Guild Wars 2

In some content it might not make a huge difference and in most PvE content I find myself pew pew’ing with longbow anyway. But in certain content like WvW, which is the main reason I made a druid it is an awful change.

Normally druids start out with maximum AF. Now after you were in a fight, chances are you’re out of AF because we actually like to use it to heal our allies.

Now before the next fight comes up, there will be no opportunity to generate your AF because before we get into the next fight, nobody in the wvw group will take damage. The consequence is that in the next fight, we’ll be forced into using staff to regain our AF in order to do a part of our job, and at times it could take too long even to get it before it’s needed. I don’t think it’s right to force players into using a weapon to make your class effective, it’s bad design imo.

Now I wouldn’t have minded if staff itself had decent dps ability and other interesting skills. But sadly the staff is very underwhelming right now, and is more of a utility weapon (skill 2 needs complete change, 4 needs a buff).

Ideas:
- Maybe give AF a natural regeneration based on healing power for quicker regen, 20 seconds with 1000 healing power, 30 or 35 seconds with 0 healing power.
- Throw out the AF regen and just put CAF behind a cooldown.
- Keep things the way they were as before this nerf, but instead make regeneration 1/3th slower?

Using healing power into the mix if your build should be rewarding. This change to AF right now is purely a punishment and doesn’t make for interesting builds at all.

The same guy who says zerker days are over, is now making changes to make it come back again. gj

…or you and your group could be jumping down from cliffs to inflict damage to yourself, Anet-style.

I can picture the map chat from here now: “DON’T KILL THE SENTRY!!! WE NEED IT TO CHARGE UP AF!!!”.

cafard.8953:

I can picture the map chat from here now: “DON’T KILL THE SENTRY!!! WE NEED IT TO CHARGE UP AF!!!”.

That’s exactly what I will have to do this evening. My raid will love it…

Earix.5684:

cafard.8953:

I can picture the map chat from here now: “DON’T KILL THE SENTRY!!! WE NEED IT TO CHARGE UP AF!!!”.

That’s exactly what I will have to do this evening. My raid will love it…

Good luck with that! Asking the zerg to not kill a sentry is one of the most difficult tasks on Piken.

Ditch the Druid and pick up the medic / first aid kits near said Sentry. You will be better off.

Druid is dead. Once we saw only one beta weekend we knew it was going to be an up hill battle.

Crapgame.6519:

Druid is dead. Once we saw only one beta weekend we knew it was going to be an up hill battle.

Seriously. And that makes no sense. Who in their right mind allows only one beta test on a class before releasing an “expansion” on the playing customers?

This is the sloppiest handling of any class I’ve ever seen in an MMO.

Ever.

Ardenwolfe.8590:

Who in their right mind allows only one beta test on a class before releasing an “expansion” on the playing customers?

A company driven by its marketing department.

Retsuko.2035:

But in certain content like WvW, which is the main reason I made a druid it is an awful change.

Look on the bright side, in a another few months there won’t be enough people playing WvW for it to matter anyway.

You’re better off pewpewing from the backline anyways.

Substance E.4852:

Retsuko.2035:

But in certain content like WvW, which is the main reason I made a druid it is an awful change.

Look on the bright side, in a another few months there won’t be enough people playing WvW for it to matter anyway.

Hoping Camelot Unchained gets it right for this very reason.

GW2 is a pretty game. Has some nice potential. Not sure what happened since retail to now. I’m still pondering the loss of potential with the obsidian sanctum jump puzzle or interaction with WvW in general.