Guild Wars 2

Dr Patrik.3642:

For the love of any bit of balance left in this game DO NOT make more unblockable skills! All it does is remove the thinking people have to do when fighting any class with blocks, because why care? they don’t to anything anyways and your skills will just go right through it. Also, when your blocking your usually not attacking, so what, you want them to basically be sitting ducks? If anything Tone down the myriad of unblockable skills in the game and leave the ones that require a lot of investment to get.

Example of what I think should stay:
-Revenant phase traversal since it takes almost all of your energy
-Guardian pulls since there is an icon on your bar so you know before you block that you can get pulled

Example of what should go:
-Thief Shadow Shot, nothing this spammable should be unblockable
-Corrupt Boon should be blockable by blocks that aren’t aegis since its on a low 15 sec cd so it deserves some counter play

In what game? DHs and mes are prime example how you can block and attack at the same time.

Shadowshot isn’t unblockable, only blind part.
If anything we need more things like corrupt boon due to boon spam that was introduced with HoT release.

Dr Patrik.3642:

For the love of any bit of balance left in this game DO NOT make more unblockable skills! All it does is remove the thinking people have to do when fighting any class with blocks, because why care? they don’t to anything anyways and your skills will just go right through it. Also, when your blocking your usually not attacking, so what, you want them to basically be sitting ducks? If anything Tone down the myriad of unblockable skills in the game and leave the ones that require a lot of investment to get.

Example of what I think should stay:
-Revenant phase traversal since it takes almost all of your energy
-Guardian pulls since there is an icon on your bar so you know before you block that you can get pulled

Example of what should go:
-Thief Shadow Shot, nothing this spammable should be unblockable
-Corrupt Boon should be blockable by blocks that aren’t aegis since its on a low 15 sec cd so it deserves some counter play

Corrupt boon applies a 6 second poison to its user already whether it hits or not. This hinders it viability enough as it is, no need to make it worse.

Cynz.9437:

Dr Patrik.3642:

For the love of any bit of balance left in this game DO NOT make more unblockable skills! All it does is remove the thinking people have to do when fighting any class with blocks, because why care? they don’t to anything anyways and your skills will just go right through it. Also, when your blocking your usually not attacking, so what, you want them to basically be sitting ducks? If anything Tone down the myriad of unblockable skills in the game and leave the ones that require a lot of investment to get.

Example of what I think should stay:
-Revenant phase traversal since it takes almost all of your energy
-Guardian pulls since there is an icon on your bar so you know before you block that you can get pulled

Example of what should go:
-Thief Shadow Shot, nothing this spammable should be unblockable
-Corrupt Boon should be blockable by blocks that aren’t aegis since its on a low 15 sec cd so it deserves some counter play

In what game? DHs and mes are prime example how you can block and attack at the same time.

Shadowshot isn’t unblockable, only blind part.
If anything we need more things like corrupt boon due to boon spam that was introduced with HoT release.

No, we needed that pre HoT in the celementalist era, now we need nuke boon. God forbid you ever leave PvP and go into the real world (versus world) and see how truly broken boon spam and HoT specs/food are.

As for the OP, we need HoT stuff nerfing through the floor, balance pre HoT post ele nerf was so much better, still a little boon spammy but nowhere near this HoT stuff.

Zelulose.8695:

Mesmer, Thief, and Ele need more unblockable options that fit within their meta builds. For example thief has to go condition to use it’s unblock able traps. Thief especially could use some more trait based unblockable options.

After necro gets stealth, blink and/or self-water+blast.