In my opinion Combustive Shot simply did/does too much damage, so that actually reducing the “burst damage it deals in 10 seconds” is fine with me, but I really don’t know why you are saying this ability is/was able to easily restore all of the adrenaline lost, when in reality not only do the pulses not “easily restore all of your adrenaline” but they do in fact not restore ANY adrenaline at all.
Maybe he is talking about the effectivness of Longbow burst with the Furious trait? That is the only possible explanation I have :-/ .
The thing is, without any proof, we don’t know if he abused the system or not. He might also just have had a lucky win streak, got a top placement, and didn’t had any new targets to go for.
What happened to the presumption of innocence / innocent until proven guilty?
Maybe ArenaNet has more information on that, they are not sharing with us, other we unfortunately can not prove anything. I think most guys who participated in SoloQ did this in a legit way, and earned their way to the top.
Haha.Well i really believe someone said that the system is being restarted because it was under hard abuse and this wouldn’t normally happpen because low ranked since no one cares about ranks 9999 enough.Message was quite clear and official,top players abused the system and they want to fix this while still respecting the no namig/shaming policy.However everyone can just simply look at the leaderboards to make their own opinios about who did or did not have part in this.Imagination it’s the limit
Also i am 100% sure that there are A LOT of better players out there that did not even touch queue because they either have not enough friends to sync or simply they just don’t like to exploit for an imaginary “i am good player” when in fact that is really far from the truth and cannot even be established since atm no legitimate system exists to measure such premises. / insert random punctuation i am sleepy
+1 m8 that is booring as hell and this is coming from someone that played condi builds way before anyone even tought a warrior can have a condi build.This game is so full of cheese and no skill easymode bandwagoneers it’s not even funny.Just look at every classes meta ,Copy/Paste Iwin ftw.
The good news is that they lost, twice. Which suggests to me the queue syncing they were taking advantage of is gone.
The only reason they’re staying at the top is because their MMR was heavily inflated while they were syncing, and it takes a while to drop. The reset on the 29th will drop it much faster.
Please stop accusing good players of syncing.
Where is the proof they are good players though ? The boards ? Edit your post to “players” to reflect more reality.
The good news is that they lost, twice. Which suggests to me the queue syncing they were taking advantage of is gone.
The only reason they’re staying at the top is because their MMR was heavily inflated while they were syncing, and it takes a while to drop. The reset on the 29th will drop it much faster.
Please stop accusing good players of syncing.
Where is the proof they are good players though ? The boards ? Edit your post to “players” to reflect more reality.
People claiming getting to the top in legit ways make me lol irl.I mean how naive can you be to not know that if your team wins you can just keep queing because you will always be paired with the same exact players until one of them would just quit.Riding win streaks of even 10 matches in a row and simply quit the 1st match you lose.10/1 ratio, and the real legit players would just lose those 10 in a row and taking it.Thats what the system was and seriously it takes a lot of nerv to claim being a top player and being recognized for it with a title.
Lux, exploiers should be permanently banned not rewarded with a longer kitten.People were banned for far less at launch and many of those players didn’t even knew they were exploiting, while que syncing and even rank skyhammer farming are far worse.Anet should wake up and decide wich way they wanna go already.People got banned at launch for making what ? Maybe10 gold? When in pvp the only valuable thing is rank and title a rank 60 could easily be the counterpart of pve’s legendary items only a lot harder to achieve, and these exploiters get away with it really easy and worst of all in the face of dedicated and legitimate players.Way to go only thinking about this causes me to completely lose faith.
I can confirm this 1oo percent.Bulls charge is slowly turning into rush, only good for running away lately.I took my pve build for a spin in wvw the other day and 7 times out if 10 it failed miserably.Was mostly passing throught the target and ending in a 300 or so radius fron it making it impossible to land an attack such as 100 blades.Most of the time 100b finishes straight into the air.
Another gamebreaking bug wich i am really tired of is the dodge/move trought the immobilize.When i start flurry the target can dodge ending up a few feet away but still immobilized while i am stuck in the animation and completely missing all the hits into the air.Andrenaline gone for nothing.
