Guild Wars 2

Hi everyone!

I came up with an idea of a new condition which would give more space for pure condition builds in PvP, and could bring back the idea of cover haxing from GW1.
I hope you guys will like it and find it as interesting as I do.

I don’t have a specific idea of the name but some suggestions:
Persistance
Toxin
Affliction

The core concept is:
-A method to defend your conditions for a short period of time. Therefore making pure condition build more viable
-Punish mindless condition curing
-Adding a new layer of skill level, and mindgames potentional to PvP
-Giving more importance for the upcoming boon [Resistance] ( Resistance could neglect the effect of this new condition)
-Bringing back the feeling of cover hexing from gw1

For the mechanic of the condition I have two variation in my mind.
The tooltip for the first one:

[name]Condition. If you cure this condition you take X damage.

The tooltip for the second one:

[name]Condition. If you cure condition while affected by [name] you take X damage for every cured condition.

For the first variation i could imagine a spike damage around 3-5K. For the second one the damage would be obviously smaller for a single condition, but it could gather up rapidly. ( The damage would scale heavily from condition damage therefore celestial builds could take less benefit from it.)

Other difference is the first variation would allow skills like [Withdraw] because it cures specific conditions.

The uptime would be relatively short (2-3 seconds). It could shine if you to time it well. For example either use is while the enemy focus target is under heavy CC from conditions or if you manage to put some condition pressure for example on a D/D ele you could do some damage before he or she cleanse it. The support builds would have to watch for it as well. AoE condition removal would be more risky if you don’t pay attention.

That’s it for a quick summary. Let me know guys/girls what do you think.

So many comments I like it

Arachel.8132: Thank you for the pet aspect. To be honets i was one of that player as well who don’t care much with his pet. I will definitely change that in my play style. On the other hand i do know rangers have excelent weapons, and builds, but I’m in LB mood so i looking for a way to play with that primarly and i couldn’t find one.

Archon.6480: I do like the idea of piercing arrows and vulnerability stack, because it grants field for spike builds which i also love but i was shocked when i saw my own single target dps. I know i suck for liking sparkling big numbers, but this is a power build, and its far more behind than any other.

solrik.6028: Hi! thank you for your reply. Bit harsh well but usefull. First of all I didn’t not say that LB sucks or it’s a sh*ty weapon. I said it disappointed me, and underpowered in my opinion. I also said that I’m new to rangers so what i say is not golden.

for the rest of the comment it seems nice. I hope it will give me chance in 1on1 situations because i had none till this point … What do you do with ranged builds? Like condi engies, necros ( power and/or condi) Pu mesmers or gs/staff mesmers for exampe

So In conclusion thank you again for writing back, i though more of you feel the same as me but it seems not which means i was wrong and LB is useable somehow in sPvP

If you willing to write me back more I would like to speak about barrage. Non of you wrote about barrage anything.. It gives me the idea, that non of you use it usually, which would be terrible ,because the concept of that skill is awesome.

Hi folks! I’m really new to rangers, never played them too much, but yesterday i had this
“i wanna shoot arrows” feeling, so i created a ranger. I chose the longbow (with GS ) because I liked the LB skills GW1 version but i was totally shocked how underpower it is ( at least in my opinion don’t forget i’m noob with rangers )

The only enjoyable time in sPvP when i had the chance to support my mates from high positions, like in Temple of Silent Storm’s middle nod but when it came to 1v1 eh you can imagine…

I feel the mesmer’s GS way more supperior….

I thought about a few things i would changes, hope you guys like it:
-first i would increase the dmg of the auto attack. ( 700 dmg with full power build is unbearable… )
-i would either decrease the cast time on number 2 or make it a one hit spike dmg skill with a short charge up time.
-For last i really like the idea of barrage however it feels like all the other LB skills missing damage. I would increase its damage to meteorshower kindish level.

Ty for reading, feel free to comment, and please share with me your thoughs about how would you make this fabolous weapon better