Guild Wars 2

funghetto.1584:

mega server wvw? yeah – all berserk – mega blobs – 11111 win or loose – karma train XD

No different that today.

The game just doesn’t reward solo or havoc players. Let alone a single group. There is just too much CC and red circles of something on the ground that nukes everyone when masses collide. There really is no skill anymore in WvW and this whole G v G thing, yeah. There is no system in place, formal, just like there is no formal dueling area.

I’ve spent too many hours in a former game whereas a party of 8 in similar play meant something. The only time there was a zerg is if a relic was in play or defense was required. Otherwise it was group(s) of 8 roaming and stealthers would camp the main gates.

Sirendor.1394:

PyrateSilly.4710:

I go into WvW about every day. I see lots of people playing on all sides. Not sure why people keep saying the it’s dead.

What server are you on if you care to elaborate?

Went into WvW shortly around 3pm today and saw 2 friendlies in the whole of EB… And 3 enemies. You might want to restate that your server isn’t dead, but a lot of other servers are.

My personal opinion based on my active friends list and family members is that “that” player base is declining if logging in at all since HoT launch. If I include the active guild I typically rep, it is even more bleak.

As a main player of WvW since head start I can say that on the server I’m on, E’Bay, it has also seen a slow and steady decline. Most of it is due to hitting the brick wall of coverage and tier which isn’t unique to us alone. This week for example we are facing 10’th Maguuma with 11th Northern Shiverpeaks and Ehmry Bay (US) at 13th. Mag out numbers both servers combined regardless of time of day. Saturday rolls around, reset, WvW players login, see this, and that is all she wrote…

We can’t go higher, Mag can’t go higher, NSP can’t go higher, and Darkhaven is the red headed step child that gets tossed around because they are at the same cross roads. Everyone is kittened blocked until they drop a tier or two and roll on tide that week or next until they land right back into this BS.

That is part of what is killing the game. Then there is lack of rewards similar to sPvP or PvE or content updates. Jump puzzles removed due to care bears with alligator tears. Too long of match up. No player portal listing guilds, players, classes, top 50, or anything else remotely used for bragging rights and friendly banter.

Na, the game overall is losing “retail and head start players” or at least slowing down their login routine. No reason. Only question that remains is if the F2P player base is increasing at a faster rate to negate it.

Actually the worse thing they can do is invite only a handful of people / guilds to test these new theories out. What makes them think everyone out in WvW plays the same way? All that will do actually is tilt the data and feedback to a biased few.

If the publisher and designers don’t have any vision for WvW last week then it is already a lost cause.

Think about it. WvW has been out since launch. Few minor changes, few major. Lot of knee jerk reactions. Edge of Mist map was supposed to be the sandbox to test new things. We get new borderland maps. Never fully tested them or implemented them across all servers before HoT launched. 3 game modes and abilities get changed for each or nerfed for 2.

Basically a lot of the issues and bugs we have seen is because they don’t have a basic test server open to the players before they are introduced to production. Plain and simple. Furthermore, they don’t use Edge of Mist as the sandbox/testbed that they intended.

If they wanted it to be viable format of play, it would be worked on with every release and/or patch and progression would happen. It isn’t. Still don’t have any form of searchable, player portal, with weekly and monthly statistics by class, guild, player name, ranked 1 through N for any form of friendly competition.

Yeah, it is dead Jim.

Offair.2563:

Crapgame.6519:

Offair.2563:

All the hard work of the nightcrew has gone to waste with these daycappers. Nerf them already plox.

Sure, why don’t we just kick everybody out of the map once the last person in your guild leaves for the evening. Seriously. Just turn off the power and lights. Make sure to leave the toilet seats down too before you leave. Don’t want to have any of the female / ladies in the house falling in because your lazy…

Anything else you want while you are at it? Free lunch Wednesdays? Ice cream socials on Fridays? Box full of Black Lion Keys?

All i want is you to get a new sarcasm meter..

Pot kettle? Maybe your meter is bingo fuel.

Doubt it. Only reason why you may see it is because Camelot Unchained will be in beta if not closer to an actual release date.

Just on opinion, but they have had a few years to address WvW issues and players concerns. More than likely they know it is a smaller player base than PvE so that is why HoT was out and this is secondary or lower in priorities.

