Hello everyone, I’m here to shed some light on the current status of my home server Eredon Terrace. Over the last 2-3 months ET has experienced a mass exodus. All large and small guilds have xfered elsewhere or gone completely dormant. There is only 1 guild active in WvW that I’m aware of… My guild of 5 roamers [Dust] The Adversaries. We’ve been on ET since launch and regardless of all the ups and downs this server has had, all the people that have come and gone, we’re still here. Since my guild is a die hard small roaming group we never had a primary leadership role during the life of the server, until now… when we’re the last ones here. I understand the climate of NA WvW servers is steadily declining but if any one is out looking for a server to make their own, ET is no doubt the best place to do it. I have no shame in sharing how dire ET’s situation is. The server website nearly went dark; it was 1 day away from expiring before an “anonymous” donor saved it for 30 more days. The server teamspeak never has more than 4 people at a time (my guildies) and is nearing expiration as well. Any admin role is available to fill for those who would want it. For now my 5 misfits and I will ride this one out. ET 4 LIFE and heres to keeping WvW alive!
Obtaining hero points and playing the new story don’t coincide. To obtain hero points in the new jungle maps, you have take 15-20min of your time to locate the hero points only to find out its a champ that you need help with (add more time waiting for additional players). What happens when HoT loses its steam?
As for myself, I spend 90% of my time in WvW. I am currently WvW rank 1,120 with every WvW mastery unlocked. In fact, I have 200+ WvW rank points just sitting there with nothing to spend them on. Apparently all this dedicated time to mastering my skills in WvW doesn’t qualify me for unlocking an elite spec. Day 1 of HoT on my main with 1,800 hrs of gameplay, I have 57 hero points. Might I mention I’m PvP rank 52 as well…
I can think of a couple solutions…
Let us spend spirit shards towards elite spec unlock.
Let us spend WvW mastery points towards elite spec unlock.
Until this all gets sorted out, I’m afraid I don’t have the time for unlocking elite specs nor the interest.
My initial thoughts on daredevil… It felt underwhelming to be honest. I was a little disappointed that I can’t dodge roll inside a shadow refuge when using daredevil grandmasters without revealing myself.
S/D feels similar to what it felt pre-feline grace deletion (June 23rd patch).
Summary: thief is still underwhelming in high level PvP and D/P remains the best weapon set thief has since day 1 of gw2.
I do love the idea of daredevil but it still needs some work. Also, thief needs more weapon viability other than D/P
ArenaNets Balance Team’s intention was to make Acrobatics more skill based by providing vigor on successful evade, which would punish dodge spamming. However the trait line they devised is half baked and full of holes.
What they should have done was change feline grace to only reward its 15 endurance return on successful dodge, and endless stamina should have been an 100% increase for a total of 100% vigor potency This would have fixed the dodge spamming issue without damaging the line irrepairably. Where we had 80% vigor uptime at 100% potency and 15 endurance restored per dodge, we now only have vigor, and while it’s 100% uptime, the potency is only 75% and we no longer gain endurance on dodge.
So for the patch Anet decides to buff Panic Strike D/P by giving it access to SA without losing much damage and nerf Acro S/D by gutting Feline Grace. They improved the already stronger build while nerfing the set that was struggling to be relevant in the meta.
Conspiracy that anet has a love affair with d/p thief, proven by its dominance since forever.
Joking aside though, the way I look at it… Feline Grace wasn’t nerfed. Feline Grace was DELETED. Pre-June 23, S/D thieves had perma vigor with Vigorous Recovery and Bountiful Theft thanks to acrobatics included boon duration. Post-June 23, thieves are sitting at +0% boon duration but we still have perma vigor because anet changed Feline Grace to fill the roll of the lost boon duration. The problem is, the old Feline Grace did something much more important than vigor. It made dodges only cost 35% endurance. With the old Feline Grace deleted, currently dodges cost 50% of endurance. The problem isn’t vigor… the problem is the up front cost of a single dodge.
To the thieves who are arguing the viability of the “new” Feline Grace with the addition of a nourishment… that’s not a solution. If anet were to perform a miracle and restore Feline Grace, we may live to see the days of S/D making it into the meta… imagine that.
For me, the draw to thief is its 1v1 capability. Since that’s mostly gone now, that leaves thieves with +1 ing. The ganking role doesn’t interest me; I want my far point assaulter spec back.
I agree. I dueled a friend of mine who mains zerker ranger (minus signet of stone). Pre-patch i countered him well, Post-patch i have yet to beat him. Now, throw in dmg immunity for 6 sec via signet of stone. With the acro line in shambles, I’m probably going to change mains.
As a S/D thief main for just shy of a year, I couldn’t be more disappointed. The nerf to Feline Grace and the nerf to Vigor boon combined killed S/D power buids. 2sec of vigor from a successful evade with 1sec internal cooldown is absolutely unnoticeable. Feline Grace is in dire need of a buff. If you want to be viable as S/D currently, your forced to run shadow arts so u can sit in stealth and wait for endurance to regen naturally.
I represent The Advesaries [Dust]. Our guild has been on Eredon Terrace since launch; we’ve been around to see ET’s ups and downs. [Dust] was started and remains a guild of 8 real life friends with a common interest in Guild Wars. We spend 90% of our time in WvW as a casual roaming/havoc guild. When [Dust] logs on, we have our fun and keep to ourselves mostly (except when we hang out with [DoD] shoutout) The WvW environment has always been rewarding here and the community is solid. Join ET.
