Guild Wars 2

Anyone try Riposte against a ranged attack now? You continue to block all ranged attacks for the duration. Surely this wasn’t intentional…was it?

And yes, I did read the patch notes. This just seems very OP atm.

Too lazy to check back, but I do at least remember it being in the leaked notes. So it’s most likely intended. Plus, all other riposte skills (mesmer/ranger) work the same way.

Redscope.6215:

Anyone try Riposte against a ranged attack now? You continue to block all ranged attacks for the duration. Surely this wasn’t intentional…was it?

And yes, I did read the patch notes. This just seems very OP atm.

It’s in the patch notes…it specifically says Riposte blocks all ranged attacks unless it’s in melee range (then only once).

Riposte: When players block an attack from range, it no longer cancels the blocking.

It’s intended to match ranger’s counterattack which has done the same exact thing all these months. Its not OP so move on.

you can always trait refect and it keep refecting until a meleee block

it not that op

I wonder why mace 2 don’t have that ability too heh

TheGuy.3568:

It’s intended to match ranger’s counterattack which has done the same exact thing all these months. Its not OP so move on.

Difference is, Ranger Counterattack was nerfed to a 20sec cooldown now

But at least it can be traited so I suppose it’s not all bad.

Scoobaniec.9561:

I wonder why mace 2 don’t have that ability too heh

It does, and always has.

I used to use it in a dual mace build, and it always blocked for its full duration unless struck by a melee attack (or you hit the button again)

Scoobaniec.9561:

I wonder why mace 2 don’t have that ability too heh

Mace/Sword? With Shield offhand, that’d be like infinite blocks :P

Scoobaniec.9561:

I wonder why mace 2 don’t have that ability too heh

I was thinking the same thing. That’d be funny against ranged spammers. Use sword offhand + mace main hand then shield. Reflect all the pew pew!

Zietlogik.6208:

Scoobaniec.9561:

I wonder why mace 2 don’t have that ability too heh

It does, and always has.

I used to use it in a dual mace build, and it always blocked for its full duration unless struck by a melee attack (or you hit the button again)

Hmm, I never did use mace much…now I want to.

I’ve always liked dual swords so yeah…too bad I hear mainhand is a bit crummy now

Leo G.4501:

Scoobaniec.9561:

I wonder why mace 2 don’t have that ability too heh

Mace/Sword? With Shield offhand, that’d be like infinite blocks :P

So leave mace as utter crap? The olny thing im happy about is 4sec stun from it.

Before this recent patch, both mace 2 and sword 5 could block projectiles, and both could reflect projectiles also with Missile Deflection.

I was actually fiddling with mace mainhand with shield offhand for all the stuns / blocks….I’m totally going to try it out again now that mace block can reflect projectiles lmao!!