Guild Wars 2

There are many builds that focus on high condition application + high damage mitigation. Ironically, though physical burst can kill in less hits, its seems to me that a condition burst that lands will do more damage over time. This leads to a sustain war. The condition build that unchecked will kill in 3 hits versus the physical build that can kill if it lands 4 hits.

I write unchecked, and the plausibility of that scenario is becoming more and more real. There are passive and active counters in the game, the passive will simply mitigate, and the active will punish. Passive simply cause enemies to sustain the behavior, sustain being something condition builds do anyway, but for most classes there are not enough cleanses in the game that forcing a longer sustain will change the outcome of the fight.

That brings us to actives.
Projectiles are actively countered by reflection.
Melee is actively countered by shocking aura, and actively mitigated by the other auras. As well as blind fields. And technically any aoe they cannot stand in.
Conditions are actively countered by transfers.

Physical builds will pack the mitigation that if there entire burst was done to themselves they could survive. Rarely do condition builds also build to deal if their burst was transferred back to them.

Elementalist is the primary source of auras with all other classes being able to perform them.
Guardian, Mesmer, Engie are the primary sources of reflection, with most other classes being able to perform them.
Necromancer is the primary source of transfer with no other class being able to perform them.

For the sake of balance give revenant back its condition transfer abilities.

I don’t care about the balance when talking about the mallyx-elite. Purely in terms of skill ceiling, teamplay and fun, the old way the skill worked just made much more sense.

I think the new Mallyx is going to rock the socks off. Let’s give it a chance and test it first.

I actually don’t think the new elite is bad; it’s just kinda dull and has far less strategy to it.