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could we get the info of when u gonna do wich proffessions? like.. wich 2 proffession will be next time after ranger and engineer

8 professions / 2 professions/stream = 4 streams
4 streams / 1/2 streams/week = 8 weeks
8 weeks / 4 weeks/month = 2 months

Conclusion – next balance patch no sooner than in two months.

Touche, Anet, touche.

Can we get a text version today that can highlight the highlights we’ll get tomorrow in video form? Highlights are fun!

leman.7682:

8 professions / 2 professions/stream = 4 streams
4 streams / 1/2 streams/week = 8 weeks
8 weeks / 4 weeks/month = 2 months

Conclusion – next balance path no sooner than in two months.

Touche, Anet, touche.

I hope that this isn’t what is going to happen. I REALLY do :S

Ithir Darkleaf.7923:

leman.7682:

8 professions / 2 professions/stream = 4 streams
4 streams / 1/2 streams/week = 8 weeks
8 weeks / 4 weeks/month = 2 months

Conclusion – next balance path no sooner than in two months.

Touche, Anet, touche.

I hope that this isn’t what is going to happen. I REALLY do :S

Why would they talk about balance choices long after the patch hits instead of before?

Guaranteed patch in 2 months > a patch at some point maybe in the future (probably not)

leman.7682:

8 professions / 2 professions/stream = 4 streams
4 streams / 1/2 streams/week = 8 weeks
8 weeks / 4 weeks/month = 2 months

Conclusion – next balance patch no sooner than in two months.

Touche, Anet, touche.

Sooooo, business as usual then?
Somehow I don’t see this wooing me back to the game.

I’m also willing to bet the hobosack is still going nowhere.

Balance patch update, just in time for Halloween, yay,

so much talk about balance…so little implementation. its nice to talk……to see where the devs might want to take the classes…..but so little ever materializes.

last real balance patch (skills/traits) was Dec. 2013…..the only other balance patch was mainly the rune/sigil redo in April.

having to wait another two months for the next real balance patch is insane.

implementing many balance changes every 11 months is horrific balance iteration. why not spread it out and do a few shaves/changes every month? waiting almost a year for devs to recalibrate the numbers or reverse miscalculated changes is so frustrating.

….and this doesn’t even take into consideration bug fixing broken skills and traits……which seems to happen at an even slower pace.

If you’re already cutting prerecorded material down each to 5 minutes per class, why limit “The Skill Bar” to 2 professions per cast? I’m pretty sure the community can handle more classes at once, and the feedback threads won’t just disappear. Plus, you can always lock threads if you got enough feedback. I’d understand the limit if Karl would do it live, but since it’s prerecorded…

Like the others, I also fear 2 more months without bug fixing and balancing.

I’m looking forward to the Skill Bar Segment. I always enjoy getting insights.

I got to admit, though, that I’m not very thrilled when assuming that the next real balance patch will be in September. The stagnating PvP meta bores the hell out of me especially since Mesmers got the short end of the stick for a pretty long time now.

On a different note: Buhhh, does this mean no CD threads for other classes?

Fix conditions! Also, fix the ranger pet! Do those two things, and then we can talk balancing classes.

Mad Queen Malafide.7512:

Fix conditions! Also, fix the ranger pet! Do those two things, and then we can talk balancing classes.

Those are both balance issues. Unless your talking about “fixing” your pet, in which I have to say how rude. Just because they didn’t live up to your expectations doesn’t mean you take away their pride and joy ; ;

Rangers? We will see it

McWolfy.5924:

Rangers? We will see it

it was the last CDI made right?

Just tell us something new and don’t repeat old stuff form CDI.
Just be straight and any jokes about “bearbow”.

We want facts not opinions.

Mad Queen Malafide.7512:

Fix conditions! Also, fix the ranger pet! Do those two things, and then we can talk balancing classes.

