du1987de: Worth noting, you will only notice the damage decrease in older content. For any open world content from End of Dragons onwards, the enemies also got a nerf to their HP. So even though you may be seeing smaller numbers, the enemies should be dying just as quickly. In my opinion, older content, particularly pre-Path of Fire content was far too easy before the nerf anyway. Hopefully this means more fun for everyone overall.

shakeweller: For the Amalgam enjoyers: Use a Hammer with Berserker gear and the Relic of Pirate Queen. You still have basicly infinite boons, alac and quickness while being immortal. If you want 100% alac, you can just use 2 diviner pieces, but honestly for open world, it's whatever

Arutima: So Anet forgot that ranger exist. Classic Anet

DezzieYT: With the reduction in how easy it was to maintain boons I wonder if ANet is gradually and cautiously moving the boon system away from 100% uptime.

wirgiukass: As a revenant main, I can confirm I am no longer revenant main. No reason to play that class at all now in my opinion. At least before you got a little more damage because you have to deal with legends, energy and all that so it was worth it. Now you get all the headache and you get worse damage than most other classes. Conduit in particular sucks now.

milanbess6673: Dude I love your builds. Somehow they just fit how I like to play. Good job having content out that is hard to come by any other way

Don_Nuke: Great vid as always! I will back to amalgam i guess. Hammer double helix pAmal 43.6k bench right now, can be higher i guess :) for open world condi amal still god tier. Power alac amal same rly good option for OW ;)

jjay2771: so this patch was mostly targetted at me lol

Engineer and Revenant are both my main classes; I guess I jump into too much trouble cause I find both squishy now and I go down a lot.

Sucks I got Janthir with the winter sale specifically for spears and now i dont have any builds to use spear on anymore. I still haven't been playing much gw2 since the nerfs, i generally hate nerfs so i got crimson desert and been having fun with that for now.

Thats a pretty janky game on its own tho trying to do too much lol so I am sure I will get over the gw2 nerfs and play more again eventually.

OKDC: 100% agree. You hit the nail on the head regarding everything. Appreciate you.

Cross_111: Every build that were good before are is still viable without question

Nothing was nuked

As it should be (especially with the nerfs to enemy health)

anderstone3256: So my power Scrapper isn't really affected? Great.

DracoAK47m: Condition Reaper! My fave to play all the time.

Retroflier: As a Reaper main, I’m pretty content. But as a Luminary enthusiast… sigh. I definitely feel the loss of sustain in solo scenarios.

makiudon-qb7gh: Thankfully my obsession in searching for underrated/sleeper picks instead of abusing the meta has paid off, my untamed/scrapper/herald experience seems to be just fine

kelizberk: Can you suggest top 5 build that will be a meta on this patch please ?

chrish813: Finally Reaper meta has returned!!

garenmoradians8265: How can I make the luminary immortal now after all these crappy nerfs. Honestly I think the devs for GW2 are down right stupid they nerf not to balance they nerf to make the players spend more money. If I could get 5 min in a dojo with dev team I could make my pint to them clearly.

Riaining7: I was starting to play my Reaper a while before the nerfs, and have been having a blast. After the changes I haven't noticed any differences. Still having a lot of fun with Greatsword, Dagger/Sword build.

KumaBearOso: Still doing 20k with easy boon upkeep on my solo amalgam. Only noticing the nerfs in instanced content where I've slotted in a little bit more ritualist gear to compensate for the boon duration nerfs.

The catalyst changes are brutal though. Definitely feels like on overcorrection. It's still fine solo, but in instanced content, even with boon duration, your boons drop from the tinest mistake, forced downtime, or enemies dying a bit too quickly so you're forced to delay a jade sphere for a bit. The double nerf on top of needing 2 traits to maintain boons, on top of the soon-to-be scepter nerfs is overkill.

cameirusisu1024: I say this an engi main for well, a decade now...Amalgam was ridiculous, no solo build should be able to pull 27K dps, whilst facetanking legendary bounties, the hardest champs, or even meta/raid bosses, and never feel in danger. it was broken to a degree where I actually stopped using it, it felt like playing on easymode. even after the "nerf" its still really really good.

icyglxy1752: The Anet devs love Necromancer man, specifically the Immortal King, aka Reaper.

reglamak: My main warrior lost at least 15% DPS. Only Condi builds are near 6%, and you need the Discipline line to stay under 10%. It’s definitely not just a 5% nerf.

kelloggsllcornflakes: every warrior power spec was nerfed because strength traitline was nerfed

sexta-feira1388: I have 2 characters before the patch,only a amalgam and a specter,now im learning herald and paragon,sadly I don't have heavy armor on legendary

SableStonks: Revenant main, was a bit worried with the nerfs but just having the sheer amount of utility from the different Stances is still so good, slight loss in DPS for berserker sets but nothing that ruins the fun and gameplay of it. Conduit burst is still great. Still pretty easy to manage perma-boon times.

daxyhrgaming: I came back to gw2 like 2 weeks ago. I’m a bad casual player. I just like to do some openworld stuff after a hard day of work.

I switched from berserker warrior (on which I died a lot) to celestial spear mechanist. I’m currently working on my first legendary while clearing LWS3 and I notice a big difference. I had no problem clearing the gold border mobs around the map. But now my mech dies while those gold bordered bosses have 10-20% health left. Where my mech used to have have 10-50% health left before the nerfs.

What is now the best class to facetank those mobs? While not having complex rotations? I just wanna relax, work off achievements and progress story.

ipokiller2g940: Goodbye warrior

Apr 20 2026

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