Dev Updates Today!

http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Chant_s...uick_reference

All chants are 1 second and up in their activation time.

Plenty of time to interrupt.

Im assuming that Power Block will stop the chant and will disable all skills of that attribute on that bar.

In general, pretty standard skill balance. Buffs to useless skills which will remain useless, buffs to already overpowered skills (hexes) and some nice changes as well (cripshot and defensive anthem). Trade spam update is a bit meh, but hey, we know they won't implement a new trade system, just get used to it.

But seriously, buffing hexes? You guys say you monitor the skill usage and how they affect the metagame, and yet you buff hexes? Again though, love the cripshot buff.

WoHoo another paragon nerf ! Have anyone from A-net been in halls lately, so many rit teams, and now they got buffed. Bye bye balanced teams in HA...

Well I thought the whole idea for AT's were to stop people from starting up a pug to farm champ points?!? But now what you have done is let people join guilds 10 min right before the AT so that they have 4 people just enough to play then have 4 others guest. What happens at the end of the month, all these pug guilds that got the 40 q-points to enter don't show up because they can't have guest any more. Alright lets just make the Monthly tournament be filled with FF wins! What might have been good was to make it 1 day wait before they could play in at and maybe require at least 6 members of the guild.

I fear Ride The Lightning might be a huge change towards the revamped Eurospikes (watch Hellas Team [Gr]).

With an added buff towards the recharge and damage, RtL>Dismember>Executioner's Strike>Agonizing Chop (.5 activation time will make it better than crit chop) will descimate any unsuspecting guild, especially since there are no more hexes to click Infuse on.

Also, the Necro hexes should be nerfed, as the SR changes will not effect them. You did nothing to the hexes in terms of GvG, as the 3-hexes midline still will dominate. And there have been many posts as to nerfing the hexes, as well as intelligent reasons why.

If you still decide the hexes shouldn't be nerfed, at least buff the hex removals (looks at Hexbreaker Aria, Withdraw Hexes, etc.) These are important matters, and should be dealt with quickly and professionally.

Mesmer skills are okay now, and Signets look a little more attractive now (looks at Signet of Illusions). But now, I don't know what skill is better, Arcane Conundrum or Migraine. Arcane Conundrum will be spread for alot longer durations, even with the nerf to Mantra of Persistence.

As for Rangers, thank you. Crip Shot looks more attractive now, especially against the block-heavy team builds in GvG. However, I think you may face a dillema with the soon-abused Melandru's Resilience. With MR having its duration slightly longer than it's recharge, the energy management for x/R's will be immense. This will even make BoonProt's reborn, which I have no problem with.

Over-all, a step in the right direction.

While I don't think it's a "huge" buff, it will make sig of humility, an already powerful skill, less easy as hell to interrupt, and that's the last thing it needed.

Since it will be the only real skill affected by the FC affecting signets (aside from rezzes), it probably should be increased to 3 seconds to compensate. That way you could continue to encourage all the other silly mes signet build while preventing a nasty skill from becoming nastier.

[QUOTE=Loviatar]Refresh my memory who did I address it to?

Ask the hard questions, thats how you get answers. Saying "a lot of people" are running 8 15e skills on their bar sounds like ridiculous exaggeration. My question is a fair question, if +15e sets are such a problem why not just remove them?

[QUOTE=icymanipulator]
Because +15 energy sets serve a purpose other then abusing SR? Duh?

Someone else already answered this. (edit: Kool Pajamas)

15/-1e sets were made for tight pinches, when a caster needs an extra little bit of energy in emergencies. Not to be used the entire time, as they were occasionally when people exploited SR.

[QUOTE=icymanipulator]Uh read my post responding to yours on the previous page.


edit: haha 2 people beat me to it. also the quotes are messed up. ah nevermind it was the first guy that messed up the quote and messed it for everyone else.

I made it almost a year without even knowing they existed and it didn't effect my gameplay in the least. I guess that does make me an idiot huh, or maybe I just don't load up my bar with all 15e spells.

Edit: Just read Kool Pajamas response.

hope we will finally get lvl'4 and 5 KOABD title track this week

So, what purposes would those be - WRT the Necromancer?

Uh, Thanks!
TabascoSauce

Any chance of these updates being out tonight?

I have a critical-interrupter build I play with... assassin with a bow. Keen arrow is a devastating part of that build, so it's a far from useless skill.

Have you been in HA lately?
....IWAY!!!!1
that chant-interupt nerf was seriously needed imo

and how did the rits get buffed?, rtspike still sucks

Gaile,

Thank you for your grace and patience toward all of us complainers and critics. We're a tough bunch to please. Few (if any) of us could do your job.

I will try the ele earth farming tonight in HM, and see what happens, then post results here later. My prediction, however, is that I will be dead...dead...dead...dead...

No, the updates are planned for later in the week. Sorry.

Why is soul reaping getting a huge buff from controlling a spirit? as far as i know no necro skills summon spirits so you have to be a Rit or Ranger for this to help at all with the current SR problems. so no N/E or N/ME or N/Mo or N/W or N/D if you want your characters inherent skill to give you decent energy management? ouch.

I second that, i hate to be a Anet employee right now. If i was i would pay the Liongaurds to protect me against all the angry ppl here.

All in All great update , Keep up the good work.