Guild Wars 2

45 sec cooldown, 3/4 sec cast time and this only gives a small circle that pulses aegis.

Compared to skill like ‘Fragments of Faith’, this one feels so underwhelming with a similar cd. It is a group defensive utility skill. But the counterplay is way too easy from the offensive side with so many unblockable attacks in the game. Or in a group scenario, people can simply spam skills and completely ignore its mechanics.

Even before the patch, this skill was already not a must-have for bunker mesmers because it prevents point-capture contribution. In WvW, it gives a reason to actually play mesmer but it is definitely not too strong there either.

If the balance team has any doubts of the old precog well to be too strong, you can simply play around with its CD. Current form of precog well is simply not functioning for its purpose.

RIP Well of Precognition

All it needed to do was to not apply evade/invulnerable for the wells duration. It should have been an applied buff at the end of the well so that there was still the chance of a strong AoE party buff but with an easy to understand counter.

Maybe we can get that group unblockable attack buff back from the HoT BWE? I actually thought that was pretty cool.

I might be in the minority, but I never understood the big issue with a 3*1s invulnerability, either. It’s just 5 targets and just 3 seconds. Sure, boss mechanics might need to be able to pierce it, but that could be done on a per-encounter basis.

Simonoly.4352:

All it needed to do was to not apply evade/invulnerable for the wells duration. It should have been an applied buff at the end of the well so that there was still the chance of a strong AoE party buff but with an easy to understand counter.

Maybe we can get that group unblockable attack buff back from the HoT BWE? I actually thought that was pretty cool.

It once was invuln in the end of the buff, but that was a terrible design since you need aegis / blur / invuln / evade on demand, not “in a few sec”.

I suggest to change the well so it’s not aegis that makes you block, rather the well itself. While standing inside that well you block, no matter how many hits. Aegis is too unreliable for this kind of skill to work properly.

It would also be nice to have 3s unblockable in the end of the well rather than enduracne noone really notices …

greez!

Xyonon.3987:

Simonoly.4352:

All it needed to do was to not apply evade/invulnerable for the wells duration. It should have been an applied buff at the end of the well so that there was still the chance of a strong AoE party buff but with an easy to understand counter.

Maybe we can get that group unblockable attack buff back from the HoT BWE? I actually thought that was pretty cool.

It once was invuln in the end of the buff, but that was a terrible design since you need aegis / blur / invuln / evade on demand, not “in a few sec”.

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I suggest to change the well so it’s not aegis that makes you block, rather the well itself. While standing inside that well you block, no matter how many hits. Aegis is too unreliable for this kind of skill to work properly.

It would also be nice to have 3s unblockable in the end of the well rather than enduracne noone really notices …

greez!

“It would also be nice to have 3s unblockable in the end of the well rather than enduracne noone really notices …”

The same problem with having the blur on the end would come up if you made the last pulse give you unblockable. The endurance on the end was always nice, and with the energy sigil nerf would be even better.

True that! So maybe give it block and unblockable but no final pulse?