You guys are so blinded by your class you can’t even see the how broken the blind is.
I offered a solution because of your (and many others) opinion. The reiteration of your opinion is unnecessary, especially when I haven’t even gotten around to grabbing my poncho or my umbrella yet.
Yes and you and pretty much every other person in this thread thinks it’s somehow fine.
Notice how the solution I posted restricts the blind effect behind the barrier of celestial form as opposed to the solution of just increasing the ICD?
Passive procs are bad for the competitive health of any game, but I’m not going to be the one that argues for my class AND ONLY my class to be made an example of in the “war” against RNG driven gameplay.
ANet will NEVER remove passive procs from the game though, and the trait itself is only really “bad” with staff, which heals on autoattacks (passive procs that can occur on autoattacks are especially toxic for ANY game).
So the conversation we should be having is whether or not gating the blind effect specifically behind the heals in Celestial Form would be enough.
I only responded curtly because this doesn’t need to be yet another 300 post thread complaining about something in the game; we definitely have enough of those.
that is a point realy the Staff 1 heals a target , though to get those blinds the Beam must heal someone , so in 2vs2 Situations the blind is limited to its amount of targets the more targets in the area of the heal gain more blinds so it scales on the amount of people nearby for a beam use this staff 1 is limited to a line so its not much of a issue.
the staff 2 on the other hand is a on target effect that heals any nearby ally to the target of the staff 2 as the wisp heals so if anyone stays near while the wisps duration is active practicly puts Blind on himself by staying too close , this gives the staff its Defence capabilities in small scale fights of 2vs2 or 3vs3.
with others pointing out that the heals a staff does also applies the blind effect to allies is only powerful when in asteral form due to the AoE heals it provides so half this trait is gated behind the wall already as most of the Normal staff heals are linear in a fashion that its only in a line and provides no AoEs unless the trait Verdant Etching is used that triggers the Lingering light effects (which makes it AoE effective)
without Verdant Etching the trait is only strong in asteral form due to provided AoEs and the effects of lingering light add blind attacks to those in the Radius of Verdant Etching or CA form AoE’s.
as AoE heals can heal more targets than a linear effect , it makes lingering light very powerful in full on 5vs5’s if used with Verdant Etching and CA form at the same time.
a simple solution would be to Reduce the AoE sizes on most of the CA form skills apart from Luna impact and remove the Ground targeting from CA skill1 so the AoE can’t apply blind on each Auto attack while in the CA form.
in some what a way to slightly gate the trait lingering light or restrict its effects to a Localised area around the healed target by having smaller AoE radius but Verdant Etching is already quite low at 180 radius pretty much means the druid needs to be in melee range to effectively make use of lingering light and using the Staff 2 Astral Wisp in melee range near lots of Allies is a set up for Pure defence which could be avoided no dodging required .
this is simply the druids way of performing a lockout , that does not include daze stuns ect .
the only way i can see this improving is Removing the CA skill 1 ground targeting making lingering light apply less often and or Reducing the Radius of seed of life to 120 yards so to gain near perma blind , it would require 3 things.
1. Melee range
2. Asteral wisp
3. 2+ players near the target in melee range or the use of Verdant Etching with glyphs.
that ontop a ICD of 4seconds so Staff skill 1 will apply the blind every 1 in 4 attacks which heal an ally , with the 3 requirements to make lingering light strong on a AoE scale but still effective when it comes to 1vs1 or 2vs1 small scale stuff.
doing this lowers its uses to Situational at best due to the 3 requirement i listed.
the trait is fine its the amount of consistant healing Aoes we have.
they could also Apply a Radius to lingering light so it only applies to those with 120 of the healed target, namely the pet and team mates targeted by Aoe.
lingering light Radius 120
ICD 4seconds
Remove ground targeting from CA skill1 , make this a copy of Staff 1 with improved healing.
(the counter play to this is Situational awareness allow the opposing team to line up and to stop it is simply Applying CC to the Druid while its in CA form)
im sure if its Gated this way it can not be applied anymore than once AoE on Multi targets or those that are in a line no more than 1 activation every 4seconds meaning it can not be spammed by using Auto attacks.
sorry for the long post but this Trait Meshes so much into Staff and CA form with seed of life looking at one trait effects everything else.
