Guild Wars 2

A warrior transformed into Caithe will have ~7000 more health and ~300 more toughness than an equally geared elementalist. This is ridiculous, and very poorly designed. All professions should have had the SAME base stats as Caithe, which were then modified by gear. Using the base stats of each profession for a transform where your skills are not used was just…really dumb.

Same problem as for the downed state and it is as frustration in both cases. The Caithe fight were so much easyer on my warrior run than on the ele playthrough that it is not even funny.

Halas I feel that it is a limitation of the engine about transforms. Why did they have that whacky idea of so big a difference in base vitality anyway. It also makes balancing ele thief and guardian so hard in PvP.

Cheers

No idea why they did such a huge health difference, but it has consistently messed up the profession balance in the Living Story. Hopefully they address it in the expansion.

Also, Anet, next time make sure your transform cannot teleport and get stuck in the walls, roof and objects, and Caithe does while stealthed.