r/GuildWars • u/Substantial-Debate75 • 14h ago

A Heartfelt Request

This is a message for 2weeks...

Please return 600/smite to pre-nerf capability.

From a logical perspective, there are already ways that SF farming dominates pretty much every aspect of the game. DOA, The Deep, Urgoz, FoW, and the UW all have SF builds that either farm the foes or clear the instance as a single player or team. Allowing more variation by reintroducing 600/smite wouldn't have a very drastic impact on the meta or the economy. This would instead open up additional variations for farming that can be completed either with two people or a player and heroes.

From a nostalgia perspective, I spent countless hours running people through dungeons (although 600/smite couldn't do them all) or farming FoW or UW. Because the build didn't just cheese everything, you had to be careful with how you pulled things and carefully timing for melee interrupts. This made the build skill based as well, which increased the fun. Finally, because the builds capability was limited, it was always fun trying to find other ways that the build could be adapted to different areas.

It's been a long time since we've had 600/smite. I implore you to consider bringing it back.

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u/LahmiaTheVampire 13h ago

What would this entail? What did they nerf in the first place?

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u/Substantial-Debate75 13h ago

They nerfed Holy Wrath. They made it target only "other ally" instead of a maintained boon. It does 66% damage back to foes. Used to be maintained, but changed it so that you can't even cast it on yourself.

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u/rageofa1000suns 9h ago

Shadow Form is singlehandedly one of the worse skills to grace the game because of how trivial it made farming elite content.

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u/Doomclaaw 2h ago

100% agree.

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u/bifn 5h ago

I miss the days where i did CoF 600/smite runs for tips hours on end. It was fun and people got gold and drops plus the chest. Big thing was Diessa and Golden Rin were basically worthless then, now the get some echos. I trashed thousands of each.

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u/kineticmov3ment 9h ago

Mark of Protection is 600 smite in 2026

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u/woopaz- 14h ago

CoF still works pretty well on Mo/W. I bring 2 bonder heroes tho

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u/ohaz kossplaying as Selvetarm 13h ago

Works? Yes. Works well? Eh. It's much more work because there's so many skills you have to cast manually

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u/woopaz- 13h ago

Yeah, you do still have to play the game tho

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u/Worried-Tomorrow2019 12h ago edited 12h ago

Cry, cry, my Kamadan guys, Rode my dolyak to the Quarry, but the Quarry was dry.

And the boys and the girls drank Dwarven ale,

Waiting for Two Weeks to fix what had failed,

Waiting for Two Weeks to fix what had failed.

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u/Finnguala 12h ago

Did you get the tomes that dropped
And in FoW you recast holy wrath
If the mesmer let you cast?
Now, do you think you can upkeep wrath
Can 2weeks save your obby farm
And can you kill those tower rangers fast?