Guild Wars 2

Got my 6 precursors from drops…

Sucks to be you Nekomi wasting all that time endlessly clicking, when you could actually be having fun playing the game!

Chaith.8256:

Meglobob.8620:

Anet devs HATE bows…

Used to play Ranger Shortbow but they nerfed that to oblivion so looked around for a alternative…

Moved on to Warrior Longbow, now they have nerfed that to oblivion…

After the tears subside, take a look at Ranger Shortbow and Warrior Longbow’s usage in PvP/WvW.. they’re amongst the most viable, if not still absolute must haves. And they will remain so.

I usually play PvP most days and I can’t remember the last time I saw a Ranger with a shortbow, it suffered a MASSIVE decline since it was nerfed.

Same will happen with Warrior longbow, already see less using it after nerfing the F1 skill on Longbow, skill 5 is where the majority of a Warrior’s Longbow damage comes from, so after nerf it will be rarely used/seen.

JETWING.2759:

Horrible :/
One more wrong and unnecessary LB nerf :/

They may remove the weapon from warrior :/

Anet devs HATE bows…

Used to play Ranger Shortbow but they nerfed that to oblivion so looked around for a alternative…

Moved on to Warrior Longbow, now they have nerfed that to oblivion…

When nerf comes in, will try movin to Warrior Greatsword/Hammer (2 sigils in each weapon…yeah) or Sword/Axe + Hammer or Sword/Axe + Greatsword.

They really hate ranged and want you to play melee…

To the OP.

This is not true, in my experience from other companies games, we must play different ones.

The very best devs leave the powerful skills/abilities alone and look at skills/abilities that no player is using. Then they buff/change those underused skills/abilities by tiny amounts until they are competitive but not more powerful then the top tier skills/abilities.

Thus you avoid power creep but create a lot more diversity, also you don’t upset players by nerfing there favourite skills but encourage them to try other skills over a period of time.

imsoenthused.1634:

To avoid power creep. Buff only policies just lead to out of control power creep.

Lopez.7369:

Please look up “power creep.” It’s probably the game’s biggest problem from a balance standpoint.

Overall, there has been no power creep at all in GW2, no matter what you think…

In fact the opposite has happened, a decline in power of all players characters.

TRUE FACT
If you took a 80 lvl character in full exotics pre quickness nerf (for newer players quickness was nerfed by 50% across the entire game) and they had a 1v1 duel with the exact same character in full ascended after this 21st of January patch which may include the nerf to crit dam %. Both players are equal in skill.

Who would win?

The character in exotics, it would be no contest.

Besides those 2 major across the board nerfs, there have really been 1,000’s of nerfs all across GW2 since it was released…

The devs quickly came to the conclusion a short time after release, characters were too powerful, we were ‘trivialising content’ which means completing it too fast, killing bosses too fast, completing dungeons too fast.

Obviously, they want to avoid this when GW2 is released in Asia/China, so current GW2 players have had to suffer a power decline and overall constant nerfs.

+1 from me.

Love a quggan wedding in LA, with lots of baby quggans some time later…

We after all fight for something so why not to protect quggans…they can be Tyrias version of real world pandas…

Loading.4503:

Does that mean I can have 4 Sigil of leeching and with fast hands I can do 2k dmg and heal every weapon swap?

No, you can only have the same sigil proc once, the others are wasted.

I will be playing about with hammer/greatsword when it comes out and its a buff to longbow too, even if they are nerfing the 5 skill slightly.

Guardian always has been the best support class.

Elementalist can do decent support too but is more fragile than Guardian.

All the other 6 can do support too but are a lot more limited, Necro probably offers least in terms of support to teammates.

Sarrs.4831:

(Meditation of) Ferocity is a mechanic in Temple of the Silent Storm which increases the amount of points which you get whenever you kill an enemy by 3. They spawn in sets of 2, making the maximum points you can gain from killing 11.

I’m strongly inclined to say that’s not what you’re talking about. <_<

Judge Banks.9018:

Ferocity is one of the three stats of the “Personality Roleplaying Mechanic” that can affect a character interactions with npc’s in the world.