Dayan.7493:

I just wanted to do some jumping puzzles at obsidian sanctuary…but no, Kodash invaders ,yay! Can someone tell me what is it ? It’s bot or what? Cause I leaded it far away from spawn,and it teleported to me….If kodasch guild reading this: kitten you

Obsidian Sanctum is a ghost town, has been since they removed the requirement for legendary items and map complete. Care Bear 1, WvW/PvP 0.

I still make runs through there a couple times a week. Always enjoy when I see another member in there. Can usually get into a good scuffle in there which is fun. Bounce around back to traps and wreck some pain. Race them to and through the dark room and keep them from the arena.

Just be glad you play now rather at launch. We used to place siege in there, it was a more popular place. Lots of fights and alligator tears and rage quits.

Now, well, you know the real story.

RodOfDeath.5247:

I’m actually still surprised the PINK thief hacker from BG who ports through walls, contest wp and destroys siege is still around. He’s been reported for quite a long time and video has been submitted to anet. The guy has 17,000 AP lol So he’s been around, hackers are flourishing these days, just gonna drive off more wvw players.

No, it actually won’t. Not yet anyway.

The lack of WvW updates or attention by the development team is driving the players away. The only reason why more haven’t left is because there really isn’t any other game today with a similar play style. This will change though more than likely later this year.

If it is even slightly more stable and fun, WvW will be a ghost town much like you see already on the new boarder land maps. At this point in time there isn’t anything I don’t think they can do to make it better.

Offair.2563:

All the hard work of the nightcrew has gone to waste with these daycappers. Nerf them already plox.

Sure, why don’t we just kick everybody out of the map once the last person in your guild leaves for the evening. Seriously. Just turn off the power and lights. Make sure to leave the toilet seats down too before you leave. Don’t want to have any of the female / ladies in the house falling in because your lazy…

Anything else you want while you are at it? Free lunch Wednesdays? Ice cream socials on Fridays? Box full of Black Lion Keys?

Suggestion? Easy.

Remove Rangers and Druids from the game.

What I find ironic is that they continue to do this sort of crap but yet ignore the fact people are not playing. HoT more or less was a game breaker.

This isn’t helping any either (not so much the change here with bristleback, but Ranger changes quicker than others).

Fluffball.8307:

I would argue anyone that doesn’t use defender runes in WvW is just plain wrong. :P

Well, Runes of Defender are good in WvW. I used to use them on both my Ranger and Guardian. In fact, they are a bit OP on my Guardian when running mace/focus. That blocking

However I would highly recommend Runes of Durability. If you haven’t tried them yet, please do. Just a tiny bit of PvE required but well worth it.

(1): +25 Toughness
(2): +5% Boon Duration
(3): +50 Toughness
(4): 25% chance when struck to grant nearby allies protection and regeneration for 3 seconds and resistance for 1 second. (Cooldown: 20 seconds)
(5): +100 Toughness
(6): +15% Boon Duration; +125 Vitality

With my current set up and those runes it makes WvW a breeze. Super tanky and wear the attacker(s) down until they give up or they die. Their choice. Scouting is safe. Flipping camps and NPC’s a no brainer.

Runes of Defender are good though, no doubt. Just not for me or my current build.

(1): +25 Healing
(2): When you block a foe’s attack, gain 1 second of regeneration.
(3): +50 Healing
(4): When you use a heal skill, gain aegis for 5 seconds. (Cooldown: 10s)
(5): +100 Healing
(6): When you block a foe’s attack, heal yourself. (Cooldown: 30s)

You fighting on the edge at the beginning with sword made me cringe That right there is why I don’t use sword – lol. I’m pretty sure I would have managed to leap to my death.

Quick fights because you are hitting between 5 and 7k on some of those targets. Ouch!

Good job, I like it. Fun and see some good management of pet and your attacks. In my opinion, melee rangers are more difficult to play and master. You made it look easy. Kudo’s

LughLongArm.5460:

Crapgame.6519:

Watching it now – checked build out real quick. Ever consider the use of Runes of Durability? I was using runes of the druid for a while but recently changed. Probably wouldn’t make much use of the boon stuff but I really enjoy the protection, vitality, and toughness.

Then again I run a celestial tanky/healy build for solo or small group roaming. Thanks for sharing and watching now.

