Guild Wars 2

Its pretty hard to avoid the toxic trail because even if you are max melee-ing, the aggro of mobs can be often erratic that they will just walk through you and drop toxic trail all over the ground. It would be fine if toxic trail only applied poison and torment but stacking weakness?? Weakness severely cuts down power dps while still promoting reapers / condi classes.

viper necro,brazil build,enjoy.

daw.4923:

viper necro,brazil build,enjoy.

Absolutely not contributing, good job

Yes I agree, there’s a lot of melee hate in fractals and toxic trail might not even be that bad if you could at least properly see where it ended (sadly, to this day, basically ALL AoE indicators are not accurate and larger than shown, even with the new circles. Even the first story instance of the new LS chapter painfully reminds you of the fact that anet cannot get this down.) and the mob pathfinding wasn’t so weird. But you can’t, so while melee is definitely still possible, it’s less fun than it could be imo.

TBH the only fractal I noticed this on was molten furnace as there’s no non-toxic trail alternative. The 90+ ones are a lot more doable, I honestly have np going power there. All in all it’s a great improvement over what it was pre-patch (and yes I’m a biased guard main :P).

melee might be hard to play if you cannot walk out of the bad things in the ground but power is far from not viable its been the first time since hot that both power and condi are almost equally viable (diff combs work better in diff fractals)

i was contributing 8 monts trying to melle in fractals,but when you see all the hate from developers,you just need to adjust,you deal 2x more dmg and you can take 3x more dmg, with necro,its rly that simple in the end.