Spellbreaker still needs buffs [PvE]

[JTGuevara.9018]

On 8/23/2022 at 10:05 PM, Dahkeus.8243 said:

The dagger and Spellbreaker buffs for PvE were a great change in the right direction, but sadly the elite spec is still very under-tuned for even the most ideal situations you could run it. 

 

On the plus side, dagger seems to now be the highest DPS mainhand for spellbreakers and even outperforms axe.  Offhand dagger is more competitive, but still falls behind axe offhand in pure DPS. 

 

I get that they don't want to over-buff it, particularly since Bladesworn makes more sense as the ideal power DPS elite spec, but there's still a very far way for Spellbreaker to go (likely only benching 31-33k DPS in ideal conditions where you can trigger Full Counter regularly) before it's remotely a threat to other DPS options.  If it wasn't so far behind, it would at least be a viable option for when you want boon strips in Fractals and such.

The thing with spellbreaker is that it was always a pvp-oriented build. The damage in pve was never that good and forcing it into a boon-support is just a kludge for its limitations. Shoehorning into a support would make it useless in pvp.

[Lan Deathrider.5910]

7 hours ago, JTGuevara.9018 said:

The thing with spellbreaker is that it was always a pvp-oriented build. The damage in pve was never that good and forcing it into a boon-support is just a kludge for its limitations. Shoehorning into a support would make it useless in pvp.

Not much is needed to make it function as an optional support in PvE. Anet just needs to add boons to a few places and make them an AoE application. That would in no way make it useless in PvP or WvW. Might actually make it even more useful.