Guild Wars 2

Rangers are fine. Several other classes not so much as it relates to bugged traits and game play. Look at Guardians and Engineers for example. Guardians will have a trait removed and Engineers get to enjoy pew pew for a few more days if not months (until Mag runs a all Engineer group destroying WvW – then we will see change).

How or why we are in the state we can all debate until the cows come home but it really doesn’t matter. Play to have fun and escape reality. If that isn’t the reward you get after logging in then it is time to take a break. No money lost and you can pick up later if you so desire.

Durzlla.6295:

Huh, I haven’t been phased too much by the burst meta, in fact it’s very rare for me to be below 90% HP after the changes they made to Barkskin. I just run shouts on my ranger, in celestial with mercy runes. Between invigorating bond, my stupid low CD Heal as One, and prot + some condi cleanse on dodge roll I can survive quite nicely.

Have you stepped out into WvW?

It really is a matter of opinion as to if they are broke or not. We all agree there is a change with regards to how they work. Trait toss or manually set. Beyond that, does it matter?

Seriously, I was one who always had the trait so I could toss at will. It took me a few days to adjust but I don’t see it as a game breaker. In fact, I am starting to like them better because it makes me have better situation awareness. By that I mean keep the enemy at range and the way they work now they do wonders vs. thieves / stealth.

Gotejjeken.1267:

It’s confusing to me, since we all lost stats from the trait lines. It’s a special type of failure when people are hitting harder with less stats.

THIS is why they need a test server. Releasing stuff like this on the general public only leads to frustration. If they had a closed test server, guaranteed they would have heard about and patched all of this within the first day or so of testing.

Now, we just have to wait. Seeing how they nerfed mortar and Clarion Bond of all things, I really think we are going to be waiting a long, long time.

They don’t need a test server although it would be nice. This is just a personal opinion though because I feel it takes a little away from the ‘surprise’ or ‘wow’ factor for new content. However, I can see the value add by letting people who choose to play new content and combat ahead of time. I’d wager in hind sight of this patch / release they would have seen the train wreck before the engine left the station.

You can QA the software just like any other applications and we can still have bugs. People abuse or just think outside the testers mindset or test case. No harm, no foul. At the end of the day though it is Arena Nets or the publishers fault and usually lies in terms of environmental or infrastructure cost to include employees.

Then again this is all speculation and could very well be known by the developers based on what is today vs. that of what is tomorrow come expansion pack.

Edit: I should add that my only fear is what this could do to the player base. I know a few people who lost interest after the patch and are taking breaks. Is it because patch or just overall GW2 play time – hard to say. What they told me is that the format(s) they play, sPvP and WvW, the combat and balance is overboard and no longer playable. Is that only a few or handful, maybe. May not be a issue. But the longer it goes unchecked or addressed more could follow and that would be a bad thing overall. Only good thing is that there is nothing else out there that has similar play as WvW. That does change though next year sometime in 2016.

Ignoring healing spring, trap runes are not really broke. You just have to get used to the new play style and mechanic is all. You could also look at it has a glass half full argument because now you gain a trait point back because now you don’t have to trait for it…

I loved the runes prior to patch. Not many people ran them let along ran them with a long bow. So it was unique. It is still unique but you really need three traps to pull it off and play smarter. They excel at close combat by people trying to get into your face and allows you some distance.

There are a few builds here that I am toying with and tweak out of ignorance really but in the end I’m trying to find a good balance for solo roaming yet do ok when in a group of 5. Target assist – kill.

Right now one is:

Skirmish: 3,2,1
Wilderness: 2,2,1
Nature: 2,1,2
axe/torch/lb – healing spring, flame, spike, storm spirit, and entangle
Rabid armor/exotic – accessories are celestial/ascended

Other one is:
Skirmishing: 3,3,2
Wilderness: 2,2,3
Beastmaster: 1,1,1

Same armor/accessories/weapon set. but I swap out storm spirit for frost trap. Weapons stay pretty much the same or at times I’ll go double bow with LB/SB. Just depends really.

Kaz.5430:

Crapgame.6519:

Prophet.1584:

you can set up a pretty good point holder/brawler using remorseless, this way you can use + toughness + vitality gear in the current meta. Things will change again once the bugs have been fixed and OP classes brought back down to earth.(maybe)

Maybe not. It does not appear that broken classes or OP trait combos will be fixed anytime soon. Patch has been out now for what, two weeks and things are still wonky.

