Guild Wars 2

I’d like to address a problem with adrenal health that became more of an annoyance then anything else.

Adrenal Health
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Gain health based on adrenaline spent.
  Health Gained per Adrenaline Bar Spent (15s): 2,475 (0.3)?
  Maximum stacks: 3
  Interval: 1s
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The issue starts with the description in the talent tree itself.

Basically what it is supposed to do is it should activate as soon as you spend the necessary adrenaline.

What I’ve been experiencing is completely different.

Some of the scenarios include :

Rangers/hammer revs/gunflame wars/you-name-it-ranged-specs throwing snowballs at me , filling my bar because of set “Cleansing Ire”* talent..

What happens next is “I would like to get some health back at least since I can’t approach the guy right now.”
So I press my pretty burst button since my 3 bars are filled up and what happens is.. – you guessed it! – NOTHING. – wasted adrenaline and no ticking health back. Just dropping dead like a fly.

So I thought about why is that happening?

Next scenario is close combat, I miss my hit due to a dodge, waste my adrenaline and again, no adrenal health back – drop dead like a fly.

Next scenario is a guardian with an aegis on and guess what.. – yep, if u hit his aegis with your burst, you wasted your time because.. you know it! You’r dropping dead like a fly.

You got blinded by a thief? You miscalculated his schemes and used your burst just before he blinded you? Well too bad, since you’re not getting any adrenal health back. (facepalm)

• Cleansing Ire – Gain adrenaline when hit. Remove a condition for every bar of adrenaline spent when you hit with a burst skill. )

Please tell me that you’re working on this because this is just..plain stupid. If you miss with an ability I would guess your activated skill is on cooldown. If the purpose of the imagined burst attack is that the warrior got so kittened off and used his whole adrenaline even though he missed..I get it, its spent.

But please enlighten me and show me where does it say in the talent that in order for adrenal health to proc, a player needs to deliver damage with his burst.

Kindly thank you and I hope you will fix this soon.

Ever since they changed Adrenal Health it has required a hit from the burst except for Longbow. I preferred the old version since it offered more control.

Well yeah but like I said, the skill tooltip is a completely different story. I can imagine new players struggling with a mechanism like this. It’s not rocket science adding 2 words ( ON HIT) to the tooltip.

I hope they read this because it’s annoying as hell.

Adrenal Health is a really powerful Regen (on top of your Heal! and not removable)

So being able to deny the Warrior this extra regen by dodging his Bursts
(or avoiding them through Invul/Bock/Blind etc.)
allows for reasonable counterplay
Warrior is in a good spot now and when you play condi warrior you still have the possiblity to get the 3 stacks extra regen every time no matter how bad you are at landing your bursts

Forcing Warrior to aim / prepare his bursts properly is a part of Warrior Balance

I guess Anet could update the tooltip to make it more clear that you need to land your burst (which confused with longbow again though) but they shouldnt change the functionality