Not gonna lie chief, for someone hating so much on akeem and condi you aren't playing anything else Every time I've seen you in ranked you were some variation of condizerk

I play Chrono support. Condition who? A cleanse for you! And you! I'll take a cleanse myself. Why thank you! Everybody gets a cleanse!

Your arguments are missing some very fundamental chains in their logic. One of the most frustrating to me, is the idea that there's something fundamentally imbalanced about power having more counters, and requiring more stats to do its damage. The issue with this argument: balance isn't supposed to exist at the conceptual level. It's supposed to exist in practice. Differences at the conceptual level are what create identity. Clearly, despite all these supposed advantages for condi builds, in practice they remain much weaker than power builds in the context of spvp. Very few condi builds are actually viable, and there tend to be stronger power alternatives, with the current exception of condi reaper. So what's the actual problem? I think there is one, but realistically, I need you to do a better job making that argument before I can properly respond to it. What about the game is unfun? What is it about these mechanics makes the game unfun? Those are the important questions to answer from a balance perspective. Because fundamentally, balance is supposed to serve the experience of playing. There's no brownie points for creating systems that are symmetrical, or superficially "balanced" at a conceptual level. To expand a bit on the idea of identity (and why more symmetry could actually interfere with that) - fundamentally, conditions tend to have an identity of being mean. Roleplay wise, there's something more dirty, cruel, and underhanded about setting someone on fire, or poisoning them as opposed to fighting them head-on. So it actually makes sense for the gameplay to reflect that, as a way of furthering immersion. And it does! Condi damage tends to an easier way to win your 1v1s, requiring less coordination/effort. But it falters when a support cleanses the condis - the classic good guy roleplay. It's a funny thing to say, but unless someone complaining about condi builds raises good and specific points, I often suspect they've actually immersed themself in the identity of a non-condi player. Immersion - in this sense, feeling like you're an upstanding individual fighting against the underhanded - can leak into balance discussions quite easily, and I believe this is one of the reasons condi damage has consistently gotten the most hate, even when it's in a fundamentally weak state.

0:40 not even ur condi nor ut tanking could saved u from a GS mirage burst XD

If only there were classes which completely nagate all enemy condi players.

I am very annoyed that mesmer GS hits don't count as projectiles. Like wtf.

they could add some ‘true damage’ to all classes, where you can toggle between true damage or normal damage (if your condi damage is below a threshold) and only on certain abilities, and such abilities will be ‘skillshots’, skills that can be ‘juked’ and ‘kited’, so for example pole vault on daredevil deals 5000 damage (or 25% of their max hp) regardless of the opponents toughness or your own stats that way you get tankier power builds, that don’t have to spec as much into damage through build, utilities, runes etc which would allow you to run more condi removal it will be hard to change anything without causing huge upset 😵 for me personally i like fast paced gameplay so condi is flawed from the perspective that fights go on for far too long anyway

this was so biased i stopped watching... - "power builds needs 3 stats while condi just 2 stats" yeah and expertise caps at 100% while ferocity can stack infinitely from all kinds of modifiers helping some builds crit over 10 k... - "dodge and block work better against power because you can't dodge or block already applied conditions" the thing about defensives is that you can dodge a power hit and not get hit, you can also dodge a condi hit and not get hit... but if you get hit by the power hit you lose 10k health and if you get hit by the condi hit you get a condi applied to you that you then often passively cleanse by weapon swapping or something so even though the ability hit you it still does 0 damage the only thing that help against the power hit that hit you is healing which hey, it also works against the condi damage too... shocking...

Oh vengeance did you dirty several times, especially when you stomped the reaper. If you get a Stomp it should 100% revive you. Also, agree that something needs to be done about condis and duration (looking at harbinger especially). Dodging condi ticks might be too powerful, just thinking about daredevils, mirages and vindicators. Maybe nerfing the anus off expertise, so cleanses can be saved if you have health to wait it out? It's a tough one, but you're right it's not balanced.

I enjoy your content.

There are some disingenuous take in this video. Conditions deal damage over time, which is a huge downside. You can negate way more condition damage with cleansing than you can heal strike damage. Should cleanses mitigate strike damage next? You mention strike damage having 3 attributes and condition damage having 2 attributes, so strike damage is advantaged by scaling exponentially even higher? After all, current top DPS in PvE are two power builds! With toughness only mitigating strike damage, people are disincentivized to take more of it as it won't help them against condition builds, so they don't and it open the door to strike builds doing big bursts. You're disregarding the scaling of strike abilities and conditions which make 1000 Power and 1000 Condition Damage not add the same damage, and the baseline damage not being equivalent either. When you dodge, yes you still take damage from already applied condition. But that's similar to how you don't heal back already taken strike damage. The only valid conclusion is that ANet need to refine the balance but the base is sturdy.

There's one more counter to conditions, though it's pretty much a necromancer exclusive: Taking conditions, and returning it to sender! I wouldn't consider it a serious check against condition damage, given it's exclusivity, but it is bloody hilarious when you do get dumped on, but just send it to an enemy and watch them melt instead. XD

As a warrior main i will take condi damge over power damage. We have crazy condi clear.

On the other hand using condi against certain builds may leave you entirely useless for the entire match, like builds with constant aoe cleanses.

Remove cele \ o / Remove condi \ o / Remove boon \ o / Only glasscannon o7 #makepvpgreatagain

Captain Crapface - great to hear yet another solid game analytic video - I have been somehow more comfortable with condi dps builds in PVE for a while. Now I have a better understanding why ;)

The sentiment is there, but I'd do quite a bit more research and then tackle this video again when you have a better understanding of all of the options available to counter power and condition strategies.

your intel HD card is taking that fps

something that always bothered me with warrior is how in GW1 you could make Sword rival Axe by using the proper skills but in GW2, Sword mainhand is so lackluster and dull, it's genuinely sad.

