Guild Wars 2

I was watching SotG and learned that warriors now has an ability that deals plus 3% more damage for every boon type on you, no matter how many stacks.

My immediate thought was of Warhorn 5 which grants 1 stack of might for a good % of the time depending on traits etc it can even be permanent. This 1 stack of might is imo pretty useless, and it seems like it would be a disadvantage to have this vs warriors running the aforementioned trait.

Especially when you compare it to something like a dd ele or HGH engi who have ~15 stacks of might but are no more effected than you – at least they get an advantage as well as what is essentially 3 stacks of vuln – they get to have a meaningful increase in power/condi dmg. This is weird as the true boon-stacker classes aren’t being effected as much by the ability that counters boon-stackers!

This is also relevant for the necro ability corrupt boon, which i presume is not effected by the number of stacks? can someone confirm this?

The only advantage to this 1 stack of might is to maybe protect against boon stripping. This post assumes you’re not trying to stack might with your ranger, but have this 1 stack as a result of wanting fury and/or swiftness from the skill. Overall, i’d rather they remove this might stack from the ability or increase it to 3 stacks?

Or change how the warrior trait works on might – 1-5% more dmg taken for might boon depending on number of stacks. And Necro corrupt boon changes increases duration of weakness per stack if it doesn’t already (no info on wiki).

Sigil of Strength gives might. That “might” help lol pun

Its 30 points in discipline. I wouldn’t worry about being suddenly blown up.

Who knows, one of the new S/D thieves might steal it from you and curse himself for his rotten luck at getting just a measly 1 stack of Might.

The warrior has to catch you first . That is their main problem too , catching stuff .

Not when you’re fighting over a point, like people do in spvp. If you move off the point he neutralizes it and starts capping.

In wvw he’ll just bring a rifle and kill you while side strafing since the pet will stop to hit him and then have to catch up.

You only really kill a decent warrior if you’re BM bunker with chills. Maybe a trapper works to, but it’s way squishier and more susceptible to his ability to burst you down.

i have no problems against warriors , he is always crippled and my pet is always buffed with swiftness

Unless you’re a guardian or a d/d ele, I wouldn’t worry about that much.

I’ll wait to see how many thieves jump in the #3 spamming wagon. If the build spreads I’ll forget about running with Rampage as One/warhorn/Healing Spring.

I don’t really worry about warriors since they are like fighting a sentry npc. Hope this patch will help them a bit.

yeah this is probably rarely gonna be an issue when fighting warriors, even thought that’s what made me consider it – corrupt boon is probably more important, as weakness is a really powerful negative effect, especially when there is no advantage to 1 stack of might…

The warrior trait isn’t good boon hate.

It’s basically like any other 5-10% dmg buff, just more likely to be at its best when the target has protection/vigor up (so be at its least effective).

Warhorn is basically obsolete. 1 stack of might = lol. Fury could be gotten from Moa, and haste could be gotten from birds or be replaced by SotH/Swords’ gap close.

Even if you run BM and can’t afford to waste a pet slot on Moa, you’re more likely to be running a torch/dagger off hand anyway. Plus Hunter’s call is worthless when you lose line of sight which is completely out of your control after you’ve fired.

So the question is not whether 1 stack of might will get you wtfpwned, but rather why should you even bother taking the WH at all out of your bag.

Aridia.3042:

So the question is not whether 1 stack of might will get you wtfpwned, but rather why should you even bother taking the WH at all out of your bag.

You aren’t specced for condition dmg.

Warhorn certainly isn’t earth shattering, but it’s viable imo if, as garethh said, you’re not a condi spec. IIRC if you have the trait that shares boons with your pet and it’s within the warhorn’s range when you use it, the pet will get at least 2 stacks of might. Also, by using CotW, RAO, CotW I can have between 50 and 60 seconds of constant Fury and Swiftness (plus a the few stacks of Might) on me and my pet.