Guild Wars 2

Jace al Thor.6745:

Chrono introduced the shield block which is giving every low tier player I meet problems because they’re constantly attacking the block. The well is only 3 seconds on a… 40-45 seconds cd? I’m on a mobile and can’t look atm. The new F5 doesn’t really count as a mitigation ability.

Oh yeah, a cloth class having 21 seconds of endure pain just via rotations in 50 seconds window sure balanced. Why ? Because mesmers entitled for that. ;D

You do realize a Mesmer can’t attack during the shield block….right?
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a shield fan wasn’t when it was announced and still am not, but jeez. It’s not like it’s not an obvious animation.
And to get 21 Seconds of immune let’s see. 4 seconds from Distortion, 3 from Well of Precognition, of course we’ve done a f5 shatter so we can double that and get a total of 15 seconds of distortion/Blur, assuming sword is being ran that’s another 2 seconds evade frame x2 for 19 Seconds.
But… You’ve wasted your burst to do so. There’s no reason, unless your trying to troll someone, that you would need to pop all that at one time. And distortion doesn’t allow point contesting. So for 8 seconds the point your on is being controlled by the enemy. Can you repeat that? Sure. You can do that exact combo is another 80 seconds since you have to wait for f5 to reset.
But you know, a Rev can do all that and better.
No class, no matter your views, is entitled to anything. My point this entire time has been that other than what was introduced with Chrono-wells, shield, f5, all has already been in the game and that for the time it’s being complained about not much has changed other than some QoL changes.

Jace al Thor.6745:

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Since I have said everything I had to say plenty of times, you guys just miss it: reread before you think you can judge about what I’ve said/or meant – btw the last passage of your post didn’t make any sense, sorry.

There’s too many passives in this game, there are too many tanks in this game who can hit harder than a zerker, there are too many blocks and gimmicks in this game = it’s spam to win. And I think that’s sad actually as mesmers used to be my favourite opponents, fighting them was fun (like chess) – nowadays I can’t even hit them because their traitline merging brought them all these passives – horray.

Jana.6831:

Jace al Thor.6745:

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Since I have said everything I had to say plenty of times, you guys just miss it: reread before you think you can judge about what I’ve said/or meant – btw the last passage of your post didn’t make any sense, sorry.

There’s too many passives in this game, there are too many tanks in this game who can hit harder than a zerker, there are too many blocks and gimmicks in this game = it’s spam to win. And I think that’s sad actually as mesmers used to be my favourite opponents, fighting them was fun (like chess) – nowadays I can’t even hit them because their traitline merging brought them all these passives – horray.

I can see why mesmer was your favorite opponent; you were their direct counter. As for a point you made earlier about backstabbing through aegis: you stay stealthed and take off their aegis, so you can chain your backstabs until you hit.