Guild Wars 2

Oh, the love was so strong.
In a meta we barely knew…
We had amazing times.
Before they went QQ.

Wars running left.
And thieves running right.
Too fast to see! Too fast!
And the eles were strong in the night.

We caught the dev’s eye…
“Too tanky. NERF”
“Too fast. NERF”
And then left to die…

Heartbroken, we understood the tank-nerfs…
Confused, we mis-understood the speed nerf…
Being jealous, we saw others get buffed…
Shelved and booked we went.

I rode the lightning, but I was blind.
BAM- 40 seconds.
I rode the lightning, but they evaded!
BAM- 40 seconds.
I rode the lightning, but they blocked!
BAM- 40 seconds.
I rode the lightning, but they were invulnerable!
BAM- 40 seconds.

It just wasn’t the same.
Please…. please….
Go back to 20 seconds…
Dev’s.. Please… It doesn’t make sense in this meta for RTL to be 40s.
Snares are predominant. And the range nerf alone was enough. 1600 range was too far, they couldnt snare us at that distance. And due to channel time, the effective distance gained is 900 now.
(in range of snaring abilities)…

Other professions got buffed… The fluidity of ele would open up again and it would be a revival of the profession towards acceptance in tpvp and wvw roaming.
Just. this. one. thing.
That’s it.

All is vain

/15

Better nerf eles

All is vain

+1 for effort!

It stings that it is so obvious, doesn’kitten

A tweak of a few numbers will probably resurrect d/d in one single sweep, without power creep. It will give the extra breathing room that currently forces people into cantrips, opening up a plethora of new builds that aren’t even on the radar now. It would indeed restore the fluidity of the gameplay and get rid of the unreliability of the spell forcing you to look at the cooldown (if the cooldown is currently even on screen).

But they just…..won’t…….do it…..

Has there ever been a sound reasoning by the Devs for nerfing RTL?

Gugus.1462:

Has there ever been a sound reasoning by the Devs for nerfing RTL?

i was unlucky to see it…
a dev claimed that ele was taking thief role…….also ele D/D was the natural conuter to thieves….

….
and thieves shall have no counter

Well no, the actual reason was, that they wanted the ele to use RTL as a gap closer rather than an escape tool (even though I can think of other classes who have similar gap closers who didn’t get a nerf). That the nerf even resulted in the contrary in some cases is another story.

I know several D/D or S/D eles, who tend to keep RTL as their last resort as an escape tool rather than using it as a gap closer. The main reason for this is, that with the broken CD mechanic you never know if you will actually hit the opponent or eat the penalty of a double CD due to invulnerability skills, blocks or simple evades…

Currently I don’t play D/D as much as I wanted to, but still I hope they will revert the CD back to 20 seconds and remove the “on hit → CD reduction” mechanic. Balance wise there should be no problem with RTL. I see enough eles getting stuck in the animation when hit with snares… So it seems people learned how to counter it.

And as a side note: I miss my old “travel mode”. The gameplay was much more fluent and fun.

For the love of the eles,

Please Anet, realize that this skill is a part of ele. This is like my reason to play ele. This skills increase my heartbeats when i keypress the keybind of this skill and get stunned while watching me riding the lighting.

This wasnt a simple skill to get nerf-hammer by far.

Rayti.6531:

Well no, the actual reason was, that they wanted the ele to use RTL as a gap closer rather than an escape tool.

that was the third reason they gave ……
but the fiirst was the thief thing….then maybe they noticed someone would suspect something since 90% of nerf caller were thief players.

Infact the last reason doesn t make any sense considering warrior, mesmer and thieves still have their disengages untouched despite having survivig mechanics and access to all ranges.