Guild Wars 2

With the new proposition of adding immobilise for 1 second on the Hammer’s Primal Burst Skill for BWE3 I was thinking that Distracting strikes could be altered to open up more viability with condition based builds.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Distracting_Strikes

Suggestion:

Distracting Strikes: Cause confusion when you interupt a foe’s skill or immobilise the target.

4 Confusion (8s): 198 Damage On Skill Use, 320 Damage

This to me would open up a lot of different uses and buff any possible condi build.

Skills that use Immobilise:

- Arrow Skill 5 “Pin Down” https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Pin_Down

- Sword Burst Skill “Flurry” https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Flurry

- Harpoon Gun Skill 4 “Knot Shot” https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Knot_Shot

- Harpoon Gun Primal Burst Skill “Burning Shackles” https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Burning_Shackles

- Physical Utility Skill “Throw Bolas” https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Throw_Bolas

- Hammer Primal Burst skill for BWE3

Traits that would benefit from this:

- Tactics Major Adept Trait “Leg Specialist” https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Leg_Specialist

- Arms Major Adept Trait “Oppurtunist” https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Opportunist

What do you guys think? Would this be too much? Or open future possible builds without causing too much damage to the current balance in combat?

Note: I’d defintately be looking at condition builds if this were to happen and use weapon combinations that weren’t really appealing to me before (e.g. bow + sword/x, Hammer + sword/ x, and many more because of the Trait “Leg Specialist”)

4 stacks of confusion for 8s every 5s from sword auto attacks with leg specialist…

It’s not enough to compete with burning.

Personally i think it would be a good idea. I always wanted it to be on any disable similar to body blows but your idea is good too!

Might be my bias towards condi builds, but Distracting Strikes seems strong enough as it is.

Cygnus.6903:

Might be my bias towards condi builds, but Distracting Strikes seems strong enough as it is.

Perhaps tie my suggestion in with another trait but add a different condition to it?

What do you think?

What about a trait that adds torment when you apply cripple lol. Trying to stick with the condition/cc spec lol