Guild Wars 2

Title (and it seems like thief skills go on cd too). Testing this out with a mate right now. This may be the best skill ever.

Edit: Pyroatheist confirmed. Also here’s independent proof in picture form. http://i.imgur.com/rJ2U1pz.jpg
You can see my friend is both a thief and has his auto attack on cooldown.

1. Quickness is only 1.5x action speed. How do you get a 100% damage boost
2. After-casts can eat up some time
3. If FI procs, you must be in a position to cast skills to utilize it. Having to dodge roll, getting stunned, etc. all mean the trait goes to waste.
4. Subsequent FI procs are much harder to take advantage of, as it’s pretty much impossible to ensure that when an interrupt goes off after the 15s icd you will even have skills up on your bar besides aa to cast.

Having said that, the trait is certainly fantastic in best case scenarios. Free quickness is very strong if you are in a position to cast multiple skills with high power coefficients.

From experience, FI works best in a build that is set up to open a fight with strong burst that can be executed from any distance (i.e a magic bullet into greatsword 2 + 3 + 4) because you can at least use the opening proc of the interrupt.

PvE it’s pretty subpar because burst < dps. PvP it’s fine when built around.

Shattered conditions should just be moved down to the 20pt in inspiration. It is a good trait but you lose so much taking it.

How did you do your math? I cannot follow it. Did you include the weapon stat? What power ratio does halting strike have?

Furious interruption being changed to quickness is good for some builds and bad for others. The quickness can be used by straight power weapons like the greatsword and sword well. You can empty all your skills onto a target in 3s of 1.5x action speed, which can create a lot of burst. You just need to be in a position to use the quickness. Imho it is better than old fi for a true interrupt build. It’s just a lot of people on the forums run chillinterrupt/perplexity/dip in for bountiful interruption so quickness is mostly wasted on their condition/survival specs.

I agree. Anet left interrupt mesmer in this state of quasi-viability where if you build it you aren’t totally useless in PvP—but it’s too inconsistent. I feel like they were afraid of the best scenario where you land a ton of interrupts in a row which is why the traits feel ok if you pull off a lot of interrupts in a short time period, but otherwise feel underwhelming.