Guild Wars 2

“Resistance (Boon)
“Conditions currently on you have no effect; stacks duration.”
Currently, we have skills that provide a similar effect, such as the warrior’s Berserker Stance (condition immunity with no counterplay). When placed on a character, this boon will temporarily relieve them of all the negative effects that conditions have on the character. For example, if a character is running in fear with the fear condition, they’ll stop running in fear when resistance is placed on them. When resistance ends, they’ll resume running in fear. Having this type of effect on a boon makes it so the boon can be removed by other players, adding in more counterplay.”

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/revenant-the-master-of-the-mists/

i don’t know about you but IMO this implies changing zerk stance into a boon based skill that can be removed.

Its more of a side step than a nerf, I guess… On one hand, you can’t run in and pretend nothing matters.

But on the other hand, you can force suppress a condition burst.

Well it may, but it’s definitely not for sure. Berserker’s Stance is a stance after all and stances do not necessarily “follow” the boon rules.

They made a boon that behaves like that, because they simply wanted an option where people could give condi immunity to other players and for that I guess you need a boon…

The way I see it stances are kind of a warrior’s unique thing and they shouldn’t tie them up into boons in the first place, because if they keep doing that, well then you basically loose the whole point of what stance is supposed to be and you can just call all that a boon.

Even balanced stance and dolyak shouldn’t give stability based on stability boon, but rather a stability effect, just like quickness effect per se.

So if Anet is going down that road and just turning all stances into boons, then I ask myself what’s the point of stances in the first place…

Slightly off topic, but still: I just wish that the beta warrior design is the one we had – spend adrenaline on various stances, that would let you choose from playing offensively or defensively.

As long as warriors gain more access to it (for instance via Mending), this could potentially be a good thing. Boon removal is few and far apart, and will force the mindless condi spammers to think twice.

If it will just be a random flat nerf, well, no surprise.