Originally Posted by
Lucky_
Elites in GW2 are basically what dervish forms were at release of nightfall. Retardedly overpowered game changers with hilariously long cooldowns. Only they nerfed them on actual power. Funnily they moved away from this design in GW1, because it was terrible design.
And then they incorporated it as baseline feature into GW2. Everyone has their "little moment of overpoweredness" followed by a long cooldown. Except that they nerfed the "overpowerednless" factor so much, that it ceased to matter in many cases, and when it did matter, it usually didn't last long enough.
I'll take my eviscerate/bull's charge/backbreaker (my olden GvG choices for axe/sword/hammer respectively) any day over GW2 elites. Or classic energy surge. These changed my gameplay style. They didn't just work as add-ons on top of it.