Guild Wars 2

Did I miss the part where Mordrem Wolves got nerfed? I was all revved up on my necro for some boon strippin to stop Mordrem Wolves from getting high damage from attacking and sharing Retaliation. I run the new content and find that these guys are now only buffing others with Swiftness instead. No more group attacks from Mordrem wolves starting off with me stripping boons. I’m…somewhat thankful. It’s one of those things about boon stripping. At least as a necro, unless you bring multiple sources of boon stripping, those wolves had better uptime for it than I had sources of boon stripping. Especially in groups. I also wonder if the devs thought that the swiftness buff would give Mordrem groups a better advantage in the Silverwastes when taking objectives. It was just a surprise to me. Are there any mordrem that now buff with retaliation anymore?

The problem with enemies with boons is that only 2 classes have access to boon strips and the stripping CD is always significantly longer than the boon uptime, making them pretty useless in PvE.

PvE boons/boon stripping need an overhaul imo. More classes need boon strips, and enemies in PvE need to have long duration long cd boons instead of short duration short CD boons.

I main warrior. I was over joyed to see the retaliation taken from them. There was nothing more frustrating than when you ru. Into a group, and when help turns up its every class bar a necro or Mesmer. And you all go down. It made soloing them a huge pain. I may play through session 2 so far now on my other level 80’s if all the woods have been changed. It really put me off doing the content with my alts.

ZudetGambeous.9573:

The problem with enemies with boons is that only 2 classes have access to boon strips and the stripping CD is always significantly longer than the boon uptime, making them pretty useless in PvE.

PvE boons/boon stripping need an overhaul imo. More classes need boon strips, and enemies in PvE need to have long duration long cd boons instead of short duration short CD boons.

Just to correct you, 5 classes have access to boon removal: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Boon

Nerco, Mesmer, Thief, Engineer and Guardian(Searing Flames). It’s just we never use boon removal.