Guild Wars 2

So with the introduction of Resistance in HoT, what do you think will happened to the condition builds Engi does a lot of damage on?

Introduction of Resistance would mean introduction of new possible builds design to nullify conditions or at least reduce the damage effect of conditions.

Depending on how much Resistance is added into each profession this would certainly still reduce condition damage and effects.

Conditions are already well handled by cleanse, resistance will be a heavy blow to condi builds.

I made an effort over the Beta to craft a solid Revenant PvP build, and played well, the class is not only basically permanently immune to conditions, it transfers them back.

It will be interesting to see where things go.

So far resistance has not been difficult at all to deal with. The boon is generally short duration and not frequently accessible, and can be stripped/corrupted as well.

Shaogin.2679:

So far resistance has not been difficult at all to deal with. The boon is generally short duration and not frequently accessible, and can be stripped/corrupted as well.

Those small seconds can still add up with those second preventing conditions from damaging the player with the resistance. Along with preventing any type of stun lock.

For example, Warrior gets 6 seconds of resistance from Healing Signet on them but during those 6 seconds they will take no Condition damage nor condition effect which the only damage they can take is direct damage. That 6 seconds is a loss of DPS from conditions which a condition build would lose due to putting dps into condition damage.

Currently being preHoT we only got some of the Resistance skills/traits so it easy to deal with currently but with more to arrive in HoT that may change slightly or greatly.

EdwinLi.1284:

Shaogin.2679:

So far resistance has not been difficult at all to deal with. The boon is generally short duration and not frequently accessible, and can be stripped/corrupted as well.

Those small seconds can still add up with those second preventing conditions from damaging the player with the resistance.

Currently being preHoT we only got some of the Resistance skills/traits so it easy to deal with currently but with more to arrive in HoT that may change slightly or greatly.

Based on the beta weekend there really isn’t much more Resistance sources, the biggest user being condi Revenant which, again, isn’t that hard to deal with. Anet wouldhave to add an insane amount of Resistance to the upcoming unannounced specializations for it to even be considered an issue.