Guild Wars 2

This is just a list of changes I’d like to see for the focus, “the forgotten set” from last year, the focus was extremely good in the beginning but then got nerfed a little too much in my opinion, these below are the skills I feel have been nerfed too hard and should be reverted back to a more reasonable status:

1)Fire Shield
-It was 30s in February 2012 with the same effect of today, then it got suddenly nerfed to 40s CD for no apparent reason and with no other changes, I believe that 30s CD was more than reasonable and 40s CD is just too high for the effects we get, it’s only burning we’re talking about no chill like for frost aura where the 40s CD is legitimate, or leave it at 40s CD but increase the aura duration to 6s.

2)Gale
-Around June of last year the 50s CD was justified from the fact that the Knockdown effect was 3s and hence superior to earthquake, but now the Kd has been reduced by 1s and we now have got a weaker version of earthquake for single target only and with 5s CD extra, maybe 3s KD is not so OP as you thought initially seen as guardians can have a 3s KD every 15s ( spirit hammer), therefore the 50s CD of gale is totally infair and should be lowered to at least 40s CD even though 35s CD would be ideal; but for 50s CD the Kd effect should be no less than 3s

I’d love to see thse kind of changes this months, it would make the focus more viable for sure

I would include firewall in this. An easy fix in my opinion would be to give it a very short, or instant casting animation. Currently ring of fire is far superior in my opinion, as it’s a very fast cast, it’s more difficult to avoid and easier to combo thru, it does point blank damage, and, finally, it’s on a shorter cooldown.

In spite of this, I’m a glutton for punishment and play s/f.

Arheundel.6451:

This is just a list of changes I’d like to see for the focus, “the forgotten set” from last year, the focus was extremely good in the beginning but then got nerfed a little too much in my opinion, these below are the skills I feel have been nerfed too hard and should be reverted back to a more reasonable status:

1)Fire Shield
-It was 30s in February 2012 with the same effect of today, then it got suddenly nerfed to 40s CD for no apparent reason and with no other changes, I believe that 30s CD was more than reasonable and 40s CD is just too high for the effects we get, it’s only burning we’re talking about no chill like for frost aura where the 40s CD is legitimate, or leave it at 40s CD but increase the aura duration to 6s.

2)Gale
-Around June of last year the 50s CD was justified from the fact that the Knockdown effect was 3s and hence superior to earthquake, but now the Kd has been reduced by 1s and we now have got a weaker version of earthquake for single target only and with 5s CD extra, maybe 3s KD is not so OP as you thought initially seen as guardians can have a 3s KD every 15s ( spirit hammer), therefore the 50s CD of gale is totally infair and should be lowered to at least 40s CD even though 35s CD would be ideal; but for 50s CD the Kd effect should be no less than 3s

I’d love to see thse kind of changes this months, it would make the focus more viable for sure

focus is a weapon that shouldnt be used as it gimps ur offense as well as defense by removing mobility in favor of “cool” skills that have way too long CD’s all focus skills do ZERO dmg leaving u with either MH dagger or MH scepter.dagger doesnt synergize with OH focus and u lose a nice heal + cond removal and aura +buffs..

It’d be super nifty if Flame wall was like Mesmer Temporal curtain but instead of a pull when you destroy the curtain, you get a blow-out when you destroy the wall (with some damage and burning).

For Gale, to give it utility, let it remove stability from the target (after it attempts to knock-down the target though) which would give Focus a nice 1-2 punch with Flame wall-backdraft.

I think it’d be too mean to improve anything in earth. But freezing winds could use a little something extra.