Guild Wars 2

Anyone else going to try and use it? I myself think Mass Invis will still be the most used choice in pvp, but that signet passive should not be underestimated imo. 20% is nothing to sneeze at, especially when we have the other CC reductions on our Chronomancy minor, food, runes ect to help with the other CC along with more stun reduction.

Moa is meta already so don’t see why you wouldn’t go for a better version of it.

BlackDevil.9268:

Moa is meta already so don’t see why you wouldn’t go for a better version of it.

Have you thought of people running TW thinkg they’re exceptional snowflakes?

I want to be a special sbowflake but the cooldown is exceptionally long.

Well, at least you can trait it now to have a 144s CD, in addition to one condi cleanse and 1s distortion. Ain’t that bad.

fluxit.8247:

I want to be a special sbowflake but the cooldown is exceptionally long.

Special snowflakes are those not using Moa already.

1/3 = special snowflake :3

SoH looks great, but so does TW with the AE slow. For on point fights that thing is just about a “we win” button, or rather it will definitely force aware opponents off the point for the duration. Trait that sucker and take NF with it, and you’re also adding a lot of Resistance and boon/condi removal for your team.

But yeah, SoH also looks great and the lowered CD with free condie clear and 1s Distortion is pretty rad too. (Not to mention you can AE share that Distortion with Insp.! Very yummie!)

Moa signet and new TW mechanic are both insanely good.

For hot joins, I’d say TW might be more beneficial as rando’s barely focus target when called. But Moa signet just got insanely better and I’ll most likely run that still.

I think they’ve done something with Moa/Timewarp that make them attractive options even for Solo Q. MI will always have its obvious use. The other elites were always made for team fights, but Mesmers didn’t really have a way to capitalize on TW unless they were running with a great sword. And Moa in a 1v1 and the enemy can just run away. Now that it’s a signet, it adds some beefiness to the profession for when there’s no “opportune moment” to polymorph someone.

However, I do think that the new TW will be the go-to for coordinated teams. Especially with Temporal Echanter.

All the elites are actually good now.. I’ve grown so used to mass invis that its going to be odd using this signet.

@tetrodox: All glamours got their cooldowns reduced in this patch, it will be 144 base.

I watch the trait reveallast night, and Roger Gee specifically said that TW cooldown stays at 180 seconds. BUT it does get affected by the new Glamour trait “Temporal Enchanter”

All of our elites got buffed, which will make things more interesting than everyone using Moa in competitive play and everyone else running Mass Invis in unorganized play. I think we’ll see all elites get some use throughout pvp.

In terms of S. Humility, I love it. The passive is not to be underrated. The fact that it can be traited for awesome additional buffs like distortion and condition clear is also awesome, but that trait has some stiff competition. Depends on the build.

There’s going to be A LOT of build testing, so I’m sure I’ll get around to using it at some point. It looks fantastic.

SlimChance.6593:

I watch the trait reveallast night, and Roger Gee specifically said that TW cooldown stays at 180 seconds. BUT it does get affected by the new Glamour trait “Temporal Enchanter”

Drat.

Also gives you 1 more source of distortion-reflect for signet builds! Don’t want that moa pecking you to death, no no.

Yamsandjams.3267:

Also gives you 1 more source of distortion-reflect for signet builds! Don’t want that moa pecking you to death, no no.

Yea, you can get a ridiculous amount of distortion triggers now.

For example:
Signet of Ether
Signet of Illusions
Signet of Domination
Mimic
Signet of Humility
Distortion Shatter

That’s 8 triggers of distortion (4 signets, one mimic’d Signet of Illusions, and three Distortion shatters due to refreshing it from Signet of Illusions).