Guild Wars 2

I am looking to confirm this from the Necro community:

I just tested Plague Form post patch and it no longer gives any bonus toughness.

Was it always this way or stealth nerf?

I’m still at work will someone please for the love of the flying spaghetti monster tell me that all these stealth nerfs that people are noticing aren’t true…..

Omg I read this and nearly choked….

WTF are they thinking? How am I supposed to use Plague in WvW now?

Welp, guess all necro elites took a hefty hit, then. The loss of bonus Power on Plague was meaningless overall as nobody used it for damage. The loss of Toughness, however…

EDIT: Toughness and Vitality boosts are still there, at least in PvE.

I can confirm that the bonus Toughness doesn’t show up on your attributes panel when you go into Plague form, whether in pve or in pvp. I don’t know for sure that it’s not just a UI error: I would need someone to come hit me with a steady weapon to check that for sure. If anyone’s in-game right now and on EU servers whisper me and we can test it, it would take 3".

HOWEVER, even if the bonus Toughness really is gone, this could be a bug rather than a stealth-nerf. After all, Lich still grants bonus Vitality. I’ve therefore started a bug thread here: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Plague-Form-bonus-Toughness-not-there
Please go bump it.

NeXeD.3042:

I’m still at work will someone please for the love of the flying spaghetti monster tell me that all these stealth nerfs that people are noticing aren’t true…..

Just tested, Plague changes no stats at all except for Health. Mine increased from 23,272 to 41,792. Even though Vitality doesn’t change. Weird.

P.S No, Armor doesn’t change.

GreyWraith.8394:

NeXeD.3042:

I’m still at work will someone please for the love of the flying spaghetti monster tell me that all these stealth nerfs that people are noticing aren’t true…..

Just tested, Plague changes no stats at all except for Health. Mine increased from 23,272 to 41,792. Even though Vitality doesn’t change. Weird.

P.S No, Armor doesn’t change.

Toughness boost is still there and easily testable (I have). It just isn’t refrenced on the hero panel for some reason.

The bonus is still there (see pic), it’s just a UI bug.
Phew

I can’t confirm that Lich Form’s precision bonus is also a UI bug though….

Thanks for confirming.

Thank god!! I was going to give up on using my necro if there was no elite to use….

looking for 4th utility slot instaid of elite….