Guild Wars 2

Suggesting change for Martial Mastery somewhat based on a thread asking for entangle to blast finisher. Couple changes to move balance around on gs.

Change swoop to 1 leap and animation like savage leap.
Change Maul cd to 10sec and give blast finisher.
Change Martial Mastery to : Skills that cause evade deal +50% more damage and reflect projectiles.

swoop bugs often with getting rooted on 2nd leap and “perma wings”. Only use for double leap is in water fields. Increased maul cd to prevent blasting abuse with fire fields and similarily removed the -20% recharge for martial weapons. Instead gave it some defensive/offensive utility and a damage buff on select skills due to removal of -20% recharge. Fortunetly the change would buff offhand dagger aswell, and side effect of quick shot / lightning reflexes (they have low dmg and short evade anyhow).

seems like a lot of change to get blast finisher on maul I suppose, I don’t know but I wouldn’t mind seeing something other then “-20% skill recharge” type traits that affect skills in a different light.

ohohoh!!!

instead of likely op reflecting that people will scream about…

evade and “kick” skills deal +50% more damage?

sword aa skill 2 is “kick”
gs counter attack is “kick”
spear counter attack is “kick”

Sounds pretty interesting.
These changes I like.

I’d rather they move it to Skirmishing or merge it with Two-Handed Training.

No, keep martial mastery as is, if anything merge it with 2H training .

As for the reflecting on evades I’ve always liked that concept, but that should be tacked onto, or replace the effects of Striders Defense.