Guild Wars 2

“Players can increase their mortar effectiveness by training in Mortar Mastery. Improvements in this line include increasing mortar blast radius, beefing up on damage, reducing skill recharge, and even adding a new skill, Mortar Barrage!”

Finally they listen to our calls for new WvW content! This is exactly the kind of thing we needed to make WvW more fun and interesting.

….oh wait.

At least we may get a skills reset again!

Estus.1726:

At least we may get a skills reset again!

I didn’t see that anywhere, and I highly doubt they’ll reset them again. Last time they said “This is a one time reset”

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/upcoming-skill-and-trait-changes/

The enemy is shut down.

Estus.1726:

At least we may get a skills reset again!

We won’t.

They were quite clear that the AC-nerf reset would be a one-time thing.

i’m more interested in the lovely necro buff

i can see it already, zergs lead by 10-20 necros depending on how powerful the torment condition is……

“With the introduction of Tainted Shackles, we’ll also be adding a new condition to the game: Torment. This condition is designed to play around with movement, one of our fundamental combat mechanics. Enemies under Torment will take damage periodically; as they move, they’ll take even more damage. In looking to expand the condition diversity of thieves and mesmers, we decided to include Torment skills for those two professions as well.” Giving thieves more control in a fight? Good stuff. Just let us necros have it and be done ANet!

Disclaimer: I’m actually pretty excited for this patch. Looks like good stuff coming, I just want new WvW stuff too.

I want everything NAO! =P

Yay more ranged buffs. More necro buffs, as if zergs aren’t already 60% necros now.

This is great, but when are you going to nerf Arrow Carts?

I wonder how available torment will be for thieves. Halfway expecting them to tack this on steal since not very many people initially liked the healing mechanic but we’ll see. The weakness change is a pretty big too though hopefully the duration decreases will keep it in check.

Not looking forward to regearing all my alts yet again especially since they are looking to tone down a few of the popular builds. Judging from previous balances, it’s up in the air on how badly the builds in question will be affected if at all.

thiagoperne.7340:

Thrumdi.9216:

This is great, but when are you going to nerf Arrow Carts?

Are you really still waiting for ac nerf? I thought they made pretty clear is not going to happen.

Believe me, I’ve played RvR games long enough to learn that fun-killing patches are eventually nerfed to the point where they are no longer a factor.

It’s just a question of how long it takes, and how much attrition in the player base it causes.

Ynot.8397:

“With the introduction of Tainted Shackles, we’ll also be adding a new condition to the game: Torment. This condition is designed to play around with movement, one of our fundamental combat mechanics. Enemies under Torment will take damage periodically; as they move, they’ll take even more damage. In looking to expand the condition diversity of thieves and mesmers, we decided to include Torment skills for those two professions as well.” Giving thieves more control in a fight? Good stuff. Just let us necros have it and be done ANet!

So to recap, they reduced the effectiveness of confusion because it ‘punished active play.’ They see no problem however, with punishing simple movement too?

arKRazor.8654:

Ynot.8397:

“With the introduction of Tainted Shackles, we’ll also be adding a new condition to the game: Torment. This condition is designed to play around with movement, one of our fundamental combat mechanics. Enemies under Torment will take damage periodically; as they move, they’ll take even more damage. In looking to expand the condition diversity of thieves and mesmers, we decided to include Torment skills for those two professions as well.” Giving thieves more control in a fight? Good stuff. Just let us necros have it and be done ANet!

So to recap, they reduced the effectiveness of confusion because it ‘punished active play.’ They see no problem however, with punishing simple movement too?

Confusion was pretty ridiculous given how fast it could be stacked on multiple targets.

We still have no idea how much damage torment will do, if it will stack, or even if its single target or aoe.

Huygens.4075:

arKRazor.8654:

Ynot.8397:

“With the introduction of Tainted Shackles, we’ll also be adding a new condition to the game: Torment. This condition is designed to play around with movement, one of our fundamental combat mechanics. Enemies under Torment will take damage periodically; as they move, they’ll take even more damage. In looking to expand the condition diversity of thieves and mesmers, we decided to include Torment skills for those two professions as well.” Giving thieves more control in a fight? Good stuff. Just let us necros have it and be done ANet!

So to recap, they reduced the effectiveness of confusion because it ‘punished active play.’ They see no problem however, with punishing simple movement too?

Confusion was pretty ridiculous given how fast it could be stacked on multiple targets.

We still have no idea how much damage torment will do, if it will stack, or even if its single target or aoe.

We know it will stack in intensity, a dev posted about it. That’s all we have confirmed so far though.

Huygens.4075:

arKRazor.8654:

Ynot.8397:

“With the introduction of Tainted Shackles, we’ll also be adding a new condition to the game: Torment. This condition is designed to play around with movement, one of our fundamental combat mechanics. Enemies under Torment will take damage periodically; as they move, they’ll take even more damage. In looking to expand the condition diversity of thieves and mesmers, we decided to include Torment skills for those two professions as well.” Giving thieves more control in a fight? Good stuff. Just let us necros have it and be done ANet!

So to recap, they reduced the effectiveness of confusion because it ‘punished active play.’ They see no problem however, with punishing simple movement too?

Confusion was pretty ridiculous given how fast it could be stacked on multiple targets.

We still have no idea how much damage torment will do, if it will stack, or even if its single target or aoe.

Confusion got nerfed because it could hit for 2k+ on a single tick with less than 10 stacks of it on the enemy, the speed at which those stacks could be applied was irrelevant. Hopefully torment won’t be quite as powerful when it comes out as confusion was for so long.