Guild Wars 2

Celestial ferocity update effectively destroyed it’s appeal and effectiveness for 5 classes out of the 6. Critical damage has been reduced from 62%+ to 31%+, that’s isn’t just bigger hit than any of the Zerk nerfs got-it’s a utter train wreck of a nerf(50% reduction) .

Extreme patience* was rewarded with mediocre stats with respectable dps if you traited+food around precision. Now extreme patience is punished with mediocrity across the board, everyone except for eles can better achieve their goals by mixing other equipment to achieve better results for less time, money, and effort.

For the sake of build diversity and fairness, please give us back our dps.

*Prior to ascended equips celestial equips were the only equips in the game that had a time-gate(32 days in total, insignias+unique material account bound) on making the necessary materials for the armor and weapons. Ascended celestial insignias follow the same rules.

The nerf for zerker is a lot bigger. Sure, celestial lost more critical damage, but the damage was lower to begin with. So the actual damage loss is a lot less, especially considering celestial got its power and precision buffed.

I just did my usual test on the Champion Wolfmaster with my mesmer in Ascended Celestial gear and zerker weapons. I’m not looking forward to WvW tonight.

Why did I work so hard and long for that gear? Just to have this happen?

And… the Wupwup item description is incorrect. It’s not “Violet”, it is (according to ArenaNet themselves), “irredescent”. Which reminds me… are you (ArenaNet) ever going to correct the nomenclature for “Opal”. You dropped “Explorer” for “Assassin” months ago yet all of my Thief’s items with Opals are still “… of the Explorer”. In the past twelve hours, I’ve seen the phrase “kitten” used a lot. I couldn’t agree more.

Herr der Friedhoefe.2490:

I just did my usual test on the Champion Wolfmaster with my mesmer in Ascended Celestial gear and zerker weapons. I’m not looking forward to WvW tonight.

Why did I work so hard and long for that gear? Just to have this happen?

Did you also compare zerker gear pre and post? Because all the damage gear was nerfed, not just celestial. The relative damage may be higher now.

they said it will get more stats lmfao. +1 more then what it was before. What a kitten joke.

ThiBash.5634:

Herr der Friedhoefe.2490:

I just did my usual test on the Champion Wolfmaster with my mesmer in Ascended Celestial gear and zerker weapons. I’m not looking forward to WvW tonight.

Why did I work so hard and long for that gear? Just to have this happen?

Did you also compare zerker gear pre and post? Because all the damage gear was nerfed, not just celestial. The relative damage may be higher now.

I don’t have a zerker set. That was sort of the point of making Celestial. One set of gear for almost all situations because the grind for Ascended gear is hardly acceptable for one set, never mind a WvW set, a dungeon running set, a fractal set…

Hey there, since we are getting a lot of feedback on this topic right now, we are collecting it all in dedicated threads. You are very welcome to repost your questions comments and concerns here “https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Game-Updates-Balance-bug-fixing-polish-Sigils”