Guild Wars 2

ensoriki.5789:

Rely on swiftness.

Really… swiftness should be used if you want to move fast. Ride the Lighning: The primary intended use is to move to a target.

Even the skill description says "Ride the lightning to your foe, then strike all nearby foes with an electrical burst. "

and not “move somewhere fast”.

Do they not have “Updraft” which is giving swiftness?
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Updraft

Maybe remove the “blowout” and decrease the cd and increase the swiftness time.

Also ele can just use: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/One_with_Air
if they want to be fast.

If they don’t want it because they need trait points and slots for other traits or they don’t want to stay in air attunement that long than they don’t need to be fast.

The class is called “elementalist” not “marathon runner”.

Edit: Or another idea: Make it so the Ele gets knocked down for a few seconds if using Ride the Lighting without target.

If I want to use engineer Jump Shot it always take a bit more time before I can move again and I tried Ride the Lightining and it seems like you can almost move again without delay which seems a bit too fast.

Rely on swiftness.

RTL’s nerf was a fair and balanced change. You can’t have everything and have it at the same opportunity cost as everyone else.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunity_cost

Ele’s are just going to have to learn to play in a game that’s actually balanced fairly, and not in their favor.

JonathanSharp.7094:

Ya, we’ll have to watch what the changes do to the game. I think that bunkers will still be viable, but I think you’ll see some new counters to them. It’ll be interesting to see what the meta does.

J

I appreciate you giving warriors a chance to have a role in TPvP that makes them an attractive choice to have on a team again.

D/D is getting screwed, it still isn’t screwed enough if you ask me, live with it.

Confusion needed to change. The closer it gets to spvp levels, the better.

This change won’t effect a good Mesmer(Or other classes with access to confusion). It will, however, tone down the one-trick pony confusion builds that are uncatchable.

So, I’m supposed to feel sorry that your one trick build is broken now? Hold on, let me get my violin.

Why should the mesmer class be the only one to stop zergs? Should another class be the only one able to take camps solo? etc etc. Its a needed balance and besides, Mesmers probably excel at more aspects in this game then any other class.

Well, since confusion and retaliation punishes others for taking action. You can expect to see more action or more willingness to take action. I think the change will be fine. I just hope mesmers and engineers have other skills buffed to compensate.

Well it was OP… sorry.

You need to post this in WvW forums, you might actually get a response. The necro downed state bug thread got a response in less then 2 hours when posted on the WvW forums while being ignored for 2-3 weeks and counting on the Necro forums.

Hello. I dont know if this was pointed out before.

In Kylo, some buildings can be hit to generate life force, giving us a great way to generate those 10% we miss at the begining or after a complete wipe.
It works best with:
dagger #1 , if your very close also with staff #1 and 1x bounce of focus #4.

The buildings are the ones, that show hit damage numbers, when hit by treb. It is also
the reason for our random “put into battle-slower run” from locust swarm. So avoid those same buildings if must move fast when under effect of warhorn#5.

The complete outer walls of clock tower (can attack from outside AND inside), the whole roof of clock tower, both houses which u can climb to tower on, the nearby solo house and the comple outer fence/wall at mainsion (since theres a huge mansion house behind it. unfortunately u cant stand on the point and be in range )

AT START OF MATCH, IF U RUN STRAIGHT TO MID, JUST ATACKING THE OUTER WALL ALLONG THE SPIRAL CAN MAKE UP TO 33% LIFE FORCE

If anyone knows other spots, on other maps he can share them.

You are kind of missing the point. The amazing thing about minions (and engi turrets/ranger pets) is that they don’t scale with gear.

This means that you can run a defensive or conditions build while using minions to do your direct damage (when traited for 30% more damage). If minions scaled with gear, their base stats would probably get nerfed to compensate and they’d be 100% useless for condition/defensive builds.

yriafelc.6124:

Makes me smile whenever I see members of “Hold On Guys I Got This” [Nope]

^This, also “Hold Still [f-f-s]” is pretty kitten hilarious

You know… the one that sticks out actually was one in GW1. I think it was this:

She Said She Was 18 [GWEN]

JJBigs.8456:

Not even going to list all the reasons, as the community can for me.

No you’re gonna have to go ahead and do your own work, given that no one agrees with you.

JJBigs.8456:

Not even going to list all the reasons..

You really should

this game is still in beta, just wait for the full release and all the problems will be fixed

Q:

Any reason why custom arenas won’t have the ability to toggle the capture points and downed state off?

zone.1073:

When doing the balance segment, instead of going through every class without specific questions, perhaps it’s better to ask specific class balance questions.

Because I noticed last SotG went like this:

Q: Rangers?

Devs: Oh, blah blah…blah.

Q: Necros?

Devs: Yup, blah blah..

Q: Eles?

Devs: Mmmhm, blah.

This went on for what, 30 minutes? The devs’ responses were not very informative because there were no specific class balance questions. And also, you can make this segment much shorter by going to the core of things and asking specific questions for specific classes.

Also, try to phrase your questions so that it’s not susceptible to “Yes/No” easy-out answers. For example, instead of asking, “Are we going to see changes to Warriors next patch?” (Devs will respond with “Yup” or “Nah”), you could rephrase it like “What do you think needs to be changed for Warriors? What problems does the class have?”

A good indication of whether or not the devs know what they’re doing is to make them state the problem in their own words. Have them tell us what the problem is, and what their solutions are. Also remember to challenge the devs with thought-provoking questions. Don’t let them off the hook easily. They are being paid by the hour, so really exercise their brains with challenging questions.

From the last two SotG, they don’t seem to know what the problem is, so having them state the problems themselves will just lead to more of the same “blah blah blah.” The moderators and invited players should be the ones asking class specific questions such as “With banner buffs doing nothing to help warriors in pvp, what else is going to change with warriors that will make them more viable after the quickness nerf?”

zone.1073:

When doing the balance segment, instead of going through every class without specific questions, perhaps it’s better to ask specific class balance questions.

Because I noticed last SotG went like this:

Q: Rangers?

Devs: Oh, blah blah…blah.

Q: Necros?

Devs: Yup, blah blah..

Q: Eles?

Devs: Mmmhm, blah.

This went on for what, 30 minutes? The devs’ responses were not very informative because there were no specific class balance questions. And also, you can make this segment much shorter by going to the core of things and asking specific questions for specific classes.

Also, try to phrase your questions so that it’s not susceptible to “Yes/No” easy-out answers. For example, instead of asking, “Are we going to see changes to Warriors next patch?” (Devs will respond with “Yup” or “Nah”), you could rephrase it like “What do you think needs to be changed for Warriors? What problems does the class have?”

A good indication of whether or not the devs know what they’re doing is to make them state the problem in their own words. Have them tell us what the problem is, and what their solutions are. Also remember to challenge the devs with thought-provoking questions. Don’t let them off the hook easily. They are being paid by the hour, so really exercise their brains with challenging questions.

This person took media studies. Listen to them.

Hey fellas,

We don’t have a post up about this over on Guru yet, but here’s the details.

Host: Grouch
Date/Time: April 26th, 2013 12PM PST (7PM GMT)
Duration: Around one hour.
Special Guests: ArenaNet Developers Jonathan Sharp and Karl McLain
Players Participating: Symbolic (Team Paradigm EU), Phantaram (Team Paradigm EU), Caed (NA)
Where: You can find us at twitch.tv/guildwars2guru

We’ll have some shownotes available for you guys sometime prior to the show, but expect discussion regarding upcoming changes in the April patch.

If you have any questions/comments let me know about it below.