Guild Wars 2

Stolen from Ranger forum -

So, the weekly Guild Wars 2 Guru’s Master of the Mists tPvP Tournament is going on right now and there are several devs in the livestream chat, and they have given us a bit of a spoiler regarding the upcoming balance patch – I’ve copied and pasted the related quotes here:

Mod jon_peters: the one after that will be fairly sizable balance wise

Mod khalija_: If you have feedback or suggestions for future tournaments, you can email us at tournament@guildwarsguru.net

Mod jon_peters: This is a big game

Mod jon_peters: as you can see

Mod jon_peters: lots of things interact

Mod jon_peters: so 1

Mod jon_peters: 1) we dont rush because testing is hard

Mod jon_peters: 2) we dont rush because balance should be slow moving

Mod jon_peters: or you just keep overshooting your target

Mod khalija_: Sent you a msg Karl!

Mod khalija_: Pm’d you on Twitch

Mod jon_peters: I will say the late june patch is a fairly sizable balance patch

Mod jon_peters: as Karl can attest to

Mod jon_peters: the fx will be replaced with lower detail versions first

Mod jon_peters: but I will say lot of trait diversity incoming for late June

Mod jon_peters: trying to improve many bad traits

Mod jon_peters: to bring up new builds

Mod jon_peters: hmm example….

Mod jon_peters: should I give an example…

Mod jon_peters: Karl do you have a good example of a trait change?

Mod jon_peters: some merging going on

Mod chaplan_: back

Mod jon_peters: yeah

Mod jon_peters: chap

Mod jon_peters: Chap you mind if Karl and I spoiler some of the trait changes incoming?

Mod chaplan_: I thought about doing in SOTG…but played it safe.

Mod chaplan_: I did mention Necro burning.

Mod jon_peters: We can give away like 1 or 2 I think

Mod jon_peters: ok

Mod jon_peters: I think Ele air is a good spoiler…

Mod jon_peters: I will say this

Mod jon_peters: every single trait line is seeing at least 1 change

Mod jon_peters: some I think are getting as many as five changes

Mod khalija_: official site says we’ll get some new info on June 4th

Mod chaplan_: Overall idea: look at bad/unused traits and improve them, or just rework them.

I did not go out of my way to find this, all credit goes to Ranger forum, any updates would be there.

TL;DR – Changes incoming towards the end of June, hopefully big ones for warr

“Overall idea: look at bad/unused traits and improve them, or just rework them.”

Does this mean our minors in tactics will finally be changed? (please please please make Tactics the ‘burning tree’ how arms is the ‘bleeding’ tree )

Lorelei.3918:

“Overall idea: look at bad/unused traits and improve them, or just rework them.”

Does this mean our minors in tactics will finally be changed? (please please please make Tactics the ‘burning tree’ how arms is the ‘bleeding’ tree )

400 toughness while reviving is an okay 5 point minor.
10% faster reviving is awesome for a 15 points trait.
1 stack of might on revive is just lol.

Could I please get a link to the original post? Thanks!

Varonth.5830:

Lorelei.3918:

“Overall idea: look at bad/unused traits and improve them, or just rework them.”

Does this mean our minors in tactics will finally be changed? (please please please make Tactics the ‘burning tree’ how arms is the ‘bleeding’ tree )

400 toughness while reviving is an okay 5 point minor.
10% faster reviving is awesome for a 15 points trait.
1 stack of might on revive is just lol.

I agree i like the first 15 in tactics.

I don’t agree you can combine all 3 of those into the 5 point minor and it would still be bad without protection stacking toughness has lil effect doesn’t fit the class at all, I don’t want a minor dedicated to someone being downed that is god awful and the might on revive is a sick joke.

Unsuspecting fore should work on all CC not just stun, maybe reduce the amount of critical chance to 30+%

Put faster weap swap as a minor trait elsewhere.

