Guild Wars 2

Does the effectiveness of Black Powder diminish some in PvE as you level? It seems kind of cheap in terms of how powerful it is at low levels. I do like a little challenge in my PvE when possible.

Yes and No. Most Group Event enemies will just straight up laugh at your little blind field and swat you away. Aside from that, what monsters ignore blind and to what degree just really depends on the type of enemy you are fighting. Do keep in mind that anything which is an AOE, or throws down a field can’t really be blinded. The enemy isn’t supposed to technically be able to see you or know where you are to cast such an attack, but he still totally friggin’ does.

Basically, yes, black powder is probably overpowered against things it works against, but you’ll really notice when it doesn’t work.

Basically, it works great against slow-attacking enemies, but you will really feel the pain against the fast- attacking ones and especially against those with multiple-attacks (rapid firing (f.e. hylek shamans), rapid slashing (attacks similar to PW or the underwater spear block/counterattack ability) etc.

I have found that it isn’t effective against most champs and bosses. They get the “blind,” but it doesn’t seem to affect them at all.

That being said, today I soloed 8 Snow Trolls (lv80) at the same time , one of which was a vet, while takinkittenage because I kept Black Powder up the whole fight. It is still very useful at high levels, just not against champs and bosses.

Yeah dont use it against bosses, but in dungeons its effective against all trash packs tbh.