Guild Wars 2

While I’m sure the current issues with CA will be resolved, I’m concerned this one will be overlooked: condition damage does not charge CA.

The Druid doesn’t have a very good synergy with the Rangers’ base skills and this will only further emphasize these discrepancies. It would really be a shame to not being able to wear Apothecary or the new Expertise based sets, since the ranger has access to some really nice burns, bleeds and even useful poison damage on low cd for sPvP.

I was really excited to experience a bunker side of my class, but as it stands, Staff is unfortunately mandatory and all condi weapons are excluded.

I hope this will be seen as constructive feedback and addressed, since the concept of the druid is great and with a little bit of tweaks, so could be the implementation.

I dont understand why this isnt a larger issue. This severly impacts the effectiveness of condition builds for rangers/druids.

This is not a condi issue. This is a problem for every non-staff build. AF gain from damage is per hit (and you have to hit your enemy with a condi build too), not per actual damage dealt and overall much lower than AF gain from healing.
(Aoe) Regen from Healing Spring, shouts or WH, SotW and/or the Natural Healing Trait will help with building AF in a non-staff build.

Sorry: SotW? Natural healing trait?

SotW = Signet of the Wild

Natural Healing is a trait in the bm line, which gives the pet perma health regen (and increased healing power).

thanks a lot for the help

Its realy a non issue since they made the change from regen and SOTW ticks(also natutal healing). You can even take TU for even faster CF regen. You can actually regen CF faster than the 10 sec CD, even without staff.

Uhm the amount of damage (just like the amount of healing) does not matter for astral force generation. The individual instances count. Since every attack that applies condition also does a small amount of direct dmg astral force will be charged at the same speed in a condi build.

This suggestion makes no sense. Also isn’t Celestial Form already charging really freaking fast? Is that still not enough for you guys? I mean clearly Arenanet didn’t intend CF being up every 10 seconds when they designed an adept trait that clears all condis and breaks stun when entering CF.

This is kind of an old thread, IIRC prior to the buff that AF regeneration received, so it’s not that relevant anymore.