Guild Wars 2

Hey guys,
Have any of you noticed how life blast does a lot less dmg since the patch? I used to be 3 shotting thiefs with 3.5-5k per LB, but now it only does about 2-2.5k dmg, EVEN on ele and other necros… Does anyone know what happened? I have a 6/2/0/0/6 build atm (30/10/0/0/30)
(Ps. This is for PvP, haven’t checked WvW or PvE yet…)

Got same build, my damage is still the same, even more because I now have 230% crit damage ?
(PvE/WvW)

Falcon.8713:

Got same build, my damage is still the same, even more because I now have 230% crit damage ?
(PvE/WvW)

I’ve got 200 with 97% crit chance in DS, but all I’ve been hitting today are 2k’s

I’ll test it out at my pvp hour, what amulet are you using ?

Berzerker I think, but not totally sure. It adds like 25% crit chance thought:

Alrighy, I’ll give you my feedback soon

I’ve called it month before that they’re nerfing Power necros the most, but nobody wanted to listen.
GG now and return to Condi

All my issues are in WvW not PvP. I’m doing the same amount of damage I was before, if not slightly better with the new runes and being able to stack Air/Fire sigils. I’m still seeing 4k off LB + Fire + Air proccing for ~ 6k total in PvP matches against squishies.

Ferocity change

Mindx.9610:

Ferocity change

Stats weren’t changed for PvP though. Crit damage in PvP is the same as it was prior to the patch. It only changed it for PvE/WvW. Either he didn’t set his traits back up or he’s using the wrong items.

It’s possible he didn’t change his gear from the default Battle/Accuracy sigils and Soldier’s amulet before jumping into a game.

Plus depending on the Armor/Weapon/Trinket stat arrays that were used, some pieces saw more of a reduction that others, possibly leading to a sharper than expected crit damage reduction.

Rym.1469:

I’ve called it month before that they’re nerfing Power necros the most, but nobody wanted to listen.
GG now and return to Condi

That is like calling for the weather to change. We all knew they were reducing berserker damage and we all knew they were reducing burning damage. Now, we all are dealing with it.

Falcon.8713:

Got same build, my damage is still the same, even more because I now have 230% crit damage ?
(PvE/WvW)

You had the same crit damage before. There was a hidden value for crit damage you couldn’t see. It was 150% crit damage base before. Now you just the 230% because you add the 80 you saw before.

didnt the crit change affect traits? so if you trait for crit dmg its not 30% anymore

Before, there was a base crit damage bonus and the crit bonus you saw with traits and gear was on top of that base damage bonus. Now, it is all rolled together and trimmed.

This crit dmg nerd really hurt my necro. I run zerker weapons and trinkets with knights armor. Before patch my life blast would do 3-4k more if I had might, now after patch I barely do 2k with life blast. I’m thinking maybe of going cavalier armor but idk if it will help

I noticed the same thing actually. But with the wardrobe system I was usi g a weapon that wasn’t for my power build, even though it looked like it. Check your gear and make sure they’re what you need for most damage .

Hope this helps

I run dagger mainland in PvP, and yes people I have done my traits, runes, sigils, etc. I have noticed that with same build my necrotic slash in dager was first 2x 811 and now 2x 788, so that ha also been reduced. Idk what’s happened but it looked like power necro got nerfed.

There are a lot of new players in pvp now and a lot of them will play with starting builds.
So you get to fight thieves with soldier amuletts and similar tanky traits.

That is why you seem to deal less dmg in pvp. (would be my guess)

30/10/0/0/30 is still strong. I used it yesterday for some time and did in one occasion pretty much 2 shot some gc staff ele with 5k followed by 6k lich auto and spinal shivers procc. (probably some might involved)

I seems like I’ll be switching to cavalier armor instead of knights. The loss of crit chance should hurt to much with deathly perception.

Aevis.4632:

I seems like I’ll be switching to cavalier armor instead of knights. The loss of crit chance should hurt to much with deathly perception.

I run full ascended Cav trinkets and you’re still going to be feeling the dps loss. Knight armor with Cav trinkets just isn’t doing the same damage it was before mainly because the crit damage nerf was as big as it was and we relied on Deathly Perception for any substantial damage. I’ve been thinking more and more about just runninig full zerk glass cannon power build for roaming around now.

Srolo.5208:

Aevis.4632:

I seems like I’ll be switching to cavalier armor instead of knights. The loss of crit chance should hurt to much with deathly perception.

I run full ascended Cav trinkets and you’re still going to be feeling the dps loss. Knight armor with Cav trinkets just isn’t doing the same damage it was before mainly because the crit damage nerf was as big as it was and we relied on Deathly Perception for any substantial damage. I’ve been thinking more and more about just runninig full zerk glass cannon power build for roaming around now.

You wouldn’t have noticed anywhere near as much of a drop if you weren’t running all your crit damage on trinkets. Those were the primary targets of this change.

Drarnor Kunoram.5180:

Srolo.5208:

Aevis.4632:

I seems like I’ll be switching to cavalier armor instead of knights. The loss of crit chance should hurt to much with deathly perception.

I run full ascended Cav trinkets and you’re still going to be feeling the dps loss. Knight armor with Cav trinkets just isn’t doing the same damage it was before mainly because the crit damage nerf was as big as it was and we relied on Deathly Perception for any substantial damage. I’ve been thinking more and more about just runninig full zerk glass cannon power build for roaming around now.

You wouldn’t have noticed anywhere near as much of a drop if you weren’t running all your crit damage on trinkets. Those were the primary targets of this change.

Well I was because it was best at the time. Now I can’t swap my armor out without spending at least 80-90 gold because you can’t salvage and recover runes/sigils from items you bought in WvW with badges.

My poor necro has to truffle more to kill with his power build; however, my friends thief still hit 37k earlier today. Da frack

Rym.1469:

I’ve called it month before that they’re nerfing Power necros the most, but nobody wanted to listen.
GG now and return to Condi

Lol @ that, why should one play condi if they prefer Power ?

Holl.3109:

Berzerker I think, but not totally sure. It adds like 25% crit chance thought:

I was still able to hit 4-6K Life blasts (Eagle Runes + within 600 range + DS Above 50%)

I looked at the calculations from crit damage to ferocity and in order to achieve the same damage on my LB I had to swap out my Knights armor with Melandru runes to Zerk armor with Hoelbrak runes. I’m back up to the damage I was at before but instead of almost 2800 armor I have 2200…