Guild Wars 2

It is another QQ thread mostly for the devs, if they ever check the forums to see what they did:
A terrible job, most of us were expecting more, but this new system gives less options to customize my own builds .
Why on earth did they remove Practiced tolerance and Ricochet ?

After this patch, I’m left with no reason to play this game anymore and I’m so glad I did not pre-order HoT .

RolandMode.2749:

Why on earth did they remove Practiced tolerance and Ricochet ?

Practiced tolerance was changed because they focused DPS trait lines on DPS.

Ricochet was removed because it was an RNG clusterkitten that interacted with our currently worst designed and worst performing set, P/P.

I miss Ricochet but I wouldn’t go so far as to say thief is ruined.

anet ur the king of destroying playstyles that have nothing wrong with them

count this as my goodbye post im never coming back to this game anet doesnt want to balance the game if they did they wouldnt do these major rehaul patches that brought balance back to square kittening 1 again instead of doing minor tweeks monthly

official.7362:

anet ur the king of destroying playstyles that have nothing wrong with them

count this as my goodbye post im never coming back to this game anet doesnt want to balance the game if they did they wouldnt do these major rehaul patches that brought balance back to square kittening 1 again instead of doing minor tweeks monthly

Well, see you I guess. /shrug

(p.s. if you reply to this, you’ve not really gone..)

Well I quit over it too, and I am not buying HoT either. News Flash: you don’t need to be playing the game to post to this forum. ~_^

While I get that a lot of people miss Ricochet, I actually think removing it was the sensible thing to do.
I’ve played since beta and I loved going P/P and Shortbow with my thief. An odd combination but for a while it made really good sense. P/P for higher single target damage, SB for taking out groups (and poisoning enemies that healed).
And then there was Ricochet. Once I had Ricochet there was no actual point to fighting with SB. I may use it to travel quicker or help blast a field pre fight, but the only reason to ever use it in a fight came to be for dropping a poison field, at which point I’d swap back to P/P and Unload through it twice to get the poison duration up and we’re good.

Clarity of purpose. Ricochet made P/P step on the toes of SB too much.
And in exchange for taking away P/Ps crowd damage potential they’ve upped it’s single target damage potential with the new trait.
I’m sad Ricochet is gone, because it was ridiculous. I’m glad it’s gone because it was ridiculous and a bad design choice when put next to SB.

Lucifers Heaven.2167:

… no actual point to fighting with SB. I may use it to travel quicker or help blast a field pre fight, but the only reason to ever use it in a fight came to be for dropping a poison field, at which point I’d swap back …

And that’s how you use SB anyway….