Guild Wars 2

I feel like the devs are struggling with iRev and CP to make it non-OP. And to achieve that, they ended up killing iRev for most purposes EXCEPT bursting people faster.

In my opinion, iRev in the first BWE was not OP, nor was CP. The problem is iRev+CP+DE. You can have those 3 traits together and have a stellar clone generation.

So my suggestion is quite bold but simple: move iRev, CP and DE so that they all compete for the same spot, like the different dodges in daredevil. It could be in the dueling GM or illusion GM. This would prevent any combination of those to be too strong while keeping all of them in a decent (non-nerfed) state.

To a large extent, I don’t think iRev and CP fit the chronomancer theme that strongly anyway.

What do you think?

I haven’t played Chrono yet, but wouldn’t it be a waste to take those two with DE? I mean, there’s no clone death traits anymore and the usefulness of clone generation is capped by shatter cooldowns.

Noss.4105:

I haven’t played Chrono yet, but wouldn’t it be a waste to take those two with DE? I mean, there’s no clone death traits anymore and the usefulness of clone generation is capped by shatter cooldowns.

It’s not a waste if taking Illusions and Duelling for condi shatter with very high alacrity uptime and minimised/traited shatter cooldowns.

Unfortunately I don’t agree with this proposed change – I like being able to take DE with Cp and IR, and funnily enough now having played it, I don’t mind IR as it is with the two illusion requirement – even if not using Duelling but say using Inspiration for the iDefender and scepter/shield blocks with Cp means it’s not difficult to get two illusions out before shattering and then one additional illusion in between shatters to continually proc IR.