We cant get any love

I use PwK for the cheap party heal, not necessarily for the extra armor. It was a good change in my opinion, it dropped flag running rit's armor down from an insane 96 to a more balanced level, yet still kept the skill viable for general play. This would be right in a healthy game, but there are so many unbalanced things (far more than bar compression on that ritu template) that make it sound like a random update.

It's not the damage reduction per se, it's the thought behind it. Game has so many flaws and they fix a 14 armor bonus on one of the few decent ritus skills. It sounds kinda random especially when you got palm strike/Fastcasters water mesmers/Lingering/peace and harmony/and worthless paragons paired with imba rangers. Also why did they implement the pve/pvp split if they are not going to use it?
On pve side, we got perma sins and cryers at every corner but still they don't reverse spirits back to what they were 1-2 months after Faction? It will surely add diversity and I'm pretty sure spirits aren't imba as SF/CoP is.
It's like they forgot Ritualists.


This would be right in a healthy game, but there are so many unbalanced things (far more than bar compression on that ritu template) that make it sound like a random update. Bingo, someone got my point. IMO theres a long list of changes that could be made before even GLANCING at Rits, so many unbalances as it is and they hit us.

Wasn't the VwK nerf more aimed towards hitting N/Rts? VwK = [Vengeful was Khanhei]
PwK was nerfed

And it was nerfed because a rit could get 96 armor holding the ashes all the time which made them pretty hard to hurt

Wasn't the VwK nerf more aimed towards hitting N/Rts? PwK, you mean?

And no, it was more directed at the build where you camp the item spell to get the most out of Caretakers Charge.

This deserved a PvE/PvP split imo. That's the point, this update reeks of lazyness. I can pretty well imagine GvG-ers don't like squishies with WTFPWNAGE armor, but many people using N/Rt heroes get shafted now ^^.

But meh it's pve, people will just say: Use SY!

We PvE with empty bars with just SY on it because it's fun LOL.

Now this is only good for the party heal, and there are far better ways to do this in PvE (ie [BiP][Healer's Boon][Heal Party]). You let me know when you have a good hero build for those.

There's no reason for builds to change, PwK still does the same primary job it's always done, efficient party heal along with endless redbar spam that mindless N/Rt heroes handle well. +10 armor is nothing in the face of HM, minions and prots are your defense anyway.

If you needed the +24 armor to survive then I highly suggest you reassess your play-style The sad thing about this nerf is that it decreases your armor from the defensive set.

Yeah, I don't understand why shit like SY, Shadow Form, etc, is being allowed to stay, but we can't have at least a rework of Spawning Power and get our old spirits back. Completely agreed. I think my time spent with GW is nearing an end. Anyone know of any other MMOs that have actual unique, creatively conceptualized classes? Or will I forever be doomed with the mundane warriors, mages, etc.?

Oh, how I lament for my sweet DAoC.

I think it's also to give [Mighty Was Vorizun] more spot light. That skill is terrible.

Yeah Rits are hard to play...and since I don't love mine enough I turned her to a storage

That skill is terrible.

Yeah Rits are hard to play...and since I don't love mine enough I turned her to a storage Hard to play as in there's no call for them in the "meta"? If that's the case, I think some players are too caught up in it all. Cut some people some slack if they want to play a certain profession and let them join in on the fun.

This reminds me of last week when some people in our alliance announced a Tombs run. I asked what kind of setup they were running and it turned out to be all assassins, no other professions allowed. . . Yeah, I mean no offense to people who like to play in teams with all assassins or cryway or the like but I sincerely hope this whole way of thinking is completely and utterly ditched, destroyed and vaporized in every way possible. I understand there can be a need for certain professions such as monks cause of their role as primary healers but when the community develops a preference (or in the case of some, a need) to run only a few, select professions over all others, that should scream blue, bloody imbalance to the developers and acted upon immediately.

Heck, even ursanway was better than this cause with the exception of a few nitpickers, most professions were allowed to join groups so as long as they spent some time to work on their characters. Yes, I understand that title grind and the like is the cardinal sin of MMO's but I'd still rather take that as a lesser of two evils. The greater of the two being what we have today, where even if you spent hundreds and hundreds of hours developing the amount of skill you possess in a certain profession, you can still be shot down for "making the wrong choice in profession".

tl;dr: Buildwars sucks, pve meta sucks. Don't allow it in GW2. Kthxbai.

That skill is terrible.

Yeah Rits are hard to play...and since I don't love mine enough I turned her to a storage Practice makes Perfect. Or at least close to it.


/signed on MwV. It sucks. Mingson, Lee Sa, Kao Lai> Vorizun

Lol i never noticed PwK had +armor....
It's lower now

Yeah it used to be +24 but its now +10.

Even now, it's still real powerful. Great with Rt and N/Rt healers