Is there even any more sense in this thread? Nothing showed so far with videos/screenshots ever proved that condi gameplay is something different from simple spamming where your only chance as player is to emulate the spamming but with cleanses.
-Now there are many, many ways to negate/reduce power damage but there is no way to reduce condition damage.
-You can weaken the damage, put long protection duration on you to reduce dmg, increase your toughness levels
What there is against condi damage? absolutely nothing other than cleanse spam, ofc some try hard condi spammer will come here and say that a couple of seconds of resistance on skill with an average CD of 40s , a handful of skills available to few professions, should be considered a counter
A 2s resistance every 35s+ is enough against condi spam? What people are ready to say in order to win..amazing.
Please stop the non sense about precision required for condi builds, a couple of traits require crits to apply a single additional condi..and of all sudden all condi builds require precision
I can go around with 10k HP if facing power builds, I can dodge powerful burst, weaken others, protect against other ones. Against condi build, your toughness means nothing, instead you must have:
-increased vitality
-all possible condi cleanse
-enough dmg to get through all the toughness, typical of most condi buildSuch a huge amount of limitations on build diversity.
Most condi builds can apply 4-5 condis with the auto-attack alone and here they come telling you to dodge -_-, there is no set up with condi builds, no need to watch for enemy number of dodges, if he has aegis,protection, if you’re slowed/weakened or the enemy toughness…you can just pew pew off CD till you don’t overwhelm the enemy condi removal ability.
Condi build is a simplistic gameplay and widely chosen by new players for the increased sustain and efficiency, if there is something broken, that would be condi dmg.
There should be a stat that reduce incoming condi damage, a condition that reduce condi damage on the caster…something that force the condi user to pay attention for once other than unload : well-well-well-scepter 1-1-1-1-1-1-DS-fear-well-well-scepter 1-1-1-1-signet-DS-fear ect etc
Typical necro gameplay – Do you even know what boons the enemy has bro?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd7Sby_wqo4PvP version for the try hard “defenders”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dyiUVGLXQEMuch skill, pew pew
Wow, spamming seems to have a loose definition these days. What about power rangers who press 111121112111112 or perhaps thieves that use heartseeker over and over with no cooldown until their initiative runs out? What about Rev with sword 3 being a long evade that some classes (like base necro for example) must use both dodges to avoid, or lose a large chunk of hp?What about mesmers that use all their shatter skills from stealth and can kill half the classes in the game from full HP in a second? I don’t personally consider any of that spam, just using skills.
I never said condition builds Need crit, I said they can make use of it, but its not required. Once again, there are plenty of power based builds that don’t use any crit at all, like the ones I mentioned on one of my last posts.
No Classes auto applies 4-5 conditions, you made that up. Necro auto applies 2 (bleed and poison) after a full chain, which takes 2 seconds
Simplistic gameplay applies to both power and condi builds, Guild Wars 2 really isn’t that hard of a game to play, unless you think the examples I listed above are somehow more skillful even though most of them use 1-2 keys to perform a ton of instant damage.
as a side note- " well-well-well-scepter 1-1-1-1-1-1-DS-fear-well-well-scepter 1-1-1-1-signet-DS-fear ect etc" -shows that you really don’t know what you are talking about.
As a necro main, I can tell you that no condtion build runs wells. The fact that you even used a terrormancer as an example of “typical necro gameplay” is laughable, because that build has not only been dead for months, but was also considered to be much harder to play then power necro when it was popular, mostly because power necro is Dagger 111111111 DS 1111111 Lich 11111111. Funnily enough, power necro is probably one of the most spammy builds in the game by your definition, anyway.
