Guild Wars Update - Nov 10 and Nov 11

I just played through Grenth's Footprint and Sorrow's Furnace as a Fire Elementalist with mostly AoE spells. Firestorm, Meteor (but not shower), Fireball, Incendiary Bonds were all on my skillbar.

Holy crap, PvE is fun again. Considering how I was using a full henchgroup, that's saying a lot.

The whole thing just felt dynamic. Enemies ran to protect themselves. I had to make sure I was positioned properly since enemies actually moved. This opened up SO many doors to the PvE game. Warriors have a reason to bring Hamstring, rangers have a reason to bring Pin Down, eles have a reason to pack water spells. Oh, and rangers can actually trap without Mantra of Resolve! That's right, trap up the area, then unload Fireball. More than likely, fleeing enemies will cripple themselves trying to escape.

And instead of explaining the last benefit of this, I'll post a quote from the Library of Wisdom on the Importance of Positioning:

Adapt. Have fun.

Actually they aren't the same. The eternal bow is a bit different. You are thinking of the storm bow which is crap. Sundering sucks mathematically and in use. Fortitude is a good choice.

Yeah, I'll take fortitude over sundering any day. Oh wait!

In my opinion this is a major problem. The community is being ripped apart. I spent some time just sitting in outposts reading, and all I saw was argument after argument. How is this going to boost teamwork? I see a future of PUGs even worse than it's current state, full of slanderous, "Why did you cast THAT? You noob!"

Yeah, it's like this:

Eternal Bow = Composite/Recurve Bow = Dead Bow
Storm Bow = Long Bow
Shadow Bow = Ivory Bow = Horn Bow
Half Moon = Short Bow
Flatbow = Crap (unless you have Favorable Winds)

And yes Sundering -and- Furious are both crap. Only decent prefix mods (read: that do something more than 10% of the time) are Vamp/Zealous/Elemental...

Alright, back to discussing this trash update.

Anet is just fukin damn as ass. People like to farm, its their godamn choise. People want to get pimped out items and look sweet. Eventually all the gold ni the game will be spent on armor, and there will be very little left. ANet will be lucky to sell 100,000 copies of chapter 2 with the amount of people they are driving out of the game. THey should have just released and left the game the way it was.

All I can say about this update is thank goodness I stopped using chaos storm - or now I would be bothered. Luckily I don't use any other AoE spells (other than whirlwind) so it doesn't really effect me. But I think this is Anet's way of making the game more challenging with tough AI. Once of course they fix some of the smaller bugs, like the cowardness now found in some creatures that will run as soon as they see you.

in time running wont make you nearly as much, as farming is very time consuming now. people dont realize that farming is the base of the entire economy. without farmers there would be no gold to pend on runners, or armor.

You do mean utterly retarded AI, don't you?

FFS people, all A.Net did was add a damn check to detect AoE , and if positive, all monsters flee then return...and you guys really think this is an improvement to AI? LOL.

Now were being forced to completely adjust our builds around ridiculously stupid AI. They were smarter when they were just sitting in the AoE. Hell, at least they were still hitting you and doing damage.

quoted for truth

Cheers anet, great update.

Ok, replace Tough AI, with 'unpredictable' AI.

Are you serious???

Yes, many of us non-whiners are playing and having fun. I know I loved it so far.

No offense intended but it's by no means more intelligent or less predictable. Monsters are still stupid, but in a different way.

So your guild dosent help u out with stuff like that?

So guildies are obliged to pay for your 15k armor???

I don't understand what is the big problem that people are having. I have switched from fire to other elements since the second week of playing (once I got a decent skillset nonfire).

This game is not all about how you can do the most damage. That is why water magic is undervalued. If you bring a water magic elementalist to snare then you will be fine. You can use earth magic ward against foes as well...

Anet developers are trying to discourage w/mo/nuker teams and they are doing a good job doing so. It is time for the realization, damage isn't everything.

when did i say they have to?

lol u have a point .