Guild Wars 2

Food for thought at least:

How about taking that “distortion on signet use” trait and move that baby over to mantras.

Signets have pretty fast cast times. Inspiration is uncommonly cast and illusions is often not cast flat-out. Mantras on the other hand have a 2.25 cast time. Put that distortion on the last second. That gives players 1.25 seconds to interrupt which is pretty standard across the game.

Count me as one of probably….everybody who will gladly see mantra of pains refresh timer get kicked up to support it. Kick them all up if you have to.

After doing that dump the “400 armor while casting a mantra” trait and come up with a new signet one.

I have to disagree. That current Trait outta Dueling can be very useful. Now, has anyone tested it to see if it applies just to the channel, or any “casting” of a Mantra?
If it’s the second, that makes a Mantra support/spamhealer build just that bit more tanky, and that’s a good offset to how Mantras work. Not to mention, that Blurred Signets + Masterful Reflection and Illusionary Persona allows for a crapton of Reflection.

Did you just say that you felt gaining distortion on signet casting was useful? Nay…even preferable to other traits that are available at second tier and up?

I respect your opinion.

Didn’t say a thing about the current tier one mantra trait in of itself.

Assuming the tooltip is correct, then Protected Mantras is only during channeling. Although, that still cranks your defense up a good deal, at that time. As for Blurred Signets, I’d use that with Signets that apply an additional effect to the target … it’s a workable “Oh Crap!” switch.

Funny how you speak on one trait and folks comment on another.

No worries.

Actually, the last Protective Mantras mention was a correction to my original post (Namely the lack of the Trait’s name…in retrospect, prolly should’ve edited the first post instead).
As for Blurred Signets being preferable, it honestly depends on two things:

1. What kinda of build you’re running.
2. How much Dueling you pack.

Assuming a 30 Dueling spec, non-Pistol OH … then yes, BS can work pretty well. Especially if said spec lacks Illusionary Persona for on-demand (cloneless) Distortion.

To borrow a phrase from another gentleman: distortion on signet cast is garbage. I’m sorry anet profession team but it just is.

just jumped in to work on chaos’s theorycraft. I was wrong, the cast time for mantras is 2.75 seconds. all the more reason to implement my suggestion, 1.75 is a lifetime for timing an interrupt.

Why in the kitten not, when BI causes Distortion upon Signet use? Unless it’s the same kind of fake- kitten Distortion Blurred Frenzy used to be referred to.

EDIT: Yea, yer right. Pops the “effect” as per Distortion, but frackall else. Here I coulda sworn it >should< work.