Guild Wars 2

I am not advocating removing condi from the game, but I would be interested to play a week without damaging condi just to see what WvW would be like.

What do you think it would be like?

Would radically altering other elements of WvW for a match be a fun thing or too disruptive?

You can already do that. It’s called Resistance spam.

Only if for the next match power does no damage.

Yo’ll have ton of immortal berserkers using “Rousing Resilience”.

SpellOfIniquity.1780:

Only if for the next match power does no damage.

I would try it but I don’t think it is functionally possible to completely eliminate direct damage as that is a trigger. Would be an interesting match if everyone had a permanent 80% direct damage reduction though.

Straegen.2938:

I would try it but I don’t think it is functionally possible to completely eliminate direct damage as that is a trigger. Would be an interesting match if everyone had a permanent 80% direct damage reduction though.

It’s technically possible, they could just give everyone the effects of the Rangers Signet of Stone for the week, no power damage but still able to be stunned and take condition damage.

I’m against both ideas either way, gimmicks like this could only serve as an annoyance for one portion of the WvW playerbase. I’d much rather they spent their time fixing and updating the game mode and making an actual attempt at class and damage balances.

psizone.8437:

I’m against both ideas either way, gimmicks like this could only serve as an annoyance for one portion of the WvW playerbase. I’d much rather they spent their time fixing and updating the game mode and making an actual attempt at class and damage balances.

The concept is about mixing up the status quo… a change of pace that wouldn’t require a large developer effort. Something different for fun and to learn more about the actual effect of various systems on players enjoyment.

My point is they should try more radical changes even if it is in a Test environment. Turn off the downed system for a week, remove points for capping T1 structures, cut the range of all skills by a 3rd, etc.

or… we can keep seeing tiny incremental changes to the hardly ever changing environment like we have for years.

Straegen.2938:

SpellOfIniquity.1780:

Only if for the next match power does no damage.

I would try it but I don’t think it is functionally possible to completely eliminate direct damage as that is a trigger. Would be an interesting match if everyone had a permanent 80% direct damage reduction though.

Have fun
https://youtu.be/zDoYzm4Unlk?t=20s

Sounds forced and it’s a great way to kill off player population for the duration of this experiment. They’ve tried gimmicks like these before, remember the golem event? Yeah what a mess it was, it literally broke WvW for a whole week and activities died down drastically after people tried it for a day or two.

Forced universal changes that affect player’s enjoyment of a game mode isn’t going to do any good. What they need more of is short term events and tournaments that have to do with goals and achievements. Not gimmicks that just end up ticking off a large portion of the player population.

Golem week wouldn’t have been too bad if the bugs/exploits weren’t present, or fixed on the first couple hours or even first day it was done. But you know anet, last minute friday release, left to itself for the weekend, by monday it was a clusterf and no dev replied for the entire week. It was turned off and left to be swept under the rug. I mean we even had maguuma players enjoying the exploits and bragging about it on the forums and nothing was done. /shrug

gavyne.6847:

They’ve tried gimmicks like these before, remember the golem event? Yeah what a mess it was, it literally broke WvW for a whole week and activities died down drastically after people tried it for a day or two.

I remember the Golem Event bringing in a lot of players and being fun for the weekend. The PvD did get a bit old as the week went along. Having events like these run a shorter course would make sense. So rather than a week, maybe a weekend.

The current mode of big development changes that take too long and often arrive DOA along with small incremental changes is grinding away at the population.

I’d rather have a week with no non-damaging condis. Or better yet a week with no CC whatsoever. Man that would be awesome.

1 week of siege damage only, please. The salt will be glorious.

Jeknar.6184:

1 week of siege damage only, please. The salt will be glorious.

Funny enough that was the golem week more or less.

Straegen.2938:

Jeknar.6184:

1 week of siege damage only, please. The salt will be glorious.

Funny enough that was the golem week more or less.

Nah… Players could still damage each other… I mean literal 0 damage player to player. Only siege being able to deal damage.

/sign. Getting tired of those condi spamming clowns. No brain builds. Just stack conditions and watch them melt. Wonder what the kitten they thought at the office coming up with them in first place.