Guild Wars 2

I rebember how everyone thought that enhanced bulwark is a trash trait and now its basically meta.. Till we dont get proper stunbreaks across the board and access to real stab ability (road go kitten yourself) they better stay away from my precious trait.

At one point im not sure if Mallyx should get stunbreak tho. People may scream that he has no counterplay. I wonder if there are any plans to rework him at all.

I rebember that times where sword thief could teleport out from any form of cc whatsoever so no.

You gotta be lucky as f without premade. I managed to get first tier somehow.. Not sure if i have patience to continue tho

Aomine.5012:

XxsdgxX.8109:

AoE of 15 people? I kittening lold, cant expect me to take this people serious

That’s why people of the forum can’t be taken seriously when talking about balance.
They don’t even know their own class.

Go use CoR on the dummy golems section (the section with lots of golems standing together in the mist) and see how many you can hit.
Each pulses count the 5 target-cap differently, so max is 15 targets.

Yeah so all 3 pulses can hit up to 15. Now tell me how hard it is to nuke hammer rev which is in your face? To archieve damage they speak about you gotta be pure zerk.. pure zerk that will explode in melee. Its unrealistic really.

I start to wonder how many will actually manage to get up to legendary..most likely we will be able to count them on fingers. SoloQ peeps will never reach it in current state.

SchmendrickTheMagician.8247:

According to his stream he “removed his video/rant bc he meant it to be constructive criticisms for the devs, but ppl were turning it into a hate on anet thread.”

Yeah, sure thing…hahah

Quite obvious that he was forced to remove the vid.

Tears are real.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/3v4x4h/coalescence_of_ruin_is_sending_destructive/

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/wuv/Groundhog-Colin-gives-us-another-3-months/first#post5819210

Meanwhile..

“Channel legendary powers to slaughter foes and unleash chaos on the battlefield with our brand new profession: the revenant. Enter the field of battle heavily armored and equipped with the otherworldly powers of the Mists.”

Its just me or it looks like it working as intended?

Tim.7689:

Burtnik.5218:

Tim.7689:

Burtnik.5218:

Tim.7689:

See signature, because really..

What my signature has anything to do with it?

And this shows how much your 2 copper is worth…

And this show some fresh acc..Want to duel and solve it out? Im waiting. EU?

“Napoleon complex” is a term describing a theoretical psychological condition occurring in people of short stature. It is characterized by overly-aggressive or domineering social behavior, and carries the implication that such behavior is compensatory for the subject’s stature.

You may also find this interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_complex

Im not short so sorry..you missed

Tim.7689:

Burtnik.5218:

Tim.7689:

See signature, because really..

What my signature has anything to do with it?

And this shows how much your 2 copper is worth…

And this show some fresh acc..Want to duel and solve it out? Im waiting. EU?

Why i lose 2 pips for failed game vs premade? Done with this bullkitten. kitten your leagues for 2 coppers.

Pregnantman.8259:

People defending this skill, please get real. We are talking about a skill that has comparable damage to killshot or even gunflame, that can’t be reflected, hits up to 15 people, needs minimum skill or prep to be successful and is pretty much spammable. We have too much of these KO skills with low risk already in game. I am not in favor though to nerf this skill to thief level skills, but it would be best to bring all hammer skills in a balanced line for a better flavor weapon instead of a one trick pony.

And how you will compensate hammer nerfs? Are we going to be like..yeah lets raise cd up to 10 seconds, no futher changes needed. Tada bye?

Scarlet did it.

League system is trash. No soloq is a utter trash. “Balance” where everyone and their mom use passive to knock you over, immobilize all day long and so on is trash. This game takes no skill anymore, its all about builds now. Everything is just about spamming. Hope to see better game soon as AN simply failed leagues and the “ls3” xpac as a whole

Except in spvp this skill is not a problem at all. If hammer get any nerf without buffs in other areas then it will become a dead weapon.

How often do you run into sword/x (usually shield as offhand sword sux)+hammer and how often with staff?

They always post on reddit instead of their official forum for kitten know what reason.

It seems to be the olny last hit on aa. Added to bug list

Rain.9213:

Is Eye for an Eye supposed to be undodgeable? Because whenever I use Surge of the Mists against another Revenant. It interrupts the skill and taunts me :S If not, then I believe that is a bug.

I think it is. Mesmer mirrow works the same way i believe

Warriors deleted from the game. Were back to 8 profession hehe

“We strongly believe that regular balance updates are one of the key pillars of building a successful competitive game. As such, prior to each season, there will be a balance update. League play will generally begin about two weeks after a balance update to ensure that the metagame has stabilized in an appropriate manner. Balance will be closely monitored throughout the season with the goal of having solid balance going into the postseason tournaments.”

Had to really.

Match premade vs premade olny.

