Guild Wars 2

Epidimic needs an increased cd with reduced cast time. 1 sec Cast animation that can be dodged, LOS, or blocked… Take into account that conditions are often cleansed in the time it takes to apply conditions on a target and get the skill off in high level play. Its a rough nerf to necros for sure.

Not debating it needed a nerf. It was blatantly overpowered for how long? They finally nerf it because it was beginning to effect pve and possibly wvw with the new progression updates allowing for siege might making golems plus timewarp too strong. Anybody seen the pve threads crying because people are farming CoF speed runs with 4 warriors and a mesmer and they arn’t invited because they are X class? They need to seperate PvE, WvW, and SPVP balance but they don’t have the resources for it

I guess what im asking is: Do you think they changed this because it now has the potential to ruin WvW balance through golem rushing with siege might?

It doesn’t make sense they randomly nerf haste. They nerfed burst and left bunkers (eles included) untouched. Im starting to think they are balancing more around what makes the money (WvW and PvE)… They go on to state that pve dungeons werent complicated because of quickness. Thoughts?

In WvW the progression allows you to do more damage with siege through “Siege might”. Do you think they may have nerfed haste to prevent Timewarping golems with siege might from being too overpowered?

I wouldn’t put it past them. They take this “slow” to be careful and then dont nerf ele bunker but nerf quickness? Did they ever mention timewarp during the SOTG? You think with something this gamechanging we would have seen it coming?

I main a necro so this really isn’t a QQ thread its just a question.

No, haste needs a nerf but bunker needs to be nerfed equally. Not one without the other…

What about traits? Evasive arcana allows you to do a cleansing wave very 10 seconds. Isn’t there healing once you attune to water if you trait it too?

Razor.6392:

once RtL is nerfed to oblivion, what are you gonna cry about?

address the root of the problem. elementalists are only annoying because they are unkillable. a glass cannon, or normally geared elementalist will have zero survivability if you butcher RtL again.

use your brain, if you have one.

just try and tell me, how hard is killing a staff ele solo? you have the answer there. that’s what happens with an elementalist that has no mobility.

Because cleansing slows with one of your many condition clears before using RTL wouldnt be fair? Classes with a lot less condition removal (warrior) have to.

Fishbait.6723:

Dog.1472:

It was not a huge nerf in the least. It was an incredibly insignificant change that still left an Elementalist at being more mobile than any other class in the game.

Please stop over dramatizing things. You guys act like Elementalists are suddenly useless.

I`m guessing you pve & don`t pvp.
RTL nerf is huge, check the message below yours for just a few bits.

Also even Rangers can easily outrun us now, along with Necro & even had Guardians out run me easily lately.

If guardians and necros are outrunning you… You may be doing something wrong…

Brutal Arts.6307:

Why doesn’t cripple/chill reduce the distance/speed travelled like other movement skills?

This guy seems to be asking the right question. Reduce the cooldown to 15 secs and make cripple/chill reduce the distance/speed travelled like the other movement skills… The cooldown reduction still won’t keep you from completely resetting the fight which seems to cause all the crying in the first place.

You are crazy. You have heals that scale 1.0 for every healing power… Your good healing skills all align with good specs/traits etc.

Engels is right. The problem with knights and rabid is there is no real synergy. The lack of power from rabid gear and the lack of crit damage overall will make it so your conditions and raw damage will both be lackluster. If you wan’t to make an effective hybrid your going to have to go rampagers and invest some in soul reaping for crit damage. The problem is you will be a glass cannon.

I think we have a million life since i can absorb all fall damage. Remember how we wern’t rallying people along with warriors vengeance? Remember how we couldnt use skills after leaving DS? I now hear of some weapon swapping issues? I wouldn’t bother with the math. I dont think death shroud has been working as intended since the game has been released. I bet if you asked a dev they couldn’t even tell you the details of the “intended” deathshroud mechanic as it changes too often to fix bugs.

1. Why are warriors so good at WvW and so bad at Tpvp? How are you planning to round out the class?
2. Why are rangers so bad at WvW and so good at Tpvp? How are you planning to round out the class?
3. Are you looking into AOE boons/AOE condition removals/AOE damage/ AOE cap (WvW zergs stack)?

Be nice to TC. BG, who we and TC both respect, had an influx of transfers. This lead to them beating both of us with a larger margin than usual. This effectively lowered TC’s rating enough so FA could show up in time to leach rating from SoS who had the people transfer to BG in the first place. (CONSPIRACY I TELL YA!) lol j/k

That aside, all three servers seem to be competing well for the numbers they have! Much Respect!!!

Also TSym is a very good opponent. Nice to see SoS doing their thing!

Maybe try a 0/30/25/0/15 build or a 0/30/20/20 build with staff. You can use knights gear with undead runes if you want some extra condition damage. Run all three wells for some nice AOE with staff/wells and then you can use scepter/dagger for single target stuff. The build will give you great versatility but wouldn’t be ideal for 1v1 stuff.

Condition necro is great until you play in higher tiers were zergs run mass condition removal. Power necro is alright but you are kind of pigeonholed into using the staff for aoe purposes and the marks dont scale that well with power.

Does plague blind now work with the chill trait? Did they fix this?

Try this for bunker build. http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=;08cZ;1kHFJ0E4sJkJ0;9;6TJJ;431727-19-XNk6;2PcW5PcW56gL (It will say bad link so copy and paste into URL)
The key to this build is using axe 2 for building life force and swapping to marks for life force as well. Wells give protection and well of darkness is a life-saver. Make sure you heal before going in plague… You get double life so essentially your mitigating half the damage you take once you pop back out. In plague i spam blind and by the time im out my heal is almost back again. Basically you use wells for protection when you expect a burst. The idea is to bounce around from dusk shroud—->axe (#2 great life force)—->spam marks on staff (life force)——>back to ds. You essentially can survive until your heal is back.

What are the guardians going to be useful for when necro bugs are fixed and become more valuable to a team comp? Plauge signet fix among other stuff should make necros competetive and more abundant. Nerfing bunker builds now when the meta isnt established could backfire. Guardians may lose their competetive edge with a nerf. That being said, guardian bunkers are a pain right now. Guardians will be quick to point out that condition damage destroys them…Just bring a necro they say.

What does a necro bring to a team comp? They have no real access to stability (no good at stomp/rez and get cc), no real burst damage, and limited cc. Their only strength in the meta seems to be boon stripping and area control via wells/marks. Their condition damage is removed alot. They may be viable in a team that runs alot of condition damage to wear them down. But i would argue that your better of bringing something else unless you got a pro necro. We all know that a necro takes way too long to kill your guardian. And if a team has to bring 2 to kill one you have already done your job. I am only r11 and currently new to this so correct me if i am wrong.

I registered just to approve this thread. This is a fair and respectable view of some wvw issues in a game we love. I had a good laugh comparing wvw to the hit song “I Get Knocked Down”. Would be nice if this got stickied or a Developer took a look at this. Very professional. /Golfclap