Also, what is up with the amount of useless utility skills? Who on earth in their right mind would use physical skills other than rampage? The lesser used skills need a total overhaul and makeover to increase build diversity and unpredictability.
I’ve been saying this for a long time. Kick and Stomp are basically garbage and Throw Bolas doesn’t work on anyone with half of a brain. Also, half of the new Rage skills are bad as well. As you said the Sundering Leap is clunky, and Shattering Throw has less than a second of actual usefulness.
Things i’d like to see and or suggestions.
Shattering Throw: I see three ways I would like to see this skill be reworked into, all of them adding viable uses.
Option 1- Remove the bleeding, add the skill’s ability to remove protection, stability, and or auras. Increased Cooldown.
Option 2- Remove the bleeding, completely rework the rock to stay up in a static area as a wall for 7 seconds and explode upon re-activation for cone AoE damage(reflects while up). Remove Stability gained and Blocking while activating. Increased cooldown. Rename to Shattering Wall
Option 3- Completely rework the wall ability to be channeled on arm for 2-3 seconds, reflecting during that time. Remove Stability gain from skill and remove blocking while activating. Explodes on re-activate for cone AoE damage+the same bleeding damage/duration as before. Increase cooldown to 25 seconds from 15.
Sundering Leap
Option 1-Lower number of targets to 3. Lower Vulnerability stacks from 10 to 5. Lower cast time to 1/2 a second. Remove the crippling. Add a unique non-removable cripple for 2-3 seconds that lowers movement speed by 50%.
Reasoning: I really want to see this skill become a viable gap closer but still compete with Hammer burst/primal burst and be fairly balanced. In PvP with so many cleanses and condition removal, Warrior is put in a very tough position to actually be able to compete melee wise. This will force the use of ports or shields to mitigate the heat. Maybe arenanet thought it was a “utility” because of it’s ability to close gaps, but the emphasis is too much on damage, on not enough on actual utility. (After all, my Sword 2, GS 5, and both Hammer bursts can do the same thing basically in terms of utility)
Option 2-Lower targets to 3. Lower Vulnerability stacks from 10 to 5. Leaves a crater in the ground in the radius of the leap that’s impassible for a 3-5 seconds. Increase cooldown.
Reasoning-Just like with Option 1, I’d like to see this skill have less damage output and more actual “Utility”. It is in the Utility section after all…
Stomp
Option 1-Add gain 1 might stack per foe hit. Lower cooldown to 40 seconds from 45.
Kick
Add 2-3 seconds of Daze, possibly only if the skill is successful.
