Guild Wars 2

http://www.twitch.tv/helsethgw2/c/3565511

I apologise if it’s already been posted but it’s a good watch and Helseth has some very good points. Helseth is less of his usual gimmick in this video and he is always serious when it comes to sPVP.

I like the devs but I totally agree with Helseth’s sentiment at the end. Please don’t include your banter in the video just give us the changes straight up and be proffessional. You can save the jokes and trolling for the end of the stream.

There was nothing wrong with them being loose. They have done plenty of ’professional" streams no banter. I liked this much better them being not robotic and they looked relaxed.

The streams are always blogged on reddit and dulfy afterwards.

I agree. People need to stop being so kitten serious about their game and let people have fun with their job. If they can’t have fun doing that their life would be terrible having to put up with all the spoiled hardasses on the forums who never let up.

I think that his speculation about thieves with sigils of air and fire together instantly killing “viable” builds seems unrealistic and fear-mongering.

Bran.7425:

I think that his speculation about thieves with sigils of air and fire together instantly killing “viable” builds seems unrealistic and fear-mongering.

Idk, with high power mug+fire can hit for 3k+ on squishies. Backstab can be landed for about 9k already when traiting for damage modifiers. When I’m in the mood for backstab squishy thieves, guardians, and ele’s are very nearly instantly downed.

Add in air and you’re getting pretty close to pulling off 14k+ instantly from stealth. So much of the thief’s viability comes from it’s weapon and utility skills with some extra benefit from traits that it’s not really a stretch to say that there will be insta-down spikes. Don’t expect to see a warrior or necro drop that fast. However, squishy builds on guardian, ele, thief could potentially drop 100% to 0%.

Shockwave.1230:

Bran.7425:

I think that his speculation about thieves with sigils of air and fire together instantly killing “viable” builds seems unrealistic and fear-mongering.

Idk, with high power mug+fire can hit for 3k+ on squishies. Backstab can be landed for about 9k already when traiting for damage modifiers. When I’m in the mood for backstab squishy thieves, guardians, and ele’s are very nearly instantly downed.

Add in air and you’re getting pretty close to pulling off 14k+ instantly from stealth. So much of the thief’s viability comes from it’s weapon and utility skills with some extra benefit from traits that it’s not really a stretch to say that there will be insta-down spikes. Don’t expect to see a warrior or necro drop that fast. However, squishy builds on guardian, ele, thief could potentially drop 100% to 0%.

They said that they are rebalancing sigils because of this change. So we don’t know if air and fire are exactly the same. I don’t know if helseth just looked up a transcript from the stream but they did say that in the stream.

oZii.2864:

There was nothing wrong with them being loose. They have done plenty of ’professional" streams no banter. I liked this much better them being not robotic and they looked relaxed.

The streams are always blogged on reddit and dulfy afterwards.

ronpierce.2760:

I agree. People need to stop being so kitten serious about their game and let people have fun with their job. If they can’t have fun doing that their life would be terrible having to put up with all the spoiled hardasses on the forums who never let up.

The problem here is that they were so loose that they COMPLETELY screwed up their timing. They spent so long rambling to each other that by the time they got to balance the first 3 or 4 classes in the line-up got all the detail and then the rest would get stuff like “we got 10 minutes, go!”, “we got 5 minutes, hurry up!”

It’s fine to be relaxed but when you’re so relaxed you totally mess up your timing you need to tighten back up a little.

That doesn’t account for them potentially taking the on crit requirement off of air and or fire and adjusting the damage accordingly without knowledge of what the total changes to the sigil his speculations are just a accurate as if he based them on the rune example (that he a least had the good sense to leave alone).

But until we see the going live numbers we can’t be getting worked up yet.

Also does this guy know any other adjectives beside “power creep” you could make a drinking game out of this video.