ArenaNet talk:Skill feedback/Elementalist/Ward Against Foes

Would be cool, might make it a staple skill, but would be hard to code so it probably won't be implemented until GW2. that is, if Izzy reads this page in the first place.

That'd go a good ways towards fixing a lot of stuff, but I don't know how feasible it would be to implement. Depends on if walls stopping shadowsteps is coded as a property of walls or just a function that's implemented with walls. --71.229.204.25 07:47, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
 * I hadn't thought of it as stopping the shadowstep mid-flight, but that's a pretty good idea. I had just thought it would make shadowsteps fail. I think that would be possible.
 * If there's a "shadowstep" flag on shadowstepping skills, you could make it so that they fail when used on someone in the Ward(though the Ward Against Foes is a "vs. Foes" Ward, so I don't know if it can apply an effect to allies). The only issue then would be random shadowsteps(Heart of Shadow) and to-ally shadow steps(Shadow Meld) -- random shadow steps aren't predictable enough to be useful, and to-ally shadowsteps at least destroy the element of surprise, though you could make it so any Foe in the ward couldn't be an SS target for an ally.
 * And, yes, I'm afraid that this almost certainly won't even be read by Izzy, much less be implemented in-game. He must be working REALLY hard on GW2, since he doesn't really seem to have the time to continue fixing the broken aspects of GW1. =( Maybe ArenaNet should hire a second skill balancer to focus on GW1 while Izzy works on GW2.--Kite 19:37, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Awesome suggestion. You should be able to code a buff and a debuff in this skill, with the debuff making shadowsteps fail, and the buff making it so you can't be the target of shadow steps.  Just that alone (without the ability to allow them to SS away through random SS's, or to an ally) would make this skill really nice.  StatMan 14:59, 7 July 2009 (UTC)