Guild Wars 2

Hello everyone. Firstly let me just say that I’m aware that P/P is sub-optimal in many ways. Regardless, I’m a casual player and I prefer the P/P & SB weapon set. I’ve been mulling over how the upcoming changes will affect P/P.

I’m trying to determine if my overall initiative generation will go up or down. Obviously with 1 being so weak on P/P, doing DPS is all about keeping Unload going, so it is pretty critical. I was very happy to see that roll for initiative was unchanged, since I use it to keep unload up for longer. Obviously the big counterbalance to the changes is the 33% increase to passive initiative generation.

What about this change however: “Opportunist. Increased trigger chance to 50%. Increase cooldown from 1s to 5s.” Something tells me this will be a big hit to my initiative generation. Especially with unload I’m generating many critical hits, so the 33%->50% does not seem that important. In the 1 3/4 seconds of unload I’m usually going to get that one initiative. Now the most I will get from 2+ unloads is one initiative. Throw in the “Kleptomaniac. Reduce initiative gain from 3 to 2.” which is small in the long haul, but still.

Thoughts? P/P already seems to suffer and I’m not sure how I might mitigate these changes or should I just give up and do something totally different? It kind of feels like P/P is collateral damage in these changes because we are taking a hit and I’ve never speced into these stealthing/blinding/dodging etc. builds that are supposedly the target of these changes.

It’s been established that they give absolutely no kitten about P/P. It’s dysfunctional as hell, and fixing it would bring to light other issues with the class. They can’t have that.

How bout this?

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Asahi.1487:

How bout this?

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It’s better to use this.

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