Guild Wars 2

You can now not swap skills during the pre-match timer. So classes like necro cannot pre-stack lifeforce and eles cant give team swiftness with staff.
This is a huge blow to necros.

I am laughing and crying….

This… this is just pure comedy

this is like when they made steal on thief completely not work LMAO…

tested in my custom arena and confirmed… cannot change weapons or skills during the countdown.
gg noscoc .

Sigh… Another random change nobody asked for. Why would you change this NOW after it got used for 2 years by absolutly everybody. Oh well.

Time to salvage my staff

Update: Now you randomly spawn on the enemy team.

SaintSnow.6593:

Update: Now you randomly spawn on the enemy team.

That is quiet funny tho.

I switched skills during the countdown timer. It was an unranked match though.

It really seems weird, as this “pre-buffing” phase was deemed important and fairplay enough – that if rubberbanding hapened they would restart pvp tournaments.

I know this was how ESL handeld it but they never showed to against it.

on the other hand i really hope that now the ZERO LIFEFORCE issue will get adressed on necro

• 10-20-30% LF on respawn
• out of combat regen to 20%
• out of combat regen AND degen to always 50% , makes min/max scenrios and necro easier to balance but would need adjusing LF size down a bit
• basically anything

SaintSnow.6593:

Update: Now you randomly spawn on the enemy team.

LOL

Flumek.9043:

It really seems weird, as this “pre-buffing” phase was deemed important and fairplay enough – that if rubberbanding hapened they would restart pvp tournaments.

I know this was how ESL handeld it but they never showed to against it.

on the other hand i really hope that now the ZERO LIFEFORCE issue will get adressed on necro

• 10-20-30% LF on respawn
• out of combat regen to 20%
• out of combat regen AND degen to always 50% , makes min/max scenrios and necro easier to balance but would need adjusing LF size down a bit
• basically anything

just keep it the same except start at 20% to make it fair..

i played one ranked game with my ranger

prebuffed swiftnes with warhorn

coudnt change back to my greatsword

played the game with longbow and warhorn

would be nice, if we could be notified about such changes
(i personaly dont mind, that we cant prebuff and change weapons afterwards anymore)

pre-game buffing shouldnt be a thing anyways.

Yeah, I didn’t like that pre-buffing phase. I’m glad they took it out. It was a silly design choice to allow it in the first place

Probably not intentional.