Anither big bug is when I use flurry on someone and switch to greatsword to 100blades my character freezes for 2 or 3 seconds making any use of the immobilize really useless.
These bugs persist and the devs are pushing us(they actually said it quite clearly in the open) to use these full of bugs weapons and create our dps builds arround them but how are we to do anything with huge bugs like these on our MAIN UTILITIES, CLASS MECHANIC (burst skills), AND WEAPON SKILLS? I repeat these are not afecting minor or situational traits but MAIN utilities and skills our class is designed to*RELY* on.How are we supposed to rely and be viable in pvp with skills that have over 50% chance of failing?
I just can’t answer this massive hyperbole with a strait face.
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But instead you managed to do it perfectly with a trollface:D.Lol @ gsf1 being anything else than a waste of andrenaline.Even autoattack can fo the same damage.
It’s definitely not you. I got a lot of insults for playing a Hambow Warrior, being told I suck, have no skill, all that good stuff. I started playing S/S+LB and I had an Engineer say that I was stupid.
I’ve also whose name asked if I lift, and I messaged him that I do indeed lift after I killed him and he got really angry with me.
People tend to insult when things don’t go their way, don’t let it get to you. The community is toxic so bring some Antitoxin Spray.
Community is not that toxic,but it’worsening because of the ammount of zero skill copy paste players and builds.And gz you just named the best two, along with minion necro and zoopet ranger.
Just tossing it out there,
“Defense XII – Spiked Armor. Reduced the recharge from 15s to 10s.”
30 tactics, boon runes = 100% retailation uptime.
About 500dmg every time you’re hit with average Warrior’s power.
A Thief doing two Pistol Whips on you receives 10,000 dmg.
So where is the problem in that? Guardians do this in soldier’s gear since launch and no one is complaining.
Top 100 should be given the title" exploit ftw" and should not be removable.How about that reward?If you are that good then there is no problem you guys still have both hands do you?
Let me guess, another person who barely does any PvP and assumes anyone in the top 100 exploited to get there… (no im not talking about solo q)
Both ladders are broken.Soloq and Teamq are both affected by decay and bad matchmaking.Soloq is also affected by sync exploits but that does not make team q any more legit.Bad Matchmaking still affects both ladders.
You have 73 games in total, all in solo queue and are not even ranked in team queue, I don’t think you really have the ability to be stating things like you are when you don’t even play the PvP yourself.
I only play hotjoin because the system is broken(Duh!).73 matches is enough to understand that you are paired in 4v5s and against ranks 40-50-60-40-40 vs ranks 5-10-30-10-5 and the system is faulty.Tons of people can confirm this.Arenanet already OFFICIALLY stated that the boards and matchmaking are broken.If that is not enough for you as proof paired with the countless threads asking for fixes then i don’t know what to say more.
Top 100 should have the option of displaying their ladder rank as their in-game title.
A simple “#51” for example. Strike fear in foes by showing off ladder ranking.
Top 100 should be given the title" exploit ftw" and should not be removable.How about that reward?If you are that good then there is no problem you guys still have both hands do you?
Let me guess, another person who barely does any PvP and assumes anyone in the top 100 exploited to get there… (no im not talking about solo q)
Both ladders are broken.Soloq and Teamq are both affected by decay and bad matchmaking.Soloq is also affected by sync exploits but that does not make team q any more legit.Bad Matchmaking still affects both ladders.
why does everyone assume that people in top 100 cheated? lol.
Yes.Actually now that i think about it this makes perfect sense.It is perfectly clear that Arenanet decided to rework and reset everyones ranks and ladder system because some ranks 189923 and 209387 exploited to get 189922 and 209386.Thank you for opening our eyes.
Top 100 should have the option of displaying their ladder rank as their in-game title.
A simple “#51” for example. Strike fear in foes by showing off ladder ranking.
