Guild Wars 2

Just random brainfart maybe but, what if they swapped place?

I think i’d personally would prefer portal to be an elite skill

i would love that if they reduced its cd to 60-65ish and cut the charges to 15ish.
Portal is one of my favorite skills it just has to much trouble fighting with some of the more on hand utilities.

• WvW / PvP, you will probably have the mass invis anyway, doesn’t matter if at utility or elite. But as elite? Portal is not allways needed, so you loose 1 utility slot.
• PvE, you will allways have TW and sometimes need portal. So you should not block it so it makes sense to keep it at utility slots.

Xyonon.3987:

• WvW / PvP, you will probably have the mass invis anyway, doesn’t matter if at utility or elite. But as elite? Portal is not allways needed, so you loose 1 utility slot.
• PvE, you will allways have TW and sometimes need portal. So you should not block it so it makes sense to keep it at utility slots.

I’d actully say portal is way more elite worthy than TW/Mass invis, and i actully think you gain an utility slot to have it as elite.. from spvp pov though. But good points

…I’m trying to think of a situation where portal would be favored for PvE…I’ve only seen portals used in combat for zerg fights and surprise attacks, and in those situations I want to carry Time Warp (Don’t underestimate a well placed TW in a zerg fight). This isn’t counting when people are porting golems – which you wouldn’t want a longer CD with. If portals worked in the way it showed in the mesmer preview, then maybe…jumping back and forth between two points and never being caught, would be kinda fun.

Arikyali.5804:

If portals worked in the way it showed in the mesmer preview, then maybe…jumping back and forth between two points and never being caught, would be kinda fun.

they do?

Port would only be useful in PvE if there was no cooldown on the on Porting or if it was reduced.

This would allow players to use it solo or even in groups to grant safety from mobs (both range and melee as you can use LoS to stop range or just range to stop melee).

Keeping the usages the same would prevent parties or even players from overly abusing this PvE feature.

The only times in wvw where i would take mass invis or Tw over portal would be if i was using my old PU build or helping golems 11111 a gate. It would need a slight buff imo for elite status.

It should stay 20 sec open, maybe traited, maybe pve only, what’d ya say?