here are some thoughts i just came up with.
i main a guardian so take guard as a example.i think these 2 heavys are pretty much balanced in every aspects but the animation.
every defend skills that guardian casting has a huge animation out there ,seems like telling ppl that hey dude i have block on, dont use ur burst. like focus 5. mace3, and aegis has a blue shield on ur arm too.for renewed focus,guardian has a very obvious move and yelling.its very easy for ur enermy to tell when to burst and when to hold cc skills etc.
now take a look at warrior.
when u dealing with a warrior. u dont know when he is invunerable to direct attack or condi damage.there are no animation for both these two skills(or not obvious like other class). u have to watch carefully under the hp bar to see if there were some buff icon. and when they finally gone ..they shielded with 5 while u burst.cuz u were watching the icon and didnt pay attation to the shield animation.
for starters this is really unfair and even more unfair in spvp if u were not warrior .when ur team 2v2 or 3v3 with enermy who has warrior on their side. u may waste ur burst to take them down.my suggestion is make them turns into different color of give some proper animation to identify which is which or delete others classes’ important skill animations.
looking for more ideas and may help anet to balance it.
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