It’s a huge undertaking but yeah, we need some way to viably use conditions. :s
And the whole pet-AI needs to be rewritten, for all pets.

some nice buffs/lateral changes announced…….but where are the nerfs? Not that ranger needed any, but it seems they chose to only show buffs. I can’t imagine engi isn’t getting some nerfs…

Relshdan.6854:

some nice buffs/lateral changes announced…….but where are the nerfs? Not that ranger needed any, but it seems they chose to only show buffs. I can’t imagine engi isn’t getting some nerfs…

They are nerfing the knock back on turrets. They do not innately have a knock back, but it is very common to invest in the trait when using them. With the change, instead of knocking you back and/or on your backside, they simply knock you back in the manner of a push, to a range of 150.

What nerfs do you think an engineer needs? It seems to me what they were doing, is trying to add some value to skills, particularly gadgets, that were to limited, or out done by other skills, to be used very often, if at all.

Can we please get a tiny little checkbox for kit backpack visibility please? I would like to enjoy using these more useful kits now, without throwing out my customized looks. Im sure it cant be such a complicated issue.

Those rapid fire and entangle changes look scary for eles. I guess I’ll really have to train my reflexes…

ThiBash.5634:

Those rapid fire and entangle changes look scary for eles. I guess I’ll really have to train my reflexes…

For eles?

You guys have ground target burns evades,dodges , i even believe you can destroy the vines by simply swapping attunement..
Necro is the profession thats gonna get screwed with these changes.. ^^

My guess is that staff eles, which are finally use in sPvP, would be utterly destroyed by the ranger in this balance update. So it could be that these planned changes, which have the potential to be somewhat overpowered, are countered partially by some other changes they have yet to finalize.

ThiBash.5634:

My guess is that staff eles, which are finally use in sPvP, would be utterly destroyed by the ranger in this balance update. So it could be that these planned changes, which have the potential to be somewhat overpowered, are countered partially by some other changes they have yet to finalize.

great, then I can’t play staff not only when there’s a thief in the enemy team but also when there’s a ranger …

Magnetic Shield… Just sayin….

Rym.1469:

Magnetic Shield… Just sayin….

and the other 25 seconds? One rapid fire without magnetic aura available and ele is dead

rangers have always been strong against eles

Gorni.1764:

Rym.1469:

Magnetic Shield… Just sayin….

and the other 25 seconds? One rapid fire without magnetic aura available and ele is dead

rangers have always been strong against eles

Rapid Fire’s damage isn’t changing a bit. It just occours in less time now.

There are a couple of advantages and disadvantages regarding this.

1. If you are slow on the dodge, or don’t have active defense available immedietly, you eat more damage. However, if you do have a channeled block or a dodge roll, you also avoid a lot more damage than before.

2. More time to use other skills, but also Retaliation becomes even more dangerous as it’s harder to break the channel in time to avoid eating the damage. This one also applies to Barrage.

You have to keep in mind that although rapid fire will occur faster, that also means if you dodge you dodge more attacks. Rapid fire gains its damage from all the arrows hitting, if you dodge you will likely dodge 2-3 hits right there and if they have quickness likely 5 or so. So yes face tanking it will not be your best option but it still has to connect a lot of arrows to amount to any big numbers. There is also always LoS.

Not to mention staff ele has a reflect…

Gorni.1764:

Rym.1469:

Magnetic Shield… Just sayin….

and the other 25 seconds? One rapid fire without magnetic aura available and ele is dead

rangers have always been strong against eles

seems fair, i always felt as if i am doing terribad against rangers as ele

against any kind of real experienced ranger

The longbow isn’t getting that big of a buff to overall dps. 10% more attack speed(with gm trait) and Rapid Fire doing same damage in half the time. Since they aren’t lowering Rapid Fire’s cooldown time or raising its base damage, its damage over time remains the same. It’s just a bit more bursty now. So if we’re talking a 20 second span of fight time, the actual felt damage over time difference is going to be 10% more, coming from the buffed RtW trait.