Though I’m strongly inclined to say that’s not what you’re talking about. <_<

Honestly, I bet the devs completely forgot about those 2 versions of ferocity already in GW2 when they renamed crit dam % to ferocity…

Also, I suspect they forgot about celestial armour when they worked it out. The nerfing of crit dam% on any other amour set then berserker works out at far bigger a nerf.

Confused yet? Much?

I agree 100% with the OP.

Since release its been a overall a endless downward spiral of nerfs…

All players characters were way, way more powerful in the first 3 months of the game then now.

Even the so called Ele buffs in this latest update are a % reversal of previous nerfs.

The devs don’t want powercreep but do we really want a permanent downward spiral with fewer options, less builds, less diversity, lots of useless skills/traits?

I don’t mind the devs having fun and its better for GW2 if they are enjoying themselves.

However, I know some are nervous, possibly a little embarrassed about being on camera but I would like them to speak more clearly, mumble less and try to avoid looking down all the time. Just because it enables the viewer to understand them better.

Jon Sharp is very, very clearly spoken and I can understand every word he says. Also, he is best at staying on topic and covering all the points. Looked really tired in yesterdays vid thou, go get some sleep!

Also, well doing the live broadcast they are reading the comments which is pretty distracting for them and you can imagine what some of the comments are saying…

I don’t mind the devs having fun and its better for GW2 if they are enjoying themselves.

However, I know some are nervous, possibly a little embarrassed about being on camera but I would like them to speak more clearly, mumble less and try to avoid looking down all the time. Just because it enables the viewer to understand them better.

Jon Sharp is very, very clearly spoken and I can understand every word he says. Also, he is best at staying on topic and covering all the points. Looked really tired in yesterdays vid thou, go get some sleep!

Also, well doing the live broadcast they are reading the comments which is pretty distracting for them and you can imagine what some of the comments are saying…

There were 4/5 Anet employee’s sat in the livestream today (don’t know if Grouch or Slouch is a official employee) and they kept saying 21st…

Watch it for yourself:-

http://www.twitch.tv/guildwars2

I know I am confused and don’t really know what exactly to expect on Tues 21st but I suppose that’s a good thing…right?

Wanze.8410:

Considering the balance patch is still 2 months away, alot more will enter the economy until then.

The devs in the livestream today, seemed to be saying they are coming in on the next balance patch 21st Jan.

I know it contradicts what other devs have said but there you go…

Anet are sending out confusing messages atm…

First they said pure living story till March then nothing else…

Then apparently a pvp update in Feb…

Now we are going to have a big balance update on the 21st, along with living story…

So until the different teams, people at Anet start talking to each another we have not got a clue whats coming and when really!

But WvW has not been mentioned at all afaik so far…

Bought several 1,000’s of cheap superior runes…

Now all fingers & toes crossed, if 1 of those rune stacks becomes the must have set which will net me 100’s or 1,000’s of gold.

If not I lose a 100 gold or so, big deal…

I think its just narrowing the gap damage wise between zerker and all other sets of gear.

But zerker remains number 1 choice if all you care about is highest in game damage.

Berserker sets will still give the highest dps in GW2, so there’s no alternative armour set you can go to, so no one has to change your armour/weapon/trinket sets.

The change is your damage is going to be 10% lower then currently and that’s it. Nothing you can do to get around it in theory.

Just to put it into context:-

If a dungeon run takes you 10 minutes now in zerker, it will take 11 minutes after the balance patch and still be faster than any other armour set in the game, assuming you do not die in the run.

I think they will work it, so celestial loses 10% damage, exactly the same as berserker gear.

Great, got 8 level 80’s, 1 of each class.

My Warrior, Thief, Mesmer, Guardian have just had a 10% damage nerf because they all use berserker/celestial armour/weapon/trinket sets.

Soooo… when’s another MMO coming out with decent WvW and PvP content?

WRay.2391:

Meglobob.8620:

Just like the majority of us thought they are nerfing crit dam %.

The details seem to be its changing to ferocity and a actual stat, which will be equal in value to your 2nd highest stat on you gear.

