Guild Wars 2

All of the weapon skills already have cooldowns, so what is the point of them consuming energy too? Thief utilities don’t consume initiative. Will it really be that op if the weapon skills don’t consume energy?

To prevent being op.

The weapon skills have low cost and can do great damage. If they removed cooldown they would increase cost of energy which would be worse

Photinous.4628:

All of the weapon skills already have cooldowns, so what is the point of them consuming energy too? Thief utilities don’t consume initiative. Will it really be that op if the weapon skills don’t consume energy?

To keep the CDs low. In return, the CDs are there to keep the energy costs low and prevent weaponskill spam. If one or the other were gone, the cost would go up to balance it.

Like they said. It’s also good solution imo.

Here’s something I prepared earlier.

Short form: It gives us more choice. Odds are that if energy was removed from weapon skills, the various skills would be rebalanced so we get to do about the same amount of stuff – however, being balanced according to weapon skills costing energy means we can choose to use more weapon skills or to hold off on using weapon skills to save energy for utilities as the situation requires.

It’d also make Legendary Dragon Stance hard to balance, since cooldown skills having no energy cost would mean there was no energy pressure to just keeping up an average of 5 pips of maintenance permanently.

the current problem is utility spamming instead. skill like Unyielding Anguish(teleportfield) or the perma resistance one make u spam them and autoattack. these scream for a cd,
and also there could be more utility on some weapons, like hammer3 should give u the choice to stay at the location uve leapt to, skill 4 on hammer should also have at least 1 more function or at least make it a combo field. sword 2 still feels like it could be more flexible and not just dmg and 1 s chill.

the other skills that lacked stuff like staff 4 got some buffs already so no complaints there gj

skill 4 on hammer should also have at least 1 more function or at least make it a combo field.

it is a combo field -_-