Guild Wars 2

First things I notice:
1- Nerfed elementalist staff skills, no improvements to any traits or sluggish skills, not a surprise
2- Condi bomb meta, thieves just roam around applying 4k+ condi ticks in an instant from stealth while your waiting for your slow skills to crit. Like what the hell is this supposed to be fun or balanced? It’s not how the game used to be.
3- WvW Reward tracks aren’t really interesting / WvW overhaul is barely noticeable, things are just as bad as when I left basically
4- WvW just a karma train, nobody fights anymore during the day, its like EotM took over
5- 75% of my GvG friends didn’t login in months
6- My framerate got way worse (lost about 15fps) for no apparent reasons
7- I now have 8 birthday gifts and enough leveling boosts for 5 players, along with almost 750 useless tomes of knowledge
8- No more celestial amulet in pvp? Whatever I’m not going to play pvp on ele without celestial if they don’t bother making zerk viable again, it’s just an insult to how fun the game used to be at launch
9- Stability buff isn’t noticeable

That’s pretty much it, all these polls, 2 season patch, but basically nothing changed in WvW from a gameplay perspective.

Xillllix.3485:

That’s pretty much it, all these polls, 2 season patch, but basically nothing changed in WvW from MY perspective.

FTFY

Jeknar.6184:

Xillllix.3485:

That’s pretty much it, all these polls, 2 season patch, but basically nothing changed in WvW from OUR perspective.

FTFY

FTFY

Staff ele was nerfed? Wasn’t aware.

Dont expect much to change, will always be arround this kind of gameplay.

We have veggie and wood nodes though?

Big updates and patch…….SOON, like super soon!

Xillllix.3485:

6- My framerate got way worse (lost about 15fps) for no apparent reasons

Yeah what the kitten is up with this? I haven’t been able to run high graphics since the 64 bit client patch came out. Fix your kitten game anet.

I’ve been running everything on high at 40-50 fps on a Radeon R7 240. Idk what kind of toaster you people using, but if my outdated GPU is being able to run that, you people shouldn’t have problems as normally all of you have better GPUs than me.

Jeknar.6184:

I’ve been running everything on high at 40-50 fps on a Radeon R7 240. Idk what kind of toaster you people using, but if my outdated GPU is being able to run that, you people shouldn’t have problems as normally all of you have better GPUs than me.

I know I don’t have a good GPU, but still, at the same places where I was getting 45-50fps a year ago I get 20-30.

I don’t think you should be forced to buy a new graphic cards just because a game is poorly optimized or the code became buggy.

As for the rest I wasn’t complaining really, I just wanted to say that it looks like nothing noticeable has improved for WvW. I guess I’ll just play the new LS3.

Xillllix.3485:

First things I notice:
1- Nerfed elementalist staff skills

What the heck are you talking about. Ele has the highest DPS in game, not just by far but, by way too much. Ele actually NEEDS a nerfing to bring it inline.

DeWolfe.2174:

Xillllix.3485:

First things I notice:
1- Nerfed elementalist staff skills

What the heck are you talking about. Ele has the highest DPS in game, not just by far but, by way too much. Ele actually NEEDS a nerfing to bring it inline.

Ele only got the highest dps against enemies that stand still in pve. In competitive modes staff just plain sucks. Every decent competitive player know it’s all about burst output or steady condi pressure, anyone can dodge out of a staff ele slow animation. And compared to other classes with stealth and insane burst staff ele doesn’t compare.

The only thing I would like to see nerfed on ele is Meteor Shower radius so it cannot cover the entire top of wall. The rest, ele is par with other professions, maybe even below some of them imo.

Xillllix.3485:

9- Stability buff isn’t noticeable

That’s pretty much it, all these polls, 2 season patch, but basically nothing changed in WvW from a gameplay perspective.

What server are you on? The meta has changed from pirate ship back to melee ball and it is due to the stab change.

Jim Hunter.6821:

Xillllix.3485:

6- My framerate got way worse (lost about 15fps) for no apparent reasons

Yeah what the kitten is up with this? I haven’t been able to run high graphics since the 64 bit client patch came out. Fix your kitten game anet.

