This update is horrible.
Hex build have been made stronger with a buff to Conjure Phantasm but more importantly a RED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GOing stupid buff to Fast Casting thus Signet of Humility
Ritualist Weapon spells: Before this update Splinter Weapon was ridiculous, it was so good that it was so key at Victory or Death and could win a game, this got buffed - EXCELLENT MOVE ANET.
Searing Flames remains as powerful as ever and allows retards to farm silver trims while drooling... or something
More Hero Battle trash too that no one cares about <3
Trash, complete and utter trash
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yesitsrob
GloryFox
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Miral here's to hoping the sunspear skills are well thought out and involve advanced coding to do something really cool.... hehehe ok well doesn't hurt to hope I guess... |
It is my hope that the SS skills will make PvE underused classes more usable.
Retribution X
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Originally Posted by yesitsrob
This update is horrible...
...Ritualist Weapon spells: Before this update Splinter Weapon was ridiculous, it was so good that it was so key at Victory or Death and could win a game, this got buffed - EXCELLENT MOVE ANET. Searing Flames remains as powerful as ever and allows retards to farm silver trims while drooling... or something... |
Ok. Splinter weapon won't be much more powerful, because it's a per-hit thing, not time.
Gotta laugh at that. basicly they said, We like SF overpowered, and don't wanna change it.
I will miss recall though. Stupid nerf... didn't need hit that hard... Won't see any use probably.
XvArchonvX
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Originally Posted by Evilsod
And when you think about it in terms of the areas such a build would actually be run.
2 slots means nothing when you turn all your attack skills, interrupts included, into crippling arrows. AB/RA have lots of enchant removal? Plus it only costs 5e... I haven't used HG so can't really comment. Loss of mending touch is about the only real downside. Doesn't really matter. |
Despozblehero
Heh now i wonder what theyll suggest doing when you cant talk in local cause trade chat is filling up so fast its causing the local to cycle away instantly(like oldschool LA AD1-2 lol). Also i cant imagine this helping the already crippled economy as it is seeing as sifting through pages of red lettered junk to find anything good is going to be desireable. Gonna see a lotta stars and caps in trade chat i suppose and not a whole lot being sold. as for inscriptions and gold items its probably all going to be merchant fodder seeeing as the time needed to stand there and try to get your itemsold in the main trade areas is going to be pure luck.
Rits dont get phased in the balance and they need to be... what other class can you get 8 of and spike every 3-10 seconds and still be able to heal through massive amounts of Damage all with the help of just the primary class (and a lil hex removal), none but ritspike ( except maybe in oldschool smiteballs which got nerrfed
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Rits dont get phased in the balance and they need to be... what other class can you get 8 of and spike every 3-10 seconds and still be able to heal through massive amounts of Damage all with the help of just the primary class (and a lil hex removal), none but ritspike ( except maybe in oldschool smiteballs which got nerrfed
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Raising
they love rit spike and searing flames <3 anet !
Despozblehero
SF i can put up, positioning and a half-way good monk can save you, but with Rit spike it is just ridiculous. if the people who whined about iway were around theyd turn into the frankenstien villagers with this build and its obvious abuse... 2 months and now how much longer till HA is skill based again and i cant win by turning my keyboard upside and pounding on it in Rit spike? my r7 already means nothing cause of the "fame-farming" builds and every r7 who rit spiked their way to it makes me and HA seem worse then we actually are. they missed all the fundamentals and just t and spacebared their way to numbers that should represent skill. but i dunno maybe they meant to balance everything but HA?
Echuu Ishtar
The trade update is pretty much a joke. It isn't going to make buying and selling any easier at all, but rather harder. It was pretty much the norm that if you didn't like all of the trade spam in the general chat, then don't hang out in district 1 of the major citites. Trading is the only reason to be in that district anyway. Trade spam isn't a problem in any other place except for MAYBE district 2 if it's a busy time of day, in which case there are probably about 5 other districts the casual player can go to to just chat and have fun with other players.
It sounds like Anet is going to have actual people in these places to monitor spam. I don't really understand why they are using their resources to monitor something so petty, but they can't go monitor the granite citadel to catch the blatently obvious bots there.
I'm fine if we don't see an auction house until GW2, but something needs to be done. GW has a great system going with the templates and being able to easily link them in the chat, so why can't that be expanded to include trade? Allow players to be able to link to a little window that shows what they want to sell and be able to see all of its stats and whatnot. It would be much more simple than an auction house and would probably satisfy a lot of players.
