Guild Wars 2

I have been using the inspiration trait line quite a lot in PvP these past months, and I love many of the tools there. In particular, I think “Inspiring Distortion” can be a very strong and unique way to support your team. However, it does create a lot of annoying situations in PvP.

We all know that distorsion prevent capping. This means that if you use distorsion on a cap, you lose it for the length of the effect (so it can potentially get uncapped or full capped by the enemy). Normally this can be fixed by having someone else of your team standing in the point but here, those people also get distorsion and thus we all lose the cap.

More recently, I experienced another annoying effect I didn’t think of. If a team mate runs with the orb in spirit watch and you use distorsion nearby, he loses the orb.
Now that can be a very fun way to troll someone and steal him the orb when he’s close to the point to get the bonus instead of him (mesmers are all trolls, we know it from the portal jokes). But honestly, this is annoying.

Couldn’t the “no-cap” restriction only apply to you and not the allies standing nearby?

While this is annoying, I think it’s fine as this provides a drawback to an otherwise extremely powerful trait. Having distortion for 3 seconds for your entire team means that you should be timing it to either outright win a fight or get out of losing a fight.

For those Inspiration Mesmers, you need to time your distortions wisely and weigh the cost benefit of using it. I’d consider this a very balanced trait.

MailMail.6534:

While this is annoying, I think it’s fine as this provides a drawback to an otherwise extremely powerful trait. Having distortion for 3 seconds for your entire team means that you should be timing it to either outright win a fight or get out of losing a fight.

For those Inspiration Mesmers, you need to time your distortions wisely and weigh the cost benefit of using it. I’d consider this a very balanced trait.

Inspiring distortion only grants 1s distortion to allies. Having said that, i agree this trait is good as is, very unique support (only mesmer and ele can give allies invulnerability atm). But we mesmers will get better with this type of support with well of precog, cant wait.

Just make it grant Blur to allies instead of Distortion.

Embolism.8106:

Just make it grant Blur to allies instead of Distortion.

This is actually exactly what I thought!

Silverkey.2078:

Embolism.8106:

Just make it grant Blur to allies instead of Distortion.

This is actually exactly what I thought!

This would be better obviously. Or better yet, I’d rather they keep it distortion and have it grant the same amount that you’re granting yourself. -_-

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Silverkey.2078:

Embolism.8106:

Just make it grant Blur to allies instead of Distortion.

This is actually exactly what I thought!

This would be better obviously. Or better yet, I’d rather they keep it distortion and have it grant the same amount that you’re granting yourself. -_-

That would be pretty bad in sPvP team fights. You’d be ensuring no one on your team can contest for up to 4 seconds.

Embolism.8106:

MailMail.6534:

Silverkey.2078:

Embolism.8106:

Just make it grant Blur to allies instead of Distortion.

This is actually exactly what I thought!

This would be better obviously. Or better yet, I’d rather they keep it distortion and have it grant the same amount that you’re granting yourself. -_-

That would be pretty bad in sPvP team fights. You’d be ensuring no one on your team can contest for up to 4 seconds.

It wouldn’t just be balance for PvP… but like I said previously, to give your entire team immunity for 4 seconds is an extremely powerful advantage under any circumstance.

OP is right, both of those situations need a fix. Either make it give Blur to the team instead, or lift the “no cap” restriction for team mates.

been using it since patch. it`s very strong because you help not only yourself but everyone around you avoid a burst.
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edit whatever down side it has it`s more than made up by how good it is.