Azure, not really. When I run that dungeon we still DPS that boss down instead of wasting time with the totems or worrying about CC since he has the defiance stacks.
Mokah… You must be new here because they have a history of bringing things down to match instead of lifting things up to match.
A dev has already said they’d rather change the preception of something than actually improve it. That’s why the ranger shortbow got nerfed to make the longbow look better by comparison. That is fact. That is history. That was done. That was not the only case of it either. There is no reason to believe they won’t bring down Zerkers instead of bringing up other types of builds due to past history… So, I repeat, you must be new here.
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Yep Anet prefer to nerf than buff, so you get a downward power curve, where your characters get less powerful the longer you play…completely different from other games.
Chances are if Anet do something about the dps meta the will completely over nerf them, making there builds useless and obviously all that equipment armour/weapons a waste of time that the players in question took so long to get.
Nerfing is negative and the majority of players DO NOT LIKE IT.
Its funny when another persons class gets nerfed and they start crying. Not so funny when its yours. Really, players abandon games completely, usually after bad mouthing the game wherever possible if you nerf there favourite character/build.
I, myself have 8xlvl 80’s, 1 of each class but atm I will not play my Ranger fullstop because of nerfs and I will not play my Elementalist in PvP.
Powercreep may be viewed as bad by some players but it is a positive action and avoids completely alienating some players. Tiny powercreep over the medium to long term is no bad thing, in my opinion.
Very amusing to see several servers tanking, losing on purpose to try to get into a lower league. For example Piken Square & Desolution both desperate to get in silver league rather than be in gold league….I am sure plenty of other servers are having the same idea…
This is a problem, a system that encourages servers to try and lose vs trying to win.
Anet really need to look at trying to balance the different servers more.
I think introducing ascended armour was a totally pointless exercise and a waste of the devs time.
They would have been much better introducing Legendary armour instead…same stats as exotic but a awesome skin, a slot for everything (infusions, rune etc…) and each legendary piece changeable to whatever stats you wanted outside of combat.
Everyone would have wanted legendary armour, very few people want ascended armour…
1. Less time to get WvW titles, perhaps 1-2 years instead of the rest of your life, literally in my case!
2. Make defending towers, keeps and stonemist far more important meaningful.
3. A ‘interesting’ open field area, which is important for some reason to fight over. Standing in ruins forever is boring.
4. A WvW way to get everything in the game, especially ascended weapons, armour, backpieces.
5. Consider a entire waterworld map, for those of us who do like water combat. Plus, possibly ships with cannons…
Mistform + Armour of Earth need nerfing, they delay killing a Ele by a few secs…its most annoying and I can only kill the same Ele around 50 times in a sPvP game, I won’t be happy till its a 100!
Defending my home keep in Eternal borderlands through the night…
Started at 12am, finally went to bed 5am’ish.
Just 20-30 of us vs 100-150 enemy zerg.
It was like The Legend by David Gemmel. A dozen attacks where repulsed, the keep had more holes than walls and all the stairways were destroyed several times. It looked bleak at the end with all our siege destroyed and the enemy able to walk through our keep in several spots but by then the 11th or 12th time they had attacked and been defeated there morale was shot to bits and somehow we won…
It was still T3 keep and had not been taken, when I woke up in the afternoon too.
Apparently they totally, completely HATE powercreep…so they have choosen to go the other way instead and have loads of underpowered, useless skills, abilities, traits, even entire classes.
Can someone come up with a catchy name for the opposite of overpowered (OP)? We need it for GW2!
The hate of OP is what they learned from GW1 apparently…
Personally, I hate ‘balanced’ because it leads to what we have now, which is loads of medicore builds, skills, traits and very few build options…a little bit OP, especially if you can manage it in some way or another for all classes is a lot more fun, exciting than underpowered.
How about just introducing stricter posting requirements, character caps no quoting etc
If you saw what most of the infractions were really about, you wouldn’t have this attitude. People are infracted for, sometimes, very benign statements. Mag has a collection of infractions ~11 pages deep on our server forums as proof of it.
I could add a while page just myself. I would talk about it here but you can get in trouble for talking about why you got in trouble…..
^This is 100% true…
Posted on countless forums for over a decade never a single problem…really not kidding or exaggerating.
GW2 forums I have had loads of infractions, they perhaps should look at there policy on Forum Moderation Enforcement and consider if its way over the top, too harsh, cause its way, way out of line with all other games forums.
