~Ursan Blessing and balance~

Not everyone started early; Not everyone has all the campaigns; not everyone has the time to play as long as 3 hours a night. Hence, despite the fact that Guild Wars is supposed to provide instances for players to have a skill over time quality, unfairness still remains. Ursan Blessing just provides the extra push for new players to catch up, and I believe that is a valid reason. zzz

They're called Elite PvE areas. Go look up "elite" and see if it has references to scrubs/bad players being elite via crutches/handicaps.

DoA isn't meant for new players. The ENTIRE POINT is that they require skill and dedication to beat. And (I feel I have to remind you), skill and dedication doesn't mean hours spent mindlessly grinding; the whole "skill" part entails that, although you only play three hours a day, you have solid bars for you/your teammates/your heroes and that the 3 hours you spend playing are productive.

For example, you go in DoA with no previous DoA experience whatsoever, and wipe. You sit in DoA outpost and figure out how to fix your build and be a better player so you don't wipe. If you only have 3 hours to do this, then you start again the next day; if you're truly skilled, it won't take you very long to figure out.

Scrubs, on the other hand, go into DoA and wipe. They change nothing (they leave their terrible healing breeze-spam monk bars and mending whammos and whatnot), and go in again. After the fiftieth fail, they go post on Guru about how unfair and hard DoA is. Those are the type of people that don't deserve to get the Elite PvE loot (tormented items etc), because they are unfit to beat the area.

Then you get a skill like Ursan Blessing, which makes even the most average groups insta-win (I won't say it makes everyone instawin, because some people have confessed a dire lack of skill). What happened to the part where DoA is elite?

Skilled players were originally the only ones that could beat DoA. I remember Rep Protein A being one of the first to clear it (including Mallyx), and rob being in the first group to beat Mallyx hardmode. That is sort of obvious evidence of what we've been saying all along; the area was made to be a challenge for skilled players to overcome, not to be lolzrolled by a team of failures with just Ursan Blessing and prot-less woh monks.

Not everyone started early; Not everyone has all the campaigns; not everyone has the time to play as long as 3 hours a night. Hence, despite the fact that Guild Wars is supposed to provide instances for players to have a skill over time quality, unfairness still remains. Ursan Blessing just provides the extra push for new players to catch up, and I believe that is a valid reason. 3 hours a night to do what exactly? You have time to grind the title for UB?

Divine Envoy, just leave it. The valid reasons for not nerfing the skill have been brought up ad nauseum in this thread. Just because one little gang, er sms doesn't classify them as valid does not mean they aren't. No need to frustrate yourself arguing with sms and friends, let it ride. Besides, the skill has not been nerfed, and hopefully won't be (though some random SMSer or two will come in and say otherwise, surprise), so go to DoA and maul the hell out of it with UB.

Peace. I have a hard time taking some of your posts seriously when you've never set foot into DoA and as such, have no knowledge of what is good or bad as far as balance is considered in such areas.