TheGreatEdgelord.7048

Christ I've stopped playing GW2 some months ago and i'm really surprised that Fire Weaver, out of all things, is now the please-nerf-everything bandwagon's target. I used to play this build a lot, as it was outright broken (as everything else) before the Febuary 2020 patch, but past that I felt like this build became some sort of mediocre tanker build that hardly can kill anything if not by perfectly timing your attunements and scarce CCs. You're hard to kill thanks to moderate-CD shadowsteps (Lightning Flash, Polaric Leap), a generous amount of evades and sustain (the nerf to stone resonance was mostly a good shave maybe) - which imo is the only thing where fire weavers barely shine above other builds - and that's it. You're, ultimately, a tanker: you're completely inoffensive outside of your pathethic 130 attack range; your only playstyle is to make the exact same combo every 20-30 seconds and try not to die (of boredom too) during this time interval; the only way to get a kill is to hunt for someone dumb - or unfortunate to be stunlocked - enought to stay near you while primordial stance, lava skin and pyro vortex pumps burning. Practically every other sidenoder build - which you're meant to fight - can kitten and/or run from you. And on top of that, your only realiable stunbreaker is (controversially) 25s-CD Signet of Air. But this skill, being a signet, allows your non-negative IQ enemies to know exactly when it's up or not - and thus when you can stunbreak or not (this is one of the reasons why some players still prefer long-CD ToF over signet). Apart from being mediocre on most things, this is probrably the only build in this game's history to be condemned to f*c*ing carry a "cc me" plaque so everyone can cripple your already fragile rotations with immense ease. To sum up: It's a build that mostly relies on passive AoE CDs to deal damage - which makes this build somewhat effective on low-tier matches, but becomes pointless in and above P1 as playroles become more specialized (this is where LR retires Fire Weaver). In general, it's one of these builds that attempts to be a jack-of-all-trades but ends up being barely regular at most things. And while these sort of builds saw some success before Febuary 2020 - when stats were pretty abudant, most of them - like this one - were dumped into mediocricity and, for some unknow reasoning inside an Anet employee's brain, further nerfed. The fact that this build is seemingly more popular now tells more about how braindead it is than anything else. I really hope I have missed some massive buff to Fire Weaver (or a nerf to everything else) that somehow made this build enjoyable and viable - otherwise, this entire thread is just another testament to the painful death of the PvP scenery of this game.