Also remember quickness is a percent function. A 4 second channel with quickness becomes 2 seconds. A 2 second channel becomes 1 second. So the difference this change makes when quickness is factored in is only 1 second.

Lorelei.3918:

The longbow isn’t getting that big of a buff to overall dps. 10% more attack speed(with gm trait) and Rapid Fire doing same damage in half the time. Since they aren’t lowering Rapid Fire’s cooldown time or raising its base damage, its damage over time remains the same. It’s just a bit more bursty now. So if we’re talking a 20 second span of fight time, the actual felt damage over time difference is going to be 10% more, coming from the buffed RtW trait.

Also remember quickness is a percent function. A 4 second channel with quickness becomes 2 seconds. A 2 second channel becomes 1 second. So the difference this change makes when quickness is factored in is only 1 second.

It’s more than 10%: the reduced activation time gives you 2.5 more autoattacks per rapid fire usage. So if rapid fire does 10k damage and long range shot does 2k (made up numbers), kitten window which previously did 10k damage would with the buff do 14-16k damage.

Also, wouldn’t rapid fire be available every 12.5s instead of every 15s (unsure if that’s how cooldown work, think so) with an activation time decrease?

Quickness doesn’t work like that anymore, it reduces activation time by 1.5 times.

Adrian Guardian.9480:

Quickness doesn’t work like that anymore, it reduces activation time by 25%.

fixed that for you.

nightwulf.1986:

Ithir Darkleaf.7923:

leman.7682:

8 professions / 2 professions/stream = 4 streams
4 streams / 1/2 streams/week = 8 weeks
8 weeks / 4 weeks/month = 2 months

Conclusion – next balance path no sooner than in two months.

Touche, Anet, touche.

I hope that this isn’t what is going to happen. I REALLY do :S

Why would they talk about balance choices long after the patch hits instead of before?

To build up hype.

Meglobob.8620:

So I watched skillbar on the ready up and was impressed by the changes to both Ranger & Engineer.

The skillbar format itself is excellent and a big improvement, delivering a lot of information in a easy to follow 5 minute burst. It also looked very professional, slick.

However, I think Anet are missing a ‘trick’ here. Why wait till all 8 classes have been covered by ready up before implementing them in game? If the Ranger/Engineer balance changes are ready to go, then put them ingame at the next update!

The advantages of this:-

1. You are currently getting a lot of posts of players bored to death by the current meta. Releasing 2 characters balance changes in a update, means your going to change the meta, 4 times in 2 months. No one will complain about a boring 4 month long meta then.

2. Releasing this way, will see 4 surges of players flocking back to GW2 to try the balance changes.

3. Number of people playing both sPvP and WvW will go up because again players will want to test there ‘new’ skils on other players.

4. Players will have 2 weeks to figure out the ‘new’ Ranger & Engineer and then the next 2 weeks figure out the 2 new classes etc…It continues skillbars method of putting the spotlight on 2 classes at a time.

Please like/comment if you want those balance changes in the next update or the one after, rather than 2 months+ from now.

Yes, please release the ranger and engi changes next patch. I can’t wait any longer.

Just wanted to say that the skill bar Ready Up was great. Concise and filled with upcoming changes. Just what we needed, Anet! Thanks

Rapid fire changes is a good boost in th DPS department and also goes against their vision of non burst oriented class.

Rangers have always been a great class and viable in all aspects of the game. These changes are not needed and should be taken off the table. Please anet stop listening to the least skilled most vocal players

Thanks

A concerned customer

T raw.4658:

Rapid fire changes is a good boost in th DPS department and also goes against their vision of non burst oriented class.

Rangers have always been a great class and viable in all aspects of the game. These changes are not needed and should be taken off the table. Please anet stop listening to the least skilled most vocal players

Thanks

A concerned customer

Do you want to say longbow, as it stands right now, is a fine and functioning weapon?
hint: it is not. The weapon is absolute garbage in every single game mode and format, it HAS to get some sort of buffs.