Guild Wars 2

hi Roy,
i remember an old thread mentioning Crystal Hibernation being changed from rooting us to becoming being able to used while moving and you said you would look into it.? could you confirm if it will be changed for BWE3.

thanks mate.

I dont recall anywhere Roy looking into it make it mobile. While i dont really agree with making it selfroot espesially with given recent buffs to war (cd reduction, reflect) and guard shield (mobile 4sec projectile block), i guess crystal hibernation will remain as selfroot ability. If you want mobile block get sword offhand which also can block more often (which basically makes it much better option unless you looking at aesthetic aspect).

While it does roots you, it is a long block that also heals you for a large amount. Basically like some of our lower heal skills right now. If you could move while using this skill it’s power would need to be brought down a lot.
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(edited September 15th, 15:00 by Roy Cronacher.1576)

Yes I know the sword blocks more frequently than the shield, but it lacks the heal I need. All other shields skills on other classes are mobile

Since it also heals, it should be less of an issue… though I have to see it in action for myself which will determine if my offhand will be a shield or a sword.

He never said root will be removed. It stays. 3s block with heal on 20s cd. Rooting is the price to pay for it.

We’ll find out tomorrow

blokejoe.6590:

While it does roots you, it is a long block that also heals you for a large amount. Basically like some of our lower heal skills right now. If you could move while using this skill it’s power would need to be brought down a lot.
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(edited September 15th, 15:00 by Roy Cronacher.1576)

Yes I know the sword blocks more frequently than the shield, but it lacks the heal I need. All other shields skills on other classes are mobile

And that is a reason why selfroot will stay. If selfroot get removed, healing will be gone too. And honestly i dont understand that “it lack heal” when you can prevent much more damage with sword to the point where that heal looks lackluster in comprasion. Shield is designed towards bunker specs, not glass.

I’m also hoping Revenant shield will follow suit after the Warrior and Guardian shield improvements and become more mobile.

Shield has some heavy competition against offhand Sword and Axe. While the Glint shield trait is huge (+2s on all boons), I’d still like to see the shield weapon skills get some better playability.

Ie, shield 5 becoming mobile. This is a mobile game and you can echo all the reasons why Guardian shield was made mobile.

They changed the shield to block, but are keeping it rooted. He stated that if it was to become mobile the heal and duration would have to be changed.

Here is the post. The defiance bar got canned, no specific mention on mobile or rooted. I guess based on how it now works and our testing a feedback it will decide it’s final design before launch.

Shield

We were trying out defiance bars on player skills in a few places, but it didn’t really work out. Defiance bar is balanced around being on creatures which left some pieces of it feeling awkward for players. It also had essentially a duplicate functionality to stability. In the end we felt like it didn’t play well on player skills so we removed all player defiance bars.

Envoy of Exuberance: Decreased the energy cost from 15 to 10. Fixed a bug so that this skill will properly heal at the target location instead of around you.

Crystal Hibernation: Removed the defiance bar. This skill will now block attacks for the duration while regenerating health. Lowered recharge from 30 seconds to 20 seconds.

Linfang.1087:

Here is the post. The defiance bar got canned, no specific mention on mobile or rooted. I guess based on how it now works and our testing a feedback it will decide it’s final design before launch.

Shield

We were trying out defiance bars on player skills in a few places, but it didn’t really work out. Defiance bar is balanced around being on creatures which left some pieces of it feeling awkward for players. It also had essentially a duplicate functionality to stability. In the end we felt like it didn’t play well on player skills so we removed all player defiance bars.

Envoy of Exuberance: Decreased the energy cost from 15 to 10. Fixed a bug so that this skill will properly heal at the target location instead of around you.

Crystal Hibernation: Removed the defiance bar. This skill will now block attacks for the duration while regenerating health. Lowered recharge from 30 seconds to 20 seconds.

actually no, we already got all the info
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/revenant/Clarification-on-Crystal-Hibernation-please/first#post5494438

Ok cool so it is rooted, like some of the other shield blocks. makes sense then.

I like it this way, I mean unrooted is always better but if it gets unrooted suddenly it wont heal or be as long, might as well bring offhand sword.

I like it being rooted, gives it that little bit of flavour like this is a powerful skill, and you need to focus your energy to keep it up, moving around while doing it would make it seem a bit meh.

While I certainly understand the dangers in self-root abilities, I am also not sure that we need another normal weapon skill block, since we already have them on sword OH and staff. I think the self-root is fine as is, and if it ends up being too vulnerable, maybe they could even increase the healing on it a little bit (though probably not, the healing is already very good).

Yea if its a situation where you need to be able to move take offhand sword. Where as other situations being rooted/heal is fine in that case take shield. Its all preference I like being able to have different types of skills instead of copies with different skins.

I agree with you guys. It comes down to play style, I’ll be doing alot of testing