Guild Wars 2

Hey all. I had a question I havn’t found an awnser to myself yet and I thought I would ask to see if anyone knew before I started looking for a warrior to test.

So long story short I roam on power reaper quite often lately. I have very high success rates against the typical roamers but against berserkers its absolutely a hopeless matchup. Like even if I land every attack I usually die while the berserker has 100% health even after 30-40 seconds of fighting.

And I feel there are a few reasons for that but the biggest one I feel is resistance.

With it said warrior can ignore our chill and our vulnerability. Two things a power reaper absolutely has to have in order to be effective. And said warriors produce enough boons that getting that resistance off can be… luck based.

I want to know if our condition based traits. Such as Decimate Defenses and just as importantly Cold Shoulder which reduces the damage we take from chilled foes. ALSO lose their effects when the afflicted is impacted by resistance.

Because if so that means that this one anti condition buff shuts down a MASSIVE chunk of our power builds damage. And would explain how such one sided fights end up occurring. ( I wont say its COMPLETLEY one sided I can get them low every now and then if I land a lucky crit but they heal up faster then my other attacks can typically pressure even if he doesnt dodge)

So. Does anyone know if this is the case? It would explain ALOT if it is. (The loss of the effectiveness of chill,blind,and vulnerability is bad enough but if resistance shuts down our TRAITS too this is kind of a problem for the future of the build on the most basic level)

Good question, the effects you gain from those traits shouldnt be affected by resistance, but knowing anet and their ability to code, it probably does.

Resistance should just allow you to ignore the condition effects not the bonuses other players gain from you having those conditions.

Ragion.2831:

Good question, the effects you gain from those traits shouldnt be affected by resistance, but knowing anet and their ability to code, it probably does.

Resistance should just allow you to ignore the condition effects not the bonuses other players gain from you having those conditions.

Thats what I was thinking. Ive come to “expect” a certain level of dps and damage taken with this build. With power reaper its pretty easy to see how low/high your health is gonna be (infact id say management of that knowledge is one of the key points of the playstyle). And its true for nearly every class I have fought.

But with warrior something about that seems off when I fight them. Dps I know I can generate just isn’t there like it is even with evade spammy thieves. And damage taken far exceeds what I mentally attach to certain timings and attacks. I can fit every other class into the pattern EXCEPT this one class. And resistance is the only thing that makes sense to me at this point.

If resistance DOES negate our traits. (I have no proof one way or the other yet)

Then its a pretty big deal and I would like to figure it out as soon as I can.

I recall that it was tested long time ago. So unless Anet changed it decimate defenses is not effected by resistance meaining you get the bonus if the target has vuln stacks. The other traits also should work.