Guild Wars 2

I just wanted to offer an opinion on something. There’s a number of abilities in the game with “Unblockable” but there really aren’t that many blocks. There are far greater amounts of “evade” on weapon abilities, and I feel like it kind of defeats the purpose of having abilities that go through blocks.

That said, weapon skills with “Evades” (not Utilities, and not dodge rolls) should be changed to Blocks instead. That way having something be unblockable actually feels like it means something rather than it still missing due to the sheer amount of evades in the game versus block.

Again, I do not mean that unblockable abilities land on evading (dodge rolling) targets and I do feel like evades on utilities are fine because they generally have a long enough cooldown.

“This is an amazing idea”

- Necro epidemic + Corrupt boon specialists.

So basically what you are saying is to nerf Ranger and Thief survivability while offering nothing in return. What do you propose they increase so that they can somehow still play the game?

They don’t need anything in return. Currently evasion is the strongest way to mitigate damage in the game. All a skilled Ranger must to do be incredibly hard to kill while still dealing enormous damage, is pack Troll Unguent, focus on Shaman’s gear, and simply spam evades between TU cooldowns.

Exactly, it’s the only form of defense that negates everything from every angel, and sorry to say, if you are allowed to get hit by UNBLOCKABLE abilities in your evade spams, you’re not going to be severely crippled. God forbid the game doesn’t completely hold your hand with mechanics like evade on classes with mass access to it. Warriors have to deal with JUST blocking and they’re not the most resilient things in the world, and they also have a 30 second cooldown on it and can’t deal damage during it, and can’t stealth, teleport around etc. Evades are simply too plentiful and “unblockable” doesn’t mean enough currently.