Preliminary Skill Update Notes

You leet guilds could care less, but the 2 member thing for ladder play is a huge improvement for casual bottom feeders and people screwing around in byob. Hope to see some more ladder activity.

Careful, might force them into delaying it until September.

So you missed the bit that started
So no, that's not all. Just all for the moment to hit some of the issues whilst others are still being hammered out

I don't see SF anywhere in that list ^^

This part seems fairly clear to me:

Lol'd at this and pce out rspike >.>'

EDA change will help with Codex balance.

I do hope that's not everything though.

I don't see SF used much in PvP

what's wrong with a small update?

Trust me, it's much, much more in line with balance. It's been playtested.

It's fine.

Same here! Please.

I didn't because it is Anet but... they've been working on this for 4.5 months and yea... thats all?

This times a billion.

Plenty mentions of nerfs, but no buffs?
Also, nerf the R/A Dagger rangers that are lynching tombz.
Yes, tombz IS srs bsn.

This is a very, very good thing.

Though technically you could call having an effect on life stealing a buff to prots.

Yeah, dartboard buffing 90% of the time is what leads to broken metas anyway.

Yes, she had already stated that the PvE update would not happen until after the mAT.

What I'm surprised at is that this is the comprehensive list of "pressing PvP issues". I'm all for incrementalism, but all this did was hate on spike, kill MoI and zap a couple of OP skills used in 4v4. Low hanging fruit, and I'm not sure why hitting this set of skills (other than MoI) right before the mAT was critical.

I suppose that it's the way this update was pitched. It was sold as important for the mAT, so I expected more skill changes that would have an impact on that meta. Unless you think spike was going to win the mAT.

Fair point, but tbh at this point the power creep's just ruined everything.
I want massive buffs to previously useless skills.
I want a complete overhaul of skills.

Let's start this game again. 10 stacks of ectos says it brings back the oldschool and reinvents pvp.

Nice change,I like it

Wow ,big change here,this is pretty cool.

Nooooooooooooooooooooooo.........There goes blood spike.

Wow do we really need this too since you'r already changing swarm?It's not a small change too its almost double the recharge,at least increase the damage a bit, or beter yet lower the recharge to something more normal

Eh the healing is exactly the same,whats up with that.


Edit:Give us some BUFFS! After you change these things gives us at least some new stuff to play with.

Recuperation (PvP) will no longer provide health regeneration to characters who are above 75% health. This lets it remove some pressure damage but not counteract it entirely. This change will only affect PvP.

I think this is a bit strange. When pressure gets ppl lower than 75% of their health, recup still counters as much pressure as before. This change makes it just much worse against spikes, because it doesn't anymore clean up random damage, when it is important to keep ppl topped up against spikes. So this change does little to make pressure more viable, but helps spikes to get through easier because it is harder to keep ppl at full health between spikes.

Anyway let the nerfs flow, GW really needs that.