Guild Wars 2

In just the past few days I’ve noticed that casting this skill has a different animation at least on human female. Is this intentional? You do a spinning animation now instead of holding your sword up.

Have you read the patch notes?

Levetty.1279:

Have you read the patch notes?

It says “Phantasmal Berserker: This skill now fires a boomerang projectile that inflicts 3 stacks of vulnerability for 3 seconds in addition to summoning a phantasm.”

Doesn’t say anything about changing the animation.

The patch note didn’t say everything

The change is definitely a nerf overall. The skill cast time is increased from 0.75s to 1 due to the animation change and the effect is minimal(minimal damage+3 stacks of vulnerability).

It’s a nerf. It’s clunky and unimpressive. I wish they rolled it back to what it was.

circuitnerd.5863:

Levetty.1279:

Have you read the patch notes?

It says “Phantasmal Berserker: This skill now fires a boomerang projectile that inflicts 3 stacks of vulnerability for 3 seconds in addition to summoning a phantasm.”

Doesn’t say anything about changing the animation.

Fair enough, I forgot it didn’t mention it. Probably too used to reading between the lines of this games patch notes.

Pretty much a nerf, the new animation is sluggish and completely telegraphed and for those who use power on pvp/wvw its just terrible cause the boomerang instantly reveals you if u cast it from stealth. 3vuln stacks that last for 1-2 sec arent significant either. RIP
Also illusionary reversion nerf Double RIP