Guild Wars 2

Because they don’t want you running core guardian, and to buy the expac’s obviously.

Now…who could have seen that coming?

The worst part is, a bunch of other traits got indirectly nerfed because of the hit on Vital Persistence and speed of shadows.

The 600 range…on a ranged weapon was clearly game breaking. The risen and centaur mobs were tired of getting abused by guardians and threatened a boycott if this change wasn’t made.

Zoltreez.6435:

Fenrir Bartea.5917:

Agreed. This change is terrible for wvw. That extra time out of shroud destroys any counterplay to a daredevil or other fast class. In exchange for what? Some swiftness that does us absolutely zero good up against all the gap openers & closers on literally every other class. Laughable.

lets not forget how that swiftness will be converted to a Condition almost instantly XDDD

Also swiftness is pretty much useless in combat!

Fenrir Bartea.5917:

Agreed. This change is terrible for wvw. That extra time out of shroud destroys any counterplay to a daredevil or other fast class. In exchange for what? Some swiftness that does us absolutely zero good up against all the gap openers & closers on literally every other class. Laughable.

Dont forget thieves will get a rifle with 1500 range next month. Of course anet wont actually fix broken mechanics like stealth spam, perma dodge/vigor/evades….so that will be fun to fight right?

But elemental summons got buffed, that makes ele not suck right?

Zoltreez.6435:

Serenity.6135:

vicious.5683:

Serenity.6135:

Shroud ends faster, and you have to wait longer to use it again…yea thanks anet.

Reduced survivability and same old (and lame) dps.

Lol what dps, you can just kite a necro, outlast their shroud and kill them before they even get to you.

i cant tell the amount of times i got killed by people that just run away from me while shooting me with ranged abilities to death….

but 1st jump on me with a burst that removes 80% of my shrouds HP….. then just kite till im dead…..

or just simply Knock me down and arround infinitely till both my HP and shroud is gone and im dead….

necros have sooooooo many issues and they nerf it THIS hard is laughable…..

Yep, only now its easier! And a bunch of other traits got nerfed along with the Vital Persistence nerf destroying a lot of build synergy. As if it wasn’t bad enough that conditions shredded shroud fast enough. But guess what more condition spam is coming with the elite specs!

Genesis.5169:

“And finally, we’re looking to normalize damage for the elementalist so that it is not effectively the best-in-slot for damage, support, and survivability in all scenarios.”

-Mark Katzbach

All those dps Elementalist in Spvp and wvw i see.
Those revs who’s regen’s which revs like a billion times better then ours.
Survivability, yep we have to point our entire gear set and spec into healing power to get that survivability.

I don’t PvE much on my Elementalist but im pretty sure this is absurd there too.

That quote made me laugh, I don’t know what game they are playing.

vicious.5683:

Serenity.6135:

Shroud ends faster, and you have to wait longer to use it again…yea thanks anet.

Reduced survivability and same old (and lame) dps.

Lol what dps, you can just kite a necro, outlast their shroud and kill them before they even get to you.

Shroud ends faster, and you have to wait longer to use it again…yea thanks anet.

Dont forget speed of shadows…now not only does death shroud now offer little protection and gets shredded by all the condi spam, you now have to wait longer to use it! GJ once again anet on another fail from your balance department.

Don’t worry, spirit weapons will save us!

Don’t worry everyone, spirit weapons will save us!

Make sure you are in combat

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/wuv/Temporarily-Disabling-Catapults/first#post6680125

Just another idiotic change. Considering most of the new elite specs are condition based…such a surprise right… berserker is going to have a terrible time sustaining through it. Basically what anet is saying is, buy PoF and use the new elite specs.

Another stupid and uncalled for change…staff now useless. A ranged weapon with 300 range??? Good call anet!

vicious.5683:

Flubbernaut.9584:

vicious.5683:

Flubbernaut.9584:

But what if I want to run reaper? What about f2p players? Are we not as important?

Necromancers as a whole are not importan to Anet. It’s common knowledge and you must be new.

Yeah I guess I have to agree with you on that one mate. But I’ve gotten a lot of success with necromancers in PvP by staying in shroud. Now I not only suck in all areas of PvE, I also suck at PVP. It’s almost as if the devs thought to themselves “Guys, necros are officially the deprived child nobody wants in PvE. How do we make it worse?” It makes me wonder if engis are also still on the same boat with us.

Either way, it’s still infuriating when they nerf the hell out of necromancers and come up with the most shallow rationales for doing so. Jesus Anet, just say necromancers have never been a priority

Let’s imagine Anet realizes they kittened up, it will take half a year to revert this nerf.