Tontonino.9736:

“We strongly believe that regular balance updates are one of the key pillars of building a successful competitive game. As such, prior to each season, there will be a balance update. League play will generally begin about two weeks after a balance update to ensure that the metagame has stabilized in an appropriate manner. Balance will be closely monitored throughout the season with the goal of having solid balance going into the postseason tournaments.”

AN response

For afking/griefing.

^CoR is blockable.

I sometimes wonder if its problem with the devs balancing the game or someone above them or AN themself? I know olny one thing..someone should be fired as they doesnt do their job properly. Thats all.

But hey, now at least we can ping vial of salt. “im have no words”

Im glad its yet another set of skins to gemstore while HoT released.. basically nothing.
I like mace, rest is fugly btw.

Updated the list and made it more clean. I really dont understand how shacking wave and chaotic release can miss on uneven terrain while maul has no such issues.

Hooglese.4860:

Can we get a way to get Rym and Roy in the same room? He needs to read these

Not really. He would nerf everything except his precious Mallyx. On top of that his suggestion makes no sense. You cant use riposting shadow in Mallyx.

DanAlcedo.3281:

Burtnik.5218:

DanAlcedo.3281:

Soo…
The skill that REALLY! needs a nerf ( in wvw)
gets a Bug Fix what is in reality a buff?

wow gg anet

I could write a book about what need to be nerfed for wvw ya know? This game is not and will never be balanced around wvw. If you arent happy with that you can always quit and give me stuff ;o

Öhhh… what? there are thing that are good , things that are very good and there are thing that are op beyond good and evil .

Revenant Hammer 2 is exactly this in wvw. 14k aoe dmg on 1200 range with 2 sec cd on an melee warrior? even with a 20 sec cd this skill would be to good Oo

Then focus revenant and he will drop in a second? If hammer 2 so op why not everyone playing with revs yet? Why wvw is not full of revs really? Hammer does what it is supposed to do, punish those that are far away trying to kite. Maybe its time to stop range and actually go melee? Your choice really. Some peeps are too used to pirate meta.. pewpew pewpew. Well no more.

DanAlcedo.3281:

Soo…
The skill that REALLY! needs a nerf ( in wvw)
gets a Bug Fix what is in reality a buff?

wow gg anet

I could write a book about what need to be nerfed for wvw ya know? This game is not and will never be balanced around wvw. If you arent happy with that you can always quit and give me stuff ;o

Always something. Gotta update and rework my bug list now. Add new ugs in that i dindt listened yet etc.

But still..staff 4 unfixed, shacking wave and chaotic release missing on uneven terrain like stairs while maul hits just fine..what they doing there?

Ignoring his tests the fact it that sinister engi has highest dps otput ingame boosted futher with viper. Thats ofc a pve thing but still.

Maybe just get rid of downed mechanic all together. Its quite unbalanced and someone shouldnt really have a second chance if he failed and died like scrub

No Pulse.2967:

Burtnik.5218:

Demented Yak.6105:

I also run invocation/retribution/herald. Honestly, you can get very decent dps without devastation.

I feel like devastation is pretty useless atm. It offers some sustain, aoe fero boost but damage wise invocation is better with 100% fury uptime by miles due to critting every single hit. Not to mention minor cleanse on swap, stunbreak and the little healing for skill usage.

Devastation is extremely strong when combined with invocation on hammer builds.

Malicious Reprisal goes hand in hand with Cruel Repercussion and allows you to hit CoR against X seconds lasting blocks. You get another 7% damage modifier against targets with vulnerability (chance to cause vuln on crit) and 20% more damage against targets under 50% health.

It doesn’t really go well with Mallyx (which is too dependant on stab/dodge for survivability), but works pretty well with a Glint/Shiro setup.

That means pure glass with no herald as power rev doesnt fuction without Glint. If we talk about x/retri/herald build then invocation is superior to devastation.

Demented Yak.6105:

I also run invocation/retribution/herald. Honestly, you can get very decent dps without devastation.

I feel like devastation is pretty useless atm. It offers some sustain, aoe fero boost but damage wise invocation is better with 100% fury uptime by miles due to critting every single hit. Not to mention minor cleanse on swap, stunbreak and the little healing for skill usage.

How about we nerf Mallyx instead? Banish enh reduced to 1 boon removal, confusion reduced to 2 and lower condi duration on Mallyx utilities in general. Shiro is fine and was already nerfed. Futher nerfs will destroy him.

“Before every competition season, there will be a balance patch. There is a delay of 2 weeks before the PvP season starts. The season will last for 8 weeks. There are plans for 3 seasons per year.”

http://dulfy.net/2015/09/25/gw2-twitchcon-pvp-leagues-info/

Well played AN, well played. Rip balance cadence that we never got a chance to meet. Also no soloq so i will be farmed over and over like a scrub by premades. #esport

The V.8759:

maybe chrono are in a good place balancewise (

Chrono bunkering in berserker is far from balanced.

