Guild Wars 2

So in the October 15th patch you made it so that the stun duration doesn’t round up to a whole number, which is fine (this was a indirect nerf to warrior stun-locking) but that made it so that the pistol whip stun wears off before the first hit of the sword flurry hits meaning this skill is useless.
So the why on earth was this not fixed in this pach?? this is a key skill in the s/p set and is impossible to land (or rather to make it do any damage as the enemy an simply dodge all of the sword attacks).
You cannot convince me this skill is working as intended and this seems like a simple fix, but nooooo you focus on changing shadow refuge tooltip instead, rather than fixing a real problem you made half a month ago.

you do not need the stun lock to capitalize on s/p damage, it makes you rely on more timing and positioning instead of button spamming, s/p is not a build for scrubs but if you know how to use it correctly the build/play style is solid and competitive in the current meta

LeetSauce.7210:

you do not need the stun lock to capitalize on s/p damage, it makes you rely on more timing and positioning instead of button spamming, s/p is not a build for scrubs but if you know how to use it correctly the build/play style is solid and competitive in the current meta

You don’t need stunlock (it’s not like PW had stunlock before), but only truly awful players stand there and take the swings after the stun has ended because….why would you? Where can you position that prevents a player from walking/dodgerolling out of the way of the swings?

Your claim that “when properly played, the build/play style is solid and competitive in the current meta” is highly suspect, to the point of being outlandish. Please provide some sort of proof.

I think leetsauce means the position of your character relative to that of the enemy’s before AND after their attempts to evade the attack. When activating the skill you have a small window of movement ive seen many good s/p players use this very effectively hitting people at a sort of 45 degree angle etc.

Tho in support of you OP this was before the stun was shortened even more and and I think a lot of people dislike s/p in a pvp setting because they feel it requires an elite slot and/or venoms to have any chance of the initiative use being worthwhile. Couple that with some of the other more “fruitful” builds like d/p or p/d being easy and providing more lols then I can see why its a struggle.