Descent into Madness: Fixed the Chaos Storm created by this skill to match the actual Chaos Storm skill functionality.
Illusionary Defense: Fixed this trait to properly decrease damage taken by 3% per illusion.
Feedback: Added a radius skill fact. Updated the skill facts to display changes from traits.
Medic’s Feedback: Increased the duration of the feedback bubble created by this trait to match the actual duration of the Feedback skill.
Winds of Chaos: Fixed the bleeding skill fact to display the proper duration when Chaotic Dampening is equipped.
Mender’s Purity: This trait now functions with racial skills Healing Seed and Prayer to Dwayna.
Power Cleanse: This skill now removes 2 conditions from up to 5 allies in a 240 radius.
Power Break: This skill now applies stability to up to 5 allies around the player in a 240 radius.
Illusionary Counter: Reduced the recharge from 12 seconds to 10 seconds.
Confusing Images: Reduced the recharge from 15 seconds to 12 seconds.
Mantra of Pain: Reduced the underwater cast time to 2.75 seconds to match the on-land cast time.
Mantra of Resolve: Reduced the underwater cast time to 2.75 seconds to match the on-land cast time.
Mantra of Concentration: Reduced the underwater cast time to 2.75 seconds to match the on-land cast time.
Mantra of Distraction: Reduced the underwater cast time to 2.75 seconds to match the on-land cast time.
Phantasmal Duelist: The Illusionary Duelist’s attacks now have a 20% chance for a projectile combo finisher instead of 100% when traited with Duelist’s Discipline.
Arcane Thievery: This skill will now have a consistent animation when used with a greatsword.
Illusionary Wave: Updated the skill to indicate its actual attack distance, which is 450.
Stealth Fix: Fixed Wastrel’s Punishment’s description to indicate +5% extra damage to targets not using a skill. (Source: skcamow)
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Nothing but buffs and fixes. Nice! For some Mantra theorycrafting, check out:
Browsing through all the trait facts, one good thing I noticed is they finally clarified what wastrel’s punishment is. “Increased damage to foes not using a skill”. That’s not bad actually. I think many, including myself, thought this meant foes needed to be stunned or dazed.
My kitten . They want Balance … then why do Warriors persistently get buffed? And not silly little buffs, either.
Meanwhile, Mesmers still have a goodly number of Confusion-related Traits/Skills … but those have yet to be properly fixed up. Not the Duelist, we all knew he was a buggy SOB.
Malegryne (Sylvari Mesmer), Lannka (Asura Thief) – Ferguson’s Crossing: [PRD/BRB/OMFG]
Other 80s: Any but Warrior
Browsing through all the trait facts, one good thing I noticed is they finally clarified what wastrel’s punishment is. “Increased damage to foes not using a skill”. That’s not bad actually. I think many, including myself, thought this meant foes needed to be stunned or dazed.
the duelist was a massive nerf. confusion no longer viable in pve AGAIN. thanks anet.
That’s true, but we ALL knew and used Duelist Discipline on purpose because we saw that it bugged out combo finisher chances.
It’s on the nerf/fix thin line, but let’s face it: we knew that would have come, one day or the latter.
How do you know it was bugged and not the case that they forgot to add the description? The increase 300 attack distance when traited is mediocre compared to the reflect gained by focus skills when traited. Only by having substantially higher combo finisher chances will it then be on par with the focus in terms of gain from selecting the trait.
Considering the 100% combo finisher chance ‘feature’ had remained for so long when traited, i’d wager that it is the case they did not include the increase combo finisher chance in the description.
While what happened to the Duelist trait looks like a nerf it is not, it is just simply a fix. It does hurt us in the long run but TBH nothing on the skill info nor the trait info did it say it raises the chance of a projectile finisher to 100%.
the duelist was a massive nerf. confusion no longer viable in pve AGAIN. thanks anet.
That’s true, but we ALL knew and used Duelist Discipline on purpose because we saw that it bugged out combo finisher chances.
It’s on the nerf/fix thin line, but let’s face it: we knew that would have come, one day or the latter.
How do you know it was bugged and not the case that they forgot to add the description? The increase 300 attack distance when traited is mediocre compared to the reflect gained by focus skills when traited. Only having substantially higher combo finisher chances will it then be on par with the focus in terms of gain from selecting the trait.
Considering the 100% combo finisher chance ‘feature’ had remained for so long when traited, i’d wager that it is the case they did not include the increase combo finisher chance in the description.
I’m not saying that i doesn’t hurt.
Just that nobody should be surprised by it.
Just like Para sigil fix, which “nerfs” stuns: we knew it was broken, we used for that, we knew it would have been fixed someday.
As far as the “how can you tell it’s not intended” : every single (especially channeled) projectile attack have the 20% combo chance limit, by design.
Also, i think that was a dev response saying it wasn’t intended/it was a bug.
