Guild Wars 2

It says it has a 5 second cooldown. Does this mean a UNIVERSRAL cooldown, as in that pet that just bit you and got blinded means you cannot blind anyone for 5 seconds? If so, the trait is useless.

The trait is useless.

Yeah, I’ve tried it out, not worth anything.

Tried it on a friendly match vs hambow. The “random” blinds annoyed the hell out of him

Well, sucks that it’s an universal cooldown, but then again if it weren’t eles would be able to blind up to 20 ppl with a single skill.

Yeah, but at least when I fight with Sprit Ranger, it should blind the ranger not the sprits from a random AOE proc.

The global cooldown makes it useless yes.

Anet, please. Make it 3 targets.

Well so much for all those new builds people were putting together for the fire trait. These traits are doing an amazing job of creating new diverse builds Anet, Good job!

Lame.

I wouldn’t say the trait is useless, I’ve been using it for solo roaming and dueling and in that scenario it seems to be working out quite well. If it had a blast radius after applying the burn so it did an aoe around the burned target though that would be pretty cool.

I’ve been running 30/0/0/10/30 or 30/10/0/0/30 (burning precision, burning fire, blinding ashes)
D/D: generosity sigil, leech sigil
Utility: Lightning Flash, Cleansing Fire, Arcane shield
Celestial Amulet
Been using Str runes but I keep changing them to experiment

Dueling is about ALL that it is good for… and even then is it really worth it to go 30 fire? Debatable.

Dolores.5471:

Well, sucks that it’s an universal cooldown, but then again if it weren’t eles would be able to blind up to 20 ppl with a single skill.

You mean like thieves can with any of their smoke fields?

If the blind were short, I don’t see a problem with no CD on the trait as the challenge would be how quickly you could apply and clear burning.

As it currently stands, it’s an adept trait.

The GCD and the randomness of the blind on AoE-spells kills this trait. I’ve always pointed out that blinds need to be timed very well (Scepter Air-3 is perfect ). So a random blind will often just negate a single autohit and would therefore be a complete waste.
It’s impossible to track the inner CD and therefore you often don’t get your blind when you need it (when you activate cleansing fire just for the blind for example).

Imho using a scepter and running a Fresh-Air-build will provide better blinds. It may not be available that often but you can use it for specific attacks which is way more important than the CD.
Once again Anet seems to not have thought this one through …

Overall I think that the patch didn’t change anything for eles. Only noteworthy good change is Burning Speed and maybe Stone Heart (haven’t tried it out yet) but I think it will fail like Diamond Skin just because it forces you to stay in earth and this isn’t how you play an elementalist.

fought an ele using it on me as a warrior. found it quite annoying considering a warrior must land all his big hits to be effective.

SkylightMoon.1980:

fought an ele using it on me as a warrior. found it quite annoying considering a warrior must land all his big hits to be effective.

So you cant fight a thief. Mesmer, guard etc who also have access to blind?
or is it just how often the blinds can be applied’+? if so how often does a thief with D/P blind you pr minute?- or stealth evade.— I’m thinking if you need ALL big to hit- you will have a very hard time.