Guild Wars 2

Just playing with theidea of a bard. Do you think something like this could work? Would you play it? This is a support character the broad idea is to make things difficult for your enemies while making it easy for your friends. So main hand warhorn with a mix of single target skills and aoes. I wanted every skill to have flipover skills (for that classic mmo bard button overload flavor) but couldn’t make it work. I might take another stab at it if you guys think it’s worthwhile. Thoughts?

New Mechanic – Parody: Steal no longer shadowsteps to your target. Instead it randomly puts one of your target’s abilities on cooldown then replaces Steal with the targeted skill. (target must be humanoid)

Warhorn Skills:
Sneak attack: Terrorize – AOE Fear

Auto attack chain: Wail – Inflicts vulnerability and damages your target / Howl – Damages your target and inflicts vulnerability to foes near your target /Shriek – Damages your target and its nearby foes. Vulnerable foes are also weakened

Skill two: Dissonance – Ground targeted AOE that damages and torments victims / (Flip over skill) Discord – Cripples your target and dazes it if it is tormented

Dual Wield (dagger): Be Sharp – Attack your target with sonic daggers and stack poison for each second the skill is channeled (2 ini to activate/ 1 ini per sec to maintain)

Dual Wield (pistol): Reverberation – Use your warhorn to augment the sound of your pistol confusing and damaging your target and nearby foes (blast finisher at player’s location)

Utility Skills:
Heal: Reprise – Heal yourself and reset nearby allies healing skills
Utility 1: Canon – Gain fury. If you perform a critical strike nearby allies will also crit
Utility 2: Allegretto – You and your allies gain quickness, swiftness and vigor
Utility 3: Etude – Gain stability and retaliation if your target is defeated while under these effects the duration is refreshed
Elite: Fermata – For a short while your skills require no initiative

Trait line 1: Dazes
Trait line 2: Condition mitigation
Trait line 3: Enhancing buffs
Minors do stuff with aggro