In general i think condi could use a rework. First lower it base dmg output and allow conditions to crit. That will force them to run precision. Second is to decrease condition duration across the board to force them to use expertise if they want to keep good condi dmg.

Result? If you olny stack condi dmg you will hit like wet noodle aka soldier. A viper in this case will have a good dps output while settler wont be able to kill a kitten. They have to choose just like power builds. Either dps or survival, not both. If thats is too hard then rework power so we can also go dealing insane damage while wearing cleric. Thats the olny fair way really.

SoulstitchMMO.1396:

God you people are sad. Mallyx is only bad in some ridiculous theorycrafting. In practice he’s amazing. Start playing Mallyx on a regular basis and you’ll how amazing the Legend is.

What use elite for Mallyx has, other than triggering trait? Whats the point of holding conditions on yourself as well? For now all i see is banish spam and vs condi classes pain spam. Either way just a spam on a legend and traitline that doesnt know what they want to do.

I run invocation/retribution/herald atm. Perma crits are far better than rng+some dps increase. We play with retribution due to the weakness trait and stab on dodge mostly. Apply weakness to power rev without this trait and its basically gg as all you will see is glacial hit glacial hit all day long

“Revenant will be in a much better spot” aka nerfed into ground so you can have freebags? Thats briliant idea, +1

While were at it why you dindt mentioned the crappy healing skill? That one is fine obviously..

SoulstitchMMO.1396:

I’m just so happy be watching people figure out Mallyx like I did awhile ago. Watching EU Condi Revs dominate, just validates everything and why no one is taking all the crying about Mallyx Seriously.

I dont see them dominating anything honestly, not me nor my hammer for sure. My dd and dh eats them alive as well. Also take off Shiro and lets see how it goes

NayNay.7680:

Kayberz.5346:

Lol how is heralds shield the most flashy elite spec weapon?

It’s literally a giant glowing dragon wing with sparkles coming off of it..
It goes great with the Revenants exclusive armor set…

Why do the other classes not have an exclusive armor set?

Too bad warriors and guardians can wear it aka fake revs that failed at the profession yet want to look cool /shrug

Im up for adding exclusive set for each class tho, but they all should be locked just for that x class

The argument about vit being a counter to condi damage would hold true olny if vit decreased duration/condi dmg. But it doesnt. Going by this logic anything with high vit should be doing fine vs condi builds.
Meanwhile devs decided to NOT add dire amulet to spvp – i wonder why?

Thats all. Nice one Rym

Funny enough is that some started complain about it in spvp too. It made my day and looking forward to such amazing chatters in leagues <3

Instead of focusing me on mid they just let me spam 2 over and over which devastated their whole team.

In case of the mystical op hammer 2 build i beleive thats the one
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vlAQNAS8sn3guNSuQ7JRboVlsP0rS4IaWJ4EdskFNFiNMnpNtFIANwugJshA-T1RBABXt/o8r8jAAe6Ay7CAAwDAgS1fMTJIpAiYqF-w

Not sure why they would nerf “key abilities” when the problem is Herald. Base rev suck cojones so hard that i could write a book about it. What is problematic in Glint is that you can get both might stacking and shield trait. If they put them in the same tier it should fix most of these issues ppl complain about. Either higher survival at the cost of lower dps output or higher dps with lower survival.

Leave my bulwark alone.

Thats a good reason to wear dual sword, just sayin

Nocta.5274:

Burtnik.5218:

Shadelang.3012:

XxsdgxX.8109:

Stability on Mallyx? Lmao this people are a joke

Oh comeon. Its obvious hes talking about the build by the same name. Its not hard to figure that out. Spend 20 seconds thinking about what he could mean before switching to ridicule mode.

The current meta revenant build is refered to often as the Malyx Revenant. As its the most common legend used. There are different variations of this build but all of them have malyx as a stable to it. Its just a name in this case. Hes not saying hte stab is COMING from the malyx line.

Meta is Shiro/Glint.

Glint / Shiro is actually fading away for the Malyx builds right now.
Malyx gets more boon strip than a signet necro, they have a NO CD 2 boons strip, and are highly effective at staying alive against conditions which is usually revenant’s weakness.

They have really good hybrid damage too.

The build is kind of a reaction to thief going out of the meta + Mesmers going bunkers builds, allowing Rev to play some kind of super powerful offence build with Viper Amulet without the threat of being bursted down by power roamers.

I think nerfing the boon strip utility to 1 per use ( like the Thief S/D 3 nerf ) and the highly probable thief buff will help solve this build out. They just get destroyed by Thief burst.

Power rev can still burst the kitten out of viper rev without any issues. And so many builds that wasnt played in PL like dh oneshooting them with traps etc. I see people trying it out but they just die like some upscaled dudes in wvw. Its a build that has to be carried by team while Shiro/Glint can fight well on it own. I would dare to say that even skullcrack warrior will wreck them if they land one well timed cc unless they run double stab on dodge.