As for the skill updates, they don't affect me too too much. I'm really liking the inclusion of signets in FC though. It didn't make a lot of sense to me that the Mesmer was given an insignia to increase armor per signet equipped, yet a skillbar full of signets would render their primary attribute nearly useless. Now my signet build that I like to play around with in PvP can be tweaked to remove symbolic clarity to leave room for another signet and still have a constant increased casting speed. I'm not sure how these affect PvE too much though. Yeah, those pesky Paragon monsters get me every time with those chants... A couple SFs killing my entire party from a boss in HM? Pshhhh.
It sounds like Anet is going to have actual people in these places to monitor spam. I don't really understand why they are using their resources to monitor something so petty, but they can't go monitor the granite citadel to catch the blatently obvious bots there.
I'm fine if we don't see an auction house until GW2, but something needs to be done. GW has a great system going with the templates and being able to easily link them in the chat, so why can't that be expanded to include trade? Allow players to be able to link to a little window that shows what they want to sell and be able to see all of its stats and whatnot. It would be much more simple than an auction house and would probably satisfy a lot of players.
As for the skill updates, they don't affect me too too much. I'm really liking the inclusion of signets in FC though. It didn't make a lot of sense to me that the Mesmer was given an insignia to increase armor per signet equipped, yet a skillbar full of signets would render their primary attribute nearly useless. Now my signet build that I like to play around with in PvP can be tweaked to remove symbolic clarity to leave room for another signet and still have a constant increased casting speed. I'm not sure how these affect PvE too much though. Yeah, those pesky Paragon monsters get me every time with those chants... A couple SFs killing my entire party from a boss in HM? Pshhhh.
Gaile Gray
I think I should answer that comment about the blocking of accounts involved in trade spamming. No, in fact we don't have, or need to have, individuals present in the districts in order to learn who is trade spamming, any more than we needed to individually, personally spot the 5,600+ bot users we blocked in the month of May. Sure we use observation, but we don't rely on it. That's because we have at our beck and call that grand thing called "technology," the use of data retrieval and good programming to ascertain who's in All Chat, who's talking, who's seeking a party, who's promoting a guild, and who's spamming the place with sales or trades.
Anyone reported for trade spamming is investigated and researched. The same applies to those who are observed. We wouldn't take five minutes of activity and place a block on an account. On the other hand, we have an easy and accurate method of finding out about that person who trade spammed 19.5 hours in various districts.
Anyone reported for trade spamming is investigated and researched. The same applies to those who are observed. We wouldn't take five minutes of activity and place a block on an account. On the other hand, we have an easy and accurate method of finding out about that person who trade spammed 19.5 hours in various districts.
klrk
just wanna know something
did they really play guild wars themselves ?
i mean really play into it and see the community
not just login , see if all ok and logout
did they really play guild wars themselves ?
i mean really play into it and see the community
not just login , see if all ok and logout
Gaile Gray
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Originally Posted by klrk
just wanna know something
did they really play guild wars themselves ? i mean really play into it and see the community not just login , see if all ok and logout |
If you're thinking that you disagree with the skill changes and are basing that disagreement on some sort of "They don't play their own game" thought, well, you can dismiss that.
sindex
Yeah I think there is still something that needs to be done with Searing Flames hands down. I am getting tired of the biased attitude that you are either a nuker/SF Ele in PvE or nothing else. I would love to see weakness get spread out more as a condition for earth Ele’s, instead of it being limited to Ebon Hawk. So that way Glowstone can actually be used more frequently.
Scarlett Romanov
*blinks* I seriously would like to know why Anet thinks that these Mesmer buffs are going increase the number of mesmers found in PvE parties. I don't see the interruption of Chants being so critical that folks are going to beg for mesmers. The boost to signets isn't that big of a deal. I don't use any signets and I don't see myself adding any to my skill bar. Increasing the duration of hexes is alright, but its still not going to make folks want mesmers.
Ultimately, I was hoping for some great buff to mesmers. I'm quite disappointed.
I just hope Anet takes the time to properly plan professions for Guild Wars 2.
Ultimately, I was hoping for some great buff to mesmers. I'm quite disappointed.
I just hope Anet takes the time to properly plan professions for Guild Wars 2.
Miral
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Originally Posted by Gaile Gray
Who? Us? Dev Team members? Every time I go into the designer room, the game is open on at least one desk and someone is either playing or observing a game. I play daily -- I completed Nightfall with one character and Prophecies with another just this last month. My team member plays daily and is leader of an active guild, as well.
