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or not answered in the case of the question mentioning GvG updates.

Kinda hard to descipher this blob of text, but I agree with the content. Call it poor planning or what you will, but CB has a set date every year. If they had planned to change CB for some time now, they should have planned appropriately instead of starting on the Dervish updates only to stop partway through, letting it take backseat.

Remember when there used to be skill updates every month? Then they said they couldn't keep up with that, so they said every 2 months. Now its a few full skill balances a year, and they haven't even kept up with that.

I'm looking forward to what they put out for the Dervish since it is my main. It also sounds like they may have interesting ideas for the class, even though new mechanics will always pose a huge risk for game balance. However, its sad that this is the state of the support of the game I once truly enjoyed.

If they want to demonstrate that they haven't had their thumbs up their asses these three and a half months while working on the Dervish skills, they'll test out a sampling of these new mechanics/updates with the Dervish builds in CB. THAT would go a long ways for Anet's cred in my book.

I don't mind their dodging questions or any of that, since every business has to do that. I'd rather see their actions than hear the talk anyways. So far, there is little to no action.

Considering the sheer volume of actual information Blizzard supplies through blue posts, this hardly seems like an issue.

Of course, when we're used to official representatives posting tripe, it's hard to think about it.

So I guess with the derv update and the GWB stuff being mentioned... we can expect the para update in like a year?

No that's the derv update..para a year and a half...

I love when Lemming gets involved, b/c then the less judicious mods seem to hang back and let the thread shape itself.

Also, I wouldn't try holding my breath waiting for paragon love.

Not the most favorite mod around here, mostly because he replies with sarcasm and arrogance.
Lets see when will this get deleted b/c it's off topic : P

because CB lasts for about 5 days in the whole year. The Derv update affects gameplay as a whole moving forward. it is vastly more important in the grand scheme of things and if you had read my previous posts i said that the only way CB should trump the derv update is IF they put it in the battle isles.
The Derv update on the other hand affects solo play/pvp play/team play and which heroes to use. not liking my opinion is one thing. cussing at me and telling me to chill the blank out is ridiculous.

ugh I can't even respond to this... all I can do right now is /facepalm to avoid poppin' a vessel

funny I didnt even see skyy's post earlier.

I agree pretty much with what you say. I think the builds need to be update and all but I mean really that should take only a short period of time. They shouldn't be doing much work on it when a major update is needed to bring an entire profession into a useful state.

I mean really which is more important? A week long (I don't remember the actually length so I'll guess) minigame, or, An update that will (hopefully) fix an entire profession and have a long lasting/permanent effect on the game.

Not saying its necessarily a cover-up. I'm saying they need to get their priorities straight or make CB permanent, with the update.


Edit: While I would like to note that I would love for CB to be made permanent. Still they should fix shit before they add stuff in that they won't be able to keep up with.

Very true. I would love to see CB become a permanent thing in GW, but that won't fix the game and it won't make up for how bad Codex is.

They need to get their heads on straight and fix the important things.

I think everyone missed the part where Halloween is time-sensitive, and a derv update, while difficult to complete, is not.

Look at it another way: Halloween is for everyone, a dervish is one profession out of many that needs fixes. Demanding top priority, when it would mean pushing back event updates until next year, is completely selfish. Maybe they didn't expect it to take so long to get the dervish update to their liking? Should that mean other items get bumped? Be serious.

I don't know whether to be excited at the possibilities, or depressed at the possibility that Anet will royally screw it up.

Theres always the possibility that god forbid dervish become viable heros in a way that would benefit everyone? Or that they may become usfull. And tbh CB only appeals to some people.

Next, CB is not bad the way it is. Ok, update the builds. Besides that nothing really NEEDS to get done to it. Whereas dervishs on the other hand NEED an update to make them viable.

Dervishs are a main part of the game. Your basically saying all those people who would enjoy playing their dervish's don't matter because we want to make superfluous changes in CB for the few people over there. Because them getting a frilly update is more important then the overall enjoyment of those who's main is a dervish?

If it was to make major overhauls to the ENTIRE event. I may feel differently but it's a small portion of the event that effects a limited number of people. Whereas if they do a good job with the Dervish update it could have a good overall effect on everyone.



Side note: We have seen how anet works under tight schedules and I wouldn't be suprised if the CB update wasn't done in time for Halloween anyway.


side note 2: I havent slept recently so if this makes no sense disregard.

I'm putting my money on the latter.

Hero's don't run ER prot correctly without a lot of micro.. so that's out.

Generally my Vekk is Fire, Souskay (sp) is Earth, and Zhed is Water (Ward Against Harm is nice in HM), it would just be nice to have the 4th hero so I can run an Air ele, without having to re-rune and re-equip one of the others.

Whilst to an extent that is true, I do like to set all my toon's heroes the same way. It makes it much easier when it comes to hero selection. For example, Dunk is always my healer, Tahlkora is my Prot, Oggie is smite.. Koss = Sword, Jora = Axe, Goren = Hammer, and so on, and so forth.

Most of the professions have enough heros to cover the basic build ideas (except Necros where Discord and Sabway sorta means you can't rune one Death, one Blood and one Curses and hope to cover everything), except Ele's, Mesmers, Sins, Para's and Rits.

So wrong.. ER prot is a very very good hero build lol, I've runed sousuke to run both ER Prot and ER Orders so thats at least 2 in 1.
Ward against harm in hard mode c'mon man.. try using earth wards or the paragon shouts, same thing and not even elite.

Also wrong, rune the necro's into Death magic, Curses and save on for a pure resto and you're done.

ER prot is not bad on heros. But not as effective as a human running it. ER orders...I can't speak on as I have never used it.

Ward against Harm actually isn't bad. I have used it a couple times (though not on a hero) when I was vanqing areas with large amounts of fire damage. The rest of the build was stuff like blurred vision or Shard storm. Wasn't amazing. But wasn't bad either.

It's in Water Magic. I think that alone makes it bad in PvE.

I think that's pretty clear, but it's also true that Halloween is entirely predictable, meaning that it could have been done at any time after the last Costume Battle.

In a class I teach, I give the students a list of the homework and due dates for the entire semester. If a student tells me that the homework is taking longer than expected and he has other priorities, I'm more likely to give him the benefit of the doubt than if he simply says that he's putting aside the homework to plan an upcoming Halloween party. To players who are devoted to the Dervish and are anticipating the update, the difference is subtle but meaningful.

It would have been easy and beneficial to say so. We can speculate that they had better motives for putting the Dervish update aside, but the reason we're actually given is that "there’s new costumes and builds being added."

Should updates to the CB be bumped for the Dervish update? Yes, I would like that. I understand others will vote differently, but as one player of the game, this is what I'd prefer. I'm more attached to my main than a seasonal event. I don't see why this opinion is necessarily invalid.