But
a) doubt that i could find it
b) i’m not even that sure of it
so don’t quote me on this.
Seafarer’s Rest EU – PvE/WvW – 8 × 80 chars.
Most used: Guard/Mes/War/Nec/Ele.
Yes, i use 5 chars at time. Because REASONS.
nope magic bullet have 100% chance of inflicting confusion after going through an ethereal field despite it being a physical projectile attack. Are you saying this is a bug?
nope magic bullet have 100% chance of inflicting confusion after going through an ethereal field despite it being a physical projectile attack. Are you saying this is a bug?
It’s neither an auto attack nor a channeled attack.
nope magic bullet have 100% chance of inflicting confusion after going through an ethereal field despite it being a physical projectile attack. Are you saying this is a bug?
It’s neither an auto attack nor a channeled attack.
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Seafarer’s Rest EU – PvE/WvW – 8 × 80 chars.
Most used: Guard/Mes/War/Nec/Ele.
Yes, i use 5 chars at time. Because REASONS.
Channeled skills are a skill type that activate over a period of time. These skills can be spotted by a yellow activation bar that fills when the skill is activated.
Channeled skills are a skill type that activate over a period of time. These skills can be spotted by a yellow activation bar that fills when the skill is activated.
Wrong. Channeled attacks are attacks that deal multiple hits of damage over a period of time, while continually channeling them.
the duelist was a massive nerf. confusion no longer viable in pve AGAIN. thanks anet.
That’s true, but we ALL knew and used Duelist Discipline on purpose because we saw that it bugged out combo finisher chances.
It’s on the nerf/fix thin line, but let’s face it: we knew that would have come, one day or the latter.
How do you know it was bugged and not the case that they forgot to add the description? The increase 300 attack distance when traited is mediocre compared to the reflect gained by focus skills when traited. Only having substantially higher combo finisher chances will it then be on par with the focus in terms of gain from selecting the trait.
Considering the 100% combo finisher chance ‘feature’ had remained for so long when traited, i’d wager that it is the case they did not include the increase combo finisher chance in the description.
I’m not saying that i doesn’t hurt.
Just that nobody should be surprised by it.
Just like Para sigil fix, which “nerfs” stuns: we knew it was broken, we used for that, we knew it would have been fixed someday.
As far as the “how can you tell it’s not intended” : every single (especially channeled) projectile attack have the 20% combo chance limit, by design.
Also, i think that was a dev response saying it wasn’t intended/it was a bug.
But
a) doubt that i could find it
b) i’m not even that sure of it
so don’t quote me on this.
Was it to be expected? Yes it was sorta expected. Anet didnt clarify that they would change it or not.
Is this fix justified because it was overpowered or anything like that? Not at all, its actually the opposit – or how many ppl still complained about single target confusion bombing between nerf and release of perplexity runes? you can probably count them on 1 hand.
The problem with that fix is. Since Anet nerfed confusion you need a ridiculous amount of stacks. Noone cares about <10 stacks everyone just autoattacks through that. Considering that all our confusion traits are a joke when it comes to duration you are pretty much forced to stack confusion in a matter of seconds. Guess what iduelist made that possible it was a viable way to stack a reasonable amount of confusion. We didnt need perplexity runes for that. But now it makes it pretty much mendatory to use those runes and even then it pretty bad.
I just think it was an unnecessary fix. And i believe the only reason why they suddenly fix it. Is because of the uproar caused by perplexity runes
Channeled skills are a skill type that activate over a period of time. These skills can be spotted by a yellow activation bar that fills when the skill is activated.
Wrong. Channeled attacks are attacks that deal multiple hits of damage over a period of time, while continually channeling them.
Hmm, appologies for the incorrect statement there. Looks like I misunderstood what it’s suppose to be despite “consulting” the ‘wiki’ before hand, because that is what it said word for word.
Either way, I think pistol trait now falls way behind in benefits gained compared to the focus when traited. I was testing it after the patch just then, its effectively 40-50% nerf for me interms of confusion burst damage.
I just think it was an unnecessary fix. And i believe the only reason why they suddenly fix it. Is because of the uproar caused by perplexity runes
I think they should at the very least increase the % by a fair amount like to 50% when traited becuase 20% is really bad. Now it’ll just give an extra 1 or 2 stacks.
Channeled skills are a skill type that activate over a period of time. These skills can be spotted by a yellow activation bar that fills when the skill is activated.
Wrong. Channeled attacks are attacks that deal multiple hits of damage over a period of time, while continually channeling them.
Hmm, appologies for the incorrect statement there. Looks like I misunderstood what it’s suppose to be despite “consulting” the ‘wiki’ before hand, because that is what it said word for word.
Either way, I think pistol trait now falls way behind in benefits gained compared to the focus when traited. I was testing it after the patch just then, its effectively 40-50% nerf for me interms of confusion burst damage.
