Hi, everyone,
Welcome to the preview for the May 2 balance update! This is a smaller update focused on addressing some outliers in the current state of the game while we wrap up our next major profession balance update, which is currently slated for June 27.
As always, the goal of previewing these changes is to gather your feedback before the live release. We'll be following the conversation and making further adjustments as needed.
Thanks,
Cal "cmc" Cohen
Skills and Balance Lead
Elementalist
Fresh Air catalyst is a build that we've been addressing over the last few updates in PvP, but it's still a strong build in WvW. We've brought over a few more of the recent PvP adjustments to bring down its power.
We've also updated Stone Heart to introduce a window of vulnerability and make earth-based tempest builds slightly easier to bring down in PvP.
Core
Signet of Water: Increased healing attribute scaling from 0.7 to 1.3.
Dragon's Tooth: Red...
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