Guild Wars 2

Berengar.6951:

A nerf to stability without a nerf to CC would just help the zerg out more, as they would overwhelm a smaller group simply on sheer volume of CC.

From my experiences crowd control makes for the best zerg busters. Right now small groups don’t have much of a shot due to AoE caps and stability. Remove the AoE caps and nerf stability and I can promise you that zerging would suddenly become a whole lot more unappealing to the masses.

Stability should work like aegis and only protect against one application. It also shouldn’t be stackable. Right now it’s just way too much of a no brainer.

The warrior mobility would be fine if not for their absurd defenses. But yeah, something has got to give here and the sooner ANet gets that one class can’t and shouldn’t have everything the better for the game as a whole. Are you warriors really happy with playing a crutch class?

Finally something worth rejoicing over. Thank you, ANet. This is an excellent step in the right direction.

Yesterday I would have said no but the wardrobe change is seriously the best change ever. There is still hope!

I was very disappointed in WildStar. I didn’t think it was possible for a game to have worse optimization than Guild Wars 2 but it certainly proved me wrong. It doesn’t help that it looks like World of WarCraft. Come on, it’s 2014!

The Elder Scrolls Online on the other hand ran like a dream but I just couldn’t get into the gameplay. Guess I’m stuck here for a while longer. Still hopeful for EverQuest Next.

I’d be all for them removing armor classes and hit point disparities entirely. Should make the rest of the game a whole lot easier to balance.

Cogbyrn.7283:

Which is a huge complaint Necros have seemingly had for an extremely long time.

We’ve always been superb duelists and one of the main issues when balancing the necromancer is how potentially overpowered shroud is in one versus one situations. Our big PvP issue is focus fire and absolutely nothing in this patch addresses that.

Should allow for siphoning through shroud and switch places with the new blood grand master trait. But yeah, as it stands it’s just another worthless trait to add to the list.

They should have removed Dumbfire entirely and just reverted the nerfs they inflicted on the class because of it.

I’d go one step further and remove armor classes entirely. I’m not seeing much of a justification for it.

Nightarch.2943:

ArenaNet should be merging stats, not creating more.

This, this and kittening this again. The system is a convoluted mess and they’re just making it worse with every update.

Other than parasitic contagion these strike me as very weak for grand master traits. Guess I’ll be sticking to my mesmer.

Condition damage should be nerfed and merged with power and conditions should be made to be a supportive way of dealing damage rather than a primary one. Splitting up damage stats was their greatest mistake here.

I’d absolutely love to see something similar to DC Universe Online when it comes to swapping skins. I had a lot of fun completing sets in that game. If stat combinations can be unlocked too then all the better.

Neither.

You’re talking about the two very worst PvE classes in the game. Still, if you enjoy them I suppose you should just stick with the one you enjoy the most because there really is no point in splitting hairs here.

Dalanor.5387:

If the Blood GM will be called “Necromancers suck” i will be pleased.

I’d settle for “I can’t believe you actually put thirty points in this… fire.”

Totally off topic but the new thief grand master alone is in a better place on paper than our siphon has ever been and it’s still getting snubbed. Just think about that for a moment.

New weapons would win me over in a big way. Sadly I doubt it will happen yet.

Cogbyrn.7283:

Fix siphoning from the Death Magic trait line at the GM level? Maybe the Blood Magic GM will allow for siphon skills to replenish HP while in DS. Maybe we have no idea what the other GM traits are or what else is changing for traits, so “saying it like it is” is more “complaining with very little information”.

Plus, this trait is build-defining. You define your stat, weapon, utility, and other trait choices around it to help maximize its benefit, just like with Deathly Perception (for example).

Sometimes you have to step back and realize when you’re complaining for the sake of complaining without giving it a second thought. Rangers are trying to deal with some increased projectile speed on 1 weapon in their GM line, Necros finally get some sort of HP regeneration while in DS with a trait, and the Necros are fussing because it isn’t enough?

Is it really not enough? Have you tried it? You haven’t, and it’s a step in a direction people have been chomping for. A little “hey, that’s pretty cool” doesn’t automatically mean you’re a fanboy bending the knee to ANet’s lordship.