Durability runes:
(1): +25 Toughness
(2): +5% Boon Duration
(3): +50 Toughness
(4): 25% chance when struck to grant nearby allies protection and regeneration for 3 seconds and resistance for 1 second. (Cooldown: 20 seconds)
(5): +100 Toughness
(6): +15% Boon Duration; +125 Vitality

Durability is realy good with NM, the boon duration is statcked with the extra 20% boon duration from trait and you can double up the resistance/protection bonuses with FB/WHAO combo. Much less effective with builds without NM.

Thanks for the info. I am actually running them as I said but probably more out of ignorance. I forgot about lingering magic.

I am using Instinctive Reaction, Evasive Purity, and Protective Ward out of the NM line and it does seem to work well.

Watching it now – checked build out real quick. Ever consider the use of Runes of Durability? I was using runes of the druid for a while but recently changed. Probably wouldn’t make much use of the boon stuff but I really enjoy the protection, vitality, and toughness.

Then again I run a celestial tanky/healy build for solo or small group roaming. Thanks for sharing and watching now.

Durability runes:
(1): +25 Toughness
(2): +5% Boon Duration
(3): +50 Toughness
(4): 25% chance when struck to grant nearby allies protection and regeneration for 3 seconds and resistance for 1 second. (Cooldown: 20 seconds)
(5): +100 Toughness
(6): +15% Boon Duration; +125 Vitality

Sarlack.4096:

Crapgame.6519:

I’ve not tried the build, yet. I see that it is using sword, axe, and great sword. The last double melee build I was running used axe, dagger, and sword, torch (for fire fields). Would that work possibly? I’m not a huge fan of the GS.

I was using Troll Unguent though, with lightning reflexes, and entangle. This looks interesting so may give it a whirl anyway with my old weapon set. Double Melee has a higher skill level I think.

I’m always amazed and when I see people running them on their ranger. I always know it is going to be a hell of a fight if they play well and usually a respawn for me.

The specifics of the build are aimed at Single Strike High Damage Attacks, The Weapon set in there is the best for that purpose.

Idea is decent survival while Stacking various high % Damage mods. (MoC/Opening Strike/Enlarge with intelligence Auto Crits) so Torch and Dagger are not ideal. Axe and GS have our Highest Delve Single attacks, any variance away would require significantly modding the rest of the build and breaking that synergy.

Makes sense. Thanks

I’ve not tried the build, yet. I see that it is using sword, axe, and great sword. The last double melee build I was running used axe, dagger, and sword, torch (for fire fields). Would that work possibly? I’m not a huge fan of the GS.

I was using Troll Unguent though, with lightning reflexes, and entangle. This looks interesting so may give it a whirl anyway with my old weapon set. Double Melee has a higher skill level I think.

I’m always amazed and when I see people running them on their ranger. I always know it is going to be a hell of a fight if they play well and usually a respawn for me.

I miss the days of old whereas a party of 8 would roam the main gates or Emain Mecha. Different game, different time, but still had plenty to offer solo roamers, parties of 8, or zergs. And each type of play yielded equal reward, risk, and help to the greater good of the game.

GW2 needs competition. Few games due out later this year with one having probably the upper hand with regards to this format of play. Just depends if it delivers or hype prevails. Anyway, state of the game is stale and devs have had 3 years to sort this out and have not done so. Map changes, edge of mists, etc.

Question at the end of the day is simple. Do any of us still playing WvW honestly feel it is fun with all of the class / trait / skill / food or any other buff balance issues? Zerg vs. zerg and nothing but red circles of AoE crap on the ground honestly makes it almost impossible to play let alone enjoy the game.

I honestly don’t get it other than they have 3 formats of play and it makes it tough to focus on 3 at the same time. So one loses and that is WvW. Too bad really.

LughLongArm.5460:

I use a vriation of this build , Its not as strong as other meta druid builds but much more fun. I actually feel like a cheater everytime I use bristleback, and this build is giving me an excuse to take tiger over it.

Can you elaborate on why you feel like a cheater? Only reason why I’m asking is over the weekend I got some SALT about my pet insta-gibbing them. I mean it was a thief, who was probably geared/traits for max zerk/dps, and I sustained through his burst and the smokescale got him. Figured I’d ask what you mean.

I don’t have the tiger, is that from HoT? I should probably find it but though it was difficult to get based on map population.

