With various spear attacks this skill is able to shut down multiple physical classes very easily. In itself this is not the entire issue, assuming that there are viable counters to such a build.
What is the major issue is the number of viable counters to such a skill. These are limited to basically Rend or your own source of blind. Given the extremely limited nature of Codex it is very unlikely you will actually receive these counters on any given day, yet the chance of EDA being present is about 33%. Even if it appears alongside only mediocre spear attacks this results in very spammable physical shutdown, often with no real counter.
I understand that the nature of Codex will eliminate this problem on it's own at the end of this day, but such a degenerate, powerful, uncounterable skill should not frequent the deck as often as once every three days. It will make for generally unfun metagames on it's appearance days, particularly if caster bars are crappy.
Suggestion: Melee attacks only. A more ideal solution would be to implement proposed change and drop the number of Nightfall profession elites to 3, so we don't have filth like WS and EDA clogging up the arena every third day.
Edit: Actually I lie. Assault enchantments and signet of twilight were both present today. However, the first is useless against EDA for fairly obvious reasons. The second isn't incredibly viable either, due to the fact that packing enough hexes to dig down to EDA means you probably aren't running physicals in the first place.
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