Well, I’ve had good days and bad days in WvW, but overall it is still my favorite mode of play. That being said, I find frustration in condition damage as of late, but before I get bombarded with learn to play, use condition cleanses at the right times, light fields, etc, let me tell you what I run currently.
On one weapon set I have sigil of generosity, the other set has sigil of cleansing, I use trooper/soldier runes with HaO, SotP, and Guard, and of course I use Druidic Clarity. Additionally, I have a health pool of just over 21K. When I get a combo of bleeds, poison, torment and fire ticking together for 4k or more in an instant, I tend to jump into CA form. Then after 2 interrupts I manage a heal leave form and face a full bar of conditions again in less than 10 seconds. CA is on cool down and my other skills are 1 condi removal a piece and a partial waste to use recklessly, so what now?
I don’t have a perfect answer, only the suggestion that the devs could maybe consider. Why not bring resistance to the ranger with Signet of Stone. It’s already an immune to dmg, why not add resistance for conditions. It’s on an ultra-long cooldown at 80sec 64sec if traited, so I don’t think it would be a total game changer. I think it might be interesting and improve possible counter-gameplay if you need those extra 5 seconds (that aren’t part of pve’s CA cooldown) to ride out the storm.
Thoughts?
Because so many druids are running bunker in wvw and spvp they will not add more survivability to ranger/druid. So long as meta druids are running boon duration I doubt they will add a boon as powerful as resistance in any meaningful duration.
If you cannot survive with a shout druid try a survival one.
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