What would everyone do without Discord?
vader
What would everyone do if Discord was suddenly massively nerfed or removed from the game? Seriously? I think at least half of the people playing the game would all of a sudden suck. It seems like every single time I group up with someone in GW they either already have Olias, Livia, and Whispers in their group or they add them shortly after a few people join. Do people even know how to play this game without Discord?
Riot Narita
Move on to the next OP build of course -_-
I use Discord heroes if I think its going to be most effective, and quite often it is. But I have plenty of other hero builds to suit other places/situations.
I'm not going to avoid using Discord just for snobbery. Or to prove that I can play without it.
I use Discord heroes if I think its going to be most effective, and quite often it is. But I have plenty of other hero builds to suit other places/situations.
I'm not going to avoid using Discord just for snobbery. Or to prove that I can play without it.
novawhiz
they would wait til the next op gimmick build appears on pvxwiki and then copy that and run it.
and discords not that great anyway
and discords not that great anyway
RedDog91
Wouldn't bother me...I already don't use it cause I'm too lazy to unlock the skills.
Fillyra
Nothing. Or rather, I'd go on about my merry self. I don't use discord as there's a lot of other things out there that are up there and better than discord.
Mouse at Large
As above - never used it
dasmitchies
Discordway Sucks. Try using it in WIK. People use it because they can't make their own builds.
Ayuhmii Shanbwa
i use discord, but thats cuz i'm pretty slow cuz of an accident long ago
discord helps me through alot of stuff
however, should they kill discord, i can try my own heroes, as i dont wanna use spiritway, and with the upcoming full hero teams, i already was planning to do that anyway
for me, not much will change, i just gotta make new builds if this happens, thats all
discord helps me through alot of stuff
however, should they kill discord, i can try my own heroes, as i dont wanna use spiritway, and with the upcoming full hero teams, i already was planning to do that anyway
for me, not much will change, i just gotta make new builds if this happens, thats all
Stolen Souls
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Originally Posted by dasmitchies
Discordway Sucks. Try using it in WIK.
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^This. I admit I used to use it, up until I realized just how "not godly" it actually is. Come up against anything with good hex/condition removal and the build is crippled.
As for what would happen if Discord was nerfed...everyone would use Spiritway instead.
Marco_vd
If it gets nerfed, just go sabway =)
Johno77
Never used it. The whole fun of GW for me is using your head, experimenting and trying your own ideas out.
pedrobds
i only just started using discord a few months ago because i decided to give it a try, before that i used my own builds for panic, nuker, monking, or whatever i needed for the area and it was no problem. discord is just faster and easier, but if it went away it wouldnt be that big of a blow
vamp08
Id move on to SF eles and a TOF! Para.
That or stop playing pve all together.
That or stop playing pve all together.
jazilla
I would start using Fevered Dreams, Extend Conditions, and Virulence on heroes with Fragility. I would use YMLaD and AP with EVAS and Sig. of Infection.
The main thing about Discord that people seem to lose sight of is when you are VQ'ing you can use it for 80% of your VQ's. That is SO useful when you aren't having to switch up your hero builds and runes a lot when you are trying to do something that is already time consuming.
To the OP: People wouldn't suck. If they nerfed Discord, people would adapt. There just hasn't been a major skill update in so long that people don't need to change anything up. Also, what do you care what people run? It's not people's fault that they use something that works and that ANet hasn't given us a meaty skill update in ages. Also, it's pretty lolz coming from someone who has Livia for their avatar.
The main thing about Discord that people seem to lose sight of is when you are VQ'ing you can use it for 80% of your VQ's. That is SO useful when you aren't having to switch up your hero builds and runes a lot when you are trying to do something that is already time consuming.
To the OP: People wouldn't suck. If they nerfed Discord, people would adapt. There just hasn't been a major skill update in so long that people don't need to change anything up. Also, what do you care what people run? It's not people's fault that they use something that works and that ANet hasn't given us a meaty skill update in ages. Also, it's pretty lolz coming from someone who has Livia for their avatar.
Aldric
Never used it so wouldnt really give a shit 
LifeInfusion
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Originally Posted by vamp08
Id move on to SF eles and a TOF! Para.
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Regardless, I never use Discord.
Verene
Same thing I've always done, because I've never used Discord.
AndrewSX
No problem..used Discord only when i started to vanquish....sabway or custom hero skillbar are much better, expecially if u are able to create the optimal team build for the area....
P.S:try discord in 4-men Old Ascalon areas...
P.S:try discord in 4-men Old Ascalon areas...
