[PvP] Cleansing Ire vs Rousing Resilience
There’s no doubt that the value of Cleansing Ire has increased with the patch. It helps you generate more adrenaline, thus contributing to more frequent bursts, i.e. more sustain (Adrenal Health), more damage (Berserker’s Power), more condition cleanse (Cleansing Ire). Coupled with a bow and Burst Mastery, you get template which is indeed quite strong.
However, I believe there are cases when you’d prefer the other GM traits, for instance:
- Your build may not have enough armor to sustain regular hits, in which case the offensive Last Stand would be better. This would be the case with Berserker or Marauder, although one would arguably replace those by Demolisher now.
- It may also have other ways to deal with adrenaline or conditions (e.g. as traited shouts in a Shoutbow), possibly giving more value to Rousing Resilience.
- You may want to counter heavy CC and benefit from the extra toughness and healing from Rousing Resilience, and have a team member help with cleaning conditions if necessary.
Am I crazy to prefer Cleansing Ire a lot of the time? RR is great but the classes I have trouble with are not dealing direct damage. I equip RR if the other team has double power Revs but beyond that I’m liking Cleansing Ire.
You’re not crazy. I prefer Cleansing Ire as well on my war build. Very few situations where i will use RR.
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- Your build may not have enough armor to sustain regular hits, in which case the offensive Last Stand would be better.
I think you’re confusing Last Stand with Defy Pain.
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- Your build may not have enough armor to sustain regular hits, in which case the offensive Last Stand would be better.
I think you’re confusing Last Stand with Defy Pain.
I really mean Last Stand. Cleansing Ire gives adrenaline when you’re hit; if you’re glassy, getting hit too much is getting killed too much, thus the adrenaline generation part is a bit wasted. When I run the old Berserker GS + Axe/Shield for instance, I go Last Stand – YMMV.
Defy pain is a no-brainer, though, especially since it proc at 50%. Don’t know if they fixed the Endure Pain bug yet.
definately cleansing ire. It kinda works very well with adrenal health. And it works espically well with berserker, combine it with smash brawler and u will be spamming burst skills time and time again to keep your adrenal health going. Cleansing ire has such good synergy now imo.
In wvw roaming I definately use rousing resiliance as stats there aren’t limited to+1200, the toughness and healing comes in handy.
There is entirely too much condi in the game right now. If it wasn’t for all that crazy condi, Cleansing Ire and Rousing Resilience would be on par. I think Last stand would get a boost as well if they lowered the amount of condi’s