AoE Nerf: Overkill

I don't quite understand this sentiment.

Are you kidding? UW 55/SS farming is dead. Farmers got F****D!

Like I said earlier, look for more warrior heavy groups, because unfortunately I think most people will give up on their characters that use AoE type skills, because they wont want to learn how to work around this.

Not to mention, a warrior using straight attack skills (not multiple target skills) sounds like it will have a hay-day with this.

This is a flawed stance IMO. Not every player in Guild Wars is going to be in a good guild, or even a guild at all. You can't make it so that the only way to accomplish anything in the game is to get with "non noobs" who are on TS and do teamwork perfectly. It just isn't going to happen and you alienate 95% of the players out there.

It should be corrected, or at least I hope it will. I like the concept they are going for with AOE not triggering scatter unless health is low, but something has to have gone wrong with classifying what damage is actually AOE damage.

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What my N/Mo is meant to do all that by herself...


I wonder what the Chinese farmers are thinking right now.

BUT you know like the other guy said... if nobody has money to buy anything anymore then the economy wont move... it'll just keep going down the freaking drain till this economy has become as shitty as freaking runescape... i've already gone thru that i don't wanna have to effing go thru it again!

Double post ftl

Mobs with random behaviors... theres going to be alot of dead casters. Great way to put warriors back on the high horse. What global armor reduction nerfed?! Ha "Tis' Just a Flesh Wound!"

wow, i hope anet'll fix AI soon, or we'll have to chase every single mob and each mis or quest will take few hrs.... not to mention fow runs.............

I'm all for anything that makes PvE more of a challenge, and causes the AI to act more closely like real human opponents. I don't know why everyone wouldn't be for this, unless you'd rather just have /iddqd and /idkfa along with a BFG to just kill everything on your screen.

Seriously, let's see a reasonable argument against this update.

Chinese Gold Farmer #1 "Shittaki mushrooms...how we gonna make money?"

Chinese Gold Farmer #2 "I don't know"

Chinese Gold Farming Boss "Quickly, make a warrior group, and DO MISSIONS as fast as you can!"

Scattered monsters are too busy running for their lives to attack you, which means you squishy casters are now safer from mobs. This should be a good news, so why complain?

You guys gotta understand that its really AoE as it is the AI of the mosnters now. They go after the dmg dealers and scatter randomly when taking dmg, which renders the warrior as a central aggro-holder useless. Your eles, rangers, mesmers and even monks will now get atk-ed regardless of whther or not ur warrior holds aggro first. Thats the quick rundown.

So bye bye to just about every form of intelligent farming, since everything is random now, i might as well scrap my warrior and bring armor of earth and kinetic armor everytime for my monk, ele, and/or ranger, since shatter negates that i might as well bring spellbreaker for everyone. (pure sarcasm - but w. a hint a truth).

Or fidn a new spot, which they have...

That's what improvements to henchmen and heroes are for. Solo farming (with or without henchies/heroes) will be less profitable (for everyone not just me), but it will be more challenging and fun.

The change doesn't seem like a mistake to me, although I'm sure adjustments will be made.

It makes a quarter of the skills out there as useful as firestorm in PvE?

Is it that the aataxes in UW dont attack heavily enchanted monks? I took my 600 and had a smiter, and they only aggroed on the 1st try, after attacking me and one dying, they would just walk around until the smiter aggroed (seems to be the only target they attacked).

also, if they didnt want farming to exist in the game then why make armor sets that cost 75k plus materials, i doubt anyone who has 15k sets or some exotic weapons (perfect req8 zodiac bows, etc) came up with the money just by relying on the pitiful gold drops in pve

MM's and LT Ftw. SS aint so bad, it just won't bomb area anymore.

Barrage Rangers on the other hand may have gotten shafted as well. Guys like me may have to shift to Power shots or condition sniping.

Perhaps they're trying to change them to the status symbols they deserve to be.

Sure, you can now direct henchmen better, but that still isn't going to mean they are going to pin your target so they can't make it past them to your casters. Remember, you can't mess up the core game.. be it with henchmen or random pubbers.

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