Guild Wars 2

Do self rooting melee skills make cense?.

They never made much cense to me, specially on a game centered around fluid moving combat, more so being them melee.

The big bad boogieman used to argue for keeping self rooting skills was blurred frenzy, now we have Unrelenting assault and its meh, and this one has a blink effect associated to it.

100 blades, blurred frenzy, zealots defense and so on should be revised.

Blurred frenzy and zealots defense are fine as is

100 blades however deff needs to be reworked to allow movement, its extremely low damage for how difficult it is to actually land in pvp against a competent player because the hard hits are the last 2 and unlike blurred frenzy and zealots, it has no defensive tradeoff for rooting you in place, quite the opposite actually, it leaves you wide open from all angles to get bursted, its just an outdated skill for an outdated gamestate, it used to be balanced, not anymore

I find hilarious that the one weapon that is all about movement, has THE self rooting skill.

I recently re-rolled warrior from Guardian for raiding. I would agree even in the pve world. Hit hundred blades, someone knocks back the enemy, skill wasted. Hit hundred blades, mob runs through me and attacks from behind. Wasted. That being said, it hits pretty hard. Adding maneuverability to it might make it a little too strong? Would have to be done carefully.

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I find hilarious that the one weapon that is all about movement, has THE self rooting skill.

Thief sword? :P

100 blades needs something to set it up in order to land it in a competitive WvW/PvP setting; check out mace/shield + GS warri builds… it is extremely old build and not sure if still viable, honestly I wouldn’t doubt it seeing as warri animations are so darn obvious anyway but boy if you do manage to land that Skull Crack and then proceed with 100 blades… your enemy should be dead, unless they had a stun-break.

100 blades really only shines in PvE where NPCs literally just stand in front of you and eat the full length of the skill.

maybe they could remove hundred blades from the weapon and put something new and amazing in its place?

Zealots defense would be a good moving skill.

Blurred Frenzy is right as is.

They will get to it right after they take the root off ranger sword auto