Guild Wars 2

I’ve been thinking about the changes a bit and the new Diamond Skin is a much bigger nerf than it seems on first glance. Think about it. You need to be HIT, to cleanse condis. Problem is, when you get hit your life goes down and it also goes down from the conditions themselves. And since the internal CD is 1 second, you will get below 75% waaaay to fast, because in order to remove condition damaging you, you need to get hit and thus diamond skin threshold is immediately broken. I was hoping the new DS would mean a reliable condi cleanse apart from water, since eles have been stuck with water since the start of the game, which is killing build diversity. Your thoughts?

Agree completely. The new DS works against itself, and forces us back into Water. It’s shocking how incompetent Anet seems to be when it comes to making this trait worth taking.

They are extremely incompetent. I was hopeful that the grandmaster would make for alternative condi removal with one condi a second but then they changed it so you have to get hit. But to make matters worse it still has the 75% hp requirement which is absolutely silly. If you get hit you aren’t staying above 75 for very long.

You expected ANet to actually slightly tone something down instead of completely butchering it? That’s not something these guys are capable of. If you speak to Karl and ask him to name a number slightly lower than 10, the answer will be -34256076. That’s how ‘balancing’ at ANet works, stuff is either complete trash or completely over the top, there is no inbetween those two options.

You really need to be struck with direct dmg hits?
Getting struck in the sense of someone applying conditions to you, doesnt make the new DS do anything?

It also means eles have to drop aura share for condition cleansing. Eles are basically removed from PvP.

The DS they previewed was seen as a “Buff” by some people. So they gutted it even more.
Now they are happy though, no ele in his right mind will ever use it again.

ur still stronger then Warriors and Mesmers though who are also deleted from PvP LOL, kitten this 3 Proffessions on the Bench a Season is scarey. thiefs will last one season before they are back on the Bench, as it seems the top 3 go to the bottom (well in the Elementalists and Mesmers case)

So I guess its going to be Scrapper Reaper and Thief on the Next roll of Shafting.