Guild Wars 2

Zenith.7301:

Why are people calling for nerfs based on the experience of a 3 year old poorly designed and maintained dungeon set.

The game is to be balanced for the upcoming content not this husk that we have right now.

What else are you going to balance for? Open world faceroll, 1-pressing content?

Lord Kuru.3685:

Zenith.7301:

Why are people calling for nerfs based on the experience of a 3 year old poorly designed and maintained dungeon set.

The game is to be balanced for the upcoming content not this husk that we have right now.

What else are you going to balance for? Open world faceroll, 1-pressing content?

‘e-sports’

dude, the couple hundred people watching the pvp world championships is clearly more important the the tens/hundreds of thousands playing pve and wvw cmon swift anet know what theyre doing

this balance patch throwing all game modes out of whack with ungodly damage output, skills with an accidental removal of the aoe cap and massive condition bombing clearly demonstrates this

maha.7902:

dude, the couple hundred people watching the pvp world championships is clearly more important the the tens/hundreds of thousands playing pve and wvw cmon swift anet know what theyre doing

this balance patch throwing all game modes out of whack with ungodly damage output, skills with an accidental removal of the aoe cap and massive condition bombing clearly demonstrates this

You right. You right. I needed to be coleslapped on this one. Anet know’s whats up.

I don’t think many professions will be bringing more assassins gear than they had before. Ele would have, but now they can use Sig of Fire or LH standard so it evens out. Pretty much just Mesmer is using assassins pieces, and they already did that.

Necro should be still using assassins as well. But once Reaper comes that will be a bad idea.

Jahroots.6791:

bladex.9502:

Personal DPS is now probably something like
1. Thief
2. Ele
3. Warrior
4. Engi
5. Guard
6. Ranger
7. Mesmer
8. Necro

I tested Ele vs War and Ele scores about 600-700dps higher against a single target, other than that I didn’t really try anything

How the kitten are you getting that much damage out of an engy that you’d rank them above guard?

Is there some complex and difficult best case scenario skill rotation you guys are pulling off, because no combination of bomb/grenade kits and flame thrower has ever gotten above the ‘meh’ level for me.

Eh, guard is honestly not that good DPS.
I don’t play engi myself, but I know engi is absolutely sick DPS if you use the optimal rotation, which is like, 30 seconds long.
There’s plenty of videos on it, go look it up

Engi rotation is pretty kitten complex, I don’t do the optimized one And, I’m still getting used to the new timings, without fireforged trigger it actually gets far more tricky as with it you could match up Flame Blast and Shrapnel pretty well, and Acid bomb was at ~every 2 of those as well as Blunderbuss, and jumpshot/freeze grenade every 4.

Now it’s Acid bomb every 3 shrapnels, Flame Blast will delay slightly behind shrapnel at 6s vs the 5s.

And you also want to work in a double (or quadruple) Orbital now throwing the timing all off if you can catch that dodge.

But yeah, complex rotation but pull it off and things blow up quite well.

spoj.9672:

Necro should be still using assassins as well. But once Reaper comes that will be a bad idea.

For Reaper, it would be really neat if there were a Power/Ferocity/Condition Damage gear stat.

maha.7902:

dude, the couple hundred people watching the pvp world championships is clearly more important the the tens/hundreds of thousands playing pve and wvw cmon swift anet know what theyre doing

this balance patch throwing all game modes out of whack with ungodly damage output, skills with an accidental removal of the aoe cap and massive condition bombing clearly demonstrates this

maha why are you denying the obvious glory and awesomeness of esports again? It’s clear esports is where it’s at.

J Eberle.9312:

I’ve been waiting (naked) since beta for the true patch to come out. Ya’ all are suckers for deciding on builds and gear the past couple years. I’ll show you.

:O

From the patch notes, a lot of skills seem to have been unsplit from PvE and PvP. They’re not trying to balance both together again are they?

Not really. They’re just balancing for pvp and completely ignoring pve balance.

Lord Kuru.3685:

From the patch notes, a lot of skills seem to have been unsplit from PvE and PvP. They’re not trying to balance both together again are they?

If Cloak and Dagger is any indication, they are just meeting in the middle. I don’t know what they did with Save Yourselves.