Guild Wars 2

If Barrage hits 5 people it’ll eat the whole stack of Sharpening Stone, instead of the old each barrage hit would apply 1 stack of sharpening stone (so 5 people would get 5 stacks of bleeds)

I think Anet is secretly following me on this forum screwing my builds intentionally at this point grin

Actually no… this is consistent with most PARAGON nerfs they also made years ago.
They pretty much to do it to every single AoE skill that could have a conditional “Proc” put on top of it. (Especially DeepWound & Burning procs)

Was a bug, bug is fixed.

The utility is useless anyway

Chokolata.1870:

The utility is useless anyway

^ this

Comboing these two was the only reason I ever even used the skill.
5 stacks of bleeding isn’t that bad but it’s not worth a whole utility on a 36 second (traited) cooldown.

Sharpening stone is garbage.

Horrible skill imo.

ilr.9675:

Actually no… this is consistent with most PARAGON nerfs they also made years ago.
They pretty much to do it to every single AoE skill that could have a conditional “Proc” put on top of it. (Especially DeepWound & Burning procs)

ehh what?

I blame Queen Jennah.

If this is the case …. why did they make splitblade give ten bleeds with SS. Doesn’t make sense.

It makes sense Pendleton, the way Barrage works is its 12 hits on 5 targets each.

The first hit will drain all the sharpening stones on the 5 targets.

Just like split blade will drain off 5 charges on all 5 of its hits.

Even if it hits 1 target or a bunch (since its pierces)

Just sucks, because I was using that combo for a Bleeder build.

Ugh, curse you nerfbat!! Barrage is now useless at applications of condis, just like in GW1!!! Yaaaaaaay…

Does anyone know if this nerfed Path of Scars too? That thing used to apply bleed to everyone on the way there AND back and only count as 1

Xsorus.2507:

It makes sense Pendleton, the way Barrage works is its 12 hits on 5 targets each.

The first hit will drain all the sharpening stones on the 5 targets.

Just like split blade will drain off 5 charges on all 5 of its hits.

Even if it hits 1 target or a bunch (since its pierces)

Just sucks, because I was using that combo for a Bleeder build.

Ah, I see. Sorry … it’s been a long day : )

I can only assume this also applies to Piercing arrows, Ricochet and our melee attacks when combined with sharpening stone?

I know Barrage was our most effective use of the skill, but being able to apply a total of 15 bleed stacks from ricochet was pretty cool. I really like builds or strategies that utilize these kinds of interactions.

I’m going to guess that ricochet will use it up as well

So while it was a nice fix with Split Blade, it kitten my poor Barrage and such :o(

The utility skill itself was always a gimmick . Pointless . Totally pointless now

Missing line from the last patch changelog :

“- Sharpening Stone : some people found a use for the skill, fixed”

Xsorus.2507:

ilr.9675:

Actually no… this is consistent with most PARAGON nerfs they also made years ago.
They pretty much to do it to every single AoE skill that could have a conditional “Proc” put on top of it. (Especially DeepWound & Burning procs)

ehh what?

GW1. Basically saying ANet has a storied history of fixing things that would let you use single hits of a skill on multiple targets.

lol sharpening stone