Guild Wars 2

I really like the idea of defiance being a regular boon. I also think it’d be easy to counter the stun-locking. Bosses could for example have regular attacks added alongside the one-shot-abilities-you-need-to-dodge-every-15-seconds. I know this suggestion is shallow, I’m just throwing ideas.

It’s just me ranting and being amazed.

I haven’t seen much discussion regarding the issue in the topic title. Have the community really accepted Defiance as a working game mechanic in PvE? To me this is one of the main reasons why I find PvE boring and I think it’s one of the main reasons for the DPS-meta that’s been around pretty much since the launch.

It also renders a lot of the class mechanics & weapon choises completely useless if you don’t take the high level fractals into account (Hard hitting normal mobs). It would be nice to see some control skills/builds being used in PvE but as it is it’s just useless to take such builds with you into dungeons/general PvE. Defiance simply kills most of the possible build varioations in the game.

As said, this was just a rant and I don’t have solutions to offer at this point. I’d just like to know how the community feels about Defiance.

Should some of the weapon skills be related to adrenaline like HB for example? What do you think? I’d say it’d make playing a warrior a bit more interesting. It’d also have an instant effect for traits like berserkers power.