Skill Balances, HA Update, VoD Changes
Gaile Gray
We've posted a large number of Skill Balances and other game updates in the Guild Wars Wiki. You can find the page here. We'd love your feedback so please let us hear from you!
lacasner
Wow..well ty gaile very interesting update
Will be sure to test vigorously once it goes live.
Will be sure to test vigorously once it goes live.
Gaile Gray
Hey, there,
In order to focus the feedback more efficiently, Andrew has started a forum thread specifically designed to discuss PvP player feedback regarding these changes. Please head here for that discussion -- we very much want your feedback on all this!
In order to focus the feedback more efficiently, Andrew has started a forum thread specifically designed to discuss PvP player feedback regarding these changes. Please head here for that discussion -- we very much want your feedback on all this!
Lord Mendes
Gfg, very good update.
Coridan
holy cow Aegis get a big nerf....i can hear the complaints already
Theus
A shitty Mesmer Nerf/Buffing!
How surprising!
How surprising!
lyra_song
Rits now get exhaustion o.O
VitisVinifera
I hate to throw out the PvE vs PvP card, but this again makes PvE less fun because of PvP-derived nerfs
for example, there's no such thing as Aegis chaining in PvE. This skill is nearly useless in PvE now.
I know this falls on deaf ears but the 2 metas really need to be treated differently.........because they are different
for example, there's no such thing as Aegis chaining in PvE. This skill is nearly useless in PvE now.
I know this falls on deaf ears but the 2 metas really need to be treated differently.........because they are different
Jebus
Damn Aegis! Other changes are looking good though.
upier
Exhaustion on ritu skills?
This is a joke right?
This is a joke right?
Sarevok Thordin
Splinter Weapon: Recharge 20 SECONDS?
Don't you mean 2 seconds? :P
Don't you mean 2 seconds? :P
zknifeh
Splinter Weapon: decreased recharge time to 20 seconds
Splinter Weapon had recharge of 5 seconds... did u mean u increased the recharge?
Splinter Weapon had recharge of 5 seconds... did u mean u increased the recharge?
Loviatar
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and what farming build of yours does this hurt anyway?
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I hate to throw out the PvE vs PvP card, but this again makes PvE less fun because of PvP-derived nerfs
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and what farming build of yours does this hurt anyway?
Andrew Patrick
About Aegis: How often are you not within Earshot when playing PvE? The energy has been reduced, and the range was reduced to an AoE that you are generally in anyway. I really don't see how that is useless...
HayesA
Wow, Eles got major glyph buff. I love it! 
Jetdoc
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Exhaustion on ritu skills?
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I would like to see them change Glyph of Energy to encompass Binding Rituals as well, however, as it is the only skill that currently can prevent Exhaustion.
Sarevok Thordin
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Originally Posted by Andrew Patrick
About Aegis: How often are you not within Earshot when playing PvE? The energy has been reduced, and the range was reduced to an AoE that you are generally in anyway. I really don't see how that is useless...
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dsnesnintendo
NOOOOOOO! my necro is ruined in hm, damn u pvp
on a lighter note ....................nm
on a lighter note ....................nm
Omniclasm
Splinter Weapon: decreased recharge time to 20 seconds.
Typo?
Typo?
Zinger314
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Originally Posted by Andrew Patrick
About Aegis: How often are you not within Earshot when playing PvE? The energy has been reduced, and the range was reduced to an AoE that you are generally in anyway. I really don't see how that is useless...
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The Necromancer nerfs didn't get as hurt much as I thought it would. Reckless Haste actually got buffed for PvE...
(But what's up with Rip Enchantment? Were Ravenous Gaze spikers too overpowered?)
Elementer Masta
The "For Great Justice" buff makes me 
. I don't much care for the Ritualist exhaustion BS though. The Splinter Weapon nerf makes me cringe though. The Aegis "nerf" isn't that bad at all. You're within earshot most of the time anyway, AND the energy got reduced? Hells yeah!
The Glyph buffs own. 'nuff said.
Looks like some Necro Hexes got nerfed again, good. I thought they'd get hit harder though. Shadow of Fear had a ridiculous duration before.
Overall, not bad.
. I don't much care for the Ritualist exhaustion BS though. The Splinter Weapon nerf makes me cringe though. The Aegis "nerf" isn't that bad at all. You're within earshot most of the time anyway, AND the energy got reduced? Hells yeah!The Glyph buffs own. 'nuff said.
Looks like some Necro Hexes got nerfed again, good. I thought they'd get hit harder though. Shadow of Fear had a ridiculous duration before.
Overall, not bad.
