Everyone having the same skills, traits, downed skills, and utilities are perfect! What a fantastic idea… instead of balancing lets just all be lazy and have no diversity or interested gameplay. lets all have these skills
I cant see anyone talking about skills, traits, drowned or utilities – this is just about Downed skill #2 and NO one can say they are balanced. Just giving out opinions and possible options – its not as if any of this will be taken into account and them actually do something about it anyway…
The point is that they are actually a bit balanced. By no means a warrior should be able to do what an ele can in downed state, nor an ele should be as bad as a warrior is while downed. You see, guardians have as much armor as a warrior have, but way lower hp, so guardians get a little better downed skill than warriors.
I might agree that mesmer and necro downed might be a little bad for them being light armor users, but you see necros are the second highest hp in game so they shouldnt have something as powerful as eles, but still not something as bad as warriors. Mesmers are light armor with high lower hp than a necro so their downed should be a little better, thieves hp are the second lowest in the game but they are med armor so their downed shouldnt be as good as an ele downed but neither as bad as a warrior downed, should be between mesmer and necro… Not sure if you get my point, but giving everyone the same chances to live is plain stupid and as i said then they should give everyone as much hp and armor.
You wanted a warrior? High hp, high armor, well your skills wont be as good as an ele to get out of troubles you will have to use ur high hp and armor to live through, deal with it.
I’m not saying everyone should have the exact same thing, that was an Option but they are not balanced – looks at Engineer. The problem is
1. You shouldnt be able to Stomp someone while in stealth
2. Downstate #2 shouldnt become useless against certain classes, abilities, skills
Then you have the problem that some people wont even bother stomping someone, just drop a few AoE and leave them to die thanks to the fact that taking any sort of damage stops the heal is annoying as well should only be direct damage that stops it
Thief, Ele and Warrior have the best ones i would say, they are balanced they can delay death (like they should) without being TO over powered (minus Thief) Mesmer WOULD be up there as well IF ours wasnt so UNRELIABLE
Surely downed state ISNT about whos got the highest armor/health It should take damage done into account in that sense then and Thief have OP burst and with the Culling issues an OP Stealth…so should they ALSO get the strongest Downedstate?
Downed State #2 skills should be to DELAY death for a few seconds, give your team or what ever a chance to save you, Engineer one is awful for example I’d say Necro is the second worst
In My opinion it goes:
Thief > Ele > Warrior > Mesmer(when it works) > Guardian > Mesmer(when it doesnt work) > Necro > Engineer
Not sure what the Ranger one is so dont know where it would fit.