I’m not judging traits which we haven’t even seen yet because that would be foolish. I’m judging this trait and it’s just not worthy of being a grand master trait and them adding a blood trait which allows us to siphon in shroud will still not make it worthy of being a grand master trait. Be real neat if they did though!

The fact that rangers are getting an even kittentier hand dealt to them here doesn’t make this trait any better. To be honest, I’m not even sure why you’d bring that up when we’re on the necromancer forums discussing an upcoming necromancer trait. Nobody is arguing the fact that rangers have it bad, especially not me since I’ve rolled with one since the start. But yeah, this trait is still all kinds of kitten and I sincerely hope they rework it before putting it out there. The ranger one too.

When you say this trait is build defining I really have to question your logic since nothing actually synergizes with it other than straight up healing and if you sink your stat points into that I’d certainly hope it’s not because of a glorified regeneration. At best this is something you tack on for a tiny bit more survivability but it’s not even close to being capable of carrying a build. Suggesting that is purely delusional on your part.

You know, I’ve actually played the kind of shroud heavy build which will benefit the most from this trait for a long time now and while I will say that every bit helps there are adept traits which I would view as far more important than this one. That’s how off the balancing here is. This game is no longer in beta and it’s going to take a whole lot more than baby steps to fix things up and the fixing needs to happen soon or it’s just going to be too late.

Joke traits for the joke classes. I don’t think I’ve ever seen an MMO with class bias this obvious.

It’s all about the gold and it will remain that way for as long as people are allowed to sell gems for gold. I suspect ANet makes most of their bank these days from plain old gold selling.

Got to say I’m rather irked by the fact that they’re still putting in entirely passive traits like this one. Have they really run out of ideas already?

Cogbyrn.7283:

I just don’t understand why all traits have to be over-the-top jaw-dropping half-court-dunking boomshakalaka to not get dumped on.

And even then, I bet someone would come and complain that it doesn’t work in their build.

It’s a grand master trait. It’s supposed to be awesome and build defining. At some point you have to stop cutting them slack and just say it like it is. This would have been an excellent opportunity to fix siphoning and make shroud a more urgent threat by allowing the necromancer to regain ground while in it and all they do is slap on regeneration and call it a day.

Roe.3679:

Not every trait needs to synergize with every build. Plus there will be 4 other grandmaster traits.

A fair point. That said, some classes do need a lot more synergy between traits and necromancer is pretty high up on that list.

Hopefully the other traits will prove more impressive because this one feels like a dud.

Had it allowed us to heal from all sources it would have been great and also offered some worthwhile synergy with blood. As it stands I’ve got to say it seems like a garbage trait. Will they ever stop overbalancing the necromancer?

Tom Gore.4035:

You are correct. GW2 is one of the least RP friendly MMOs ever made. That’s unlikely to change anytime soon. RPers are not their “target audience”.

Which begs the question of who they are targeting nowadays. Anybody know?

The issue here isn’t bad players – it’s bad design. If they started designing content which was more than zerg fests and DPS races this issue would resolve itself. I’d love a return to Guild Wars with companions, hardmode zones and all that good kitten but that isn’t very likely to happen anymore now is it?

And why would you support blatant gold sinks like foods and vendor buffs? If anything you should be calling for them to removed so ANet won’t balance the game around them anymore. Maybe then we’d see a bit more balance in WvWvW. The casuals aren’t going to pay up anyway so why even bother? There is no skill involved in passive buffs.

Coulter.2315:

Do people not know what the word “achievement” means? It does not mean “something everyone gets for free”.

And yet people were getting it for free before the encounter was changed and now you have a bunch of people who didn’t get it despite fulfilling all the requirements of the achievement legitimately.

This is not okay.

Playing an asura or charr is pure suffering when it comes to skins. I would never have rolled my asura had I known they were going to be so lazy with the armors. Right now I’d really love for the priority to be actually making the armors look good on the various races.

Lord Kuru.3685:

Wasn’t scaling of mobs/bosses to the number of people present supposed to be one of GW2’s big features? So much for that.

It was. Then mega guilds happened. Now they figure everybody can just join one of those and shuttle into overflows instead of doing the event on their own server as originally intended. This is exactly what is killing smaller servers off and they’re just letting it happen.

I hate to say it but this game has never been in a sorrier state than it currently is.

Tobias Trueflight.8350:

Blame the posters and players who drove the loot into the spotlight. It wasn’t about loot until the population in general decided to make it about that. Well, that and how awesome quaggans are.

