So I used slick shoes every now and then pre nerf, but now they wont knockdown anything unless I am on top of them.
Now the fact that this has no animation to tell you where the oil slick is behind you, but I am seeing it work for less amount of time before. I had a person chasing me in WvW 2 steps behind me, and he was not affected by it at all. He was a MM necro and his minons did not falter either.
This is getting ridiculous anet. We still have a lot of traits that are useless beyond imagination or are broken and every patch since release that has touched classes, we’ve been nerfed. We’re the least played class in the entire game and we keep getting nerfed. Turrets still suck, grenades were alright pre patch, now suck (those saying that poison nades and blind can damage, its not full dmg. They do about 1/3 the damage of the auto attack grenade). I mean, I really appreciate them making sigils work, but I really dont think a major nerf of everything we’ve ever used was necessary. Grenades and our elixer guns were pretty much our only viable builds. I mean sure it gave us great survivability, but It wasn’t that much. Hell going up against 4 mobs at once by myself I still almost died with it, often having to pop my elite.
I’ve tried to stay confident. I keep telling myself that you guys know what you’re doing, you’re just prepping us for a buff or something. But I’m getting tired of being crapped on by every other class in everything. The only thing we excel at is our ability to chain knockbacks…nothing else now. Not DPS, no longer support. Bunkering is still hanging in there. If we get nerfed again next patch, I dont know what im going to do. I might reroll or go play something else.
I also realize you guys are understaffed. If it is true that you have only 2 devs working on balancing, I feel bad for them. They have a huge responsibility. But come on. Just once, put us at the top of the To do list. Not at the bottom.