Quickness was gamebreaking. It’s not that abilities with it we’re unavoidable, in fact they were mostly just a good way to kill new players and farm glory. This alienated most new players from the pvp aspect of the game along with anybody without an ideal internet connection or reflexes. This is also a nerf to thieves, rangers and mesmers possibly bringing warriors up a bit in the overall scheme of things. While the game might not necessarily be best to be balanced around casual players opinions, they are equally (if not more) important as they make up the majority of the player base.
On the other hand… banners and kick? Seriously? Oh, I forgot rampage. I ran into a warrior running rampage the other day in WvW, I had to stop for a second because I’d forgotten what the skill looked like and was confused… then I proceeded to kill him.
Hopefully, and I say hopefully they were focusing on the engi this patch (it certainly seems they were) and the warrior will be gotten to next patch… I’ve said this how many times now?
There are many quickness skills out there, BUT ours had a downside half the upside. Now the downside is exactly the size of the upside, which basically makes it useless. They should have at least halved the downside too.
The point is more that they can evaluate how the class actually performs in PvP now (yes, we all know it performs terribly in PvP) at all times without it being distorted by once-a-minute bursts of insanity. Which quite frankly, were ridiculous. I’d happily trade losing that stupid combo in exchange for the majority of the weapons and utilities becoming viable.
No
I’m pretty sure they legitimately believe that “warriors are really close to becoming an unstoppable beast in pvp” (direct quoting SotG) because their balance guy apparently takes his cues from “People who whisper me things when I log in” instead of anything that remotely makes sense.
That’s why we’re never going to be viable in pvp
Also at the rate they’re going (about 2 changes to warr per patch) our other weapons will finally be viable by 2017
1. Quickness being as powerful as it was kept you from getting the buffs you needed for more than 1 build.
2. Warrior is still perfectly fine in WvW and PVE.
3. Why would you choose to sPVP on a gimmick build that is almost certainly going to be nerfed and THEN complain it got nerfed? That’s as silly as the Mesmer thread about Time Warp.
Rashanala – 80 Elementalist
Ehmry Bay – Legion of the Iron Hawk [Hawk]
1. Quickness being as powerful as it was kept you from getting the buffs you needed for more than 1 build.
2. Warrior is still perfectly fine in WvW and PVE.
3. Why would you choose to sPVP on a gimmick build that is almost certainly going to be nerfed and THEN complain it got nerfed? That’s as silly as the Mesmer thread about Time Warp.
Boon hate and bunker class ele’s and guardians will hopefully get shafted next patch to balance this out. This was poor decision making on A – nets part though and will push away a lot of warrior players. Can’t wait for next patch to punish all those gimmicky ele and guardian builds hahahaha.
Fully concur. People who hammer their face on their keyboard with their bunker Guardians just annoy me now. Congratulations, you play the most unkillable brick wall of a character you could have chosen. I hope they get nerfed into the floor or that we get boon hate so strong it rips their easymode characters apart so that maybe they’re forced to play a non “try 2 die” class.
