Guild Wars 2

…properly hit an opponent or when a player is fumbling, which is caused by weakness condition and some other effects. Glancing blows deal 50% less damage. Critical hits cannot glance.

:D

… until the patch on the 25th

soon weakness is going to be the bane of everything in PvP and PvE that relies on dealing massive critical hits.

ShinraGuardian.8053:

soon weakness is going to be the bane of everything in PvP and PvE that relies on dealing massive critical hits.

But condition dmg. There realty needed to be a counter to critical dmg and this seems like it may be it.

ShinraGuardian.8053:

soon weakness is going to be the bane of everything in PvP and PvE that relies on dealing massive critical hits.

How many things actually use weakness in PvE? The only things I can think of are karkas and the veteran troll guarding the artichoke patch in Mount Maelstrom. There are undoubtedly more but they don’t seem to use it enough to stand out.

pullnointer.1476:

…properly hit an opponent or when a player is fumbling, which is caused by weakness condition and some other effects. Glancing blows deal 50% less damage. Critical hits cannot glance.

:D

See it this way: If you’re weakened, you might still land a good-aimed hit, but it will still have less impact (than it would normally have) as you can’t hit as hard… due to being weakened. So yes, it does make perfect sence for me. Just the actual glancing-message doesn’t… but you can ignore that. The mechanic itself makes perfect sense.

Khisanth.2948:

… until the patch on the 25th

only weakness bro

ok nobody got it, so I’m awaring you. this is just another thread pointing to just another reason why zerk gear is dominating pve.

In other words high crit specs are bothered very little by weakness

Kadub.8743:

In other words high crit specs are bothered very little by weakness

not anymore. also not like conditions exist in pve LOL

rather, higher (83/84) level mobs can be glanced, and you can find them in fractals