Guild Wars 2

Just curious as to why 4k gems =
$50
£42.50
€50

shouldn’t all the prices equal to the same amount.

£42.50 = $66.30 so paying $16 more for same transaction

Guts.4967:

/agree it’s annoying for who like to spam the keyboard like a boss.

don’t even have to spam keyboard to notice it. slight milliseconds on dodging a Mesmer shatter. if his immob hits u, you get shattered in the face then dodge when immob expires.

just to confirm – this only happens if you dodge as you get immob.

Jono M.8519:

Sort of related, but nobody has bothered to put up the bear finisher on youtube. Easy views for the taking there for anyone who is 50+.

Clik has put the rank 60 finisher up

highest person is 64 i think, and rank 80 takes around 4 years to get.

Working as intended still. you was just unlucky :/

Lowellollipop.5817:

Redhead.6024:

People can claim as much as they want that I am trying to kiss his kitten

Yup, some people are going to say that, but whatever! There will always be people saying that kind of thing on the internet!

What matters is that you said what you, and a lot of other people including me, think about Xeph. I know he’s quite selfless and would still do most of the good things he does for the community even if the community didn’t even feel a little grateful towards him, but it can’t possibly hurt to say that we love the guy and that we’ve got his back from time to time right?

It was sad to see all the hate some people have towards Anet and the mistake of removing Zoose from sotg redirected to Xeph for no reason, seriously.

We love you Xeph!

Mine and Xeph’s love is no more, until he takes me for who i am! an Elementalist!

you mean lag like that? i was nowhere near the warrior and i ate his 100b in the face. no skills activate when i press them and well… its not lag on my side either.

1.Make some incentive to play/something worth grinding for.(bring back gems)
2.Solo Que/Team Que (separate hot join people from full teams)
3.Balance Eles/rangers

Rather busy irl atm so cant say much on topic + dont have time to read it all but ill give my opinions on the topics.

Evasive arcane – Perfectly fine the way it is now after Nerf, if anybody is still complaining then my guess is, they want you to delete elementalists.

Signet of restoration – slightly OP but only due to double proc on dodging + high up time vigour (i highly advise on not nerfing the signet itself, just things like double/tripple proc)

RTL – on this new map its EXTREMLY OP with the orb rtl but i don’t think any nerfs to the actual skill should be nerfed. or the cd. the current thing with elementalists is.. its good at everything, if the community want the class destroying, they need to decide what specific role elementalist will do better than other classes. atm its roaming ability is 1 of the good things. people only dislike eles RTL due to teams of 2-3 eles, constantly feeding themselves into point, but is that really in need of a nerf?

Weapons -

Focus just sucks apart from earth-5

Scepter is fine although some skills deserve tweak, e.g – dragons tooth been ground targetable. atm its almost impossible to land.

Dagger OP sustained dps for 1v1s/team fights the damage once again isn’t hardly noticeable unless focusing thief/mesmer
Sidenote about dagger – Burning speed needs huge dps Nerf or cd increased, 15s cd for skill which does that much damage is kinda stupid

on top of all this. frost aura needs to go back to how it was, no need what so ever for eles to get that buffed.

the main issue with this game at the moment is that the devs are horrible players, the beta/alpha testing is completely pointless since the people who do all the hard work testing/suggesting things who actually KNOW about the game, they just ignore.

and having devs who cant play balance the game around how they like it, its just stupid.

no offense to any Mod who responds/if they respond

Another thing is fire elemental – people complain about Bunker eles vs Mesmer on their close point when they just tank the element, easy solution…. use your brain. it has like 8k hp and is glass cannon, eventually we would beat Mesmer just takes some time.

All of them are the “big” patch.
one of the biggest game breaking ele bugs is still in game even after J. sharp responded himself in game that it was on his list to fix, so im kind of disappointing about that.

i agree with some things you say but im mainly in agreement with jim. they are taking wayyyyyyyyyy too long to produce these patches, with the current state of the game it needs to be a lot quicker.

anyways, back to double/tripple ele for another month.

p.s i honestly did wanna go engi since it looks seriously fun sad to see even more random/un-neccesary nerfs to it.

i agree with majority of things, not sure what to say about all of this tbh lol.

if this is all you can do in the previous 4 weeks Anet, then im disappointed. you should think about getting people who know how to fix the class rather than whoever it was currently. The guys you just had know absolutely nothing about ele if they call that a Nerf LOL.

guessing next patch is in another 4 week?

