Guild Wars 2

The change is great, but I fear there are going to be a crap-ton of bugs. Like, take for example if you poison a guy for like, 30 seconds… and you have 5 might, as the might goes down your poison does less damage. This is expected because its, well, might. In the case of the venoms you share with your allies theyll do the condition spec damage and HOPEFULLY duration as well BUT I predict as soon as the venom charge is gone, the conditions you dealt with those charges on go back to very very crappy damage. Should not a condition do the damage it was given at first(aside from might) until your PERSONAL condition stack amount and duration go away?

It would suck seeing 2k in poison while your charges are up just to see it do 1’s 2 seconds later because you used a flurry attack [was an example] because you exhausted the charges THAT FAST.

Why are we still pretending venoms are meant for a condition build?

NinjaEd.3946:

Why are we still pretending venoms are meant for a condition build?

why are you not contributing to the post by staying on topic of possible bugs, not what they are meant for.

I’ll be honest, whether or not the Venomous Aura change will be buggy or not won’t matter since venom design in of itself is broken.

Venomous Aura is an extremely powerful trait as it can effectively quintuple the effectiveness of a venom. This effect keeps the potential for venom buffs quashed so much that both Venomous Aura and venoms are locked in their current state. As of now, there are not alot of thieves who would willingly use venoms and most vets and highly experienced will tell the average player, “venoms suck”.

The best way to go about it is to just get rid of Venomous Aura (as a start) and either buff or rework venoms into something more desirable. This guy had a pretty sweet venom rework idea posted in the thief forum. Other than that, simply removing the trait and buffing venoms would be good enough.

From what I’ve seen of a good reason why the venom share upgrade won’t work too well, is simply because most venoms are CC, not DoTs. That’s the main problem here, that we only have Spider Venom (poison) and Skale Venom (torment) that deal damage. That’s 2 out of the 6 venoms, this change won’t help venoms, simply because only 1/3 use condition damage. Now if they changed it so Ice Drake and Devourer also did some conditions (such as Confusion and Bleed respectfully), that would be different.

Lithril Ashwalker.6230:

NinjaEd.3946:

Why are we still pretending venoms are meant for a condition build?

why are you not contributing to the post by staying on topic of possible bugs, not what they are meant for.

Because its not something any other profession avoids if they want to rack up might to throw a bunch of conditions. Also using poison as a reference for “crappy damage” just implies you believe venoms to be meant for a condi build when they are not. Poison even on condi builds is meant to cover up and reduce healing, not tick hard. The only damaging condition is torment from skale but for how short the effect lasts your might should more than let it do its thing and give you some extra might afterwards for w/e you may want.

Long story short, this will have no effect. Just one of the many reasons a lot of thief players are upset about this upcoming patch, nothing really changed us.

Welp, they buffed it alright.

CLOSE THREAD PLEASE

Que dice?

you dug up a month old post just to ask for it to be closed?