Guild Wars 2

Is it design or oversight, that my weapon skills get blank, while shrunk, but I can still use my grenades?

I believe it is an unintended consequence of changing how S works.

Before, S used to be 4s, but just made you totally useless while evading.

Now, its 3s and you can use utilities/heal, which was the exact same way that mist form worked for an elementalist.

I’m guessing they wanted S to allow you to heal up and maybe use another elixir for a speed boost but they would realistically have no way to stop you from using utilities while using S, unless they went back to the original design.

Well, theoretically they could disable the weapon skills for the kits, too, right? So, you are still able to use utilities, but not ‘abuse’ the mechanic to still use weapon skills (if that is the design intent).

it is not really that powerful for attacking but more for not dieing. you can get 6 seconds of invulnerability with traits and utility skills out of elixir S BUT elixir unarms everything you hold and switching applies 1s global cooldown thus you dont have enough time to get more than 1 attack off in that time.

I wasn’t talking about balance, just trying to discern between bug and design.

Also, even untraited I get 2-3 attacks off. Your math is way off But again, balance is not the point of my inquiry.

Another neat thing you can use it to, is finish off people without your enemy having any chance to stop you!

Swtiching to a kit should bring you back to normal, but toolbelt skills work fine. Yes, this allows for healing with the medkit. And no, this is not overpowered. Other classes, like guardian and elementalist have uninterruptible heals as well.

Also, many people don’t know that you can use while stunned, knocked down, feared, making it a pretty powerful stun breaker.

Yeah, should have thought of that – it definitely is because of medkit, since your toolbelt is disabled and you wouldn’t be able to heal otherwise (apart from elite)