Top 100 should be given the title" exploit ftw" and should not be removable.How about that reward?If you are that good then there is no problem you guys still have both hands do you?
Leader board is broken and exploitable to ridiculous levels.No one should be rewarded since IT IS BROKEN and every partecipant benefited or droped in ranks where they should not be because of this issue.
3 superior arrow carts are enough to kill 10 golems before they breach trough the gate.They do arround 7500 damage per second and even organized guilds have trouble surviving that kind of damage..Please learn your facts better before posting such nonsense.
You are funny. You know that there is something call armor in this game? Superior Ac don’t do 7500/sec. Not even half of that most of the time.
Also , please note that there is a reason why 40 man zerg stack at gate.
So that you can’t hit their ram. It also prevent the same person from getting ACed by three AC at the same time.
Read the post again .i said THREE superior arrowcarts with mastery and all.They do that much damage.These are facts since more than 6 months ago and there are not hidden knowledge.
Please go cry to Visunah Square or Riverside(Rivercart) about how you can’t hold a keep with only a handfull of people.
Yeah I love how all these people from blob servers come on here and talk about how easy defense is. Lol, they just like superior rams because they’re the one’s running around in 60 person zergs throwing down 3 and 4 superior rams and melting gates in mere seconds.
3 superior acs cannot stop 3 superior rams when a 40 person blob is at the gate. With Ele’s throwing down waterfields it just negates the ac damage. And the ac’s can’t destroy the rams before they’re through the gate.
People saying otherwise don’t know what they’re talking about.
3 superior arrow carts are enough to kill 10 golems before they breach trough the gate.
This topic is about superior rams, not about golems
3 superior rams are enough to kill 10 superior rams before they breach trough the gate. Fixed that for your comprehension skills too.Defense is already over the top in this game you just need like 10 competent defenders .It is already unnaceptable that 5 people can defend against 100 for hours if they have enough suply stacked inside with the use of overpowered siege.
Use scouts,prebuild your siege and refresh it.If you don’t want to do that you should lose your keep.
Yeah I love how all these people from blob servers come on here and talk about how easy defense is. Lol, they just like superior rams because they’re the one’s running around in 60 person zergs throwing down 3 and 4 superior rams and melting gates in mere seconds.
3 superior acs cannot stop 3 superior rams when a 40 person blob is at the gate. With Ele’s throwing down waterfields it just negates the ac damage. And the ac’s can’t destroy the rams before they’re through the gate.
People saying otherwise don’t know what they’re talking about.
3 superior arrow carts are enough to kill 10 golems before they breach trough the gate.They do arround 7500 damage per second and even organized guilds have trouble surviving that kind of damage..Please learn your facts better before posting such nonsense.
Seriously something needs to be done about it. Nothing annoys me more than losing a fully upgraded tower cus a blob showed up and put down 3 or more superior rams and down the gate and cap tower in a minute or so. Now with ram mastery its just kittened how fast even a reinforced gate drops. Maybe the other superior siege can stay but the superior rams got to go or get there dps dropped a lot.
You do remember arrow carts got buffed by like 150% just for you to sit on one and kill those rams right ?
I will personally bet my own money if out of ten throws of bola you can get me twice. To make this interesting, I will stand still on a small incline and still wager you’d be lucky to get 2. If/when i am allowed to move..i’d be surprised if you can 12 or more out of a hundred.
Lol anyone stupid enough to throw bolas before immobing someone first is asking to be dodged.
If you want AOE CC, bring a hammer. If you want burst or DPS, bring an axe or a greatsword.
No one weapon to rule them all…what’s up anet? Ladder reset and now this…are you finally starting to do things the right way?…probably the first time i say this: “Good Job”
Yes that would have been a good job indeed .Except it is not since greatsword is broken and buggy as kitten and no fix for over an year.
If you guys don’t think two sources of long immob cooldown can’t set up hundred blades, then you’re not as good as you think you are.
If you don’t think any other good player has at least blink/teleport/invulnerability/block than you are not as good as you think you are.
