Guild Wars 2

Is scrapper not the most blatantly overpowered build currently? In terms of stupidly OP I don’t think anything else currently reaches scrappers level of bullkitten.

Stochastic.1398:

Is scrapper not the most blatantly overpowered build currently? In terms of stupidly OP I don’t think anything else currently reaches scrappers level of bullkitten.

Seems to be Reapers, Heralds and Scrappers at the moment, in no particular order, and Tempest as über support. All of these need toned down a bit still.

The problem is: Scrapper and Herald are both a mess in terms of what should be changed and what is okay. I’m not sure there is a “simple” answer to them, which is why I think they haven’t been touched yet.

Druid and Reaper were easy, pet damage and Chill (chill still being a problem, but it did get a little nerf). Tempest sustain is too kitten high, not sure why it wasn’t touched yet.

Scrapper has so many sources of sustain that it’s not an easy call on which parts to shave and by how much each, and what to do with Hammer so it doesn’t do so much damage and provide too much defense. It may require more than simple tweaks, and I’m not sure they’re ready to do that.

Revenant/Herald is a real mess with 60% of the weapons/legends (skills in general) being practically useless with a few poorly designed Legends and Weapons that make them deal damage far too easily and have too much sustain. Sword is a hot mess alone. So again, needs much larger change overall.

Scrappers are a bit ridic right now that’s the general consensus. Also anything with taunts too as taunt bugs you out half of the time.

ronpierce.2760:

The problem is: Scrapper and Herald are both a mess in terms of what should be changed and what is okay. I’m not sure there is a “simple” answer to them, which is why I think they haven’t been touched yet.

ohh sure! i can help there! start with:
Engi:
Recovery Matrix: reworked. posibly to an offensive trait.
Acid Bomb: no more unblockable
Shock Shield: Damage lowered by 60%
Elixir B: replace retal with 2sec of resistance(~3 with boon runes. opens more place vs condi builds to clense)

Reve:
Eye for an Eye: reworked. posibly not to another passsive PROC.
Precision strike: cooldown 8 sec.
Enduring recovery: reworked. posibly not to another passsive PROC. no longer gives endurrance.
remove unblockabrle effect from teleport.

I’d rather fight a team of scrappers than a team of tempests any day. The healbot spec stays alive forever and needs at least 2 to kill it.

For a marauder or even berserker I think some bunkers of last season would struggle hard in terms of survivability.

Yea scrappers are really stupid right now. Only potential counter is reaper with all the condi spam. Besides that, they can tank almost indefinitely, with great hard mitigation (blocks reflects), soft mitigation (prot, damage reduction traits), cc (for when they don’t have to play defensively), great sustain in terms of consistent healing AND burst healing (that is also shared with the team), and great damage.

It is basically the d/d ele of today, just slightly less good against condis but better elsewise.

style.6173:

I’d rather fight a team of scrappers than a team of tempests any day. The healbot spec stays alive forever and needs at least 2 to kill it.

Just fyi, tempest does 0 damage – it is kinda the definition of a bunker. If they aren’t max healing, just let a reaper 1v1 them. Otherwise, let a druid decap them with instant knockbacks.

They shouldn’t be in 1v1’s anyway, as they only have value to a team when in a teamfight. Complaining about tempest nowadays is like complaining about an old bunker guard in previous metas.