Im abit disappointed about ele nerfs. evasive arcane ect, but i suppose i can deal with it.

however;
just curious if you will increase our damage so triple cantrip ele can actually kill things. i get frustrated fighting a Mesmer for 2 mins before he will die.

hoping for more fixes with underwater combat, some underwater combat skills buffing also

just curious as one of the developers said on stream that they was probably going to be adding an actual “reward” the following day (after SOTG) anddddddd its still the same useless junk which you win…
1 silver chest + ticket which you pay anyway + the qp which means absolutly nothing now with the 1v1s.

not only this but eventually people will run out of tickets and if this is some sort of scheme for Anet to make money then its kind of sad.

Wish you all the best man

can vouch that psycho is a good player.

Guts.4967:

Kylex.5962:

like absolutely nothing an ele can do. he can run away but then all hes achieved is nothing since they cap the point anyway.

It’s true, but since you need 2 people to obligate him to run away…

Kylex.5962:

Archaon.6245:

Just nerf evasive arcana and water healing to the ground and make pets scaling with ranger stats, as it should be.

Done.

No offense here but this topic is getting a complete joke. people giving examples like this is completely a joke. and many more further people above.

eles are overpowered, high end teams will learn to deal with them, there not unbeatable.

obviously since ele is unkillable 1v1 by ANY class (if you die in 1v1 l2p) people just want the class completely nerfing. don’t forget though.. you Nerf this spec and eles aint of much use. since our damage is next to nothing compared to other dps classes.

but with some of the suggestions on this thread why not just delete ele class trololo.
Nerf its heals yes. do you realize it effects EVERY build then? 13k hp ele light Armour walking around with no heals. makes sense.

its not the heals which are overpowered. its everything stacking together, cantrip Regen,signet heal tick, spam evades so much more, becoming more of a joke when this thread is just full of people who don’t know anything about eles and by the looks of it never actually even tried high end tpvp. if your crying about ele in spvp/free torny then gg.

At high end tpvp if you still continue to complain (as short term solution) just send necro + ranger to ele. he will explode in seconds. no ele will counter necro + ranger

I’m totally agree with you Kyle, but since you are obligate to change the meta to win i don’t think it’s normal, i mean, it’s ok for example if you play euro comp and play against 3 ele comp your winrate is something like 60%, but when you need to be 2 X more skilled to win, and doing no errors in one game to win, it means that it’s unbalanced.

This game shouldn’t be only a comp game. If i see a 3 ele comp i don’t want to relog my character with ranger/necro to win, i just want that it can be possible with every comp, maybe with some comp it can be a bit harder to win, but still posible. That’s what i’m talking about.

in response to first thing – its a bunker. generally nothing would kill bunker 1v1

2nd thing – they already made this game counter-comp when they disabled weapon/amulet/skill switching during mid game.

and the biggest thing is.. only 1x team currently run triple ele. and its nowhere near as OP as people say. double ele is OP, triple ele you lose too much. since 1x of those eles must be dps and dps ele sucks compared to other classes dps (mesmer/thief)

But saying that someone’s opinion is invalid because they don’t want to grind QP is simply wrong.

idc about qp. qp mean nothing to me. the fact is. if hes not even on the leaderboard, that shows me hes been doing spvp or free torny.
and both of those require 0 skill. if you disagree with me, then why not let the wvw people get involved in balance for pvp.

the whole game balance needs re-work in that case. so many things are OP (from an ele perspective) since everything hits us so hard lol.
3k mind wrack per illusion
9k backstabs
8k whirlwind attacks
ect.

but yeah. this update upcoming will probably destroy eles completely.
so everybody can start crying about mesmers-thiefs again

incorrect. once again. because we heal alot you automatically assume that its water skills + evasive arcana lol.

Edit: heads up for all eles btw.

after this patch depending on nerfs. the class will be completely useless, nobody would take ele for dps (may as well take Mesmer) and even as dps ele the heals will have lowered even more.

playing since beta also and i agree ^ nerf the correct things rather than ninja nerfing everything

guza.6170:

Archaon.6245:

and some dmg (At last enough to kill a glass thief) ….a little too much isn’t it?

lol

impressive damage right.

sorry if you got offended but there is so many stupid comments on this topic which shouldnt even be here, on top of that all people do is completely flame the ele because of the “triple ele” why not disable counter class then you wouldn’t see it as this major.

eles DO need nerfing. but some of these comments in here are trolol. they have no idea what there talking about, or what to nerf. they think if they take away ele heals it will be all ok, that’s like removing a thief’s stealth.

the question i like to ask some people on this topic is.

which situation are you crying about eles over? hotjoin?

