Guild Wars 2

What are you thoughts on this concept? I personally feel that due to the limited number of elite skills that it would open more possibilities to play with. For example, I play a tanky/power build. I’d love the option to effectively use Plague, and while the chain blinds are certainly welcome in situations, the damage potential in comparison is greatly increased for condition builds. What if the direct damage ticks actually scaled reasonably with power? What if Lich Form damage scaled with the higher or your condition damage or power? Heck, for simplicity’s sake these could simply increase the lower of the two stats to match the higher. This would give Condi builds some respectable DD when popping Lich. It would give power builds respectable sustained aoe damage when popping lich.

If they can add many more elites then this is less of an issue, but so long as our options are limited this would be a welcome change.

Better solution would be to simply nerf condition damage across the board by XX% but allow them to then crit. This way power builds benefit from the crit and crit damage. Condi builds benefit because they can also collect crit and crit damage. Bunker builds are nerfed because players can no longer simply go all condi damage, toughness, and healing power/vitality and expect to provide any real pressure. It increases the value of allstat gear so maybe true hybrid roles could be a reality in this game (currently condition damage is an all or nothing kind of thing). It could open the door for toughness/armor to affect condi crits in some fashion maybe (though probably not needed because condis have numerous downsides their one main benefit is they ignore toughness).

I’m sold on them adding more.

Particularly underwater.

Even if they remove full CD from Golem if he get’s wet would make my life a happyer one. ;-)