Genuinely believe it was an oversight by the developers related to the intricacies of trait coding or something to that effect. However I do agree that it should be changed so all siege weapon users are created equal…
We will be given new utility skills for every class in the future, so expect some of these to inflict Revealed. In addition I think some of our current utilities will be buffed or changed to counter stealth more effectively in the manner that ArenaNet previously changed “Sic ’Em”.
I would be embarrassed to admit I was in favor of the potential changes, simply because it would reveal to everyone that I was bad at the game and don’t know how to dodge. I guess some people have very little shame.
Also, no matter what happens, there will still be a best way to clear dungeons. And guess what: scrubs won’t be any better at that way either. What does that mean? It means you will still get kicked from group, and your crap builds will still not be looked for on the LFG. I feel like a lot of bad players feel like whatever this change will be is going to usher in a golden age of “anything goes” and every player in the game will be on exactly equal footing. Sorry to tell you: no matter what happens bad will still be bad. There will be a meta. It might be Rabid, it might be Rampager, it might be Zerker still. And regardless, there is no reason to believe if you hate the meta now you’ll like the next one at all.
Probably one of the best posts in this thread. People, no matter what ArenaNet do to the game your bad bearbow snowflake build will still be bad and you will still be bad. The lack of shame in this thread is cringe-worthy to say the least, but the amount of delusion displayed by the bads, who think their awful builds will suddenly become legitimate, is truly staggering. You will still be bad even if Rampager becomes the new Zerker no matter what you tell yourself each time you lie dead with your face in the dirt.
EDIT: The amount of hatred bads have for good players in full zerker in the GW2 community is frightening. Learning to dodge is a thing and frankly more of you should try it. Wearing tank gear or playing bad builds, like the ones Nemesis advertises, at this point in the game’s life cycle is akin to grown men riding bicycles that still have training wheels for children attached. It’s unbecoming and somewhat sad. You need to learn to dodge just like you learned to balance yourself when riding a bike. Stop defending people who don’t want to improve and yearn to be carried all day while at the same time claiming that those people that play the highest risk vs reward spec are somehow stubborn, they’re not…
This sounds like an awful proposal by ArenaNet, truly ominous stuff. Don’t bow to the people that don’t know how to play by nerfing the damage specs that reward risk!
EDIT: If you feel that you have to bow to the bads on this then improve the AI or attack frequency.
There should have been something truly special about coming in the top 3 in your respective league, but there wasn’t and I wouldn’t be surprised if the next league as disappointing as the first. I have no idea why ArenaNet cares so little about WvW when so many people play it and widely regard WvW as the endgame of GW2.
As Guang stated above, this is still better than Strife’s anchor guardian build which he created after 1000+ hours, a build DnT members defended on Guru against numerous critics that pointed out that full zerker Guardian specced for damage was far superior. I understand that plenty of people came to trash Nemesis for his build which he made with 0 prior experience with Guardian but where were you guys when Strife was posting his anchor nonsense? Yeah…
This is one of the most cringe-worthy gaming videos I have ever seen. I truly hope against the odds that this some epic troll. If it isn’t I would like the creator of the youtube video to please come explain himself in this thread.
Running “Search and Rescue” and Spirit of Nature means that you can instantly resurrect anybody in your party that goes down, who said Rangers were useless?
This update was effectively a nerf to turrets. The preview to this patch actually featured quite an awkward silence when the devs were previewing it and they commented on the fact that it seemed to lower DPS because the turret was constantly switching target. I think this has made turrets much worse.
I desperately miss this, please bring it back this year. Arguably one of the best pvp mini games ever and not so much as a trace of it. Please bring this back ArenaNet, please!
My guess is that it’s because the seed that pops up is the source of the regen, even though it scales off of your healing power. This is somewhat akin to the Ranger’s Fernhound pet, although that doesn’t scale off of the player’s healing power. The problem is just that you are not the direct source of the regen, so it doesn’t proc your trait.
But you are the source of the regeneration for the Runes of Dwayna sixth bonus, no? How come it doesn’t work for that?
I’m not sure; I remember it functioning properly in that regard. You may want to do some more precise testing with a friend before submitting a bug report.
I have tested it with a friend and again on my own in the heart of the mists. In both cases the condition was not removed when I used my signet to heal.
