Heard Ranger pets getting sturdier with same leash range and still heat-seeking.
Q_Q.
Missed thief Q_Q cued in on thieves getting some kind of Arcane thievery?
Just make rtl being affected by slows.40 sec cd is way too much thats gonna change so many things especially in anything other than a small pvp much.
Maybe split the skill in pve/wvw so that a mesmer with traited blink doesnt move faster.
Pretty much any class with a 600 range leap on current cds will roam faster
Im not crying about the incoming nerfs..i just think that this one is a but too much especially across the board on all game mods.
Does someone have a summary? Didn’t want to watch cause my favorite map Temple of the Silent Storm… I need to play it. ;-) To get ranking up which I lost from the other maps before that I didn’t like.
Also rangers… lol how do they get buffed? I think they are pretty annoying already with the right pet and if they are kiting a lot.
New meta will not have blocks because blocks will be useless with the upcoming signet buffs.
Only professions that dont need blocks to stay alive will be on the next meta…
Though I missed thief heard jack squat on Ele focus, though maybe that is part of the small updates. Fire attunement is terribad with focus.
they are actually nerfing focus by making air 4 not blocking treb shots :P
I was expecting that i would hear nerfs for ele and buffs for other classes which pretty much was the case except perhaps of the thief which im not sure..but about build diversity on ele its pretty much bunker now..or s/d arcanes burst with a hope that some time conjures will get reworked.
Ah and the lightning version of glyph of storms that hits 0.10 targets per cast(no joking) will last longer..
Im kind disapointed about Rangers..Buffing pets in toughness-vitality wont put more viable builds in the table.They mention some more reliabilty in meele pets.I want to see how the F2 skill will now work but still we had a pretty good bunker-beastmaster build..Still the Longbow is useless and still we must rely on conditions to do some dmg
This month’s patch theme is nerfs to every class, except warriors who got some awesome buffs (grats to them btw). Also what were the changes to thieves, I missed that one
Thieves Mug trait can no longer crit but will have a ~2k heal attached to it.
Thief S/D Flanking Strike ability will have better tracking and have a second ability attached to it. The second ability will steal several boons from the target (with duration and stack).
Edit: they also mentioned that Thieves base stats were too low which is why Thieves rely so much on power/crit.
Thieves Mug trait can no longer crit but will have a ~2k heal attached to it.
Thief S/D Flanking Strike ability will have better tracking and have a second ability attached to it. The second ability will steal several boons from the target (with duration and stack).
If that’s the case thats actually pretty kitten good O.o
Though I missed thief heard jack squat on Ele focus, though maybe that is part of the small updates. Fire attunement is terribad with focus.
they are actually nerfing focus by making air 4 not blocking treb shots :P
I was expecting that i would hear nerfs for ele and buffs for other classes which pretty much was the case except perhaps of the thief which im not sure..but about build diversity on ele its pretty much bunker now..or s/d arcanes burst with a hope that some time conjures will get reworked.
Ah and the lightning version of glyph of storms that hits 0.10 targets per cast(no joking) will last longer..
There is your conjure buff lol.
R.I.P Focus.
Not sure if my S/D thief survives the change. Was hard enough to justify it :o.
Edit: Several boons?
Wot?
Believe it when I see it.
Second edit: A chain skill!? Stop nerfing me Anet. Better be as amazing as Inf strike. While you neglect PW.
Still anticipating the patch but cautious :o.
Lol at the ele qq. Try disengaging with an engineer. Jump shot? Others catch up to you no problem, and slick shoes is never going to be on a bar. (Not to mention rifle 4 misses half the time you try to use it anyways).
Without having watched the SotG, can someone tell me any updates on necro if any are discussed?
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mug nerf for thiefs will be a big nerf, imho..
anet I don’t want to heal with my steal, I want to burst people. Quickness utility skill is getting useless more and more… don’t want to run assassin’s signet
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Lol at the ele qq. Try disengaging with an engineer. Jump shot? Others catch up to you no problem, and slick shoes is never going to be on a bar. (Not to mention rifle 4 misses half the time you try to use it anyways).
Without having watched the SotG, can someone tell me any updates on necro if any are discussed?
Corrupt boon and Epidemic are unblockable. Some Necro minions getting a health buff. New necro only condition usable only in death shroud (don’t think it’s coming this patch but they mentioned it).
mug nerf for thiefs will be a big nerf, imho..
anet I don’t want to heal with my steal, I want to burst people. Quickness utility skill is getting useless more and more… don’t want to run assassin’s signet
ye its gonna be pretty big, speacially because those 2k heal dont really mean much, just like caed said. but the s/d changes sound good and i like where they’re heading with the class.
After catching up.
