What caught most of my attention in mesmer changes is how chrono can now provide either alacrity or quickness via just summoning phantasms. It’s exciting - if it makes it possible to be alacdps/qdps with no or little use of continuum split, i’ll be happy to pick chrono back up

Quickness via burst seems like sucha a quality of life and flexibility boost though! Provide quickness by doing what you would be doing anyway. Numbers aside, love the idea. In general, love instances where key boons now fit organically like with berserker or untamed

Glad it works out for you! I used to play a bit hfb in fractals long time ago, but then fell off. Recently check out condi quickness firebrand (when mantras were in spam mode) and… it felt crazy spammy lol i was overwhelmed

One thing i never liked about guardian are cast times. Much of the weapon skills feel super slow to actually cast, even with quickness. This is particularly visible when using gs5 to pull enemies/do cc - how much time you have to spend “doing” gs5 (i understand it’s dual function, this is just for illustration)

I think they are mostly trying to shake things up, and this time, really shake things up from the looks of it. I agree it sucks for some classes to be getting super nerfed. At the same time i welcome options that open up.

What did you use to play?

Condition virtuoso is a really strong pick for a class that basically doesn’t have much of a rotation. I remember also condi tempest being very easy to play if doing cc is not your thing, haha! Do check out “beginner” tab for snowcrows those builds are really easy and have progression levels, first level of each is usually plenty damage: https://snowcrows.com/builds?profession=any&category=beginner

I actually checked out condi soulbeast for a bit in open world, and it seemed super fun! Perhaps the ranger class feature, a pet is not that exciting compared to other classes? Soulbeast surely changes that up for me :)

Nice! glad the patch works out well for you. I played a bit of staff and p/p daredevil in open world. with invigorating precision and lifesteal food it was really doing nice damage and staying alive. My only issue was, any cc cut off my healing source (attacking) and thief being one of lowest hp classes, even with marauders, was dead fast :)