This is the single worst change suggestion I have seen in a long while. Elementalists with FGS and three conjured weapons would have access to 41 skills, yes there is a reason why Engineers got kits and not Elementalists. This is a ridiculous suggestion that would be highly unbalanced. Engineers cannot hand their kits to other players to use but Elementalists can certainly give other people access to conjured weapons.
My guess is that it’s because the seed that pops up is the source of the regen, even though it scales off of your healing power. This is somewhat akin to the Ranger’s Fernhound pet, although that doesn’t scale off of the player’s healing power. The problem is just that you are not the direct source of the regen, so it doesn’t proc your trait.
But you are the source of the regeneration for the Runes of Dwayna sixth bonus, no? How come it doesn’t work for that?
I was wondering why the Water Magic Grandmaster Trait Cleansing Water does not interact with the Sylvari racial healing skill Healing Seed which grants your allies and yourself a constantly refreshing source of regeneration? Surely this should provide a source of condition removal and yet it does no such thing. Is this an oversight by Anet or another design choice to neuter racial skills as much as possible? Have they ever said anything on this subject prior to my post? Many thanks for reading!
EDIT: Cleansing Water does not seem to interact with the 6th bonus of Superior Runes of Dwayna which grants regen when using a healing skill.
Slowly but surely more and more worlds are slaying him. We have confirmation of success from Blackgate, Desolation, Tarnished Coast, Eredon Terrace, and even certain overflows. The case for nerfing this looks weaker and weaker every day, just like so many of us predicted.
Looking at the number of players and the amount of coordination that were required for Blackgate to beat Tequatl once… do you think that is a reasonable requirement for all servers? I don’t think so. In the long run, you are not going to bring that many players together every single time (if at all), and you’ll have many large groups of players wasting their time for 15 minutes. Something needs to be changed about this encounter. Failing due to a timer running out is lame. I would suggest either removing the timer entirely, or making it reset with each new phase. If the server is making progress, then he shouldn’t fly off. Having a server fail the event when Tequatl is at 10% health is just dumb and unfair.
Yes, Rob van der Sloot, I am alright with the current state of affairs. It’s been a mere 24 hours since the patch went live and already people like yourself are calling for nerfs to make it easier. How about waiting a little while for a change? Remember all the people that cried for nerfs to AR or Liadri? How many of them were steamrolling that very same content a few days later? Yeah…
I thought Define were pretty cool guys until this video.
But their responses in that topic are just pathetic.
Quoted for great justice! Such truth is contained within these words that I wish this quote were mandatory reading for all the members of Define and their friends.
Any speedrun is legit whether the community likes it or not. Why would you care what others think of your accomplishments? Are you that insecure outside of Guild Wars 2 as well? If so, I feel bad for you son I got 99 problems but Bear Form ain’t one…
The hypocrisy displayed in your video when it comes to whirl versus rush is absolutely astounding. Furthermore I am unsure what the point of this topic is other than a cry for sympathy after your video on the subject got trashed in the youtube ratings. Your constant pleading for people to get on topic is unintentionally hilarious. Your speed clear times got utterly destroyed and so you made a video to try and defend away your lack of success compared to others. This is laughable…
Yes those are my thoughts on the subject. Come post it in the dungeon section of the forum where this belongs if you have a shred of courage and dignity <3
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P.S. Please everybody get back on topic and only discuss this subject in the narrow confines that Debby has “defined”…
I find the calls for nerfs from the community very disheartening. A huge amount of content seemed quite difficult when we first played it whether it was the Aetherblade Retreat, SAB or the Queen’s Gauntlet encounters. However, in every single case players persevered and eventually succeeded and I am hoping it will be the same for this encounter too. Anet, please do not dumb down the content for the love of Dwayna!
I find it to be a shame because I feel like Phantasm Mesmer or Mantra Mesmer (basically anything that isn’t Shatter spec) need all the help they can get, and I feel in that regard this change is counter-productive in the grand scheme of things. I trust they will revisit this in a year or so.
This is still bugged according to the tests people have run on this skill. ArenaNet you have finally acknowledged the problem after blatantly lying about the current state of affairs. Could you please go about fixing this skill and the floater issues it currently suffers?!
Please look into changing this ArenaNet, the current system is absolutely atrocious and utterly ludicrous given the amount of Zhaitaffy in circulation. Allow us to buy Dragon Bash food in bulk via a number input or similar. I do not want to have to break my mouse to recycle my Zhaitaffy, nor am I inclined to download a mouse macro (which would likely get me banned given your purposeful ambivalence in that regard) to complete said task!