Edit:

responding to person above. fyi a trap ranger can effectively get a full bunker ele down to 10% hp in 1 burst fighting on point (which it would be in the current ele meta)
tone down THEM heals and you get… full bunker (hardly no dps) dying in 1v1
eles are light Armour with 13k hp, don’t forget that.

its the continous protection, 2x armour of earth, signet, permo vigour (spam dodging), cantrips grand regen which is making them currently op. just saying.

kostbabis.8791:

^^i play ele and can counter necro /ranger
I counter them by untabbing switching to air and press 4!They dont know what him em !
but according to people rtl should be removed and i should die a miserable death..cause everyones hate eles these days..its like class racism :P

i will start ignoring comments like that due to not even showing on qp ladder. i honestly don’t take into consideration people who do spvp/free torny since i can tank 5v1 with no Armour if you look at it that way.

im talking about fighting against people with a brain.

harsh way of looking at it ^^ but if you took out all stupid comments like this you would have a much better view on things guts.

Archaon.6245:

Just nerf evasive arcana and water healing to the ground and make pets scaling with ranger stats, as it should be.

Done.

No offense here but this topic is getting a complete joke. people giving examples like this is completely a joke. and many more further people above.

eles are overpowered, high end teams will learn to deal with them, there not unbeatable.

obviously since ele is unkillable 1v1 by ANY class (if you die in 1v1 l2p) people just want the class completely nerfing. don’t forget though.. you Nerf this spec and eles aint of much use. since our damage is next to nothing compared to other dps classes.

but with some of the suggestions on this thread why not just delete ele class trololo.
Nerf its heals yes. do you realize it effects EVERY build then? 13k hp ele light Armour walking around with no heals. makes sense.

its not the heals which are overpowered. its everything stacking together, cantrip Regen,signet heal tick, spam evades so much more, becoming more of a joke when this thread is just full of people who don’t know anything about eles and by the looks of it never actually even tried high end tpvp. if your crying about ele in spvp/free torny then gg.

At high end tpvp if you still continue to complain (as short term solution) just send necro + ranger to ele. he will explode in seconds. no ele will counter necro + ranger

i agree and disagree with a lot of things said about eles.

their heals/buffs are a joke completely with the high sustain of both.

although saying that there is such an easy counter to eles;
ranger + necro = gf ele
Engi + necro = gf ele
like absolutely nothing an ele can do. he can run away but then all hes achieved is nothing since they cap the point anyway.

having said all of this. if bunker eles are not allowed in the game. i disagree with guardians been able to survive 30s (due to cooldowns) vs 2,3,4,5 people. doesn’t matter how many people you have, he will last until his Cd’s go.

bunkers in general are annoying/bad but if they nerf all of this, it will just go into a glass cannon team vs glass cannon team.

easy solution – disable multiple class comp ?

lettucemode.3789:

Transfer with all those gems you’ve been winning from paids. Hang out a week then transfer back.

I get the sense you’re not really looking for an answer, though.

that would cost 2k gems + 7 days wait time.

the amount of gems i have isn’t relevant to the question.

Just curious here.

if I/my team wishes to visit NA for a couple of days to face some teams over there, how would we go about doing it.

guesting is disabled to move from NA—> EU

zone.1073:

Kylex.5962:

using a cooldown to stomp somebody is a matter of choice and part of the game mechanics.
your comparing a game changing buff to a stomp (5 points)
2 totally different things.

One could argue that a stomp can dictate the outcome of a team fight, which often leads to a victory in the team fight. Who is to say that stomping is not as important as channeling a Silent Storm buff, or capping a point?

But then we could just discuss how timewarp changes EVERY teamfight.
some things are OP, do you agree with Blind stomping?
so many different things.

end of the day, if an ele chooses to mistform stomp, he is then in danger of a thief 1 shotting (highly doubtful to happen, just using this as an example)

using a cooldown to stomp somebody is a matter of choice and part of the game mechanics.
your comparing a game changing buff to a stomp (5 points)
2 totally different things.

Disclude.7416:

The reason they’re doing one week for each map is to gather data on the map, the playstyles and meta that adapt to that map over a weeks worth of play. It’s actually quite a good way to gather data specifically for each map. They will more than likely switch to a random rotation after each map has had a full week because that’s what most players seem to want.

