Good job! you nerf our endurance regen then might as well remove stealth skills from thieves!! Now I can’t be a glass cannon kiter anymore XD
Funny you should mention that.
Thieves are going to eat one of the biggest stealth nerfs they’ve ever had with this coming patch, in addition to endurance regen nerfs.
With it, they’ll still be one of the most dodgiest characters in the game, and they’ll still be able to spam stealth moreso then any other.
Further, they’re going to regen initiative much faster then they do now, so, they’ll be able to spam even moar Backstab and Heartseeker on you. 
If anything, you’ll be able to do exactly what you’re doing now, even better if you’re using the longbow for it.
Which is gonna be buffed some more to be used against thieves who won’t be able permastealth and permadodge like they can now.
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Mesmer and guardian didnt get nerfs to endurance/vigor regeneration. But yea, it’s not a death of anything because we have to go 30 into WS anyway for any condition removal (still, no active removal anet? really?) so now it’s just ‘kind of a trait that is there’ as opposed to a benefit to the build.
I would have really liked to have seen like 2 conditions removed attached to heal as one, considering that heal barely gets any play at all.
Mesmer and guardian barely have access to it at all, that hasn’t changed any for them.
Heal as One is like HS without the cooldown, it’s underestimated. It’s really good for low healing power builds. If they added condition removal, it’d have to be conditional.
Healing Spring is pretty much mandatory for any kind of co-op play though and it accomplishes the same purpose for condition removal.
With Heal as One’s low cool down, if it was given an unrestricted condition removal, you’d see a lot less Healing Spring. Which is bad.
Our condition removal isn’t terrible. Healing Spring + SoR is pretty decent, SoR’s active AoE effect with that is really good when you’re melee or axe/shortbow.
This requires no investment.
Throw in Empathetic Bond and a brown bear with Commanding Voice and Signet Mastery and you have some of the best anti-condition in the game.
For you and your friends.
(And if you have all that AoE anti-condition and you’re still not helping your teammates, I have bad news; you suck. 
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That’s because it was nearly half your post on a straw man.
Congratulations? lol
Half of 11 is three?
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Hello, I’m posting about a bug with the Ascalonian Catacombs Longbow that you can purchase with Tears of Ascalon.
It’s in game name is called “Ghastly Longbow”. I see a lot of people refering to it (as I myself once refered to it) as the “Ascalonian Longbow”.
I figure maybe that’s why when I’ve reported this bug twice in game with the bug report feature, it didn’t seem addressed.
I figure I’d make a forum post and get everything as detailed as I can get it this round. It’s a pretty simple thing.
The Ghastly Longbow has an amazing glowing and particle effect at night and in dark caves like all of the other Ghastly weapons from the AC dungeon set.
It seems to work in stages. At dusk, the bow glows and the particle effect “pulses” on and off for lack of a better word. This works properly.
At night, the bow completely glows a ghostly blue hue and the particle effect is in full swing, a constant thing, like the other AC dungeon weapons.
It’s awesome. But here’s where the bug come in. You lose this awesome particle effect when you fire the bow… and it does not come back.
This isn’t consistent with how every other weapon from the AC dungeon works.
Now when you reload into an area and if it’s night, the glow and the particle effect comes back… until you fire the weapon again.
It’s a very irritating bug because the bow is so cool at night, but you can’t experience it if you actually… use it.
It’s a complete and total bummer. It’s still an awesome bow, it’s cool looking in general.
But the perk of owning an AC weapon for that awesome effect at night… you don’t get to enjoy that if you pick Ghastly Longbow.
It would be wonderful if I could get a dev answer regarding this issue. Some kind of confirmation this will be looked into.
I, and anyone who likes cool haunted longbows would really really appreciate it if this got fixed. Thank you!
Traditionally, executioners don’t inspire “sexy” so much as “this is the end of you”. They’re foreboding, cloaked and hooded grim characters meant to inspire dread.
The costume is spot on.
(And besides… someone, somewhere finds all that sexy regardless. )
Sorry but the anet promotion of zerg mentality has removed the skill mechanic from the game.
Actually if you want to read between the lines, several times they’ve posted about making WvW more diverse instead of just all zerg all the time.
Anet didn’t “encourage” that in this update. They can’t tell the players how to play or you’d whine about them doing that.
No ones forcing the monkey’s to zerg. They do that on their own. Follow OPs advice and then attack from range.
Bam, you’re as effective as melee and safer.
When they tell you to stack, say no. Say little else after that if anything at all. Or else give them the line you’d give Anet here: Quit telling me how to play!
The drama writes itself. Take it in like you would a refreshing morning breeze. Pick up your bag and don’t forget your chest.
At least 80% of my server uses it unless they are a necro. Anet either needs to nerf this hair or buff the other ones because kittenloads of male humans are using it (sept for necros).
Huzzah! I shall be teh original necro! 
(mai idea! do not stealz)
It isn’t Jormag that won’t take them – it’s the Sons of Svanir that won’t accept them because of what Jora did in GW1.
In GW1, in the Eye of the North expansion, you join Jora – a Norn female – on one of the major pieces of the EotN storyline; the player helps slay her corrupted brother (called the “Nornbear”). Her brother’s real name is Svanir, and the cult “Sons of Svanir” were named after him. Because of Jora killing him, the Sons of Svanir won’t accept women into their cult.
