Guild Wars 2

Replace “slow” with stun or chill.

Stun > chill > slow

Menaka.5092:

apharma.3741:

If I could make 1 change to chrono, just one change, I would increase the damage on associated wells considerably. Right now I feel mantra of pain simply out performs them damage wise.

It’s bad enough you need to sit in the well for 3s to get the “big” damage but when it’s pathetic damage it feels like a bit of a sting. It would help make wells a little more viable in WvW…though not likely.

The damage on the wells is very low even assuming the target will actually stay in the well for the whole duration… I’ve seen Gravedigger (1.25s cast) “heavy damage” crit in excess of 13k with targets under 50% health (with instant cooldown reset), while I’ve never seen more than 6k on the “massive damage” from the last tick of Well of Calamity (0.75s + 3s pulse).

On top of that, if I’m running Inspiration, Mantra of Pain gives me AoE heals every few seconds and channeling it gives me 600 toughness… I don’t see any reason to take the well over MoP for WvW.

Well, calamity has a significantly larger aoe radius, pulses cripple and weakness, and most importantly is ground targeted instead of on-target. Those 3 things, the last one in particular, make it far more usable in most WvW scenarios than MoP. That being said, the damage on it is definitely pathetic.

Remove Alacrity or change it in a way that doesn’t hold base Mesmer cd reduction down (Chaotic Dampening comes to mind).

Am I the only person who thinks Chaotic Dampening is really strong even if it only gave Protection on Chaos Armour?

I’m not saying the CD reduction isn’t low but I think together with the above it would almost necessitate it being a GM trait if it gave comparable CD reduction.

Which, actually, might not be a bad idea. Lets people use Chaotic Xference with it and stops them from also using Prismatic Understanding. The question is what trait to push down.

Move the F5 skill onto the same line as F1-F4.

drop one of our stupidly highly available offhands and give me a new mainhand,

so sick of trying figure which offhand to use when mainhand options are so limited