Guild Wars 2

Anyone else has noticed an increase in the rate of glancing blows we make on high level targets since weakness was changed?
Maybe it is just me noticing them much more now but …

Change weakness to affect all hits, weakness is not a meaningful debuff
Introduce ascended weapons, buff buff buff !!
Glancing on higher-level targets is now unaffected by critical hits, the buff is a lie ?

If now you can’t crit while on weakness, then its finally working as it should be.

How useless would that debuff be in a game where almost every player go for 100% crit?

Yes I agree but that is not the point.

The problem is that almost all targets in high-level PvE have higher levels, so we are like in perma weakness!
So we do less damage.
So we need ascended weapons, to deal maybe similar damage.
= inflation & grind

Doesn’t weakness make you glance 50% of the time, regardless of crit or not?

Actually tbh I’m totally lost, I’m not really sure what you’re trying to say

Ok let me restate it clearly:

Weakness was changed, now all hits (including crits) can be glancing.
At the same time, hitting a higher-level target is modified the same way: crits can be glancing on hitting a higher-level target, so we do less damage.
Ascended weapon are released, we think it is a buff to our damage, but in fact it is only filling the gap created by glancing modifications.

The buff is a lie!

So the only answer is to build for condition damage!

You naturally get glancing blows against higher level targets. Weakness change made glancing blows to override critical hits which means on top of halving your damage they remove all critical effects.

Eviscerating a level 84 target is always a fun gamble!

Wethospu.6437:

You naturally get glancing blows against higher level targets. Weakness change made glancing blows to override critical hits which means on top of halving your damage they remove all critical effects.

Eviscerating a level 84 target is always a fun gamble!

Eviscerating level 84 kitten golems after Mittens is dead is even better gamble!

The Mexican Cookie.3690:

So the only answer is to build for condition damage!

good one

2014 meta, carrion gear. Oh, wait. There’s no carrion ascended gear.

haviz.1340:

2014 meta, carrion gear. Oh, wait. There’s no carrion ascended gear.

Occam disagrees

Zelyhn.8069:

Occam disagrees

I don’t have any weapons. ;<

haviz.1340:

Zelyhn.8069:

Occam disagrees

I don’t have any weapons. ;<

My whole body is a weapon