Guild Wars 2

Everyone is super upset about the changes (me included) but I think its important to provide some very constructive feedback so the devs know exactly what is wrong here

I don’t know alot about ventari or sword specifically so if someone else can speak to those, especially ventari please do!

Now I run a very unorthodox condi build that uses Invocation, Retribution and Corruption, and Jalis/Mallix with mace/axe and sword/axe I will be talking specifically about what I know and think, I can’t speak too much to sword since I usually use Mace and I can’t speak for ventari though I’ve heard he is terrible so here I go

Mace/Axe- Solid no complaints

Sword- This doesn’t hit me as hard as other revenants and I do understand the nerf somewhat, BUT come on, I think the unrelenting assault nerf was very uncalled for, I can’t speak too much other than that hopefully someone else can speak more on the subject, I also will say the precision strike not working on downed is just DUMB

Jalis/Dwarf Stance

Jalis imo isn’t as bad as alot of people say but he could definitely use some major buffs

Soothing Stone, no complaints here its a great heal skill as far as I’m concerned

Inspiring Reinforcement- Ok now this is the first MAJOR killer of Jalis, in the beta this skill was useful because of the stability it was pumping out, but then you nerfed that and didn’t do anything else…what to do? Either remove the 10 second cooldown on it and up the amount of hits it does or restore the stability it was pumping out

Forced Engagement – Again, nothing too wrong here, though I do think that the 5 second cooldown is rather stupid…

Vengeful Hammers – the 20% reduction is not awful but its still not great…either up the healing the hammers do or up the reduction a little bit

Rite of the Great Dwarf- UGH I freaking love the idea of this skill but it desperately needs an extra added effect, I understand why the cast time is their but I do think that it needs something else, maybe a decent heal on anyone effected by it? That would make it a solid elite

Mallyx/Demon Stance – Not much to say on the skills but his traits need to be reworked completely, it is blatantly obvious that his traits were designed with the old Beta style of Mallyx in mind, but then they removed that (stupidly I might add) and then didn’t rebalance the traits, either rebalance the traits OR better yet bring back old beta Mallyx and to avoid the QQ from having condi’s cleansed just have embrace the darkness prevent condition cleansing!

Don’t have time to go through every single trait atm but I will say I also think the unwavering avoidance cooldown was uncalled for! I don’t get why the devs are so afraid of stability on revenant…

I agree with the general sentiment of your post.

I’d personally like to see the following basic changes made.

Inspiring Reinforcement
Instant Stability, Stunbreaker.

Alternatively, completely rework the skill into a short burst AoE stability skill, perhaps a couple stacks for maybe 3 or 4 seconds.

Rite of the Great Dwarf
Remove stunbreaker and either make it instant/near-instant or increase the duration to 8s.

Honestly my two biggest gripes with Jalis are those skills.

mexay.3902:

I agree with the general sentiment of your post.

I’d personally like to see the following basic changes made.

Inspiring Reinforcement
Instant Stability, Stunbreaker.

Alternatively, completely rework the skill into a short burst AoE stability skill, perhaps a couple stacks for maybe 3 or 4 seconds.

Rite of the Great Dwarf
Remove stunbreaker and either make it instant/near-instant or increase the duration to 8s.

Honestly my two biggest gripes with Jalis are those skills.

Absolutely agree, those 2 skills desperately need help, I think either of our ideas would work to fix him

thewaterguy.4796:

mexay.3902:

I agree with the general sentiment of your post.

I’d personally like to see the following basic changes made.

Inspiring Reinforcement
Instant Stability, Stunbreaker.

Alternatively, completely rework the skill into a short burst AoE stability skill, perhaps a couple stacks for maybe 3 or 4 seconds.

Rite of the Great Dwarf
Remove stunbreaker and either make it instant/near-instant or increase the duration to 8s.

Honestly my two biggest gripes with Jalis are those skills.

Absolutely agree, those 2 skills desperately need help, I think either of our ideas would work to fix him

Couldn’t they also just make rite of the Great Dwarf an upkeep skill, similar to Mallyx and glint? It would also balance out the burst elites to the upkeep elites of the core legends.