I wasn't playing when Ursan was being run by everyone, so I'm curious what did they do to nerf it? Even in its present form it still looks pretty powerful...
Is it still viable in any way, or did whatever they change basically make the skill completely unusable?
How was Ursan's nerfed?
Back then
Lishy
They changed ursan strike to slashing damage there for reducing a lot of dps, and they made it so it cannot be upkept permanently.
Dogz_The_Black
All of the dmg is not armor ignoring anymore, and the duration of the skill use 2 depend on your energy as you have -2 energy degen, so you had the ability to keep it up for long periods of time, way more than 60 secs, with the use of high energy sets and zealous weapons.
Silverhand
Yeah basically what others have said
The funniest part of it's nerf is that it resulted in even faster speedclears
I kinda wish they would unnerf it since the nerf is pointless now
The funniest part of it's nerf is that it resulted in even faster speedclears
I kinda wish they would unnerf it since the nerf is pointless now
Eragon Zarroc
yeah, even with it nerfed, u can speed clear DoA, UW, FoW, Urgoz, Deep with permas and cryers or perm asian teams. all the nerf of ursan did was limit it to these types of teams soley which require some extra coordination and does not encourge pug play. Ursan wasn't as bad as these teams and was actually capable of putting just some random people together to get shit done. Not to mention, it was a bloody fun skill =D. but w/e, if anet thinks its detrimental to the already failing economy or something else, meh ;-)
Ben-A-BoO
silavor
Don't forget, they also made it so that all positive effects (stances, enchantments, shouts, etc.) end as soon as you enter the blessing now. Before, people used to use the long-lasting mesmer stances to have even more damage reduction/energy gain, but that's now all a thing of the past.
EPO Bot
Zquests are much better for pugs then any ursans.
Spiritz
1 thing also to mention about pre nerf ursan was altho it got ppl into pugs it also meant a lot of pugs wanted high ranking ursans which affected in a way the pugs.
Say 1/4 or ursans were high ranking ( r7 + ) and rest were below that and because they were below they were often left out.
It also affected anyone tryin to rep farm norn as again groups wanted players with a certain norn rep - bit of a catch 22 situation.
Say 1/4 or ursans were high ranking ( r7 + ) and rest were below that and because they were below they were often left out.
It also affected anyone tryin to rep farm norn as again groups wanted players with a certain norn rep - bit of a catch 22 situation.
Fuzzie
ursan's still good for something! farming zho in norn tourny, otherwise that recharge is meh.
Helix Dreadlock
They made a recharge on it, so when it dies out, u have to wait a minute for a recharge
Jeydra
If I'm not mistaken you can still check out pre-nerf Ursan in-game in Blood Washes Blood (I think).
glacialphoenix
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