The devs have indicated that anyone with crit dam % on there gear now (note, not just berserker but celestial as well and any type of gear armour, weapons, trinkets) will lose 10% of the damage.

Does it mean if you have celestial (no 2 major stats, all are equal) then your ferocity is also very average ?
Then they nerf celestial

The crit dam % part of celestial will be nerfed, like crit dam % everywhere in GW2.

They will make sure its a 10% nerf and not more hopefully…

Just like the majority of us thought they are nerfing crit dam %.

The details seem to be its changing to ferocity and a actual stat, which will be equal in value to your 2nd highest stat on you gear.

The devs have indicated that anyone with crit dam % on there gear now (note, not just berserker but celestial as well and any type of gear armour, weapons, trinkets) will lose 10% of the damage.

vrannar.5618:

One of the things I have disliked in MMOs is the constant buffing/nerfing, and the constant having to change rotation, spec to meet the flavor of the month.

I’d much rather have NEW abilities then to have all my abilities reworked. Although my main toon is a ranger here, I have always played wizards and mages in games before. In the big MMO I specced for arcane when nobody played the spec and I enjoyed the play style. I played an arcane mage threw numerous buff/nerf cycles, but then I finally grew tired of it and quit playing MMOs for a few years.

I tried several other MMOs before trying GW2, but stuck with GW2 because I liked the elegant combat system and animations. In my book, if you don’t want a gear grind then expand the talent trees and abilities and release more permanent end game content.

Well said +1

Anet have had quite a few ‘balance’ patches since game release and is the game more ‘balanced’ now than 18 months ago?

No.

Honestly, I think those patches are designed not to balance but as a ‘cheap’ way of mixing the meta up, particularly in PvP, so it does not become stale.

In short its something cheap and easy to spice the game up, nothing to do with balance at all.

Wow…

Been playing this game since day 1 and I never knew that…

I used to pray to the gods for it not to choose me…

Consider me volunteering everytime now…

2 new bosses, 1 permanent, 1 temporary, a list of achievements to do.

Nothing other than living story till April.

That means no new:-

Quality of life stuff.
Nothing for PvP.
Nothing for WvW.

Plenty of Scarlet thou…

How’s that for surprised?

Its a really, really bad comparison…

Now if he had said My Little Pony or Sponge Bob Squarepants I would have been right with him…

I have read at least 3 people post in this thread who have no idea what’s going on, so allow me to enlighten you:-

The relevant part to this thread is changes to crit dam % which berserker and other armour sets like celestial may be affected by.

Josh Davis.6015:

Citizens,

This Friday at 2PM PST (22:00 GMT) we’ll be hosting another episode of Ready Up. I’ll be joined by Game Designers Jon Peters, Jon Sharp, Karl McLain, and Roy Cronacher.

In this episode we’ll be talking about a few of the things the Skills and Balance team is working on for the next balance update, including:

• Runes and sigil rework
• Critical damage changes
• New stat combinations for PvP (amulets)
• High-level overview of planned balance changes

You can catch the livestream at www.twitch.tv/guildwars2

As a heads-up, we won’t be running a Q&A segment during this show like previous episodes of Ready Up. However, feel free to leave questions/comments below and I’ll use them to guide our discussions on Friday.

We’ll see you then!

Thread to leave feedback.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/balance/Balance-Developer-Livestream-on-Friday-at-2pm-PST/page/4#post3502992

Why do players want to destroy builds?

The OP wants to destroy 8 builds, why?

Shouldn’t we be trying to expand the number of builds?

You know create, rather than destroy.

There’s already been far to many builds destroyed in GW2 in 18 months already.

I think many players know now Anet love to over nerf things, so actively negatively lobbey for nerfs to classes they don’t like/play.

I would say any build involving a Elementalist at the moment.

You after work 2-3 times harder on your keyboard to get anywhere than the other 7 classes.

I would not worry about this at all…

People vote with there feet and there’s a huge amount of competition which keeps prices down.

