Portal vs Shadow Trap
Portal , , , , , , 72 Recharge time , Duration: 60s , Range Threshold: 5,000
Shadow Trap , 45 Recharge time , Duration: 120s , Range Threshold: 10,000Season 2 – I became Diamond with Portals
http://img01.deviantart.net/14be/i/2016/099/c/0/gw001_by_superkoreanbella-d9yaolt.jpgSeason 3 – I became Legendary with Shadow Traps
http://img13.deviantart.net/dc78/i/2016/182/2/1/s3_legendary_5_by_superkoreanbella-da8cw2r.jpg
The idea is that portal earns the cooldown, limitations, and duration under the assumption that there are more people than you taking it.
Unfortunately, Portal like many other mesmer skills has been the casualty of their refusal to split skill balancing, so in spvp where you often use the portal just yourself, you ate the nerf that was aimed at reducing their potency in WvW.
Welcome to Mess Wars 2. Where either way you’ll get nerfed, because some format will take a crap on the other, usually PvP on PvE.
Also Portal doesn’t have the issue of Terain bugs and No valid path…