Smiter's Boon vs Strength of the Fallen

Smiter's Boon vs Strength of the Fallen

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Posted by: Zefrost.3425

Zefrost.3425

These 2 traits directly compete with each other and if smiters boon only works with heal skill then strength of the fallen is better.

You might as well remove one of these traits in the upcoming changes and keep retributive armor instead.

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Posted by: Black Box.9312

Black Box.9312

I don’t think you quite understand how Smiter’s Boon works. You don’t just remove a condition on heal, it procs Smite Condition. You know, that AoE burst attack that will provide an additional heal and fury if you trait for meditations? Yeah, that one.

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Posted by: Zefrost.3425

Zefrost.3425

Then that becomes superior to Strength of the Fallen where you lose 1 condition every 10s.

1 of them needs to go. Preferably for retributive armor where you gain precision based on toughness.

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Posted by: Vizardlorde.8243

Vizardlorde.8243

Then that becomes superior to Strength of the Fallen where you lose 1 condition every 10s.

1 of them needs to go. Preferably for retributive armor where you gain precision based on toughness.

If you are not running a meditation build strength of the fallen is better, if you are then smiter’s boon is better. its all up to the user.

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Posted by: Arcaedus.7290

Arcaedus.7290

I disagree. If someone is running a vanguard type build that doesn’t use meditations, they might want to take strength of the fallen over smiter’s boon. As a guardian who runs pvt for wvw, I rarely find myself using my healing skill (and when I do, it’s to retreat, and block attacks), so strength of the fallen would be superior in that case.

On the other hand, if I was dueling, I don’t plan on getting downed, and would be popping my heal every time it’s on cd, so whether or not I’m running medis (which I likely would be), smiter’s boon would be superior here.

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Posted by: SlayerSixx.5763

SlayerSixx.5763

Adding a total 2k healing plus fury plus aoe burst plus a condition cleanse. I know for a fact I won’t run CoP anymore because both of these options just look amazing, even though I’m leaning towards smiters more.

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Posted by: Vizardlorde.8243

Vizardlorde.8243

I disagree. If someone is running a vanguard type build that doesn’t use meditations, they might want to take strength of the fallen over smiter’s boon. As a guardian who runs pvt for wvw, I rarely find myself using my healing skill (and when I do, it’s to retreat, and block attacks), so strength of the fallen would be superior in that case.

On the other hand, if I was dueling, I don’t plan on getting downed, and would be popping my heal every time it’s on cd, so whether or not I’m running medis (which I likely would be), smiter’s boon would be superior here.

If you are not taking monk’s focus smiter’s boon is not worth it for dueling because our shortest CD heal is 30 seconds and 3 potential cleanses > than just 1.

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Posted by: Pitman.9210

Pitman.9210

Strength of the Fallen is so bad that it would be better to not take a trait at all actually. The “Lose health slower while downed” component makes it so that you bleed out slower which is a huge nerf. It can and will loose you games.

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Posted by: Vizardlorde.8243

Vizardlorde.8243

Strength of the Fallen is so bad that it would be better to not take a trait at all actually. The “Lose health slower while downed” component makes it so that you bleed out slower which is a huge nerf. It can and will loose you games.

Which is why you fight on points so they have to kill you to decap unlesss they can launch.

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Posted by: Pitman.9210

Pitman.9210

Strength of the Fallen is so bad that it would be better to not take a trait at all actually. The “Lose health slower while downed” component makes it so that you bleed out slower which is a huge nerf. It can and will loose you games.

Which is why you fight on points so they have to kill you to decap unlesss they can launch.

That means we go from “super bad” to “super bad or useless”.

It’s… something…?

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Posted by: Vizardlorde.8243

Vizardlorde.8243

Hey since you are counting on being downed the majority of the time and hoping to die faster when there I heard necro has this amazing trait that increases damage by 25% when downed, might get you more kills and allows you die quicker.