Even the most successful websites/games after be very careful over there pricing policy and intrusion by adverts. Internets users can very quickly desert to a alternative.

New Healing Skills 35 sec cooldowns

35 secs cooldown on a heal skill is far too long, especially when compared to your other heal skills. Having closely examined all 8 new healing skills, I would only consider using the Guardian, Ranger and Elementalist new healing skills. The cooldown for any heal skill should be in the range of 25 secs to 10 secs.

Anti-Toxin Spray

This new heal skill is also underpowered. I did not even use it for the living story it was designed to be used for, its that weak. The problem with it is it only removes specific conditions. I would either simply increase the amount it heals for or have it always remove 3 conditions. It could target the 3 specific conditions it was designed for first and if it finds 0, removes 3 random conditions but no bonus healing. If it finds 1 specific condition then it removes that plus 2 random conditions etc.

Players may use the skill then.

Berserker gear Power Precision Crit Damage

Please consider it from a PvE and WvW point of view, in how many 100’s of hours and resources in gold, laurels, possibly real money via gems players have spent getting there berserker gear.

A lot will quit, rather than be forced to make new armour sets/weapons/trinkets and redo there appearance.

Its easy to change gear in PvP.

Very, very hard in PvE and WvW.

Post in this thread if you have any questions:-

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/balance/Balance-Developer-Livestream-on-Friday-at-2pm-PST/first#post3501286

Remember those changes will effect all game modes PvE, WvW, PvP and all 8 classes.

Elementalist’s Melting

I can play most classes with 1 build or another in PvP but no matter what I try and believe me I have tried time and time again but I find the Elementalist completely unplayable.

The problem is you die so quickly, you literally melt and end up spending most of your time dieing, running back, dieing etc…its just unplayable.

I have tried having both Armour of Earths (1 traited, other on skill bar) plus mistform and it only delays the inevitable dieing by a few seconds.

High toughness used to make you a target, don’t know wether it still does or not…

The devs said that the AI does pick out its targets but different bosses have different criteria for choosing who to ‘pick’ on…

I know since I lowered my toughness across all my characters I get targeted a lot less now.

Minion Necro is very, very easy…

You can fall asleep playing the minion Necro its that easy…

Undertaker.2731:

Valentin.2073:

you can play a spirit ranger, guardian and necro. probably a guardian will be best. it helps if you can play multiple professions if you wanna solo q in team arena.

best build for necro? and pls dont say MM ^^

MM…lol

You should have got your chest btw straight away, I just got my rank 29 chest. Should have been flashing in lower right of screen for you to click on…

Buran.3796:

pulupulu.9730:

can any class beat two warriors in 2v2? (obviously equally skilled)

^ Sometimes is like rock, paper, scissors. I saw a lot of Necros writing about how hard counter are hammer Warriors against them; but I had no much troubles against Warriors as a class using a Guardian, whereas at the same time Necros are a brutal uphill to me.

Hammer warriors are awful for Necros, they knock you about all over the place so your skills are always on cooldown and you don’t know which way is up. Exploit Necros lack of stability and there toast usually…

Also, Mesmers casting Moa on Necros is very, very mean because all the Necro’s minions die and then you just behead the big turkey/Necro and they can’t do nothing except die in shame…

Nowhere near your deaths Wanze, I would get a screenshot of anyone claiming the prize btw…

Similar thread on WvW section of this forum where I posted my details, so I may as well post here as well.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/wuv/wuv/Pure-WvWers-post-your-age-Deaths-ect/first#post3470840

Total GW2 hours: 1,578 hrs
Total GW2 deaths: 3,501

8×80’s exactly 1 of each class, mostly all in exotics/ascended trinkets.
No ascended weapons or armour.

Majority of my deaths are in PvP, you can easily die 6+ times in a 15 min game (double, triple that if your a Ele…lol).

