Guild Wars 2

As you all know that burning is a bit over powered right now(I’m talking pve). It deals way more damage than zerker for certain classes(Engie,guard and ele). I know Anet is probably planning on nerfing it, please do not. Burning is way more fun than zerker.
Here is My old Rotation: grenade-111211121112
My current rotation:f2-4-f3-f4-z-4-e-x-x-f1-c-1-repeat.
Stack burning requires way more skill than zerker and is more rewarding, which is how things should be and it just makes pve way more fun and engaging for me.

PS:I’m fine with nerfing guard tho, burning stacking on guard requires so little skill for it’s damage output.

AHA!
a guardian here, well I had to change all my build, can’t use shouts with consecration anymore, only if you want to get mace and other useless traits, just to get shout cd reduction, wich is high, so I had to switch to medi build to be able to do something. Long story short, useful traits are now behind useless trait walls, yes burning dmg is op now, but that isn’t a reason to nerf the guardian class, we ain’t the only ones that stack burn dmg I guess, just reduce burn dmg or stacks, and we are good.
Another option, just let mobs scale way faster, level 90mobs, will be something nice to use, and really hard to fight.

And speaking of rotations, heres mine:
scepter/focus 1-3-2-Purging Flames-Judge’s Intervention-5-(swap to GS)-2-4-5-3-1-F1-2-roll out and repeat.
Not so much 1111 spaming.
Why do everyone hates guardians u_u

If that was your grenade rotation then no wonder you were doing no damage, that’s a terrible rotation. The power engi rotation for maximum damage includes Grenade 2 4 5, EG 4, FT 2 4 and fskill , rifle 3 and 5, and mortar f5.

EvilToaster.7406:

If that was your grenade rotation then no wonder you where doing no damage, that’s a terrible rotation. The power engi rotation for maximum damage includes Grenade 2 4 5, EG 4, FT 2 4 and fskill , rifle 3 and 5, and mortar f5

Add a few turret blasts, and mmm….that’s a mighty good time.

Goodnight folks! I’ll be here all week!

But yeah, if your engi rotation is as dull, uninteresting, and simple as you make it sound, it’s time to read a guide and take that kitten to the next level :P Engi is awesome, and quite complex when done well.

The burning rotation is probably fun too.

How in the heck is standing there and doing any rotation considered “skill”? FF, didn’t you kids ever have a My Simon as kids? At least that required good short term memory. Doing a “rotation” in GW2 doesn’t even require that!

Walking behind a blue dorito in wvw banging doors doesn’t take much effort either.

Actually the current meta is STILL zerk because icebow still exists. So don’t go on saying burning is OP when it isn’t even close to the strongest thing around.

Scootabuser.4915:

Actually the current meta is STILL zerk because icebow still exists. So don’t go on saying burning is OP when it isn’t even close to the strongest thing around.

That’s not true, Ice bow is nerfed.

warbignime.4610:

Scootabuser.4915:

Actually the current meta is STILL zerk because icebow still exists. So don’t go on saying burning is OP when it isn’t even close to the strongest thing around.

That’s not true, Ice bow is nerfed.

Icebow wasn’t nerfed in any way. 2 of its skills were buffed instead.

Logic: We shouldn’t nerf burn because it’s more fun than zerker.

Whatabout classes that don’t have easy access to burn?

Burning is in no way more fun than raw damage… Not less fun either, but not more.

Kury.8210:

Logic: We shouldn’t nerf burn because it’s more fun than zerker.

Whatabout classes that don’t have easy access to burn?

maybe he forgot or doesn’t care about other classes. On topic, i like raw power like it used to be.

burns takes more skill? put ur burns on and sit back and watch ur opponent die as he realizes hes screwed from all em burns and the tries to run, then dies.

uhhhh the pve meta for all those professions is still zerker…

That said, OP’s post is inherently flawed because berserker is not mutually exclusive from causing burning damage. I guess the main point that burning damage has caused changes in rotation is true, however, rotation changes have been caused by a variety of things, burning damage only being one of them.

Op need to see the full picture, as I’ve said before, I play guardian and when soloing a mob, I can only get to 3 or 5 stacks of burning, and thats using all my skills, and only for a couple of ticks, so I dont get why people is ok with condis, but no with guardians.
Maybe I have tweak my build a little but thats not the case, if every casual guardian could be a burning machine, well there will be the problem, but it isnt.

There are builds with incredible burning stacks.
They work in PvE like hell. In PvP or WvW its another thing. An “Incinerate” elementalist is a flame bomb but will die on the spot in PvP. In PvP people now feel the condi stacking from more players and that can lead to death in 1-2 seconds. Just a second more then getting blasted by multiple players. Till now you had time to react to condie or even ignore them for a while, because no burning stacks and bleeding from more then two players was worthless. Now you die from it like you die from direct damage. Thats not a bad thing, that makes condies more viable in groups.
In PvP the change is a bit shoking and emotional reactions are logic. But from a balace side it might not be cruel. Shure it should be watched carefully if theres some OP build but for now let it settle down and players get a feeling that condis stack and so multiple oponents will kill just as being blown down.

warbignime.4610:

Scootabuser.4915:

Actually the current meta is STILL zerk because icebow still exists. So don’t go on saying burning is OP when it isn’t even close to the strongest thing around.

That’s not true, Ice bow is nerfed.

lol, source?

I wish it was! But that would require them giving a kitten about PvE balance :P

ForeverAway.5948:

warbignime.4610:

Scootabuser.4915:

Actually the current meta is STILL zerk because icebow still exists. So don’t go on saying burning is OP when it isn’t even close to the strongest thing around.

That’s not true, Ice bow is nerfed.

lol, source?

I wish it was! But that would require them giving a kitten about PvE balance :P

There were rumours it would be nerfed, in fact it got buffed