Guild Wars 2

The game needs skills that are not only unblockable, but also ones that go through evade. GW1 had this, I do not see why GW2 does not. I’m a firm believer that players should be punished for making mistakes. These two skills do not punish the player when their target makes a smart move.

Blind for example, use a condition removal right? Problem is, it will just be reapplied over and over and over.

Evade right? The player can just spam it without fear of being punished for it.

Either they need to change blind or introduce diminishing returns like WoW (would make sense since gw2 plays more like WoW than it does gw1). For evade skills just need to be introduced that negates evade.

devs will likely never do this. the game is designed to be very forgiving.
a simpler solution would be to reduce access to dodge/evade and blinds. but they won’t do this either because it would be too much of a difference from pve (assuming you’re talking about split from pve)

Most evades one can spam is three. If they spam three evades in a row, that is when you punish them.

Blind itself is not a problem. It’s certain abilities that apply blind continually that are a problem. Abilities that only apply blind once are just another form of dodging.

VidurrRedhands.1964:

Most evades one can spam is three. If they spam three evades in a row, that is when you punish them.

Oh no no, this is highly dependent upon the profession/build being talked about.

You can build an S/D Thief to almost always be evading if you want.

Rangers can definitely evade way more than only 3 times.

Etc

We need less blind spam I agree, and we also need to remove the passive evades from all weapons except maybe leave one on ranger sword, one on Mesmer (blurred). Thieves… I don’t even know. But passively evading on spammable moves is just kittenty. It’s hard to time cast moves between .5 or less gaps of not evading while the enemy is also teleporting around… It’s just a poor design and one that’s VERY not fun to fight against. (Nor is the mass condi bombing but that’s a different story.)

Well for S/D thieves just catch them between flanking strikes, when they are trying to land larcenous. No matter what, saying evades need to be toned down is hilarious.

VidurrRedhands.1964:

Well for S/D thieves

It’s always about thieves.

It’s painful dealing with Shadowshot spammers on builds that don’t run Beserker stance.

Thief is the problem with the blind as it is now, is so spammable that is ilegal at this point.