Guild Wars 2

The whole Vermillion vs Abjured series was really good overall IMO.

Well IMO Revenant could use a few nerfs, specifically Shiro’s Phase Traversal and Riposting Shadows, they are just to good and offer too much mobility.

As for Guardians, Thieves, and Warriors, they could all use some minor buffs, but I would REALLY like to see the buffs occur on the 5 core trait lines, and no more buffs to any Elite Spec Traits.

Lets try changing 1 Trait in every non-elite Trait Line:

Strength Line
Restorative Strength: Grants 3 seconds of regeneration, 3 seconds of protection, and 5 stacks of might for 6 seconds.

Arms Line
Burst Precision: Burst skills have 100% crit chance, are unblockable, and immune to blind.

Defense Line
Thick Skin: If you are above 50% health, gain 240 toughness.

Tactics Line
Burning Arrows: Dual shot causes 2 seconds of burning (per shot) and longbow skills recharge 20% faster.

Discipline Line
Destruction of the Empowered: Deal 4% bonus damage per boon on your target.

A few tiny steps forward.

If someone DCing meant you lost no pips, it would be abused and people would just DC if they are not winning to save their pip count.

Rezzet.3614:

2000-30%= 1400
Poison = DoT+30-33% healing reduction
2000-1400=600
600/2000=0.3
0.3×100=30%
seems like working as intended

This. If your ally has poison he will heal for less. Math checks out. /thread

Supreme.3164:

It’s a no brainer really…

Broken Tier need BIG nerfs asap
-Reaper
-Scrapper

Competitive
-Druid
-Revenant
-DareDevil

Normal
-Tempest
-Chronomancer
-DragonHunter

Useless
-Warrior/Berseker

Now this is a solid list.
/agree.
+1

I see a lot of negative posts on the forums, but I think overall things went good. The patch added some things, fixed some things, and balanced some things. I give it a solid B+ so far.

The only big concern I have is with sPvP, specifically balance issues with Warrior. I honestly feel warrior is in a very tough spot in sPvP, especially if you don’t have HoT for the elite spec. Please look at addressing warrior balance as the weeks and months go by

I don’t think we are in any meta yet, its been 1 day. As for what is popular, sure some condi builds seem to be doing well, but there are power builds doing good also.

Lets wait a week or two and see how things settle before we start the meta complaining. Keep experimenting and trying new things.

Legit, +1 to you sir

Looks like its working to me… They only gave it a small increase.

This nerf combined with all the new boon stripping on Necro = bad news for warriors

Eval.2371:

Wow this is sad to watch.

Necro without plague signet
Random dodges
Does not even use staff to transfer condi’s
Misses almost every single skill
Complains about bleeding on necro

Pretty much this.

Don’t get me wrong, I love watching Leeto’s stream, he is very entertaining sometimes

Chaith.8256:

Here’s whatdo,

When the patch hits, pick up a new rune such as Rune of the Scrapper, Melandru, or Dwayna, or Grove.

Pick up the new Paladin Amulet,

Run Chronophantasma (resummon Phantasms when shattered) over Seize the Moment (quickness on shatter). Play around with various utilities & Inspiration Grandmaster trait combinations to find what you like.

You won’t be able to revive against multiple enemies alone, but the build will absolutely be strong and alive in the Emerald division which you are in, guaranteed, if it’s what you like doing (to each their own).

I’m sure Bunker Mesmer will no longer be the most needed, and strongest PvP build in the game anymore, but many PvP teams will still be testing its viability.

So please do the GW2 forums a solid and wait until you play the updated build before creating anymore threads on the topic.

Chaith being spot on, +1.

“we’re all unhappy at the changes to Alacrity” – Actually I am happy about the changes to Alacrity. Not everyone sees things the same way as you.

Or ANet can just remove it…

Aktium.9506:

Nova Stiker.8396:

To match Alacity? Lets be honest, no one will be able to 1v1 a Reaper as long as ALL of their skills take over twice as long to recharge at all times.

Sure, if you make it an uncleansable effect instead of a condition to match Alacrity being an unstrippable effect and not a boon.

/ End thread.
OP fail.

Good, I cant stand how stupid OP Revenant is ATM.

I will take a nuke meta over a Bunker meta.
I will take a nuke meta over a Condi meta.
I will take a nuke meta over a AI (turret engi, spirit ranger) meta.

Good, I hope Ele has no place in the next meta. How long has Ele dominated PvP in this game?

Every time I tune in to Phanta’s stream, he is complaining about ele, he is incredibly biased. Well tough kitten, Ele is on the way out after 2 years of being on the top. Deal with it.

Look, Helseth mains Mesmer. His rantings IMO are just a transparent ploy to protect his beloved, nothing more.

Bunker Mesmer is studiply OP right now in PvP, nerf it into oblivion.

