Guild Wars 2

The projectile used to hit for 1.3k damage, and dealt damage as it shot out and on return.

The new Rift explosion only hits for 700.

These are the facts, and you telling me it comes from the 3rd attack chain is meaningless.

Revenant Sword 1 used to throw out a projectile that on my PvP build did 1.3k x 2 damage, but was replaced by an explosion dealing only 700 dmg with a 1s delay.

No mention of this nerf anywhere, damage wasn’t even scaled up to compensate making Sword do pathetic amounts of damage compared to before.

I don’t mind things getting changed, but it seems like this one is being swept under the rug on purpose when it’s a massive damage decrease for Sword Revenants and makes the class basically unplayable for me personally, since every other melee DPS class has a better auto attack chain than Sword Revenants now.

Why exactly was this change made? If they were overtuned, should this massive nerf not be listed in patch notes so other min maxers don’t waste time unlocking herald?

Seriously, nuke it to oblivion I’ve never regretted paying for anything more in my life.

And i’ve made some seriously questionable purchases.

So I prepurchased the game for myself and my girlfriend, assuming if HoT isn’t great, I’m happy to support the existing game because it’s fun, it’s great and I love it. Been that way for 3 years, and I’m sure it will be the same.

I’m sure a lot of players might be in the same boat, or might end up in the same boat.

Before HoT you could do dungeons till your heart’s content.

My day of guildwars for years personally, used to be something like:

Fractal 50, CoF, SoE, CoE if I had time (they were my favourite dungeons for years) then PvP when I’m not doing dungeons / fractals.

It was fun, never got old and even if it did I had friends to talk to while we did them.

Now with HoT, you either do zergy karma trains that barely fight back, or do literally nothing at all.

I’m very very happy they are improving on the exploration aspects of the game but WHY ON EARTH did they completely destroy everything else?

They had years to add new Fractals yet didn’t, instead nerfing the rewards completely and gating out normal players like myself who can’t afford to just convert gems to gold to get up to 150AR, then destroy Fractal and dungeon rewards to the point where I can’t even play the game anymore.

All that’s well and good, but WHY ON EARTH did they have to nuke PvP on release to make unranked the only queue while they PRETEND and LIE through their teeth about caring about PvP despite 0 map changes or improvements since release?

It is a complete joke that they force me to play maps Kyhlo, Courtyard and Skyhammer while claiming to want to be an “esport”.

In 10 years of gaming, I’ve never seen worse map design in my life.

So here seems to be the model ANet seems to work by:

Lie through your teeth to promise everything to the current player base, so they all pre-purchase HoT.

Destroy everything for everyone else that’s left, so they buy HoT.

They added NOTHING to Fractals, Dungeons or PvP for YEARS and they just casually nuke it so we can’t do anything expect Karma train Zerg around the terribly designed new map with the most boring encounters I’ve ever had since Queensdale zergs.

I’m open to any suggestions for anything remotely fun to do in HoT for a player that simply liked to complete fairly engaging, but not brain dead content (actually had to dodge roll sometimes in F50 for example) and actually get any kind of decent loot consistently.