone from behind for full effectiveness, which if you’re an avid player, you can avoid with some fancy footwork.
Most warriors often carry a Shield or a Rush/Kick skill to often guarantee an evicerate hit, especially when traited with Unsuspecting Foe for a high damage near-guaranteed critical hit. Most classes (Besides maybe a PU Mesmer or an Evade thief) lack the stun breaks and endurance regen to reliably be able to avoid evicerate hits that often. On my 2,640 armor ele (Not really that tanky, but in no ways squishy) I can get hit with a 8k evicerate every 7 seconds from a glass or semi-glass cannon warrior if I don’t mist form or dodge the stun/evicerate combo, this effectively shaving off about half my HP in one blow with not that much time to react to the dodge or enough stun breaks to usually last a prolonged fight. (Cantrip CDs are more an ele prob anyways)
I ask for either the damage for this skill to be reduced to give a fair chance for most players to be able to have a more forgiving time against a high damage burst skill with a really short CD or increase the “tell time” for the skill to give us a better chance of being able to dodge the big damage from this skill.
Edit: Tested WvW numbers, not sPvP, sorry if any misunderstandings there
Daeaera ~ Leader of Grape Justice! [FGJ]