Guild Wars 2

Ven Zehn.6573:

I always run my mes in high lvl fracs, primarily due to their utility and the fact that most I run with prefer running tankier classes.

I was primarily using disenchanter and shatters to remove boons, but tried to save them for when stacks of particular boons got high, even with chronomancer you can’t keep em off for long. BUT when you do remove the stabs/protection, during that time your parties dps spikes, and helps cut the time down, even just a little bit.

There’s no point removing low stacks, but if protection gets to 25….. lol

Is it perfect? no, the instability lacking any internal CD makes it silly indeed.
Plus, most of us run zerker, a few of us had full condi builds as well.

I considered using a spare soldiers set on my guard n tryin it with that, but seems too bothersome, so we’ll just power through, doing what we can to mitigate SOME of the boons:/

Easy to do, just takes more time.

Possibly 1 or 2 reapers in carrion gear (less crits over the course of the party- or sinister/rabid on one or both the boon load is not too great) may make a difference. With 2 party members that are not only stripping but corrupting, rotating corrupting wells. Whatever else is done with the build, up to the individual. Each reaper could call out use of long cd skills for removing high stacks from tough enemies.

The other 3/4 members would play their standard zerk burn.

This is what the reaper/s would do—

Trait for party-wide protection/lifesteal/reduced wells

Well of Corruption (32 cd) — 5 pulses of corruption 1 second apart.

Trait: Signets of Suffering- Reduces recharge on signets. Signets grant might when cast and convert 2 boons on affected foes to conditions. This procs ALL signets, including traits-associated.

SIGNETS: (Use Signet of Vampirism (28 cd) , Lesser Signet of Vampirism (16 cd), and Signet of Spite 48 cd)

Shout: Nothing Can Save You!- Unblockable (25 cd)

Focus: Spinal Shivers (20 cd) strips 3 boons and does straight damage for each.

NovaanVerdiano.6174:

Oh Snapalope.1378:

A lot of people were smart enough to see that this is coming miles away that anet want to bury the berserker meta into the ground and prepared more armor sets for this before the expansion. Some people didn’t I guess.

Well, I for my part didn’t play for a year, so I didn’t really have much chance to prepare myself for this. Still my fault I guess, but yeah.
Besides that, this is the laziest way to “kill” the berserker meta there is and it just turns the berserker into a condi-meta for fractals, which actually excludes a lot more people. Even more so now that we got to the point that both direct damage and condis are viable after the changes on them.

So much this. Condi and power builds were finally on a relatively even level. With fights taking longer condi would have been preferred on some classes anyway (like on ranger), they didn’t have to put a million toughness on bosses to nerf power builds more.

The worst part of it is indeed the fact that only a few classes have decent condi builds worth taking.