Guild Wars 2

Skyro.3108:

1) Putrid was already nerfed this last patch. It transfers 3 condis off yourself per target hit. I believe it also just transfers 3 condis off allies now as well regardless of the number of targets hit but I haven’t gotten around to testing that yet. IMO this was a good change.

Skyro.3108:

Ostricheggs.3742:

This is not true at all. Putrid mark was buffed substantially by making it TRANSFER blinds instead of blinds making it miss. This was the only change to putrid mark.

You are incorrect sir. I’d rather have pre-patch Putrid Mark all day every day.

Also I just tested it vs allies. Putrid Mark no longer cleans ANY conditions off allies. It is essentially comparable to Deathly Swarm now with a 3 condi transfer per target. Whether this is a bug or stealth nerf I don’t know, since the tooltip didn’t change.

Also there is a strict priority with which conditions are transferred now (for both Putrid Mark and Deathly Swarm). The priority is roughly (hard to test exactly since it is 3 condis).

Blind
Immob
Weak
Vuln
Chill/Crip/Burn
Poison/Bleed

Not sure about Torment/Confusion/Fear I didn’t test everything. Also note that condition removal skills does not behave this way. Condition removal skills still appear to be random (or at least not a strict priority order).

I wonder how could they have ‘forgotten’ to include a nerf of that calibre in the patch notes…
/palm

Has anyone tried reporting this as a bug to see if it is actually intended?

Bhawb.7408:

Has anyone tried reporting this as a bug to see if it is actually intended?

I added the ‘3 per target cap’ part to the list, but I wasn’t informed it was incapable of transferring from any ally to a foe. (I had noted it didn’t work on minions)

Seriously if it’s no longer an allied condition pull… I’m really hoping that wasn’t an intentional change.
Edit: It doesn’t pull from allies. At all. Going on the list immediately.

So they change someting like not to tell us ?? like swaping wepon in ds ?? strange, how they think- noone notice this ?? :P
But it looks like a bug, and ned be fixed

Keep this running and raporting

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/necromancer/Staff-4-bug-stealthnerf-weird-response/

Since this is sPvP only and it wasn’t part of the patch notes, this has to be an unintentional change.

flow.6043:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/necromancer/Staff-4-bug-stealthnerf-weird-response/

Since this is sPvP only and it wasn’t part of the patch notes, this has to be an unintentional change.

It’s not just sPvP. The fact it wasn’t referenced in the patch notes gives me hope it was unintentional.

Honestly I’d be fine with the conversion to 3 conditions / target, but the removal of the allied cleanse really annoys me.

Not just sPvP? It definitely works with all conditions transfered in PvE/WvW. Not sure about the ally cleanse atm though… but my guess would be that it still works as well.

flow.6043:

Not just sPvP? It definitely works with all conditions transfered in PvE/WvW. Not sure about the ally cleanse atm though… but my guess would be that it still works as well.

Last time I tested it in PvE (today) I could only transfer 3 conditions to a single target, and I could not transfer poison from another player character to the spider they were fighting.

Ok… I just tested myself against an npc in wvw, with someone else helping me out:
no ally-cleanse, just 3 conditions transfered.
I could have sworn that it transfered all condis a few days back… guess not.

Anyway, the tooltip of Putrid Mark still says "transfers conditions from allies to foes ", so this change really can’t be intended… then again, anet and tooltips :/

I wouldn’t be surprised if it was a stealth nerf. I also wouldn’t be surprised if it were intended.
ANet has a nasty reputation for both. ANet also has a nasty reputation for fixing these kind of bugs.
(DS weapon swap for example.)

Has anyone else noticed any change in this? I haven’t been on the past few days so was wondering if it was ever fixed. I did notice it once right before I originally saw this post. I didn’t see anything about it in patch notes yet.

Nay of the Ether.8913:

Has anyone else noticed any change in this? I haven’t been on the past few days so was wondering if it was ever fixed. I did notice it once right before I originally saw this post. I didn’t see anything about it in patch notes yet.

I tried it in HotM today when I was looking at how marks work with interrupts, and it was still only transferring 3 conditions per target hit by the mark.

Edit: I didn’t think to try and test the allied cleansing though, which is arguably the more important change.

Yeah the ally cleanse is what has me most concerned, it would undeniably put a huge dent in my most powerful support builds.