They wont, its clear they want people to move on to the new elite specs to drive sales. I am not very interested in scourge, but what choice is there if the important parts of my build get nerfed this badly.

Pyre makes more sense. He is a character that many players are familiar with, he was a rebellious charr, and actually used a bow. The choice of Kalla…I don’t know it kind of screams political correctness using a female instead of another male legend. Which seems to be the trend with anet.

McKenna Berdrow.2759:

jucep.2094:

no more Ticket cap , i just got 14 tickets on the first Diamond Chest after finishing diamond tier.

This is unintended. There is supposed to be a weekly ticket cap and we will be fixing this.

Is the increased amount of tickets unintended as well?

Very bad change. It is bad enough that shroud gets eaten up by conditions, Vital persistence was one of the few ways a necromancer could sustain through damage. Now they made it useless….

bambuuPANDA.5037:

Vagrant.8613:

Base pips have increased by +2. Each box gives tickets, not just the final box. Completing diamond is like 355 tickets now. I’m in WvW right now. Diamond does repeat so there essentially is no weekly cap.

From what I’ve seen in the weeks I did finish Diamond, Diamond does repeat, but after the first completion, it does not reward any tickets, just get the other rewards from each box.

Unless they changed it this patch?

I am not sure if repeating it gives tickets now, or they just reset it. They might have reset diamond for those that already completed it, so they could earn the extra tickets.

I just checked it, I missed it initially since I did not see it in the patch notes. It does appear that each chest does give tickets now, and each division gives more tickets then before.

Vagrant.8613:

each box gives tickets, not just the final box. Completing diamond is like 355 tickets now.

If that’s true I might have missed it, I will double check. I did not see that in patch notes about increasing the amount of tickets just about splitting them.

Vagrant.8613:

Have you looked at the number of each box gives now? I haven’t calculated how many tickets you can get but it’s about doubled. AND diamond repeats

Repeating diamond does not give extra tickets. And I don’t think they increased the amount of tickets you can get each week, they just split the tickets in Diamond into each of the 6 chests instead of all being in the last chest.

Problem solved.

Brimstar.9036:

So, you’re literally undervaluing PvE Legendary Armor with this update? You can get a easier to get stat swapping version through these game types. Thats simply a smack in the face to people who got PvE Legendary armor. Wow.

No its not. WvW ascended gear is time gated and to get a full set takes a minimum of 2 months. This feature also does not add any new Legendary skin/effect. Also the wvw gear requires 3 grandmasters marks each.

On the otherhand I saw people with legendary armor as soon as it came out.

I think its fair.

Sanity Obscure.6054:

McKenna Berdrow.2759:

If you have reforged either the PvP or WvW ascended armor you will need to earn a new piece of PvP or WvW ascended armor.

Reforged ascended armor will not work.

That’s a pretty huge flaw to have an already wildly stat selectable piece of precusor armor become worthless in regards to this legendary upgrade. Ironic too when it’s all about stat changes, and it makes me think this wasn’t thought through very well. There are a massive amount of players that have now essentially thrown entire sets of precursors away.

I hope you guys can change your stance and recompensate players for this. Really sad.

What do you mean throw away? You can still use it, just like any crafted armor.

Will we be able to keep runes/sigils/infusions when upgrading?

CaboSoul.1204:

McKenna Berdrow.2759:

Pillo.3490:

McKenna Berdrow.2759:

animalmother.5940:

Hey Grant and McKenna, that’s great news.

Just one quick question: If you bought the Exotic version of the WvW Triumphant Hero’s Armor and transmuted another piece of regular Ascended armor with the skins, are you able to convert it to legendary armor?

Because the cost of tickets to get the Exotic version is the same of the Ascended and a lot of people (myself included) already bought the Exotic version just to unlock the skins and transmuted other Ascended pieces to it.

You cannot upgrade the exotic into ascended or legendary. You will need to purchase the ascended gear.

What if you transmuted the ascended armor, will that work?

Yes! Transmuted will work.

What about transmuted reforged armor?

Earlier Post by Mckenna:

If you have reforged either the PvP or WvW ascended armor you will need to earn a new piece of PvP or WvW ascended armor.

Reforged ascended armor will not work.

Hiwi Kiwi.7386:

Yea, agreed with serenity.. what is the point of legendary armor if it doesn’t look cool? :/ I don’t need to stat swap.. and I despise raids because of all the elitist kittens there.. Thanks anet..

Personally I care more about the practical benefit of this change, there are a lot better skins out there that can be transmuted. But letting us change stats/runes etc will be incredibly beneficial.

