Guild Wars 2

Mesmers have quite a few traits that trigger on interrupt (see here). Since interrupts don’t work as well as they used to do in GW1, I think changing these traits to trigger on daze would open up another build type that would get some of the flavour mesmers had back in the days without making them overpowered.

Thoughts?

With the new BI/CI, that would be crazy powerful, especially in regards to Sword #4 and Staff #5.

Carighan.6758:

With the new BI/CI, that would be crazy powerful, especially in regards to Sword #4 and GS #5.

GS #5? There is no daze in GS 5. It knocks back with possible interrupt. This change would actually be bad for GS 5 and Temporal Curtain but good for all the others like Chaos Storm

Eh, sorry, kitten . Meant Staff #5. Edited!

Agreed, its too much. For example, 3 clone Diversion(4 with IP).. spaced out appropriately:
Illusion of Vulnerability would add 15-19 seconds of vulnerability.
Halting Strike would be a huge damage.

And those are the adept traits.

Besides, interrupting is a timed skill. It should be rewarded. The new BI/CI and Halting Strike are now good enough to reward that skill. At least they’re better than they were.

Right now, the only bad thing about “interrupts” right now is Defiant. Making interrupt builds worthless in PvE.

I’m just going to let you guys in on a little tip in GW2 PvE, if you use a Daze, or Stun (idk about KB) on a boss with Defiance as he uses a skill, “Interrupt” will still pop up, and you will still get any effects from “interrupting” a target, but his attack will still go through.

Or at least that’s what was happening when i was doing Story Modes on my mesmer..

Durzlla.6295:

I’m just going to let you guys in on a little tip in GW2 PvE, if you use a Daze, or Stun (idk about KB) on a boss with Defiance as he uses a skill, “Interrupt” will still pop up, and you will still get any effects from “interrupting” a target, but his attack will still go through.

Or at least that’s what was happening when i was doing Story Modes on my mesmer..

This is exactly why I run an interrupt-build in PvE now. I can burst up to 25 stacks of might + 5 random boons easily with 3-illusion Shatter + weapon attack + MoD, then Inspiration that out to the party.

Wow, didn’t know that. Thanks

It would be as easy as adding an internal cd to traits that would be too powerful otherwise. I agree a timed interrupt should be rewarded, but isn’t it way too much investment to get such a small frame to act? If you want to go for all the interrupt candy, your overall dps would be pretty much kitten…