Guild Wars 2

I don’t even necessarily mean defensive abilities (though I think they can get out of hand). I’m also not talking about getting my attacks legitimately dodged either.

I’m talking about offensive attacks that do moderate to extreme damage to opponents that make you invulnerable to damage or interrupt effects during that duration. Be it for 1/2 second or 2 that some professions can dish out. A lot of these abilities aren’t elites or utilities either, but short CD weapon skills.

I waste so many abilities simply because I forgot I’m playing <x profession> that goes invulnerable every 3 seconds for 1 second at a time.

I can appreciate what you mean in regards to these abilites however this is part of the situational awareness in PvP for GW2. By this i mean if you see a Mesmer use Blurred frenzy, which is the the 2 skill on MH Sword it grants distortion which is a invunerability to damage (however does not avoid DoT’s).

You are not meant to stand there and wait for the mesmer to finish the attack before resume attacking try smacking his team mate a while and then switch back to the mesmer. Same goes with the thief which has alot of evasive/offensive skills like LDB, Infiltartor’s strike, Pistol whip if you see one using these abilities rather staying on the offensive so semi-defensive still they have burnt there cooldowns and then resume on the offensive and put the pressure back onto them. Spvp is very much like tennis alot of the times but a thing that people need to learn and will learn over time playing this game (even myself i’m still in the process of learning this game) is that your cooldowns are not there to be spammed every time it’s up.

This game is based around observing your oppenent to see them waste thier precious cooldowns then using yours with the 100% certainty that they cannot mitiagte that damage to secure a kill.

hope this helps

-Infi-

For some attacks I agree they could have made the evasion or distortion effects more visually obvious.