Guild Wars 2

Seeing how mandatory DE is in almost any builds (actually I’d argue which build DE wouldn’t do some good in way or another), wouldn’t it be a good idea to drop it to adept tier? I am sure it would open up so many 30/10/30 be it power, condi, hybrid, shatter or phantasm builds.

Of course you can always play without DE but I have yet to see someone doing it with a great deal of success. And yet, it would be a specific build, a niche build, which doesn’t really help with diversity and the Anet concept of it.

Thoughts?

trooper.2650:

Seeing how mandatory DE is in almost any builds (actually I’d argue which build DE wouldn’t do some good in way or another), wouldn’t it be a good idea to drop it to adept tier? I am sure it would open up so many 30/10/30 be it power, condi, hybrid, shatter or phantasm builds.

Of course you can always play without DE but I have yet to see someone doing it with a great deal of success. And yet, it would be a specific build, a niche build, which doesn’t really help with diversity and the Anet concept of it.

Thoughts?

While this would indeed open up more options for us, I can already hear the forum whining about being OP…

Sorry Im not familiar with forum abreviations, whats a DE? Deceptive evasion?

Wraith.4103:

Sorry Im not familiar with forum abreviations, whats a DE? Deceptive evasion?

Yep, good call. :-)

It is a quite frequent suggestion and also pretty controversial since DE has such a strong effect on the class. You might want to have a look at more recent discussions.

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Xaylin.1860:

It is a quite frequent suggestion and also pretty controversial since DE has such a strong effect on the class. You might want to have a look at more recent discussions.

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I didn’t know about those 3ds but it’s comforting me… I reached the same conclusion as other did so, I am not the only crazy here

Whether DE was moved a tier becuase OP or because was getting in the way of phantasm builds I don not know, however it would be great to have it on adept tier again, although I really doubt that will ever happen unless the mesmer community pushes all together in one direction, as one, very much like with lockdown playstyle where devs seemed they took Chaos inputs and added a new trait…

Shall we?