Kirtai.9023:

McKenna Berdrow.2759:

You cannot upgrade the exotic into ascended or legendary. You will need to purchase the ascended gear.

So those of us who bought the exotics instead of the ascended essentially wasted our tickets?

You need the exotics to unlock the ascended versions. You could have unlocked them through the reward tracks as well.

McKenna Berdrow.2759:

If you have reforged either the PvP or WvW ascended armor you will need to earn a new piece of PvP or WvW ascended armor.

Reforged ascended armor will not work.

Does it matter if any skins were transmuted onto the ascended gear? And will any runes/sigils/infusions/skins be lost on upgrading it to legendary?

animalmother.5940:

Boo freaking hoo for those crying about this.

Open up your minds. This is great news, things get stale if nothing changes and WvW has barely changed in 5 years. You’re all crying the whole time about about WvW not getting enough attention or changes, and then you cry just because a great PvE feature is added to the game mode?

You all sound like old farts with that fear of change. This sounds great and has incredible potential to add a feature that will greatly improve and refresh the game mode.

How exactly will it do that?

McKenna Berdrow.2759:

Serenity.6135:

Will we also have the ability to switch runes like on legendary armor?

Yes! You will be able to switch runes just like legendary armor.

Thanks!

Will we also have the ability to switch runes like on legendary armor?

XxTronic.9310:

You should work on these heavy skillags

Yea seriously, lag, terrible class balance…are these not important? Why they waste time on this nonsense….

jamesdolla.3954:

Serenity.6135:

I’m just really curious, what is this supposed to add to WvW? People will just fly away instead of fighting now, or sit on ballista’s. At least disable gliding while in combat.

They already run away which is prob faster than gliding.

And now entire groups will just fly away, and only ranged players will be able to hit them. How about we all just build ballista’s and wait for targets…idiotic waste of time.

Fay.2357:

Serenity.6135:

I’m just really curious, what is this supposed to add to WvW? People will just fly away instead of fighting now, or sit on ballista’s. At least disable gliding while in combat.

It’s not like you can just up and fly away, lmfao. You still need something to glide off of…

Any slight change in terrain, even a small slope lets you glide.

I’m just really curious, what is this supposed to add to WvW? People will just fly away instead of fighting now, or sit on ballista’s. At least disable gliding while in combat.

Wow, now this is an amazing change.

Can we please have an option to keep the mouse cursor on the screen instead of having it disappear every time we hold down the mouse button? This would be very helpful, because it can be annoying at times trying to find the cursor when there is a lot of stuff all over the screen blocking our view.

Hi, the Mursaat brogans from the latest Living Story Episode become soulbound when adding a rune, unlike the previous armor pieces that remain account bound. Is this intended or a bug?

He did not say it was the “BIG” update that some people are waiting on, for some reason. He simply said it was a big update. I take that statement to mean that any updates they have for WvW, will not require players to have to wait for something like an expansion. So if they have something to release they will just release it as part of normal updates, most likely alongside future Living story episodes every couple of months.

Thank you for the great work on this!

Little sad about tomes not being included…maybe we could get more items to purchase with spirit shards

Karnyvor.5482:

I used this workaround…in addition to adding a string to add an alternate login server. I’m still crashing.

Hi, this only helps with problems with connecting to the game when the regular way does not work for whatever reason. It does not help with crashes unfortunately.

chico.7068:

Serenity.6135:

Hi, I am still having this same problem, here is a temporary fix I found in another thread and also posted in a thread I started last night about this very issue:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/support/Connection-Issues-July-11-and-12/first

“As a workaround, try launching with:

Gw2.exe -assetsrv 64.25.41.2

(the CDN is down and this is ArenaNet’s server)"

I don’t know what to do with this line of code. I saw that this is called the target, but all I get when I right click the shortcut is a drop down, which includes “Open” “Run as Administrator” “Send to,” etc. Am I looking at the wrong this?

Hi, you have to right click the launcher icon, click properties and add
-Gw2.exe -assetsrv 64.25.41.2 to the end of the area called Target, make sure you skip a space before adding the command.

Hi, I am still having this same problem, here is a temporary fix I found in another thread and also posted in a thread I started last night about this very issue:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/support/Connection-Issues-July-11-and-12/first

“As a workaround, try launching with:

Gw2.exe -assetsrv 64.25.41.2

(the CDN is down and this is ArenaNet’s server)"

Temporary solution from this thread-

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/support/Connection-Issues-July-11-and-12/first

As a workaround, try launching with:

Gw2.exe -assetsrv 64.25.41.2

(the CDN is down and this is ArenaNet’s server)