GS/LB is a great weapon set and can be built in a variety of ways. Good Warriors will know that. The mobility, AoE, Immob potential with Leg Specialist, 100B for cleave and to take advantage of immobs…
It seems you don’t know much about Warrior.
Aaaaaaand another pro that can kill a mesmer/thief with 100 blades.Didn’t realize this game is full of pros especially when i log into the mists.
PLEASE, ANET—I and other Mesmers BEG you to do something with these two skills. At the very least, share your thoughts with us on this, because I think most Mesmer players see these as the two biggest problems with Mesmers.
There are hundreds of dead skills in this game and that is just the tip of the iceburg of GW2’s issues.
If you ever want to complain about misc weapons, go look at ele offhands, I mean the one no one uses.
Ever.
If it mattered (or if you think this does), focus on improving what already exists. When that is in a great state, work on expanding it to other setups.
There is so much cheese/shenanigans and just straight up badly designed stuff in this game that diversity is the least of it’s issues.
This.I mean heck all classes have at least a dozen useless weapon skills.
405 + 360/3 + ~1800 × 2 Heal from Shouts every 20s = 715 hps with my build.
The idea is you can easily reach that level with the help fo HS.
Passive regen from the Signet is still the most of it.
Yeah, you’d just 1vs10 HS wars today and still won, I know. That does prove HS is not OP at all, for sure.
So you basicly spec for healing on shouts and then you call Healing signet OP even if it has absolutely nothing to do with it .LOL .You can do the same with andrenal surge.You want me to make a drawing for you ?All the other classes can easily reach 600-800 hps too so what’s your point ?
The ammount of perplexity engies/thieves and mesmers is quite laughable.Plz delete the runes already so we can all have fun in roaming again and get back to crying how annoying d/p thieves are.The way it was supposed to be.
That’s exactly the problem. With adrenal health, I can reach 700+ hps easily, and use some blocks or escapes to capitalize on that.
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Sure it’s fun to play, at start, when you kill pepole. But as I realized some professions simply can’t dish out as much damage to pass my regen, the 1vs1 fights don’t seem fair to me anymore.
I’m not asking to nerf the warrior without other solutions, but this one is too easy to build / achieve, I think. Some regen on skill activation, for example, would be better than this.
Whar does healing signet have to do with your 700hps.Hs is 400 End of story .You could still keep the other 300hps even if you equip another heal and you need to trade almost everyrhing thing to spec a cheesyy healing power regen bunk with the new change to UF.
I just 1v2 two of these warriors today in wvw, me alone, so your argument that classes don’t have enough dps it’s just false.Not my problem they choose to use bunky with crappy dps builds.
Ps your hps is wrong too.Andrenal health does not work like that.Yet another fotm reroller that knows nothing about what he is talking about.
It’s worth noting that Tyler Chapman and I have tested a few variations of Hambow internally and it still does good damage. Like…really good. I think the main implication of the changes in PvP is that you won’t be able to run defensive runesets like Lyssa and do the same amount of damage as you did before – you’ll need to run offensive sets.
Did you guys tested the other classes damage internally while running defensive specs ?My money is on * NO* because you would have realized how badly these nerfs are going to affect warriors while other classes can still outdamage a warrior by going full bunker because of sustained and better application of their damage than warriors get.
If you want AOE CC, bring a hammer. If you want burst or DPS, bring an axe or a greatsword.
So why not fix greatword then and why you nerfed axe ? I am speechless yopu do know these 2 weapons for pvp are in the “useless” department right ?Another reason i must believe you guys are pvecentric with these changes.GS and axe are not viable weapons as they are now in pvp period.Do you guys even play pvp ?You need to completely rework axe and greatsword skills if you want warriors to start using them in pvp without being a free kill or run in a zerg ftw department.
In wvw the problem isn’t so much the signet alone, it’s that the Warrior can use his mobility to kite and ensure those huge passive heals.
Solution: HS heals normally when in 600 range of an enemy, but outside of that range its heal interval is reduced to once per 3s.
