Guild Wars 2

1. You can, infact, predict an instant cast, since it relies on positioning, clone setup, &c. I mean, you’ve never seen someone dodge a shatter before?
2. It’s not the biggest deal in the grand scheme of things, but the big annoyance of BD going through dodge is that it stops you from counter-attacking effectively even if you just avoided a shatter (which is often the best time to jump on a mesmer).

It is quite weird. The OP is basically claiming it is a very efficient way to play for mesmer to just F1 in close range randomly for the blind effect.

Why would you add an ICD to it? The shatters themselves have cooldowns and if you are burning them just for the blind, you are fighting for your life anyway.

i really dont know why ppl want so much to change it to be blockable and dodgable
our main evades/immunity is dodge, and distoration
we dont have block or invulnerability like guard and engi do. we dont have immunity to dmg like warrior and ranger do
they all have that while can dodge and while blocking they can attack you
so why shouldnt we

if i see guard using his focus block i know burst will come so i use MW which is on 10 sec cd (if i dont have endurance rdy) so yes i want to blind him as for 3 sec i cant hit him thus i want him not to be able to hit me – isnt it fair?

and its only blind for 1 attack which must be used smartly agaisnt burst skills and not just AA

the shatters now act both on defend and offence role which is more unique to me

Clone death traits were changed to be evadable (and then removed), so the same will happen to BD as well.

Iavra.8510:

Clone death traits were changed to be evadable (and then removed), so the same will happen to BD as well.

Nobody said that it shouldnt be evadeable.. the discussion is about the ICD.

@Stickerhappy

‘ALL you guys are misinformed..’
Sure

MandJ.8965:

Yea, why not nerfing every good trait/skill on mesmers instead of learning how to handle it. Yessss, lets play Guard for shattered aegis with 10k, or a condi specc for 4k ticks burning. Oh, no, better play power necro for 6k auto attacks. Or we can main ele for massiv heals to not give a **** or aura share to make a insta win o group fights. Maybe, if thats not good enough, we can play ranger for bunker condi builds, with taunt and so funny thing. Or power with stability, 3k autoattacks rapidfire and so on.
Yes lets do this. Lets remove mesmer from the game, because i cant handle not spammable blinds and cant dodge shatter bursts, or because i cant use my stunbreaker when im stunned. Yep, lets nerf everything cool and fun on mesmer, so we can cry for the next nerfs on other classes instead of learning how to play at all.

(I agree with PU is OP.)

if you let a necro reach you with a dagger and could not stunlock it or keep a distance between you and it then i dont know what to think…………. im a scrub at mesmer and playing it now.. have been killed by warriors thieves rangers but necro? nope i just keep at range

unlucky.9285:

MandJ.8965:

Yea, why not nerfing every good trait/skill on mesmers instead of learning how to handle it. Yessss, lets play Guard for shattered aegis with 10k, or a condi specc for 4k ticks burning. Oh, no, better play power necro for 6k auto attacks. Or we can main ele for massiv heals to not give a **** or aura share to make a insta win o group fights. Maybe, if thats not good enough, we can play ranger for bunker condi builds, with taunt and so funny thing. Or power with stability, 3k autoattacks rapidfire and so on.
Yes lets do this. Lets remove mesmer from the game, because i cant handle not spammable blinds and cant dodge shatter bursts, or because i cant use my stunbreaker when im stunned. Yep, lets nerf everything cool and fun on mesmer, so we can cry for the next nerfs on other classes instead of learning how to play at all.

(I agree with PU is OP.)

if you let a necro reach you with a dagger and could not stunlock it or keep a distance between you and it then i dont know what to think…………. im a scrub at mesmer and playing it now.. have been killed by warriors thieves rangers but necro? nope i just keep at range

So, you never got hit by DS #1 from Necro while in Teamffight?