Hi,
First of all, this is how Blind is at the moment:
Blind: Next outgoing attack misses; stacks duration.
I would like to make a suggestion to change the blind condition, since at the moment it is the one condition that no one cares about… every one is looking out for every other condition so that they can remove it asap.
Conditions like Bleeding, Burning, chill, confusion, cripple, fear, immobilize, poison, vulnerability and weakness need to be removed because they directly have influence on battle in hand, they all can get you killed (along with retaliation on your opponent).
Blind make you miss the next attack, who cares?! you next one will hit and the next one and the one after that… Most people don’t even notice that they have been blinded…
Unless you are lucky enough (not skilled) to blind your target before he crowed control’s you, otherwise its just pointless to use blind, every class has they’re burst dmg spread throughout a rapid sequence of hits, missing 1 is irrelevant, dodging makes them miss a lot more that 1 hit.
My suggestion is, if instead of having your target miss the next attack, it would make them miss all attacks wile blinded.
Obviously this would also require that the blind duration throughout the professions be adjusted. (1,5sec to 2sec tops removable) also not stackable or stackable to a limit (like stealth) to a 3sec limit for example.
- Would (in my opinion) bring blind in line with all the other existing conditions.
- Would take skill to use it at the right time to avoid a burst or participially avoid it.
- Players would have to remove it or dodge away until it wares off instead of hitting “1” once to remove it.
- Would bring more variety to the table (since it’s just ignored at the moment).
I believe it is a realistic change and possibly not to hard to implement.
I didn’t expected to get this big but i tried to be as clear and detailed as possible.
I hope you enjoyed the read, and also that these reaches someone from Arena Net that would spend 2 minutes thinking about this suggestion 
(edited by Volrath.1473)