Guild Wars 2

I think the reason the new specs and profession feels stronger on the whole is because the devs built them from scratch years after the game has been out. They simply have a better feel for their own game and how it’s played out and created specs that just fit better with game mechanics. I really don’t believe they intentionally made them stronger to get people to buy HoT. Nor do I believe they intentionally made elite specs stronger because of the name “elite”.

Conspiracy theorists need to stop posting in the forums.

nah.

berserker is actually weaker than warrior.
and other elite specs.

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

nah.

berserker is actually weaker than warrior.
and other elite specs.

I didn’t say they all were better.

And I don’t think it’s worse than regular warrior at all.

Berserker has to either give up defense (huge hit to sustain), discipline (giving up fast hands and brawler’s recovery?), or strength (huge hit to DPS). I suppose you could replace strength with berserker, but the DPS gain is terrible in the long run. Sure, you get pulsing stability and a spammable adrenaline skill that is a direct upgrade from your original, but berserker’s power from strength is a raw 30% increase to DPS (among other bonuses the line brings). All berserker did was slightly buff condi warr.

Also, I agree for the most part. The devs have upped their game this time around in terms of design. Let’s see how they fare balance wise.

I took defense out. It makes you more squishy but there’s a lot of burst potential. depends on the opponent.

uhohhotdog.3598:

I took defense out. It makes you more squishy but there’s a lot of burst potential. depends on the opponent.

aye, i tried arms disciple berserker instead.
good fun with rifle gun flame in hotjoin.

i can unload 4 gun flames while in berserker mode.
have not really tried out berserker much in unranked though.

strength disciple berserker works too.
but i don’t use rampage and i want faster adrenal gain so i went with arms.
feels good when i unload gun flame onto them.

You guys running non-defense zerker specs have yet to face a condi bombing necro or Mesmer it seems…you’ll see how bad you’ll get rekt then xD

The only thing berserker is better than normal warrior at is condi cleansing trough cleansing ire and maybe cleave dmg through arc divider, since it actually hits hard (I’ve got 7.2k hits on necros O.o).

Berserker is also surprisingly good at dueling OTHER warriors, and tbh that’s really the only thing its really good at. Notably because of the pulsing stability, it’s nearly impossible to properly land a hammer CC chain or a shield bash→Eviscerate combo on a berserker warrior because of Eternal Champion. Forget about landing a successful skullcracker→100b combo when the other guy is in berserker mode. Not to mention zerker condi wars can be quite a pain to fight on normal power war since mace primal burst is by far the best primal burst skill, 5 sec blind, 8 sec cripple + bleeding + confusion stacks on a 2.5sec CD which also happens to daze for 1sec while closing a 300 range gap is a serious annoyance to deal with since it autoprocs Last Stand on the first hit (if the other war is running last stand) and it applies condis much more often than they can be cleansed by a normal warrior’s cleansing ire. Not to mention the blind on mace primal burst is a nice way to ensure the other guy’s burst skill will miss and not cleanse anything.

my burn guard is more powerful than a DH.

Geez people. I wasn’t claiming all elite specs were superior. I was responding to all the people complaining about them.

New abilities that go against the old balance of the game(old specs balanced around each other etc) Plus the new elite specs have far more utility than the old specs. like DH getting mobility wings with a heal, plus a chain for a knockdown and a reflect projectiles. etc it can sort of be applied to other classes. But i would say it will get balanced down by the devs before the ladder is launched or we will be seeing the same comp over and over again.

Or maybe it is power creep.