Guild Wars 2

-You can be pulled from the oil pot to ur death
-can’t use ur utility skills while on the oil: stability, damage reduction, condi clear
-aoe gets through the oil shield
-oil shield acts as a block, and unblockables can get through it….unlike golemn shield
-after activating the oil shield it puts the other ability on a long kitten cd
-the aoe radii of the oil abilities is too small considering the other points
-oil does kitten damage to rams and siege and players
-oil 2 is a worthless skill (cripple), make it drip down across the gate like dragon banner5
-the range of the oil is too small considering the other points
-the supply destruction rate of the oil is too slow considering the other points.
-What good is damage reduction. when traited for oil, when u can be pulled and suffer both fall damage and kittenrapier and always suffer condi and aoe dmg.

Fix now. Not later. Now.

Oil is extremely strong but it’s also stationary which means it’s easy to avoid in most cases.

I think a fair change would be to make it so that you do not need to be touching the pot of oil to use it. Instead, place a lever or button inside the structure on the ground, similar to how tactivators are placed, that you can use to operate the oil from afar.

This would eliminate any risk of taking damage on the players part without making the pot of oil more difficult to kill. Oil dies fairly quickly as is if enough people are focusing it down and as I’d said, it only has a very small radius of effect. I think it would be absolutely fair to remove the risk of taking damage while using it. It’s a totally different story with things like AC’s and cannons that can hit many different places however.

SpellOfIniquity.1780:

Oil is extremely strong but it’s also stationary which means it’s easy to avoid in most cases.

I think a fair change would be to make it so that you do not need to be touching the pot of oil to use it. Instead, place a lever or button inside the structure on the ground, similar to how tactivators are placed, that you can use to operate the oil from afar.

This would eliminate any risk of taking damage on the players part without making the pot of oil more difficult to kill. Oil dies fairly quickly as is if enough people are focusing it down and as I’d said, it only has a very small radius of effect. I think it would be absolutely fair to remove the risk of taking damage while using it. It’s a totally different story with things like AC’s and cannons that can hit many different places however.

Oil is one of those “oops, we forgot to take down all the siege” things that very occasionally make a difference. I wouldn’t make this a huge priority.

I like this idea, but how would you know when to operate the oil without seeing the enemy? It would require more developer time than I would be happy spent on it, especially when it takes them six months to animate handing a paper from one character to another even though there are already mail carrier animations in the game that do just that.

Oil has always been borderline useless. Nobody can stand on that while a large group is below. A player might get one or two off before they die or get pushed off. Course the same can be said for cannons.

Just put your tempests on the oil, if they get ripped off the wall, they can probably quickly mist form back through the gate, if not, fire overload into the horde that surrounds them and have a standby operator drop oil on the horde. That way atleast the eles death meant something.

It’s utterly stupid anyone can be pulled off a wall when they are not standing on the very edge, they can even pull you off the top of NW stairs of Garri, that is TOO FAR for a pull, but the person who’s being pulled can’t hit the puller from their location at those stairs.

Usually i cast sanctuary and stability concecration on who is on the oil, this is if the player there is really being effective using the oil.
sometimes i get on its back using my blocks to heal and remove condis.

OIl tends to be the 1st thing to get removed, i would not mind if aoe zone would be increased.
People nowadays barelly use rams(unless it is the only way to enter), 90% of the cases it is siege on unreachables places, where outmaned server cant do much..