[Official Dev Change] Echo of Memory "shave"
Well, for PvE it’s bittersweet (when do they ever split balance…), since it’s a nerf to the block but a buff to the phantasm ramp up as the phantasm will summon earlier.
Given the campaign at the SPVP subforums I see history repeating itself just as mesmers saw in Vanilla launch where it was a barrage of nerfs for pvp purposes until the class was crippled. Lots of bitter thieves/warriors angry about their time in the sun fading.
Maybe faster to summon the 1st phantasm, but since it will be trickier to proc the block, so will be the summoning of the 2nd phantasm :/
Maybe faster to summon the 1st phantasm, but since it will be trickier to proc the block, so will be the summoning of the 2nd phantasm :/
Not really, PvE mobs attacks are plenty predictable and autoattacks/incidental damage is fairly easy to predict.
Will make large scale events like wyvern and Tangled Depths a lot worse though given our squishiness and how hard mobs hit.
But that’s more an issue with their garbage PvE design (not that the PvP is being handled any better, maybe in the next decade they’ll see the good in splitting PvE/PvP balance).