Guild Wars 2

Heya everyone!

To start the discussion, I am NO Ele Main, but I still play Ele in Speedruns if I have to. Now – I always had mixed feelings about the insane Frostbow 4# dmg and I always wanted it to get nerfed, but not like this…

Reducing Ice Storm’s dmg by 50% means destroying the skill against any target that isn’t as huge as Lupicus, Bloomhunger or the Twins. The skill is still rather op against those even with half of those 60k dps (= 30k dps).

But everywhere else? Total Garbage skill now. This is not a solution, it’s just a cripple.

My suggestion is to give Ice Storm an internal CD to damage a target. This way you can no longer destroy big hitboxes in an instant and the skill wouldn’t be worthless for smaller targets and still shine against multiple enemies. Even tough – 3 hits per aoe are indeed engouh.

Right now the Icebow hits a small target with around 33% of all shards. The Icebow was balanced against small targets all the time. The damage only got insane against big targets or by explotin line cast (wich would be solved aswell with the icd).

The Frost Storm needs about 3 sec to be cast and deals damage up to 24 times. The smaller targets get hit ø 8 times. So to let bigger hitboxes resist this skill in a good amount by giving it an 0.25 sec Internal CD to hit the same target with another shard.

This means you will hit big targets up to 12 times with the frost bow wich equals the current nerf, but without also nerfing small targets into oblivion.

What do you think about this suggestion, about an icd to damage the target?

greez!

Great suggestion.

Thank you. But apparently noone cares about the Ice Bow anyway. Hm … it’s not my main so I couldn’t care less, but I still think the changes will be unfair.

Honestly, back in the day that they announced the FGS nerf, we tried to do the job with the conjured hammer and it’s more than enough… Most likely this is what will happen. Frostbow meta will become Lightning hammer meta.

Maybe the group composition will be more like :
2 Ele : for lightning hammer
1 guard : fire field/utility
1 reaper : “chilled to the bone” (probably optional if they give breakbar to all existing boss)
1 X : anything else that grant something good/needed

It’s not like the Ele is only needed for Frostbow#4.

This is a fix tons of people suggested, and they still went with a damage nerf…completely stupid.