Tammuz.7361

so much for a "quality of life" patch... this patch reduced QOL massively with this change Also agree its sad that they dont even know that there was 0 cooldown before, not 30 sec. shows that they dont even play their own game 😞

This change sucks 😞

Hits the nail on the head here regarding Weapon Master.

Looks like it. but everyone else noticing same thing so price of charms is skyrocketing!

Ascended relics next expansion?

looks like they did buff vindicator, or tried to: Leviathan Strength: Increased damage bonus from 10% to 15% in PvE only. Forerunner of Death: Increased damage bonus from 15% to 25% in PvE only. still waiting for ARCdps to get fixed to see if overall ended up being a buff or a nerf with the GS damage nerfs though...

Probably a lot more than that, 50% duration reduction on torment from shades = big ouchy

and they nuked vindicator while nerfing herald... anyone surprised? Oops, didnt see the last 2... maybe vindi playable after all?

Wait until after nerfs in about 6 hours... whole PvE balance is about to change later today and Anet didnt give us a preview.

try playing virtuoso in actual content at 1200 range and getting anywhere near the golem numbers. You dont get boons from the rest of the party at 1200 range, meaning your going to do either do a fraction of the DPS, or your going to have to play mele to get boons to get anywhere near the golem numbers. Also c.virt doesnt have much (any) utility outside of ranged damage and cant self buff (even might stacks). DPS is literally the ONLY thing the class has. Scourge is 900 range, not 1200. Though with its insane best-in-game AOE and easy rotation ... okay yeah, scourge needs a bit of a nerf. I just hope they dont nuke harbinger into oblivion with a straight pistol nerf later today. Harbinger having a much more complex rotation, resource management, and has to be played in mele range for shroud 3+4 to achieve its DPS numbers which are already a solid 6k under scourge vs the golem.

"I also predict that the way some weapon damage will be controlled is by tying a damage modifier to their respective elite specs." This would be a reasonable and good way to do it so they dont nuke the specs that arnt over performing and dont need a nerf right now.

Depending on which get excluded, that could be a problem... especially for builds and classes that rely on a certain 6 peice set bonus to function properly... Hopefully they will include the majorly played / META ones at a minimum...

seems to be down...

Maybe they add that later? They did with shrine guardian ears...

That was with autocast rifle and mech skils. Just auto attack on rifle (literally could walk AFK to go get a sandwich and put out over 25k dps)