Actually I liked your definition better squallaus. I don’t think Pyro’s is accurate with regards to “multiple hits of damage over time”. That’s typically not a requirement for channeled skills. Take Mantra charging for example or some of the Elementalist staff skills.
Part of me thinks that someone in ANet was thinking “hey, wanna see something funny? Watch this…”
Channeled skills are a skill type that activate over a period of time. These skills can be spotted by a yellow activation bar that fills when the skill is activated.
Wrong. Channeled attacks are attacks that deal multiple hits of damage over a period of time, while continually channeling them.
Hmm, appologies for the incorrect statement there. Looks like I misunderstood what it’s suppose to be despite “consulting” the ‘wiki’ before hand, because that is what it said word for word.
Either way, I think pistol trait now falls way behind in benefits gained compared to the focus when traited. I was testing it after the patch just then, its effectively 40-50% nerf for me interms of confusion burst damage.
The pistol trait is actually more in line with the other traits now. The focus trait is a bit of an anomaly in its strength.
Confusion burst damage is a misnomer. Confusion damage is directly related to the actions of your opponent. Putting 25 stacks of confusion onto a target guarantees the exact same damage as 2 stacks: 0. In PvP you do have a chance for your opponent to panic and spam skills to kill themselves, but PvE mobs don’t panic. By attempting to use the pistol finisher to confusion stack in PvE basically means you’re limiting the sum total of your damage to 3 skills all on 30+ second recharges to produce a shaky potential burst maybe. Not good.
Channeled skills are a skill type that activate over a period of time. These skills can be spotted by a yellow activation bar that fills when the skill is activated.
Wrong. Channeled attacks are attacks that deal multiple hits of damage over a period of time, while continually channeling them.
Hmm, appologies for the incorrect statement there. Looks like I misunderstood what it’s suppose to be despite “consulting” the ‘wiki’ before hand, because that is what it said word for word.
Either way, I think pistol trait now falls way behind in benefits gained compared to the focus when traited. I was testing it after the patch just then, its effectively 40-50% nerf for me interms of confusion burst damage.
Actually I liked your definition better squallaus. I don’t think Pyro’s is accurate with regards to “multiple hits of damage over time”. That’s typically not a requirement for channeled skills. Take Mantra charging for example or some of the Elementalist staff skills.
The definition I supplied was particular to the subject at hand: a channeled attack containing projectile combo finishers. It’s not an all-encompassing definition by any stretch.
The pistol trait is actually more in line with the other traits now. The focus trait is a bit of an anomaly in its strength.
Confusion burst damage is a misnomer. Confusion damage is directly related to the actions of your opponent. Putting 25 stacks of confusion onto a target guarantees the exact same damage as 2 stacks: 0. In PvP you do have a chance for your opponent to panic and spam skills to kill themselves, but PvE mobs don’t panic. By attempting to use the pistol finisher to confusion stack in PvE basically means you’re limiting the sum total of your damage to 3 skills all on 30+ second recharges to produce a shaky potential burst maybe. Not good.
The confusion is bonus on top of other damage though. So you get good base damage from bleeding and physical damage then you have confusion spikes on top. Its true that PvE mobs don’t panic, but they are also not as smart as other players. That is they do attack regularly on some timed interval regardless of the situation. If you stretch your confusion duration a bit (i.e food), a good amount of confusion damage will land (before the ‘nerf’) on pretty much 99% of the pve enemies in my experience.
I’m a little bummed about the duelist change. I can see how it’s more inline with other weapon traits now since most of them do cooldown plus one other effect.
But I was having fun trying to use it as a condition cleanser in conjunction with veil. It was hard to pull off in a tough fight, but it was very rewarding.
It was also fun to occasionally drop the duelist in the middle of null field and then use scepter 3 at the same time
Funny isn’t_it? (lool filtred)
Why the heck do ppl think that the Pistolfix is a nerf? It wasn’t meant to be like this from the start. It was a bug that most of us (yeah, I did it too) were abusing. It was a bug that got fixed. Well we got our little advantage taken away from anet? Let’s just find other ways to take our enemies down.
Btw imo anyone who uses confusion in PvE does the worst dmg ingame even compared with someone that uses full solider armor. Deal with it the mobs don’t attack enough.
Why was IDuelist with Etheral Combo OP?
Compared with the actual phantasm that should deal confusion the iMage:
The iDuelist gor 8 hits that do a strong dmg and has with Sharper Images chance to inflict 8 stacks bleed. With the combo also 8 stacks confusion for 5s(+durations).
The iMage does nearly no dmg, may hit a target twice if you’re lucky and inflicts 3/6 stacks for 3s(+durations)
Can you now imagine why they fixed it? It made the torch worthless in any confusion build.
Lately I tryed to build my builds with a torch just to get away from this bug because I knew they’d fix it somewhen (even if it took more than a year they did it).
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