wait no, even if its true , gs damage still got shoved down because of HF BP being 30 point trait
and to stay in this meta need cleansing ire, GS LB was the best because it has the best utility and damage when every build lacks condi cleansing. not to mention the buffed necro now
but im playing it anyway just xD
“i think it’s an underserved nerf. now we have to slot a stun breaker??”
“berserker stance clears all CC on you and you’re still immune to CC for 8 seconds”
-Excalibur.9748
But on a serious note to make the trait viable again they need to leave it be with no icd and delete the cripple from sword auto, maybe replace iyt with a bleed instead wich makes a lot more sense.Or just please delete the trait since it occupies a 1/12 spot for nothing and work on at least a semi viable one..
Issue is simple: Leg specalist used to be like this BUT when Final Trust and Harmstring where swapped. Which means that Warrior’s cripples were from Gs4, Hammer 3 and Sword 3, all of which had 10-20 sec CD.
Then autoattack and 3rd skill on sword got swapped, and Leg Specialist given a ICD, guess what? Exactely to prevent this (plus some AC crippling field cheesing).
Trait is as broken as Descent to Madness due to patch, hoping to see a Hotfix asap, because as said: Leg specialist with no ICD again, plus new Sword auto = perma immobilize. Which just got “buffed” in how it stacks.
So, yeah.
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the fix is to put the ICD back, but have it applied per skill, such that using hammer 3 would immobilize 5 targets hit, then immediately switching to GS4 would not immobilize until the ICD is up.
this way it’s not completely useless, like having bladetrail hit 10 times but only immobilizing 1 person.
and not completely broken being able to sword autoattack to death.
the other obvious solution is to change sword autoattack to not have cripple, but i feel being able to hammer 3 then GS4 right away for massive immobilize is still kinda op.
This will be fixed soon. I do encourage that you accept that we do actually read most every post here. Making us aware of bugs is a good thing you can continue to do so, but the forums don’t need threads trashing ANet employees and assuming we are not aware of issues that we are aware of.
Game bugs forums guys.
Remember that bugs can’t be fixed instantly and that hotfixes that come out have changes that all teams at our company need to get in as well.
Trait inst simple, but cripple from sword has to go. Till then enjoy perma immo build.
Its funny how we moved from perma cc to perma immo tho xD
Would there be much reason to use a sword without that, though? Swords do less damage than axes and lack the control provided by maces – so the only real reason to pick them is for the cripple and leap.
Remove the cripple from swords, and I don’t think you’d see swords getting used too terribly often.
But on a serious note to make the trait viable again they need to leave it be with no icd and delete the cripple from sword auto, maybe replace iyt with a bleed instead wich makes a lot more sense.Or just please delete the trait since it occupies a 1/12 spot for nothing and work on at least a semi viable one..
Trait inst simple, but cripple from sword has to go. Till then enjoy perma immo build.
Its funny how we moved from perma cc to perma immo tho xD
Would there be much reason to use a sword without that, though? Swords do less damage than axes and lack the control provided by maces – so the only real reason to pick them is for the cripple and leap.
Remove the cripple from swords, and I don’t think you’d see swords getting used too terribly often.
Plenty of people use Swords for condi damage and there’s been multiple topics about changing Hamstring to give Poison instead of Cripple.
And I guess that this goes to show that yes, with Cripple on Sword, there needs to be an ICD to Leg Specialist.
A simple solution would be an internal cooldown of 5 second for each skill…
sword auto? 1 every 5 sec
bladetrail —> switch —> hammer shock | no internal cd
A simple solution would be an internal cooldown of 5 second for each skill…
sword auto? 1 every 5 sec
bladetrail —> switch --> hammer shock | no internal cd
You really don’t think that part of the reason for the ICD in the first place is swapping between sets that have Cripple/Immobilize?
sure but those skill are 10 sec cd or more
not really something you can spam, and you need a weapon switch
by swapping weapon you preclude yourself the other skill just to put a 1+1 sec immo..
