Guild Wars 2

It is confirmed that Dev team is reworking Condition DMG but what direction are they going to take?

From the look of it they are changing “Bleeding = DMG” to “All DMG Condi = DMG”

Buring, Confusion, Poison, Torment and Bleeding are all stacking and doing DMG every second.

This is the example of what we are going to see:
Burning = 138dmg per second
Confusion = 65dmg per second + 49dmg per skill use
Poison = 33dmg per second + 33% reduce healing
Torment = 19dmg per second + 19dmg while moving
Bleeding = 26dmg per second
(I did not make up the number myself, it is the data from the stream , I know the number isn’t final but that is the direction we are going to see)

So what does this mean? It means that fighting against condition build will be either easier or harder base on how they are going to change and/or revamp our weapon skills, and how we can deal with everyone has 3 to 5 type of Condi DMG in their condi build. But something we will know for sure is Venom Thief going to be a real pain to deal with if the number on Venom skills stay almost the same after the changed.

One Sneak Attack + Steal = 7 Poison + 5 Bleeding + 5 Confusion + 4 Torment + 6 Leeching Venom + 1 Leeching(Rune of Scavenging) +7% of Vitality + 6% Sigil of Bursting + 1 other sigil.

And on top of all that, we have no idea how condition damage stats scale with the actual conditions anymore, nor do we know if all conditions are uncapped or if some of them have extra small caps or even have new effects (like confusion now ticking per second along with damage on skill use).

They may revamp condition damage but they need to revamp the achievements for the luminescent armor as they are currently 100% broken and unable to complete at this time and have been for over a month now.

Thanks.

Siva Mira.3546:

So what does this mean? It means that fighting against condition build will be either easier or harder base on how they are going to change and/or revamp our weapon skills, and how we can deal with everyone has 3 to 5 type of Condi DMG in their condi build.

That is some great analysis there and very insightful.

Here is a better idea, why don’t we all wait for the blog post Roy is currently writing and see how it will work before actually having any discussions about it?

mike.5682:

They may revamp condition damage but they need to revamp the achievements for the luminescent armor as they are currently 100% broken and unable to complete at this time and have been for over a month now.

Thanks.

Yep, how dare the balance team not fix a bug that prevents me for getting some terribly ugly armor.

It is not about discussion or calling out something is OP but about condition is changing and where it is going. And yes you can wait for the blog post but when will it be? As of now they seems to be planning to 1 Elite specialization per week and we have 9 of them.