Rush on GS and Savage Leap also should get increased cooldowns when used without an in-range target.
That and the Dec 10 changes would fix just about everything about Warrior imo.
And by fix you mean freekill status again right ?
As long as Warrior has its stability utilities, zerk stance, dogged march and cleansing ire it’ll never be a “freekill”. None of which from that list I think need nerfing particularly. Kiting mobility coupled with passive regen promotes a cheesy run and peck playstyle that doesn’t really punish an overextended Warrior.
Learn to warrior if your playstile it’s run and peck.Warriors were supposed to be a strong frontline class not squishy ao be forced to run every 5 seconds to regain health.Warriors don’t have to run outside of a fight to survive what does that tell you about how good warrior’s survavibility is ?
can’t tell if trolling or just ignorant. Sure reroll from the strongest class in the game to the weakest. I started as ele and switched to warrior when I realized it could do everything exponentially better with a fraction of the effort. Even after the patch, ele will still be absolute crap, because they aren’t even touching the core problems with the class. They’re just attempting to put a band-aid on it. The only thing the class is good for is if you like being a buffbot in a zerg.
Idk what’s more ignorant.Falling into the troll trap or stating that war is the strongest class atm.But you know what they say ignorance it’s bliss.
If you dont think Warrior is the strongest overall class right now, you havent played the other classes. The Guardian forums are all crying about how Warriors can out cleanse and out bunker them so whats the point of being a Guard. Theres so much crying about how Warriors are better on every level over there its not even funny.
Your OP meter is broken if your main source of information it’s qq ammount on forums.If you really think warrior is the strongest class than you havent played this game properly.Guardians who cry that a warrior can outbunker them should just stick to pve or simply reroll because clearly they are terrible guardians.And trust me i play both and guardian is getting better and better every patch.They have better team support,better survavibility and better dps if specced for it while mantaining the 2 above.If a warrior goes dps spec it’s impossible to survive even if handled by the best player in the world.No ammount of hands will save a dps warrior because the class mechanics are simply terrible and has zero reset skills.
Wanna know how terrible most whiners are ? Last night i was kiting a hammer warrior in circles while dpsing down a ranger.I had no stunbreaks equiped at all,no endure pain,no stability and no uf/lame traits.The warrior never landed one stun on me hence his dps was terribleI just kept blocking and dodging his every stun.The rangers pet was by far the highest threat if i were to compare the two.
Baddies will always soak the forums in their tears instead of improving.They keep blocking and dodging when not getting hit,using conditions in spam mode with no strategy at all and most importantly they never try to read the enemie’s moves or buffs.When they die they go “Omg my 123456789804524234 condi spam or 22223332222 spam didn’t work omg the warrior it’s so op Anet nerf!!!!!”
In wvw the problem isn’t so much the signet alone, it’s that the Warrior can use his mobility to kite and ensure those huge passive heals.
Solution: HS heals normally when in 600 range of an enemy, but outside of that range its heal interval is reduced to once per 3s.
Rush on GS and Savage Leap also should get increased cooldowns when used without an in-range target.
That and the Dec 10 changes would fix just about everything about Warrior imo.
can’t tell if trolling or just ignorant. Sure reroll from the strongest class in the game to the weakest. I started as ele and switched to warrior when I realized it could do everything exponentially better with a fraction of the effort. Even after the patch, ele will still be absolute crap, because they aren’t even touching the core problems with the class. They’re just attempting to put a band-aid on it. The only thing the class is good for is if you like being a buffbot in a zerg.
Idk what’s more ignorant.Falling into the troll trap or stating that war is the strongest class atm.But you know what they say ignorance it’s bliss.
Hundreed blades wins in pve scenario because targets are still and it’s more spammable because of shorter cd than guardian’s.
In pvp guardian’s greatsword is better in all points.Mobile damage,Buffs aoe retaliation(more damage),symbol of wrath hits like a truck(a lot more than warrior’s longbow combustive shot lvl 3just to make a comparison),Dot or aoe pull at nr 5,reliable leap plus blind also damage is good.Warrior gs looses hands down except a little more spammable.
