Guild Wars 2

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/upcoming-skill-and-trait-changes/

I forsee this change making weakness a lot more useful now that it will make incoming critical hits into glancing blows.

As a thief we have many ways to maintain 100% weakness uptime, for example shortbow #4 – poison cloud combined with DA trait. Sword auto attack #3, etc. Shortbow #4 into #2, etc.

Weakness from the deadly art trait will probably be massively reduced in duration, or chocking gas will be nerfed. Sword i’m not so sure.

Yeah, duration changes inbound for sure. I imagine Lotus Poison will become 2 seconds instead of 3 at least. I don’t see much point in the Sword weakness being reduced, it’s hard enough landing a full auto chain against a competent opponent face-to-face.

I’m definitely looking forward to this. Though if a warrior is able to remove conditions before he bursts (as their post suggests), this is going to make GC warrior the new king of sustained spike. Though a GC stealth burst thief will also still do well I imagine, at least at the opening (which is usually the closing as well)
:)

Its possible thief poison/weakness application is altered

Maybe it will be more like Retaliation which is hard to get, or maybe it won’t stack upon reapplied.

shimmerless.4560:

Woaden.9425:

I’m definitely looking forward to this. Though if a warrior is able to remove conditions before he bursts (as their post suggests), this is going to make GC warrior the new king of sustained spike. Though a GC stealth burst thief will also still do well I imagine, at least at the opening (which is usually the closing as well)
:)

Is this a real post? What does “sustained spike” even mean?

There’s no such thing…