Skeletor.9360:

Another tactic. Throw some jumk siege. Throw 3 traps on it. Zerkers will die just to the traps.

Lol, this made me giggle. Oddly enough, this is a great tactic.

Not that it matters in the current WvW maps, but trapper rangers excelled on the former borderland maps. Ruin area was such a great place to roam especially when the dailies are out

Biklen.5490:

The video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AePZuaiIJI

~BalougaPod

Will get to the video here in a bit after dinner. I will tell you though that this build is a wrecking ball in WvW. Using my ascended celestial armor and toughness/healing accessories I have 3100 or so toughness. NM, Beast, and Druid and almost exact trait/bar set up it is nasty. Superior runes of Durability are a must. Fine tune with food.

As a 90% solo roamer scouting and flipping camps or joining a small party the build does wonders. I can solo a tower although a bit slow. Soften walls while zerg arrives, and handle most uneven fights. Swapping to heal mode and like you said bursts people back to full in no time.

Speed is a bummer at times. That and of course the fast pace of WvW – most people are still learning what the druid brings to a zerg. Especially one focused on healing.

Pugchug.8905:

From playing ranger quite a bit in wvw. I find it can not compete with a Druid using a staff. At this time in wvw if you do not have a staff you will be run down or kited to death by the new classes and some of the old. You just can not do better for mobility then staff right now. Greatsword is ok if you don’t have druid just make sure you use quickdraw for double swoop. But even then a druid will run you down anyway. On a condi build staff is your positioning tool. On a power build it is your positioning tool and your unreflectable pew pew stick.

Um, I don’t know. I’ve made good work with LB/GS pew pew in WvW. Just have to watch those reflects.

Ayrilana.1396:

Crapgame.6519:

Ayrilana.1396:

Khyan.7039:

Jana.6831:

KamiKaZe.8173:

You take a lot from the revenants and gives us nothing, it is a very hard profession to master and what you do? make it even harder and unbalanced putting the revenants – heralds at the bottom of the ladder the least effective profession now.

Thank you for destroying the revenants profession aka thanks for nothing Arena Net

They had to and it was clear from the start. They have to take a lot from other classes as well but somehow hesitate – probably because of PvE players.
I have once been one as well and I don’t really like changes anyway – there was a lot I found stupid while I was a strict PvE player. Then I started wvw and started to understand why balance is neccessary. I have done dungeons and/or fractals on nearly any class there is, not Revenant but all other 8, and never had any problems although I barely smash buttons on most. that’s why I think that PvE doesn’t need balance that much. Of course no class should be unwelcome anywhere, so all of them have to be nearly equally strong. And revenant (and others) have been a bit too strong.

But I do agree that in least wvw power revenant isn’t that easy to play if you’re not a backliner in a zerg.

PvE needed (need?) balance though. You can see 5 rev in some raids video, I don’t think playing a class that much is called balance, and raids are PvE.

I saw a raid video with 10 guardians. Does that mean something needs to be done? Just because some people choose to run specific classes does not necessarily mean that there are balance issues.

Those 10 guardians did it to prove a point…but maybe you are not getting that.

What most are debating is that Pve and sPvP had certain classes represented more because of their lack of balance. Numbers are numbers. Who cares really about the fringe who do something just because. It doesn’t make it the norm. So no, we won’t be seeing 10 guardians clearing a wing becoming the new meta.

I know why they did it. You’re missing the point that I was making. Just because you see more people playing a particular class doesn’t necessarily mean that it is out of balance. A lot of people are playing Rev because it is new.

New – valid point. Whole heartedly agree.

However, we probably both agree that there are people/players, regardless of game, that flock to the flavor of the month / OP classes. In this particular case Rev was abused by many due to this. I can’t or won’t say this is the case with raiding, but if you step out of a raid and into WvW this was exactly the case. And probably will be for some time.

My point is this game was originally sold as a bill of goods that it doesn’t matter what class you roll, it will be welcomed in any party. That was mainly due to no primary roles or responsibilities. Sort of like Rift but on a weaker scale of trait how you want to play. Tune by runes, sigils, and of course food. Now that we are starting to see homologous with classes (similar abilities) and some do it better than others, well, those that min and max will say only X, Y, and Z class can play in their group.

That is a broken design.

