Update - Thursday, September 17

The monk nerf was completely unwarranted. Way to kill monks in PvE Anet

I'm pretty sure it's a fact that monks are now worthless in PvE, ultimately. ANET and those who disagree need to look at the real problem, and stop needlessly nerfing stuff in PvE for the sake of PvP. You people made a skill split for a reason.

Selfless Spirit was not overpowered. It was the only skill that let monks remotely CLOSE the the energy management ER eles have. Name one thing that monks can do that ER ele's can't, and I will be freaking surprised.

I have no idea WHY anet thinks that making an entire class pretty much worthless in comparison to other classes is a good idea.

Wow now this is what I call a nerfing and a half. They really didn't nerf Escape all that much though cept it's useless in PVP now like they were using it for. I would have increased the cost of it also (bye bye R/A rangers in HA though).

But, why did they nerf Mantra of Resolve so badly? 5 seconds duration?? That just makes it worthless or too expensive. (This was my skill of choice on my hero monks as it was a long lasting stance so I could use stance armor on my monks +10/wi stance) A cost of 10 and 20 recharge for 5 seconds of resolve? That's pretty pitiful. Now I have to replace ALL my hero monks armor and think of something else to use in its place besides an enchantment as I find there's more enchant removing npc's than stance removers. They really don't want casters to not be able to be interupted it appears. But, I forgot their love for rangers in the first place when it comes to interupting. I guess Lindsey whined and cried her ranger was just wasting interupt shots because of distortion and resolve.

But sins and R/A's hahah they got hit good with the Blossom nerf.

Poor ele's got hit again bye bye invulnerable for 3 seconds, now you take damage. Wow they hit distortion also? hahah Mesmers haven't got a chance now, no resolve, no distortion for long and ele/me's got hit just as hard. hahahaha Immolate no big deal just use Glyph of immolation and Glow instead you get nearly as much damage and energy back to boot.

Wonder when they are going to nerf blind bots? I hear that whine all the time in RA and TA.

And I still can't believe they nerf normal players skills in PVE and then they leave SF still running strong?? Screw me with mantra of resolve but let the littlr Moe's that use SF still run rampant in the game. No wonder people keep quitting or threatening to quit. Anet does nothing about the REAL PROBLEM in the game.

I don't farm there but people farming it did not hurt anything, if that is how they have fun more power to them, nerfing them was absolutely unnecessary and just plain mean.

Resolve was mostly used against things like savage slash that go through SB. Now an unlucky interrupt on SB or SoA could lead to death. Of course, the Smite usually carries UA or rebirth, so it's not a huge deal, but it will slow things down.

600s can cry a little bit about it... but ele farming builds are nerfed to hell without Mantra of Resolve. Not to mention it happened a day before an event. How much fun is that.

If you're talking about CoF you can do that about 2x faster as a Mo/D with Eternal Aura and Light Of Deldrimor in comparison to Mo/Me anywayz. I've also done groups in CoF where they aggro and interupt me as I cast Spell Breaker and I still live because it's not hard to spam Spirit Bond if they keep interupting SoA even with Power Flux on you. I've yet to find anywhere else that it's super important for and most areas that do have it have variants that don't use Resolve anyways. Glyph of Concentration pretty much replaces all uses of Resolve outside of 600 and that 1 raptor build anyways. The nerf is no big deal...

TY for saying this, pretty tired of saying what needs to be nerfed on R/As... and in the end I was right (Caltrops nerf to Escape.) For those saying Natty Stride will take its spot, don't count on it. Hexes and Enchants are big in PvP so natural stride would not last long.

I was pretty positive for a while. I do enjoy the constant pointless dervish buffs. They are indeed pointless (to me), since I felt dervishes were strong enough in PVE. I even didn't mind when they changed Sand Shards, which I used to use in a way that I thought was quite clever.

ANet keeps kicking my favorite skills in the teeth. While the bulk of my builds are unaffected (I do not use PVXwiki for general pve play, so ANet will not nerf them ), it's my farming builds that get kicked in the teeth. I really liked Mantra of Resolve. I feel that nerfing it for PVE when they don't nerf Shadow Form is unjustifiable. I really don't have anything against assassins, but they not are my favorite class. In fact, they're among my least favorite classes to play, next to monks. While it is clearly not as effective, I enjoy farming with my necromancer, elementalist, and mesmer. ANet has just brutally murdered 2 of the few remaining things about this game that entertain me. That's why I'm a cynical, self-entitled prick. Removing the flexibility from a game that used to be all about flexible strategies tends to piss me off.

