Guild Wars 2

Daedraz.1650:

Vindicus.2130:

Daedraz.1650:

As a condi engi main, I am obviously not too happy with these changes. There’s just no reward for playing one of the most difficult classes in the entire game juggling a carpal tunnel inducing rotation once these changes take place.

I really hope there is going to be a substantial nerf to ele as well, otherwise we will see a return of the ye olde “power ele or gtfo” meta. And I really don’t want to return to that meta. I went through all the hassle of getting quip for my engi because i love the class, and I fear that I’ll never get to use it again for my raid premades or any lfgs because all the exp groups are only looking for eles. And as much as I would love to say that is an exaggeration, knowing the exp raiding community, I really can’t.

Lol sad, already pitchfork out for another class because of kitten from a completely unrelated power reduction to yours. The salt intensifies.

Written like a person who clearly has never raided before period. You see, right now powers eles are top DPS. Even after condi nerf, which will obviously knock out condi ele out of the rankings, power eles will remain at the top. What do you think is going to happen if power eles remain the same while the condi classes go down on the benchmarks? I’m not joking about the power ele or gtfo meta. That was a real thing that plagued early raid days when they first came out and it was not a fun meta at all. And yes, while I am personally not happy about these fixes, I am addressing a real concern. If you think the condi meta is bad, clearly you’ve never seen the power ele or gtfo meta. You are really underestimating the nature of the exp raiding community. And I don’t like it, but it is what it is.

I don’t generally respond to these posts, but this is just patently wrong. First of all power ele is not highest DPS right now, condi ele is. If condi ele weren’t there condi thief would be top dps. If you got rid of both of those, then yes power ele would be best but only on low toughness, large hit box targets, which is exactly three things in raids: Keep Construct, Samarog, and the Golem. For those three things power ele would be above the current condi meta by about 2%. For the other 10 encounters condi is king. The current best condi build(thief) is 14% better than the best power build on small hitbox, which is not actually power ele. Its power theif, followed by power engi. Even assuming this food nerf was not compensated at all, after the 5% nerf(you really are only losing beserker runes) condi thief still beats power theif by 8%, and ele by more than that. You are in absolutely no danger of going back into the “power ele or gtfo” meta.