Well you could get some rampagers armour from orr and stick some cheap krait runes in it. That will probably do a decent job whilst you work on getting Vipers stuff.
After an internal review, we’ve decided that awarding points for achievements that are this exclusive goes against the intent and spirit of our achievement system. We’ll be removing the points on these in a future release.
Yet timegated and historic AP that no new player can ever achieve is fine?
Your hypocrisy is hilarious ANet.
Strip the AP farmers of ALL AP that new players cannot also achieve, as surely that would “be in the spirit of our achievement system” too.
Pressing one button? you mean dodnge. Sure, dodge into the traps. you’ll cacnel the initial damage. but if you cross the threshold of one of them after it’s activated you’ll take 3k damage, another one continually deals damage., yet another one traps you inside it, and any other trap. So sure, one button negates everything.
/sarcasm
Such BS excuses for a horribly designed spec. Look, you like DH. Fine. but at least have the good sense to realize when it is stupidly overpowered in spvp, which is what Anet balances for suposedly
The irony overload. Complaints about cheapness from someone who recently stated:
If nothing else. thief is very fun, but it’s not fun because of power. it’s fun because of the sense of accomplishment when you gank someone
Who also takes pride in playing condi theif… Maybe your vendetta is based on the fact that DH counters you pretty hard, rather than some noble quest for balance.
Maybe go back to warrior? They still wreck face with their ludicrous sustain.
Massive increase in circlejerk DH hatred posting in the PVP sub forum this week. Hilarious stuff. You lot are obviously a grand job of ruining lives. Keep it up!
Ele mainers now confirmed as the most obnoxious and entitled children in the game.
You’ve only been the top in all areas of this game since beta. So almost 2 years now. You’re now having to deal with being not untouchable. Poor you. My heart bleeds.
Agree with him completely. Ok changes but nothing stellar.
Reinforces the medi build as the best option.
Ignores the broken/useless traits and utilities.
Mobility and sustain still underwhelming.
Aegis and Retaliation still need work.
You can block a mesmer GS ranged attack.. but you cant reflect it – because its not a projectile. Its certainly not an unblockable attack.
When the thread title talks about Guardian skills that suffer from Reflection, it should be apparent that the only skills that would be talked about were indeed projectiles. To assume anything else is just pedantry at best. Making Guardian projectiles blockable but non-reflectable would be to make them not projectiles.
I suspect that you have not understood what I initially wrote.
1) I suggest we turn all guardian projectiles into the same sort of attacks as GS mesmer – so they CAN NOT BE REFLECTED – but can still be blocked. It wasnt a completely serious suggestion, but whatever.
2) You state that reflectable and blockable are the same, and talk about unblockable.. I never mentioned anything to do with unblockable. mfw
3) I state that they obviously ARE NOT THE SAME as Mesmer Greatsword attacks can be blocked – but you CAN NOT REFLECT THEM BACK. It’s the same with Guardian Staff autos.
4) You then accuse me of pendatry – when I’m just responding to your incorrect information. Pretty rude.
Id turn every single Guardian projectile into light based (much like mesmer GS is – why is that btw?) . So that guardian is the counter to this kittened reflect creep. Even DH longbow skills.
Theyd still be blockable ofc.
Maybe its good that I’m not a balance dev.
Reflectable and blockable are the same designation. Unblockable goes through block, reflect, and even absorb.
You can block a mesmer GS ranged attack.. but you cant reflect it – because its not a projectile. Its certainly not an unblockable attack.
Id turn every single Guardian projectile into light based (much like mesmer GS is – why is that btw?) . So that guardian is the counter to this kittened reflect creep. Even DH longbow skills.
One thing Anet does have a HELL of a lot of is metrics.
So by the end of the season they have a very clear indication of who’s generating the most success and who’s not.
Well.. Lies, kitten ed lies, and statistics.
There needs to be AT LEAST two dedicated devs, that ONLY do player proffession balance.
They dont get moved to system balance, NPC skill design, New content etc etc.
Day in. Day out. They will read prof forums. They will play ranked PVP matches. They will play in raids. They will talk to players. They will work on profession balance. They will focus on one profession a week. They will eat / sleep and breath professions.
That’s what I’d like to see.
Would be nice to see an ANet youtube video where they follow Karl/Roy/Josh around for a day to see just exactly what it is the average balance dev is doing from 9 to 5. Given how minimal the work is that we see each patch directed at substantial profession changes/fixes, I guess they just arent focussed enough solely on proffessions. And they really really need to be. Its something Anet needs to make allowances for.
Nice to see a dev name appear. I guess it brings some small hope that Guardian might have an examination in terms of :
1) mobility
2) sustain
3) team support
4) meditation builds being the only viable option
5) the prevelence of passive projectile reflects
6) only having a single condi type
Fairly similar layout of attacks on these weps from these two different classes…
Autoattack chain, whirl, leap, then two supporting attacks.
Scrapper gets 4 stacks of might for 8 seconds AND 4 stacks of vuln for the autochain.
Guard gets 1 might stack for 5 seconds.
Both do the same base damage over the 3 hits.
ANet: What’s the balance rationale behind these sort of design inconsistancies please? Does guardian make up for it elsewhere? If so can someone point me where?
This guy seems to have a handle on some of the laughably poorly thought out Guardian traits. His wep one was hilariously on point too, but was a bit ranty.
Pretty much agree with everything he says. If I could buy him a beer I would.
Shame he cant post here as Anet has apparently banned him – not that it would change anything as this balance team has a terrible track record with regards to open dialogue discussions on profession design. Invisible for 99% of the year, only appearing briefly before expansions, then swiftly vanishing again. Meh.
Rifle was sheet enough to begin with. Taking stuff away seems like just rubbing salt in the wound.
Baseline piercing killshot/gunflame + Volley… yeah, given more than taken away.
Well, its better for those who didn’t have the trait, but for those that do, they lose out.
Exactly. That extra adren isnt really much. Never found adren building an issue with the rifle build I was using. Not being able to pierce on all my rifle attacks is however.
Makes me not want to play DH now… purely because with all the vitriol and hate aimed towards it it’s going to get nerfed. Hard.
I don’t want to get used to something that is so fun to play only to have it utterly destroyed by Anets heavy handed “cater to the whiners” balance policy – see historic patches involving Warrior, Ranger, etc
This will be nerfed btw (lingering lights that is). If I was Anet I’d be slapping a larger ICD on it ready for the next hot fix patch. The amount rtrdation and toxicity its generating is hilarious.
Rampage as one, Stability Signet, L2P stop defending what is op when you’re too low skill level to talk anyways. Sigh.
And please stop talking if you’re a low skill loser with no competitive play presence anyways. What kind of fail Ele loses to shoutbow? Exactly, learn your place.
Wow look how obnoxious you are. It’s sad.
So that Druid build gives 20secs of stability for every minute. What exactly are you and your teammates doing during the other 40secs?
And those stab sources have to run pre-emptively, as neither is a stunbreak, and both have a telegraphed cast time.
Again, where’s your burst/cc coordination Mr MLGPro? where is your boon removal?
bunker guardian is already very tanky but still can be kill i have no complain bunker have it place in conquest pvp. But for druid to take on 3-4 person on a point is something seriously wrong. Please look into it
Bring some CC… unlike Guardians Druid don’t have good access to stability.