Maybe they should look at the older DaOC solution which was to have a reward system based on kills, ranks, and of course a player portal. Portal listed top 25 weekly by class, player, guilds, and alliances. Search options if you are not on the top 25…

Basically we have a revolving ranking system that means nothing and skewed by edge of the mist map and boosts…

Bearded.6485:

The problem is very few people want to defend, and even less want to play on the new bl’s. Ac damage reduced, and the ability for people’s armor types to effect seige damage needs fixed.

This is true. Defending, or defenders, do not get any rewards outside of personal satisfaction. Same thing applies to solo roamers who scout, flip camps, sentries, and NPC’s.

Cyninja.2954:

The current rework is an inefficient lazy fix which should scare any decent wvw player no matter if playing a revenant or not. It shows that arenanet are unwilling to address skill issues and instead revert to very questionable “quickfixes”. If that does not scare you about future balance changes to any class I’m not sure what will.

Lazy fix or not, it is what we got until they say otherwise.

Unwilling to address issues isn’t the problem, it is about priorities and WvW isn’t one of them. Three formats of play to balance around, now raids, add in a new class, no test server and you can see the train wreck in front of you a mile a way.

Had a poor fella actually chase me as I exited one of the side routes. Really determined I must say cuz he just kept coming. Found a nice spot to engage and killed him. I could tell he was angry because I tried to party up and discuss the situation and he declined. That is fine…

I sent him/her a few salt packets. Maybe they will get it. Maybe not.

I know one of my former WvW trapper builds was similar although I took light on your feet instead of quick draw. Refined toxins and empathic bond. I also used short bow instead of staff. You are using Druid now whereas I was running Nature Magic instead. I did run this a bit with a druid and it wasn’t bad. Axe Torch are nice but I also ran Sword Torch. I never mastered sword like most do and fell to my death many a time so that is why it isn’t my favorite. However, instant fire fields did come in handy I must say.

I could also swap out short bow to long and still manage. I think the only other difference more or less is that I ran flame trap instead of frost. Traps as someone above noted is more about juking or resetting for position. Solo scouting, flipping camps, and NPC’s wasn’t much of an issue. But post HoT it doesn’t seem to do it for me anymore.

Now I’m running a celestial armor with healing and toughness accessories and enjoying it a lot more. Staff / LB seem to work well and it is just a matter of managing pets better to sustain/wear people out. Most of the time it works. If facing a better player I will usually lose regardless, there is no crutch in this build (I always thought Trapper runes acted like that for me anyway). If it gets beyond 3 people and I can’t finish one quick enough then I’ll usually die. More often than not I can kill the weakest or worst player and the others leave

I’ve always liked traps though. Just don’t like the nerfing they got. Thank you very much Dragon Hunters / Guardians.

Maybe arena net will give us those cute, tiny, little pack of raptors we all love and hate in HoT zones. I always thought those would be a great pet to have.

Rome.7124:

Crapgame.6519:

I was lazy and went celestial armor and will tweak with accessories. Seems to work with just about everything I’ve done so far.

Have you done any raiding with cele set? How does it work out for you?

No, I have not. I have done the run of the mill boss fights and event trains and it works if I accessorize But I would wager it isn’t ideal for those who are into min/maxing or gearing for the maximum DPS possible. Hence my lazy part.

I would bring it and more than likely it would work. But I’m the first to say I’m not really an expert on this stuff.

Personally I’d recommend you create one of each and enter the PvP lobby. Play in guild arena if you have one or unranked. I have both. Started Guardian upon launch and later rolled up a Ranger. Played DH a bit, Druid a bit. Both bring different things to the table. Both feel different.

At the end of the day there is no “who has better chances to be accepted in groups”. GW2 doesn’t work like that unless that is the sort of guild you joined. Play to your skill level, and the classes ability, and you will be fine.

Then it just comes down to what is more fun for you.

Speed kills.

Just depends on what you are doing. Some cases pure Ranger will do things faster. All metas, PvE, sPvP, and WvW. Other times the Druid just feels more comfortable and speed is not a necessity.

Organized play, well, you run what they ask and play it well.

Justine.6351:

Get out of range of the necro down skills then wreck the asura. Downed people make great aggro bots for your enemies allowing you to freecast.

You are right. I can’t say why I stayed on the Necro. Like I hinted at earlier I’m only so-so and that is just proof. I mean seriously now that you pointed it out I’m thinking wtf didn’t I think of that.

