Guild Wars 2

Kuya.6495:

Sina.7350:

Sartharina.3542:

Ragnarox.9601:

They nerfed all classes cause you need to buy new expansion to be competitive.

Except every expansion Elite Spec is strong on its own and fills a niche untouched by the current elite specializations, and Spellbreaker doesn’t get Arc Divider.

Except Berserker is now no longer strong, and does not bring any additional benefits over running Vanilla warrior in PvP. The niche is gone, and Arc Divider without sustain and with its long cooldown and insulting casting time is pointless.

Berserker is better for condi. Spellbreaker will likely be best for physical dps.

Is that just a generic statement you are making based on something you have read, or do you have real experience with condition based berserker as having usefulness in pvp after the current patch versus pre patch power berserker? Warrior was already irrelevant in pvp, why destroy it further?

Ebonhawk desert gate not being used would be highly disappointing, unless they plan to use it for a living story episode map …

Sartharina.3542:

Ragnarox.9601:

They nerfed all classes cause you need to buy new expansion to be competitive.

Except every expansion Elite Spec is strong on its own and fills a niche untouched by the current elite specializations, and Spellbreaker doesn’t get Arc Divider.

Except Berserker is now no longer strong, and does not bring any additional benefits over running Vanilla warrior in PvP. The niche is gone, and Arc Divider without sustain and with its long cooldown and insulting casting time is pointless.

It’s funny that GhandiBot made this post two months ago https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/pvp/You-over-nerfed-warrior/first#post6592625 where he saw how nerfed Warrior became after the last balance patch.

Please do not defend a balance update that made running the Elite Spec Berserker entirely pointless in a competitive setting such as sPvP. Yes, Vanilla warrior was always there, and many people have had and continue to have great success with it. Berserker was an option that allowed a new style of play with great results. And now that is dead.

Vanilla warrior exists as it has always had, and continues to do so.

Please bring a more valid point to the discussion rather than one lucky instance of a bad matchup with noob players.

TheBravery.9615:

One important trait that changed in this process was Berserker’s Power, which is an important trait for warriors who rely on Power damage. This trait previously granted a damage bonus based on the tier of adrenaline you were at when you used a burst skill. We’ve updated this trait to better scale with the amount of adrenaline you use so that warriors can feel good about using lower-level bursts consecutively rather than always waiting for the level 3.

Does this make sense to anyone btw? How can anyone “feel good about using lower level bursts” when the damage got decreased from 10% to 7% and the maximum burst got raised from 20% to 21%?

Not to mention maintaining bursts need adrenaline, most of which depends on Berserker utility skills, as well as traits that do not mix together well in the current configuration. Yet, Berserker is no longer viable in any game mode, and vanilla warrior simply cannot keep bursts and adrenaline up at the same rate.

^ and they call that “balancing”. Streamlining what they want to be OP, so everybody gravitates towards that.

Berserker was already not viable in WvW, but it has since become far worse. Cleansing Ire and Adrenal Health not triggering due to primal burst nerf has made any sustain berserker had to survive into nothing now.

Sucking up won’t get you free items :P

On a more serious note, praising bad decisions and ones with ulterior motives is not positive reinforcement.

Ubi.4136:

SO, people who already have a commander tag it costs 150g. Those people already spent 300g to become a commander.

So, current commanders=450g to get the catmander tag total.

People who do not currently have tags it costs 300g.

So, new commanders get to be commanders and get the catmander tag for 300g total.

How the hell does this make any sense?

Are you truly surprised at this point after five years of similar illogical decisions?

It’s a standard item most other MMOs (especially NCSoft ones) have, so they had to add it. It won’t affect people who have been playing for years and may have stacks of tomes or birthday leveling scrolls. Great for new players who want to be confused though :P

I am not certain why ArenaNet continues to turn every class into a condi class. Half the server lag comes from all the different kind of conditions it has to process I bet. Warrior in name, in spirit, and just about anything related to it, doesn’t make sense as a condition focused class.

babazhook.6805:

Sina.7350:

I have been testing warrior in WvW and PvP, and power berserker is worse than dead.

It’s ironic, since most of the new Berserker utility skills, including the elite, focuses on getting adrenaline, which in turn helps primal burst trigger Adrenal health, Cleansing Ire and Berserker’s power. Now, full charge primal is worth 1 adrenaline bar, which makes any sustain warriors had completely useless.

Vanilla warrior might be good, but without adrenaline gaining methods of the berserker spec, it is similarly useless and slow. Condi warrior had a SLIGHT buff, and nerf in other areas, but basically ArenaNet found a way to beat a dead horse even further.

Congratulations.

If in power it seems Arms a better way to gain adrenaline. trait up the signets and use a combination of Furious with Signet mastery for ferocity stacks. Best I could come up with so far. I was already in this spec prior and while my armor took ferocity at the expensive of precison and must now be changed as this flipped with new signet mastery , It has potential.

Strength works better as well IMO so it akin to making Zerker more like one of the old core specs wherein it no longer that much better.

Kind of defeats the whole purpose of an “elite” specialization then, no? Especially since Spellbreaker seems very overpowered as it stands.

Leo G.4501:

Sazukikrah.5036:

Ok actually… i see now. I see why they did it. Spellbreaker Fullcounter is a Level 1 burst skill, They only have 2 adrenaline bars.. They basically made berserker lvl 1 burst skill cause Spell breaker is level 1 burst skill. so going back to what Little Howl said… They are just preparing Spellbreaker and making it more favorable than Berserker . I see…

But you can still use level 3 bursts on berserker. You can ONLY use level 1s on spellbreaker.

You can now only use level 1 bursts on berserker. Primal bursts count as only one bar of adrenaline.

I have been testing warrior in WvW and PvP, and power berserker is worse than dead.

It’s ironic, since most of the new Berserker utility skills, including the elite, focuses on getting adrenaline, which in turn helps primal burst trigger Adrenal health, Cleansing Ire and Berserker’s power. Now, full charge primal is worth 1 adrenaline bar, which makes any sustain warriors had completely useless.

Vanilla warrior might be good, but without adrenaline gaining methods of the berserker spec, it is similarly useless and slow. Condi warrior had a SLIGHT buff, and nerf in other areas, but basically ArenaNet found a way to beat a dead horse even further.

Congratulations.