(THIS IS MY OPINION)ok I started my game with mancer about a year and a couple of months ago and ohh boy do I regret it, in all seriousness whats the point of conditions when burning makes all others trash (confusion being good but not as good, and poison is only good on thief) and a waste of time.. whats the point of tickling your enemy with worthless conditions that don’t do jack s, people say that in wvw mancer is good in groups(but the same could be said of any class specially revenant+ele+guardian combo easily able to overpower 1 to 2 and sometimes to 3 zergs with overwhelming aegis, resistance and condi cleanse, even engineer is better at conditions) and epidemic got nerfed, everybody in zerg is spamming burning with ele with some back up resistance and cleanse making any slow ticking condition as useful as just standing there doing nothing, i remember chill when i first got my reaper going it used to do damage on chill now it stacks 3 bleed which is only a little useful at best but compared to others it is pretty mediocre , since it takes about 25 stacks of bleed for 5 seconds to do as much damage as 4 stacks of burning for the same amount of time, then people fall back on that reaper is bulky, well in my experience going bulk on reaper or mancer means sacrificing power(or something) for super slow ticking condi damage(or at best semi-good at best power), a lot of other classes one being a burning guardian or a perma-stealth thief(that knows what he is doing) would obliterate you before you even notice(in zergs the massive burn and stun aoe’s make bouncing conditions not that good since mancer casting is slow), then the cherry on the cake is that they made plague more worthless than it already was with plaguelands ,while plague was literally the only thing that could possibly help at running away from other op classes it got turned into plaguelands an aoe that would only work on a brainless monkey and still does less damage than a lot of other things. I honestly feel that to give mancer something worth, it would be to go back on the change on epidemic(specially the resistance change) or give a ranged burning aoe or something, the only way to go into acceptable dps with mancer as of now it seems that it is to attack something that doesn’t move in 10-15 seconds. as I’ve experienced the only way to at least be worth something with reaper means becoming a glass cannon something other classes don’t have to even consider.
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