Guild Wars 2

Drarnor Kunoram.5180:

Scepter does not need projectiles. That’s part of why it’s quite good: it ignores projectile-hate.

But that’s why it has little counter play which is the point.

Then again there are a lot of things that have no counter play at all so I don’t think scepter is at the top of that list.

There is some counterplay to scepter and axe. Stealth. They require a target which means the necro has to re-target you everytime you reappear.

Then again even projectile weapons tend to require a target to be accurate. Still its a minor disadvantage and an advantage for a different reason. At least with projectile weapons you can blindly fire in front of you without a target. ;d

I’d like to see axe #1 get a slight boost. A chain would be nice.

1 hour to go. Prepare popcorn.

Karl, be our salvation!

Still 2 hours, it’s 12 pacific, 3 eastern.

I am looking forward to it though, I hope it has some reasonable buffs.

Give me OP spectrals and daggers now!

Well that wasn’t exactly what I was expecting. A freebie sort of cheat death for lazy people tied to unholy sanctuary if you forgot to use your DS or got locked out because of a mistake, and a whole 1 extra second to steal life with our heal signet….

The buffs to the already amazing spectral armor skills were nice… but I mean everyone already used those? Not sure exactly what the point was.

I guess the cleave was a nice hand out? /shrugs

I thought that they’re increasing the cast for Corrupt Boon in order to restore it’s old state with corrupting ALL boons…

Anyway, nothing much for Axe.

No, they increased its cast time to give it counterplay, but also reduced its aftercast. Overall it takes as much time to fully cast but the enemies actually get a chance to not get absolutely pounded into oblivion because there was no way to react.

They should’ve increased the counterplay/cast time of Contemplation of Purity too, then. Or just make it on par with CB and let it convert only 5 conditions into boons.

Except CoP doesn’t allow you to condi bomb someone so hard their game uninstalls itself. Its a completely defensive CD with a higher CD.

Cast time nerf on CB is meaningless: it still doesn’t have any clear and distinguishing casting animation, it’s just the necro waving his arms around, so you don’t know whether you’re dodging CB or Mark of Blood. It was easily dodgeable already, but only by chance! :p

Rennoko.5731:

Well that wasn’t exactly what I was expecting. A freebie sort of cheat death for lazy people tied to unholy sanctuary if you forgot to use your DS or got locked out because of a mistake, and a whole 1 extra second to steal life with our heal signet….

Yeah, it basically lowers the skill floor of the class, as if spamming scepter 1 wasn’t easy enough already.

I just dont understand, they didn’t nerf the actual slightly op things we have, and I’m being generous when I call them op. They didn’t really buff anything… yet we are now supposed to compete with the other classes that have been buffed…

CB is a buff for me against those random dodge.

So, could anyone post the actual changes instead of just talking about them, please? Stuck at work, so I can’t watch the video.

NeXeD.3042:

I just dont understand, they didn’t nerf the actual slightly op things we have, and I’m being generous when I call them op. They didn’t really buff anything… yet we are now supposed to compete with the other classes that have been buffed…

Except no meta builds were just blanket buffed. Warrior is nerfed, S/D is nerfed, none of the big builds got flat buffs, they were either nerfed or are neutral overall/slight changes.

You are right they didn’t buff meta builds they buffed the other builds. I am not convinced power Rangers, great sword warriors, PU mesmers and all guardians aren’t all going to be insane. Meanwhile necro really didn’t get anything, I already reseed and stomped with ds, that unholy sanctuary thing is just a guarantee that I will spawn with no lf and the trait sucks anyway so never taking that under any circumstances.

Maybe I’m being harsh but I was a littel excited. I’ll reserve judgement for a little while I guess.