Guild Wars 2

In my opinion blind in the current state is pretty weak, it’s a 100% miss chance for the next(1) attack, but it do nearly nothing against aoe and casted(channeled) spell like 100blades as it neutralize the first hit while other 9 hit, and it don’t really count as “protection” for other offensive condition when a condition remover is used.
My suggestion is transform the “100% miss chance on 1 hit” in a “~50% miss chance for all attack for 3 second, stack in duration”.
That way a blind can smoth casted burst skill and effectively count as an harmful condition that enemy want to get rid of.
The only profession that can stack blind alone are thief(black powder 4 second, static self-centered), engineer(smoke bomb, bomb kit, 3 second, static self-centered), necro(well of darkness, static self-centered if not traited, and plague mobile self-centered); black powder, smoke bomb and well of darkness are easy enough for a played watching the monitor to avoid the second pulse and then the stacking of the condition, run away from plague may be harder if you haven’t some speed cd ready but plague do just ~300 damage + poison tic + blind/bleed/cripple, then if you decide to blind you renounce to do dps for control.

I like the 100% change more than your proposal of 50% chance which makes blind completely unreliable.

What if it stacked? Get 5 stacks of blind = your next 5 attacks will miss.

50% for 3 seconds would be extremely OP. Some classes have nearly infinite blind and could make someone miss 50% of the attacks pretty much of the time.
Currently if u are sleepy or not skilled at all you will still miss a lot, but skilled players will often use their 1 skill just to get rid of blind and then use the big move. However this would be impossible if it lasted 3 seconds you should just retreat or try your luck, blind is fine as it is imo.

In fact, i have a better idea (maybe) about blind. I experience in an other game (i don’t remember which one) e really roleplay blind with my screen becoming black. I saw the skills, the map and quest indicators but everything else was black. I think it would be really good to implement this in the game. And by the way, if the developpers implement surdity, the same can be done with the sound shut down.

stof.9341:

I like the 100% change more than your proposal of 50% chance which makes blind completely unreliable.

What if it stacked? Get 5 stacks of blind = your next 5 attacks will miss.

Then Elementalists could be able to abuse it to make the next 15 attacks by a group of enemies miss.

Arcane Power + Elemental Surge + Chain Lightning staff auto attack.

Also, that’s not all blind does, it literally makes players unable to see stuff while the blind is active. Of course, that doesn’t work on mobs. But it’s pretty neat in PvP.

Manakel Angel.1047:

In fact, i have a better idea (maybe) about blind. I experience in an other game (i don’t remember which one) e really roleplay blind with my screen becoming black. I saw the skills, the map and quest indicators but everything else was black. I think it would be really good to implement this in the game. And by the way, if the developpers implement surdity, the same can be done with the sound shut down.

As stataed above, when you get blind, enemies disappear.

@ThiBash

I don’ t mean just ennemies disappearance, butreally a black screen. You don’t see your own character and your allies, trees, if you walk on the edge of a cliff you might fall (ouch, carefull). Basically you see nothing beside the UI.

ThiBash.5634:

Then Elementalists could be able to abuse it to make the next 15 attacks by a group of enemies miss.

Arcane Power + Elemental Surge + Chain Lightning staff auto attack.

Also, that’s not all blind does, it literally makes players unable to see stuff while the blind is active. Of course, that doesn’t work on mobs. But it’s pretty neat in PvP.

Not true. The fact is, if you put on someone 50 stacks of 2s blind, it’s not that much more powerful than giving him 100s of blind. Also, as far as I know, charge buffs like Arcane Power drain at the rate of one charge per target affected by Chain Lightning no?

Also, I don’t remember that blind effect on my screen. Probably because it only lasts 0.02s in PvP anyway with all that autoattack spam going around. And if it was too much of a bother, a little tweak and that’s fixed.

Manakel Angel.1047:

In fact, i have a better idea (maybe) about blind. I experience in an other game (i don’t remember which one) e really roleplay blind with my screen becoming black. I saw the skills, the map and quest indicators but everything else was black. I think it would be really good to implement this in the game. And by the way, if the developpers implement surdity, the same can be done with the sound shut down.

Ragnarok online, heh, bats gave you blindness and ur whole screen went black for the exception of a small circle on top of your character (you could pretty much only see urself)

This however wouldnt work, who cares if you cant see kitten, u still have ur enemy targeted, or can press tab to auto target and fire something

Then blind untarget and disable tab, you have to guess where is your ennemi in the darkness. probleme solved. By the way i didn’tplay ragnarok online, i thought it was morrowind or something like that.