Guild Wars 2

Dear Nemesis!

I agree with you on most points, the Weakening Shroud nerf is really like a raging guy’s work who can’t play properly, and I won’t comment on Diamond Skin, because I don’t want to be vulgar.

I’ve been watching your videos for roughly about a year now, and for the first time I think your maths has a flaw in it: you compare active skills to a passive trait.

Duumfire in my oppinion is a passive trait, because all you have to do to proc it is to attack the enemy somehow, and that’s a thing everybody does, so as long as you attack it will be used on CD. Even if your opponent dodges/has condi immune when you would crit and it would proc, it won’t because it’s passive, so it just waits for its turn, uses itself roughly perfectly every time, independent on skill level. The only true counterplay to it is condition removal.

All the skills that have been nerfed are active skills, you press a button to make them work, yes even terror is sort of an active skill, because you have to press a button, and time it properly, because enemy can dodge it, be immune to it, etc, you actually need skill to use them, and not waste them. And in addition to that they are not necessarily used on CD. For example in some scenarios when my opponent is squishy and easy to CC I don’t even use Mark of Blood at all, so in thoose fights the recent MoB nerf don’t really has an effect on me. Grasping Dead, Doom, and Weakening Shroud are a differend cup of tea, because they are almost used on CD, because they are key spells to the terrormancer, but still the enemy can dodge/immune them. The counterplay to them is dodge, condition immunity(if timed well even the best players can waste a CD to it), and condition removal.

To sum up, you can’t really compare toose skills, but we are in a worse position then we were before Dumbfire was added, less build diversity, and less skill needed to play, but this is something that’s happening to every profession: Necro – Dumbfire, Warrior – Heal Signet, Elementalist – Diamond Skin

I really don’t like where this game is going.