Guild Wars 2

So after taking a close look at the phrasing of this section of the patch notes, I was launched into wild speculation mode:

“After a period of observation, the balance team will be changing the druid specialization’s nature somewhat. In this iteration, we’ll now be making healing types more healing-power based. "

Is this implying that we will finally see some of the functionality of the druid specialization augmented, so as to accommodate some damage (sans #5) in CAF?

Thoughts?

It’s just saying that now if you want to heal as a Druid you gotta take healing gear. What Druid offers to damage builds is a 15s CD stunbreak + condi purge, passive swiftness/15s CD stealth and super speed, and then entangling roots on a CCed target you hit.

Don’t expect Druid to gain anything else for damage builds since it’s meant to take Ranger down a more supporty path, so the role will always aim for support.

As ca skills have become completely ineffective without healing power, make damage from ca5 dependant on healing power, or even a percentage of it.

If it was a normal company this would have happened but all they have done is make the most tunnel visioned and boring elite spec even more rigid and killed what little build diversity there was.

It’s possible we will see more mechanics woven into druid.

Right now you can get some minor condi off from ancient seeds.
Right now you can get some minor dmg off natural convergence.
Right now druid has access to some cc.

I’m not sure just how or what they will add or augment in druid that won’t simply get abused by celestial gear but that may be verbiage suggesting 3 clear trait paths that influence what CAF Druid brings to the table.

After the patch CAF = Crappy Asinine Form. Our elite spec only works with max healing gear. The options are infinite! I can’t decide if I need to use a healing amulet or a healing amulet.