Guild Wars 2

• Life Blast: This skill now scales based on range instead of amount of life force. At more than 600 units, this skill’s low value has been increased by 43%; at less than 600 units, this skill uses the old high value. Range has been increased to 1200.

• Doom: This skill now scales based on range. If more than 600 units, it will apply 1 second of fear; If less than 600 units, it will apply 1.5 seconds of fear. This ability now lists the damage it deals to enemy targets.

Discuss!

I’m super psyched. Since those two skills are the ones I use most often in DS, and I generally use them in melee range, these changes are just what I needed. I hated how Life Blast got weaker the more you used it; now hopefully this will mean a noticeable increase in damage

These are decent changes, but I am far more interested by the new Near to Death + Foot in the Grave and Deathly Perception build types that will be coming out.

You don’t need a build for deathly perception lol, it’s super effective by itself and goes well with freaking EVERYTHING, especially with the new life blast.

It still is going to work best in a build that is designed with it in mind. Sustained DS builds are going to potentially be viable now.

Ranger longbow, they have no ideas after 10+ months, so they copy from other classes.

The Doom change was both unexpected and welcome. IIRC it’s pretty similar to what Nemesis suggested a few months back.

Doom = ok
Life blast – please just make the damage static and piercing by default… or just turn it into Plague Blast (underwater DS1)