Guild Wars 2

Not sure if it’s intended…but this is currently SO awesome! If traited for Illusionary Inspiration and Blurred Inscriptions, then all our Signet AND Phantasm casts will actually grant distortion to nearby allies! o_o

Just noticed the Phantasm thing myself.

ummmm hmmm!! My signet support build is working out amazingly well right now in solo q.

It shouldn’t be on every phantasm cast; that trait has a substantial cooldown.

Fay.2357:

It shouldn’t be on every phantasm cast; that trait has a substantial cooldown.

By substantial, he means every 24s for boon sharing and every 5seconds for the distortion.

Fay.2357:

It shouldn’t be on every phantasm cast; that trait has a substantial cooldown.

Right, the trait and skill are on independent 30s cooldowns. It’s a ton of Distortion, but let’s not throw around untrue things like “every phantasm cast”.

What?! So much distortion? :o

I must try this later.

MailMail.6534:

Fay.2357:

It shouldn’t be on every phantasm cast; that trait has a substantial cooldown.

By substantial, he means every 24s for boon sharing and every 5seconds for the distortion.

You don’t get distortion without the inspiration trait activating, so that 24 second cooldown is the limiting factor, not the 5s cooldown.

The OP mentioned both signets and the trait which is what I’m responding to. There’s a lot of uptime on aoe distortion in signet builds that also take the gm trait in Inspiration. That’s all I’ve been using since this morning, and I’ve only lost maybe 2 or 3 matches.

I’m in the process of taking footage testing chaos maestro, it’s so good right now! (But so hard to use x.x)

Yep, got a melee party today in our raid and they really liked it :>

Doesn’t seem to have a target limit right now. (Trait text says 5). Have fun in WvW!

adelaide.6213:

Doesn’t seem to have a target limit right now. (Trait text says 5). Have fun in WvW!

Uh? It seemed to hit only 5 targets when I tested it :O

Menaka.5092:

adelaide.6213:

Doesn’t seem to have a target limit right now. (Trait text says 5). Have fun in WvW!

Uh? It seemed to hit only 5 targets when I tested it :O

After further testing, this is currently affecting all support skills that have the 5 target cap, including Guardian Shouts.

Go to HotM → Spec Master of fragmentation along with Inspiring distortion → see everyone encased in a prism

It’s weird how little this was noticed before. I get it, it’s a “support” trait but one that is really powerful.

It is insanely strong. I got at max, 4 invulnerability spreads in a team fight and some of them actually nulled a fatal damage.

It’s the exact sort of unique trait support I’ve always wanted on my Mesmer.

The synergy of Inspiring Distortion with Blurred Inscriptions and Master of Fragmentation is exciting. It’s very powerful in WvW but has an obvious drawback in sPvP

serenke.4806:

It’s weird how little this was noticed before. I get it, it’s a “support” trait but one that is really powerful.

It was noticed. I was by far not the only one to comment how powerful this would likely be in a group support build. Inspiration in general is really powerful, especially with the improved mantras.

This will be a good counter to the preferred method of picking a single target, locking it down, and then focus-bursting it. An aware Mesmer can really counter this rather brutish, simplistic tactic. Will be nice to see skilled support Mesmers make the enemy team pull their hair out trying to down someone.

Hope they don’t nerf this too.

The Knee Jerk balance season is definitely open! So anything and everything that the standard bearers of the previous meta will deem to be OPd, they will complain about loudly, before actually attempting to counter it. Sadly it seems Anet is listening already…