Guild Wars 2

Possibly lowering the overall damage but making it an attack that doesn’t root you?

It sure would allow the warrior to maintain its role as the damage class and make 100b a viable attack for moving targets.

As long as the channel time is cut in half, it has a horrendous channel time.

I was just discussing this with guildmates yesterday. I think that if hundred blades had its damage reduced by 10-15% (maybe more, maybe less, maybe not even changed at all) OR if it simply just lasted for less time (doing less damage in total for the flurry), and was able to be used while moving, it would be far more versatile and would perhaps even increase a warrior’s total damage output by letting them land more hits.

After all, the issue with it from the warrior’s standpoint in both PvE and PvP is that it makes you stand still, is extremely easy to avoid unless you focus on certain utilities or are well coordinated with teammates, and leaves you vulnerable unless you cancel the skill early. And bosses in PvE can just walk away from you.

However, from other classes’ perspective in PvE, it hits EXTREMELY hard and doesn’t take all that much effort to use, plus it has a short cooldown, which can make other classes’ damage output pale in comparison (under ideal circumstances for the warrior, like on a clustered up group or a particularly sluggish champion/boss). Plus, even a warrior in full berserker gear, while putting out these high numbers, still has reasonable survivability compared to other glass cannons.

I think a simple change like this could fix (or at least soften) two things at once – it would be less “overpowered” in PvE while being easier/more versatile to use, and it would be much easier to land hits with it in PvP (even if someone dodges away you could probably catch them with it if you had swiftness or if they were slowed by conditions).

Plus, it would make greatsword feel less clunky to use, but that might just be me.

I feel like the entire point of 100b is to be hard to use. Its not meant to be used raw, its a potentially high damage attack but only if used in a combo. Its no different than churning earth from the ele, its a hard to use but extremely damaging move that you have to combo with.