If you're thinking that you disagree with the skill changes and are basing that disagreement on some sort of "They don't play their own game" thought, well, you can dismiss that. |
deadmonkey4u
Interrupting chant spells is a thumbs up and the nerf on defensive anthem
I think wep spells need to be changed a bit. The whole you can't remove them now your adding duration umm?
Moare balances plx
I think wep spells need to be changed a bit. The whole you can't remove them now your adding duration umm?
Moare balances plx
Miral
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Originally Posted by Scarlett Romanov
*blinks* I seriously would like to know why Anet thinks that these Mesmer buffs are going increase the number of mesmers found in PvE parties. I don't see the interruption of Chants being so critical that folks are going to beg for mesmers. The boost to signets isn't that big of a deal. I don't use any signets and I don't see myself adding any to my skill bar. Increasing the duration of hexes is alright, but its still not going to make folks want mesmers.
Ultimately, I was hoping for some great buff to mesmers. I'm quite disappointed. I just hope Anet takes the time to properly plan professions for Guild Wars 2. |
countesscorpula
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Originally Posted by yesitsrob
This update is horrible.
Hex build have been made stronger with a buff to Conjure Phantasm but more importantly |
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a RED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GOing stupid buff to Fast Casting thus Signet of Humility
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Signet of humility can now be activated in 1.4 seconds instead of 2 seconds... it can still only be used every 20 seconds. I don't see a faster cast time resulting in this skill being spammed all over the place. If that's what you are worried about... and if you are worried about something else, maybe you should state your grievences more clearly.
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Ritualist Weapon spells: Before this update Splinter Weapon was ridiculous, it was so good that it was so key at Victory or Death and could win a game, this got buffed - EXCELLENT MOVE ANET.
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rohara
The armor buff stacking nerf is ridiculous, IMO. Goodbye Hard Mode and Elite Missions! 
The Mesmer buffs look good, but are kinda "meh". Skill Recharge is the problem with PvE Mesmers - gotta use nearly yr whole skillbar to kill one enemy, then you've gotta wait 10-20 seconds before you can move on to the next enemy. The other classes don't have that severe kind of drawback. The Mesmer's spammable skills just don't cut it in PvE.
LOL @ Soul Reaping, again. Its an improvement, but still clumsy. Energy management should be more reliable and you should know when to expect your energy gain. I'm not into the whole timer thing. Who wants to count while playing?
The Mesmer buffs look good, but are kinda "meh". Skill Recharge is the problem with PvE Mesmers - gotta use nearly yr whole skillbar to kill one enemy, then you've gotta wait 10-20 seconds before you can move on to the next enemy. The other classes don't have that severe kind of drawback. The Mesmer's spammable skills just don't cut it in PvE.
LOL @ Soul Reaping, again. Its an improvement, but still clumsy. Energy management should be more reliable and you should know when to expect your energy gain. I'm not into the whole timer thing. Who wants to count while playing?
pork soldier
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Originally Posted by icymanipulator
How many people is "a lot of people" exactly? I never ran this...nor did I run a bar with 8 15e skills on it, which would not be viable under any circumstances. You'll have to excuse me for saying so but this sounds like tremendous exaggeration. Why not just remove the +15 sets if its such a huge issue?
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Skittles Angel
The One well I wish they'd update and decrease the energy req on would be the well of profane. Lord knows it would decrease the god-like abilities of dervishes...
Oh well, guess I'll have to wait for dreams to come true
Oh well, guess I'll have to wait for dreams to come true
themeteor
Umm ride the lighting, as far as I can tell it's not used because of what it does, not how well it does it. Its a very high cost shadow step, something that no air ele is going to need, and there are better sin alternatives for melee characters to use.
Therefore I think ride the lighting needs a functionality change, such as a knock down or a condition, for melee characters to start to use it.
Therefore I think ride the lighting needs a functionality change, such as a knock down or a condition, for melee characters to start to use it.
Plague
Balthazar's Pendulum will never find its way onto my skillbar. That elite is a joke.
Note to ANet: decreasing cast times on bad skills by 1/4 doesn't make me want to use them. It makes me want to laugh at you.
The "mesmer update" is pathetic. So mesmers are more viable in PvE now because one skill is AoE? And one skill is a little faster? Uh, no.