Probably go with around 2,000+ deaths in PvP.
1000+ in WvW.
500 or less in PvE, mainly dungeons/fractals/fighting those 1 shot bosses/traps that Anet love so much…

Almost certain:-

- Cooking and Jeweler at 500
- Edge of the Mist Map
- Account Wide WXP
- Fractal Leaderboard
- Season 2 WvW
- Large ‘balancing patch’ lots of trait/skill changes designed to mix up the meta.
- Changes to rewards, perhaps new rewards.
- A new PvP gametype other than conquest.
- PvP replacement for glory, new reward system effectively.

Wishful thinking (NOT going to happen):-

- Precusor Crafting.
- New Legendary Weapons and Armour.
- New Naval Combat mechanics in WvW.
- PvE locker.
- New class weapons.
- Trait templates.
- TP optimized.

Its almost certain that they will raise both to 500 at some point in the future.

The recent gemstore item allowing you to mine copper/silver/gold from your home instance may point to Jeweler.

1,586 hrs over 504 days.

3 hrs 15 mins a day.

Don’t afk at all.

Not playing much anymore thou, just logging in once a week to collect my WvW chests and check if anything new, occasionally play a bit of PvP if I have a spare half an hour.

No quality of life changes.

Nothing for WvW.

Nothing for PvP.

No skill/trait updates/changes.

Possibly, nothing new in the above until after the 4th March 2014.

Basically getting 1 permanent world boss encounter, 1 temporary world boss encounter.

One may be like Tequatl, so you will need possibly 80+ players and probably join a current Tequatl guild.

The other could be like the invasions and be a massive zerg free for all, where players target loot above everything.

You will also get a list of achievements to tick off, some will be annoying.

You will also have a 1 in 100,000 chance of a ascended drop if you complete the boss but other wise the usual 2 greens and a blue.

Excited? Not so much…

Only living story and nothing else till after 4th March sounds terrible to me!

Does this mean nothing at all for WvW and PvP till then?

I hope not, giving nothing to WvW or PvP till then will see the number of players decline considerably in 3 months.

It would mean, nothing new in WvW for 4 months+. Especially disappointing, considering they promised us a new map, which would mean no more queues and account bound wxp.

Love some clarification on this?

Does it mean absolutely nothing new till 4th March other than pure living story, including WvW and PvP?

Brutaly.6257:

Piken square or seafarers rest are both english speaking, well populated and nice servers to be in. Been on both and they where/are nice and pretty crowded.

I wouldnt recommend them if its wvw you want. They have waiting times as long as my johnson. I moved from both due to i want to play with my friends and not wait in a random queue.

Since the end of season 1 queue times are very small now and only at peak times. You can jump into WvW anytime you want atm, even during peak times evening/weekend you will get in straight away to half an hour.

Also, queues in WvW won’t exist at all when Anet release the new WvW map. Of course we have no idea when that’s going to happen…

Seafarers Rest is a very active EU server.

First and foremost a WvW server.

But there’s always loads of players doing PvE too.

Never after wait longer than a minute or 2 for a PvP game to, s/t queue.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-01-14-you-thought-that-was-it-for-guild-wars-2

Some stuff mentioned in there about the direction for the next 3 months.

Does it mean no updates for WvW & PvP till March 2014?

That would mean nothing new in WvW for 4 months…really, really?!?!

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-01-14-you-thought-that-was-it-for-guild-wars-2

Some stuff mentioned in there about the direction for the next 3 months.

Does it mean no updates for WvW & PvP till March 2014?

I can’t believe that they compared living story with Game of Thrones…lol…

Game of Thrones utterly awesome 9.99/10 better than Lord of the Rings, Tolkien.

GW2 Living Story, ‘a bit of a mess’ and I am being very, very kind there…60-70% of GW2 players are not even aware of any story and the rest hate it! GW2 living story 3/10.

Also, if the next 4 updates are focused on Living Story, does this mean no updates for WvW or PvP until March 2014?

Excellent…I can by and large skip the oh so boring living story bits with there grindy list of tasks for you to do…play other games in the meantime and tune in every 3 months for some hopefully meaty, meaningful changes.

I quite like it really!

So if you love Tequatl then your going to love this update…

Otherwise, a part of the Bloodcoast ends up a ‘dead’ area, just like Sparkfly Fen is dead on most servers now…

Awesome…