Bump up numbers on Dogged March ( went in right direction imo)

Give more burst perks so building momentum is useful

1s immob on leg spec is decent, but with everyone having some sort of reduc on condis, this is laughable and petty, even in 300 in Strenght thats 30% increase for a whopping 1.3s immob wooooopedeedoo

More condition management

Better heals (Healing Surge makes you not want to waste a burst. just to use and re-burst, derp)

Numerous bug fixes

Make traits worthwhile

Give hammer more perks

Could go on and on, but warriors should be steamrollers, everyone looks at most warriors and laugh, they are too easy to lock down and /laugh at.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/ranger/Incoming-Ranger-Trait-Changes
found it for ya

I’m sure the changes are conceptually finished by now if they’re intended to be implemented by the end of June, but the suggestions have me plotting anyway. You’ll have to forgive me for the common problem of bias in favor of my own build, but here goes: Dogged March: grants a stack of Defiant when targetted by cc (Defiant is added after cc), minor tactics for 5 points summons a Banner of Defense when reviving, 25 points grants Aegis in a 600 AoE, and finally retool activated abilities based on Adrenal strikes to be activated by how much is used, rather than how much is kept (example: Healing Surge would have an activated heal for pressing 6 retaining its base, but the bonus for strikes would be activated when you use adrenaline). Opinions?

Furajir.3815:

Unsuspecting fore should work on all CC not just stun, maybe reduce the amount of critical chance to 30+%

That would be rather overpowered. Axe/Shield with Bull’s Charge for a utility would trump most other builds.

Put faster weap swap as a minor trait elsewhere.

25 in Tactics, I think.

Bump up numbers on Dogged March ( went in right direction imo)

Can’t really do that without breaking the everloving crap out of WvW. Currently, Dogged March with Superior Rune of Melandru and Bowl of Lemongrass Poultry Soup gives a total of -25% stun reduction, -98% on immobilize/cripple/chill and -65% on everything else.

And the Regeneration is fine as it is.

Actually, the food needs a nerf. Overpowered food is overpowered.

Do NOT submit food/gear to CLASS BALANCE! Class balance should be made with all gear/food/runes/sigils NOT IN MIND

Daecollo.9578:

Actually, the food needs a nerf. Overpowered food is overpowered.

Do NOT submit food/gear to CLASS BALANCE! Class balance should be made with all gear/food/runes/sigils NOT IN MIND

So true. Everyone can use the same runes and food so it should have no bearing on balance. And omg a warrior spec being op? it’ll be the first compared to like 80% of the other classes getting to use OP builds in this game for months at a time.

Olba.5376:

Furajir.3815:

Unsuspecting fore should work on all CC not just stun, maybe reduce the amount of critical chance to 30+%

That would be rather overpowered. Axe/Shield with Bull’s Charge for a utility would trump most other builds.

Put faster weap swap as a minor trait elsewhere.

25 in Tactics, I think.

Bump up numbers on Dogged March ( went in right direction imo)

Can’t really do that without breaking the everloving crap out of WvW. Currently, Dogged March with Superior Rune of Melandru and Bowl of Lemongrass Poultry Soup gives a total of -25% stun reduction, -98% on immobilize/cripple/chill and -65% on everything else.

And the Regeneration is fine as it is.

No unsuspecting foe with that change isn’t OP at all. Did you see what other classes are capable of? Thieves have a guranteed 100% crit chance EVERY time they open from stealth -which is almost never, right?- .

Are you happy with warrior state in competitive spvp? Don’t shoot down valid warrior suggestions about being OP suggestions. Let the devs look at that. You are just hurting the warrior community that way. I’m guessing from your posts that you play a warrior and not a thief trolling.

And so what if axe/shield becomes better and trumps other builds? I am happy about having one good build valid in competitive spvp than having none!. Engys are pigeon holed into HGH and they are way better off than us. We have to start somewhere to be good in spvp!

If we keep shooting down helpful suggestions the class will remain kitten by the time ESO comes out.

Olba.5376:

Furajir.3815:

Put faster weap swap as a minor trait elsewhere.

25 in Tactics, I think.

If it was a joke, then the joke is not funny.