Temple will definitely be added to the rotation, but they will be keeping Forest as well. Just gotta wait till they test all 4 competitive maps.

afraid psycho is correct.
if they didn’t get enough testing from past 7 month of playing. then their having brainlag or something.
meta only changes when class Nerf. you haven’t changed anything to do with maps so why re-check them?

if you change the maps then yes. what you are doing now with the 1 week test is good.

Edit: personally i think this 1 week of same map is another reason to make people stop playing (temp). i know my team is sick of same map for 1 week and not only that, but there is nothing even worth farming for since you gain……. 1x silver chest for winning.

What person above said.
Chain immob = gg ele.

its a nice new aspect of the game with new pvp combat system which we have to learn its nice. ofc obvious bugs need to get fixed first but just like all broken things.

Lowellollipop.5817:

Miko.5726:

Oni.5429:

Warriors are fine, both in tournaments and in hotjoin.

Thats why you play ranger and ele …

And overall warriors are still “underpowered” compared to the rest and due to what is played at the moment, our warrior just happens to love warrior and has no reason not to play it.

Its underpowered :o?
the damage it gives out is extreme. the only problem is.. almost every class is “overpowered”
buffing warriors will only further ruin the game.

the map isn’t worthy of giving gems.

lvis.3824:

Eristina.5967:

The video was staged to show the bug, it’s not an actual in game footage, but thrust me it happened in paid tournament, that’s why we did research to know what was hapening.
I’ll make a resume of the video content because not everyone get it :
In a time windows of 1.5 seconds :
- 1.5 seconds is the duration of basilic venom’s stun.
- Thief is invisible (it’s ok for some class, but for necro, you can’t DS fear him and you’ll get an heartseeker with this exploit when other thief will be fear right after backstab).
- Does 4 skill in 1.5 seconds (clipping bug and haste make it possible).
- Does 17k damage to someone who has 3k1 armor.
- All this can be done using one macro, no skill required, high reward.

- Guard had no Aegis up which would have blocked at least 4k dmg
- Guard had several skills on cooldown and did not react at all, one dodge and ALL the attacks would have been avoided !
- C’n’d has a casting time, so you can see it
- if thief openes invis, he needs either his heal oder shadow refuge / blinding powder (3sec)
- if he stuns you he also used up his elite
- most likely he also used signet of shadows

so 2 utils + elite for 1 attack that can be AUTO blocked and dodged .. seems fair to me.

but thrust me it happened in paid tournament

-you should be aware of your surroundings, and your should communicate with your team to know where their thief is.

please… is this a troll…

no matter how good you and your team is. you cant track the thief 24/7

Foehn.2489:

I think OP is just over-mystifying this thief video. The game is one key one action as macros are bannable. Given that there are only so many ways to mash steal-c&d-bs-hs with quickness somewhere in there.

Aside from that posting based solely upon your own experiences while using phrases like “all the thieves…” or “just one thief…” is bad reasoning to base a point off of. The point being thieves kill too fast, obviously they do. It’s not uncounterable and it comes with weaknesses. As a thief doing such combos against any well-played guardian is no easy task. I could go into details or we could play with one another. Prolly more constructive than this.

I understand your point about it only been 1 thief at the moment. but the fact is.. the bigger the game gets, the more skilled players will join the game. and what your basically saying is: if you master a thief you should be able to 1 shot anything instantly because your skilled. Which also means you would agree with EVERY class been able to do this if they are all top top players and fully mastered there class.

Arch – responce to you + the macro:
this is possible to do without macros. just change all your keybinds –
Cloak and dagger – 1
Steal – 2
Backstab 3
Heartseeker 4

and just faceroll the keyboard. so skilled.
the macro makes it 100% and the time much faster BUT a “pro” thief would eventually learn the timers legit.

and before trolls start those key binds was just an example.

Archonis.7249:

Solori.6025:

Kirei.1792:

Archonis, almost all the top teams in eu have a thief. but why would you say that u would prefer a ele instead of a thief? i think most teams have both?

Backstab Thief isn’t really all that desired in TPvP unless you team is synergizing arouns it.
Thats what you said…
in eu its so desired. i really hope that NA will come to EU and feel what the difference
and thief is better roamer than elementalist lol. and a thief can kill certain things what ele can’t. having no thief in team fighting against full bunker class is not do able. but maybe na thiefs are bad (i don’t know it) but im getting the impression that they think really lowly of thiefs.

Most thief roamers that i have seen are used to kill the weakest link, help in point battles by picking off the squishy, or bursting the burst mesmers.
Bunkers I have seen can hold off 1 -2 people on a point wether it be a theif+ or an Ele+
Maybe its because of that fact people dont use theif roamers, because an ele can sit in combat and has a little more CC than a theif , while being just as mobile.

