Guild Wars 2

Can I please stop getting knocked inside of walls? What is the point of a wall but to stop stuff from going through it!?!!?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?

How long is this bug going to be around???

I didn’t realize we had any underwater combat spots in PvP left, but apparently the Tranquility area in temple counts as being under water.

There is nothing m8. Renegade is garbage so far. :’D

This wouldn’t fix everything, but if the summons were instant cast and the energy cost was reduced, we might be headed somewhere.

Throw in a little defensive utility, and we are definitely headed somewhere.

Drarnor Kunoram.5180:

Buran.3796:

Renegade just doesn’t provide a reason to exist in PvP/WvW roaming. Weakest than core Rev, light years behind Herald.

Try Power Renegade. That extra 150-300 Ferocity (based on traits) is probably a strong damage boost.

Disclaimer: I haven’t played Renegade yet.

At what cost though?

Dude – worthless stun breaks, no stab, no condi clear – what is the thought process behind renegade even?

Juular.4729:

Play spellbreaker and come back.

You seriously want to compare spellbreaker to renegade??

Like where is the synergy with anything?

As expected, Renegade is absolute garbage for PvP. Really disappointed at Anet’s oversight on this elite spec.

-Rev of Boa

Renegade weakest confirmed

-Rev of Boa

I can dig it -

Rev of Boa

Thanks for Mally stun break – I would say condi rev is where it needs to be now. I don’t think these changes will make it meta, even with the power rev change, but from those who enjoy playing condi rev, meta or not, we thank you!

-Rev of Boa

Dave.6819:

StickerHappy.8052:

Build Diversity is still a problem, and certain traitlines are still required.

Why is Anet still ignoring this?

Mesmer

Inspiration is required

Druid

Bm/Nm/Druid – Staff still required.

Elementalist

Earth and Water/ Tempest Still required.

Scrapper

Alchemy required.

Necromancer

Blood Magic or Soul Reaping required. Soul reaping has been the longest offender since launch.

Warrior

Discipline Required. Always has been.

All I am saying is that, if you have 1 or 2 traitlines required in every build, there will forever be no build diversity. Anet needs to fix the useless ones while prioritizing which comes first so that every traitline/trait/weapon/utility will be competent enough.

Ex: I just have no idea why Anet still buffs ele dagger (which is a staple in every build like focus) while ignoring Warhorn which is utter trash.

haha i like this one xD +1

i could add:

All classes – elite HoT spec required.

then it becomes like that:

Thief – Trickery/DD required.
Mesmer – Inspiration/Chrono required
Guard – DH/Valor required
Engi – Alchemy/Scrapper required.
etcetc.

+1. now we can all agree again that this game has no diversity since HoT patch whatsoever. ^^

Lets not forget:
Rev
Glint/Shiro
Invo/Dev/Herald
Sword/Shield/Staff
All required.

All off-meta rev builds killed with this patch.

-Rev of Boa

kdaddy.5431:

I honestly believe Anet is trying to force each class into a role. When you have a class that can do multiple things, they need people for each class looking at ways to balance and even things out with in each class. Rev needed serious help outside of glint/shiro and instead they made it the only option. Now we look at every class in the game, pick the meta build and apply to every area of the game.

Lets be honest Anet is dropping bombs and we are the toilet.

I think you are right. I was actually amazed when the default builds came out for rev and Ventari rev was on there over condi rev ^^ laughable.

Fashion Mage.3712:

They probably could’ve buffed Ventari a bit, but otherwise I think most of the changes are justified.

xeonage.1253:

But Rev got good nerf is the most better thing in this balance patch.

The changes to Retribution only made Condi Rev and other non-meta rev builds unplayable.

It doesn’t affect the majority of power revs. Invo is usually taken over Ret.

-Rev of Boa

That’s a good idea too. That would definitely notch it back towards playable again, but it also didn’t really need that big of a nerf in the first place. Not like the build itself is super powerful.

Another thing that would be missing is the defensive capabilities from the staff that you would see on Glint/Shiro.
Staff/Sword/Shield has too much energy upkeep to be playing with high energy utilities from Mallyx.
The stab helped make up for these differences in stun breaks/defensive skills while not really being considered OP.

-Rev of Boa

I honestly could live with one or the other nerfs to stab. Ok I get stab on evade now that’s fine OR ok my ICD is upped to 8 seconds that’s cool, but the combination of the two makes non-meta builds unplayable.

I tried Invo – the extra stun break helps a bit, but without Shiro or staff it’s just not enough stun break or defensive skills to make anything of it.

-Rev of Boa

Condi revs aren’t OP in any way, so why nerf them into the ground?

Nerfing stab isn’t going to make any changes to the rampant invo power revs with a million stun breaks running around everywhere.

There really wasn’t any need to reduce stab and resistance uptime for condi revs, yet here we are.

The only thing that needed to be toned down a bit was Impossible Odds auto attacks and with thieves becoming more prevalent in pvp, that’s already one passive nerf to power revs.

Shiro/Glint is the only playable build now and further more Invo/Dev/Herald.

Nerfing underplayed builds into the ground isn’t balancing. Why don’t you consider more than one build when making patches?

RIP build diversity. I would appreciate your feedback on making this decision.

Thanks,

-Rev of Boa

OlrunTheBlade.1486:

Revenant should have taken more hits. I agree.

Revenant needs slight nerfs. Thief needs slight buffs. Your problems with Warrior and Dragonhunter are L2P issues, and this has been proven time and time again.

Power rev should have taken more hits. Condi rev got nerfed into the ground!

-Rev of Boa

RIP condi rev with this new patch.

