Guild Wars 2

So, the recent patch changed how the condition blind is removed.

Before, you just have to pay attention to blind and auto attack to remove it which seems fair as it reward players who have combat awareness. It forces an action; either waiting it out or auto attack to remove it. If you did neither of those, you may suffer a lenghty cooldown on one of your abiltiies.

Now, you can’t remove it by using auto attacks anymore…you actually have to cleanse it or attack someone within range. I am fine with this, but with the abundance of blinds available to certain classes, this may be a bit too much.

In a D/D thief vs D/D thief, it basically comes down to who can blind the other person first.

I’m not asking for a nerf yet…as I play a thief and will experiment with this but I predict fighting a D/P thief as a S/X or D/D thief just became 100% harder.

What is your take on this change? Is this a good change for the condition and the thief in general or is it too strong?

Does it work on bosses at full capacity now or still at 20%?

MIrra.3604:

Before, you just have to pay attention to blind and auto attack to remove it which seems fair as it reward players who have combat awareness. It forces an action; either waiting it out or auto attack to remove it. If you did neither of those, you may suffer a lenghty cooldown on one of your abiltiies.

Excuse me…what?

It “seemed fair” to be able to no longer be blind because you…swung at empty air? What did you miss thanks to the blind condition? Oxygen atoms? Blind is meant to be “your next attack that would have been a hit instead misses because you are blind”. You did not execute a successful attack on thin air, therefore you are still blind.

It’s certainly a change, and probably a good one. I’ve heard from a few different rangers/warriors that only melee weapon “hits” are clearing the blind now, and that their ranged weapons aren’t working to clear it even on a successful attack. Any truth to that?