Guild Wars 2

True shot > 20% dmg nerf > pierces
> 17% more dmg on skill 3
> 25% more dmg on skill 4
> 33% more dmg on skill 5 last hit, but you can dodge it now < you better should be dodging it now also.. so call it a nerf but its a good dodge bait

Gunflame > 20% dmg nerf > no more piercing
> no compensation.. nada

Myabe bcause gun flame has a kittened design? U know u can cast it backwards and shiet right?

Rifle warrior is now dead

Did you ever double gunflame into a point fight piercing and exploding ?
It was fun for me …. I understand that it felt good … Warrior was still not realy good but this one got me giggling using strength interupt build and viper ….

Gun Flame was hitting for extremely high damage, more so than True Shot if I recall. And it’s a really good designed skill to boot.

Krysard.1364:

Myabe bcause gun flame has a kittened design? U know u can cast it backwards and shiet right?

u cant cast it backwards.

Btw i am not saying Gunflame didnt needed nerfs, all i am saying is why no compensation on other rifle skills…

phokus.8934:

Gun Flame was hitting for extremely high damage, more so than True Shot if I recall. And it’s a really good designed skill to boot.

Anet stated themself that rifle is about volley and killshot/gunflame.
now they nerf 20% dmg and pierce removed (ok i understand the dmg nerf) but then there is NO compensation on the other rifle skills wich do horrible dmg besides volley

I would make use of the daze and make the skill do extra damage if you interrupt your target. The pierce should come back imo, but I guess they wanted it to be different from Kill Shot.

phokus.8934:

Gun Flame was hitting for extremely high damage, more so than True Shot if I recall. And it’s a really good designed skill to boot.

except the fact that gun flame is gated by double cooldowns with energy consummation?..

Chase.2798:

Rifle warrior is now dead

You can’t kill what was already dead.

phokus.8934:

Gun Flame was hitting for extremely high damage, more so than True Shot if I recall. And it’s a really good designed skill to boot.

Gunflame is a resource-costing skill gated behind berserker mode, True Shot is #2 on a 4 second CD.
I wouldn’t say they’re comparable, really.

But yeah, Rifle badly needed some extra compensation in its non-burst skills.
The whole point of the weapon is volleying and gunflaming, and while the nerf to gunflame was totally justified, it just left the rest of the weapon really lacking.
Some love to the other less used skills on rifle would’ve gone a long way.

It was cancerous design. Now warriors have to actually play a build that can contribute to the team. Thanks ANET.

Novuake.2691:

It was cancerous design. Now warriors have to actually play a build that can contribute to the team. Thanks ANET.

…Somehow I get a feeling you haven’t played a warrior since HoT launched.

Let’s hope the speculative ‘Hambow’ builds out there could be a solution, otherwise I suppose I’ll have to deal with three of the official league seasons where my main is the lowest tier.

Novuake.2691:

It was cancerous design. Now warriors have to actually play a build that can contribute to the team. Thanks ANET.

Please name a build that was better then gun flame last PvP season?

You had revs using the sword 2 skill from glint into shiro, to staff 5 doing more damage then gun flame.

I had 2 friends practicing 1 vs 1 with me and literally any build i thought could be even a little bit viable was smashed by the necro and rev.

Gun flame was literally countered by scappers and eles for any team fights. Yes 2 classes could counter a gun flame build in any fight.

kdaddy.5431:

Novuake.2691:

It was cancerous design. Now warriors have to actually play a build that can contribute to the team. Thanks ANET.

Please name a build that was better then gun flame last PvP season?

BurrTheKing.8571:

I would make use of the daze and make the skill do extra damage if you interrupt your target. The pierce should come back imo, but I guess they wanted it to be different from Kill Shot.

Or allow the shot to pierce but deal no damage. You want that hit to land on its intended target regardless of the rest.

For those wondering about a better build and one that actually is strong in duels, sucks in teamfights for though, but that goes for warrior period.

http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?vJAQRApe8fnMdAtkilkCWhAEliFjADZEsCWeGBgNYO7d4ucfuA-TZBHABA8AAsvMwQ7PUwBBQgzAAA

Is a very good farpoint pusher.

Novuake.2691:

For those wondering about a better build and one that actually is strong in duels, sucks in teamfights for though, but that goes for warrior period.

http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?vJAQRApe8fnMdAtkilkCWhAEliFjADZEsCWeGBgNYO7d4ucfuA-TZBHABA8AAsvMwQ7PUwBBQgzAAA

Is a very good farpoint pusher.

Every warrior worth half of their mettle knows of that ‘Wildfire’ variant.

Now question, how am I going to explain why I am not playing either a Thief or a Mesmer who can move between two points quicker, and thus actually create some opportunities at most likely mid to outnumber the other side.

And the other question is that if that were strictly a 1v1 build, intent on killing the opponent as quickly as possible on said point, how many builds out there as of this last season were capable of fighting it evenly so the opposing team didn’t have to waste their time sending a +1 when the warrior isn’t decapping his opponent?

Let me know.