Guild Wars 2

There is a trait: “Distortion grants reflection”

The only reason I can see for them to change it from distortion to “Blur” is to remove the ability to use sword to reflect projectiles.

Has anyone tested this, though?

I think the only reason is to change bugged tooltip, sword never reflected anything.

It didn’t work anyway, did it?

Thing is, it never worked to reflect projectiles, that I’m aware of. Changing the name of the buff to Blur from Distortion to delineate it from the shatter skill is something that’s in datamined info since beta. I just wish they would’ve made the change 500+ “distortion on blurred frenzy doesn’t work with masterful distortion” threads ago.

I suppose that makes sense.

Would it have been OP to grant that distortion (and if traited to it, reflection) to the blurred frenzy? I don’t really think so, but I also think it’s probably easier to change a tool tip than it is to make something work as described. I also suspect that Anet knows that we count our blessings that when a new change/fix comes along, when it doesn’t drastically break our entire class mechanic.

According to some people, even blurred frenzy in its current state is OP (and ANet somewhow seems to listen to those guys).

It is a tooltip change. It never caused reflection.