Everything they’re doing pretty much sounds pretty dang good.
Glad I should be able to warp on Spirit watch without problems.
RTL nerf sounds too much but w/e they’ll probably tweak it. Glad they fixed the range.
mug nerf for thiefs will be a big nerf, imho..
anet I don’t want to heal with my steal, I want to burst people. Quickness utility skill is getting useless more and more… don’t want to run assassin’s signet
Most of the changes mentioned sound solid, I like most of them.
The warrior buffs are nice, they will probably help out a lot. BUT it forces you to go 10 down Defense to get the resist chills/cripples, and then forces you to go 30 down Discipline to get the new boon hate. It does not seem to address the issue that some weapon choices for the warrior are flat out sub-par for PvP (although every profession it seems have this).
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and its also not like engies arent in a string position right now.
All Engineers have is one OP trait (HGH) being used a crutch to hold the class back from the edge of the abyss, which will now be hard countered by thieves and warriors.
and its also not like engies arent in a string position right now.
All Engineers have is one OP trait (HGH) being used a crutch to hold the class back from the edge of the abyss, which will now be hard countered by thieves and warriors.
I fail to see how that is a “strong place”.
and how is having an hard counter bad? before they didnt really have any hard-counter and this might give warriors a place back in the meta. Hgh engies will still be more than able to do their job imo.
Arcane thievery existed since launch. Yet engis are alive are they not?
Don’t arcane thievery/bountiful theft (thief trait) only take a single stack for like.. 5 seconds?
Does this mean they will be changed to steal stacks/duration with the next update?
No they remove the entire stack and the mesmer gains the entire stack.
To the other poster mug won’t be removing boons it’ll be S/D. Mesmers not running it and existing are two different things. Thief boon removal on steal has also existed since beta but post-haste nerf the damage loss for taking it is rather severe…engis are still alive. If the boon removal mattered so much mesmers would run arcane thievery as a response to the meta. Even taking boon removal engis have been difficult due to needing to reposition yourself generally or getting nuked in elixer s. Which is a pretty significant change which will likely have significant effect on the engine itself.
Mesmera not taking it and it existing are two different things. As well mug will not be removing the boon. It’ll be flanking strike on S/D.
Also why would engis need to be “compensated” as a result of them trying to bring up underpowered utilities as if they took something from the engine wtf.
The RtL and Mist Form nerfs hurt offensive elementalists more than defensive ones. Also, s/d eles in general will have a harder time getting close enough to get fire skills to actually hit (offhand dagger skills, Phoenix due to slow travel speed, the best way to give Dragon’s Tooth a CHANCE to hit is to follow up with Earthquake or Blowout, unless you take Signet of Earth for some insane reason).
(My greatest gripe is that scepter/dagger 0/20/0/30(20)/20(30) Berserker is pretty much the only ele build that offers decent ranged damage while retaining solo capability, and its survivability was hit pretty hard with these modifications. (Scholar runes and Vital Striking lose their damage bonus if you take about 1.5k damage, which is pretty much always in 1v1s, so yeah.))
The Cleansing Water nerf really only hurts staff and Glyph of Elemental Harmony users.
Truly, these were the changes required for elementalists.
The RtL and Mist Form nerfs hurt offensive elementalists more than defensive ones. Also, s/d eles in general will have a harder time getting close enough to get fire skills to actually hit (offhand dagger skills, Phoenix due to slow travel speed, the best way to give Dragon’s Tooth a CHANCE to hit is to follow up with Earthquake or Blowout, unless you take Signet of Earth for some insane reason).
(My greatest gripe is that scepter/dagger 0/20/0/30(20)/20(30) Berserker is pretty much the only ele build that offers decent ranged damage while retaining solo capability, and its survivability was hit pretty hard with these modifications. (Scholar runes and Vital Striking lose their damage bonus if you take about 1.5k damage, which is pretty much always in 1v1s, so yeah.))
The Cleansing Water nerf really only hurts staff and Glyph of Elemental Harmony users.
Truly, these were the changes required for elementalists.
The Cleansing Water change hurts the D/D bunker build a lot, because you get regeneration from switching to Water as well as whenever you use a cantrip, which is four condition removals from it. Now you really have to space those out to get them all.
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The Cleansing Water change hurts the D/D bunker build a lot, because you get regeneration from switching to Water as well as whenever you use a cantrip, which is four condition removals from it. Now you really have to space those out to get them all.
It’s a 5 second internal cooldown, not even as notable as the nerf to Soothing Disruption in an earlier patch. Now if you use a Cantrip within 5 seconds before or after switching to water, you lose out on the removal of a single condition.
Cantrips should never be used solely for condition removal, anyway (aside from Cleansing Fire, obviously).
