Guild Wars 2

Oh wait… having not seen it, I’m playing on my alts. Good job!

Was the new condition supposed to come out with this patch? (at work, so no idea lol)

Edit: Yeah, I didn’t think it was supposed to come out today.

It was actually stated that it will come with a future patch. The only thing that was (supposed to be; I didn’t check yet) added is an empty skill 5 slot in Death Shroud… as said before, in SotG.

No they’re still receiving suggestions to implement it, it would have been farfetched to think it would make it into this patch. Remember that some patchs are almost ready 2 weeks before release, so a discussion 1 week before the patch day normally won’t make it through.

It was never going to be part of this patch, SOTG just said they wanted to add one in and wanted feedback on the new condition.

Now that this got some attention. It’s great that this new condition may be coming, it didn’t make it in this patch but having talk about it in the SoTG raises expectation, the question is When is this condition coming? More importantly since many seem to be happy with the current state, Do Necromancers really need it? Is the need to still answer these questions the reason why many other professions got priority? Skills are introduce to help balance not to give ulterior bonuses or fill out empty boxes, so let us reflect well if as a consequence of such an introduction to the skill may bring a nerf elsewhere across the board, in other words one better be careful what they wish for.

I cannot leave out my very appreciation to Arenanet for opening up for consultation with the players themselves on this topic.

I would love it if they could post some of their ideas. Then we could discuss which we personally prefer and maybe offer suggestions on how we would change them and which we like the most. From that A net would be able to make a decision. The biggest problem with crowd sourcing this is that 90% of the ideas will be either underpowered or overpowered for game balance. If they gave us their ideas first, it would be easier than them having to read through 100 different condition suggestions.

I think the goal is to have the community spew out idea after idea, with varying amounts of refinement, to basically have a massive brain storming session, since the few hundred (or thousand or w/e) amount of people that view the forums are going to be able to throw out way more ideas than ANet internally. Then ofc they have their own ideas, and they can collect it all together and run through the actual talks of what to actually make happen. We’re just getting the process going in a way, and also get to show ANet what the community thinks is lacking in the condition field (I think Mesmers would love a cover condition, wink wink Anet).