Guild Wars 2

With all the changes to come, I want to keep a list of skills and traits that have different behaviour in SPvP than they do in PvE and WvW. I only know a few off the top of my head, so I would appreciate it if people could pitch in so we can have an accurate compiled repository for new players to be able to look at.

Skill: <brief description> (PvE effect) (SPvP effect)

General

• Status Effects
  • Revealed: You cannot gain Stealth while you have this effect. (3s duration) (4s duration)
• Boons/Condis
  • Confusion: You take damage every time you cast a spell; stacks intensity. (130 + 0.15xCondDmg) (65 + 0.075xCondDmg)
  • Retaliation: Deal a small amount of damage every time you are attacked. (198.45 + 0.075xPower) (130.55 + 0.05xPower)

Guardian

• Traits
  • Selfless Daring: Heal allies at the end of your dodge. (129 + 1xHP) (129 + 0.5xHP)
• Skills
  • Save Yourselves!: Pull conditions from allies onto self and gain multiple boons. (10s boon duration) (5s boon duration)

Elementalist

• Traits
  • Cleansing Water: Remove a condition when you apply Regeneration. (no ICD) (5s ICD)
  • Evasive Arcana (Water): Your dodge roll casts Cleansing Wave. (1302 + 1.0xHP) (1302 + 0.5xHP)
• Skills
  • Signet of Restoration: Gain health when you cast a spell. (202 + 0.1xHP) (168 + 0.08xHP)

Necromancer

• Traits
  • Dhuumfire: Apply Burning on crits (4s duration) (2s duration)
• Skills
  • Grasping Dead: Cripple and Bleed foes in small AoE. (3 bleeds 7s) (2 bleeds 7s)
  • Mark of Blood: Bleed foes and grant Regeneration to allies. (3 bleeds 8s) (2 bleeds 8s)

Warrior

• Skills
  • Whirling Axe: spin and deal damage while channeling. (tons of damage) (+50% dmg)

Ranger

• Skills
  • Search and Rescue!: Your pet owl finds a downed ally to res. (CD 85s) (CD 180s)

I know there’s a bunch more, but I can’t remember them right now, I’ll be editing this list as I remember/people point them out to me.

Warrior
Weapon Skill: Whirling Axe
Damage is increased by 50% while in Structured PvP.

Ranger
Utility Skill: “Search and Rescue!”
Recharge in PvP is 180s (normally 85s).

Necromancer
Grasping Dead

Grasping Dead: This skill now applies two stacks of bleeding instead of three (PvP only)

updated .

Very nice idea!

Elamentalist, Trait, Evasive Arcana
Creates AoE attunement-based effect at end of dodge
Heal from the Water Attunement dodge is 50% lower in PvP (1,302 + 1xHP normally, not sure if it’s absolute 50% decrease or just 1,302 + 0.5xHP)

Elementalist, Skill, Signet of Restoration
Signet Passive: Heal every time you cast a spell
Passive heal changes from (202 + 0.1xHP) to (168 + 0.08xHP) in PvP

Revealed (overall mechanic) – 4s in pvp, 3s in wvw/pve.

updated with new feedback ^^

Confusion, isn’t op as hell.

Cyhann.2609:

Confusion, isn’t op as hell.

^ Yes. Here’s the formulas from the Wiki:

The formula for confusion’s damage is:

PvE:
10 + (1.5 * Level) + (0.15 * Condition Damage) per stack
sPvP and WvW (half damage):
65 + (0.075 * Condition Damage) per stack

Source: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Confusion

updated with confusion+retaliation formulas.

Added Mark of Blood.