Same. I went back to the 32bit client and it cleared that right up.

Xillllix.3485:

2- Condi bomb meta, thieves just roam around applying 4k+ condi ticks in an instant from stealth while your waiting for your slow skills to crit. Like what the hell is this supposed to be fun or balanced? It’s not how the game used to be.
6- My framerate got way worse (lost about 15fps) for no apparent reasons

2. I have to agree with you on this. It’s kitten OP. Doesn’t matter if you have 30k to 35k HP, you will still get killed in matter of seconds. If they ever nerf resistance, this needs to look into as well.

6. Looks like i’m not the only one having this problem.

gennyt.3428:

Jim Hunter.6821:

Xillllix.3485:

6- My framerate got way worse (lost about 15fps) for no apparent reasons

Yeah what the kitten is up with this? I haven’t been able to run high graphics since the 64 bit client patch came out. Fix your kitten game anet.

Same. I went back to the 32bit client and it cleared that right up.

Interesting my fps isn’t low but its lower than it should be maybe I will try the 32 bit client.

Xillllix.3485:

DeWolfe.2174:

Xillllix.3485:

First things I notice:
1- Nerfed elementalist staff skills

What the heck are you talking about. Ele has the highest DPS in game, not just by far but, by way too much. Ele actually NEEDS a nerfing to bring it inline.

Ele only got the highest dps against enemies that stand still in pve. In competitive modes staff just plain sucks. Every decent competitive player know it’s all about burst output or steady condi pressure, anyone can dodge out of a staff ele slow animation. And compared to other classes with stealth and insane burst staff ele doesn’t compare.

https://youtu.be/XXnZJ_73jRw
Watch the video…

For FPS, yes since HoT GW2 has been becoming more and more of a resource hog. I noticed sPvP matches to still be the leanest areas of the game. Just simple things like standing near WP’s causes resource consumption to increase. I’m guessing there’s a lot more passive calculations taking place in the background.

DeWolfe.2174:

Xillllix.3485:

First things I notice:
1- Nerfed elementalist staff skills

What the heck are you talking about. Ele has the highest DPS in game, not just by far but, by way too much. Ele actually NEEDS a nerfing to bring it inline.

Would be more than happy to trade a DPS trait in fire/air for some self sustain

shrek.1046:

gennyt.3428:

Jim Hunter.6821:

Xillllix.3485:

6- My framerate got way worse (lost about 15fps) for no apparent reasons

Yeah what the kitten is up with this? I haven’t been able to run high graphics since the 64 bit client patch came out. Fix your kitten game anet.

Same. I went back to the 32bit client and it cleared that right up.

Interesting my fps isn’t low but its lower than it should be maybe I will try the 32 bit client.

I immediately did that and it helped a bit but it was still way worse than it was before that patch came out.

I don’t think its so much of a ele got nerfed problem, rather staff ele is still mostly the same while every thing else got powerecreeped (same thing happened to D/D ele in pvp before cele amulet got removed). Also Backline staff ele doesn’t really benefit from tempest which means you are running a core build.

You can still lay down some serious damage and control like before. Or you could just run support minstrels auramancer … XD.

Staff ele is fine in groups situations, or in pve where nothing really moves. Solo against almost anything with a brain is quite hard as thiefs will macro burst you with 6-8 skills in 0.01 seconds then disappear before you can even start casting a fireball.

Tanky staff ele works well in groups, I enjoy running with the front liners and spamming water 1 while other water on recharge and blasting fields.

Positioning is key for an ele in group fights if you want to be effective.

I just wish some eles would learn to switch from fire and air when they see the group taking heavy damage and lay down some water, rather than hit air and run away…

Staff ele is “fine” in a pug situation (blob vs blob), it is nowhere to be useful anymore in guilds vs guilds or blobs. d/f full heal tank took over.

@OP
Anet’s ressources are limited and sadly neither of the PvP or WvW communities are happy with the current state of their game mode so sadly not much is happening. Time might help but well, it will be too late if it is not already (better late than never they say).

Okay, just uninstalled the game again.

XerMeLL.6042:

Okay, just uninstalled the game again.

See you again in a few months…