The emphasis on loot came with ascended which I still view as the worst thing to have happened to this game. Sure, there were always proponents of that kind of progression but they were by no means in the majority.

But yeah, given how expensive and time consuming it is to fully deck out a character today the gold obsession is albeit unfortunate completely understandable. They bred this mentality.

OmniPotentes.4817:

There are so many issues with this achievement it would be best if Anet just remove it.

This does seem like the best solution considering how many got it without actually fulfilling the requirements while it was still bugged not to mention all the people who should have gotten it but didn’t due to it being rebugged.

Remove the kitten.

Nameo.6842:

Nothings against TTS, but it seems you need a guild of 150 people whiling to do the event in an overflow, with all the summoning consumable available to get achievement nowadays.

And not even then is it guaranteed due to bugs.

But yeah, they really need to get working on proper event scaling. This is killing smaller servers.

Kumu Honua.2751:

I can see it now.

1 person joins a group, gets into a spot where the other 4 stand in front of him so he’s stuck. They demand 4g to let him out.

The new “Selling dungeon spot” meta!

Dodge through him. Problem solved.

Body blocking would solve everything.

lordkrall.7241:

Why?
It is a multiplayer game after all.

So was Guild Wars and the beauty of it was that you could play it exactly how you wanted to.

Guild Wars 2 has foolishly copied other MMOs here.

Be nice if they at least allowed us to do something with our home instances. Harvesting nodes was a start I guess. Now how about decor, personal portals and vendors?

It’s especially bad when some servers simply lack the population to do it. It’s like they’ve forgotten all about event scaling and are now pandering exclusively to the top servers. Stop killing your game, ANet.

This is what happens when all content gets designed around mega guilds.

Time to start rewarding quality over quantity unless you want all the small servers and guilds to simply die out.

Smaller servers are dying out because ANet insists on adding content which just isn’t feasible to do unless you’re on a high pop server. And yes, a lot of people are just moving on to greener pastures.

Getting increasingly tired of this incessant loot manipulation. Be nice if they at least came out and said that they removed the loot. Honesty pays.

Unknownhero.6745:

“Okay i just tried this tactic again and it worked :
Attack on Stage 1 only with the white buff the prime Holo for about 10 seconds… then go afk for the rest of the fight in the safe corner…. done…”
HAHA..thats awesome bud, gj you got the achieve… I just did a run where Im sure another 20 people or so decided to follow your lead… I don’t blame you, but that definitely shows the counter productive nature of this whole achieve

The sad thing is that this isn’t the first time either. They have a history of designing achievements like this and I just don’t get it. It’s like they want players to cause grief.

I’d love for them to put some more thought into this kind of stuff in the future.

I really don’t understand why they continue making awful achievements like this one. All it’s doing is causing people to be overly reluctant about actually attacking the kitten things which in turn harms the event.

Get your kitten together, ANet.

Did all three, got nothing for it. Before the patch I had no issues.

This needs to be hotfixed and fast. There really is no excuse.

It’s possible. It’s just that everybody has to pitch in which is unlikely to happen in a random overflow.

Should have killed somebody other than raisin head to make the threat appear real. Why not Kiel? Give us some dramatic death scenes to counter all the cheesy romance.

Flytrap.8075:

They’ve got until April to deliver some goods.

I’m not dealing with another year of Living Story zergfests and empty promises.

Yep. I’ve already promised myself to shelf the game for good if nothing meaningful comes out of this. I barely play at all anymore anyway. Love the basic gameplay but the content is just not up to par.

They need to merge the damage statitics instead of pretending that going exclusively for conditions in actually viable. They obviously want condition damage to be a supportive rather than primary way of dealing damage so what’s the hold up?

A lot of people really don’t seem to realize what a massive impact this nerf will have on PvP. It will make Dumbfire applications super easy to negate by ANY class due to how telegraphed the blast is. You can forget about using Dumbfire against skilled opponents right now because it will not stick unless you’ve got a group to hold them down for you. Once you shift into shroud and start charging that blast they will know.

It kind of saddens me that instead of removing the trait and reverting all the nerfs it caused they have to wreck the entire class. I guess expecting them to straight up admit that they kittened up here and take responsibility is just expecting too much.