Guild Wars 2

The patch that hit about 30 min ago includes this -

•Updated condition damage. Previously, a condition that had a fractional remainder of time after it dealt damage would not inflict the rest of its damage. For example, a 1.5-second burn would deal 1 second of burning damage, then fail to inflict the remaining 0.5 seconds of burning. Conditions will now deal this fractional damage either at the beginning or end of their duration, depending on when the next damage pulse would occur and their remaining duration.

Does this help Guard DPS a lot or a little?

Does it make points in Condi worth looking at?

It’s a bug fix; this is exactly how Condis worked before this week’s patch. Then they broke it. Now it’s working again.

Since Burning relies on less time and more damage without stacks, not having that half a second mattered a bit in builds that rely on Burning to some extent, like Guardians focused on that. It’s our only damaging condition (no Poison, Bleeds or Confusion).

Isarii.2804:

It’s a bug fix; this is exactly how Condis worked before this week’s patch. Then they broke it. Now it’s working again.

Actually Jack is right. It’s a favorable change for condi build. It still doesn’t really change the fact that Guardians only really have burning natively … and that’s hard to overcome to become a condi class.

-Your burn damage will remain a constant normal tick for as long as that burn duration is there.
-At the end of the duration, you will deal damage depending on what the remaining fraction is.

The buff probably helped condi guardian’s more than any other class in the game. Our F1 deals damage in such short intervals that our fraction damage will almost always count. For burn builds with just a 1 1/4 burn durations at 805 burn damage, you’ll get an increase of about 242 damage at the end of each F1 procs. You could say Virtue of Justice’s passive got a 25% increase of damage. It doesn’t seem like much but it could be significant in long duration 1v1 fights.

What’s funny is Sigil of Smoldering will change 1 1/4 duration to 1 1/2, doing 400 damage procs instead of 200.

The thing is, our team wide burn application and lack of condi coverages has always been burn guardian’s weaknesses. Condi Guardians will remain where they are, a good 1v1/2v2 skirmish builds while lacking multitarget burn application. Unless you fight a team with 0 condi cleanses, Zerkers will perform better in 4v4/5v5 scenarios.

However the small 1v1 buff, burn guardians will still remain the same.
I still think they’re the best!! :>

It’s a HUGE deal if your tactic involves procing VoJ passively in PVP. Those lost fractions actually prevented me from trying a build. This change confounds cleansers even more now.