Guild Wars 2

Patch is finally out

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/pvp/Is-that-it-1

A tons of changes ( unespected to me ).
I still have to read the whole changes, but seems a very very big one ( not only about spvp but about everything ).

Let’s talk about SPVP changes.

Shirlias.8104:

Patch is finally out

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/pvp/Is-that-it-1

A tons of changes ( unespected to me ).
I still have to read the whole changes, but seems a very very big one ( not only about spvp but about everything ).

Let’s talk about SPVP changes.

Hail our necro overlords!!!! And their only counter thieves.

Varezenem.2813:

Shirlias.8104:

Patch is finally out

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/pvp/Is-that-it-1

A tons of changes ( unespected to me ).
I still have to read the whole changes, but seems a very very big one ( not only about spvp but about everything ).

Let’s talk about SPVP changes.

Hail our necro overlords!!!! And their only counter thieves.

And lets face it, it’s a pretty darn ridiculous counter after those massive dps buffs

Want to try acrobatic tree over deadly art ( really not sure but still better than preview ).

Thief is hardly a counter since still a wet paperbag for sustain/defense and no reliable Condi Cleanse.

We should see with the new acrobatic traits over Deadly arts.

Fleet Shadow: This trait has been renamed to Instant Reflexes. This trait no longer grants bonus movement speed while in stealth and will instead grant the thief evasion for 2 seconds when struck while under 50% health, with an internal cooldown of 40 seconds.

Feline Grace: This trait’s vigor duration has been increased from 4 seconds to 5 seconds.

Pain Response: This trait now also removes torment in addition to its current removals.

Guarded Initiation: This trait now removes confusion in addition to its current removals. The health threshold has been reduced from 90% to 75%.

Assassin’s Reward: This trait’s base healing per level has been increased by about 50% and its healing power contribution has been increased by 70%.

Upper Hand: This trait now grants regeneration for 6 seconds when the initiative regain occurs.

And with endless stamina trait, vigor will give 50% extra endurance.
So could mean more dodges ( avoid ) and if successfully avoid 1 remove condition + heal, due to DD trait.

I have more issues against Marauder user as staff thief tbh.
Against a necro could be hard, but i can still play and win.

Dat hate on Ele, all classes got buffs, only ele and mesmer got nerfed, yet mesmers got compensated a little, eles tho…. got even lightning rod nerfed!!! OP? … -_- … ew Diamond skin is useless… the one previewed was good, but the new….. T_T I don’t usually QQ but… it will be hard to figure out what do we have left since boons usage are being punished… my only ray of hope is that with new matchmaking fix we will be facing only one necro per battle …T_T

On the good side for ele… power builds being buffed will make stoneheart quite useful, even over new crappy DS … my guess is that bunker role will be for Engineer and maybe ele…. unless a necro comes close, in which case… ruuuun, casue I see no way to even fight them as an ele.

In general, looks like this meta will be about evading and combat skills mostly.

kuritsutian.2987:

Dat hate on Ele, all classes got buffs, only ele and mesmer got nerfed, yet mesmers got compensated a little, eles tho…. got even lightning rod nerfed!!!

I’m not gonna deny that Mesmers and Eles both got the ugly side of the stick on this one, but Mesmers didn’t really get any compensation. The scepter “buffs” are laughable-at-best. A small buff to a trait no one uses, and the smallest possible QoL change to 1/3rd of a broken AA chain that should have been implemented years ago.

Elementalist, Mesmer, and Revenants all needed to be nerfed they were the only classes being run at high levels of play with a few exceptions.

brannigan.9831:

Elementalist, Mesmer, and Revenants all needed to be nerfed they were the only classes being run at high levels of play with a few exceptions.

Scrapper, druid, reaper are fine tho right?

Burtnik.5218:

brannigan.9831:

Elementalist, Mesmer, and Revenants all needed to be nerfed they were the only classes being run at high levels of play with a few exceptions.

Scrapper, druid, reaper are fine tho right?

I think that because thief, guardian, and warrior weren’t meta that they had to be nerfed since two of the three had been pushed out after being in for so long.
Mesmer didn’t need nerf, Chrono Bunker did. But as it stands it’s hard to see what place, if any, Mesmer will have in competitive play. Will people like Helseth still play his? Probably, but he and his team aren’t like all the other people wanting to play either. Appropriate needs to Chrono bunker and buffs to the core would give rise to more build variety.
However, that could be said of all classes and we go back to anet ’a horrid balancing

Jace al Thor.6745:

Agree.

They should pair thieves and mesmers as zerk endgame ( but atm, is like the meta before hot. Lets hope in some buff before s2 starts ).

umm for what reason will you bring mesmer other than portal now? And before you tell me about that high burst crap go try if that works in unranked and see if other class does better. Heck even necro has better boon removal than mesmer now lol.