That’s a short two weeks lol, it’s only been a week and a day since the 23rd

Yeah yeah yeah. 9 days – maybe I rounded up or didn’t have enough coffee. Maybe even a fishing tale – we know how those go. Point is, while I am incorrect on the number of days we probably agree things are still out of proportion and some things fixed sooner than others. Pointing at you, Guardians.

It isn’t just toughness that is broke though – the patch in general should have not been released. Yet they have deadlines to meet with an expansion tied to it. So out with the patch with regards to longer term objectives not yet in the game.

If I was to wager I’d say they didn’t expect what they are seeing but it is too late. Ranger fix was probably easier to fix say compared to the Guardian issue. I can’t even think what they are trying to do with regards to Engineers, Mesmers, and Thieves.

Bottom line – people will flock to the class and/or traits that are not working as intended and abuse them which forces Arena Net to apply first aid.

EDIT: I play a Ranger and Guardian. Ranger runs with about 2700 armor in his trap/condition build and about 2300 in zerk/power. Guardian has about 3200 in his support / small party roaming. With regards to either of the setups armor does not matter. Reaction time first and foremost saves the day across both classes.

WvW play right now is just too fast and target assist wins in small skirmish. Zerg, forget it. It feels like you are hit with a two ton heavy thing

Prophet.1584:

you can set up a pretty good point holder/brawler using remorseless, this way you can use + toughness + vitality gear in the current meta. Things will change again once the bugs have been fixed and OP classes brought back down to earth.(maybe)

Maybe not. It does not appear that broken classes or OP trait combos will be fixed anytime soon. Patch has been out now for what, two weeks and things are still wonky.

No one should be getting their hopes up. Arena net already said condition damage and some trait combos are over the top. Just look at the rangers, they already got hit and it is nowhere as bad as this.

So any other class trait fixes – points to guardians and mesmers…

Too late, mother already knows and will take action. While she isn’t going to wash her hands of everyone abusing the patch she is reviewing the data and change is coming. Visit general forum for more details.

JonPeters – Game Design Lead

Just getting these out there so we know we are all in agreement:
1) Conditions seem a bit strong
2) World bosses are currently too easy
3) There are some bugged skills and traits
4) There are some overpowered builds

Hmm….maybe I should have said Father. No disrespect Jon. I totally screwed that up.

Osu.6307:

Rapid fire got seriously nerfed with the patch, so all you rangers haters out there should be happy. Guess anet was not happy with rangers having just one decent role to play in zerg fights.

There is no single adjustment to Rapid Fire. Check the patch notes.

If truth be told, it was actually buffed because now we don’t have to trait for extended range…we have points to use elsewhere. That is actually a buff.

Not just your server. Our EBG map chat blew up last night when a bunch of DB or AR players pushed the envelope with certain trait and class combos. Lots of people crying foul, report this, report that, cheating, bla bla bla.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not exactly thrilled about getting rolled but I at least can admit they didn’t cheat or exploit. Just taking advantage of the patch is all which Arena Net perfectly knows what is and isn’t broke. Hell, our side is doing the same thing – not like a Mesmer is supposed to have perma stealth. Never retook a keep as easy as that.

Per A.net: Just getting these out there so we know we are all in agreement:

1) Conditions seem a bit strong
2) World bosses are currently too easy
3) There are some bugged skills and traits
4) There are some overpowered builds

Maybe visit the /general forum and read the post by Arena Net. They know post patch they have issues. They clearly list what their priority is.

No need to say the sky is falling when it isn’t. Just adapt. If not, thanks for the bag(s).

lil devils x.6071:

One Prarie Outpost.4860:

From any location in the game:
Hit B
Double click on the BL you want to go to.

ZERO need to gather like lambs at the portals.

You hit “B” on reset on T1 if you like to be in ques all night instead of playing the game. We have to get entire guilds on map, and you can only do this via portals on reset. Read above. Go ahead.. hit “B” and be 150 in que, while I am never in que on reset.

Someone has to be in the queue, just how it works on popular servers. I don’t think your overall request will negate that (may not be your intent either though). Which brings me back to my original point outside the snarky ego comment. Map holds x players. X + 1 try and enter. Welcome to the Disneyland or any other amusement park ride system and lines. There isn’t any fast past system with WvW nor should there be. First come, first serve. Most know it is reset night and should be prepared and timely.

