Guild Wars 2

What are you all thinking? It seems the rifle has a long-distance disengage, stealth, “harmful conditions” and damage. I actually never thought that all of those things would be rolled in…like, I thought it would be crazy, but this is like a parody of crazy.

Granted, they could be exaggerating the conditions and damage, but I’m rather afraid.

Exaggerating damage? Hm… Looking at the video where all the elites are used against PvP dummies, we’re in for a treat. Autoattack gonna hit for ~5K in WvW I think.

Just like with HoT, Its a matter of time before every specialization gets nerfed. The bet is which first.

Sniper will be a nightmare to balance. I can see it being very unfun to play against for WvW players.

I don’t even like Pistol pew pew… This is gonna be bad LOL.

Bigpapasmurf.5623:

Just like with HoT, Its a matter of time before every specialization gets nerfed. The bet is which first.

Obviously ranger is first.

Even when they got nerfed, the HoT specs were better than vanilla just in about every instance, I would expect PoF specs to be just just a bad.

Bigpapasmurf.5623:

Just like with HoT, Its a matter of time before every specialization gets nerfed. The bet is which first.

I can’t handle the stress that comes with trying to predict/understand Anet’s balance decisions, but I recall the HoT classes still being flat-out better to this day. Some base classes see minor use, but why would anyone run base thief over daredevil?

Sviel.7493:

Bigpapasmurf.5623:

Just like with HoT, Its a matter of time before every specialization gets nerfed. The bet is which first.

I can’t handle the stress that comes with trying to predict/understand Anet’s balance decisions, but I recall the HoT classes still being flat-out better to this day. Some base classes see minor use, but why would anyone run base thief over daredevil?

Some people like a challenge lol

Sviel.7493:

What are you all thinking?

That I’m glad I barely play this game anymore and that whilst it was always only a slim chance that I’d buy the new expansion, it seems after seeing the preview today Slim just left town.

Though why people in this thread are talking about balance is a mystery, you can’t all be new, are people really oblivious to the fact they basically don’t balance for WvW and never have.

So at what point in time will the realization that the rifle skills peirce cause the biggest nerf now uproar ever?

Dawdler.8521:

Autoattack gonna hit for ~5K in WvW I think.

Yeah but is it going to pierce like Rev’s hammer AA?

Personally, the idea of a Warrior that flies across the map, strips all your boons, can’t be damaged, can’t be CC’d, can’t be condied, can 1-shot and you can’t kite more than 600 range from seems ridiculous.

No, no we can’t.

LetoII.3782:

Personally, the idea of a Warrior that flies across the map, strips all your boons, can’t be damaged, can’t be CC’d, can’t be condied, can 1-shot and you can’t kite more than 600 range from seems ridiculous.

Oh man, you mean I can equip both Daredevil and Deadeye!? Wait ’til I tell the boys!

Some people clearly don’t grasp the concept of elite specs.

Base is not intended to be better. If it was, your base core trait, trickery for thief, would not be available to you when you spec for something else like DD or DE.

It may have been the original plan to make it all equal, but it clearly did not pan out that way, and for the better if you ask me. Trickery is far too much of a requirement in PvP, because steal misses out on so much if you don’t trait it.

I don’t really like it. But I’ll wait for final judgement when we try it out in a few weeks. I really hope DD is still better than this new spec for raiding. In the open world or wvw deadeye might be fine though.

People are just whining over a spec that noone has even tried yet. There are plenty of times where I ended up loving something I thought I’d hate at first. Atleast try the new spec before you start crying about how it’s ruining the game.

And all this people saying they weren’t planning on playing the game much longer anyways; why are you even here? I even saw someone literally in-game saying they weren’t planning on playing much longer anyways but this expansion just confirmed it. For what reason are you even hanging around if you have a plan to leave? Pire pettiness?

Perfice.4097:

I even saw someone literally in-game saying they weren’t planning on playing much longer anyways but this expansion just confirmed it. For what reason are you even hanging around if you have a plan to leave? Pire pettiness?

If someone comes to the forums and says that they’re leaving the game (due to Anet did or did not do “X”) – you can add this person to your friends list and there is a 98% chance you will still see them in game every day until you get bored of having them on your friends list.