Channel_V93
Since, spirits now have exhaustion, I propose a buff to Ritual Lord. It would look like this:
For 30 seconds, your Rituals recharge 15...51% faster, and don't cause Exhaustion.
For 30 seconds, your Rituals recharge 15...51% faster, and don't cause Exhaustion.
Elementer Masta
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Originally Posted by Channel_V93
Since, spirits now have exhaustion, I propose a buff to Ritual Lord. It would look like this:
For 30 seconds, your Rituals recharge 15...51% faster, and don't cause Exhaustion. |
Master Mxyzptlk
someone needs to explain to me why we're trying to make mesmers more "energy-bound" after nerfing all their energy management due to abuse by secondary-mesmers.
Weren't mesmers supposed to get a big buff a while ago? when's that coming?
My suspicion is that they're trying to push mesmer-signet builds by making mesmers too energy weak to not run bunches of signets. Once signet recharge times go down, maybe I will. until then, I'm going to continue to bring elementalist glyphs on my mesmer, especially now.
Weren't mesmers supposed to get a big buff a while ago? when's that coming?
My suspicion is that they're trying to push mesmer-signet builds by making mesmers too energy weak to not run bunches of signets. Once signet recharge times go down, maybe I will. until then, I'm going to continue to bring elementalist glyphs on my mesmer, especially now.
Andrew Patrick
I don't believe any mission, elite or normal, has ever been intended to force a reliance on a single skill aside from special mission skills required to complete tasks. If there was such a reliance, I would be so bold as to say that skill was being used as a crutch in some parts of PvE just as much as it was in PvP.
Any time one skill being changed makes an entire strategy fail on a mission, or in PvP, or anywhere, I take that as hard evidence that some players were far too reliant on that one skill, and 9 times out of 10, that reliance is based on that skill being overpowered. Overpowered skills are overpowered in PvE just as much as they are in PvP, the only difference is monsters don't have forum accounts to post about it.
Any time one skill being changed makes an entire strategy fail on a mission, or in PvP, or anywhere, I take that as hard evidence that some players were far too reliant on that one skill, and 9 times out of 10, that reliance is based on that skill being overpowered. Overpowered skills are overpowered in PvE just as much as they are in PvP, the only difference is monsters don't have forum accounts to post about it.
undeadgun
weeeeeee, rit spike bye bye, i can ensure u that u wont see any rit spike this weekend, hmmm... how to farm fame then? lets do spiritway, legoway renoway just too complecated lol
Rogue2468
Yes since all the people on this site love to bitch and wine I decided to do the same in respect to the people of Anet why I ask why. I love and have support guildwars since it was first release and when the rit was introduced I played it right off the back it is still my favorite class but I am a PvE player and when some goes wrong in PvP you have a tendencey to nerf my builds and when I saw the exhaustion on my skill I all most quit and still thinking about it and it seems all the melee classes got buffed so why dont you bring back the old right ,ord build or get ride of some of the exhaustion cause your really taking the fun out of this game but in respect, RED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GO You Anet.
dsnesnintendo
dont why they had to kick the necro when hes down
minion nerf.>soul reaping nerf.> now curses nerf
whats next
blood magic spells now cause exhaustion
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minion nerf.>soul reaping nerf.> now curses nerf
whats next
blood magic spells now cause exhaustion
/rant
Omega X
Well, that is a whole bunch of Rit skills that I will be taking off of my bar.
Trub
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Some of my favorite skills were 'adjusted' too...but I think I can compensate for the 'changes' by moving 1 or 2 skills.
(Makes for a nice change in flavor..
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upier
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Originally Posted by Andrew Patrick
I don't believe any mission, elite or normal, has ever been intended to force a reliance on a single skill aside from special mission skills required to complete tasks. If there was such a reliance, I would be so bold as to say that skill was being used as a crutch in some parts of PvE just as much as it was in PvP.
Any time one skill being changed makes an entire strategy fail on a mission, or in PvP, or anywhere, I take that as hard evidence that some players were far too reliant on that one skill, and 9 times out of 10, that reliance is based on that skill being overpowered. Overpowered skills are overpowered in PvE just as much as they are in PvP, the only difference is monsters don't have forum accounts to post about it. |
They just activate their super secret weapons!
Like:
In HM Monsters' attack speed, movement speed, skill casting speed, and skill recharge rate are all increased to be 33-50% faster than normal.
And you dare mention the word balance in connection with PvE?
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Originally Posted by Jetdoc
I actually like the change on the 25 energy binding rituals (ahem...you forgot Recuperation).
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No Energy Storage. No armour penetration.
Not the nicest thing for PvE.