Thanks ANET for taking away a game of GREED where everyone just thinks about $$$$$$$ and giving us back a game of challenge, cooperation and CREATIVITY!!! Keep up doing a good job.

You apparently missed my edit with your knee-jerk reply.

But, I have to admit, this new NERF mentality reminds me almost exactly of the reason I quit playing WoW in disgust... Doesn't seems a smart thing to do to your established customer base. But then, they still haven't fixed z-predictions, so it's apparent they're not real concerned about selling new accounts to generate new revenue...

Great Update for the PvP Community , a step in the right direction .

Good PvP update.

My Monk is crying in PvE though. Patient, Selfless Spirit and Mantra of Resolve got hit (harder to keep up with Ele healers and harder to 600). I need to think of something to Raptor farm this weekend too. My Ele used Mantra.

Overall, good update though. R/As NEEDED to go.

Some good nerfs there but... come on... if you do nerfs for PvE why not do the most obvious and most needed one first? It's easy and simple, nothing to think about for 1.5 years... it was obvious back then, mere days after the ridiculous buff. Just don't let any way for it to be maintainable, remember of glyph, echo, deadly paradox, and all consumables +1attributes or celerity. Easy.

Use RoJ.

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I don't understand the logic in the selfless spirit change. They made selfless spirit less powerful but didn't do a thing to ER, which is far more powerful?

Everyone complaining "this isn't changed yet! This isn't fixed yet! They said they were working on it and looking at it!" are making me facepalm. Talk about sounding like a bunch of children, assuming that it'll be done immediately.

Just because Shadow Form wasn't changed this update doesn't mean they're not working on it. Just because the XTH isn't back yet doesn't mean they're not trying to fix it. Seriously, guys, stuff like this doesn't change itself overnight. And with something like SF, I would bet that they're being very careful with trying to change it, since it's so prevalent and so many people dislike it. I wouldn't be surprised if the functionality on it is changed entirely, and that'll take a bit of testing to see how it works.

In other words, some people need to grow up and stop whining.

Anyway, most of the changes didn't really effect me, though the MoR nerf kinda sucks, as I use that with my Mesmer sometimes (imagine, a Mesmer actually using that skill!). But I'll just find something else to replace it, I suppose.

I spent hours upon hours hopping from 1 profession to another setting up farming builds and this MoR nerf really really hurts. Off the top of my head I can recall my Ele, Rit, Mes, Monk and any other class I missed that requires MoR for farming. I feel like I've been robbed of my time and effort. I will adapt of course but having to redo the work and redo the testing through no fault of my own leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth. It just so happens MoR plays a very significant part in many of the professions/areas I choose to farm/test in. Some of you may not share this same problem as I but the fact remains that this is bothersome. As a strong supporter of GW I am deeply disappointed and I have a valid reason to be upset.

PvE/PvP split please...

LMAO that they kill one of the most useful skills to farming monks, necros, and eles in PVE, mantra of resolve, and cause farmers to switch to perma sins instead! The same evil perma sins that they are targeting in the next update 2 months from now???? That is like saying we are taking away your beer, so go get high on crack instead.

I dont get it. Mantra is now completely useless in so many areas that were fun to farm. I swear I just bought my ele vabbian armor as a treat so she could do some farming and had mantra of resolve in her bar. That figures...

Maybe this is really an evil plot to get everyone to start using perma sins for farming instead before they are obliterated in 2 months. Really hurt monks, necros, eles... push people towards SF sins... what am I missing? Anyone want to go get raped by an aaxte? cuz only the sins can handle them now.

nice with the mantra, there goes some stuff done by the 600/smite easily

Hmmm... Wonder how long it'll take me to get a perma-sin up and farming UW? Bet I can easily get it done and have a stack or two of ectos before the light comes on and they fix that mess.

What's more likey, is that they'll see that I made one and go "Oh! he's got a perma-sin? Can't have that. WHERE'S MY NERF BAT?"