Guild Wars 2

Ok after having played scourge I don’t think I can ever go back to necromancer or reaper.

The reason being, 5 on demand shade skills with incredibly utility is just way too good, and the problem with shroud skills is well, you can only use it in shroud.

It got me thinking:

1. What if shroud has no cooldown?
2. Well that would just be OP because of all the shroud entry traits.
3. Ok, lets put an ICD on those traits (yes yes, ICD sucks, I know)
4. Before SoS got changed, we were able to adjust between 10 or 7 second cooldown for shroud entry traits. Make all shroud entry traits a ‘shroud’ skill, .‘. vital persistence will give it 20% CDR.
5. Ok, but that still sounds a bit OP, being able to enter and exit shroud whenever. It’d kinda seem like an engineer kit, except, you get a healthbar too boot.

So here is what I propose. When you exit shroud, there is a soft cooldown, and a hard cooldown. The hard cooldown is 1 second so you don’t accidentally enter exit, enter exit. The soft cooldown is 10 seconds. In order to re-enter shroud you need to spend life force, based on the amount of cooldown left on the soft cooldown.

So you can enter and exit shroud, and enter again immediately 1 second afterwards, but you’d lose a chunk of life force first. This reduces the management needed for shroud to work, currently we wrestle with life force and time. This shifts more of the management into life force, and is in line with the Scourge’s ability to instantly use the profession specific skills.

how about continue developing shrouds for each elite spec and never again commit the same mistake that was done with scourge?

Sublimatio.6981:

how about continue developing shrouds for each elite spec and never again commit the same mistake that was done with scourge?

Bingo.

Sublimatio.6981:

how about continue developing shrouds for each elite spec and never again commit the same mistake that was done with scourge?

What mistake?

Actually making a powerful AND fun class?

Losing shroud and letting me use the five shroud skills next to my normal kit is the best thing the scourge did! I hope future elite specs continue doing this.

Scourge is so much better. 5 actually useful skills at all times instead of only when in shroud

I’ll enjoy playing my sand mesmer but I really hope they’ll buff power reaper pvp and pve wise.

I do hope for a power reaper buff for sure.