Guild Wars 2

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/%22Save_Yourselves!%22
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Spectral_armor
There ability is pretty much better in every single way, it even has one of our signets that can proc infinitely.

Spectral Armor
Draw conditions from nearby allies to yourself. Gain life force and protection as you take damage.
Protection: 1s
Spectral Armor (6 s): Gain 3% Life Force when taking damage.
Breaks Stun
(Cooldown: 40s.)

No.

15 characters.

If you don’t like it, don’t use it. The game is not there for you to change to your own needs.

That’s why I pretty much just use it as a passive. With necro I’ve found that stun breaks aren’t very important but then again I like wells so people being close doesn’t concern me. On my thief though…stun breaks are a pretty big deal considering how squishy they are :P

SA needs some tweaking, but the core idea behind it is fine. Its low use is because the life force/stun break part of it is shared by walk, which means basically you are paying 30 seconds of CD, 30 seconds of swiftness, and the added utility/situational second stun break of walk’s second active, just for protection. This makes it an incredibly niche skill and very rarely worth it.

Spectral armor is gifting the new fotm flanking strike thief with protection for him to steal.

It’s a 90 sec cd.

Look at ele Armor of Earth by comparison. Longer prot, and long stability to boot.

Whoop dee doo you get life force after getting nuked down while in spectral armor. Go ahead and switch in to death shroud and watch all your pressure vanish as a condition build. Even as a power build death shroud is a damage decrease compared to dagger auto spam.

Overall I’m fine with it, other similar skills really do completely outclass it though.
If they added 6 second stability I believe that would truly make it balanced since it can be a passive.

It needs a buff somehow. Either rework the numbers or change it up.

Spectral Armor in its current iteration is complete garbage. The other classes that have protection boon on their utilities are pretty much better in every way.

Its the life force gain when hit. It seems to cost too much of the abilities power when compared to other classes. Or maybe its because ANET seems to think DS is much more useful than it actually is. Either way its pretty obvious this skill could use some changes, hopefully it gets some attention during the pass through stunbreaks.

When playing Thief and a Necro pops Spectral Armor thinking it will do any good, I go out of my way to steal the delicious Protection.