The idea is the following:
off season is utter boring, unranked is not entertaining, game is terrible to stream, etc…
what about having a 2v2 ranked deathmatch season in Conquest between-season time?
Matches would be played on courtyard and would last till a team eliminates the other one. (TA from gw1 just in 2v2 format).
This gamemode is fast. ques would be really fast, it’s entertaining, it’s fun and you already have everything to do it!
make this happen!
can this be fixed pls?
if you dc from a full map while in squad there is 99,9% chance on you not getting back.
while in party you are dropped back in. Squads should work the same way.
can’t count the times i lost a 80%+ DS map couse of this. This applyes to any big scale event where you go there earlyer to get into a good map then you loose the full progression from the last 1,5hrs couse of this stupid mechanics.
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I speculate on a ‘what if we make s/d win over meta mesmer with plasma, acro, withdraw changes’.
sad thing, the mesmer killer build gonna exclude acro
Edit: lets make a ‘Tracer cosplay’ competition for p/p thieves. Best build+look combo wins
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Hello players && devs!
In this thread i gonna focus on how the ’19 th patch effected the viable weaponsets and why are the majority of the changes irrelevant.
First off, i am really sad about these changes are buffs and 0nerfs where made. This ensured that ANet is still favoring the brusier, instaproc, skillspam -type gameplay that really disfavors thief especially s/d that they where trying to buff, couse it relyes on active defenses.
I gonna start with the Key changes which actually have meaning.
The Lead Attacks change: it allows thief to have a good dmg bonus after sb#5-ing through the map, which is really greate. It also favors good initiative meenagement which is really to my likeing. In conclusion i find this change the most deliberate, kudos on it.
Thorw Gunk: much apriciated that you listened to my suggestion, too bad no unblockable added
. It’s a decent quality of life change, gg.
Consume Plasma: this change really helps vs meta mesmer, i gonna get on this one later. (really good change imo)
My agreement to the changes stop at this point though :/
Bontiful Theft: thes ability was already almost mandatory. This change just feels like the necro scepter boonsteal change from last season. Instead of investiong time on toning down the unhealthy boonspam you once again powercreep an ability to “handle” it. This opens opportunity to strip the aegis-stab-prot trio to land good bursts but i STRONGLY disagree with this decision nor does it synergyse with the further changes(explayned later).
Pistol changes: these got ZERO meaning. You basicly did the exact same thing that didn’t work last time….. Buffing the damage of unload wont change the viability of the weaponset. It still lacks utility/survivability. The autohit’s pressure is still extremely low etc… Also straight dmg-buffing the “skillspam” ability of a weaponset seems aweful design to me….
Now finally we came to the more in-debth part, the acro changes.
These number tweak -changes wont end the redundance between DD, Trickery and acro. This redundance is the reason acro wont take a part in the build diversity even after the changes.
There are SOOO many inside and outside problems with this line that it makes me cry. There is even redundance INSIDE the traitline, example: felineGrace-vigorousRecovery. Acro is evasion themed, still it has the biggest collection of the useless womit autopocks of the game #junipatchMentality#hotisgud…
…Period
Besides 2specific builds that i havent tested yet, i gonna explain why picking acro still isn’t optimal.
The problem relyes in what you give up to get acro vs what you already have from other lines that acro offers. Assuming that you use DA/TRICK/DD (that you should) you should count with the following:
- dash gives permaswiftness + extra Thrill of the crime -> Expedious dodger redundant
- bontiful theft && stolen vigor -> almost perma vigor -> feline grace redundant
- lead attacks && sleight of hand -> Swindler’s Eq massive redundant.
- Preparedness initiative pool + kleptomatic -> upper hand redundant.
- Mug’s healing covers whole acro regeneration.
- Endless stamina‘s pluss 50endurance every 20sec is totally worthless compared to daredevil’s 50max, 50on steal(20s), 135Chanelled vigor(16s), agility signet does not waste ~20-30 on use couse of 3th bar.
- Dont stop completely redundant to Dash
- if you need clense, Escapist’s Absolution clenses more condis overtime than Pain Response wich is even triggered for removing nooting/1bleed. Escapist’s shouldn’t be picked instead of the completely broken ‘Inpacting’, so this leaves you picking the whole traitline for a bad clense trait couse of #9
- the rest of the traits are useless or easily counterable.
These DD/Trickery traits allready handle all the areas that acro is supposed to help in. The problem is that the whole traitlines do MUCHHH more, so the overall value loss would be too big if you dropp one for another. Here comes the first reference from above, they even buffed Trickery. why would you buff a completely ‘mandatory-since-years’ line if you got intrest in making another one viable that is already 60% redundant to it? cmon..