Whatever form it takes, there does have to be a better reward system for PvPers which amounts to more than just some extra skins that are easily available to any PvE player. Make exclusive PvP skins, a miniature that only drops from sPvP chests, an Guild Wars 2 equivalent to Zaishen Keys, or some method to convert the worthless Glory we have all accumulated so much of. Arguing over the exact implementation seems superfluous, just let ANet know they need to look into this and pray to Dwayna that they do something to change it before 2015.
Thank you for raising this, I haven’t drunk much Karma in the past when affected by boosts but I will take this into consideration for the future. I hope somebody from ArenaNet looks into this and we get a fix sooner rather than later, unlikely I know.
1) A better reward system that actually rewards us with worthwhile items like Zaishen Keys for the time invested. At the moment there is no real incentive to play tons of PvP unless you want to grind rank and that scales so ridiculously at higher levels that most people will eventually stop trying. Rewarding us with account-bound unidentified dyes is a step in the right direction and I hope there is a possibility of implementing further rewards. I would like to make a tiny bit of money on the side and you eventually allowed top Pvpers to do so in GW 1 by improving the rewards to include tradeable Zaishen Keys and the Ghostly Hero miniature. Make a pvp exclusive miniature and some items that pvpers could sell on the Trading Post to compensate them slightly for time invested because Glory and Rank are entirely meaningless to most people. The entire reward and rank system needs an in-depth review and will hopefully get a complete overhaul in the future. Progression is something that we need to have a sense of, I feel sPvP is hugely unrewarding.
2) New game modes have been demanded since before the game was even launched and it’s something I would like you to continue looking at. I don’t think the traditional GvG that people want makes any sense given the way combat and classes turned out, but having something that isn’t conquest would be nice. The Hunger Games mode at the end of the beta got a lot of rave reviews, so I hope you do something similarly cool as a second or third option for sPvPers.
3) Balance overall should be looked at because it is still sorely lacking at this late stage in the eyes of most people.
I would like to sign for this too because I think it’s an unnecessary inconvenience. I would also ask Anet to let us rebind everything else too as well as allow us the freedom to modify our UI in exactly the same manner as we could in Guild Wars: Prophecies, Guild Wars: Factions, and Guild Wars: Nightfall. Many thanks in advance!
They put out a $10 DLC worth of content with the fractals patch last November. If that’s the standard for ‘an expansion’s worth of content’, then I guess they’re there, otherwise they need to stop tripping balls over there.
I personally don’t see a $10 DLC as being a real expansion (I would expect something closer to GW:EN or Mists of Pandaria) and so I would go with the latter, Anet needs to stop tripping balls!
Pure brilliance, thank you for authoring this. I wouldn’t mind if somebody sent this Cox’ way or if it just happened to be emailed to some of the people at NCSOFT!
Is there any news on this? I feel this thread will be locked soon because “the discussion has run it’s course” or something along those lines. The skill is in fact broken and Jon Peters is incorrect when he claims otherwise. So I hope that somebody at Arenanet can revisit this thread and give as an official response even if it only amounts to “this is something we are looking at”.
It has come to my attention that this uses a different model than the blue Jellyfish that happens to look Kitten EXACTLY the same. I am planning on fixing this within the next month but needed to get some feedback from rangers about their feelings about their HoM rainbow jellyfish pets changing how they look. I can assume that they will be happy, but you know what happens when you assume.
Post your thoughts on this internet forum thread and I will read them.
I would love if you changed the look of the rainbow jellyfish because the current iteration is far too similar to the blue one. If possible go even further than the first draft you posted
I am signing here to state that I would want Cantha to make a return despite the reservations certain people may have in this regard. I realise that Guild Wars 2 went into closed beta in China less than a week ago and most people involved in the project would rather not to Cantha for fear of implications in the Asian market but I do hope hope the people behind this reconsider. Cantha was a big part of the lore and very important in the grand scheme of things. If you have issues with naming of NPCs or other aspects of design that put the focus group off then consider using the 250 years of isolation as a deus ex machina to change them. Not having Cantha at all would be a bad move and so I hope you make the changes required to release Cantha nonetheless!
I would like this fixed too, I use my camera while moving around the battlefield and dodging enemy attacks. The fact that I lose my target as a result is excruciatingly frustrating and unbelievably enervating. Please fix this soon!
