As quick as the Valkyries ride,
As true as Odin’s spear flies,
There is nowhere to hide.
As true as Odin’s spear flies,
There is nowhere to hide.
[QOL Suggestion] shield of absorption
SoA is ment to obsorb single target only skills, GW2 is based on AOE spam, thus skill cannot counter what Anet wants players to spam.
That is the logic.
Can u imagine the amount of QQ that would make? players dont want to time well their skills they wan to press buton and make damage, having a class that counters them with a press of the buton would be to much, alot of players dont even know how to counter DH f3, can u imagine if our bluble would also obsorb magical aoe range stuff???
altough since game is to forgiving and easy on reaching high spam capabilities in group, it would make sense to use shield for that, altough gw2 isnt ment to be a game where have to think much.
Still conditions still go trough SoA dome, while the phsical damage is absorved.
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Yes, i can imagine a world in which group pvp content becomes more than a spam fest. where things have the ability to do things that they look like they should be able to do.
since the …logic..you presented is probably exactly what arenanet is thinking i withdraw my suggestion. because odin on high forbid that eles have to properly time their meteor showers instead of blindly dropping them. whatever logic (or obvious lack thereof) is the reasoning behind why the top half of the dome is irrelevant, i’ll just recommend a full shield rework.
block all attacks in a small area. shield is now useful. tada.
As quick as the Valkyries ride,
As true as Odin’s spear flies,
There is nowhere to hide.
As true as Odin’s spear flies,
There is nowhere to hide.
That probably means sanctuary and Spirit weapon would have to do the same «, besides we have 2 SoA skills, one on shield and other in Spirit weapon.
block all atacks(block has a mechanic itself, we already have a good amount of block skills), i think would be to much, but absorving more skills i think it would not hurt the game, besides skill is easilly interrupted never last that much
Absorving some aoe skills, would be interesting, but yeah guardian domes should feel more like the dome thackery uses when we start the game :\
I would not mind if guardian domes root/slow player again if really they actually give some anti-aoe/range spam. (that actually would give a decent purpose for maces/hield shout guard).
Still i dont think Anet plans to make game “that complex”… dont forget that most gw2 players if cant spam and high damage, class isnt viable or game becames to hard.
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None of them are technically projectiles. They are ground targeted AoE. If they were to change it to the way you want, it would also block skills such as Necro Marks and Elementalist Lava Font since they are also ground target aoe. The animation has no bearing on the skill type.
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Good point, still i would love to absorb CoR… :\
What SoA absorves?
*Projectiles:
– Omega golem missiles
– Fireball (ele fire atunement auto atack).
– Combo Finisher: Physical Projectiles.
– Thief Pistol skills.
– Some Ranger longbow+shotbow skills.
– Pets that use projectiles.
– Some warrior rifle an bow skills.
- Conditions from Projectiles will pass trough dome.
Theres to much AOE and cleaves in this game.
1st April joke, when gw2 receives a “balance” update.
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Lahmia has it correct. They aren’t projectiles, therefore they don’t get absorbed.
Fishsticks
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These skills blocking AoE in addition to projectiles would make them extremely overpowered if they weren’t nerfed in other areas (like cooldown).