Gah! Oh well, note to self for the next time if it happens again.

Funny you should post this. Yesterday during a fight out in WvW I thought it would have been nice to been able to swap pets again to maybe a third option. I was solo running from a thief camping one of the exits of our spawn.

Didn’t think much of him/her since it was only one so lead them on a merry chase for a bit until I found a place to engage. Well, long story short we danced a bit and just as I finished them off two more of his server showed up so without much resting or resetting I’m back to a fight but this time uneven…life isn’t fair and apparently neither is this fantasy world I play in

Necro and some other class which is escaping me. Anyway my point, and to yours, I kept getting the Necro close to death but couldn’t finish him with his/her little pet Asura who kept nipping at my heels. Fight lasted a good while, so that means either they both sucked (possible), one of them sucked (I think the Asura), or I was playing my A game (no, I am just average so the Asura really was bad…) but I was thinking to myself I would have liked to swap one more time to burst/finish the Necro.

Then I was thinking while taking my dirt nap that no, that would actually be a bit over powered. Sure, I didn’t have the pets I would have liked out or I mismanaged them. I was using bristleback and smokescale which are good. I just wanted one more swap/attack to finish because I couldn’t do it.

So no, we don’t need a third pet, while nice, and I was thinking along those lines, I can clearly see that would be a wee bit OP…and we can’t have that.

Prophet.1584:

cele can work but you end up slightly less focused on certain stats, besides it’s really time intensive to craft. i’d rather go cele asc trinkets and magi or zerk armor.

Yeah, it was horrible to craft. 100% agreement. I was actually considering minstrels but went back to Celestial. Like I said I’m lazy and needed something flexible for WvW since that is what I normally do anyway. It works, but as you pointed out probably not optimal.

I was lazy and went celestial armor and will tweak with accessories. Seems to work with just about everything I’ve done so far.

1. Perception that there is no internal testing and/or QA. Patch is released then shortly thereafter several more patches follow. Maybe it is time to add a test realm, introduce proposed code, allow players to copy over a character, and test for 2 to 5 days.

2. Balance – still does not seem ideal but this is probably a tough nut to crack and you can’t please everyone. Would have liked to see some more Guardian and Druid work. Druid more so around CF but I am biased and can admit it.

3. WvW – what will it take to get some much needed attention to this format of play. New maps are nice but there are population / 24×7 coverage issues. No rewards for solo or small groups. And lets face it, orbs are nice but have been off for ever. Middle of the pack servers can’t field groups on all maps.

4. Big data. Set someone on the side to pull up all accounts, time played, and see if they have received a legendary drop or via mystic forge. Point is RNG seems rather harsh and I know this has been dicussed before. Look at the time played for each account, character, and see. I think you might be surprised. yeah, you added crafting, searching, finding a way to one. But overall I think it is still a odd system along with magic find.

Overall I think you guys are great and have a good support staff. The times I’ve used it via email I get a quick response and usually a fix. I think you do well, and mean well. But WvW and sPvP, two formats that I play, are plagued by issues that hurt the feel in the long run.

That and forcing PvE (hero points, map complete, and tokens to buy things) are not idea. You may like them but you do offer 3 ways to play and if I mostly do WvW, well, you have forced me to PvE which I don’t care fore.

Best of luck to you and your team. I feel I have had a return on my investment.

Kodama.6453:

Thieves hit like a truck at this time, but that’s all what they can do. They are squishie and their concept is “kill them before they can kill you”. .

This is true. I guess the new thing is to camp the spawn in WvW. I don’t know, anyway I always go around. So this thief tries to intercept me. I’m like ok, I see you. Target, lead him on a ways. Let him engage, then cc him a bit and let my pet(s) proceed to burst him/her down.

I’m not sure if it was the bristleback that killed him or the smokescale but in either case he went down so fast I thought in was in a foreign country paying for adult type special privileges

So yeah, they are squishy. Pets make short work of them even if in Celestial gear.

Ayrilana.1396:

Khyan.7039:

Jana.6831:

KamiKaZe.8173:

You take a lot from the revenants and gives us nothing, it is a very hard profession to master and what you do? make it even harder and unbalanced putting the revenants – heralds at the bottom of the ladder the least effective profession now.

