Game Update Thursday April 17, 2008

they nurfed mi paragon again! damn pvperz

Looks like they really put a good effort into making changes that would only effect PvP without tearing at the PvE lovers.

Well done, keep it up!

No, I am well aware that they have been messing with skills that were previously unchanged for a very long time. I am trying to suggest that old skills shouldn't be changed...the new ones that are unbalancing them should...

if there going to neff rit sprits that help they might as well do it for ranger sprits as well.

OK seriously, wat the hell. Who on God's green earth is gonna use death pact signet anymore. Every update, they add another second to the casting time. And aegis, wow, great "balancing" there. And GoC, 1 spell, seriously anet?

R.I.P paragons

so bad......

MisterT69 para's wont RIP b/c there is something called Imbagon.

I'm most upset about Aegis I guess, a nerf was, in my opinion not needed as the skill was kind of balanced atm. But Aegis AND the ward vs melee nerf makes it baed... Cant get over it....

I guess I should have elaborated. Yeah I use Imbagon for PVE, but what I meant to say was

R.I.P SoR paras in PVP

ouchhh to all except mesmer xD

GG Anet. You take the still great Paragon defensive skills and nerf them almost to the point where they're unusable, and then have the audacity to not even buff any skills. Nerf nerf nerf nerf, when will Paragons get a desperately deserved defensive BUFF?

I was wondering where our Thursday nerf had gone.

I'll be looking on the Developer Update page of the wiki later to see why GW has gotten so bad.

This update may have hurt one of my farming builds using Shockwave but it seems that GoLE won't be so usefull on a Monks bars.I would tell them if they are going to increase Aegis to 15 agian make it out side of an earshot like it use to be.I will have to judge the rest later and am glad I didn't buy disarm yet.

omg they nerfed by bsurge bild wgtf do i do now with my ele usless.... i qyuti

Well, this is my feedback on those changes.

boo! this was much more useful to other classes (and specifically warriors) as a non-stance. before it was made into Skill, i never used it. afterward, i incorporated it into more builds because it was nice to have hex-avoidance that wouldn't cancel my IAS stances (and vice versa).

i actually thought that was a good innovation. i'm sad to see it go.

as if the death pact wasn't bad enough, then you made it 3sec to match res sig, and now you're nerfing it into oblivion? not to mention that it's linked to restoration magic. meh.

wth? i've played paragon, i'm familiar with these skills -- and that's a horrible nerf to core motivation skills. 20 sec wasn't great, but we could work with it due to some overlaps of functionality, but 30 sec is going to seriously damage their usefulness. looks like an overnerf to me.

Overall, I dislike the overnerf aspect, and what I feel is an overly gvg/pvp focused outlook of these changes.

Eudas

Faer the big problem is

fact 1 there are way to much skills

fact 2 some things have gotten completely useless, Air magic was allready a piece of junk in both PVE and PVP (Rit spike's alot better than an air magic ele (which i thought was the idea behind Air Magic))
but it has gotten nerfed even more air magic is close to becoming a dead line in both areas of the game, i haven't played pvp for a while but i'm sure if i enter with my ele it won't be an air ele, Bsurge is out of the window, air spiking was out of the window ages ago

And the big problem is pvp and pve skills should have been separated in my opinion ages ago or don't give pve things such high armor (there are enough solutions but i'll wait till gw2 to see if anything has changed if not i'll stick to gw1)

And i agree on getting the total defense line out of the way in gvg, but there is a difference between fixing a broken thing or completely making it utter useless (look at ether renewal, it's an elite that's not even worth paying the 1 plat for to get the cap sig, heck not even with an elite tome it's justified)

And not ranting just trying to point out some things and discuss where things could be improved, cause nothing is perfect untill proven otherwhise

• Glyph of Concentration: decreased number of spells affected to 1.

E/A HM raptor farming just got a bit more challenging.

Izzy really needs to understand that buffs are what is needed now, not nerfs. By nerfing things over and over again people will simply shift upwards causing the meta to become even more stagnant.

If I could Change the name of my Paragon, I would Name it MULE#3.

Hello.Air magic isn't broken yet and there is still Invoke which is better than B-Surge which I only used on Heros.I can live with Orb as it was this way all along just have to pack shell shock and what about Glyph of Swiftness?