Guild Wars 2

Just had an incident earlier – was pugging hotjoin – on the back foot in clocktower – forced reteat blink out the window – moving around corner of ramparts – a wild thief appears and opens – Oh kitten! :o

Now at ~10% health, panic mode – looking down at skill bar somehow pretty much everything is on cooldown (sigh), not enough endurance – looks like game over… except for one thing – diversion is still up! Thief goes in for the kill -> STOP – Shattertime! :p

Interrupt buys a moment for decoy and mirror blade and mind wrack to just about come back up -> counterburst, finish (and then flee like Roadrunner to heal up!).

Reminded me how much I love Diversion – such a multipurpose skill and so often the difference between life or death of yourself or allies.

I’m sure you lot must have some funny scenarios to share where Diversion has been the lifesaver – let’s hear them!

GW1 Diversion was superior. Nothing quite like Diverting some hapless Monk’s Protective Spirit or Reversal of Fortune.

If you could disable Heartseeker for 70 seconds in GW2 it would be amazing.

The only moment that comes to mind is in soloq when I was stomping an ele on mid in skyhammer while someone was attempting to rez him. Basically he was going to be rezzed right before my stomp went off, so I popped diversion just before he rezzed which dazed the player rezzing him and the stomp went off without a hitch.

Zaxares.5419:

GW1 Diversion was superior. Nothing quite like Diverting some hapless Monk’s Protective Spirit or Reversal of Fortune.

Sadly I never played GW1 so I’m blissfully ignorant of skills in that game.

benOTK.4961:

The only moment that comes to mind is in soloq when I was stomping an ele on mid in skyhammer while someone was attempting to rez him. Basically he was going to be rezzed right before my stomp went off, so I popped diversion just before he rezzed which dazed the player rezzing him and the stomp went off without a hitch.

Yeah the switch target to daze and prevent res is always fun to do.

Lyssa is our patron goddess, but surely Diversion was gifted to us by Dwayna, because there are so many times where it’s been used in a defensive way to protect myself and allies.