Guild Wars 2

DH burning rope
added reveal makes me mope
200 ping I cannot cope
Anet please nerf
make it less dope

1. They don’t balance around high ping
2. They want guards to be 100% hardcounter to thieves by the looks of it

@shadowstep

Yeah I was just in high spirits and in the mood for some poetry.

But, no skill should hard counter a whole game mechanic shared across many classes. It opens up the debate of for instance buffing steal to disable all invulns for 6s. Or buffing Mesmer Mind Wrack to disable the use of all blocking skills/Aegis boons for 6s. Etc. Etc. Etc.

Quite unhealthy.

godmoney.6025:

@shadowstep

Yeah I was just in high spirits and in the mood for some poetry.

But, no skill should hard counter a whole game mechanic shared across many classes. It opens up the debate of for instance buffing steal to disable all invulns for 6s. Or buffing Mesmer Mind Wrack to disable the use of all blocking skills/Aegis boons for 6s. Etc. Etc. Etc.

Quite unhealthy.

You are trying to preach common sense to Anet balancing team, give up, man.

Yeah it was weird to get my spear with reveal, but after necros and mesmers got block hate, well, let’s say my sympathy for having an entire mechanic invalidated dried up.

Forget that I’m a daredevil crying about yet another reveal in the game that counters 1 of 2 active defense mechanics I have (I, being an old-school sneaky archetype player preferring 1-2 stealths as defense instead of 6-9 dodges). (I don’t consider Bandit’s Defense in this post as I do not run that utility.)

I cringe when considering a poor vanilla thief out there getting roped by a DH now).

The whole process is quite tragic when looking in from the outside.
a) The timeframe shortly before HoT release was considered as one of the best in terms of class balance.
b) HoT arrives with massive powercreep as well as Anet handing out passive defenses, passive traits, blocks, invulns, stealths to almost everyone.
c) Instead of toning down stuff in b), starts handing out unblockables, reveals, etc. to almost everyone, to the point where classes who do not have access for instance to reveals feels cheated.
d) Anet buffs already strong skills/utils (i.e. signet of agility) to proportions where they are almost mandatory in all builds, thereby reducing build variety even more. Whilst other utils that have been begging for attention for years are left untreated (i.e. Signet of shadows).

I know I’m on my soapbox preaching to the choir.

Thanks for the laugh.

loved it! +1

Woe and terror, a thin blue chain
Upon a fleeting form
Woe and terror, all is vain
For less we mourn,
Cast fear aside
Behind our god, oh line of sight

Impaled by Fire
Dash quickly finally safe
Embraced in a wall

Sly.9518:

Impaled by Fire
Dash quickly finally safe
Embraced in a wall

and then you realize you are pulled into wall and can only get out by logging out….

Justice upon myself
Brought in the form of a spear
I wanted to run and hide
But turns out I’m revealed

MakubeC.3026:

Justice upon myself
Brought in the form of a spear
I wanted to run and hide
But turns out I’m revealed

lol nice one

Spear of justice,
What a “supplice” !
Evading it should be a piece of cake,
It’s actually a head-ache.
pulled against the walls
I lost my balls…..
Hey dragon hunters
and, you, dear developers
how can you look at yourself in a mirror ?
This skill is an error !

Note : sorry I cheated… “supplice” is the french word for torment but it’s 1:30 am and I can’t find another word that sound as nice as that one ^^

Death of a DH by TheRealMC

Im being tethered to my death
There will not be anything left,
I cannot run nor I can hide,
Soon there will be darkness inside,
They pull me into my doom.
I now have very little room,
The trap is triggered and spear is flaming,
DH doesn’t know I run revealed training,
They now know but it’s too late,
My burst and impact strike sealed their fate.

DH had it coming

Thank You

Inb4 this lands in fanart section… because reasons. I like this thread, soon we will have enough for a book xD