Guild Wars 2

blind has become a condition that is just far far to powerful to exist.
i’m fine with how it works in regards to making your next attack miss, but being able to completely shut down a melee attacker with the insanely too frequent application of blind on top the rework to make it much much harder to clear has pushed this condition past its bearable limit.

it needs to either have a cooldown imposed on it so you can’t just be perma blinded, or remove blinding fields so you have to be smarter in your use of targeted blinds.

an easy (and shallow) retort would be “simply get out of the field” but that doesn’t really cover it does it, a blind field is hard area denial, something that no class truly had in the beginning of this game. the closest would be engineer with turrets, stay in range of the turrets and die, except the turrets where never like that, they are entirely ignorable and so fragile as to not survive a strong coughing fit.

simply put, blind fields are far to powerful to exist in any kind of pvp style play. they let you dictate the actions of your opponent completely, get out of the field or i will kill you, as opposed to letting your opponent make cutting choices.
and example of a good field would be a fire field, you can choose to stay in it and take damage, but the opportunity granted by the positioning could very well be far more valuable to move and so both parties make a valid decision by their actions.

i don’t know, i’m open to lots of suggestions

like making blind fields last for a really short duration, or reducing blind fields to a smaller area, or simply making them not fields anymore but AOE’s

blind is fine as it is imo. It is an area denial like every other AoE. You can still use AoE,healing and defensive skills. And if you really want to 100bladehurrdurr then you’ll just have to die^^

I feel like there is already enough condition removal skills and condition duration to have a need for a field designed to remove a single condition. I can’t think of a build that you would need to run a “remove blind” only field or not whatever the application anything targeted to negate a single condition is kinda pointless.

Ie: I build a warrior who is immune to blind… okay what about fear posion cripple etc etc it’s not practical. Not to crap on your idea man but there are already a 101 ways to deal with blind already.