Guild Wars 2

Am i among the few who actually isn’t bothered about the crit change?
really we could do the content in rares nvr mind exo, ascended was a bit too op anyway.

Look on the bright side everyone who has ascended now has infusion slots and can use the armor for what it was meant for, fracts, it also gave peeps who enjoyed farming and crafting something to do.

The change will see us roughly back at exo damage etc, is that really such a problem?
i think thou it maybe would have been a good idea just to give a fract armor from relics and avoid the upset for peeps.

Oh I just had a thought, what if they’re nerfing things based on ascended so that they can introduce a new gear tier and say there’s no power creep?

milo.6942:

Oh I just had a thought, what if they’re nerfing things based on ascended so that they can introduce a new gear tier and say there’s no power creep?

Haha .. wrote just in another tread that i now wait for Ascended T2 that will bring us back to where we were before

milo.6942:

Oh I just had a thought, what if they’re nerfing things based on ascended so that they can introduce a new gear tier and say there’s no power creep?

Well i think its safe to say there will be a new tier as the devs havnt ruled out a lvl cap increase, with that a new tier will be required to match the new cap.

Another thing about the crit change, peeps can equip 2 sigils to a 2h, so equip night, thats a 10% increase, most dungeons are at night with the exception of arah, hotw and i think cm.

As for pvp, do we really need a wow style pvp where gear gets so op we run around 2 shotting each other?

I’m a bit worried, but only because I recently bought 6 Superior Runes of the Ranger and if they’re no good for my build after this update that will mean I wasted the money.

It will also be annoying if I have to re-design the build I only recently decided on, but I tend to think of it as a constant work in progress anyway.

not bothered whatsoever.

it’s a game.

It always sucks to have “your build” get nerfed, but it’s also par for the course for an MMO. If you’re that bothered by nerfs, I would wager that you either haven’t been paying attention to things that always happen in pretty much every MMO or that GW2 is your first rodeo.

nerf is part of the nature of the mmos.
and also nerfs followed by new tiers.

nothing new, except for gw2 is involving to the classical mmo prototype.

Not bothered? Bully for you. I’m really bothered by this. I’ve spent a few months on dailies, guild missions, collecting, farming, crafting with time gates, to get my gear and now it’s getting killed. I’m not doing it again for a 2nd character either.

My armor and trinkets are all celestial ascended gear. The whole works, even the back piece. My weapons are ascended berserker and between the crit nerf and the change to deceptive evasion, my damage over time will be nerfed by 15% or more.

My mesmer will be useless in WvW the moment they do this, and all because a group of warriors can faceroll the dungeons? GG Anet.

StriderShinryu.6923:

It always sucks to have “your build” get nerfed, but it’s also par for the course for an MMO. If you’re that bothered by nerfs, I would wager that you either haven’t been paying attention to things that always happen in pretty much every MMO or that GW2 is your first rodeo.

Actually it doesn’t always suck.

The big Dervish update in GW1 (when they added flash enchantments and changed pretty much everything else) completed wiped out my build, there wasn’t a single skill I could keep the same.

But after a morning of starting over from scratch, based on the ideas and playstyle that had inspired that build originally I actually ended up with something I liked a lot more. And I was able to use one of the Avatars, which I’d always liked the idea of but never found worthwhile before.

After an afternoon playing with my new build I wouldn’t have gone back to the old one even if I could.

Not bothered.

Generally speaking, those players who are not outraged by [change to the game] are not motivated to come to the forums and start a thread saying “I just heard about [change to the game] and I think it’s not really a big deal.”

MMOs are dynamic systems that change over time. The vast majority of MMO players understand this and adapt to the changing environment as needed.