Guild Wars 2

I’m seeing a lot of people, including non-ranger classes, getting blown up in PvP by a single tick of billions of conditions stacks. I’m finding that the typical condition cleanse that clears 1-3 condis is simply not keeping up with the 25+*12 conditions thats getting spammed constantly.

I find myself pulling out my Brown Bear and using the active of Signet of Renewal to clear an entire walls of conditions. Anyone else doing the same thing?

PS. This condition meta is crazy.

Don’t worry, condis will get the nerf bat soon enough.

Brown bear is a good idea, I roll with it. I think they made it so condi burst is extremely punishing, kind of like getting spiked by a zerker build. You just need a ton of on demand condi cleanse, which is why EB blows. They will likely be introducing more resistance boon to countrerplay this.

Well didn’t they also talk about having that new Condi Resistance thing that helps you not take condi damage?

I don’t know like..if it’s a stat or a boon or where it is in the game right now, because I haven’t seen it, but I thought that was supposed to be a thing that came with the condi buffs.

People are just going all out with conds because of the novelty and not playing the usual counter builds as much (shoutbow, dagger ele). For home point ranger the counter build is just another condi build – either traps with healing spring and signet of renewal or full survival build with the trait. For power builds, play a remorseless gsword/something with a tanky amulet and survival skills. Plenty of crits on demand with that much fury reapplication. Or just queue up with a shoutbow and stay near him.

If you play with RAO+timber, take lyssa, you have no idea how strong it is now. Not only it will remove 5 condies, i’m kinda sure that if freez is one of the condies you remove, you also get small amount of resistance.

yep, im finding EB practically useless in this environment, outside of celestial shoutheal which im enjoying, and even in that its not great.

Will be upset if we don’t get a on demand condi cleanse when druid is revealed.

One of the devs posted that they know condis are too strong. I’m expecting a nerf in a matter of hours or days, not weeks or months.

Fluffball.8307:

One of the devs posted that they know condis are too strong. I’m expecting a nerf in a matter of hours or days, not weeks or months.

Yeah, in 6-8 seconds Guardians can do more damage with burning than they ever did on their burst build…. and without a cleanse or enough cleanses to strip the burning off, every class not running a vitality amulet (and even the ones that ARE) is dead in a matter of seconds regardless of how they spec’d.

So let’s just see how long this lasts lol.

It’s as if someone at ArenaNet didn’t do any [correct] math before they released this latest patch :-p

Maybe they put the decimal in the wrong place…

Trying to cleanse 12 different condition stacks at 1-3 condi clears per skill is futile.

I’ve also tried Rune of Lyssa. The conditions ticks once before the elite cast time finishes lmao, still most of my health gone.

Every ranger should be running signet of renewal for its active lol.

Zatoichi.1049:

yep, im finding EB practically useless in this environment, outside of celestial shoutheal which im enjoying, and even in that its not great.

Will be upset if we don’t get a on demand condi cleanse when druid is revealed.

we will for sure get some party-wide Resistance.

kiwituatara.6053:

Trying to cleanse 12 different condition stacks at 1-3 condi clears per skill is futile.

I’ve also tried Rune of Lyssa. The conditions ticks once before the elite cast time finishes lmao, still most of my health gone.

Every ranger should be running signet of renewal for its active lol.

SoR, brown bear, and 3 survival skills with WK should always do the job. ive had success running with just the survival skills and the bear on valk stats. haven’t needed lyssa or SoR just yet. of course the other way to deal with condis is to just CC and blow up the guy before he can stack them. stability (SotP or SoW) helps tremendously against necros. in gw2, offense > defense every time.