Note to ANet: decreasing cast times on bad skills by 1/4 doesn't make me want to use them. It makes me want to laugh at you.
The "mesmer update" is pathetic. So mesmers are more viable in PvE now because one skill is AoE? And one skill is a little faster? Uh, no.
Despozblehero
well reason i dont like ride the lightning is if im an ele im squishy, i can pop like a paper bag in a firestorm, i wanna be near my monk, and i think i wanna stay away from most things, especially things like warrs or within easy reach of warrs/mellee class ^^
Kool Pajamas
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Originally Posted by Plague
Balthazar's Pendulum will never find its way onto my skillbar. That elite is a joke.
Note to ANet: decreasing cast times on bad skills by 1/4 doesn't make me want to use them. It makes me want to laugh at you. The "mesmer update" is pathetic. So mesmers are more viable in PvE now because one skill is AoE? And one skill is a little faster? Uh, no. |
And yea balthazar pendulum isnt elite worthy.
prism2525
well, it's really a bummer that earth armor skills won't stack any more (if that's the case) but there's still the earth 330hp build although you gotta watch for [skill]Stoneflesh Aura[/skill]'s duration. Also, the aura sometimes just bugs off... it doesn't work. same happens at times with [skill]shielding hands[/skill].
Water Angel
defintly love the update ! thx anet.
mesmers got some nice buff, love it.
and the armor cap and nerf of stone flesh aura will prevent all this e/x farmers.
+ make more challenging pure tanking in some areas or running for some.
love it
mesmers got some nice buff, love it.
and the armor cap and nerf of stone flesh aura will prevent all this e/x farmers.
+ make more challenging pure tanking in some areas or running for some.
love it
gasmaskman
IMO this skill balance does nothing to stop any overpowered FoTM build. Where are thoughtful skill balances around PvP? Oh wait, all we care about is buffing mesmers and trash warrior skills when you don't realize the core of the problem.
P.S. Ride the Lightning spike, anyone?
P.S. Ride the Lightning spike, anyone?
WildmouseX
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Anyone reported for trade spamming is investigated and researched. The same applies to those who are observed. We wouldn't take five minutes of activity and place a block on an account. On the other hand, we have an easy and accurate method of finding out about that person who trade spammed 19.5 hours in various districts.
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Originally Posted by WildmouseX
we can report people for spaming trade in the all channel - tell me how.
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Make sure to take screenshots, quit Guild Wars, reformat them so that they'll actually fit in an email, trawl through to the GW support site, dig around for the correct email address, then await a robot response!
It's so easy and intuitive!
Not in the least bit frustrating!
/sarcasm
4ssassin
Sweet. My long time favorite skill, Melandru's Resilience, just got buffed. Now I can maintain it at only 9 WS (which is what my W/r uses)
I already dominated with that build....endless hp regeneration vs conditons/hexes? But I was one of a precious few that used this skill, maybe other people will give it a look now.
IMHO, this is a good update. No more mega armor tanks in pve. Now people might actually have to carry attacks on their skill bars.
Yay Anet!
I already dominated with that build....endless hp regeneration vs conditons/hexes? But I was one of a precious few that used this skill, maybe other people will give it a look now.
IMHO, this is a good update. No more mega armor tanks in pve. Now people might actually have to carry attacks on their skill bars.
Yay Anet!
Maiyn
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I officially hate this update because it did nothing to buff hydromancy damage. I don't want to snare only.
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The updates from a pvp only perspective are welcomed. The recall nerf is amazing, thanks ! That garbage was so annoying. I think that paragons will be much more balanced now, but I will miss defensive anthem in tombs, in gvg it was just annoying and overpowered tho imo, so gg
PLEASE look harder at ritualists and searing flames.....
PLEASE!Also, four guests is a lot, two probably would reduce the smurf factor. I'm glad tho, now maybe we can AT
oh also, shield guardian wouldn't EVER make it onto my bar unless it was also reduced to 5 energy. Then it might ;D
NeHoMaR
Just one thing about the local chat spammers; I really hate that people, specially the one insisting with the same stupid trade (aka. you know he/she will NEVER sell the thing in him/her life) thing, and at the same time using caps.
Anyway, I think "suspending" or "banning" that people is maybe too much, because that people must be too youth or something; And I don't like when someone is banned because he is stupid or noob. A better solution could be just MUTE that person automatically for a hour, with a warning message about; Everytime he/she SPAM the same words again and again, adding some "AI" for in case the SPAMMER use: SELLING THIS 1, SELLING THIS 2, SELLING THIS 3 ...
