Guild Wars 2

so, we lost the illusion celerity as a 5 point trait, we lost confusion on pretty much every weapon that granted it, now, we lost protection from chaos armor and the boons granted by chaos armor as well as the condition have a 1 second cool down…

what do you think about it?
what will be next, the illusion spawning abilities all together?

edit: well we didn’t lost protection, but it’s no longer the default boon you get from chaos armor… i can forsee thief at my back any seconds now

Seeing the trend, anything protection oriented has been nerfed. Prismatic Understanding will be next. Can you imagine, investing 30 points into a grandmaster trait to earn swiftness on stealth…forget aegis and protection, ArenaNet will finally solve our issue with a lack of “reliable” speed. sarcasm

Not sure why they nerfed chaos armor…. For it to work the other player has to attack you.

Honestly? I think they will remove Sharper Images or change it to only have a chance to apply bleeding.

Of course they nerfed Chaos armour.

Rules of GW2 patch: Are there class changes?

Yes- Nerf Mesmer, laugh at Ranger, buff Warrior.
No- Introduce bug to Mesmer, laugh at Ranger, buff Warrior.

Sharper Images now has a 50% chance to inflict bleeding on every other critical hit inflicted by your first phantasm.

Oh well, it’s Chaos Armor this time. The casted one from Staff #4 was different to the combo generated one, for no obvious reason. Today they made both equal – by downgrading the better version.

Iavra.8510:

Honestly? I think they will remove Sharper Images or change it to only have a chance to apply bleeding.

No, I bet they will change it to a 1 second internal cooldown.
Phantasmal Duelist will proc only 1 or maybe 2 bleeds then …

edit: I forgot about GS clones with their triple attack, only 1 bleed then …

My money is on restorative mantras (2.5k+ party heal? – This is nice), deceptive evasion (they ruined our phantasm/clone cooldowns but forgot shatter mezzies can still spam them) or sharper images (Bleed stacking with no internal cooldown – thats unique amongst the classes) getting it the nerf bat next

If any of those 3 goes however, I’m gonna start maining my engineer full time.

Amadan.9451:

what will be next, the illusion spawning abilities all together?

Kinda.

I’m 100% sure that DE will get the qqers fire and then nerf sooner or later.
Being it ICD or move to GM trait.

Oh, and ofc PU will not get untouched to the end of the summer.

If any of those 3 goes however, I’m gonna start maining my engineer full time.

Already got my engi to 80 and nearly fully equipped. Still have to getting used to using utility skills for weapon-swapping but already forgot how swiftness feels after all the time playing mesmer o.O And there are cleanses O.O

Wouldnt this be somewhat of a buff to illusionary membrane?

Not really. It got a 15s ICD, it already pretty much triggered every time it was off cd pre-nerf.

If anything, it got nerfed by now only having a 33% change to trigger in chaos armor (but another 33% for chaos armor to apply protection on it’s own so nothing really changed here).

Lol. Really? I guess I can stop trying to find room in my builds for 20 chaos. The prot on chaos armor was the main reason to use staff in tpvp, imo. Can we at least get a CD reduction on chaos armor/storm?

Just tested it against some NPCs in the mists. Tooltip still says 5s protection but it’s actually about 2-3s (reset traits so no Illusionary Membrane that could interfere).

Does anyone know if the RNG protection stacks duration? If it does, that could be interesting. Assuming it does, the way I understand it and assuming the tooltip should give you the appropriate amount of RNG protection on hit, there is actually a chance you could have more protection uptime with this nerf than before.

• Pre-patch: 5 seconds base protection when activating Staff #4. After the first protection proc, protection could not be proc’d again (so 5 seconds was all you got). There was no protection whatsoever when acquiring Chaos Armor via ethereal fields.

• Post-patch: A chance of 10 seconds protection from Staff #4 AND chaos armor proc’d from an ethereal field.

All of it assumes you’re being hit multiple times in an attempt to proc it, but I would venture to guess that side by side (if protection stacks), it’s possible to have more protection on you post-patch than pre-patch. It’s just not on demand which is the killer. Note this doesn’t take into consideration boon duration enhancements which could lessen the blow even further.

skcamow.3527:

It’s just not on demand which is the killer.

This so much. Chaos armor and the on demand prot is the entire reason I used staff. Past tense. It’s no longer worth the point investment imo. I’d rather use sword/torch as my condition build off-set now. Blurred frenzy and the invis are better active defenses than chaos armor/phase retreat now imo.

Actually, sword torch has been replacing staff in my power builds too. Shame. I loved staff for both the condition application and the hard hitting warlock. I know those aspects are still there, but without the easy access to illusionist celerity, staff has already been feeling flat.

Nerf to torch inc in 5 4 3… :P