I agree with you, also Zealous Scepter now stacks might on non scepter weapons, a 600 range cone could be stacking mights pretty darn fast too….granted once Anet gets permeathing wrath and zealous scepter working together correctly lol
Not sure about this one.
Permeating Wrath might be bugged with Zealous Sceptre, or maybe an oversight.
Not tried it with Staff yet, but when attempting to use Permeating Wrath and Zealous Sceptre on Greatsword in PvE, I got zero stacks of might from the usual Symbol + Whirling Wrath combo.
When I untraited Permeating Wrath and picked a different trait, Symbol + Whirling Wrath stacked a good number of might with the Zealous Sceptre Trait as you might expect.
It could just be an outlier, but I think it’s probably the way it’s coded and as a result Zealous Sceptre might not stack Might when you have Permeating Wrath trait with any weapon but Sceptre (which it still did before so I assume maybe it still does?).
Other people will have to test and verify if it’s just a Greatsword + Permeating Wrath + Zealous Sceptre thing, or if the bug/oversight affects more weapons with the trait combo (or rather, fails to affect).
Might be different from Dragonhunter also, only tried on core Guardian so far.
TLDR; Zealous Sceptre only seems to stack Might on Justice procs if you don’t take Permeating Wrath for whatever other weapon you are using,
Ahhh it’s all bugged my friend, I’ve been trying it since yesterday’s patch released. Zealous Sceptre won’t even work with a sceptre if you have Permeating Wrath. It’s a reported bug. My idea is that once this is working again being able to stack a might on every 3rd hit with a 600 range in something like WvW may just be too much condi since 25 stacks would be +750 condi power plus 75 from Kindled Zeal would be an 825 Condi increase. This may have just been too much
I can actually understand this nerf even though i think they should have reworked the skills instead, giving us a ranged option as a vanilla guard.
The combination of permeathing wrath, loot stick and passive VoJ is powerful and just imagine when you add in tome of justice and mantras.
The amount of medium ranged aoe burns would be silly. we are talking about like 15 stacks of ranged burning here.
But it was a very lazy move destroying one of the upsides of an already weak weapon.
I agree with you, also Zealous Scepter now stacks might on non scepter weapons, a 600 range cone could be stacking mights pretty darn fast too….granted once Anet gets permeathing wrath and zealous scepter working together correctly lol
I have installed the newest update and was excited to try the new Zealous Scepter with my sword but I have found Zealous Scepter does not proc if you have Permeating Wrath selected as well. Is this a bug as I cannot find anything that says the 2 do not work together? When I have both talents seclected I am not gaining a stack of might on my 3rd hit when the passive occurs, regardless of weapon type. When I deselect Permeating Wrath then Zealous Scepter starts working again.
I couldn’t find an answer to this online, so I apologize in advance if this has been asked, but do these traits not stack with each other? Does Permeating Wrath essentially disable Zealous Scepter as this is what seems to happen in the game and I am curious if that is how it’s suppose to work?
