If You Were in Charge of Skill Balance for a Day....
Ok here's the situation. Anet puts you in charge of skill balance for a day. Pick any 1 up to 3 skills (pve, pvp or both) you would like to change.
Please respond in the following format....
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Original
Shadow Form (PVE) 5 Energy 1 Activation time 30 Recharge time
Elite Enchantment Spell. For 5...18...21 seconds, you cannot be the target of enemy spells, and you gain 5 damage reduction for each Assassin enchantment on you. You cannot deal more than 5...21...25 damage with a single skill or attack.
Changed
Shadow Form (PVE) 5 Energy 1 Activation time 30 Recharge time
Elite Enchantment Spell. For 5...18...21 seconds, targeted enemy spells at you have a 75% chance of failure, and you gain 5 damage reduction for each Assassin enchantment on you. You cannot deal more than 5...21...25
damage with a single skill or attack.
(Optional)
Reasoning
I feel the skill has been over used...
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Original
Banish (PVE + PVP) 5 Energy 1 Activation 10 Recharge
Spell. Target foe takes 20...49...56 holy damage. This spell does double damage to summoned creatures.
Changed
Banish (PVE + PVP) 5 Energy 1 Activation 7 Recharge
Spell. Target foe takes 20...49...56 holy damage. This spell does double damage to summoned creatures.
Reason
Felt some of the smite skills recharge times are holding them back from usefulness
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Thanks.
also thanks Kunder for inspiring me to write this thread!
If You Were in Charge of Skill Balance for a Day
melissa b
ruk1a
Original
Shadow Form (PvE)
Elite Enchantment Spell. For 5...18...21 seconds, you cannot be the target of enemy spells, and you gain 5 damage reduction for each Assassin enchantment on you. You cannot deal more than 5...21...25 damage with a single skill or attack.
Changed
Shadow Form (PvE)
You are now God. For 60...120...180 minutes, everything that targets you is deflected back to the attacker and deals 500% the original damage.
Reasoning
I feel the skill is underpowered!
Shadow Form (PvE)
Elite Enchantment Spell. For 5...18...21 seconds, you cannot be the target of enemy spells, and you gain 5 damage reduction for each Assassin enchantment on you. You cannot deal more than 5...21...25 damage with a single skill or attack.
Changed
Shadow Form (PvE)
You are now God. For 60...120...180 minutes, everything that targets you is deflected back to the attacker and deals 500% the original damage.
Reasoning
I feel the skill is underpowered!
Lest121
Original Form
All Skills(PvE)--(PvP)
Changed
Reduce all energy cost to 1, increase casting time to 60sec for all skills...
This change won't effect the monsters/creatures of Guildwars, only the players who like to complain about SF.
All Skills(PvE)--(PvP)
Changed
Reduce all energy cost to 1, increase casting time to 60sec for all skills...
This change won't effect the monsters/creatures of Guildwars, only the players who like to complain about SF.
Mike Jack
Original
Mending
Upkeep, 10 energy, 2 second cast time
Enchantment Spell. +1...3...4 Health regeneration.
Changed
Mending
25 energy, 5 second cast time 90 second recharge
(1 second) Elite Enchantment Spell. +0...-10...-100 Health regeneration. Your skills are disabled for 90 seconds.
Why?
I want to see Anet make the first skill where the effects is logarithmic in nature. I'm sick of this linear crap.
Mending
Upkeep, 10 energy, 2 second cast time
Enchantment Spell. +1...3...4 Health regeneration.
Changed
Mending
25 energy, 5 second cast time 90 second recharge
(1 second) Elite Enchantment Spell. +0...-10...-100 Health regeneration. Your skills are disabled for 90 seconds.
Why?
I want to see Anet make the first skill where the effects is logarithmic in nature. I'm sick of this linear crap.
john5813
Original
Shadow Form (PVE) 5 Energy 1 Activation time 30 Recharge time
Elite Enchantment Spell. For 5...18...21 seconds, you cannot be the target of enemy spells, and you gain 5 damage reduction for each Assassin enchantment on you. You cannot deal more than 5...21...25 damage with a single skill or attack.
Changed
Shadow Form (PvE) - Don't use it if you don't like the skill and don't team up with anyone who uses it. Problem solved.
Reasoning
To get across to players that no one is forcing them to use the skill or forcing them to team up with anyone that uses it. It's just like the players that complain Eye of the North skills need to be taken out of the game because they are two powerful. Again no one is forcing them to use them.
Shadow Form (PVE) 5 Energy 1 Activation time 30 Recharge time
Elite Enchantment Spell. For 5...18...21 seconds, you cannot be the target of enemy spells, and you gain 5 damage reduction for each Assassin enchantment on you. You cannot deal more than 5...21...25 damage with a single skill or attack.
Changed
Shadow Form (PvE) - Don't use it if you don't like the skill and don't team up with anyone who uses it. Problem solved.
Reasoning
To get across to players that no one is forcing them to use the skill or forcing them to team up with anyone that uses it. It's just like the players that complain Eye of the North skills need to be taken out of the game because they are two powerful. Again no one is forcing them to use them.
john5813
The players that usually complain about Shadow Form or skills like it are doing so mainly because they see players who use it solo farm high-end areas to get high-end items then selling the items making a lot of money from it.
So they think since they can't also solo farm high-end areas with their characters since none of their characters are assassins, they don't use/have the skill or they just don't know how to control the build in combat and are stuck in areas that will drop items maybe only worth 1k at best, that all players shouldn't be allowed to use SF by having it taken out of the game or making it so underpowered it basically becomes useless.
So they think since they can't also solo farm high-end areas with their characters since none of their characters are assassins, they don't use/have the skill or they just don't know how to control the build in combat and are stuck in areas that will drop items maybe only worth 1k at best, that all players shouldn't be allowed to use SF by having it taken out of the game or making it so underpowered it basically becomes useless.
MidnightOokami
[Serious]
Original : Preparations in general taking a two second casting time.
Changed : Preparations now act as a flash-enchantment skill and the duration lasts a minute on all condition wielding preparations. This is only available in PvE but retains original casting time and recharge for PvP.
Reason : I get lazy playing my ranger and stopping almost every twenty seconds to reapply another preparation. You fire your first arrow and then everything's already dead by then if your heroes aggro.
[Not Serious]
Original : ...
Changed : If four or more skills are used on a bar in PvP that is currently in Meta on PvX Wiki your skill recharge for those skills add on an extra two seconds per Meta skill. There is no effect on three skills or under for your Profession's Meta build.
Reason : One day change ... why not have fun with it?
Original : Preparations in general taking a two second casting time.
Changed : Preparations now act as a flash-enchantment skill and the duration lasts a minute on all condition wielding preparations. This is only available in PvE but retains original casting time and recharge for PvP.
Reason : I get lazy playing my ranger and stopping almost every twenty seconds to reapply another preparation. You fire your first arrow and then everything's already dead by then if your heroes aggro.
[Not Serious]
Original : ...
Changed : If four or more skills are used on a bar in PvP that is currently in Meta on PvX Wiki your skill recharge for those skills add on an extra two seconds per Meta skill. There is no effect on three skills or under for your Profession's Meta build.
Reason : One day change ... why not have fun with it?
lemming
I presume that this is a joke thread. If this is a serious thread, there's already a board for posting stuff like this.
Either way, keep it out of Riverside.
Either way, keep it out of Riverside.