-Rev of Boa

I’ve condi rev’d my way to legend+ quickly and easily for four pvp seasons now, not that glint/mally condi rev is all that great or heavily played, but I made it work for me against some of the most known players in pvp. 3k games of making it work since rev came out actually.

Why on earth they would nerf condi rev into the ground is beyond me. Less stab, less resistance uptime. In no way was it even OP.
Most power revs run invo to begin with. Shiro/Glint Invo/Dev/Herald is the only build for pvp now.

I’ve always said that I wished there was another access to stab on rev besides the stab on dodge, but the new stab just isn’t enough to keep condi rev alive in team fights, especially with only the GoD stun break.

RIP any hope for diversity, rip the underdogs.

-Rev of Boa

Evan Lesh.3295:

Galandil.9641:

SlayerSixx.5763:

This is all good and well, but what’s stopping a diamond tier group of friends from having one dude make an amber account? I’ll assume that you’re also changing the pip rewards then, making it so that it doesn’t matter if there’s a tier 1 amber with a clean MMR on the winning team.

Someone please clarify.

This is exactly the same thing that I was thinking while reading that paragraph.

If the pips loss/win depends on the higher div player of a team, than this change is good. If not, it will still not prevent some kind of abuse.

Match prediction is also based on the highest division player in the party.

I have a lot of friends that aren’t as high tier as I am. A lot of them have already shied away from playing with me due to my higher league and MMR. Now, I’m certain they will not be encouraged to play with me since they will be brought up to my league and MMR if we que together.

Put me down for 8 pips pls.

Charrbeque.8729:

Healingz R Us.7240:

I tried out the RMT gold buying service recently. I got a pm and thought it sounded good, so I did it. Of course, ANET took not only the gold I bought, but also the other 400g I already had that was earned legitimately. I didn’t know that the gold RMT sells was being stolen from hacked accounts or botted, otherwise I never would have participated.

Still, I’m not salty about all of my gold being taken away (except for what I had earned legitimately maybe), but I am disappointed in myself for not knowing how that gold is acquired.

I am, however, a little depressed that the gold is gone, because I very rarely use any of my gold on myself. I don’t have fancy gear or fancy anything really, nor do I really desire it. 90% of my gold, I spend on random people that I see being kind or just a good part of the community in general.

Of course, that paragraph is not meant to justify anything. Although I was ignorant as to where the RMT gold comes from, I am not ignorant to the ToS. I’m just thankful that they didn’t ban my account.

I can now say that I am well educated on the effects of gold buying and gold selling on the game, whereas before I only thought that it was because ANET didn’t want to lose out on any sales. This lesson costed me $69.35 and 1400 gold. Don’t let it happen to you!

ANET, is there anything else more that you could do to ensure that players are educated on all of this stuff? I wouldn’t wish this feeling on anyone, and I hope my own failure can help prevent others from this happening to them.

It doesn’t matter if the gold was stolen from a hacked account or earned legitimately. Buying gold from RMT is against the ToS. Period.

There are a lot of things in life against ToS. I’m sure none of us have EVER ripped a song off of YouTube or used abusive language towards a troll in game, right?

What I’m saying is, I knew it was against the ToS, but I did it anyways, and I accepted responsibility for that in my post and suffered the consequences. Not because I have a “screw the ToS” attitude or anything, but because I didn’t understand the damage it causes.

Like I said, I learned my lesson, and I’m quite happy that ANET is taking these steps to prevent players from purchasing RMT gold now that I understand the effect it has.

However, that doesn’t mean that making sure players are educated on the effects of RMT is a bad idea. Just saying “The ToS is enough” is not an effective strategy. Why be satisfied with just “Oh hey it says not to do it in the ToS” when you can easily take an extra, more effective step in addressing the issue?

In no way am I blaming ANET for my actions or any other players’. It’s not their fault, obviously, but it is a problem that they and all of us face, and they can do something further about it. NOT A BAD IDEA.

I tried out the RMT gold buying service recently. I got a pm and thought it sounded good, so I did it. Of course, ANET took not only the gold I bought, but also the other 400g I already had that was earned legitimately. I didn’t know that the gold RMT sells was being stolen from hacked accounts or botted, otherwise I never would have participated.

Still, I’m not salty about all of my gold being taken away (except for what I had earned legitimately maybe), but I am disappointed in myself for not knowing how that gold is acquired.

I am, however, a little depressed that the gold is gone, because I very rarely use any of my gold on myself. I don’t have fancy gear or fancy anything really, nor do I really desire it. 90% of my gold, I spend on random people that I see being kind or just a good part of the community in general.

Of course, that paragraph is not meant to justify anything. Although I was ignorant as to where the RMT gold comes from, I am not ignorant to the ToS. I’m just thankful that they didn’t ban my account.

I can now say that I am well educated on the effects of gold buying and gold selling on the game, whereas before I only thought that it was because ANET didn’t want to lose out on any sales. This lesson costed me $69.35 and 1400 gold. Don’t let it happen to you!

ANET, is there anything else more that you could do to ensure that players are educated on all of this stuff? I wouldn’t wish this feeling on anyone, and I hope my own failure can help prevent others from this happening to them.

Been hoarding for a while got about 200k glory rank 42 and don’t know what to spend it on

Blue Team Wins!

On the elementalist, there is a buff in the fire trait that is supposed to add might for 5 seconds every time you use a fire spell. I ran tests and never once saw any might from it. Idk.

Mesmer – Personally, I can never tell which one to hit.
Engineer – Good node defense as well as good damage.
Thief – Good damage but terribly easy to counter.
Elementalist – Unrivaled support while holding decent CC.
Guardian – Hold the Graveyard! Hold the Keep!
Necro – Only above warrior for their fear ability.
Warrior – Too easy to counter.