Guild Wars 2

With HoT coming up, I had a look at the core specializations and saw that MR is gone with a couple alternatives like Evasive Mirror (seems bad) or Master of Manipulation(no go).

I only play WvW and grew quite fond of MR (as a Shatter Mes) against Power Rangers, Power Engi and the like but seeing it gone makes me worry, that projectiles are gonna be a PITA as they already are.

I don’t see the reason to get rid of MR when it has some really nice burst capabilities / getting out of bad situations. Is Evasive Mirror going to be a good alternative?

I feel the inner salt rising. Please comfort me with words, that it’s gonna be ok.

MR was added to the new Master of Fragmentation trait in Illusions.

skcamow.3527:

MR was added to the new Master of Fragmentation trait in Illusions.

That is good to know, thanks!

Evasive mirror looks godlike compared to MR. With IP as baseline, grab chaos+ master of manipulation for bonus mirror on blink. Cancel cast the actual heal skill mirror to just troll them even more. You should never die to ranged projectiles after the change.

Evasive Mirror seems bad? Am I missing something here?

You can basically reflect any incoming rapid fire by dodging it x_x

DuckDuckBOOM.4097:

Evasive mirror looks godlike compared to MR. With IP as baseline, grab chaos+ master of manipulation for bonus mirror on blink. Cancel cast the actual heal skill mirror to just troll them even more. You should never die to ranged projectiles after the change.

I can’t afford to go into Chaos as a Shatter Mes, and building around fending off projectiles seems overkill.

To me, EM is not good enough in small scale fights since dodging has two purposes. Also with Energy, there’s too much pressure/focus into “dodge spam”. It just doesn’t compare to MR. The latter is more reliable in that case.

If it’s bundled into that new Illusion trait I can rest easy though, so all is good.

Evasive mirror is in dueling and its only real competition is blind on shatter. So give or take depending on melee or range opponent. This, however, doesn’t stop projectile if you got hard CCed/immobilized, which is the main problem I could see if you substitute it for masterful reflection.

One thing of note though this reflect lasts 1.5s after dodging. So you have roughly 1s of evasion to damage and 1.5s of projectile mitigation, effectively stop power ranger from hurting you with non-setup rapid fire. Since you’ll want to dodge deady range damage anyway (if you’re running glass), and you still have the option of tanking less lethal blows, I wouldn’t consider it as dodge spam.

Btw, anyone think there’s a possibility of working with blurred frenzy from the trait description? I could be missing something since I didn’t watch the specialisation video in full.

Important P.S. who doesn’t want to deflect arrows with their sword…back to whoever shoots arrows

I think it will work with blurred frenzy.

Evasive mirror might be strong, but certainly not as fun as Masterful Reflection is!

DuckDuckBOOM.4097:

I think it will work with blurred frenzy.

This will be insanely awesome if true, and I actually doubt it will survive a long before a nerf if so.

Ridiculous ICD incoming :p

I seriously cannot wait for Evasive Mirror and pray to every Deity they don’t ruin it with a horrible ICD. Probably my most anticipated trait.

It should be enough of a sacrifice that you have to burn endurance to gain reflect – and that you have to time it for an evade, not just a random dodge.

The only other skill we can get this with on land is blurred frenzy, so it should be fine with no ICD or a very small (1-2s) ICD.

Please may it be good….

DuckDuckBOOM.4097:

I think it will work with blurred frenzy.

how? BF is not a distort anymore.

StickerHappy.8052:

DuckDuckBOOM.4097:

I think it will work with blurred frenzy.

how? BF is not a distort anymore.

Not Masterful Reflection – we’re talking about Evasive Mirror which is supposed to work on Evade – which hopefully means any evade including dodging/BF or Trident #3 and Spear auto.

Evasive Mirror vs Blinding Dissipation:

• EM potentially working with Blurred Frenzy would be interesting. This is yet to be seen as the language on BF is VERY tricky. It’s definitely not a distort. Is it a blur? Or flat out an evasion? Is it a dodge? Does EM work on dodges only or “successful evasions”? I’ve recently been running Feedback in my condi shatter build, and it is pretty successful. If it does work with BF, it’ll raise its stock by A LOT.
• EM is great for mitigating some dmg and dishing some back, but this is only with projectiles. Timing is key. I don’t think using the dodge just for the intent of reflecting is helpful.
• BD will work on multiple enemies and can be timed more precisely due to IP. This also helps a lot to mitigate dmg for your entire team.

Conclusion:

• EM is more offensive, random and selfish. BD is more defensive, strategic and team-oriented.
• I think Blinding Dissipation will tend to be a more consistent and helpful skill in team play if you’re running a shatter-dependent build. And considering that most builds will center around some form of shattering, I think we’ll see BD in use in 65% of builds, EM in 25% and Blade Training in 10% (unless they give this some flavor which I doubt).