Does any warrior use Mobile strikes? Mainly in pvp? it’s a good trait in the discipline line among other good traits too, so it’s kind of a risk…
And what about Sweet Revenge? There’s a few times where it actually comes in handy, but there are those times when you get vengeance off and you end up downing your enemy, thinking “why didn’t I trait sweet revenge?” also, though it’s not in the discipline line, has anyone ever used Vigorous Return? there’s other traits that are more useful than it, but if you rally, 25% more health is a decent amount of hp given the more you have and you regain all your endurance.
Am i reading that trait right? :/ do you gain 25% more health and have twice as much endurance when you rally? or do you just get your endurance refilled? the description is just a little confusing… but yeah
Who cares.All these traits are wack for any kind of situation.Usually of you get rallied means the danger it’s over,that you have team support or one of your enemies died,hence you are in advantage.And rally already gives you too much hp to begin with making it impossible to continue a fight in a 1v2 scenario,more than enough to put you right back in the fight in a team skirmish or completely reset it in a 2v2.
Now you imagine a 1v1 fight, where you cant just keep your attention on 1 character.
He doesn’t have to imagine anything.If he doesn’t know that by fact already than pvp it’s not his forte and this discussion it’s pointless.
Only the target being removed gimmick ALONE counts more than any of warriors defensive skills comparing how much dps you can avoid by doing it and for how long and freqvency.
Combustive Shot – Increased pulse duration to 3s. Increased burn duration per pulse to 3s. Normalized damage per pulse. Updated pulses per tier to 2, 3,and 4 respectively for tier 1, tier 2, and tier 3. Overall physical damage has been reduced by 15%.
Update on Combustive shot from anet.
15% it’s a LIE it might as well be a 50% nerf since no one will ever get hit by 2 ticks anymore while before was getting hit by 2 ticks the 1st one and the second.If a target was fully Pindowned was eating a 3 ticks(1st insta and respectively at 2 and 4 seconds) now it will eat at max 2(1st and at 3 seconds) making it a 33% damage nerf.
What is up with Anet’s pve logic in pvp.Players are not npcs that stand arround for 10 seconds in the affected area And even if it were it is still a lie since 4 ticks out of 5 it’s not 15% but 20%.Basic math.
Combustive shot power dps needed a boost not a nerf and it already needed faster ticks or more raw damageAll the complaints in spvp were all about the burning too not one about the already laughable power damage.
So what it was an andrenaline builder at the expense of sitting ducks.Warrior was supposed to gain andrenaline in other ways except getting hit in the face. Oh wait that must be because “Warriors (key word)→by nature have a lot of survivability" Loooooooool.
Firstly, its a L2P issue. Try timing your imobilise skills (Pin down and Flurry) with your AoE pulse skills from your LB, its not hard.
Bit if you cant manage to push a few buttons in the correct order then well sir, there is no hope for you.
Signed this game is ezomode
Please link us a video of yourself stunning a mesmer with more than 2 fingers with mace stun or immobilize him in your red circle in a 1v1.Kthx bye.
Ps flurry and combustive shot at the same timehmm.Wich one is more crap 1second immobize or lvl1 combustive .Y thats a lot of damage /sarcasm , except is not even enough to kill a ranger or necro pet.When we need pve or zerging advice we will give you a pm don’t worry.
I normally dont post in forum with regards to updates but just read them. I personally felt this nerf gone way too far. I am actually okay with the hammer nerf in terms of damage as I understand that it is OP when I use it myself. What I could not accept is why is mace getting nerf and with regards to all these nerf there isn’t any additional buffs to other areas to open more options for build. I fought several classes 1v1 and I don’t think I am a real bad player but is having a lot of trouble to kill them , like for example for mesmer that illusion, evade and stealth rotation is totally lame and its not getting nerf, you can barely land a burst on them and when u finally stun them they teleport away, meanwhile you are suffering from tons of conditions which means you are pretty much dead unless you run. I think the dev team is too focused on nerfing OP areas due to QQers but neglected the fun of the class itself whereby so many weapon is left unused like rifle, axe and GS(Seriously you expect us to hit stuff with it when 3 out of the 5 skill always fail due to lag). Please give us buff in other areas like u did with guardian when you nerf us.