The last part we have to touch is: what if i want to scale these factors, instead of reducing the redundance?
This means if you want to use acro with dd and trick. With this, you enchance your defensive factors by a tiny amount, couse you where already at the limits with DD/Trick. For doing so you just sacraficed another mandatory traitline. To understand why doing this would be a major mistake, take a look how DA scales better as a defensive line than acro while being a major offensive support.
The major pressure of the thief comes after a good steal setup. DA’s Serpent’s touch&&Lotus Poison combo makes sure you win the HP treade leaving no room for proper counter pressure. Other than this, Improvisation is neglecting a high chunk of damage indirectly, due to the stolen items are heal or control themed and make you less exposed. The reference from consume plasma comes here. Having inmprov obviously enchances the changes to stolen skills especially consume plasma resistance duration vs meta mesmer. Mug isn’t only a burst damage source it covers the whole acro regen too.
Having this is already better than running acro imo. But there is obviously more. Panic strike is brutal strong for landing ganks/kills, not to mention mug damage + exposed weakness etc… Losing these matter a LOT for low dmg coefficent weap sets like s/d on wich using acro would actually make sense.
Would it break the game?
juni patch already broke the game with 3 lines
first post here is decent. the rest is just drama about randoms poking an angry random.
I am not required to prove anything to you, you imply that your opinion matters to me and it does not. So you can take it at face value, or you don’t. Either way, I really don’t care if you believe me or not
THEN WHY ARE YOU JUMPING ON ANYONE DOUBTING WHAT YOU CLAIM. Either react with reasonable arguments or just kitten. You are just making yourself look stupid.
jesus. use you overleveled ‘psychological’ skills and give less kitten about ppl.
huh..now..calmdown…
to stay constructive about “Why-Gw2-Will-Never-Be-Balanced”:
i see this in a customer POW. and by no means am i a professional game developper. but i gonna give my 5 cents.
- lets start everything by reviewing the game’s combat system. There are 2major aspects that make this game feel so fluid and these 2 things should be the root of any further development on game mechanics. These are Endurance based evasion and being able to cast and hit while moveing. These 2facts make things behave really different from other games. Example: Running after a moveing target and hitting it does not develop distance between the two players, nether does shooting atsomeone while kiteing. In exchange people get an opportunity to evade attacks as a reaction every x seconds (depending on traits vigor, etc…).
- how does the first point give a direction in game designing? it is simple, the whole base concept supports the visible unique animations counterable by reastions -type of gameplay and the main focus scould be maintaining this.
- what is breaking the rules? Stuff that is unavoidable or not player controlled. Instant cast abilitys, passively activated high impact effects or just powerhouse abilitys on laughably low cooldown. These are meenageable to a certain degree, but too much leads to spamfest and passive defenses-offenses that play certain builds instead of the player. (just look at retribution man…. icry)
- handling boons. The healthy state would be if you would consider to invest points, traits utilitys or a rune for having resonable uptime from ONE boon and it would matter when you use cooldowns that provide it/them. To a certain point we had this. The dev team decided to move away from this mentality. Classes got infinite uptime of at least half the Boons, eles keeping up perma protection on party. etc…
- HORRIBLY SLOW and bad decision making. The dev team who are working on class balance (grouch claimed there is a team only for that) are slow paced even if there are clear decisions to make (example: last years DD-ele horror). I cannot really accept the they are busy with pve arguments or anything like that couse pve got almost as big bullfly going on as pvp (ATM biggest dps rotation for thief is autohitting+bound every few seconds). Either there should be pvp specialists helping them to fix issues faster or enchance the motivation of the balance team.
example: remember shoutbow times? there where obvious problems with the metaspec’s endurance regeneration. Example->DD-ele, Soldier Engi having permanent vigor not to mention Call to Arms’s vigor share from shoutbow. Please notive that these are the classes who are able to abuse the weapon swap sigils to the maximum. This means that the absurd amount of vigor was paired with the energy sigil’s endurance regen. Instead of investigating the problem and making proper sollution vigor’s regen was cut in half, but energy sigil left the same. This crippled builds that relied on theyr medium vigor uptime but had less access to energy procks. this decision just enlarged the gap in effectivity. It was an easy faceroll decision without testing the resoults. - knowing ANet’s balancing them’s capability scrapping the game is almost inposible now with the damage they made to the principles of the combat system’s base with juni patch and HoT. Splitting trait and ability effects between the 3 game modes and investing more into this crucial region till the “balance” is stabilized would be a good start.
Very nicely done
thx
D/D and cheesing through Diamond
you mean condi? newer enjoyed that :P gl on legend though!
Might wanna change pw to arena :P
ye i noticed it too
