you hit the nail on the head, the aegis proccing and blindness proccing make it impossible for any melee class in the game to get close to them. The one way to negate them is to build strictly into toughness, vit, and condi pressure... but if you're doing that to go after one class then you're leaving yourself wide open to the other 4 enemies, it's also not fool proof as they can cleanse condis on a dime and have an entire conjured weapon designed to help against condi pressure. The class is complete garbage and anet should be ashamed in it.