Really Dutchdevil your argument is completely invalid…
Before the recent update do you know what sPvP players got reward wise? Pretty much nothing thats what…for nearly 18 months no rewards at all…
Now some have got lucky and had a one off windfall.
Your 2 million glory is a massive exaggeration btw…just how many players have 2 million glory, not many and the time spent getting that must have mean’t they missed out on all the rewards in PvE.
Btw I had 100,000 glory which up till now I considered worthless.
just had tpvp with an ele from the opposing team. he became a free kill until the game ended. he was able to help his team finish us all at the first battle at midpoint but that didn’t happen again. a team that actually thinks would make killing a zerker ele top priority.
^This is so true, if you see a Ele on opposite team, melt them 1st, they melt really, really easy…then you enjoy a 5vs4…its really very, very rare to see a Ele now in sPvP.
I would say DE do need some improvement in rewards.
I do like the idea of them dropping specific crafting materials…it would give you more reason to do them.
My favourite DE’s are chains of events, even small chains of 2-3 events rather then single DE’s on there own. For example the Maw is a good, fun chain, also the veteran wurm, egg hunt, defend the homestead and the assault on the Svanir champion chain.
Perhaps a increase in just karma they return plus every DE drops 50 luck and specific crafting materials according to zone?
I like areas in zones that are DE rich, rather than nothing for 10-20 mins which is boring…
go to the mists, try the spvp (it auto-levels you to 80), take a look at the class skills, and u will have better idea if you like this game.
^This is excellent advice from milo…
Try all the classes at 80…see if you like them…
Also check WvW out see if you like that…its a excellent place for leveling…if your server has a karma train taking towers/keeps/stonemist you can gain 2-3 xp levels a hour.
By the sound of it you may like dungeons/fractals which are like the story instances only far harder…you after be level 40+ to do those and really best at 80 with decent gear.
Quickest way is champion train in Queensdale which is a starting area.
The champ bags have a decent chance at a skill point.
Also, just do the skill areas in the 5 starting zones, go via Lions Arch portals.
Otherwise WvW, all the tower, keeps and stonemist are champs, so once again you collect champ bags. Takes longer then Queensdale champ train but more interesting as your fighting other players.
Its boring is why crafting is so unpopular and because of the TP its hard to make a profit in the long run as the TP balances the price of everything out pretty well.
Anet like crafting because its a gold sink and drains players money/resources, so they after play longer.
They rushed the new skills out so that they could say they fulfilled their promise of new skills in 2013. To make sure they didn’t rush out something too unbalanced, they gave all the skills long recharges.
That’s my theory, at least.
^Agree 100%.
Hopefully they will buff them Jan 21st or next balance patch.
Anet need to make those new skills HIGHLY DESIRABLE, ie…a little OP and then later on after everyone has had fun with them balance them/tone them down.
..so that everyone can spend the following year screaming about nerfs and how they want their 25 skill points back.
Vs
How players are laughing at how bad they are and not even bothering to get the skill points to get them now, because unless buffed they won’t get on players skill bars…
Really, if they said they were aiming at being slightly OP to begin with and would be balanced in the next balance patch would be a better way to go. New skills are mean’t to be exciting not inferior to what you already have.
When you say dailies, does that include both PvE and PvP or are we able to do just the one? I’ve done 5/5 for my daily PvE yet my meta for the Journeyman Toymaker still remains the same
Cheers
Its just 1 specific daily, like mine today is throw 5 snowballs at other players for the wintersday achievement.
Also, kill toxic wurm, alchemist or spider queen for the Toxic achievement.
BUT Anet have made the new healing skills underpowered and been far to cautious with them, so players are not desiring the new skills. Indeed a lot of players are looking and not bothering with them because current skills are same/much better.
Anet need to make those new skills HIGHLY DESIRABLE, ie…a little OP and then later on after everyone has had fun with them balance them/tone them down.
No point in new skills if they are…meh, nothing special.
Reading back through this thread its really weird in that the devs said they were looking to decrease there length…yet in practice you now after do 4 fractals instead of 3 before, so they increased the length.
I don’t know if this is related/connected in anyway…
But loads of gaming videos are being taken down/censored off youtube, something to do with goggle apparently…anyway a lot of the gaming companies themselves don’t want this. Blizzard, Ubisoft others have said they are fine with the gaming videos and want them left alone.
Its a big mess about copyright laws apparently…a overreaction…
