Guild Wars 2

So when dhuumfire got released it was considered overpwered and what did they do to “fix” this? They nerfed everything else such as bleed stacking and terror damage… and THEN nerfed dhuumfire.

Here with the chilling darkness nerf we have the exact same anet practices (tactics) being implemented. They release a new trait, in this case Bitter Chill, which apparently is too strong. So what does Anet do? They nerf all of our other chill traits (this is only the beginning :P) starting with chilling darkness.

This makes, as another post has added, Well of Darkness pretty much even less of a utility lol. Like nobody uses it and now its pretty much pointless. Might as well say we have 3 well utilities and a well heal.

Its also made dagger 4 far more linear.

My question is.. why don’t they just remove the whole kitten trait? lol.

This nerf is like saying “Hey i know you like this bike but the new road we built for it makes it too fast so I took it apart and left you the peddle.”

It’s not a trait anymore. It’s useless. The Dhuumfire patch practices at it again. ’Atta boy Anet. Thats the Anet I know.

Just a reminder about the Dhuumfire patch.

Dhuumfire turned the necromancer into a strong condition buster, but the other problems remained (no mobility, can’t survive focus fire, no team support). Pvp teams only took one necromancer to their tournament teams.

Weren’t there 2 elementalists and a Mesmer in every tournament team in the recent tournament?

Somebody else’s turn to be getting Dhuumfired very soon.

Bitter Chill isn’t even that fantastic. It’s 3 vuln on a chill. It was good when they originally showed it with 5 vuln, but it wasn’t good enough to justify a nerf.

The Wizland.8435:

Bitter Chill isn’t even that fantastic. It’s 3 vuln on a chill. It was good when they originally showed it kitten vuln, but it wasn’t good enough to justify a nerf.

Chilling Darkness got nerfed not Bitter chill but the chill stack limit will restrict future uses.

The difference is, Dhuumfire was a terrible idea, nobody from the community at that time asked for the necro getting burning, plus it was totaly over the top. This trait came from the “balancing” team or Jon “Master of the Deathshroud” Peters himself. It is a good example how clueless Arenanet is in regards to the Necro.

Chilling Darkness was never considered OP or a problem or anything else. It got used mostly in large scale wellomancer speccs. The only similarity is the cluelessness of Anet what to do with the Necromance but thats nothing new.

Sagat.3285:

The Wizland.8435:

Bitter Chill isn’t even that fantastic. It’s 3 vuln on a chill. It was good when they originally showed it kitten vuln, but it wasn’t good enough to justify a nerf.

Chilling Darkness got nerfed not Bitter chill but the chill stack limit will restrict future uses.

No it won’t. Each application of Chill, even if it exceeds the stack cap, will still apply the vuln.

Drarnor is right. Same way as Chilling darkness still applies chill to dredge despite them being immune to blind.

The nerf only really affects WoD and Plague to any great degree. With blinds on both skills predominantly used in Wvw zerginng, I can see the change being directed at GWEN.

mordran.4750:

The difference is, Dhuumfire was a terrible idea, nobody from the community at that time asked for the necro getting burning, plus it was totaly over the top. This trait came from the “balancing” team or Jon “Master of the Deathshroud” Peters himself. It is a good example how clueless Arenanet is in regards to the Necro.

Chilling Darkness was never considered OP or a problem or anything else. It got used mostly in large scale wellomancer speccs. The only similarity is the cluelessness of Anet what to do with the Necromance but thats nothing new.

Your defintion of being over the top is being in the best comps? Whats so wrong with being viable. In that case all other classes have been over the top for ages now. Necro has always been bad so anytime it is strong it is obvious. Strong classes meanwhile silently just stay op forever

Anchoku.8142:

The nerf only really affects WoD and Plague to any great degree. With blinds on both skills predominantly used in Wvw zerginng, I can see the change being directed at GWEN.

You mean trying to make Necro bad in the only game mode they are actually part of the meta? Yeah I can see Anet doing that.