Sorry, “1,000 blades” is an old wuxia movies term and I just got it stuck in my head
. And I’m not angry at all – just pointing out that the underlying theme, consequence, and DESIGNER INTENT of the changes is obvious – the combinations being disrupted aren’t being disrupted accidentally. Those combinations are the primary target of the warrior changes.
Its just that the only people who ever call HB anything more than HB (spelt other ways obviously) have been upset at the skill. That’s why they do it. Its a childish way of showing you don’t like something by changing its name to emphasize a point, and it happens a lot on the forums.
So you’re saying you weren’t doing exactly that? Alright I guess I’ll take your word for it.
I play the “I’m older and slower than I was 10, much less 30, years ago” class. Fortunately my build comes with a really sweet tax bracket and lots of free time to play games like this. I’m much sharper with stunbreaks out in WvW than I was even a month ago. But fact remains across 8+ years of MMOs that there is nothing I find more tiresome than “mez’d to death” gameplay. The pattern of Warrior changes is an old and familiar one – less burst and more sustain so that fights are not decided in a single combination. I’ve found quite a few MMOs committed to PvP evolve towards slower time-to-kill rulesets and that’s what I see in many of the changes described in the leak.
Though I am sympathetic to the human body’s faults as we age, I don’t think that’s really a valid complaint to make against any one particular build. Most games that have PvP gameplay come with the understanding that a little reaction time is necessary.
That does not mean everyone should plan on being able to react in under a second or not play. Personally, I think the Quickness nerf was way overdue. Even the way it is now is just broken. Now it provides almost nothing for a short period of time. Just remove the speed increase on skills and change it to something else. It was never a good idea.
What you’ve said, however, is that players are being pinned long enough for HB to land with “absolutely overwhelming regularity.” I really don’t see that at all. I have a zerk build war that I use in WvW. He’s a lot of fun. I don’t ever land a full HB anymore. Most of the time, the only way I’m hitting people with HB the entire way through is when other players in a larger fight walk in and out of it, taking damage and leaving.
Seriously though, what class do you play?
Hmm. How could they possibly have felt a need to distribute stun breaks more widely…? Oh! I know! Pick me pick me!
They’ve moved the stun breakers from more powerful skills to less used skills so that classes like the warrior can have a chance at landing an attack like Bull’s Charge and actually effect the fight. Check the ele’s cantrips. They can cry foul but its just one more step to leveling them out. In April they were brought from god status to demigod status. Unfortunately for players in the top class, it’s filled with overly zealous PvP class-only individuals that just play the best class available and claim they have “uber” skill.
Because we weren’t all carrying stun breaks?
Most players in PvP carry at least one stun breaker. Even zerk wars. I’m not aware of any instance that a player wasn’t automatically given a host of unfriendly “L2P” arguments for not bringing at least one stun breaker.
I guess maybe they thought they’d make some changes so people in set-ups other than 100% roamer would get victimized a little less often on their way from place to place that actually has scoring value.
And we get to the crux of the matter. You run zerg build and you’re upset that there are players picking you off on your own from place to place. Believe it or not, roaming is important. Picking off players rezzing and running back to reinforce, defending camps, spanking yaks, flipping sentries, harassing keeps and generally putting players on edge are all part of the WvW meta and they all help.
If you want some friendly advice, as you’re transitioning from alone to zerg, find skills, a weapon set, and traits within the same build that give you some help in a small group or 1v1 situation so you can at least leave the fight. The only classes that can’t do that are the guardian and the necro, but those classes can do well with their best 1v1 builds in the zerg anyway.
See what you guys don’t get is the tale of poor Razor who’s been upset ever since they started nerfing RTL. See Razor used to run a D/D Zerker build and when he got into trouble he’d just RTL out of danger. But then they nerfed it and ever since he hasn’t been able to pull it off and everything has been doom and gloom.
Poor, poor Razor
Actually… I’ve been really enjoying the focus. It’s arguably better than off hand dagger by a long shot now that RtL is useless to get away from anything.
