Guild Wars 2

I’m operating entirely on recollection, so anyone please feel free to correct me where I’m wrong.

That being said, didn’t Anet say roughly a 1 year – 1.5 years ago that one of their big focuses was toning down AOE’s due to their strength in capture point games (the only format of SPvP and TPvP Anet currently offers)?

Did I miss the nerfs? I know I’m not imagining Anets claims, I’m just wondering if during one of my breaks from the game I somehow missed the part where Anet followed through on their promises and toned down AOE’s.

I honestly think that players adapted and stopped trying to revive through Grenades, Wells, Hammer Trains, Lich spam, and so on.

Players felt that way strongly before, but I’m not so sure that remains to be the overwhelming consensus.

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Chaith.8256:

I honestly think that players adapted and stopped trying to revive through Grenades, Wells, Hammer Trains, Lich spam, and so on.

Players felt that way strongly before, but I’m not so sure that remains to be the overwhelming consensus.

It’s not so much “trying to revive” as it is “trying to survive”. Alot of players complain about the sustain/bunkerish meta we have at the moment, but how can you blame anyone? Meleeing anything on point requires wading through half a dozen AoE’s – no wonder thieves run sword for evades (or used to before it was gutted, cause timing is hard) and every other class runs as much condi clear and healing as they can – because it’s ridiculously easy to bathe the objective of the game in half a dozen different effects, damaging and otherwise. What changed that convinced Anet that “Nah, these AoE’s we said were OP and needed looking into are fine”.

Elitist.8701:

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That was sort of the point now was it not (phrasing thanks to overzealous filter) – asking Anet why it was a stated goal, then completely dropped and ignored. That or they said something/changed their stance and I missed it, hence my inquiry.

A lot of players (cough Chaith cough) who would’ve rightly kittened and moaned for the good of the game two years ago have given up and warped themselves into thinking things like this are normal. Hell they’ve added more AoE if anything (Thief dagger autos lulz).

shimmerlessEU.6841:

A lot of players (cough Chaith cough) who would’ve rightly kittened and moaned for the good of the game two years ago have given up and warped themselves into thinking things like this are normal. Hell they’ve added more AoE if anything (Thief dagger autos lulz).

Keep fighting the good fight, you stallion

It turned into an AoE buff for all instead -_-

That is because AoE doesn’t need nerfed…. we’re just solely playing Conquest mode….. still! And if they did do nerfs they need to all be PvP only, because there is no way it needs further nerfs in WvW. Now if we wanna go the way of looking at AA cleaves and how powerful they (AA in general) are as being discussed in it’s own thread then I would agree with that, otherwise no. We just need a new gamemode.

Elitist.8701:

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Vee Wee copycat? At least it’s a thief and not an engi.