Guild Wars 2

firstly, they are nothing alike, the only similarity is that it is a bar.
i’d list all of the differences in the mechanisms of each,
but lets be honest, you should already know these.

secondly, warriors are gods in both pve and pvp.
necros are… necros.
in pve they’re one of the “atleast we’re not as bad as…” classes.
in pvp they’re a dam sight lower on the food chain than warriors.

so warriors getting nerfs ok…necros? HELL NO!

really really bad change if it was intended
needs fixing fast if it was unintended.

someone did the math and apparently this makes Frost Spirit as effective as a single application of vulnerability….

if they put more money into ready up then that’d mean less money goes to the highly stable servers, the large amount of content and the regular balance patches that we have!
/sarcasm off.

Not a Trenchcoat: Engineer Edition

well its not a pvp centric change, but they should stop making outfits as “all or nothing” sets, if they let us buy the outfit and use separate parts then they would make a lot of money, both on all of the outfits that we’d all undoubtedly buy,
and also on transmutation crystals.

i can’t think of a single outfit that doesn’t have atleast one part that i’d buy it for,
but on the flip side there is’nt a whole outfit i’ll spend my money on.

On Tuesday we will become the ultimate nightmare for zerker specs,
With the right spec zerker longbow already nukes things down fast from 1500 away
But our pewpew potential is going on overdrive now!

Mostly I’ll just ignore retal and fight through it, but if I’m playing p/p thief or nade engine then I’ll have to wait it out or remove it.

Its a cool idea, but I don’t think there is room/requirement for them
Greatsword pretty much has the role covered

Deifact.3095:

Am I the only 1 tired of nondescript thread titles?

nope!
and i agree, if people make threads with BS titles then they should be closed instantly

skill bar is great, its a small part of the transparency that this game needs so we know what to expect,
as to Karl he just seems nervous, don’t give him a hard time for that, he gets over all the info that we need, sure some of it is a bit jumbled, but its not difficult to know what he meant to say.

loving all of these suggestions so far, especially Silinsar’s and Ranael’s.
c’mon anet surprise us on friday!

gah yeah i hate the steal bugs, either you TP and don’t get the skill, just cooldown,
or you dont even get the TP and it just goes straight on cooldown.

for a long while i’ve been playing an icy themed guardian in hotjoin (its not a serious competitive build)
i’ve been running glacial heart, Ice and Chilling sigils aswell as Svanir runes, its been a pretty fun build and the chilled uptime is great!
plus the ice block synergises well with renewed focus to get you back from the doors of death.

looking forward to the change! but yeah it could use some more work,
like “hammer attacks deal additional damage to Chilled targets.”

will we ever see Mortar become useful?

lets post some suggestions!

for my suggestion:
Mortar should become a kit, upon using the kit you stop moving and the mortar is placed infront of you(its purely aesthetic), clicking the skill again will “pick up” the mortar and let you move.
there could even be a cast time on activating/deactivating if needed for balance.

the mortar skills will now be tied to the engi rather than an object, so now they will scale with stats and have the ability to crit.

naturally being an elite and immobilizing the user i’d expect the skills to hit harder than with other kits.

share your thoughts and suggestions on how to bring this long forgotten elite back into play!

you don’t need to worry, there will be plenty of people just like you doing the story,
noone is pro or elitist about it

Lupanic.6502:

no changes for engi are useful for me. No additional condi removal :/
No new answer to fearchain :/ Elixir C still no stun breaker. :/ Pistol #5 is nice but it is still the weakes #5 skill of all weapons.

i LOVE some of the engi changes
cant wait to try a flamer spec with the 33% flame jet damage increase,
i use launch personal battering ram in my static discharge build because it already hits for 2-3k, getting a 20% buff
heck i might even try A.E.D again since it will remove conditions when it procs!

hobbo-sacks, one more reason i love playing kitless static-discharge XD

i’ll be “that guy”

Elite Druid
Elite Gladiator
Elite Cabal
Scar Pattern
;)

same as what Steb said, if we lose 499 to 500 it means its been a fun competitive game.
(probably with 5v5 from the start and no spectator exploiters to ruin it for everyone)

i hate losing with landslide scores,
i hate winning with landslide scores,
both are boring.