Why are you still mad about the times I’d shut your face in embarrassment months ago? It’s not hard to use logic. You should try it sometime.
I lol’d
So you really did try to build D/D zerk and exploit OP skills? Wow.
Sry bro, balance happens.
One thing I will tell you about warriors is that if you don’t have vit/tough gear on your warrior you have little room for error. It is there, your base hp and a few skills allow for some mistakes. Its just harder to play. Most content is easier on the thief if you know the fight and when to dodge. Thieves get a lot more ‘outs’ so if they use one at the wrong time there’s a good chance it wasn’t the last one available.
On the warrior forum you’ll hear a lot of complaining about how bad they are in PvP. On the thief forum its PvE. The difference between the two is that warriors are definitely at the bottom of the totem pole as far as PvP is concerned whereas thieves just have a lot of instagib players that don’t know how to use their skills to evade instead of trying to facetank and DPS their way through PvE content.
The thief is a little more selfish than the rest of the classes in GW2. He can lay fields if he has the proper weapon set, and he can share some things when traited for it but most players don’t take them. That can make the thief less desirable in dungeon groups, but unfortunately that’s on the player and not the class itself. I won’t not invite a thief or kick them from group, but I mostly don’t look for thieves to group with specifically because most of the players on that class try to PvE with their PvP buttons.
Anyway, you’ve got a warrior up to 40. Push it to 80, get some exotics, and smash some faces in dungeons. If you like it, you can stick with it until you’re bored. THEN play a thief
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Sorry, I just had to point this out:
Another GS build. [blah blah blah] It relies on being carried.
Here’s a more balanced build that won’t drop like a fly and you still have enough [blah blah blah blah blah] if you work together as a team
So either way you’re expecting teammates to pull some weight for you.
What was your point again?
I find it amusing that in every other aspec of every game that people want balance. But in wvw matches where they r for the most part balance everyone complain about being stale. When it comes to wvw u can’t have balanced matches and non repetitive matches unless all severs r equal which is impossible for anet to do. Only the players can balance servers
That’s not true… they could go all communist Russia on people and force you to play on the servers that need players
Though, to stay on topic, there should really be more incentive to play in WvW. Ascended items, constant class balance, and an improved ranking system will help but it can only go so far… and adding more PvE events in the WvW zone is not the answer.
I think WvW and PvE should be further linked through the squad system. Start with adding a squad player list, like most games have with raids, and then give players the ability to translate their ranked benefits to PvE zones when in a squad. Then, design PvE encounters or events that make use of those benefits. The small story arches they’re doing in places like Southsun Cove could pan out into more of a “siege” event with pre-generated equipment that uses bonuses and monsters that count as guards, lords, and claimers. They could even label it a [Squad] Event so players know to actively look for squad mates.
That’s just a thought, and it may not work, but I think many players would agree that WvW feels too separate/insignificant to the rest of the game.
you’ll never be able to buy ascended items for badges.
1) badges are kitten easy to get on high tiers, this is so you can buy lots of siege.
2) waaaay too many people are stuffed senseless with badges and are too selfish too buy lots of siege and want rewards for themselves, aka ascended items.It’s not ever going to happen, and you can quote me on it
Will do.
I will expect to see patch notes:
- Ascended items are now able to be purchased at specific vendors in WvW
- User “Cottage Pie.6215” has had name forcibly changed to “Cottage Humble Pie.2703”
There is a reason why it’s called ‘Dragon Bash’ and not ‘Dragon Festival.’ All will be revealed in due course.
That either means we’ll be getting a “Dragon Festival” at some point, or that the name itself infers the bashing of a dragon during the time of the festival.
Personally, I’d like to see a big dragon piñata hung up in Lion’s Arch so we can all “bash” it…and then loot bags fly out…to which we may be eligible for a random roll on a new “Dragon Tail” back piece…
Food for thought…