Guild Wars 2

What do you think about the new fresh air 250 ferocity, I think it is one of the biggest fails of ANet.

I thought it should be decent with Paladin because it was hitting hard with Celestial 560 power with air overload, surely with 1050 power of Paladin and 250 ferocity of FA, it should perform better but to my surprise it is hitting like wet noddle.

Then the light goes on, how long ferocity buff of FA endures? 5 s how long it takes to prepare Overload? 5s.

So the moment you have the Overload the ferocity buff is gone.

Good job ANet, really good job.

It only matters in pve, and in that regard I suppose it helps D/X Fresh air builds, who get lets of damage from lightning whip and can swap every 5s. For pvp, it is irrelevant, because there is no viable weapon/playstyle that fresh air synergizes with. Scepter/X just doesn’t have the damage to effectively burst or the sustained damage to bruise. Dagger/X can’t take fresh air b/c it needs max-defense to not immediately blow-up in melee range. Staff air is just utility and you shouldn’t be swapping into air all that frequently. Plus, staff has to bunk up like dagger too in pve b/c the damage isn’t reliable, forcing you to sustain long enough that stray hits eventually whittle down your opponent.

Anet hasn’t a clue of what they are doing.