Please revamp Freezing Gust (Focus 4 Water)

[Mirdave.2014]

As you put your hands on all these new skills with the arrival of new weapons available for each core profession, and these attempts at balance, why not give a breath of fresh air to a skill that hasn't been modified since 2013 (certainly not because turns out to be perfect). I'm talking about Freezing Gust in focus #4, perhaps taking a cue from the homonymous skill of the original Guildwars, for example:

• Freezing Gust  ½ AT  20 CD

Chill your foe for a brief time. Deal more damage to chilled foes.

Damage: 83 (0.25)

Chilled (5s): -66% Skill Recharge Rate, -66% Movement Speed

Damage vs. chilled: +100%

Range: 900

• Freezing Gust  ½ AT  20 CD

Chill your foes for a brief time. If those enemies are already Chilled, apply Slow as well.

Damage: 83 (0.25)

Chilled (5s): -66% Skill Recharge Rate, -66% Movement Speed

Slow (3s): Skills and actions are slower.

Number of Targets: 3

Radius: 180

Range: 900

 

Numbers entered as an example only, adjust or tweak at pleasure.

[andrewlcl.8176]

Focus skills in water are actually terrible. Focus 5 doesn't hit most of the time. A player with swiftness easily walks away from it, or the target is out of range before it even lands. 

Focus 4, don't waste the 1 second or so to press that button and cast it, unless you're just burning time waiting to do something else.