Guild Wars 2

Make it so when under the effects of haste, all your applied CC suffers a similar duration reduction proportional to how quickly you’re not able to use skills.
Leaves a parallel window of escape for PW and nerfs the PvP insta-gib mechanic without hurting those of us who use PW for PvP
Thoughts?

The only way to make pistol whip viable in PVE now is to make it not root us. I’m not paying 5 initiative to have only partial evade frames, do less damage than an autoattack chain, and root myself in place.

They should have reduced PW’s animation time go with the damage nerf. Basically, keep the initial pistol swing + daze, but cut down the sword slashes to just a single, hard-hitting swing. Make the evasion last the entire duration (instead of just partially).

Also, get rid of the root.

If we’re losing the damage we need to lose the animation lock that went with it.

Blacksarevok.8104:

They should have reduced PW’s animation time go with the damage nerf. Basically, keep the initial pistol swing + daze, but cut down the sword slashes to just a single, hard-hitting swing. Make the evasion last the entire duration (instead of just partially).

Also, get rid of the root.

A single slash breaks the synergy it has with signet of malice, which is important to the build. The invincibility frames don’t cover the entire time you’re rooted, you do get hit, so healing up through signet of malice offsets the damage you take while rooted swinging your sword.

I wouldn’t even suggest cutting down the number of hits as a solution, just in case that’s what anet does, bump the damage back up but take away the multiple swings so it doesn’t benefit from haste so much.. leaving you rooted but not getting near the hps from signet of malice.