Guild Wars 2

Though i guess this is a completely useless topic since nothing will never change within the next 2-3 years anyway and it seems like Anet is already pushing for more passive gameplay anyway. Could also be just plain stupid ideas i have.

Blurred Frenzy: used to be quite darn strong before survivability and damage was buffed for alot of classes and it being a invulnerability. `Now i don’t really see a reason for it doing as low damage as it does, they could easly buff the damage by like 1.25 and it would still not be really overpowered.
Mirror Blade: Make it more frontloaded or increase projectile speed. Like currently it does 1557 damage over 3 hits with no traits and zerker amulet in spvp, what i’d like to see is increase the damage of the first hit but reduce the damage for each bounce instead but keep the overall damage the same.
Mind stab: make it a blast finisher/increase radius to 180 or both, also remove the after cast.
Scepter 3: Cut the cast time in half
Scepter 1: increase speed in both cast time and travel speed
Staff is fine though. Maybe reduce the #1 cast time slightly faster.

Deceptive evasion swapped place with phantasml haste or made base line

Reduce damage of phantasms and add more utility to them, maybe increase auto attack instead to compensate for the DPS loss.

Give portal a range indicator.

Make clones go for YOUR target, both when summoning and shattering

Reduce cast time of mantras/increase their power levels to over 9000

Phantasmal Rogue: make it do a headshot instead of backstab?

Deception: make it a short range ground targeted ability

Clones in general: Make them copy your buff bar so it’s harder to tell clone from player by just tabtarget spam, if they want clones to function more as defense. Could be insanely annoying for new players tho i guess…

Nerf Prismatic understanding.

Remove the cast time of Illusionary Leap, make the clone ignore terrain/spawns at the target/blinks to the target

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Most of my ideas are probably kitten tho

Had another kitten idea.

Blurred frenzy being a block+reflect idea or make it a invul skill again >_>

Some takes on those ideas:

• Blurred Frenzy: yeah, I’d really love this to go back to full invulnerability. If necessary, rethink the -CD traits (I think they’re stupid in general, game-wide). But Blurred Frenzy was so awesome because it forced the target to move, not because of it’s raw damage.
• Mirror Blade: No issues with this, sorry. I like the slow projectile speed to show off, and the damage being spread makes GS somewhat more adept at handling groups.
• Mind Stab: I’d increase the radius. Blast finisher would be too much IMO, as GS already has a projectile and a whirl finisher.
• Scepter AA: Rather, just make it advance the moment the shot goes off. Removes the whole distance-dependent cast speed.
• DE: Still not sure whether this shouldn’t just be removed. I want my clones to be useful without this bandaid of a trait. My version would make a clone dodge exactly 180° opposite of me, but disperse after the dodge ends. Fools enemies into the wrong direction.
• Mantras: I’d put them back at 1 charge, powerful as in the past. That’d fix the power-per-cast problem and make proper frontloading possible again. To alleviate the HM issue, redesign the trait to allow skipping the recharge-CD if charging the Mantra again within 5 seconds after using it’s charge.

Rest I pretty much agree with.

Blurred Frenzy
Still a great skill but the nerf was certainly overdone. The new distortion effect is also pretty misleading because it only counts as evade. While making it a real invulnerability again might be too strong, they could at least reduce the number of hits to make it less affected by Retaliation. Right now, it can get you killed even when at full health.

Deceptive Evasion
Not going to happen. Way too easy access to clone generation for shatter builds. This way you could go 30/x/x/x/30 which might be extremly overpowered. I’d rather see this trait gone so that clone generation can be rebalanced without it. The new DE could cause Confusion to nearby enemies when the Mesmer dodges.

Mind Stab
The cooldown is too low for being a blast finisher. It rather see the radius increased or an additional boon ripped. In terms of blast finishers Prestige has to be fixed first. Right now, it is just not usable. If another blast finisher would be added I’d like to see it on Staff#4. The cooldown is acceptable and it would open up more supportive game play for staff users (e.g. blasting own Chaos Storm).

Xaylin.1860:

Blurred Frenzy
Still a great skill but the nerf was certainly overdone. The new distortion effect is also pretty misleading because it only counts as evade. While making it a real invulnerability again might be too strong, they could at least reduce the number of hits to make it less affected by Retaliation. Right now, it can get you killed even when at full health.

Fair enough, if it distortion traits would affect it(and the signet distortion trait), it would be awesome

Deceptive Evasion
Not going to happen. Way too easy access to clone generation for shatter builds. This way you could go 30/x/x/x/30 which might be extremely overpowered. I’d rather see this trait gone so that clone generation can be rebalanced without it. The new DE could cause Confusion to nearby enemies when the Mesmer dodges.

I agree, just trying in ways that arenanet might actually change things. They seem to prefer quick and lazy way to fix things.

Mind Stab
The cooldown is too low for being a blast finisher. It rather see the radius increased or an additional boon ripped. In terms of blast finishers Prestige has to be fixed first. Right now, it is just not usable. If another blast finisher would be added I’d like to see it on Staff#4. The cooldown is acceptable and it would open up more supportive game play for staff users (e.g. blasting own Chaos Storm).

I don’t think it’s too low cd actually. But perhaps of blast finisher/addition boon ripped how about specific boon(s) removed? like it prioritize on stability for example, altho i think the cooldown would be way to low then :P

Vuh.1328:

I don’t think it’s too low cd actually. But perhaps of blast finisher/addition boon ripped how about specific boon(s) removed? like it prioritize on stability for example, altho i think the cooldown would be way to low then :P

The Wiki lists 16 burst finisher weapon skills. Out of those – I didn’t check all of them – Mind Blast would probably be 3rd or 4th lowest cooldown wise. Most skills have a cooldown of 20-30s which is at least twice as high.

Besides that, I personally do not feel that a blast finisher would fit the theme of the GS. The effects you receive from blasting fields are rather supportive. The only one fitting the GS would be Might when blasting fire fields. The other effects are way more aligned with the role of the Staff. It would also make Staff#4 less unappealing. Let’s be honest… that skill has become quite underwhelming since the Protection got nerfed.