Is it me, or did these balance changes really just turn in the direction of power creep? I’m mainly a WvW guy, and man, do things melt fast.
It’s almost like there are too many ways to do damage / too many bursts and not enough ways to defend.
Ditto on the last part. Anet took out a lot of points from things that really made soak and spank against hard enemies a possibility, and in my case forced me to focus more on offense than defense. Before, people thought that tanking wasn’t viable, yet my experience against mobs that would have destroyed anyone else with MY warrior tank build suggests otherwise. Now, it really is not going to happen, and those points are just there to help you last just a little longer for a player to get an extra amount of damage in, not to survive, and I loved playing to survive, which often let me win.
So with that said, I’m saddened I can’t pull off my old tank a spank play style like I used to, but at least with the condi buff I can hold out on my own if I played carefully, which is nothing anyone will complain about, I believe.
DDD This is really, really idiotic calculation.