Guild Wars 2

Oh look my forum ban is over.
I demand a one time stat change for all my crit damage gear.

I tried for the first time in my life a PD build with Balthazar Runes+Withdraw, and the confusion on steal.
I wreck even Condi Necros. I think it’s the best and most OP/cheese build ever. PU mesmers, engis, Warriors, they can’t do anything, really. And backstab thieves don’t do enough damage to kill me.
kittened. I’ll never roam anymore in WvW, I’ll only pvp from now on. Shame.

i like to play with a real player, not just spaming a button, i fight with a many thief and what i saw there are many ppl just is a button spammers.

hihey.1075:

I tried for the first time in my life a PD build with Balthazar Runes+Withdraw, and the confusion on steal.
I wreck even Condi Necros. I think it’s the best and most OP/cheese build ever. PU mesmers, engis, Warriors, they can’t do anything, really. And backstab thieves don’t do enough damage to kill me.
kittened. I’ll never roam anymore in WvW, I’ll only pvp from now on. Shame.

Hahaha of course. By the sound of it you turned your p/d into a one trick pony. Balthazar rune is too hard to land on good players with Withdraw as it lands at the end of your heal, the aoe circle is so freaking small too, it wasn’t even worth running..

I mean I agree p/d is sort of cheesy to play but this coming from someone who’s been abusing D/P is a joke to me man.

The damage output from p/d is way too low unless you put REALLY good pressure, as in Sneak attack > cnd, Sneak attack.. without any gaps in between, which means you cannot reset & heal. You don’t have enough conditions to cover up your main source of damage, which will always be bleeds.

Try to fight p/d in a 1vX with guardians and eles involved, you wouldn’t last a minute with the build you just described lol.

On a sidenote: d/d still wrecks people, tbh. Atleast I am.

Sceinna.3561:

hihey.1075:

I tried for the first time in my life a PD build with Balthazar Runes+Withdraw, and the confusion on steal.
I wreck even Condi Necros. I think it’s the best and most OP/cheese build ever. PU mesmers, engis, Warriors, they can’t do anything, really. And backstab thieves don’t do enough damage to kill me.
kittened. I’ll never roam anymore in WvW, I’ll only pvp from now on. Shame.

Hahaha of course. By the sound of it you turned your p/d into a one trick pony. Balthazar rune is too hard to land on good players with Withdraw as it lands at the end of your heal, the aoe circle is so freaking small too, it wasn’t even worth running..

I mean I agree p/d is sort of cheesy to play but this coming from someone who’s been abusing D/P is a joke to me man.

The damage output from p/d is way too low unless you put REALLY good pressure, as in Sneak attack > cnd, Sneak attack.. without any gaps in between, which means you cannot reset & heal. You don’t have enough conditions to cover up your main source of damage, which will always be bleeds.

Try to fight p/d in a 1vX with guardians and eles involved, you wouldn’t last a minute with the build you just described lol.

On a sidenote: d/d still wrecks people, tbh. Atleast I am.

If you swap weapons when you use withdraw, you will still proc the effect on yourself.
Confusion+Torment+Bleed+Poison. Plus all the defense of 30 in SA and Dire gear.
PD is the easiest weaponset to play for WvW roaming, period. Every decent player knows this. With account bound armor I switched the Condi set of my engi on my thief and could experience it myself.
I’m not saying that who plays PD is a noob or anything. If you have fun playing that, please, do so. But, especially after the patch, I find it extremely boring, same as PU mesmer (with the exception that PD totally counters PU mesmers). It’s just not for me.

I went from 271% (121% + 150%) to 228% (78% + 150%) So I dropped 43% crit damage. Ouch!

I run 5 6 3 to make up for the lost damage but I only hit for 5-7k backstabs when before I could hit for 8-11k easy. So pretty big nerf to my damage. Don’t know what I am going to do now.

The patch didn’t hit me that hard because I already jumped on the condi meta a couple weeks before the nerf. P/D with dire and krait never felt so good.

I think we’ve misinterpreted their 10% crit damage nerf…