Update - Thursday, February 25, 2010

Thank you for this update Arenanet I really love it. It's sad seeing 600/SMITE go but atleast we can still tank with 600. Which is good and good riddance for SF being gone.. Counting the minutes till a new SC is born though.. won't be as fast but it shouldn't take that long till it's here

Who says that another speed clear won't be published in the next hour? Or the next day? Or week? There's no point in increasing the rewards when there's no telling whether another speed clear could be coming out or not. The situation would then be even worse off, and the update will have accomplished little.

To everyone who called others stupid/dumb/elitist assholes/whatever for saying SF was going to get nerfed:

I hate (by hate I mean love) to say it, but we told you so.

rit lord is back

And mr youtube box burner... use some gas or something 6 min dang that's slow

Okay on the changes:

Sassis - IDC about the SF change either way. Moving SA was probably a good thing.
Dervish - Meh
Mesmers - Needed PvE buffing a little, I'm not bothered by the PB change.
Monks - Meh
Necros - needed nerfing not tweaking/slight buffing.
Paragons - Meh
Rangers - Meh
Ritualists - not bad the changes are ok
Warrior - Tactics has improved a little and I might use it a little to try things out (I really like the improvement to Thrill of Victory and the shout changes make the soldier's skills usable again), however I'm still probably not going to use hammers much in PvE.

Buh-bye SF.

Either there's a PvP reason for this, or it's a token PvE Mesmer hate nerf. (Or Both, which is my guess.)

Well my monk and sin has no more use now rofl. Back to rit and warrior.

I like the hammer update, since I'm primarily a hammer and axe user.

Leaving out eles are we?

Miss one out of ten classes and people are up in arms.


Els - meh

My warrior is going to OWN now. Time to brush off the cobwebs on my hammer collection

I feel like he needs to learn to burn things better :P I mean...really? over 5 minutes...and there was still recognizable parts of the box? pathetic ....

Attention everyone! Raptor Farming, Nicholas the Traveler farming, and Boss Farming in HM is now officially impossible.

You can no longer farm:

• Woe Spreader (for your discordway heroes, luckily I manage to get the number of woe spreaders i needed prior to the nerf)
• Raptors
• Scar Eater
• Jayne Forestlight
• Tomton Spiriteater
• Shreader Sharptongue
• Korshek the Immolated
• Eshim Mindclouder
• Birneh Skybringer
• Chor the Bladed
• ecto farming (although that was nerfed earlier with the Skeletons of Dhumm)
• Shakor Firespear
• Jishol Darksong
• (rare) material farming (particularly feathers)
• elite tomes
• any items for Nicholas the Traveler

Good luck trying to find good weapons for your heroes or trying new builds.

Oh yeah, and since Sins are useless outside of perma SF (that prevents both spells and attacks prior to the nerf) and PvP, I'm officially "retiring" my sin.

I love the update notes. Players have been bitches about constant reapplication of Cracked Armor since Agressive Refrain was nerfed.

Only now did they finally hear all the players "raising concerns>"

Can someone tell me how much the ectos are at the rare mat trader now?


Time to take out the good old triple chop axe build

Yeah, assassins can't deal massive single target/AoE damage in PvE or anything.

Oh, wait..

10k atm.

Yeah, sins are pretty much useless now.

I don't have a PvE warrior, but I do have a PvP warrior that is meant for AB. Should I stick with swords, or go with hammers?

There is no such list.

Additionally, a number of the things you named on there are probably only limited to Assassins, and that's if you're absolutely not thinking out of the box about any other way you could possibly do it. For example, my Ranger build for farming Raptors is totally untouched by this update.

I was being sarcastic. Assassins are far from useless in PvE, and have been for awhile.

lol
boring video (._.')
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Btw...I will laugh so much if I see those assassins with names like
X Xx Perma Sin X X
XxX The Perma Xx Xx

Yes,they do exist (not the exact same name,but names with XxX's and "Perma" exist)

http://pvx.wikia.com/wiki/Build:A/D_...Blossom_Farmer

any bolded need to be removed...and if your speaking past just sin farming all I can say is lol...

side note: to lazy to go through the list...but....http://pvx.wikia.com/wiki/Guide:Boss...V_Necromancers can probably cover all the other greens (wait wait wait...people actually use greens?????I feel sorry for them)