Guild Wars 2

if we’re blinded and we swing our melee weapons in the air, blind will be removed.
blind behaved like this since beta weekends 3 years ago, i have no idea when blind was ridiculously buffed to behave like a reverse aegis.

as of now, if you are blinded, blind will not be removed on empty melee auto attacks in the air, you actually need to be next to some enemy or hostile attack-able item and attack, only then blind will be removed.

this is ridiculous, and unacceptable.

blind should be removed by empty auto attacks.

discuss!

update:
okies, thanks for the feedback, everyone.

perhaps reverting it to before is not possible, since things, once changed, do not un-change. this is the culture here.

what about, empty melee auto attacks reduce remaining blind duration by 1 second ?
would that be a bit more fair?

blind was underpowered back then so they buffed it. in gw1 you had 90% chance of missing for the while blind duration, be happy that we have what we have.

Jekkt.6045:

blind was underpowered back then so they buffed it. in gw1 you had 90% chance of missing for the while blind duration, be happy that we have what we have.

yes, back then, blind spam was still tolerable as only thief was the one able to spam lots of it. but nowadays, mesmer can spam blind a lot and i think ele is also be able to do the same as well ?

yes, i still remember the horrible -90% miss blind in gw1. ele with air magic blinding flash can perma shut down one warrior. i’m glad i’m out of gw1 for good.

no, we must never be happy with what we have.

we keep asking for better!

Think about it…in the past blind was removed if you swing in the open air.

How worthless is that?

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

if we’re blinded and we swing our melee weapons in the air, blind will be removed.
blind behaved like this since beta weekends 3 years ago, i have no idea when blind was ridiculously buffed to behave like a reverse aegis.

as of now, if you are blinded, blind will not be removed on empty melee auto attacks in the air, you actually need to be next to some enemy or hostile attack-able item and attack, only then blind will be removed.

this is ridiculous, and unacceptable.

blind should be removed by empty auto attacks.

discuss!

I would say that Blind would be bugged in my opinion if it got “cured” by striking the air. So I do not agree with you and blind is good as it is and it gives us more tactical playstyle like this.

abc.5790:

Think about it…in the past blind was removed if you swing in the open air.

How worthless is that?

Only worthless if you were spamming it and not timing it. There’s a reason why most blind skills are fast/instant, to be a pseudo-interrupt.

BurrTheKing.8571:

abc.5790:

Think about it…in the past blind was removed if you swing in the open air.

How worthless is that?

Only worthless if you were spamming it and not timing it. There’s a reason why most blind skills are fast/instant, to be a pseudo-interrupt.

Well most are not all, engineers smokebomb is not instant. I have to time it right to be effective and that is even when blind is “cured” by striking a target.

sure, let’s remove blind with empty AA but then classes relying on blinds should be able to attack through blocks/invul just to make it fair~

mesmers having unavoidable blind isn’t reason that all classes relying on blinds have to be punished….

okies, thanks for the feedback, everyone.

perhaps reverting it to before is not possible, since things, once changed, do not un-change. this is the culture here.

what about, empty melee auto attacks reduce remaining blind duration by 1 second ?

would that be a bit more fair?

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

okies, thanks for the feedback, everyone.

perhaps reverting it to before is not possible, since things, once changed, do not un-change. this is the culture here.

what about, empty melee auto attacks reduce remaining blind duration by 1 second ?

would that be a bit more fair?

just make mesmer blind avoidable… blinds are really not THAT broken and don’t need changing; you don’t even need condi removal for them….

at least for me they are least of the issue compared to things like burning, daze spam etc.

i know you (warriors) have issues with blinds but frankly if there was close to no counters to your animations they would have to nerf your surivival by a lot… the reason why you have such high HP pool and a lot of (passive) defensives is because warrior attacks are fairly counterable… remove counters and your class will have to suffer from it if anything~

same reason why i laugh @ people asking to give initiative to other classes and make their spammable… because if anet did it they would have to nerf effectivness of initiative based spells by a lot….

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

okies, thanks for the feedback, everyone.

perhaps reverting it to before is not possible, since things, once changed, do not un-change. this is the culture here.

what about, empty melee auto attacks reduce remaining blind duration by 1 second ?

would that be a bit more fair?

Well I do not know you but it seems like you didn’t even know of this until the other blind thread was created. So what I mean is keep blind as it always have been since the game was released (Not since beta) but change so classes does not have access to this blind-spamming that has been introduced with the change too specialization.

BurrTheKing.8571:

abc.5790:

Think about it…in the past blind was removed if you swing in the open air.

How worthless is that?

Only worthless if you were spamming it and not timing it. There’s a reason why most blind skills are fast/instant, to be a pseudo-interrupt.

Necro deathly swarm 1/4 s cast time
well of darkness 1/4 s cast time

totally non-pseudo interrupt

But I saw your posts about blinds. Blinds are more functional now. The problem lies with certain builds having easy access to it.

Blind was supposed to be timed against telegraphed attack that would hurt; like evi, eartshaker. Properly timed blind was far from underpowered.

Now howered..blind turned into faceroll tool where you can just blindspam your enemy. I doubt they revert this change, but reducing blind duration across the board would help. Anything that blinds for over 2 seconds is absurd.

Timed blind to prevent a special strong attack is a good design idea, promoting focusing on your opponent moves and skilful play.

BUT in an age when you have to random dodge and auto attacks can proc 5k….
That’s why you can’t revert blind to what it was.

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

Jekkt.6045:

blind was underpowered back then so they buffed it. in gw1 you had 90% chance of missing for the while blind duration, be happy that we have what we have.

yes, back then, blind spam was still tolerable as only thief was the one able to spam lots of it. but nowadays, mesmer can spam blind a lot and i think ele is also be able to do the same as well ?

yes, i still remember the horrible -90% miss blind in gw1. ele with air magic blinding flash can perma shut down one warrior. i’m glad i’m out of gw1 for good.

no, we must never be happy with what we have.

we keep asking for better!

Warriors in Gw1 could be warrior/ritualist and take sight behind sight and laugh at lightning flash ele, they were options and good warriors would take it..like you can do here