Guild Wars 2

Why doesn’t dagger OH have life force generation? I ask because it is the only weapon slot we have that doesn’t have a way to generate life force. Is there a reason the devs left this out?

It seems simple and necessary to add 5% per bounce to dagger 4 as this would make it functionally the same as focus 4 as far as life force generation.

Another choice and one I would prefer is dagger 5 generating 5% per target hit and that would give condimancers a good way to spike generate LF in aoe situations.

Anet probably left it out because it’s an off-hand with a Condition transfer skill.
That’s pretty powerful.

Not that I’d be against it having some Life Force generation on it.
I just don’t think it really needs any, it’s already a popular choice.

I think you give ANet too much credit.

It is a little weird, since the other off-hands can generate rather large amounts of life force. But it seems to be working out so far, so I don’t really see the need to change it?

Yup, I switched to a dagger OH on one of my weapon sets and immediately noticed a lack of LF generation with that set.

I accepted it a long time ago. Of course, now my condition build runs with Spectral Wall+Attunement, so life force generation is not as low as it was prior.

In It To Win It.2315:

I think you give ANet too much credit.

I believe that they are more competent than people give them credit for.

We have “stupid” patch changes like Torment on the worst Mesmer weapon and Lowered cooldown on an awful Thief Minor trait that just gets them killed.
Thing is I believe most changes like these were made just to prepare for the next batch of changes in the future.

I just think that they are changing things too slowly.
It’s dumb to have broken changes for 2 or 3 months (or more) before the next patch adds something that makes the older ones matter.

And of course sometimes they really DO make dumb changes with no point in them, they certainly aren’t perfect…

LastDay.3524:

Thing is I believe most changes like these were made just to prepare for the next batch of changes in the future.

This makes a lot of sense to me. The design and the development schedule may not sync up.

Which suggests to me that they need an additional person/role that works on the “logistics” of getting from here to there from a player perspective. It would be easy as a developer to say, “Hey, we’re working towards this great goal, and the players are just short-sighted, so just keep your head down and ignore them and wait until we’re justified by the final result.”

Problem is, it’s a service industry and you literally do have to reach a goal, but the process by which you reach that goal matters. More like running a hotel than building a car: you may need to refurbish the lobby and other parts, but you have to do it in a way that minimally affects guests.

Got to use a staff!

LifeForce on Auto-Attack.

Only combo finisher not on pets.

Only full ranged weap.

Only regular/constant aoe weap.

Flip to it before going in DS to get biggest dam.