Guild Wars 2

My guild was testing out things with the new patch (6/25/2013) in our custom arena. We noticed something odd about Berserker’s Stance, that may or may not depend on the interpretation of the text in the release notes.

Release notes: “Increased the recharge to 60 seconds. Reduced the duration to 4 seconds. This stance now reduces incoming condition duration by 100%, so only modified conditions can get through.” Emphasis mine.

The difficulty is interpreting the two parts of the bolded test. Reducing anything by 100% means reducing it zero. So, this first part implies you are immune to condition damage. The second part implies that if traited for condition duration bonus, the warrior would not be immune to those conditions; only the ‘buffed’ duration would be apply. Otherwise, how else do you have a “modified condition”???

Well, in our testing, I was running a hybrid Warrior Longow build. I have:
- 30 Points in Strength for 30% Condition Duration
- Trait III in Arms for 50% Bleed Duration
- 5 Runes of the Afflicted for 15% Bleed Duration

Total bleed duration bonus should be 95%. Longbow #5 for this layout applies a 23 1/2 second bleed; up from a base 12s. Yet, when a warrior guild mate popped Berserker’s Stance and I hit him with Longbow #5… IMMUNE and NO conditions applied.

So, is this a bug, a misinterpretation of the patch notes, or a misunderstanding of what a “modified condition” is?

Well, it might be referring to the ‘conditions’ that aren’t really conditions, but act like such. Take agony for instance. I don’t think the stance would affect that. Given its ‘modified’ in a way it can’t be cleansed. Just my shot in the dark.

Perhaps you’re right in it being a bug. But I don’t think many warriors are complaining at the moment. Anything to deal with some of the blind spam and such going on.

I was wondering about the same thing myself. I tested it the first day in wvw (against a guard) and pvp (against a necro) and didn’t see any effect.

On a side note I’m disappointed that the cd is 60, it would have been nice to use the old berzerker stance with Cleansing ire ( I know that I was the only person using it ^^)

Perhaps ANet was talking about food modifications for (WvW)?

I use berserker stance and works well, maybe the modificated conditions dont have enough duration to affect the warrior with -100% condition duration.

Or maybe is buged, the true is that i have tested the stance with lyssa + cleansing ire+ sanation and -125% condition duration and i can play without any conditions for a wile.

I have tested with a warrior ( friend from the guild) and he hits me with the sword and deep cuts, but wen he started the burst from sword i push bersker stance , he can hit me the first 2 hits before i pushed te utiliy and the blees do not dissapears ( but the inmovilizate yes, and the bleeds go away in 1 sec or less) the other hits can´t put the ohters bleeds on me.

The 60 sc cd duration , thats normal in the situation of the utily, is new and can be op with 30 or less cd. No one can spike you.

I have used zerk stance since beta 1. Little sadjt doesn’t give me full 3 bar Adren now, but thats ok