FoxBat
In H/H setup Discord is closely tied with the AP Caller. In fact it's the only real reason to run discord over better DPS options like spirits or mesmer AoE... but the ability to summon 5 assassins at a time is far from trivial. So if Discord vanished you'd probably see AP builds in H/H setups lose popularity (albeit said builds would be far from dead.)
Iuris
Never used a Discord build at all.
Right now, I'd worry most about nerfing Fast casting, since it has finally given mesmers what they needed - the ability to affect more than one enemy in the group.
Right now, I'd worry most about nerfing Fast casting, since it has finally given mesmers what they needed - the ability to affect more than one enemy in the group.
Dre
I'd run a Minion bomber, a spirit spammer and an Ether renewal infuser,...
oh wait,...
oh wait,...
Kerwyn Nasilan
Spiritway a gogo
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Originally Posted by vader
What would everyone do if Discord was suddenly massively nerfed or removed from the game?
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Quaker
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Originally Posted by vader
What would everyone do if Discord was suddenly massively nerfed or removed from the game? Seriously?
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Edit: Lol! and like End says above - I'd avoid the many QQ threads.
lishi
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Originally Posted by dasmitchies
Discordway Sucks. Try using it in WIK. People use it because they can't make their own builds.
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proper tabbing to check the build of enemy before letting your AP removed
proper interupt the ress
Proper hex covering
etc
work fine in WiK just not as mindless like usual.
of course eventually something will happen then you will not be able to spam EVAS but shit happen with all builds.
AndrewSX
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learn to call proper target, proper tabbing to check the build of enemy before letting your AP removed proper interupt the ress Proper hex covering etc work fine in WiK just not as mindless like usual. |
Morphy
....There are plenty of other popular hero set-ups. People would just switch to those.
cosyfiep
I have never used the builds that are popular so it wouldnt bother me at all (dont even think I have a discord build on any or my heroes).... the only necro one I use is mm, and that has changed over time, but olias still has it and I use him (no other necro gets much play time with my characters).
so....nerf it, wont bother me one bit.
so....nerf it, wont bother me one bit.
ACWhammy
I would go to pvxwiki and find the most effective build that is currently being used
sosycpsycho
I like to run all blank bars so I can be awesome.
I just realized that other people play this game so I'm off to invent a new one so I don't copy anyone inadvertently. lol I digress
I like discord because I like Necromancers as they are my first and favorite class. Honestly if there is anything in this game I'm addicted to it's minions. People like minions and lots of green dots. Discord is a powerful build that is used rampantly but it's so one sided how can someone hate it? All minion builds have huge weaknesses with interrupts, corpse denial, ect. It's just a build that people use and most don't understand it's synergy with other skills.
Don't hate people, why I am even answering a another "everyone that doesn't design builds is a moron". I am answering it because not everyone is here is a troll, like everyone who runs Discord is not a weak player.
The Synergism between Discord and other skills makes it a good skill for building. You can run a triple minion discord with shambling horrors to trigger bleed and satisfy part of the req for discord. You can discord bomb mixing minion bombing with discord spam. If your in a corpse free zone the discord Necros can work great with spirits instead doing a triple rit subbed team.
Don't hate meta
use it, get bored of it as you have done here, but next time you get bored.... change it up and re-invent it. Don't go to a forum to talk about how the world would be great if the guild wars community was an 8th as awesome as you. If you say "I don't play metas" I am wondering how you got all your awesome build knowledge never playing any skills self-deemed as overpowered and being unwilling to try other builds. Trolls go back to your mountain top and continue to look down on the rest of us having fun ;p I enjoy discord and the 400 billion other builds clogging my hard drive, some mine some not I love all my builds.
I just realized that other people play this game so I'm off to invent a new one so I don't copy anyone inadvertently. lol I digress
I like discord because I like Necromancers as they are my first and favorite class. Honestly if there is anything in this game I'm addicted to it's minions. People like minions and lots of green dots. Discord is a powerful build that is used rampantly but it's so one sided how can someone hate it? All minion builds have huge weaknesses with interrupts, corpse denial, ect. It's just a build that people use and most don't understand it's synergy with other skills.
Don't hate people, why I am even answering a another "everyone that doesn't design builds is a moron". I am answering it because not everyone is here is a troll, like everyone who runs Discord is not a weak player.
The Synergism between Discord and other skills makes it a good skill for building. You can run a triple minion discord with shambling horrors to trigger bleed and satisfy part of the req for discord. You can discord bomb mixing minion bombing with discord spam. If your in a corpse free zone the discord Necros can work great with spirits instead doing a triple rit subbed team.