Well these are not all the changes. So keeping that in mind, and thinking about how most things except warrior and thief are getting nerfed, I feel like this could give warriors a build that gets into the meta. Lets just hope it wont be cancer like the old ham-bow build was…

Honestly, the more I think about all these changes the more I love them.

Good riddance to Celestial Amulet, it will not be missed by me.

No thanks on the 2v2 / 3v3 arenas.

IMO it will split up an already small player base, and not bring in a “massive influx” of new players. ANET, please continue making what you have better, TY.

I think everything looks 100% awesome.
I like how much these changes will alter the META, and gets rid of celestial amulet.
+1, I love it.

Very nice document.

Everything seems pretty well thought and out and a solid idea, with the exception of burst precision ignoring all boons. I think that would be bad because it would ignore stability.

Overall, good post, +1 to you sir.

The bunker meta certainly doesn’t help

http://pro.eslgaming.com/gw2/proleague/schedule/

The finals are in February, so I dont expect a balance patch until March.

I really like the Brawlers Recovery idea.
1 sec of resistance would be nice against blind spam.

I don’t think there will be. Hopefully I am wrong.
I expect the next balance patch to be late March / early April 2016.

Nope, I think it was a small buff overall.
I use Headbutt or Fury Sig to fill the Adren Bar.

Sorry OP, I 100% disagree.

This rapid change and balance is exactly what the game needs, some stuff is OP and needs the nerf hammer.

Axe Off Hand redesign:

4) 360 radius 360 range AOE attack that does the same amount of damage as an Axe MH attack chain, .5 second cast time, IMMUNE to Blind, 12s cooldown.

5) Single target attack, low damage, BUT if it hits a downed opponent they die. Has a 1 sec cast time, 20s cooldown.

Vapour’s stats highlight the problem well. I cannot think of any reason to play a warrior / berserker right now, with how powerful other elite specs are in comparison.

I have the exact same issue.

On the plus side, I gotta get to Legendary crafting, so its bye bye jungle for a week

I agree with Hiemskarl, I would love to see a mid range spear with stances, like a tribal or primitive ranger.

Well I play solo warrior, so I find GSword + LBow gets me the most bang for my buck. I got mobility, might generation, solid melee damage, and a long range option.

Running melee only would be rough, a lot of the new enimies have CC, but I suppose if you are amazing at dodging it could work.

Agree with the OP, don’t give in to the “nerf it” crowd, its fine as is.

Lol, nice over dramatic title and terrible wall of text post. 0 / 10.

Sorry to hear what happened.

For me, I play every profession, I try not to get hung up on ‘sticking’ with a main. So I can adapt and have fun in all 3 game modes

Well after seeing what Scrapper and Chronomancer can do…

Josh Davis.6015:

Hmmm, new amulets. Aside from zealots, anything else you folks think would be interesting?

Trapper runes would be awesome in sPvP

No, its still OP, most teams still run 2 D/D Cele Eles.

It wont matter in a week though, Chronomancer, Scrapper, and Herald from the last BWE all seemed to have builds that were even more powerful than D/D Cele Ele.

Solid post Tipper, I tip my fedora to you good sir.

A big improvement over the last beta, good work.

Here are a few things I would like to see change:

1) The 15 sec ICD on berserker form is too long. I think it should be reduced to 10 or even 5 seconds, it is just too long.

2) Rupturing Smash (the Hammer primal burst) is really bad, needs a buff. More damage or more immob.

3) Sundering Leap and Wild Blow need to have a cast time reduction, and possibly some animation changes. They feel really clunky.

4) Please, PLEASE, consider making Fast Hands baseline for Warrior. Several threads on the topic have been made over the last month, so I wont go into detail here.

Jackalrat.5493:

Here’s my rank after playing all weekend:

Definitely OP:
Chronomancer

Possibly OP:
Scrapper

Strong:
Reaper, Herald, Druid

Balanced:
Daredevil, Berserker, Tempest

Needs Love:
Dragon Hunter

Edit: Moved Tempest up. I agree with that notion.

100% agree with this. Chronomancer, and probably Scrapper, are too strong in sPvP.

He has been casting CS for months. And good on him, he gets payed for it.

Horrible and inaccurate tier list that is a poorly disguised ‘i think thieves are UP’ balance whine.

Evan Lesh.3295:

Nike.2631:

Evan Lesh.3295:

Clarification: Professions have their own MMR tracked, but it is not currently used in matchmaking because players can switch professions after a match is made.

So a loophole is disabling a powerful tool to generate good matches?

I’d, uh, kinda close the loophole…

The problem with doing this is that players can no longer switch to a more effective profession once they see the enemy team’s roster which happens quite often.

Evan, PLEASE do not disable profession swapping.

Meta battle speaks the truth. D/D cele cantrip Ele is so OP it gets its own tier.

- Fast hands baseline.
- Make Mending a Physical Skill.