Rogue2468
Huh wow Trub you must be a PvPer who goes into PvE and says where my Agies Chain if you know anything about PvE you would know there are groups bigger than 8 and not only that there higher than lvl 20s to be honest theres more PvErs than PvPers and i am sure they would all agree with me that your wrong with hard mode fighting 10 to 15 lvl 30s a at time dont tell me theres not a difference cause there is.
Phantom Gun
Wow way to kill the ritualist even more! Exhaustion? 
I hope that splinter weapon's recharge time wasn't "increased" to 20 seconds. Bye bye splinter barrager. 
Time to put the ritualist on the endangered species list. Look at the PVP thread. They would nerf the ritualist to deletion if they could.
I hope that splinter weapon's recharge time wasn't "increased" to 20 seconds. Bye bye splinter barrager. Time to put the ritualist on the endangered species list. Look at the PVP thread. They would nerf the ritualist to deletion if they could.
Blackest Rose
You just killed my rit......
I'm a PVE only player and my rit is dead with everything causing exhaustion now.
Is there any thought about PVE when you change this stuff (doesn't seem to be) :
A while back, we adjusted expensive Ritualist spells. This week we wanted to examine Exhaustion and see if the reduced sustainability of these skills would make them more balanced and interesting. We scaled down a number of Ritualist damage Spells as well, to further move away from "Rit Spike" builds that combine too much damage and defense on a single character. Vital Weapon, a staple of Ritualist builds, took a light shot to duration because it so easily enables many other Ritualist skills.
I'm getting so tired of this ....
Stay tuned for next week's update....
DEV's : Well we're still seeing some people who are insisting on playing a rit. So this week we removed urns and spirits from them, if it stops more rit spikes it's all good. PS sorry pve guys but.... um..... tough
I'm a PVE only player and my rit is dead with everything causing exhaustion now.
Is there any thought about PVE when you change this stuff (doesn't seem to be) :
A while back, we adjusted expensive Ritualist spells. This week we wanted to examine Exhaustion and see if the reduced sustainability of these skills would make them more balanced and interesting. We scaled down a number of Ritualist damage Spells as well, to further move away from "Rit Spike" builds that combine too much damage and defense on a single character. Vital Weapon, a staple of Ritualist builds, took a light shot to duration because it so easily enables many other Ritualist skills.
I'm getting so tired of this ....
Stay tuned for next week's update....
DEV's : Well we're still seeing some people who are insisting on playing a rit. So this week we removed urns and spirits from them, if it stops more rit spikes it's all good. PS sorry pve guys but.... um..... tough
Noam12
Nice
good thing Rits have been nerfed.
btw I love the monk update.....aegis, guardian and the greatest remove hex(8secs)
but i notice something...you did everything on this update to make the melee stronger:
bsurge, necro hexes, blurred vision and more....
and you didn't do the most important thing in pvp...REMOVE HEROES FROM HA!
good thing Rits have been nerfed.
btw I love the monk update.....aegis, guardian and the greatest remove hex(8secs
but i notice something...you did everything on this update to make the melee stronger:
bsurge, necro hexes, blurred vision and more....
and you didn't do the most important thing in pvp...REMOVE HEROES FROM HA!
Theus
I wonder how they even decided to give exhaustion to Ritualists anyway.I mean,its not that bad on Elementalists since they have a large enough pool to be relatively unaffected by it.
Ritualists on the other hand,don't have a pool that large.
Ritualists on the other hand,don't have a pool that large.
Trub
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Huh wow Trub you must be a PvPer who goes into PvE and says where my Agies Chain if you know anything about PvE you would know there are groups bigger than 8 and not only that there higher than lvl 20s to be honest theres more PvErs than PvPers and i am sure they would all agree with me that your wrong with hard mode fighting 10 to 15 lvl 30s a at time dont tell me theres not a difference cause there is.
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Time to cut back on the caffeine a smidge?
What I'm trying to say is..
What's the big deal?
Unless your a die hard farmer..or run a FoTM build..there's no huge change to the game.
Just look at your bar closely..and look to your team, or heroes..and there's plenty of skills available to compensate for your 'loss'.
Looks like a good time to experiment with new secondaries, and maybe....weapons/armor?
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VitisVinifera
there's an open spot in the pve graveyard right next to the Paragon's plot
Blackest Rose
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Originally Posted by VitisVinifera
I hate to throw out the PvE vs PvP card, but this again makes PvE less fun because of PvP-derived nerfs
for example, there's no such thing as Aegis chaining in PvE. This skill is nearly useless in PvE now. I know this falls on deaf ears but the 2 metas really need to be treated differently.........because they are different |
Neo Nugget
Rits now get exaust?lol dang