Yea, a Thief is great at fulfilling the word Roaming. He is very mobile and can get around the map fast, but when met with the slightest resistance you have to (most times) back off. With an Elementalist you can engage where a Thief cannot. There really isn’t a vice versa. So to me Elementalist is a better roamer than thief, simply because he can burst and has much better survivability without having to break combat and control a lightly defended point.

elementalist can go and bunker out far point after you wipe them at mid or something.
thief can 1 shot guy on far point. with my vid been the main point (only 1 thief does similar combo to this which is why it works) he can pretty much take the point off anybody.

so where as an ele would still be fighting for agessssssss until they reinforce, a thief can simply take from anybody.

depends which you find the best but actually seeing this in action id go more the thief way.. and im NOT crying for Nerfs i just wanted to see peoples opinions on this

EvisceratriX.1750:

i came here to lelz, funny vid, guardian was just standing, that was pro move. gg

i dont know why i bother feeding the trolls but… it was “staged” as i said 3x+

AND

semi bunker is as it says. dont ask stupid questions. “whats glass cannon guys!?”

Archonis.7249:

Well. I am just going to reiterate what I put on your YT vid, plus some.

First off, you created a situation that was a perfect storm for the Thief to pull this off. If this was actual gameplay in a SPvP match, then you have a lot more to worry about than a Theif doing this combo. What I mean by that is you were just standing there, doing nothing. Not on the point and from what I can tell you were built as a bunker Gaurdian, where you should of been. You weren’t panning your camera, so awareness wasn’t to be had. Also your camera was tight on your character. So to me, this is all a set up. Especially seeing that your combat log was the only thing open in conjunction to all of the above.

With all that being said, that this is a setup. The reason that I am so negative on this is because. You can make any situation look OP or imbalanced. You can make an Assault rifle look OP to a Tank. Let the tank just sit there not moving and unloaded with the flap to the driver open as the person with the assault rifle unloads it into the compartment.

This combo has been around for ages, as one person in this thread has said. To say that Thieves in general aren’t aware of Heartseeker is just hilarious. Why has it been nerfed so many times and so much? (Though as a Thief I do agree with the nerf, it was slightly OP and benefited too much from spamming) It was nerfed because Thieves consistently used it and had tons of outcry. Also to the individual that said Heartseeker was channeling, that ability is an instant. Not a channel, as soon as you hit 2 the animation and damage normaly happens within about .5 secs and under the influence of Haste, it would be .25 secs.

People need to leave their egos at the door in PvP. I know that it is hard to, but that is what separates bad players from great players.

Guess I will end this now, since I don’t want to crash the servers with all this text.

It wasn’t my vid but we was trying to create a tester situation pulled ON a bunker guardian, and if you want to think its “staged” yes… lets put this in a real situation, where somebody is already attacking the guardian with condis ect. maybe even get an ele to updraft guardian so he cant stunbreak it, and thief opens so its 2s of free dps time.

i don’t have any major problem with the damage BUT if you gave every class the ability to do this. would you call it a balanced game? “1 shot fest” just 1 shotting each others inc bunkers.

but as i said only 1 thief is able to pull this off as of now but that’s due to small community.
more players = more skilled players = more complaints of these things

Edit: Can people not post pointless things if they have no experience at current high end tpvp. its pointless hearing peoples opinions who do spvp or wvw since they have never had it happen to them.

Revyri.3487:

This isn’t a new combo at all. It’s also not nearly effective against good players as it looks. You run this in paids and you’ll go against people who can react in half a second to stunbreak out as soon as they are petrified. Don’t need to see the thief to do that.

you know this from experience? there is only 1 thief which does this (wont mention names and he knows who he is) and hes… by far stronger than the rest

oh and your forgetting this is to a semi-bunker guardian…. if it was to any other class, i think its 1 shot within 0.75 seconds. unless you see the thief coming, its almost not preventable. i play/played high end tpvp and trust me.. its not possible know exactly where enemy thief is 24/7 and even if it is, you can only partly survive it WITH a cd which you may not even have.

Fynd.4890:

Kylex.5962:

after the initial opener of C&D/Steal/Backstab majority of people are below 25% hp or dead. so that heartseeker makes it 100%

almost certain that not many thiefs know this..