I don’t agree with a centralized WvW or staging area or any need thereof. However, I do think your post raises other issues with server side communication, players, and guilds. Alliances would go a long way to centralize communications in-game. TS or any other forms of comm help outside the game, but in-game commander, guild, and PUG comms need help, and badly.

The trick with traps is to lead or lure enemy into. It is all about positioning now with traps rather than pre-patch when we could toss. The dance the poster above noted is well and true until you decided to engage. Trap ranger with LB forces that decision. If you judge the path at which you take incorrectly the advantage goes to the trap ranger.

That is how I’ve played it anyway. They are more defensive now and position is critical.

Few comments above explain what you may be seeing.

Overall it hasn’t been changed that I can see – from a WvW perspective anyway. Seems fine and more or less what I would expect.

I prefer superior sigil of incapacitation myself.

60% Chance on Critical: Inflict Crippled (2 Seconds)

Heal / support is valid still post-patch. Just takes a bit of work to get right and adjust to the crazy burst that is running amuck in WvW today (to include broken build, traits that are being abused). It is like re-learning the game day one all over again.

However, what I’m finding out is that the supporting role Guardian is just ignored and focused is switched to others who melt which leaves the Guardian the last man standing. No much fun regardless of how many you face tank.

WvW is now all about speed until mother makes some changes.

Until mother says:

1) Conditions seem a bit strong
2) World bosses are currently too easy
3) There are some bugged skills and traits
4) There are some overpowered builds

If this is something you are running I’d probably start thinking about some alternatives.

lil devils x.6071:

DO you even play WvW? Asking what Tier I am on when it says Jade Quarry in my signature? Everyone who knows anything about WvW knows who that is.

https://leaderboards.guildwars2.com/en/na/wvw

Lol. The ego’s sometimes on these forums.

Saddest part of the patch and expansion is that they didn’t address WvW and this mentality. Maybe guild halls will address the concern. Maybe not. Personally I see it as a lower priority especially after the patch. WvW and sPvP is in a bad state which they know and are working on.

Will be interesting to see which class has the larger alligator tears as the changes start to roll in. In the mean time just continue to plan and prepare for Friday night resets like you always do. It isn’t a huge deal really.

Teevell.1684:

Jayne.9251:

Nope. I’m specced for roaming, gear etc., and it seems the only class not suffering is guards.

I’ve stopped playing until they figure it out.

I’m on a necro and thief, roaming around in mostly exotics with some greens still (I just came back from a long break, was shocked to see there was ascended armor and that we could craft it now), and I’m managing to stay alive. Even survived long enough to escape from 4-5 man groups. And I only came back to the game two weeks ago.

Don’t follow the ascended armor rabbit hole debate. You have plenty of time to decide if that is a must or not. From a player who only runs WvW I will say it isn’t mandatory at all unless you are into dueling. Even then it is questionable.

While I hate the gear you will do fine in WvW with exotic armor. You can obtain ascended weapons and accessories which is more than enough.

DarkSyze.8627:

This is consequence for not making the game challenge, fun, risk-reward and skill play. This is more evidence Arena net continue to ignore our problems- instead of punishing no-skill, they reward it more.

Is this more reason why i should mot invest in buying the expansion? To lose? To have a company refusing to give their customers a challenge, fun, risk-reward, effort and skill play? To have a company who put their customers suggestion last?

Obviously

You are on a hell of a crusade with all this challenge and fun stuff.

It is a patch before the expansion. Change is coming. It is up to you to decide if you want to pre-order or not. There is a reason for what they did. Sometimes I feel people don’t look at the big picture before they react.

Just do what Frankie says and Relax. Everything has a reason. They just didn’t change some formulas and say have at it boys and girls.

I’ve been using the last few days post patch. Not sure I’m 100% set up with it correctly in regards to armor and sigils but so far with my older clerics set it seems to be doing well.

Edit: I use mace/focus and staff.

Edit 2: Build which is probably subpar:

Virtues 2,2,3
Honor 1,1,3
Valor 2,3,1

Hate to say this but in case others have wondered what is going on, I just noticed that WvW has its own trait system

I must have missed this in the notes but I was just at the bank, swapping gear around, then later in WvW when I hit traits, saw WvW noted. Such a dork.

