Guild Wars 2

As the titles asked and will scrapper & Druid get another beta with those changes before HoT?

No more beta events this was the last one. As for how soon will druid fixes come? Using ranger core as a past example would be never for major issues(wish I was kidding), minor issues might be fixed in a few months, for anything that is powerful expect within the week.

With the failure to get raids working might be an idea for them to have another beta in the next 2 weeks before live surely?

Sandzibar.5134:

With the failure to get raids working might be an idea for them to have another beta in the next 2 weeks before live surely?

Would be, but I wouldn’t count on it.

Sandzibar.5134:

With the failure to get raids working might be an idea for them to have another beta in the next 2 weeks before live surely?

Hoping the same, unless they plan to hotfix balance Raids on release..

No more beta events. HoT goes live in 3 weeks. They are already finalizing and compiling code so I wouldn’t expect any massive substantive changes to druid before it goes live. Raids themselves may not be available before HoT goes live and may take a few weeks before they patch them in. If that’s the case expect any druid changes that aren’t hotfixes at the next balance patch. So far those take on average 3 to 6 months.

The code is already compiled you are already using it.

This is major concern of mine as well.

Druid is imo only 50% as polished as some of the other elites that got multiple feedback/revision cycles through betas. How is Anet going to address this considering Druid arguably needed the most betas (since it was tackling uncharted territories in trying to balance healing with DPS) to get to a polished state?

Anet’s response will probably be something along the lines of “all classes will continue to go through changes” but Druid really needs more focused attention than the rest of the classes beyond HoT.

Druid apart from Revenant (Tank) is the most significant addition to the game in terms of classes, a raid healer. The fact that they released it last means what we have is likely what we’ll get and that’s unfortunate.

Druid shouldn’t have weapon swap as condi druid will get heals nerfed class wide, or condis nerfed, which is a nightmare.

It all depends on how seriously Anet are taking raids. If they make them challenging we will need true healers, if not, the raid system will fail and I’ll continue to raid in other games.

Leodon.1564:

This is major concern of mine as well.

Druid is imo only 50% as polished as some of the other elites that got multiple feedback/revision cycles through betas. How is Anet going to address this considering Druid arguably needed the most betas (since it was tackling uncharted territories in trying to balance healing with DPS) to get to a polished state?

Anet’s response will probably be something along the lines of “all classes will continue to go through changes” but Druid really needs more focused attention than the rest of the classes beyond HoT.

Its part of the Ranger, Ranger has been in the situation of needing more polish then every other class since launch. Nothing will change Druid won’t see the polish it needs for a long time.

With raids being inaccessible and the druid being in a much rougher shape than I expected, I certainly hope there’s another beta.

Plus, since we didn’t have access to raids, the only area in PvE where Druids might have been useful, players weren’t able to give complete feedback.

Well for the sake of the druid I really hope they are not designing the spec to only be used in 1 instance in 1/3rd of the entire game. That would be tragic.

Mr Pin.6728:

Well for the sake of the druid I really hope they are not designing the spec to only be used in 1 instance in 1/3rd of the entire game. That would be tragic.

In its current state that’s exactly what’s going to happen (at least in PvE), and there’s no telling if it will even have a strong place in raids yet!

They really need to widen its design. It can’t focus solely on healing; it needs other forms of support that would make it valuable in a wide variety of content. Things like the whisps giving allies it heals a 10% damage increase for a few seconds, solar beam granting might to allies, and celestial form granting aegis when you enter it.

And why not make seeds a blast finisher while we’re at it? It would give the ranger reliable blast finishers through CS #2 and using traited glyphs.