Guild Wars 2

You can’t use unscathed contender with master of consecrations.

Consecration skill are only ground targeting.

Only 3 trait trees available.

+10% damage while under the effects of retaliation. #giant facepalm#

WTF?

This is utter terrible in so many ways, my god.

It seems quite terrible so far. The traits they had pre-selected for me were not at all matching what I had before. So I’ve rechecked them and tried to fix it.

I seem to have lost quite a bit:

Virtue Recharge: Before = 25% Now = 15%
Condition Damage: Before = 150 After = 0
Condition Duration: Before = 20% After = 0
Boon Duration: Before = 20% After = 0
Healing Power: Before = 100 After = 0
Boon Duration: Before = 25% After = 0

The only good thing is that I can still have both Justice Blind and Renewed Justice. In the patch notes, it’s stated that those are both minor traits that we can only pick one of – but luckily it seems that the patch notes are incorrect.

I like the changes to guardian my only concern is the might on block nerf by ICD.

Virtue Recharge: Before = 25% Now = 15%
>15% Was made baseline, we actually get the full 30% for being in virtues now

Condition Damage: Before = 150 After = 0
>Yeah, but really, this is a non-issue; the stats on gear have been increased to compensate.

Condition Duration: Before = 20% After = 0
>This is a tangible loss, difficult to make up on gear (condition damage is an impractical stat.)

Healing Power: Before = 100 After = 0
>Negligible amount of lost healing power, really not a big loss.

Boon Duration: Before = 25% After = 0
>This is a big one, that boon duration hit is pretty significant. Many classes lost their boon duration too, though.

My biggest concerns are actually how much of our previous raw damage modifier has been reduced. Unscathed is amazing, but impossible to rely on; Symbolic Avenger is only 10% and the uptime is very small for most weapons. Retribution granting 10% whil retal is active is a mild compromise that we received for the +10% crit chance we received via Radiant Power.

1:1 comparison in percentages (using the “same” build) I gained 14.33% crit damage and lost 4.05% crit chance. Overall, I seem to be doing less damage, though.

I think if we had Symbolic Avenger bumped back up to 20%, it would be a lot more fun. Unfortunately, it would only succeed in buffing Hammer even more.

I’ll try to do more through testing after a brief… siesta.

Kelnis.1829:

…. Retribution granting 10% whil retal is active is a mild compromise that we received for the +10% crit chance we received via Radiant Power.
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maybe test this one more. guy in the other thread is saying it appears to only be applying to sword n spear, and not even under retal. that its that old trait in new clothing