Guild Wars 2

Yes, temporarily. As a necro main, I would prefer any reversion to be permenant, but I digress. The real reason I make this call right now is because of two bugs that came with the indroduction of the overflow from death shroud to regular health.

1. Skill Lockout: While I cannot garuntee a link between the change and this bug, I will say that I never experienced it until the overflow was introduced. Right now, if a Necromancer is forced out of death shroud via running out of life force (whether via damage or via natural decay), the healing skill, all utilitiy skills, and elite skill are locked for up to 3 seconds.

2. Full damage overflows: This bug I can garuntee is linked to the overflow. Right now, if a Necromancer recieves an attack that deals more damage than he has life force, he loses all life force and takes the full damage to his health. For example, if a Necromancer in death shroud has 2k life force, and is hit with a 6k eviscerate, instead of depleting his life force and doing 2k damage to his health (Death Shroud has 50% damage reduction), or even 4k damage, it deals 6k damage to his health instead.

I ask ArenaNet to please revert the overflow mechanic from death shroud to normal health at least as long as it takes to fix these two bugs.

Well, you know that there was already a thread about this problem on the “Game Bugs” section of the forum.

I think the change to DS overflow should be reverted permanently. It was a bad decision, and has made my favorite class so much less fun to play.

I don’t think anyone is getting their hopes up… lol

Mad Queen Malafide.7512:

I think the change to DS overflow should be reverted permanently. It was a bad decision, and has made my favorite class so much less fun to play.

Oh, I agree, but I hope that at least getting it back as a band-aid until the related bugs are fixed will help improve things for us.

Signed – both bugs happen to me frequently and it’s the most annoying thing about playing a Necro.

They both kill me in PvP all the time.