Guild Wars 2

Many ideas have been suggested throughout the ages on how to buff Well of Darkness. So often I find them to be a bit too complex, meaning a lot of effort on Anet’s part just for one skill.
So with that in mind:

Idea 1: Add damage. Well of Corruption levels of damage (3.0). Keep the current cooldown as blind isn’t on par with 1% life force and boon corrupt. This would also mean on a pure pve power build, it would take the place of WoC if boons weren’t a problem.

Idea 2: Add projectile block. They did it for Corrosive Poison Cloud, they can do it for Well of Darkness! Would make a good alternative to CPC on power builds, especially in places WvW.

Feel free to add your own ideas or to tell me why I’m wrong.

Blind is supposed to be an awesome defensive condition, moreso than weakness.

I think Arenanet should take a hard look at the condition and its mechanics.

Idea 1. Though, it would be nice if all the utility Wells did damage. So… Well of Suffering damage on Well of Power, too?

U can trait blindness. so well of darkness and other blindness skills will do blindness > 3x vulnerability > chill > bleed. ^^
so pick up bitter chill , chilling darkness and deathly chill.

Wondrouswall.7169:

Idea 1. Though, it would be nice if all the utility Wells did damage. So… Well of Suffering damage on Well of Power, too?

It doesn’t have to be Well of Suffering damage. A tiny bit so you at least proc Vampiric would be a reasonable addition already.

Rapier.3675:

U can trait blindness. so well of darkness and other blindness skills will do blindness > 3x vulnerability > chill > bleed. ^^
so pick up bitter chill , chilling darkness and deathly chill.

That would only be a decent combo if Chilling Darkness had no icd.
Which btw it shouldn’t have. That cooldown makes no sense for PvE and in PvP Plague Sending is the stronger choice either way.

7/7/2015 we shall never forget.
Damage on Well of Power, I’m indifferent to. Well of Suffering levels would be too much given it is already a condi convert to boon and stun break (plus, minor as it is, grants a little bit of stability). If it were to receive a buff, I’d go for doubling the conditions converted instead.
Well of Darkness would be fine, if Chilling Darkness had its ICD removed. But given how much blind we can already spam, this would inevitably lead to another big nerf. That’s why I think a different approach would be better.

Anchoku.8142:

Blind is supposed to be an awesome defensive condition, moreso than weakness.

I think Arenanet should take a hard look at the condition and its mechanics.

wich can be abused easilly in wvw, i would bet on slow skill activation, or even a skill that could nullify portals.

Lahmia.2193:

Well of Darkness would be fine, if Chilling Darkness had its ICD removed. But given how much blind we can already spam, this would inevitably lead to another big nerf. That’s why I think a different approach would be better.

Necros can spam blindness? Elaborate please.

flow.6043:

Lahmia.2193:

Well of Darkness would be fine, if Chilling Darkness had its ICD removed. But given how much blind we can already spam, this would inevitably lead to another big nerf. That’s why I think a different approach would be better.

Necros can spam blindness? Elaborate please.

Nightfall, Well of Darkness, Deathly Swarm, Death’s Charge. I guess at a push you could also include Plague #2.

Lahmia.2193:

flow.6043:

Lahmia.2193:

Well of Darkness would be fine, if Chilling Darkness had its ICD removed. But given how much blind we can already spam, this would inevitably lead to another big nerf. That’s why I think a different approach would be better.

Necros can spam blindness? Elaborate please.

Nightfall, Well of Darkness, Deathly Swarm, Death’s Charge. I guess at a push you could also include Plague #2.

Signet of Spite o/

Rapier.3675:

Lahmia.2193:

flow.6043:

Lahmia.2193:

Well of Darkness would be fine, if Chilling Darkness had its ICD removed. But given how much blind we can already spam, this would inevitably lead to another big nerf. That’s why I think a different approach would be better.

Necros can spam blindness? Elaborate please.

Nightfall, Well of Darkness, Deathly Swarm, Death’s Charge. I guess at a push you could also include Plague #2.

Signet of Spite o/

Aww my baby, how could I forget you?

First of all, that’s not spam, that’s just a list of skills that apply blindness.
Secondly, including Well of Darkness makes no sense when your original argument was “…given how much blind we can already spam”, as in without WoD.
And finally, non of those skills in any combination would justify an icd on Chilling Darkness.

PS: you forgot darkfield combos, corrupted fury, transfers and that useless minion.
Still no spam.

flow.6043:

First of all, that’s not spam, that’s just a list of skills that apply blindness.
Secondly, including Well of Darkness makes no sense when your original argument was “…given how much blind we can already spam”, as in without WoD.
And finally, non of those skills in any combination would justify an icd on Chilling Darkness.

PS: you forgot darkfield combos, corrupted fury, transfers and that useless minion.
Still no spam.

Apologies re-read your first comment and yes you are right about it being a silly icd for pve. And by pve I don’t mean wvw, since it was because of wvw that it gained the icd in the first place.

Blind is not stackable, only causes one attack to miss, and is a condition that can be easily removed without using a stun break.

With all those handicaps, why does it feel so weak? No damage, no healing, no control effect, no stacking intensity or stacking charges. In an auto attack like Necromancer dagger, blind only prevents one of the 3 hit chain from landing while weakness reduces damage by 25% and affects endurance for the full duration.

Anchoku.8142:

Blind is not stackable, only causes one attack to miss, and is a condition that can be easily removed without using a stun break.

With all those handicaps, why does it feel so weak? No damage, no healing, no control effect, no stacking intensity or stacking charges. In an auto attack like Necromancer dagger, blind only prevents one of the 3 hit chain from landing while weakness reduces damage by 25% and affects endurance for the full duration.

It doesn’t help with the amount of aoe players can pump out nowadays either.

Also as a general comment towards the Chilling Darkness icd removal idea, the only reason I’d be against it is in doing so, once again we’d get another skill to add to the growing pile of condi skills. I’m looking for a power buff instead.

Lahmia.2193:

Chilling Darkness icd removal … once again we’d get another skill to add to the growing pile of condi skills. I’m looking for a power buff instead.

Nobody said you could only have one or the other.
Also, removing the icd would only be a minor buff to PvE builds for when blindness is applied more frequently than 3 seconds. In PvP (and WvW) Plague Sending is always the better alternative. And 3 stacks bleeding on Deathly Chill in WvW makes no sense already, so that should be nerfed anyway.

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