Guild Wars 2

Would it be reasonable or too powerful?

I believe it would be fine but of course can’t see the whole picture.

Certainly not in the current setting. Most classes except necro can dish out 3+ boons instantly (I daresay 4+ as well but someone might nitpick on that) without much effort and can reapply them quickly.

Good, I believe there should be a little more reward for landing it other than aoe damage and increasing it to 2 boons seems like a good place to start.

Mesmers already have a decent amount of access to boonstrip with the shattered concentration trait, and the fact that a lot of classes can now reapply faster than we can remove is just indicative of a problem with too much access to powerful boons in this game.

Ideally I would like ANet to revisist every class and really think about how many boons they should be pumping out regularly (same with conditions) and lower that to be more reasonable. But short of that I don’t see a problem with buffing mind stab to remove 2 boons on hit. The CD may need to be made slightly longer to accommodate its new boon ripping strength but I like the idea

I think that too much relies on Shattered Concentration when it comes to decent boon removal.

Similar to how too much relies on Restorative Illusions (and menders purity for free) if you want decent condi cleanse.

I would like to see less reliance on such pivotal traits (meaning either you have to take Domination or you have to take Inspiration if you want to be good at one or the other..) and instead spreading the ability around weapon and utility skills. The buffs to iDisenchanter were a start but it’s still way too fragile and clunky to be anything other than a gimmick.

I got to agree with Cururen. Boon removal if one of those Mesmer things. Which saldy Mesmers aren’t even that good at or other things – boon corruption – are better overall. Just look at Signet Necromancers or Corruptions.

I think 2 boons on #3 would be fine. And I’d like to see more boon removal on 1H-Sword or even OH-Sword as well. Plus… I really really want my old Nullfield back…

You all are forgetting Mind Spike removes boons. I agree it is not ideal in most circumstances to use a sword auto with a Mesmer but that just means that the sword auto needs to be improved (given some range) or boon strip moved to Blurred Frenzy or some such.

Artaz.3819:

You all are forgetting Mind Spike removes boons. I agree it is not ideal in most circumstances to use a sword auto with a Mesmer but that just means that the sword auto needs to be improved (given some range) or boon strip moved to Blurred Frenzy or some such.

Oh I’m sure we’re all aware of Mind Spike on sword AA, however in practice it is very difficult to get much use out of it. Sure you can pop the odd boon, but it’s not on demand (unless you prepare the auto chain on an object or something) and being in melee range for extended time to execute a melee attack chain is not usually good for our health.

Mind stab on the other hand can be executed very fast, at range and in aoe on multiple enemies, although the single boon removal is a poor reward in the current state of the game.

Knowing ANet, I wonder how long it’ll be until we get an effect that allows CC through Stability. They’re probably more likely to deliver something like that than to reasonably balance boon generation and boon stripping against one another.

Curunen.8729:

Would it be reasonable or too powerful?

I believe it would be fine but of course can’t see the whole picture.

I would love to see it get a damage upgrade instead. Considering its CD, AOE and requirement to be stationary to cast, its damage is pretty weak.

Maybe it could remove a boon and do extra damage for each re maiming boon? Kind of like iMage only with boons.

SlimChance.6593:

Maybe it could remove a boon and do extra damage for each re maiming boon? Kind of like iMage only with boons.

iWarlock – but yea that’s not a bad idea indeed.