Don't hate meta
use it, get bored of it as you have done here, but next time you get bored.... change it up and re-invent it. Don't go to a forum to talk about how the world would be great if the guild wars community was an 8th as awesome as you. If you say "I don't play metas" I am wondering how you got all your awesome build knowledge never playing any skills self-deemed as overpowered and being unwilling to try other builds. Trolls go back to your mountain top and continue to look down on the rest of us having fun ;p I enjoy discord and the 400 billion other builds clogging my hard drive, some mine some not I love all my builds.
Sytherek
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Originally Posted by vader
What would everyone do if Discord was suddenly massively nerfed or removed from the game? Seriously? I think at least half of the people playing the game would all of a sudden suck. It seems like every single time I group up with someone in GW they either already have Olias, Livia, and Whispers in their group or they add them shortly after a few people join. Do people even know how to play this game without Discord?
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As for other people: They'll just move to another "way."
Pyrthas
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Originally Posted by vader
It seems like every single time I group up with someone in GW they either already have Olias, Livia, and Whispers in their group or they add them shortly after a few people join. Do people even know how to play this game without Discord?
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Shadowphoenix
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Originally Posted by Johno77
Never used it. The whole fun of GW for me is using your head, experimenting and trying your own ideas out.
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Never like it the dark green box (obtained my GWAMM about 2 years ago), I only use it once and it feels so boring as hell, either way I agree with you buddy the fun of GW is using your head and thinking outside the box
afya
I don't use discord no more.
BenjZee
Im still using the old Sabway without Discord 
Still works fine for me
Still works fine for me
Captain Bulldozer
First of all, Discordway is far from game breaking, so there's not really much need for a nerf. What it is, despite what you hear from the negative nancies out there, if a powerful spike based build with good both good offense and good defense. Its also generally pretty easy to use (and heroes run it more or less as they should). If you can't do WiK with discord heroes (yes even in HM) its because you fail to understand something, or have let your brain atrophy.
Anyway, if discord was nerfed, it wouldn't be a big deal. There are many other builds out there that are just as effective (or more) than discordway.... Sabway, Arcfenway, general spiritway, panic + ER protter + MM, etc. Anyway, just because people add necro heroes doesn't mean they are using discord. Necros generally perform exceptionally well due to the craziness of Soul Reaping. This would be true (and was true before discord was buffed down to a 1 sec cast) even if discord got smiters booned. N/Rt healer heroes have been outperforming monk heroes for pretty much as long as they've been around.
Anyway, if discord was nerfed, it wouldn't be a big deal. There are many other builds out there that are just as effective (or more) than discordway.... Sabway, Arcfenway, general spiritway, panic + ER protter + MM, etc. Anyway, just because people add necro heroes doesn't mean they are using discord. Necros generally perform exceptionally well due to the craziness of Soul Reaping. This would be true (and was true before discord was buffed down to a 1 sec cast) even if discord got smiters booned. N/Rt healer heroes have been outperforming monk heroes for pretty much as long as they've been around.
Zanagi Kazuhiko
hmm...I would use my koss, monk, ele.
Necromas
I don't think I've ever used discord as anything but an optional elite on an bomber hero.
I wince slightly whenever I join a pug and the leader decides nobody is allowed to bring heroes that aren't discord.
I wince slightly whenever I join a pug and the leader decides nobody is allowed to bring heroes that aren't discord.
Shadowspawn X
People who know how to play properly will just go back to playing regularly and people who don't will QQ. I never used any of the sabway/discordway for a long time. I always used my own builds when getting my 1st GWAMM in 2008. It was not until I asked some guys in the mesmer forum what they recommended for vanq'ing with a mesmer that I found out about the AP caller build and used it to vanq earlier this year. After using it for that purpose I never loaded it up again.
I think the fact that I have done everything on all my characters before these meta's erupted on the scene contributes more to my exclusion of them from my repertoire than any other reason. I just went though the game at a different time so they are not really on my radar. But yeah, if anyone was actually paying any attention to GW1 those builds would have been nerfed a long time ago.
The current live team looks like they will water the game down even more and eventually remove what little strategy is left in the game so the lovers of pve meta play should not have anything to worry about.
I think the fact that I have done everything on all my characters before these meta's erupted on the scene contributes more to my exclusion of them from my repertoire than any other reason. I just went though the game at a different time so they are not really on my radar. But yeah, if anyone was actually paying any attention to GW1 those builds would have been nerfed a long time ago.
The current live team looks like they will water the game down even more and eventually remove what little strategy is left in the game so the lovers of pve meta play should not have anything to worry about.
FalloMeh
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Originally Posted by dasmitchies
Discordway Sucks. Try using it in WIK. People use it because they can't make their own builds.
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