Guild Wars 2

Our guild did Arah P2 last night for the first time in a long while and I noticed Alphard seems to have unusually fast condition fall off. Like…near instant fall off.

I know legendaries have reduced condi duration for certain things like weakness and vuln, but this seemed way faster than what I am used to seeing. And it affected other condis such as bleed and poison.

This was a bit of a pain because we were mostly hyrbid builds with one person being full bleed specced. I was running a vuln build myself which can usually maintain 15-25 stacks on legendaries, but I could not keep anything on this boss for more than a instant.

Yes yes I know we are terrible for not being full zerk. Sue me. We still got past it eventually, but it felt really lame.

Was this an unintentional change?

Alphard was always like that. When i started soloing arah p2 i noticed that the vulnerability stacks from my warrior’s rending strikes trait were lasting for less than a sec, so i started using that trait that gives precision for each signet instead. I think that alphard is the only boss who has this bug.

It’s obviously intended hint from ANet that conditions in PvE are lame and you should turn zerker ;*

Lucky.9421:

This was a bit of a pain because we were mostly hyrbid builds with one person being full bleed specced. I was running a vuln build myself which can usually maintain 15-25 stacks on legendaries, but I could not keep anything on this boss for more than a instant.

Welp, we’ve all got to learn somehow.

Yeah I know we are terrible. But we usually don’t have too many problems with the condi players coming along.

I probably did not notice it the last time because I was a zerk warrior instead of a vuln engy, and the others were probably zerk too.

It would be nice if Anet would look into fixing this bug because it is likely just a buff that was miss-applied. It’s not like condi players don’t have it bad enough.

I could be wrong, But I don’t think this is a “bug”. At least in my experience Alphard just has a rather nice condi cleanse. Just part of the mechanic.