Pretty sure every thief knows this. If it’s a bad thief that does this combo on you, they will spam Heartseeker forever after the combo is over if you’re still alive because they’ve never failed to kill someone with the opener/heartseeker, so they’ve never had to do anything else after Heartseeker or 1-spam.

Occasionally you’ll meet a good thief and they’ll only heartseeker twice after the opener and if that fails, they’ll switch to shortbow to finish things with a cluster bomb or trick shot spam.

are you watching the same vid as above? the HS is channeling during the C&D/steal/backstab… if he was to spam heartseeker after the “normal combo” it would be 1 second delayed or so

Harrier.9380:

This combo has been around forever, here just with added haste and macroed (grounds for ban btw, get on it mods). The only thing Anet did about it over last 4 months was slightly nerfing CnD damage.

Anyone still surprised PvP community is abandoning this game like a sinking ship?

you dont know the difference then i see.

EVERY thief does the cloak and dagger/steal/backstab.. but adding an extra heart seeker at the end INSTANTLY after backstab is so much of a better combo. its like been able to hit backstab twice lol..

after the initial opener of C&D/Steal/Backstab majority of people are below 25% hp or dead. so that heartseeker makes it 100%

almost certain that not many thiefs know this..

Well not looking to start flame wars here or anything.
not gonna talk about macros (all macros do here is make sure this combo is 100% but it is possible without)

C&D/Steal/BS/HS all at same time + stealth clipped so enemy unable to see you. then follow up with auto attacks or double HS.

this is done vs a guardian/semi bunker so you can imagine the dps vs another class

as far as Im aware only 3-4 thief’s know this.

just want peoples thoughts on the vid

EDIT: This was setup to show the thief combo. its simple to do in an actual game but as i said, only a few thief’s do it atm and its not guaranteed to crit. BUT the main fact is. it still can 1 shot a guardian (or any class)

exacly right ^^^ rename your game anet – build wars 2

Aldizi.5671:

Thoughts on this patch…
I Think its a step in a positive direction changing amulets and weapons and class based on what your about to be up agaisty is kitten Im not even going to explain why your just dumb if you dont see it. Now people might think about useing other traits and elite skills vs manipulating the system.

Im a ranger trust me i miss switching to gs and flying across the map but it had to be done.

team with the strongest build wins, you cant adapt to situations during mid game. thats what your saying right?

Tribant.8127:

Suprised this wasnt always implemented. Wasnt that the whole idea with the 1 hotbar? If they wanted us to use every skill on a whim why wouldnt they have just gone down the path of every other mmo and given us 6 hotbars?

They promoted the idea of carefully picking your weapons and utilities before a fight. I dont see why anyone is shocked by this change (which is for the better imo)

its good but its not in the same way.. now this game should be caulled “build wars 2”
since the strongest build comp will win. if one counters the other. no matter how good you are now you will lose since you cant adapt to the situation

BlueprintLFE.2358:

Kylex.5962:

I agree and support this thread.
I can understand the points of taking utility switch away, but cmon anet…? weapon/amulet swap also?
your slowly making your game require no brain at all to play. nothing much to say on the matter as you guys do whatever you feel is best anyway (personally i see/saw nobody complaining about this but you ninja nerf it anyway)

Utilities NEED to be able to be swapped, that’s why they are called Utilities!! Skills used to adapt to a situation…

personally i think this is all down to people swapping to rez signet whilst engaging a fight. if that was the case, they should have just nerfed the signets

I agree and support this thread.
I can understand the points of taking utility switch away, but cmon anet…? weapon/amulet swap also?
your slowly making your game require no brain at all to play. nothing much to say on the matter as you guys do whatever you feel is best anyway (personally i see/saw nobody complaining about this but you ninja nerf it anyway)

Tyler Bearce.3427:

This was supposed to go out with the Wintersday patch, but part of it went out a little early when the patch was delayed.

It is intended that you can’t swap to new weapons, skills and traits during tournament matches.

nice to see your making this game require even LESS skill. please dont make it any worse.. these updates are shocking… you buffed pointless things? underwater skills?

Personally a big problem of mine was rez signets, and they didnt get touched…
if anything, you made it easier for these bunker teams to rez, since you left the signets the way they are, and its easier to rez due to 85% health.

another terrible meta for another month.. roll on january…

EDIT: if you didnt like the changing utilities.. change that.. not the weapon/amulet switching.. thats such a stupid change lol

engaging different situations is alot down to reactions/brain(analysing the fight quick before you open)
if they make it like this, they’ve reduced the skill even LESS to play guild wars, how will top players be top lol?