Third time in a year I have had to get ready for change my ascended stats, and Anet knows how expensive it can be, but here we are again.
The ‘buffs’, several of them, are actually just returning skills you took from us in previous nerfs.
Condi, condi, condi, condi.
But you don’t get that you didn’t update the mitigation of Conditions when you upped the ante on Condi, so in places like PvP and WvW where it’s a human and not an NPC, anyone not running Condi and killing fast is very dead, very fast.
Balance was Power and Condi – our choice.
But Power now takes a huge backseat to Condi in every single way and the Druid staff, if you didn’t notice, is not a Condi weapon, it’s a power-based weapon without an innate condi, a single boon if done in combo, but no condi.
Healing druids are now less effective when they use a staff, which is their main healing tool so I am very confused as to why even make a druid when you keep taking our bread and butter out of our hands and telling us we can’t play our way, not with the condi-creep and lack of adequate mitigation of the ever increasing stacking of condi.
I want my staff, it’s a great weapon but you just took another step in destroying any hope of using it in WvW and PvP – makes absolutely no sense at all, but does show that condi is going to rule, where once we almost had a balance between power and condi.
The sheer cost of retooling ascended gear (which I have had to do at least three times this year) isn’t exactly cheap and no, I can’t do raiding so legendary armor is out.
I can’t imagine why you decided to take even more from the staff when it is the best weapon that ever happened to a Ranger/Druid.
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