So I just wanted to point out a couple areas that could use improvement. Namely the druid and the revenant.
In pvp, both of these are comically unbalanced. That is to say, over powered. I’ve spent all day with a druid who has access to
1 2 second daze on weapon swap (8 second cd)
1 2 second Daze from my moa’s screech every 24 seconds.
1 2 second taunt every 24 seconds on activation of f2
1 4 second daze from glyph of equality with a 24 second cd
1 6 second daze from Lunar impact with a 5 second cd (you read that right, perma daze in celestial form.)
1 knock back or pull in every 20 seconds
Keep in mind these are all aoe. Supposing an enemy team has 0 stab (bad choice) I could lock them down with 32 seconds straight of dazes (all of the dazes plus 2 weapon swaps) and soon after my other cds would come up.
This isn’t theory crafted, this is experimental; I played all day like this. People complained every game. I locked them out of the ability to play the entire game. Sometimes enemies would have 0 points at the end because they’d keep rushing mid (where I was) and they’d run around dumb (dazed forever) until they died.
Don’t get me wrong, it was a total blast to play, but these durations are absurd. The reason they are so long is that I have +100% daze duration with the trait Moment of Clarity. I could feasibly get longer if the runes of the mesmer had any functionality, alas, they don’t increase my daze duration at all. Broken, I think. I tested them with and without the trait and didn’t see any increase in daze duration.
I was running staff staff so every weapon swap was a 2 second daze (plus sigils of renewal for heals and sometimes hydromancy sometimes leeching, w/e).
In addition to all these dazes, if I attacked a dazed enemy, once in 10 seconds I’d root them with an entangling vine for 5 seconds of immob (effectively a stun… actually a better stun. Stun break wouldn’t cure the immob)
If you guys have questions pls comment, but for the sake of brevity, I’ll talk about the revenant now.
The revenant is a ton of fun right now, but the tank build has too much invuln. Between the shield #5’s 3 second invuln, sword #2’s 2 second evade, the infusion of light’s 4 seconds of damage inversion and the trait for another shield #5 at low health (combined with vampirism runes) we’re talking about a total time of invulnerability of 18 seconds if the rotation were sword 2, shield 5, infusion of light, low health invuln, vamp invuln, sword 2. And 2 seconds later… the shield would be off cd again and 7 seconds later the heal would be too.
So far, these are my two biggest negative feedbacks. I love Heart of thorns and these builds are fun to play, but I don’t think these were intended to be quite so strong.