I too find it difficult to believe that this handful of balance changes is all of the PvP content that they could muster in half a year.

they count as objects so they’re immune to crits and conditions.

let them be crit and effected by conditions, fixed!

Spira.4578:

Liewec.2896:

Spira.4578:

Liewec.2896:

Generally happy people will just play the game,
You see more unhappy people on the forum because unhappy people will want to voice their concern about how X effects the game, someone who enjoys X will just play it

Then why are you here?

because i voice alot of concerns!

So might be others who you see as whiners

i think you misunderstand, i don’t see negative posts on the forum as “whining”
i see them as someone who cares alot about the game they play wanting to make it better

witcher.3197:

My suggestion is that you move Physical Training to Adept and maybe move Short Temper up

my GSzerker uses short temper, you just broke my build XD

imho the change to arcing slice will really buff GS after the patch, the 5% damage nerf to whirl and 100b will barely be noticeable, but following up your 100b with an 8k arcing slice will definitely be noticeable! things still moving? throw in a final thrust!

i’m not a fan of the adrenaline nerf though, so we’ll have to see how things pan out.

think of it like Silver Surfer, the power emanates from his board but he channels it through his hands

i’ve been playing around with a stone heart conjurer ever since it was added :-3
it is a geat change of pace to play an ele upclose like a war
you can put out some pretty amazing damage too!

Spira.4578:

Liewec.2896:

Generally happy people will just play the game,
You see more unhappy people on the forum because unhappy people will want to voice their concern about how X effects the game, someone who enjoys X will just play it

Then why are you here?

because i voice alot of concerns!

Honestly though, 5% is nothing, and this is coming from someone who plays greatsword zerker maybe more than any of my other chars

It does seem random, but honestly I don’t think you’ll even notice it,
The adrenaline change however…

I don’t think the changes are the issue, I think the lack of changes is.
Just look at the massive buffs to most of the other classes,
Power-creep will leave necro pretty low on the food chain.

Very tough question!
Final Thrust is certainly high on the list,
But favourite of all skills would have to be Lich Form!
As a power necro it pretty much personifies Oppenheimer’s famous quote
“Now I become death, destroyer of Worlds.”

Spamming out colossal crits on anything unfortunate enough to be in your way

Generally happy people will just play the game,
You see more unhappy people on the forum because unhappy people will want to voice their concern about how X effects the game, someone who enjoys X will just play it

if you really really need your precious low level rewards i can send you some lv 27 blues…

the rewards won’t be anything great, they’ll be levelling gear.
also, what is stopping you from making a new character if you really want the rewards?

206.127.146.68:0
me too, i click skills and they activate afew seconds later,
its not always like this but recently its been happening quite alot.
no lag on other games/streaming.

i think this “buff” was to put salt in the wound.
its a useless heal on a class that has arguably one of the best heals (Consume Conditions)

how it should be:

Signet of Vampirism
Steal health when you attack.
X damage (low amount)
Y Healing (scales with healing power)
Active: increase the effectiveness of all Life Steals by Z% for 10 seconds.

NO ICDs
it’ll pretty much work like signet of malice, but with a tiny amount of damage and an active that buffs all of your other life stealing effects.

i LOVE when that happens in pvp XD
“immobilized? really?” rush, whirl, kthanxbai XD

Jaguar, my pvp damage pet of choice!
for PVE it has to be Reef Drake, 1 word. CLEAVE, more pets need cleave!
i never switch pets, but on standby i have my trusty wolf “Lastchance” if i go down!
that AoE fear is great!

Manuhell.2759:

And both of them are quite more powerful than flame jet (or napalm, for that matter). A single meteor does almost the same damage of a flame jet. With a tenth of the hits.
There is a risk, and they’re rewarded for it.
Flame Jet (and soon Napalm too) aren’t comparable at all. Only risks and no reward.

but the issue here seems to be “i’m hitting people with retaliation and its hurting me!”
so i was just pointing out that atleast you can use your brain and stop attacking targets with retal XD
other classes have AoEs that they can’t stop.

so my advise, stop hitting things with retal :P

how selfish can some people be? YOU dont play hotjoin, so just remove it?
i don’t even…do you even think what you’re typing?