Lytalm.5673:

Bash.7291:

Run Hybrid condi, run scepter, watch people melt even if they try to run… It is wonderful.

Burning is so strong for guardian atm.

Burning does no good if you are alone on the battlefield

It is a bit wonky for sure that options are limited for movement. You do have staff but even then you need to do the shuffle step to get full duration. Otherwise you will yet again fall behind. It is only a matter of time.

It is about choices though. Runes, sigils, food, traits, etc. I know on my Ranger I feel the same way as you do about lack of speed. I’d rather they remove it all or provide it as a baseline.

Chokolata.1870:

Has anyone thought of making an immortal bear troll ranger?

This sounds interesting…and also made me giggle a bit.

Sol.4310:

@Heimskarl Ashfiend.9582, nice post good place for newer Rangers to get there hands on builds with this new meta.

Few tips for people making builds using Taunt, you want to try and pair the Beastly Warden with melee ranged F2’s. You have better control of your Taunt, if you’re using a ranged F2 you have to wait for your pet to get into melee range using F1 before you can effectively land Taunt or it will just cast Taunt at range missing the target. This doesn’t mean you can’t use ranged F2’s, just its more effective to pair Taunt with melee range F2’s.

I’m not good at pet management but I will say that eagle with f2’s attack and refresh rate, well, it made a difference. Noticeable difference. I’m sure the veteran Ranger players don’t have much to re-learn, but post-patch the game just feels different.

I’ve not even set foot into sPvP yet and I don’t think I want to until I get a bit more comfortable with the new system. Pets seem like they factor in now more than before.

niconori.7235:

Holland.9351:

• 6.33% less crit damage, with 85 less ferocity
• 5% less damage from missing Eagle Eye
• 10% less damage while flanking from changed Hunter’s Tactics

Rangers were already one of the worst class to bring to a wvw zerg fight and now they can’t even do the sole thing they were better than others at, which is picking off low hp or squishy targets.

Low single damage, extremely poor aoe damage, can’t fight as well as other front liners(no CC or support)… Rangers have just been made unplayable in wvw zerg.

I’m not sure I agree about unplayable in WvW / Zergs. Just my perspective after day two is that you better have some kitten good situation awareness. If not, roaming thief will wreck you before you can react.

That is my only complaint so far is that with the build I’m running now I have little time to react. It is probably me but I’m finding it very difficult to stay at range and pepper people. Even with the 1500 being default time and time again thieves are spring up randomly and basically insta gibbing me.

I’m not going to say there is a issue yet only after two days but playing the Ranger and also facing similar issues on my Guardian who is support, the patch has some flaws in it relating to speed, boons, conditions, and burns. Guardians are not helping any with a few of their bugs…and the players abusing them.

Heimskarl Ashfiend.9582:

Crapgame.6519:

3. Hybrid Mad King LB
LB-S/D, Sk, WS, NM
(Celestial gear, “Quick-ness Draw” Rapid Fire Bleed stacking and sustain)

I tried something similar with the exception I was using rabid gear with trap runes. I would have tried krait or mad king but the lack of speed kills you. I couldn’t keep up with any of my group mates.

I even tried sigil of speed / on kill speed boost which helped a bit but not a huge fan. This is, of course, in WvW whereas speed rules. Sometimes you just have to get away

Rabid with trap runes is very different to Celestial with Mad King runes.

Just swap LB for GS when moving around so you can Swoop as well as Hornets/Monarchs leap. You can also swap out the dagger for Warhorn (which also works very well with Sharpened Edges), throw on SoTH too. Just then swap back when you see incoming.

Yup – I agree. Runes/armor is way different. I’ve not made any ascended so just trying what I had used previously outside accessories. Side note, you guys/gals that can pull off the hornets/monarch leap combo – amazing. About the only thing I’m good at with that combo is killing myself from high ledges

Forgot to add, thanks for posting thread with builds. I think this is going to be very popular and helpful.

3. Hybrid Mad King LB
LB-S/D, Sk, WS, NM
(Celestial gear, “Quick-ness Draw” Rapid Fire Bleed stacking and sustain)

I tried something similar with the exception I was using rabid gear with trap runes. I would have tried krait or mad king but the lack of speed kills you. I couldn’t keep up with any of my group mates.