And the only weapon that was kind of viable againts mesmers is getting a huge nerf besides all that.Yes i am talking about bow.Bow/mace is the most nerfed build in this patch even more than hammer/x since mace lacks mobility and without the strong aoe you wouldnt even be able to kill the clones,besides no cripple/weakness and aoe stun/damage/mobility a hammer still has over mace.I am strongly considering to move on if the patch will prove too kitten fun builds.No go for booring fotm dire or pvt for me.
Who brings a mace to a zerg fight?It’s like bringing a knife to a gun fight only instead of guns they use bazookas.Skullcrack is single target and counterblow it’s wack in a zerg fight.Also no stability? How are you planning to cc your enemies if you are stunlocked yourself ?
I already HATE the slow “pulse” speed of combustive shot. Once every 2 seconds is sorta slow. Now they want to change it to every 3 seconds?!
Alternatively, Rangers Barrage skill hits once every 0.6 seconds!
Please, Please, Please, speed UP the pulse to 1.5 or 1 second. DONT slow it down even more from 2 to 3!
I’m not even talking about increasing the DPS, that can be normalized and spread across the faster pulses.
Incidentally, ANet’s argument for slowing the pulses down is not the damage (stated to be normalised to the new pulse rate anyways, and the total burning duration is actually increased)
ANet’s argument is that the current pulse rate generates additional adrenaline too quickly, hence lowering the number of hits.
The new form has 2 seconds higher base burning duration total and the fire field will last 1 second longer at full adrenaline. Assuming the normalisation goes properly, it’s a buff to everything except the adrenaline gain rate.
You are assuming that the enemy players will stand in the fire field for the entire duration. And that will not happen. If the concern is that the current pulse rate generates too much adrenaline, then put a cap on the adrenaline gains. Make it so that instead of it calculating how many enemies it hits to add adrenaline, just be that if a pulse hits at least 1 enemy, generate 1 adrenaline. So 1 Combustive Shot pulse can only generate 1 adrenaline (provided it hits something). This way you solve the adrenaline generating problem and don’t weaken the skill heavily.
The skill has already been weakened by having the radius at adrenaline levels 1 and 2 smaller, making it that much more difficult to use. Please try cutting the adrenaline gain per pulse, rather than increasing its time between pulse rate or total duration.
Longbow
A lot of thought went into the change to combustive shot. This skill was simply too effective at renewing itself. One of the drawbacks of the burst skills needs to be losing your adrenaline, but this skill was easily able to restore all of the adrenaline it lost. Rather than reduce the burn duration we reduced the # of attacks this skill creates because we felt it made it more counterable in PvP and less reliable in PvE as an adrenaline builder
The adrenaline issue is directed at PvE. However, also note that the lower hit rate is intended to make it easier to avoid in PvP as well.
The PvE adrenaline reduction is being counterbalanced by the added burning duration; WvW isn’t really affected because it’s likely still going to hit people in zerg v zerg. PvP is the most harshly affected, but that’s exactly what’s intended.
OH thanx for explaining that to us finally someone came to the rescue / sarcasm
DAMAGE nerf is not needed.Look at guardian symbols they tick once per second with more damage while also aplying buffs.Very good for aplying burst dps.Combustive shot already was 2 times slower and damage was already to low now they will nerf it even more.Bow f1 power dps if not else NEEDS A BOOST instead they just go on by nerfing 33% and respectively 20%its base for nothing while making it extremely easy to avoid .I mean lol 3 seconds to get out before the 2nd tick isn’t that too much? In 3 whole seconds a thief can end up most fights in pvp anmd the damage was already laughably low.