Lopez.7369:

condition builds have more room to get survivability stats by design, because they’re supposed to be attrition builds for a slow ramp-up.

slow ramp up?!
most condi builds will bury you under a mountain of conditions in seconds.
your magical world of slowly building conditions does sound balanced,
but thats not what we have.

Caedmon.6798:

Liewec.2896:

nerf hammer damage in pvp by 50%.

honestly it should NEVER be a viable zerker weapon, but currently i can spam out 3-4k’s with the thing.

it is a CC weapon, all of its traits are in a defensive tree,
it should not be a viable option for damage.
using hammer should be a choice to sacrifice damage to gain amazing CC.

It should do dmg..its the slowest ingame weapon,its already been nerfed hard..yet you guys keep screaming for more nerfs on hamm because youre unable to anticipate the SLOWEST ingame weapon.Its easy as hell to dodge.L2p.

this isn’t solely about the CC…this is about the ridiculously high damage you can deal even with the auto chain, but yeah,make 1 mistake and my stun chain of 4k crits begins.
the damage is too high for the weapon, i’m not arguing against the CCs,
it is a CC weapon it should have good CCs just not damage numbers that you’d expect to see with greatsword/axe.

its the same with any skill really.
you should feel pitty on the rangers who’ve cast Barrage which will keep AoEing for 12 seconds with no way for the ranger to stop it. (potentially triggering a maximum of 60 Retaliations)
or an ele using Meteor Shower could potentially get 72 retailation procs if every meteor hits the max targets.

what would a patch be without an AI build getting buffed? XD
spirit weapons aren’t too bad (at the moment) they can hit hard, and the hammer CC is dam annoying, but the cooldowns stop them from being OP.

nerf hammer damage in pvp by 50%.

honestly it should NEVER be a viable zerker weapon, but currently i can spam out 3-4k’s with the thing.

it is a CC weapon, all of its traits are in a defensive tree,
it should not be a viable option for damage.
using hammer should be a choice to sacrifice damage to gain amazing CC.

just wait for the mesmerpocalypse next week.
staff and scepter mesmers are going to be applying crazy conditions.

looks like the necro criticism is getting the Skyhammer treatment, were they just spam merge and don’t give a single response…

tip for playing with condi ele, you can use Glyph of Elemental Power in fire attunement before the fight starts and then switch to earth attenement, you will still cause burning with your attacks

1. make staff #1 a condition based skill
2. make axe #1 cleave 3 targets
3. remove the god-awful ICDs from Signet of Vampirism

i once did the calculations and if i remember correctly you’d have to do something like 32,000 damage in 6 seconds to heal for similar amounts to the signet.

the percentage is just way too low, imho warrior and guardian heals should have been the other way around.
Defiant Stance works exactly like Mark of Protection from GW1 which would fit perfectly on a guardian.
and Litany of Wrath would fit perfectly in a warrior zerker build, just rename it “Berzerker’s Bloodlust” or something. pop endure pain and this and use 100b = profit!

i was almost certain axe 2 would have had its channel cut after seeing them do it with ranger and thieves long duration channels, but alas, no.

i was almost certain staff auto would become condition based after seeing them do it with warrior rifle and mesmer scepter, but alas, no.

i was almost certain Parasitic Contagion would heal for 8% of condition damage after seeing them do it with thieves Invigorating Precision, but alas, no.

also agree with OP, axe auto deals stupidly low damage and its a power weapon,
so it is useless for anything other than hitting #2.

the huge lich nerf was also a kick in the teeth.

well atleast we get deathshroud stomping now,
if we can last that long against the classes that actually got buffs.

are you on about the ridiculously exploitable spectator + team select?
if so i whole-heartedly agree, and i’ll be extremely disappointed if a fix isn’t in the feature patch.

for me the biggest thing is Rabid giving you a respectable amount of crit chance, and most condi specs will have some form of “on crit” condition.

warrior has Precise Strikes
engi has Incendiary Powder and Sharpshooter
necro has Barbed Precision and Withering Precision
mesmer has Sharper Images
ranger has Sharpened Edges

you can also use Earth Sigil to add even more bleed.

none of these will work effectively with a carrion build.