I even tried sigil of speed / on kill speed boost which helped a bit but not a huge fan. This is, of course, in WvW whereas speed rules. Sometimes you just have to get away

Tarsius.3170:

ArchonWing.9480:

Actually I read strength of the fallen wrong. That’s basically the old purity combined with the downed trait. That’s not too awful though naturally medi builds would be better with smiter’s boon.

Well what they’ve done is combine a semi-useful trait ( purity ) with one you would not want to take under any circumstances in pvp – it’s like ordering battle helmets with the horns on the inside

Lol. Well played.

mistsim.2748:

Sebrent.3625:

Sadly, you’re probably right … I’m not sure what ArenaNet is doing/thinking … they’ve already nerfed some things less than 24 hours after the patch and left more egregious things alone.

Valk, eh?
Have you tried remorseless with Cavalier?

it’s not really useful and I think u know why. 16k HP disappears awfully fast with 10 stacks of burning and15 stacks of bleeds. 26k HP, now that’s a nice buffer. originally I wanted cavalier stats, and it might be more viable for wvw. but with all these condis going around and no Resistance boon, valk is the way to go.

Hmm…probably why I was living longer on Monday than Tuesday That 2900 armor on my trap build does nothing to mitigate the conditional damage flying around.

I don’t want to have to order new / different armor

Sebrent.3625:

Sadly, you’re probably right … I’m not sure what ArenaNet is doing/thinking … they’ve already nerfed some things less than 24 hours after the patch and left more egregious things alone.

Valk, eh?
Have you tried remorseless with Cavalier?

I just logged in a few minutes ago to check something on my Guardian – two patches it seems. Any idea of what they changed?

Just wondering what support oriented WvW Guardians came up with. Pre patch I have been running valor/honor/virtues for small roaming. I mostly played my Ranger last night. When I did hop on the Guardian I wasn’t thrilled with the auto magic they did to my trait lay out.

From my Rangers perspective I’ve never been set on fire as much as last night – I swear burn here fire there, what a train wreck. Anyway – today is Guardian day so just looking to see what works. First jaunt out though in EBG on my Guard he went down quicker than a June bug in heat. Seems death comes much faster post-patch mixed with ignorance of my traits I’m sure.

Anyway – figured I’d ask what support players are running.

Sebrent.3625:

If you’re running a glassy (zerk) build, Thieves can be an issue (especially if they 2v1 you) … they have more access to %dmg/%cri_dmg modifiers now … and don’t have to trait to get extra power.

I was playing around with all sorts of my characters and my best results were my condi-ranger and condi-mesmer. My power-mesmer got insta-gibbed by a thief that came from outside my line-of-sight … wasn’t cool.

I think the only counter to a Mesmer is another Mesmer. At least that is how I felt after the molly whopping I got from the various Mesmer’s I fought

I was running both builds or armor sets last night while testing a few builds. Trapper / condition and also full zerk / dps. Overall game play in WvW was much faster so that is probably the main thing to over come right now. Or at least for me.

One thing I thought was interesting is that I saw a large number of level 1 upscale thieves in WvW. I was asking myself, self – is that because they are OP and flavor of the month and people are testing or are they just trolling.

Sebrent.3625:

@Heimskarl:
Aye, it was great to use against two squishy thieves … they attacked my bird while blind and weak … I made them bleed, burn, and poisoned them … I like to share :-)

I’ve had zero chance vs. thieves last night. I’ve not been on for a month or so due to travel but I wouldn’t expect to be that rusty I had most luck with traps though. Zerk, not so much – probably due to 2300 armor.

I was using wolf/spider (WvW spider). I always though eagle/owl was too easy to kill.

Samis.1750:

You lost some precision (15% maybe), toughness(300) and condi damage (300) assuming you ran an x-6-6-x-x build. The loss of toughness likely hurt your build, which is already quite glassy.

You haven’t told us what weapons you use. I am assuming you’re not a longbow trapper, but even then you could be running shortbow/x or double melee.

Bear in mind the traps are no longer ground targetable, meaning they just drop at your feet – which in my opinion seriously weakens the rune 6 stealth affect. I’m not sure whether the rune set is viable any more, and it is certainly less fun. This is especially true for your setup with its low armor, so you really the stealth when pressured as opposed to a dire/rabid trapper.

