Guild Wars 2

You stated in initial patch notes that:

“Skull Grinder: The damage of this skill has been reduced by 33%. Bleeding has been reduced from 4 stacks for 8 seconds to 3 stacks for 6 seconds. The blast finisher on this skill has been removed. All changes apply to PvP only.”

Please take special note:
“All changes apply to PvP only.”
This is disingenuous.

However, in wvw the blast finisher was removed from this skill. The rest remained unchanged, as per patch note.

Is this intentional?

Please be transparent about all changes so that people can appropriately react to them and be knowledgeable about them when they are made.

Also please list which pvp sigils were removed, etc next time so people don’t have to hunt them down. I spent much longer learning about what actually happened than I should have had to.

If this was not a mistake, skirting around issues and leaving stuff unsaid is bad and should not be done.

Isn’t WvW considered PvP as far as being able to be targeted and damaged? I’m not sure, but it’s not PvE, and balance changes are only ever PvE or PvP. I mean, I’ve never seen one that said WvW-only. /shrug

I don’t know, really, that’s what I always thought. Of course, I’ve never checked (I’m not into that kind of stuff), so I’m likely wrong. =)

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Isn’t WvW considered PvP as far as being able to be targeted and damaged? I’m not sure, but it’s not PvE, and balance changes are only ever PvE or PvP. I mean, I’ve never seen one that said WvW-only. /shrug

I thought it was counted as PvE, mostly — at least the necro bleed-on-chill trait triggers three stacks in PvE and WvW, but only one stack in PvP. Not that it is anything but kinda pedantry whichever way around it goes.

“PvP only” applies to sPvP, not WvW. They did make a WvW-specific change to Epidemic, but that’s the only one, as far as I know.

It would be nice to know one way or the other about the blast finisher change on Skull Grinder though.

yup they removed it from WvW also.. should be PVP only if you read the patchnotes.