Guild Wars 2

Hi guys,
I have heard many people complain that there are currently too much condition spam in the game(PvP/WvW) compared to the availability of condition removal. I have also heard complaints that it is too easy for people to have permanent retaliation, especially in larger groups in WvW. This got me thinking, why not change blast finishers into light fields to remove conditions instead of giving retaliation. I know that both projectile and whirl already do this, but maybe changing blast finishers to do this as well will solve both complaints to some extent. I also think it might be an interesting choice in a group fight to decide between blasting a water field for straight health or a light field for the condition removal. What do you guys think?

I think, given all our other sources of Retaliation, that a cleanse-on-blast would be very nice. It might need some balance though. Maybe a 50% chance to fail or something. But yes, it’s a good idea.

remove conditions on blast might be a bit too strong, remove x seconds off current conditions would be interesting

Wukunlin,
I like your idea for removing x seconds. I think the biggest problem currently with conditions is not the fact that some professions can spam it, but rather the fact that they treat all conditions the same when it comes to cleansing. Since you have to use the same skills to clean both a 25 stack bleed and a 1 second cripple, balancing is impossible to achieve.

On an aside: Both of you seem to feel that this would be too strong as I originally described it. I think it is quite interesting that we actually already have a group cleanse from light fields with whirl, but it doesn’t really get used that much from my experience. Why do you think that is?

I actually think the general player population doesn’t (bother to) understand combos. I don’t know much about PVP but in PVE speedclear groups everything focuses on firefields for might and fury so stopping the firefields and drop a light field for a cleanse takes up far too much time for ppl going for records, assuming the conditions are worth cleansing at all, even if they are, nullfield, purging flames, absolute resolution, even PoV are found to be more convenient than using cleansing bolts.