I think they wanted a ranged version to create a paragon feeling but they failed so hard doing so. If they make spear ranged then imo it should be a supportive weapon made to share boons etc maybe even through shout etc but not like this useless crap

Sadly, the Warrior spear is in no way ready to actually be played. It reminds me of the state of Engineer Short-bow in the beta. Hopefully they will make some change, but it probably won’t be enough. Why couldn’t they give it an actual mechanic? Make it interact with adrenaline or something. But it had no unique mechanics AT ALL as of the beta, and certainly nothing usable. As it stands, Warrior spear has no place in any game mode except mindless open world mob tagging.

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Wouldn't it make more sense to run Energy over transference on Mace since the vast majority of your healing is on staff? So transference is kinda wasted on Mace. And on Staff maybe escape instead of Cleansing since Cleansing as a 9s ICD and you'd be swapping back to Staff ASAP whenever you swap to mace mid-combat?

You know that build that the guy on the forum posted about Fears being his new Bull's charge? I tried it with Rifle. I was pleasantly surprised. Literally slapped both a CondiZerker and a SpB. But, they were in Gold 2/3 so may be they need to improve. That said, it was fun to finally slap them silly.

I think the backstep/knockback ability should have a flipover skill that dashes back into the target. Seems kinda silly to deal more damage the closer you are and have an ability that puts you farther away. I also think the auto should have a melee chain like ranger, and I think it'd be really cool if warr spear was condi at range and power in melee. Maybe they could change the range damage loss to exchange power for more condi's instead?

What about running Sword or Dagger instead of Mace? You'd lose a block and CC but gain an additional movement skill and burst skills that actually do damage. Maybe with the new Heretic amulet a Damage/Support hybrid could be possible?

Discipline is as boring as it is OP, the worst cobination anything can be in any game. And somehow i feel like it manages to both be what is keeping Warrior afloat and what drags it down, leaving it awkwardly floating.

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Don't worry: Spear Zerk F1 being a worse version of [Flaming Flurry] will fix this ... somehow .. 😂 Joke's aside, I've been saying since my first Warrior Video: The Good stuff on Warrior is REALLY Good, but the rest of the Jank stuff is REALLY Jank. So the logical thing would be to nerf the over performing crap and go from there. | Problem is I don't see any creative warrior passion for an appropriate followup *Buff-Patch* rn. (See above ^ first comment.) 109% Open to being proven wrong in this regard ofc. 😁

As a thief I can confirm, I always keep an end to these warriors 😂, I make sure to chase that warrior

"i have committed the grave sin of being mildly optimistic, and suffered greatly for it" Yeah... yeah you did. You mentioned that in replies a few times. All i can say is "thank you". Thank you for being such a masochist that you are optimistic. Because it saves _me_ from having to be optimistic, and then be let down. 😅

Did you say that you had a 1v1 for 4 minutes? pfft, those are rookie numbers. I once had a 1v1 on my home node that lasted the entire match. Only reason I even had a single kill that match was because my team came in to 5v1 the person in the last 20 seconds of the match.

I can at least stand a chance against berserker, I think the spellbreaker is gross with the full counter on such a quick cooldown and in wvw its just a cast and forget skill

Brother did you litteraly have to use exclusively clips of me vs you there? I was legit firsttiming staff, as i usually exclusively run GS instead man, wich is why i am knotting my hands half the time in there Edit. But ur absolutely right warr meta build feels cringe ngl

I've been saying the same thing about full counter forever, it could have some fun counter-play... if the cd wasn't 8.75s. As is any ground pulsing aoe makes the spellbreaker basically invincible. It really worries me about the spear/staff bunker spellbreaker that was starting to evolve in the beta.

I am so glad to hear that there is at least 1 warrior that thinks current warrior meta is toxic for the game and overall boring to play as/against. Anet always tried to cut off all the bunkers in the game, yet warrior is going unnoticed for way too long.

I’ve been back on guild wars 2 for a year now after 11 year break. I haven’t seen such careless developer when it comes to balance. This Cal 🤡 is busy theory crafting and not playing the game. I was super optimistic about the current patch until I saw the preview. Literally handful of changes that even help the iron cannon meta. Thief has 4 trait lines trickery, shadow arts, daredevil and deadeye. This means that If you god forbid do not have trickery or shadow arts you are completely useless. In the current meta when I play power build I feel like I’m constantly waiting for my turn to be allowed to deal dmg to the landfill of dagger dagger tempests, vindicators that can make me explode at any moment, condi druids, spellbreakers and dragonhunters.

As someone who likes to run as non-support core warrior, this is my main problem with the game. Core warrior needs buffs, but you can't buff core warrior because it'll just make SB even stronger. Hundred Blades has needed change for years, but imagine SBs running around with the firepower of a 2 second HB cast time or an unrooted one. And you nailed it with the Full Counter criticism.

Honestly Captain i think you have no idea of the good life you live there. In my spvp experience (core warr support) Full Counter is at best 2nd worst problem with SB. The first is that instead of teammates I get 4 missing links that were unfortunately made aware of enemy SB's existence. Enemy SB caps a node - some Rambo or two run there to waste time, instead of just letting it rot there and storming the other two nodes. Or better yet - i hold our home node against the SB, basically making it useless. It can't kill me, it can't decap me. Few baboon screeches later and my teammate knuckle-runs into my node which is doing fine leaving rest of team 3v4... Not that he'll kill the SB or do anything remotely useful.