Zunki.3916

Okay I do not get the outbreak. Doesn't it do the exact same maximum potential damage as before, just a bit more potential aoe while less guaranteed single target?! Also the aoe is better avoideable as it seems to be more visible. How on earth is this considered a buff?!

They confirmed they are aware of the bug and that will fix it.

The F5 is horrible to reach and rebinding it is also hard, I have everything bound and set already for years now. I was thinking on makroing the F5 into the F1...F4 as a condition sequence just to come around that.

But they added F5 to make it different from how tempest does it without any benefit and only making the class kitten to play to begin with 🙂 There are so many more than 3 major problems here 🙂

I still think 3 main things are almost mandatory and then add further changes down the line: Remove Energy and make it the cooldown only Bake the F5 into the F1-F4 like Tempest does Remove the 10 stack condition on the gm trait Then what I would further like: Increase the empowered elements duration by 33% with the gm trait rework some core weapons that dont have good access to finishers to have them Remove the 10% dmg reduction from Quickness. You already lose 10% stats AND 10% dmg by not taking the dps traits. Further shafting is not needed. This would not actually increase top end DPS but would open up the class to a greater audience by removing the pain to play it without dumbing the meta rotation all too much.

And in PvE one of the dps traits forces you into double attuning, but that's a limited use case.

Why would you make a condi build with elemental surge and not take arcane power? Also will you ever reach 10 stacks for the 20% boost in stats? At that pont the stab might net more dps.

Yeah but that can be adressed by putting it on both auras AND overloads: For DPS, it could pulse 1s alac every 1s +3s upon completion (7s per overload). You need the trait and quite some alacduration and the trait as a downside For support, it would do the same, but also on auras (x seconds, would have to be balanced), also needing you doing 1 overload (instead of 2 from dps) to achieve 100% uptime. That way you have more freedom but still enough of a downside from providing alac.

Is the weakness from the weaver trait worth more than the additional hp?

I completely understand. The issue is that especially weaver feels balanced around some insane 4 attunement switches and to remove this disadvantage of the balancing the idea was to remove access. Ofc a change in balance philosophy would be sufficent enough to solve this issue.

Yeah right? Energy on catalyst and somehow also the F5 are both totally unneeded mechanics. Put the field on the attunement like tempest and remove energy (a CD does it). Having the F5 is jsut to make it different from tempest, is so dumb bad design and almost prevents me from playing the spec properly, I really hate it.

That they dont have (had?) checks in place to prevent such literal trolling I will never understand.

And because probably many of us think this way it's gonna be rifle 🙂

This is actually so kitten important. If pvp leagues need some stable balance Im okay with that. But PvE/WvW could need medium sized tweaks on a 4 week schedule with bigger stuff on a 2-3 month schedule. 1 or 2 balance patches a year for PvE when some things are this busted makes no sense. Also we have seen how much can be done in little time. Push the tempo.

This is actually so kitten important. If pvp leagues need some stable balance Im okay with that. But PvE/WvW could need medium sized tweaks on a 4 week schedule with bigger stuff on a 2-3 month schedule. 1 or 2 balance patches a year for PvE when some things are this busted makes no sense. Also we have seen how much can be done in little time. Push the tempo.