ArenaNet, please use all your creativity in this, I trust you. Maybe you must contact an email company, they are the masters of SPAM filtering. Good luck
(BTW, go to Kamadan Spanish District and take a look at the SPAM, just wow!; I talk about Spanish one because I think is the worst using caps)
Anyway, I think "suspending" or "banning" that people is maybe too much, because that people must be too youth or something; And I don't like when someone is banned because he is stupid or noob. A better solution could be just MUTE that person automatically for a hour, with a warning message about; Everytime he/she SPAM the same words again and again, adding some "AI" for in case the SPAMMER use: SELLING THIS 1, SELLING THIS 2, SELLING THIS 3 ...
ArenaNet, please use all your creativity in this, I trust you. Maybe you must contact an email company, they are the masters of SPAM filtering. Good luck
(BTW, go to Kamadan Spanish District and take a look at the SPAM, just wow!; I talk about Spanish one because I think is the worst using caps)
Lodurr
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It's not the only way to fix PvP balance but it gives you a good idea of where the problems are. Painfully few of these are addressed by the coming update.
Ama Seraphim
my only concern for the armor is this.. i play my tank as a meatshield for the squishies in my party (you know.. mesmers, monks, eles) they do more dmg than tanks.. so i would bring stuff i could successfully hold them off with, while making sure they are blocked.. squishy monk kept me healed.. my armor WY and others would give the squishies extra armor if any got around me..... my poor squishies.. they are all gonna die now...
Qual
I hate the defensive anthem nerf, and I hate that rit spikes still will be insane strong. I mean, what is the point? The armor stacking nerf + the defensive nerf will hurt the balanced build that uses duel paragons in HA. While Rit spikes...
QoH
Sorry if it was already mentioned, but i don't see keen arrow fix on the list...
uxxmall
Fix the HA or nerf rit spike ffs. What do you need to realize that nobody is playing HA anymore? Can`t us see that HA is more lame the random arena now?
I prefer to play random arena then HA now and I`m rank 11 Hero almost 12 but it is to lame and I don't want to waste my time with HA now.
Hmmm, what build should we play now in HA... something balanced, wit nice pressure?
NOT
Coz of F@#$ing kill count.
The only thing u can play is rit spike, searing flames, necro spike , para spike is nerfed so gg, and zergway
Anyway, nice job ANET
/cough
I prefer to play random arena then HA now and I`m rank 11 Hero almost 12 but it is to lame and I don't want to waste my time with HA now.
Hmmm, what build should we play now in HA... something balanced, wit nice pressure?
NOT
Coz of F@#$ing kill count.
The only thing u can play is rit spike, searing flames, necro spike , para spike is nerfed so gg, and zergway
Anyway, nice job ANET
/cough
Ferret
Thanks for the well explained update Gaile. It's nice to be given some explaination about the changes again.
As for my view, it's difficult to say until i've seen them in action, but thanks for what has been done for the mesmer.
As for my view, it's difficult to say until i've seen them in action, but thanks for what has been done for the mesmer.
Mylon
The fast casting buffs are both a big yawn. 3% faster activation? Fast casting isn't even as useful for signets as it is for spells. Fast casting already is a throwaway attribute that only serves to make mesmer spells clumsy to use by non-mesmers. (My N/Me build taking 3 seconds to cast diversion is painful. I should just stick to Signet of Humility.) Fast casting needs a better buff than this, like maybe reduced spell/signet recharge.
As for hero battles, reducing the rate that morale increases isn't going to change much so much as making it even more drawn out and annoying. I think a better change would be to increase the importance of the center shrine to make it worth 3 pips. This would encourage more people to fight over the center shrine, but even if someone wants to dig in and spirit spam or use some other holding tactic, the other team can cap other shrines. This would encourage less running around and more fighting, I would think.
As for hero battles, reducing the rate that morale increases isn't going to change much so much as making it even more drawn out and annoying. I think a better change would be to increase the importance of the center shrine to make it worth 3 pips. This would encourage more people to fight over the center shrine, but even if someone wants to dig in and spirit spam or use some other holding tactic, the other team can cap other shrines. This would encourage less running around and more fighting, I would think.
Jecht Scye
This update will be very disappointing if I can't get at least the same fire rate from my Spiteful Spirit as I get from the 1 SR hit every 5 seconds nerf.