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[Sovereign.1093]

@misterman.1530 said:

@Sovereign.1093 said:

@"JTGuevara.9018" said:I do admit, I like what I'm hearing, although I am skeptical as others. Powercreep in this game is a kitten show. 1 hr, 13 min piqued my interest: "We have skills that do too many things at once....". Too many skills function mainly as "oh s---!" buttons. I'm sorry, but that just promotes not only bad gameplay, but a bad community. You just end up attracting players who want to run troll builds or those that just want stuff handed to them. Enough of this faceroll damage, high-boon spam!

hehe those are guardian skills >3<

Yeah, I laughed at that point too...but in my case the reaction was "Please, tell me the "oh sh**" button for necros."

they probably want to remove trait skill weapon synergy. i wonder if it will be super concentrated

[Opopanax.1803]

I dont think any Traits should grant more than a 5% damage multiplier. I also dont think might or protection should do more than increase/decrease damage by 5-10%. All of these things need to be smaller percentages that get really strong when they are all stacked, not ridiculously strong by themselves.

I also think condi skills need to do either 1 or 2 conditions. The condi-bombs of 3+ condi's on a single skill is too much. I'd prefer to see professions restricted to a handful of conditions, not having access to all of them.

I think this would balance things out a lot more than they currently are.

[Lan Deathrider.5910]

@Opopanax.1803 said:I dont think any Traits should grant more than a 5% damage multiplier. I also dont think might or protection should do more than increase/decrease damage by 5-10%. All of these things need to be smaller percentages that get really strong when they are all stacked, not ridiculously strong by themselves.

I also think condi skills need to do either 1 or 2 conditions. The condi-bombs of 3+ condi's on a single skill is too much. I'd prefer to see professions restricted to a handful of conditions, not having access to all of them.

I think this would balance things out a lot more than they currently are.

I think they'd have to modulate this based on the amount of skills available to the various professions. Its one thing for Ele with 20 weapon skills to take a damage modifier hit, they have the skills to rotate through to make up the difference, and its another or a class like warrior.

I think you are right about the number of unique conditions per skill, but several stacks of a single condition would still be appropriate, especially if they have (pardon the pun) conditional requirements for them.

[Vasdamas Anklast.1607]

ah RIP...makes me feel like bunkers gonna be more popular then.

[Lan Deathrider.5910]

Here is a suggestion. Cap the amount of incoming damage packets you can take per second (not from condi). Cap condi stacks to 10 per condi. Remove target cap from skills and traits. This would give advantage to outnumbered players/servers and increase ttk without having to reduce skill damages.

[TidalTrident.4013]

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/looking-ahead-to-the-new-year/some new info popped up about the balancing.Btw, for WvW can you nerf (or completely remove) Dragon Banner and also remove mount finishing

[Opal.9324]

So glad they are finally trying to do something about the powercreep. Hopefully this all goes well.

[Rod.6581]

Big??? Where?