Guild Wars 2

Anybody thinks its not a good idea to make an entire e-spec so heavily focused on pvp that will almost surely be complete crap in pve?

We don’t exactly know how the PoF open world will look like – Spellbreaker will be pretty fantastic in PvP and WvW but I wouldn’t call it complete crap for PvE

ProtoMarcus.7649:

We don’t exactly know how the PoF open world will look like – Spellbreaker will be pretty fantastic in PvP and WvW but I wouldn’t call it complete crap for PvE

Might be good for the open world but for group pve its gonna be useless

having a spec thats not just damage modifiers & might is fun & interesting. so yeah, gonna say it’s a good idea not to build for pve.

if bunker firebrand becomes meta, & im betting it will- then spellbreaker will be meta specifically to counter it.

Amaranthe.3578:

ProtoMarcus.7649:

We don’t exactly know how the PoF open world will look like – Spellbreaker will be pretty fantastic in PvP and WvW but I wouldn’t call it complete crap for PvE

Might be good for the open world but for group pve its gonna be useless

Pretty sure they’ll have lots of bosses with lots of boons.

Heimskarl Ashfiend.9582:

Amaranthe.3578:

ProtoMarcus.7649:

We don’t exactly know how the PoF open world will look like – Spellbreaker will be pretty fantastic in PvP and WvW but I wouldn’t call it complete crap for PvE

Might be good for the open world but for group pve its gonna be useless

Pretty sure they’ll have lots of bosses with lots of boons.

Then just use Mesmers, since they bring a ton of other useful stuff.

Spellbreaker is totally useless for PvE and we really don’t know if it has any chance in PvP either. Most of the utilities are horrible.

It’s gonna depend a lot on how much damage the auto attack chain does base line. They have the multipliers to be up there in dps but need to be decent baseline

YuiRS.8129:

Heimskarl Ashfiend.9582:

Amaranthe.3578:

ProtoMarcus.7649:

We don’t exactly know how the PoF open world will look like – Spellbreaker will be pretty fantastic in PvP and WvW but I wouldn’t call it complete crap for PvE

Might be good for the open world but for group pve its gonna be useless

Pretty sure they’ll have lots of bosses with lots of boons.

Then just use Mesmers, since they bring a ton of other useful stuff.

Spellbreaker is totally useless for PvE and we really don’t know if it has any chance in PvP either. Most of the utilities are horrible.

Daggers will be viable for PS due to the #4 AA chain, plus sigil and food.
Dagger 5 is a reflect which can deal massive damage, see Lupi.
I agree the utility skills are bad for PvE, even if a lot of mobs have boons, nothing stopping you from using vanilla War skills, ie banners/sig of fury, the utils are perfect for PvP or WvW. For PvP it will dominate, same for WvW, this is Warrior’s ticket back into the meta. Just the elite skill alone will guarantee that.

What I want to test is if Attacker’s Insight bonus from disables proc when dealing damage to Breakbar.

I can still see Spellbreaker being used in PvE. Magebane Tether alone is already insanely overpowered might generation. Dagger has might on auto, trait that increases crit dmg by 14% on boonless foes (which is 99% of all current pve), dagger 3 and 4 provide some interesting timing gameplay, and sun and moon trait offer sustain similar to thief’s invigorating strikes.

If Magebane Teather works the way it reads and I’m not interpreting it wrong, you basically don’t even need extra boon duration for might generation anymore

Mikeskies.1536:

What I want to test is if Attacker’s Insight bonus from disables proc when dealing damage to Breakbar.

What is attackers insight exactly?

Valik Shin.9027:

Mikeskies.1536:

What I want to test is if Attacker’s Insight bonus from disables proc when dealing damage to Breakbar.

What is attackers insight exactly?

60 Power and 60 Ferocity for 15 seconds when disabling or removing a boon from a foe. Stacks up to 5 times.

I think how this functions in PvE will make or break Spellbreaker’s raid/fractal viability.

Looks like it’s going to replace Berzerker in PvE now, too.

All this talk of “useless” tells me spellbreaker is fine just as it is. I like its design. It’s not focused so much on damage, but in utility. The trait line is mostly focused on boon stripping, which is an interesting new way for warriors to play.