Guild Wars 2

Hi all!

Well guess you’re thinking this is another remove the AoE cap post. Hovewer i think that the AoE cap is neccesary.

I’ve been playing GW2 since launch and every balance patch i feel like if devs lack fresh ideas on how to balance their own game.
In order to help i would suggest to check the AoE cap on certain abilities (elites mostly) so they could feel really usefull.

For example: It has been talking about nullfield in another post in this same forums section. Lets say that nullfield almost does the same thing well of corruption. In fact well of corruption it seems to be much more powerfull due to its damage effect and that it not only removes boons but it also transform them into conditions. Ok, nullfield also removes conditions on allies but how reliable is that? Well of corruption has a more reliable function.
So why not increasing the AoE cap of nullfield so it becomes a bit more balanced with other boon removal skills?

Another example: Timewarp or Battle standard. Both abilities have actually a 5 target AoE cap. In case of the timewarp and since the nerfs haste has suffered i think that this cap is a nonsense. Even mass invisivility has a 10 player cap so why Timewarp remains the same? Such a big AoE effect for just 5 targets cap? Nonsense.
Battle Standard has a big cooldown due to the rez effect it has. Good one in my opinon. BUT, why does it have a 5 target cap on the boons it gives? Other standards can be reliable on the buffs they provide since they have low cooldown but this elite even if its a really powerfull one, its not used other than to rez people. The passive effect should be stronger so it may be used for buffing other than just rezzing.
Funny thing is that For Great Justice gives almost the same buff effevt that the Banner gives but it also has a low cd.

Perhaps its about time to start checking the AoE caps on some abilities.

i think increasing the aoe cap for certain elites to 10 targets may be more reasonable.

for null field, maybe

5 allies
5 enemies

not 5 allies and enemies
perhaps i should update that according in my null field topic?