Guild Wars 2

Slaying potions still work. Sigils don’t.

Edit: If anet ever reads please fix 9/8 potion giving only 8% more damage.

What works exactly?

Go kitten yourself

Eight Samurai.6840
Gaile Gray.6029:
Following up on today’s blog post about raid rewards, we wanted to share some details on specific items:
In order to preserve the challenge of raids, we’re disabling the use of a number of items inside raid instances. Many of these restrictions will be familiar, as they’re also disabled in WvW and dungeons. However, we are also disallowing the use of many runes and sigils that provide bonus damage versus particular types of enemies, as well as the potions that give similar effects. Using food and utility buffs inside a raid is perfectly okay, but most other items that give bonus damage or access to new skills beyond your profession have been disabled.
Hey Gaile, nice to hear that you guys are actively making sure people aren’t exploiting raids to get easy wins. I just wanted to ask one thing however.

How is disabling a sigil that people either craft or buy an exploit? If I give anet real world money and they give BL chests full of kitten boosts, then I fully expect to be able to use those boosts.

I get, I’m good with going in bare back to the raid, but don’t praise them for their falsified difficulty.

Nokaru.7831:

What works exactly?

Elemental slaying against Vale Guardian and his minions.

Ghost slaying probably against Gorseval (not personally tested).

Outlaw slaying probably against Sabetha (not personally tested).

Is there any particular ability or skill you use to test this with now? I thought the only way to verify it was to use a potion in the middle of a channeled ability.

I used Combustive Shot. You can also lose the potion effect.

Why is Birthday Blaster disabled? It is food too!
Is it because it only lasts 10mins? Vale Guardian only lasts 8.
And why is Birthday Blaster only 10mins anyway since it is infinite uses?
Why not make it 30mins like every other food?

Yeah I hate Birthday blaster is disabled, for some of my builds it’s actually the best option, getting a bit of all stat.

Birthday Blaster is disabled because it’s a bundle, which when equipping or dropping triggers on-weapon swap traits/sigils.

Wethospu.6437:

I used Combustive Shot. You can also lose the potion effect.

Oh right, yeah. Thanks!