Guild Wars 2

Wow, venom share builds are absolutly dog’s sheet. Nowhere near lyssa… I was not able to break silly guardian, no chance vs necro,no stun breaks, no nothing.

I think venom line development was big mistake. During pvp development stream i saw in one’s guys eyes he agrees. He said that " we are not yet there (with venoms builds)"
I totally agree. It’s not only unenjoyable, but also unplayable. Venom heal every 35ish secon is too weak.

Many will disagree, but those are shortsighted, and probably not very best in thief class. Even though lyssa build got nerf to escape, it got buff to initaitive. I dare to say lyssa god buffed couse of more no3 spam.

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Yo Hooj Jest Pole
eu

If you can’t killer them learn to play man, i can kille all of them using in the right way venom share now!

No stunbreaks? Are you actually going 5-venom?
Just take 2-3 venoms and use stunbreakers …

You don’t need all 5 venoms to be effective. Even if your traits are venom based, you’re still SHARING it with other ppl so multiplying the trait by x times. (with X being 1 to 5). In a 2v2 fight venom sharing is very annoying to the other side. 5s immob on both targets (if clustered) and you can also time basilisk to hit before immob is cleared (unless they use a condi clearance, but immob isn’t prioritized in universal condi clearance).

I however agree with the healing. 36s cd on the healing is very long. It’s discussable equal (due to venom share but more likely inferior) to HiS so it should be at most 30-35s (traited 24-28s)

Even though the devs think the venom share builds are “almost there” (pvp live stream), these types of builds are not really viable for anything other than casual hot join. Of course in casual hot join, pretty much any random build is viable.