Go Skirmishing, Wilderness for Empathic Bond and either Beast Master or Nature depending on your preference. You might have to change your gear.

If you’re running longbow, you’ll need to figure it this out on your own.

I’m LB/Axe/Torch. Rabid gear, exotic with celestial ascended accessories and precision, toughness, vitality, and condition damage rings. Ammy is condtion also. Trapper runes. LB sigil is incapacitation and air axe is agony and torch carries geomancy.

I think that puts me about:

1,144 power
1,922 toughness
1,427 vitality
1,449 condition damage
156 critical damage
32% crit chance

Not knowing any better I’m trying:
skirmishing: Sharpened Edges, Hidden Barbs, Most Dangerous Game
Marksmanship: Signet of the wild, steady focus, remorseless
Wilderness survival: muddy terrain, ambidexterity, poison master

The whole wilderness thing seems off to me and I’m not sure how or why I went there. Especially since I’m not using muddy terrain

Trapper is different. The no-throw made it so. Like or dislike if that is what you run it feels different. So that by itself is one issue. Second issue related to the first is that now you have to lead people into it and you don’t have as much evasive maneuver as pre-patch. I think once you get the hang of it though it will probably be ok – just a guess.

Bigger issue is the overall speed of the kill. Burst is insane on most classes. One on one dancing it isn’t so bad but anything greater and the game is over, port and start over. This is from a WvW point of view.

I was talking about WvW

Just wondering on utilities – seems a few choices.

Gildos.8460:

I feel like condi ranger has had its survivability lowered possibly too much with a loss of a decent chunk of HP and about half the amount of condi cleanse it used to have. Possibly just my opinion though.

I can say doing some solo roaming in WvW with my former trap build I was going down rather quick. Too quick. I’m not sure how much of that is just bad luck or some classes being a bit over the top. For all the Guardian whining in their forums they seem to be hitting like a MAC truck

LB/Axe/Torch with about 1400 or so condition damage. Forget traits off the top of my head but so far, it is different and death comes quickly. I’m sure it is just adjusting or some small tweaks.

Some things when I played well by leading them into the traps seemed to go rather well. I’m sure better players are having better luck.

Give take…

What build you running. I’ve seen a few guardians out in WvW so far but they have all been using their dps/medi builds. I’ve only tried my Ranger so far..

Only counter to a Mesmer is another Mesmer

True story.

It is a different style of play now for sure. However, you can run and drop the trap then gain stealth and speed. If you like throwing then this is a bit different play for sure.

So far after a few roaming sessions in WvW I’ll need to tweak the build. I’m getting wrecked by thief and warriors at the moment. Seems like a lot less defense than before but I’m sure it is something with the auto trait thing and I’ll have to fix it.

I’ve not tried power builds yet. So far though leading into traps is just, well, different.

DarkSyze.8627:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kc6LZTwamPI

Is that all?

My man DarkSyze – scroll to 8 minute 30 second mark. Not my video but you will be taught how to handle rangers rapid fire. I would have assumed you learned to dodge by now or follow any of the other 30 or so tips and tricks fellow players passed along to you

Meh – damage or change is done – we’ll see how it goes on Tuesday. I’m just wondering how the trapper runes will work post patch. I really enjoy the trap runes now due to their utility. Not sure how the stealth/speed mechanic is going to work or if it will remain the same.

If it remains the same and you can 3 seconds after the delay then it will be fine and they will be good. If it is not, then time to pick another set.

Strategist.6132:

Okay let’s take a look at the facts:

About the dodge:
Rapid Fire lasts 2,5 seconds, while a dodge only takes 0.75 seconds, so even if you would use both dodges you would still not be able to fully come out undamaged.

It is about choices….everyone has options for sigils, traits, and food. So you can actually have 3 dodges.

This argument is old. Arena Net doesn’t believe it is over powered or needs adjustment. Au contraire they changed it – so you all dislike it and come to the forums to say so. Or the general forum, or even the WvW forum.

It will be interesting come Tuesday because Rangers will get a few more trait points back now whereas we spent them for ranger and a few other things. By nightfall on Tuesday I’m thinking there will be much more dislike.

Another day. Another rapid fire post.

I actually believe it needs a buff. A buff on the scale a nuclear bomb. Then we buff the #5 skill so it has a wider area of effect and it throws a bubble over my team mates that shield them from the blast and radiation.