Why blinds why?
V deathTouch V – Warrior
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Maguuma
STD [Scarlet Gave Me Harpies]
Maguuma
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Jangeol – WvW Warrior
Jangeol – WvW Warrior
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of dangerous amateurs.” Murphy’s Law
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of dangerous amateurs.” Murphy’s Law
Mr Mooo → Piken Square
A few things:
1. People are trying to apply real-world logic to how the game mechanic works, and that’s ridiculous. Please stop, it helps no one and doesn’t provide anything resembling a legitimate argument.
2. The purpose of Blind is so you “Miss” the next attack you make. That being said, I’m really, really, really surprised they went through the trouble to distinguish between an attack that would land but now “Misses”, as opposed to an attack made out of range that misses, like an auto-attack.
For those who don’t understand, here’s a common situation for someone like me, who uses, I don’t know, let’s pick a Warrior weapon at random:
Hammer.
I’m at range against a player, closing in. I have various forms of initiation, the most popular for me being Earthshaker. I’m closing in on a target, and he blinds me.
What do I do? I take a moment to swing, then I’m ready to initiate. The fault lies on the opposing player for blinding me at a dumb moment, and I clear it, then Earthshaker him into a damage chain.
Enter: Blind Change. Now I’m blinded for multiple seconds, and the opposing player’s dumb play pays off, because I’m stuck in a terrible position now.
I could Bull’s Charge to close distance, but that’s a 45 second cooldown that will not hit.
I could switch to GS and Rush, but that’s a solid chunk of damage as well that won’t hit (and is also reserved to help counter the high mobility of… most other classes, to catch back up after I’m already up ins).
I could Earthshaker anyway, but it misses and no one cares, then it’s on a 7 second cooldown (for now, which isn’t bad, but still sucks).
I could do a number of things, but here’s the problem:
Blind is now mindless, and skill-less. If I get blinded from range, it’s now “You can’t initiate, sucks bro”, instead of “Whoops, used that at the wrong time and it did nothing, I should probably learn how to play the game”.
For those who blind mid-animation or otherwise use it in intelligent situations, nothing really changes for them. The long tail of worse players just had their days made intensely easier, and most probably don’t even know why.
Makes me sad.
EDIT – In fact, I’m kind of surprised I don’t see anything about reverting Blind in the Suggestions forum. I only got to play with it for a night of silly buggering around WvW, and in that limited time, I was intensely annoyed by how “fire and forget” it was. Removal of counterplay is just
Alduin Nightsong, 80 Human Necro
“He’s like a man with a fork in a world of soup.”
“He’s like a man with a fork in a world of soup.”
(edited by Cogbyrn.7283)
A few things:
1. People are trying to apply real-world logic to how the game mechanic works, and that’s ridiculous. Please stop, it helps no one and doesn’t provide anything resembling a legitimate argument.
2. The purpose of Blind is so you “Miss” the next attack you make. That being said, I’m really, really, really surprised they went through the trouble to distinguish between an attack that would land but now “Misses”, as opposed to an attack made out of range that misses, like an auto-attack.
For those who don’t understand, here’s a common situation for someone like me, who uses, I don’t know, let’s pick a Warrior weapon at random:
Hammer.
I’m at range against a player, closing in. I have various forms of initiation, the most popular for me being Earthshaker. I’m closing in on a target, and he blinds me.
What do I do? I take a moment to swing, then I’m ready to initiate. The fault lies on the opposing player for blinding me at a dumb moment, and I clear it, then Earthshaker him into a damage chain.
Enter: Blind Change. Now I’m blinded for multiple seconds, and the opposing player’s dumb play pays off, because I’m stuck in a terrible position now.
I could Bull’s Charge to close distance, but that’s a 45 second cooldown that will not hit.
I could switch to GS and Rush, but that’s a solid chunk of damage as well that won’t hit (and is also reserved to help counter the high mobility of… most other classes, to catch back up after I’m already up ins).
I could Earthshaker anyway, but it misses and no one cares, then it’s on a 7 second cooldown (for now, which isn’t bad, but still sucks).
I could do a number of things, but here’s the problem:
Blind is now mindless, and skill-less. If I get blinded from range, it’s now “You can’t initiate, sucks bro”, instead of “Whoops, used that at the wrong time and it did nothing, I should probably learn how to play the game”.
For those who blind mid-animation or otherwise use it in intelligent situations, nothing really changes for them. The long tail of worse players just had their days made intensely easier, and most probably don’t even know why.
Makes me sad.
EDIT – In fact, I’m kind of surprised I don’t see anything about reverting Blind in the Suggestions forum. I only got to play with it for a night of silly buggering around WvW, and in that limited time, I was intensely annoyed by how “fire and forget” it was. Removal of counterplay is just
Sounds like an l2p issue to me.
gotcha! haha I think they’ll change it back sometime soon. Give it 2 months and it should be okay LOL
Alduin Nightsong, 80 Human Necro
“He’s like a man with a fork in a world of soup.”
“He’s like a man with a fork in a world of soup.”