Guild Wars 2

While the current change to Berserker’s Power is interesting, it results in an overall nerf to the trait because gaining a new stack does not refresh the duration of the previous stack. It is only possible to maintain 3 stacks of Berserker’s Power for a short amount of time when stacking off primal bursts. On average, the change results in 2 stacks of Berserker’s Power in PvE, resulting in a 6% nerf to the trait overall. This does not result in making it feel good to use Level 1 Bursts.

Requested change: When a new stack of Berserker’s Power is gained, the duration of any previous stack needs to be reset at 10 seconds. Without this change, Berserker’s Power is not functional and results in a nerf to Power Berserker’s best damage trait, when Power Berserker is already is in a bad spot.

Alternative change: Change the damage bonus to 10%/20%/30% if you don’t want to change how stack duration works.

It does feel kinda punishing indeed, when it was already not very overperforming at all. Even if you get those 3 stacks before entering Berserk mode, they can’t be kept up without stacks refreshing duration. It almost feels like going Berserk diminishes the damage instead of increasing it as it is. I can’t really understand why such a big nerf in damage on a class that was already not shining damage wise would be considered a “balance”.

Same thing needs to apply to adrenal health.

/sign
I can’t get the idea behind this nerf. Why does anet hate the pPS?!!
“when Power Berserker is already is in a bad spot.” This! You nerfed him out of raids before. cPS deals more damage and is overall easier to play and more useful at most bosses.
We recognized that you do not like pPS, thats okay.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0la5DBtOVNI
But why the hate? Why? You could still run with pPS with your guildies and with “non- -elite-pugs” Know mech, do your job, do decent dps and its fine…but now?!
What comes next? HB-15% dmg? Sure why not..

I think Anet’s been playing with their Nerf guns too much and taking the catch phrase “It’s Nerf or nothing” too literal.

Let’s not forget the current nerfs from before.. the slow mo burst and shield we’re left as is on top of these horrible changes.

They pretty much won’t do any adjusting until after PoF lands with new elites and metas are decided after that. Obvious cash grab to nerf a lot of classes for unknown reasons right before the expansion to force people into buying PoF.

kittenty move honestly

Absolutely this. This will at least enforce scaling and increasing damage against bigger enemies in longer fights without utterly compromising their strengths from before. THIS would be a step in the right direction.