Guild Wars 2

“Deadly Arts VI—Sundering Strikes: Increased the trigger chance from 33% to 50%. Removed the internal cooldown. Decreased the vulnerability duration from 14 seconds to 6 seconds”

What do you think about this?

Might be interesting on a P/P build with unload.

Was considering it with my S/P.

Could be good with my S/P, P/P build.

It’s good for P/P, definitely, but I will have to deal with the short duration because 6 seconds is just too short of a duration.

Looking forward to this on S/P. Pistol Whip will stack a lot of Vuln now.

The 6s duration is “short” in theory but longer in practice; many of us will have condition duration from other sources, including Deadly Arts. I have 40% increased duration, personally.

I like it. My duration is 7.5 sec with the 25pt in DA

Interceptor.2653:

Looking forward to this on S/P. Pistol Whip will stack a lot of Vuln now.

The 6s duration is “short” in theory but longer in practice; many of us will have condition duration from other sources, including Deadly Arts. I have 40% increased duration, personally.

6s IS short. Besides, what’s 40% of 6s? 2s? 8s should be the minimum +40% when traited. You think that you’ll stack “a lot” of Vulnerability but you’ll probably only have max stack of 4-5 stacks…that’s not “a lot” by a long shot.

Other professions got a 5% boost to their damage from this patch without stacking Vulnerability (see Ele’s Fire Magic 25—Burning Rage and Guard’s Radiance X—Powerful Blade).

You’re only fooling yourself if you think that the new Sundering Strike is acceptable.

Sir Vincent III.1286:

Interceptor.2653:

Looking forward to this on S/P. Pistol Whip will stack a lot of Vuln now.

The 6s duration is “short” in theory but longer in practice; many of us will have condition duration from other sources, including Deadly Arts. I have 40% increased duration, personally.

Other professions got a 5% boost to their damage from this patch without stacking Vulnerability (see Ele’s Fire Magic 25—Burning Rage and Guard’s Radiance X—Powerful Blade).

You’re only fooling yourself if you think that the new Sundering Strike is acceptable.

Those trait changes are trash. Jon Peters even knew they were trash a month ago when they were previewed, he asked for changes suggestions and ignored all of them lol. Still it’s better than what most classes got for changes.

Sir Vincent III.1286:

6s IS short. Besides, what’s 40% of 6s? 2s? 8s should be the minimum +40% when traited. You think that you’ll stack “a lot” of Vulnerability but you’ll probably only have max stack of 4-5 stacks…that’s not “a lot” by a long shot.

Other professions got a 5% boost to their damage from this patch without stacking Vulnerability (see Ele’s Fire Magic 25—Burning Rage and Guard’s Radiance X—Powerful Blade).

A duration of 8-9s is a significant portion of a fight, and 4-5% increased damage after one skill is a pretty decent best-case for an Adept trait. Especially since this patch also makes Quickness-on-crit more viable. You can build a Thief with a lot of on-crit abilities.

You’re only fooling yourself if you think that the new Sundering Strike is acceptable.

FYI, I have no problem reporting the post of people who make things personal.

MrAmputatoes.6031:

Sir Vincent III.1286:

Interceptor.2653:

Looking forward to this on S/P. Pistol Whip will stack a lot of Vuln now.

The 6s duration is “short” in theory but longer in practice; many of us will have condition duration from other sources, including Deadly Arts. I have 40% increased duration, personally.

Other professions got a 5% boost to their damage from this patch without stacking Vulnerability (see Ele’s Fire Magic 25—Burning Rage and Guard’s Radiance X—Powerful Blade).

You’re only fooling yourself if you think that the new Sundering Strike is acceptable.

Those trait changes are trash. Jon Peters even knew they were trash a month ago when they were previewed, he asked for changes suggestions and ignored all of them lol. Still it’s better than what most classes got for changes.

Trash or not, the bottom line is that they don’t have to deal with maintaining the debuff to get the same result.

prolly 3-4% vulnerability on average. not worth taking. another joke.