Lan Deathrider.5910

This is why you see me harp so much on tradeoffs and how light some specs got off on them. But yes, it extends even to this sort of borked up balance. I really wish Anet could afford a larger balance team to go through and take a hard look at the classes in detail and give them all a good polish while getting rid of all the extraneous 'tradeoffs' since they have proven unable to levy them equally.

A proponent of nerfing everything I see.

True story. It makes most rangers sitting ducks, but let's not blame core skills for the sins of especs eh?

Not like most necros have two stunbreaks on their bars though. Definitely a bad Necro player regardless.

Okay then can Berserker get rid of the -300 toughness and BSW get weapon swap, normal adrenaline gain, and normal adrenaline cap back? You're overlooking the fact that some get tradeoffs that are wrist slaps where others give up too much for the gain. Do you not see why this is a source of discontent and a driver of imbalance?

*cough* warrior *cough*

Norns... In... Space....

This was after they hit me with the elite elixir so... And no it wasn't a long fight. I healed back all their damage with VS, and cleared all the condi between SiO and warhorn. They panicked and ran. Savage Leap into BC to catch them then swap into axe/axe to do a PvE rotation since they blew their stunbreaks already apparently or never took one.

Meanwhile the warrior subforum is begging for the BSW elite to be nerfed so that the rest of warrior doesn't suffer after the newness of EoD wears off and CMC gets the go ahead for wholesale nerfs

I used one.

IMHO, reduce the CD to 10s and give it an instant cast then remove the condition duration reduction, pulsing stab, and stat increases. /s but not really /s...

Wolf, Bear, and Raven were the original three great spirits from GW1 with Bear being the most revered (as evident by all the Norn immediately taking Bear Form when in battle). Does that mean that Anet did not do justice by Snow Leopard? Can't say, we don't know how much of IBS would have focused on that spirit had Covid+layoffs not have happened.

All I have to say to that is that they gained effectively 12 new skills. BSW trades weapon swap, altered adrenaline acquisition, altered adrenaline cap, and core bursts just to gain 5 new skills. Any one of those alone would have been equivalent to what FB is considered to have as a tradeoff. That sound about right to you? Because to me it sounds more like some specs get "tradeoffs" and others get multiple tradeoffs. And no, losing access to a core traitline does not count as a tradeoff.

Meanwhile I chased a harbinger down this weekend with sword/horn + Axe/Axe core warrior and blended them. /shrug

FB isn't the only one without a true tradeoff.

Yeah, imagine if Eternal Champion were instead Crit Immunity when in Berserk Mode. Forums would lose it completely.

Well, in their defense one guy did point out that the Scepter AA chain is just a bunch of creepy sperm bolts, so now I can't unsee it and will concede their request to rework the aesthetics of the skill.

Reaper is none of those things lol.

With the sound off and Youtube turned way up. Works best in the Mad King's Labyrinth.

I thought the /s was obvious without having to type it, but I guess not. /shrug

Or better yet why can't they kite a big glowing red warrior? They all have ranged options to do so.

Whoa now, that might actually be a buff to warrior. We'd proc Death Nova in that case after all.

Has nothing to do with anything that BSW does. Everything that is propping up BSW is within UD and TR. If TR gets changed to only weapon or BSW skills, then Shoutsworn dies. If UD's blind immunity or unblockable goes away, then that too hurts BSW enough that all it's flaws are exposed for all to see.

Yeah. Don't get me wrong I destroy people in WvW with core warrior, but I could've done the same more easily with a Reaper or Harbinger.

The new warrior players are the ones that got pulled in with Bladesworn which is carried in PvE by a OHKO attack that has distinct counters to it and carried by Tactical Reload in Competitive. As soon as they fight something on their own level in competitive they'll see where the class has collected rust from neglect. Rev meanwhile is high skill floor class that takes some time to learn to be good at, so of course the new players think it is garbage.