What's the consensus for Diamond Skin?
It’s fine, the heals put us back above it quickly too.
It’s fine, the heals put us back above it quickly too.
But you can’t outheal certain classes with high base damage.
I had a fight VS a staff ele during beta that used Diamond skin.
The start was rough, so yes it helps and it is good against condi builds. Its dangerous to lower the threshold. Could become OP fast.
I won the fight by panicing him with an earth overload, droped him below 90% and he never came back up :-). But first i thought i might loose…
It’s super cheesy. An absolute waste of a trait against anything running a bare minimum of power, and an auto-win against anything that completely skips power in favor of condition damage.
In a well designed game featuring a vague idea of balance, I’d say get rid of this BS and rework it into something useful. In a game like GW2 it absolutely has its place tho. Nothing better than countering their cheese with your own cheese.
Not particularly beneficial for the overall health of the game, but I guess that idea has been ripped apart, set on fire and thrown out the window long ago in GW2.
And there is only one thing we say to Death: ‘Not today’.
My thoughts on diamond skin: it was created long ago before resistance was introduced to the game. I see no reason why it shouldn’t give a reliable source of resistance instead of its current “all or nothing” effect.
Taking a break from GW2 to play various
Nintendo games..
My thoughts on diamond skin: it was created long ago before resistance was introduced to the game. I see no reason why it shouldn’t give a reliable source of resistance instead of its current “all or nothing” effect.
That is my understanding as well, besides Stone Heart simply doesn’t compare! It’s so much better to use (no criteria, raw anti-critical damage).