Hi everyone!
I came up with an idea of a new condition which would give more space for pure condition builds in PvP, and could bring back the idea of cover haxing from GW1.
I hope you guys will like it and find it as interesting as I do.
I don’t have a specific idea of the name but some suggestions:
Persistance
Toxin
Affliction
The core concept is:
-A method to defend your conditions for a short period of time. Therefore making pure condition build more viable
-Punish mindless condition curing
-Adding a new layer of skill level, and mindgames potentional to PvP
-Giving more importance for the upcoming boon [Resistance] ( Resistance could neglect the effect of this new condition)
-Bringing back the feeling of cover hexing from gw1
For the mechanic of the condition I have two variation in my mind.
The tooltip for the first one:
[name]Condition. If you cure this condition you take X damage.
The tooltip for the second one:
[name]Condition. If you cure condition while affected by [name] you take X damage for every cured condition.
For the first variation i could imagine a spike damage around 3-5K. For the second one the damage would be obviously smaller for a single condition, but it could gather up rapidly. ( The damage would scale heavily from condition damage therefore celestial builds could take less benefit from it.)
Other difference is the first variation would allow skills like [Withdraw] because it cures specific conditions.
The uptime would be relatively short (2-3 seconds). It could shine if you to time it well. For example either use is while the enemy focus target is under heavy CC from conditions or if you manage to put some condition pressure for example on a D/D ele you could do some damage before he or she cleanse it. The support builds would have to watch for it as well. AoE condition removal would be more risky if you don’t pay attention.
That’s it for a quick summary. Let me know guys/girls what do you think.
