Guild Wars 2

Actually Diamond Skin is OP.

That’s not why Diamond Skin can make the ele immune to damage conditions, but it’s why it can make the ele Immune to Every Single Condition of the Game!
That make every class unable to engage a ele with immobilize, blind, daze, cripple, chill, making a large amount of strategies useless and making that trait OP why the ele is free to hit the enemy and run around all the time untouched.

That’s my idea:
Increase the HP Range of diamond skin to 85% but make it protect the ele only from Damaging Conditions.
It will protect the ele from Burn, Bleed, Poison, Torment, Confusion and Vulnerability (why it’s a condition that will work to increase the damage dealt to the ele), keeping that trait very strong. But will make the ele still susceptible to cripple, immobilize, daze, weakness, slow, fear and chill.
(fear can deal damage but only with a necro and chill will do damage but only with the reaper, then they’re not considered damage conditions)

That will make all classes able to start a fight against a ele but still unable to deal condition damage why diamond skin is active and protect the ele.

Diamond Skin will still be a very strong trait but not OP why the enemy will be able to catch him.
With the cantrip build (or similar) is still hard catch a ele when it’s under 90% hp, then that will auto-balance the loss of condition immunity.

This would kill DS, no one would use it anymore over Stone Heart. Also, daze isn’t a condition.

Seriously, the best idea I’ve seen for Diamond Skin is as follows:

Diamond Skin: Gain resistance for 4 seconds when you enter Earth Attunement.

Why would you nerf DS, it’s useless trait…
…nobody will pick it in serious play unless we will have condi meta, otherwise Stone Heart is like thousand times better.

Rising Dusk.2408:

Seriously, the best idea I’ve seen for Diamond Skin is as follows:

Diamond Skin: Gain resistance for 4 seconds when you enter Earth Attunement.

2-4 seconds is probably the ideal range. No health threshold, though.