Guild Wars 2

Convert Conditions to Boons when deactivating Photon Forge, based on heat level.

Doesn’t work when using Elixir S or Kits to deactivate the forge, only pressing F5. Very picky.. screws you over a lot and robs you of your condition removal at critical moments. Would be a huge rage reduction if it worked whenever you leave the forge & put your heat on remission.

Agreed, this would even make Mid alchemist trait usable, since it would also cleanse condition when you abruptly drink that thing at 25% health.

IMO this can be even considered a bug. You should report it as one.

clearing up to 4 conditions with a passive elixir s proc would be fairly op I think. I mean getting passive s proc with a large condi on you is one of its only weaknesses I don’t think holosmith should circumvent that.

Tapps.1479:

clearing up to 4 conditions with a passive elixir s proc would be fairly op I think. I mean getting passive s proc with a large condi on you is one of its only weaknesses I don’t think holosmith should circumvent that.

The condition removal is there, if it’s OP, then it’s OP. It’s just that only Holosmiths with the reflexes to F5 before losing the chance to will get the condition removal.

The skill cap for the condi clear trait is pretty high, when you’ve built up heat you need to hit F5 super quick at the moment you get insta-bursted but before you get into passive Elixir S or you’ll lose all chances to remove conditions.

It’s not a bad thing entirely but it’s another extremely punishing self-pwn mechanic on top of overheating causing 4k damage + 4k damage over time + loss of 6500-9750 heat therapy healing, if it stays like this I won’t be surprised, because it leaves Holosmith more easily condi bursted by multiple people.

It really depends on if ArenaNet wants to tone down the risk and tone down the reward of Holosmith, if they nerf the damage it’ll be nice to not be screwed out of defending yourself when you get forced into Elixir S.

Some kind of synergy with core Engi is welcome… this would be a small step toward that.

I also think that describing it sounds more like a bug than intended behavior. Not that it isn’t intended and will remain… but just doesn’t seem right, it’s counter intuitive.