Blinding Flash needs nerf now?

@ Thor
Dude, you need to PLAY as an ele in pvp to KNOW what you are talking about. I play as a War most of the time and I agree with Thor. All those condition-removers have a cooldown time while Blinding Flash has almost none, and Eles focused on it can keep it up nonstop. I played a game in TA where I was Blinded literally every five seconds, and even using the best condition remover of them all--Plague Touch--it was a big hassle. If I didn't bring a condition remover, or used something like Purge Signet that took 20 seconds to recharge, I would be Blinded 100% of the match and there would be nothing I could do to be effective.

That's called an exploit.

I play as a War most of the time and I agree with Thor. All those condition-removers have a cooldown time while Blinding Flash has almost none, and Eles focused on it can keep it up nonstop. I played a game in TA where I was Blinded literally every five seconds, and even using the best condition remover of them all--Plague Touch--it was a big hassle. If I didn't bring a condition remover, or used something like Purge Signet that took 20 seconds to recharge, I would be Blinded 100% of the match and there would be nothing I could do to be effective.

That's called an exploit. Beside keeping you blind, what else that ele did? were you Dishing out more damage compared to ele? or was he killing you with blind on you all the time?
Mind you, that happens to be one of the effective skills we got which we can spam while a warrior spams with his weapon. Think about it for sometime.

Regardz
An Elementalist

I play as a War most of the time and I agree with Thor. All those condition-removers have a cooldown time while Blinding Flash has almost none, and Eles focused on it can keep it up nonstop. I played a game in TA where I was Blinded literally every five seconds, and even using the best condition remover of them all--Plague Touch--it was a big hassle. If I didn't bring a condition remover, or used something like Purge Signet that took 20 seconds to recharge, I would be Blinded 100% of the match and there would be nothing I could do to be effective.

That's called an exploit. That's called you're dead wrong. An exploit? What a joke. Learn how the classes work.

That ele is going to be crying when he has a mesmer on him. With proper enchant stripping/diversion he isn't going to be doing anything with either prodigy or dual attunements.

If you're getting beat by blinding flash in TA plan for it and have one of your offensive casters bring a draw conditions. That will single handedly beat the blinding flash especially if the guy has a reliable energy engine (like offering or prodigy).

In RA the situation is more dicey since you can't plan for anyone else bringing it and the 2 best options are mend ailment and plague touch for self removals. Timewise things are nearly the same. Basically 5s per blinding flash, and 5s per condition removal. The energy is where the issues are though. 2 pips with 5e removal vs 9 pips with 15e application. Then again, he has to use all his energy to keep blinding every 5s and if an ele has no energy to do anything else hes basically useless except for that task, except you the warrior can continue banging away with great dps and spike for no energy cost.

I play as a War most of the time and I agree with Thor. All those condition-removers have a cooldown time while Blinding Flash has almost none, and Eles focused on it can keep it up nonstop. I played a game in TA where I was Blinded literally every five seconds, and even using the best condition remover of them all--Plague Touch--it was a big hassle. If I didn't bring a condition remover, or used something like Purge Signet that took 20 seconds to recharge, I would be Blinded 100% of the match and there would be nothing I could do to be effective.

That's called an exploit. It's counterintutive to call something unbalanced when playing in Ra/Ta when these arenas are effectively built on the idea of unbalance. I can simply pacifiy spam you and take you out of the picture but that doesn't mean the skill pacify( hardly used nowadays) is overblanced. Simply because one time someone effectivly prevents one type of damage dealer of inflicting dmg does not mean that any skill is unbalanced. Think about all the times when a domination mesmer has come in and competly disabled a boon prot. We don't consider many of those skills undbalanced.

The problems rests within Ra/Ta's inability to allow for the fluid transfer of pressure, damage, and support. Let's take for instance the boon prot from above. He probably can go agianst team after team of warrior heavy teams because he recieves little pressure other than focused damage. He starts a next match only to be flat out owned by a mesmer. This results from multiple sources: the monk has no dedicated support heal as the healing is very focused, the damage can't apply pressure to the mesmer because they have to drop the monk, and there is no direct caster pressure that can effectively put out the mesmer while maintnaing damage on the healers. I think this results from the lack of skill slots in Ra/Ta, the lack of experiance in players, and also a lack of communication.

So don't go around thinking the elementalist who just owned you has unbalanced skills but realize that the arena of your choice is highly designed to be unblanced. You will lose and win more over the long run based of the builds of other teams.

LMAO @ 45 seconds. If thats not a completely pointless rant that bypassed your brain i don't know what is. Your all whining simply because that blind bot ele is stopping you hurting anything? Anet stopped eles hurting anything, they found a new role instead, stopping YOU hurting anyone.

If you can't take it anymore go make yourself an elementalist and go kill the Master of Lightning in Isle of Nameless or go laugh at the Master of Hammers/Axes feeble attempts to hit you through Blind. Couldnt have agreed more.

Ok im gonna take the middle ground here and just say it is slightly unbalanced. I mean I have played all the classes with many builds, ect, and i must admit that blinding flash is kinda unfair. Ele's can bring Air attune to reduce energy cost somewat and still keep spamming with energy regaining skills watever their preference on that matter. Considering that they have the ability to spam it, and with its relatively short casting time making it very hard to interupt. Also if you are lucky enough to have a monk in RA, (which i play very often as one), it is very hard to keep blind off those warriors with pretty good condition removal, due to cooldown times and the fact that is RA you cant build the same builds that work in GvG. I mean i could handle in GvG, conditions easily with certain builds, but they wouldnt work in RA due to the variety and the random part of it. So in RA, yes blinding flash is overpowered (even adding a sec or 2 to the recharge or lessing length a second or two could make the difference), but in all other pvp no it is not. If you dont bring condition removal in gvg and are complaining about it shame on you lol.
~sry in advance for any typos didnt proof-read to find any major errors.
~~edit: fixed a few grammar mistakes am wondering what i should reply you with after reading your post....
Should i recomend you to try the built you actually mentioned in your post while being an elementalist? I suggest you stand in the shoes of that build which you just mentioned above before you even reply to me.

Sure, for PVP, you don't find it overpowered, but for RA, you do.
You, a ranger out of all, who has a trick for every possible side, plays one of the dirtiest builds arround to farm, has excellent damaging and hindering capabilities at most of the times, is saying blinding flash is overpowered, based on RA? ZOMG, i smell ...... a ranger.

Regardz
An Elementalist.