Thank you for destroying the revenants profession aka thanks for nothing Arena Net

They had to and it was clear from the start. They have to take a lot from other classes as well but somehow hesitate – probably because of PvE players.
I have once been one as well and I don’t really like changes anyway – there was a lot I found stupid while I was a strict PvE player. Then I started wvw and started to understand why balance is neccessary. I have done dungeons and/or fractals on nearly any class there is, not Revenant but all other 8, and never had any problems although I barely smash buttons on most. that’s why I think that PvE doesn’t need balance that much. Of course no class should be unwelcome anywhere, so all of them have to be nearly equally strong. And revenant (and others) have been a bit too strong.

But I do agree that in least wvw power revenant isn’t that easy to play if you’re not a backliner in a zerg.

PvE needed (need?) balance though. You can see 5 rev in some raids video, I don’t think playing a class that much is called balance, and raids are PvE.

I saw a raid video with 10 guardians. Does that mean something needs to be done? Just because some people choose to run specific classes does not necessarily mean that there are balance issues.

Those 10 guardians did it to prove a point…but maybe you are not getting that.

What most are debating is that Pve and sPvP had certain classes represented more because of their lack of balance. Numbers are numbers. Who cares really about the fringe who do something just because. It doesn’t make it the norm. So no, we won’t be seeing 10 guardians clearing a wing becoming the new meta.

Bear: Black Bears Matter

His other pet, I think the new drakes: Prz Call PETA

briggah.7910:

Dawdler.8521:

Noob.5908:

10.) New siege art feels like a 5 year old designed it

Eh?

No.

It look like a 35 year old D&D basement nerd designed it.

guess you guys preferred the same ones you been looking at for years?

::shakes head::

Valid point – however, they spent the money on art rather than fixing anything important.

I don’t get the skill level bit

AOE/CC is causing the burn. Can’t do much let alone defend when there are 13 different ways to Tuesday to lock a player down. Game was designed with dodge to handle this but it doesn’t. In a confined space map, sPvP, dodge is fine. WvW – you need a low yield nuke to push people away from you

Junkpile.7439:

Only stupid players leave keeps without zerg.

Only stupid players leave keeps / spawn in a straight line….going left/right works wonders…

This is like the stealth squads camping the main gates in DaOC all over again.

Just a matter of running there, not a huge effort. Get used to it though. If you want some of the other runes or armor stats, well, you will need to PvE some more. And more… And then a bit more.

Search on Runes of Durability as one example of HoT/A.Net forcing PvE upon people.

I started the video…then saw it was a swan song of sorts and I thought to myself…

“Can I haz your stuff”

Then I was like, um….don’t recognize any of those players. Isn’t the interwebz strange that way???

I don’t think the thief population is going anywhere. I think they are the bee’s knees right now.

Fluffball.8307:

I gotta be honest, with druid out I don’t mind EB where it is. I think condi removal is in an outstanding place and we have quite a lot of options. Especially with the new shouts and soldier/trooper runes.

A lot has changed since the days of EB being our only condi cleanse on the entire class!

Sure, but don’t you hate being segregated to a certain type of Rune?

I could be wrong but I always through runes and sigils are used to tune the class. Depending on the type of Druid you are running wouldn’t you like the option to run Runes of the Grove, Druid, Durability, or any other for that matter in sPvP or WvW?

It is a design flaw in my opinion when so many classes have condition damage. Why they couldn’t just let melee heavy classes do regular damage or bleeds and let casters do condition and be done with it. But no, now we have group stealth and condition bombs tied together with massive CC and crap on the ground that you have to avoid within 1 or 2 dodges…

No thanks. I’d prefer to tweak/tune with sigils and runes. Not forces to use only one or two. I know that isn’t what you meant but that is just how I sort of see it.

Because Rangers and Druids can’t have nice things…

Quick question – What is considered concentration? I was looking to see if maybe the patch might make the Minstrel armor a good candidate for WvW. I’ve been using celestial in WvW and using accessories to focus on some stats. Figured I’d revisit this armor.

Fluffball.8307:

For solo roaming in WvW, the new guard is definitely a more effective skill than the old perma regen build. Now you get perma regen plus damage reduction.

I’ve tried using it but so far no idea if it is helping or hindering. Well, hinder may not be the proper wording. Used correctly is what I mean.

Wonder is Druid / Staff 3 can no longer let you jump ledges/cliffs or used while jumping down off high places and living…