More Information: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Sons_of_Svanir
Quote from the page: "Women are not allowed to join the cult because of Jora’s “crimes” against Dragon."
Oh, no, the Sons of Svanir are very misogynistic. There was an interview with Jeff Grubb, Ree Soesbee, and Scott McGough that said that any female norn who are corrupted just get killed off by the Sons of Svanir. Jormag doesn’t care who he corrupts – and will corrupt female norn if he can, but at the same time he doesn’t care what happens with his minions since they’re insignificant to him in the long run.
Interview mentioned: http://www.guildmag.com/magazine/issue9/interview.htm
I stand corrected!
Thank you. I’ll definitely be looking at them a little different from now on. They lost their status as “evil bad kittens” to “Norn version of the Flame Legion”. 
All this time I thought the reason that promo art of female Sons of Svanir didn’t make it in is because norn women couldn’t be corrupted because of what Jora did.
I thought the killing Svanir thing played second to that. Eh. The more you know.
GuildMag (Ollannach): So we’ve also gone to Twitter and asked our followers to send us some questions. While we read through a few of them and chosen the ones that were most important. So… in Edge of Destiny it’s observed that men who go to fight Jormag’s minions and fail, return as icebroods but women don’t return at all. Is there anything more about what happens to women who fall under Jormag’s power?
ArenaNet (Jeff Grubb): I don’t think they fall as much as they are killed.
ArenaNet (Ree Soesbee) : Yeah, they die.
ArenaNet (Jeff Grubb) : The Sons of Svanir just… the way that they worship Jormag has evolved is very chauvinist, very male chauvinist, in the fact that it is a very boys-only club, they don’t really get to reanimate. The women are just slain.
ArenaNet (Ree Soesbee) : I think it’s less that Jormag won’t corrupt a woman and more that as they are being corrupted, the Sons of Svanir will just kill any woman who is caught being given Svanir’s gift.
ArenaNet (Jeff Grubb) : Jormag doesn’t care. Jormag really does not care. It’s as if ants that are going off, the red ants and the black ants, that’s nice. But the Sons of Svanir…
ArenaNet (Ree Soesbee) : The Sons of Svanir have a cult, it’s a religious organisation.
ArenaNet (Jeff Grubb) : It comes through hat funnel, the Sons of Svanir are his mechanism in the world, so therefore their beliefs, and their prejudices, have that effect.
ArenaNet (Ree Soesbee) : And so they kill the women.
So you just call my argument a strawdog and leave it at that? Weak.
You’ve got a better idea? Better pet AI? When’s that going to happen? It hasn’t so far, and I’m not holding my breath for it. So, like I said, either fix it, let us stow it when we want, or get rid of it for something else.
I do agree that we should be able to stow the pet and not have it automatically pop out if we so choose. I strongly don’t think that we should gain any buff for it.
So…given equal stats, you want to do less base damage then every other class? You do realize rangers share their total damage output with their pet right? Having the pet limp around kitten ily waiting for the swap CD to wear off just means you are doing less damage than everyone else. And putting it on passive means the same thing.
Necro’s are a perfect example of using a “pet” in combat. They lose a utility slot per minion out, which limits them on what they can do to offset the extra dps. They have the option to do that, which is how it should be. Why not have the ranger pet just be a more powerful version of minions? The pet could use up the 3 utility slots with selectable pet-only abilities. That way, the extra dps would force the ranger to give up non-pet related utilities. Makes perfect sense. Pet lovers get their pets, and everyone else can play how they want to.
Just came up with a much easier solution.
Sorrow of the Beastmaster/Beastmaster’s Rage: If your pet is downed, you gain your pet’s 40% DPS while pet swap is on recharge. This effect immediately ends when pet swap is off cooldown.
(Bonus points if it’s not a trait we need to slot for, but if it is, eh. Make it an Adept trait and we’re still golden.)
There. Gameplay remains largely the same. No more -40% DPS while pet is downed.
Pet remains an integral part of gameplay, and you still need to micromanage the wonderful critters so it’s not “HUUR IM GONNA LEAVE MY PETS DAED FOR MOAR DEEPEEUS”.
Still need better AI and pet’s that can reliably connect with PCs. But that right there should settle some folks down I would hope.
Dang it, forgot to put my cynicism on. We can’t have nice things because people are people.
Some people would just intentionally play their pets badly to have the recharge on cool down as long as possible.
Maybe add a “this can only trigger so often during X amount of time”, with Anet balancing it around an average, even a baddie player at least trying to utilize and keep their pet alive.
Arrive at a decent number that most people who would intentionally kill their pets off for the bonus can’t gain any real benefit from, while those who are trying to keep their critter alive are rewarded for it if things get dicey.
Make it not worth it for the one who would intentionally sac their pet. Reward honest effort and play. Take it away, Anet.
I put a troll doll on each end of of my monitor, then rub the keyboard counter clock-wise before each kill.
Quit giving away the trade secrets!
I like the mix.
Would be something to see a big golem pummeling Tequatl. Heh, who knows, the day might come …
Jormag’s general called. He said the rotter can have the lot of em’.
Also,
Fantasy != Medieval.
Steampunk is still considered fantasy, even if they use robots and other somewhat “modern” weapons.
This guy nailed it.
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