Guild Wars 2

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/55meve/signet_of_inspiration_changes/

People have been asking for skill splits and with the nerfs pretty much promised by Arenanet now, I want to suggest possible ways to nerf the skill while still splitting it, or do other things such as:

(A) In PvE and only PvE, raise the target cap to 10 for SoI. Even if SoI is cut to 6 seconds of quickness. Keep the target cap at 5 for WvW, and then keep effect parity of the SoI, just change target limits.

(B) Buff skills that aren’t SoI so we don’t have to rely on it. Buff the duration of Time Warp, either by duration or by the amount of quickness it provides to be more than just 1 second.

© Buff runes, traits, or sigils. We can make say rage sigil AoE, Chronomancer Runes half the duration but AoE, or even Seize the Moment (shatter = quickness) AoE.

(D) Apply the nerf to WvW. Leave PvE as it is.

(E) Buff alacrity to how it used to be as a trade-off for the heavy drop in quickness.

We had: Alacrity nerfed and nothing done to make up for it. We had precog well and distortion nerfed and nothing to make up for it. Shield 4 duration was reduced and we’ve had nothing to make up for it.

Don’t just gut SoI for WvW after doing so many nerfs because mesmer was great in PvP, but not split the skills if no buffs are going to be made in return. You should be making the classes more unique, not less unique, and when you kill quickness, alacrity, and distortion to make Mesmer “more in line” with other classes, you honestly give us less reason to play the class. Different classes should have different buffs that they grant, and Mesmer should have their unique buffs, but when their unique buffs gets repeatedly nerfed from Alacrity to now quickness, there should be something given to Mesmer players in return more than just damage, because every class can already do that. Please avoid homogenizing PvE for the sake of nerfing boonshare in WvW. There are ways to nerf it without destroying PvE mesmer, and one of the easiest ways you could do it is to simply split the skill.

Actually, Chronomancer runes to be aoe with the same duration would already be all we need. Calamity and we are good to go and it’s more dps, so doublekill if you ask me.

If you ever wanted to delete your mesmer now would be an excellent time. Same goes with revenant players as well.

Ananeos.4587:

If you ever wanted to delete your mesmer now would be an excellent time. Same goes with revenant players as well.

Not sure where all this doom and gloom is coming from. Mesmer requirements for raids are about to double…

Fay.2357:

Ananeos.4587:

If you ever wanted to delete your mesmer now would be an excellent time. Same goes with revenant players as well.

Not sure where all this doom and gloom is coming from. Mesmer requirements for raids are about to double…

Better start gearing up those Guardians soon or you’ll be left in the dust :/

Ananeos.4587:

Fay.2357:

Ananeos.4587:

If you ever wanted to delete your mesmer now would be an excellent time. Same goes with revenant players as well.

Not sure where all this doom and gloom is coming from. Mesmer requirements for raids are about to double…

Better start gearing up those Guardians soon or you’ll be left in the dust :/

…what?

So here’s what’s likely to happen. Boon stacking will be nerfed such that it will be impossible for 1 mesmer + rev to maintain reliable quickness uptime. Therefor, groups will drop the rev and take 2 mesmers instead. This will have the side effect of also nerfing thief, because when both groups have permanent alacrity, thief falls behind ele/necro/non-hammer guardian for dps.

I dislike the Anet balance team as much as the next guy (probably more than the next guy), but I prefer to keep my complaints solidly within the boundaries of reality. You appear to have no such compulsion.

Fay.2357:

Ananeos.4587:

Fay.2357:

Ananeos.4587:

If you ever wanted to delete your mesmer now would be an excellent time. Same goes with revenant players as well.

Not sure where all this doom and gloom is coming from. Mesmer requirements for raids are about to double…

Better start gearing up those Guardians soon or you’ll be left in the dust :/

…what?

So here’s what’s likely to happen. Boon stacking will be nerfed such that it will be impossible for 1 mesmer + rev to maintain reliable quickness uptime. Therefor, groups will drop the rev and take 2 mesmers instead. This will have the side effect of also nerfing thief, because when both groups have permanent alacrity, thief falls behind ele/necro/non-hammer guardian for dps.

I dislike the Anet balance team as much as the next guy (probably more than the next guy), but I prefer to keep my complaints solidly within the boundaries of reality. You appear to have no such compulsion.

Tbh I’m just repeating what the reddit posters have said about guardian replacing either mesmer or revenant. You can ignore me.

There is a certain amount of Karma to a Mesmer nerf knocking thiefs out of content. Maybe they should have spent less time kittenting up our board and asking for nerfs.

This decision of Anet really puts me off. Not because it’s a nerf, but because it ruins the flavor of the class.

Unlike alacrity stacking, quickness stacking is interesting and fun thanks to SoI mechanic. In order to share the longest boons possible, you have to think ahead, because you have to keep in mind the sources limitation, and the amount of duration you’re actually going to share. It’s not just like “here I put this whatever utility and give this much whatever boost to my team” Because you don’t spam your utilities off cooldown, you plan everything ahead to set up “windows” during which you’ll generate the longest possible quickness to share.

So please ANet, if you want to nerf SoI, i don’t know make the cooldown longer so we only cast it while in Continuum Split ; or apply your limitation to WvW only, but don’t ruin it like this …

Fay.2357:

Ananeos.4587:

If you ever wanted to delete your mesmer now would be an excellent time. Same goes with revenant players as well.

Not sure where all this doom and gloom is coming from. Mesmer requirements for raids are about to double…

Yeah not sure why he’s talking about deleting mesmer at all. However I can understand the rest of the doom and gloom; I don’t want to return to a meta where you exclude so many classes because they don’t get 100% of the benefit of the group buffs.

They could go for something very weird where SoI only shares 6s quickness with no ability to boost it, in which case the question might become is a mesmer worth bringing at all?

It’s still to early for the “doom and gloom”. Let’s first see what the Quickness SoI duration will be. If it’s around 10s, that’ll already be enough. Or maybe it will be low, very low, unusable low and they buff TW, ToT and WoA all together.

ANet may not always do make the best decisions, but they are also not idiots. So let’s wait and see.

Xyonon.3987:

ANet may not always do make the best decisions, but they are also not idiots.

I mean…that’s an arguable point.

Xyonon.3987:

It’s still to early for the “doom and gloom”. Let’s first see what the Quickness SoI duration will be. If it’s around 10s, that’ll already be enough. Or maybe it will be low, very low, unusable low and they buff TW, ToT and WoA all together.

ANet may not always do make the best decisions, but they are also not idiots. So let’s wait and see.

Or

They could reduce the quickness shared to a static 3s which isn’t increased by boon duration and not change anything else…

…except they buff shatterstone Illusionary Riposte by 5%

apharma.3741:

Xyonon.3987:

It’s still to early for the “doom and gloom”. Let’s first see what the Quickness SoI duration will be. If it’s around 10s, that’ll already be enough. Or maybe it will be low, very low, unusable low and they buff TW, ToT and WoA all together.

ANet may not always do make the best decisions, but they are also not idiots. So let’s wait and see.

Or

They could reduce the quickness shared to a static 3s which isn’t increased by boon duration and not change anything else…

…except they buff shatterstone Illusionary Riposte by 5%

Please for the love of god add an /s tag before they take you seriously