Guild Wars 2

Yeah my thought is they need to make the traits competative to actually have us use different builds. Having that scepter trait make Smite a symbol with added damage or something would be a good start. Having sets of 3 traits where 1 is the clear winner is the exact thing they should be wanting to avoid, and that seems to have happened a bit here.

Sanderinoa.8065:

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Then would it be better if they make it like: Whenever a mesmer summons a Phantasm, copy all his boons to Phantasms.

Sanderinoa.8065:

On another note, frifox, while the shatter sounds really cool and I’d like to try it out, the quickness on interrupt trait doesn’t trigger when the interrupt isnt complete.

Guess it’s been a while since I tried it. Retested it as you’re right, it doesn’t proc. I don’t even get a ‘interrupted’ message pop up anymore as long as there is defiance stacks.

However, it’s till funny that you still can interrupt and proc all on-interrupt goodies with the spiders on west side of Mt Maelstrom simply by auto-attackig them… XD

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Sanderinoa.8065:

On another note, frifox, while the shatter sounds really cool and I’d like to try it out, the quickness on interrupt trait doesn’t trigger when the interrupt isnt complete.

Guess it’s been a while since I tried it. Retested it as you’re right, it doesn’t proc. I don’t even get a ‘interrupted’ message pop up anymore as long as there is defiance stacks.

However, it’s till funny that you still can interrupt and proc all on-interrupt goodies with the spiders on west side of Mt Maelstrom simply by auto-attackig them… XD

How will this all work with the breakbar though? Will mobs be interrupted whenever they are “blue bar interruptable”? Since defiance is leaving.

Gyler.8150:

frifox.5283:

Sanderinoa.8065:

On another note, frifox, while the shatter sounds really cool and I’d like to try it out, the quickness on interrupt trait doesn’t trigger when the interrupt isnt complete.

Guess it’s been a while since I tried it. Retested it as you’re right, it doesn’t proc. I don’t even get a ‘interrupted’ message pop up anymore as long as there is defiance stacks.

However, it’s till funny that you still can interrupt and proc all on-interrupt goodies with the spiders on west side of Mt Maelstrom simply by auto-attackig them… XD

How will this all work with the breakbar though? Will mobs be interrupted whenever they are “blue bar interruptable”? Since defiance is leaving.

Ooooh, observant and interesting, I havent got a clue. Will be interesting!

We’ll have to wait and see, but it is fair to say that without mantra of distraction mesmer weaponskills simply aren’t that great at interrupts when stacked against a sword/pistol thief. So it does make you wonder when you have so many interrupt based traits when your interrupt options have fairly long cd’s outside offhand sword.

It also won’t make Diversion any less of a kick to the teeth, taking a dump on your sustained and burst damage capacity just to interrupt.

The mesmer had mechanical problems with shatters and phantasms and it seems by the way the traits are designed that they have no intention of addressing the whole shatter vs. 3 phantasm ramp up elephant in the room.

When the blue bar is full, you have to spam CC to “consume” it. Once the blue bar reaches zero, you can disable the boss.

Difference CC skills will consume the blue bar in different amounts. As tested on the Legendary Hero in Strong Hold, Deep Freeze is still the skill that impacts that defiance bar the most.

Then during HOT beta stress test, the personal story step, the boss has a mechanic that his defiance bar periodically becomes empty by itself for a very short amount of time (less than 2 sec) allowing you to disable him without burning the defiance bar.

For world boss like Wyvern, it has a massive defiance bar…