why can devs say “stop trolling” on their livestream but we cant say it here? is it only bad when us lesser human being say it? but its “cool” or “acceptable” when you do?
explain. devs.
GO!
All I have to say is, condition damage in spvp and wvw is so over the top it sucks to play sometimes. And if they buff it by doing this, they will have only ripened the meta with maybe people picking different gear to do more conditions. No thank you and please god no. I’ll take skill with melee over passive conditions any day.
I agree… They are focused on the wrong thing. There will always be a dominant stat combination. By attempting to shift the balance they risk further damaging other aspects of the game. Instead, they should balance classes so everyone has a access to some AoE damage, sustainable multi target damage via cleave, and options to provide some form of support which doesn’t have a significantly negative impact on the class’s ability to deal damage.
At the moment Warrior, Elementalist and Guardian can do that. Warrior has plenty of cleaves, burst skills, high damaging abilities, and provides support via banners. Elementalist can stack damage modifiers better than any other class, provide a lot of might to the group and in less DPS heavy runs can easily provide some healing support. Guardian can cleave, has some AoE damaging abilities, and supports via healing and shields.
Many classes can only play for themselves, meaning they can’t even form a different group composition allowing them to work just as effectively because they lack the ability to synergise. They also have significantly lower DPS even when using berserker, whether due to very low coefficients, no single skill which far exceeds the others in damage (i.e burst), no damage boosting mechanisms, and inability to stack damage modifiers to a point where their multiplicative nature begins to significantly boost their DPS.
u made me think of something. god. lol. they are trying to play god with their game. yes its theirs. w.e. but my point is they try to fix everything by breaking somethign. they need to stop thinking nerf nerf nerf nerf and try buff buff buff areas that can counterbalance problems.
whats that you say? everyone is using zerk gear (not true meta is condi)? well lets buff conditions a tad and see if that gives people more competitive options.
whats that you say nobody wants to play medium/light classes? (instead of nerfing heavies) lets boost up them a lil bit to give them more competitive edge to be on par.
why is it always nerf nerf nerf nerf? why not buff the weak areas?
Dear anet……
Imagine . . . you have a 1 foot diameter ball of clay. this ball of clay you have is not perfectly round but you would like it to be so. you start shaving off little by little. the more you shave off the more critical you become and continue to shave moreoff as you come closer to your ideal spherical perfection. much time has passed. younow have a 1 inch ball of clay that is much more round than it started with but its also much . . .much smaller.
Incase youdont follow your ball of clay is GW2 metaphorically of course. stop chiseling away at your game and add things . buff things. stop trying to take things down and start building them up or you are going to have nothign left (aka the players).
How about you kids at Anet look at conditions and their application instead of wasting our time patch after patch with non-sensical new trash or bugs/fixes that should have been dealt with months ago.
Berserker meta? LOL
Condition Meta boys. There’s a reason you step into an spvp match and find 10 hambow warriors, or condi necros, or condi pu mesmers, or condi regen bm rangers. notice a trend?
There needs to be either A) immunity timers on condition applications or
A stat or a combination of stats needs to aid in the defense/duration of conditions on said player and not rely solely on cleansing skills.
It’s been months of this crap. and AI is over the gd top. The players barely even play anymore.
this is economic based decisions. more AI = more players able to play at a higher lvl and enjoy the game. more enjoyful gamers = more money spent. more money spent = more revenue.
ever wonder why we went from hundreds of thousands of collective build combinations in gw1 down to a few thousand tops in gw2?
ever wonder why the skills have timers rather than combinations or pre requisites like from gw1?
ever wonder why there is no healing class? (hint: its not bc they want tomake each play more self reliant but they wanted to make it so its less group reliant)
so many things i could name off but ill stop bc i think u get the point.
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Sounds like a nerf to crit damage which is yet another nerf to thieves. Again…
yeah its another stiff to the thieves without putting the stiff in the thief column.
lets put it this way.
lets say….. we rate guardian , warrior and thief and take them both down a notch in dmg due to the crit dmg change thats coming (granted its a nerf) and see who gets hurt the most
(rated out of 10 being the highest 0 being the lowest)
warrior – defense 8 – offense 8.5 – teamplay 7.5
guardian – defense 10 – offense 6.5 – teamplay 9
thief – defense 4 – offense 9 – teamplay 5
now lets look at POST crit dmg nerf
warrior – def 8 – off 7.5 – teamplay 7
guard – def 10 – off 5.5 – teamplay 8.5
thief – def 4 – offense 8 – teamplay 4.5
it took everyone down the sameamount yet the thief looks like total doo overall. this is bc when a warrior hits thief with that lil nerf its giong to hit the same….. it still takes 2-3 secs to kill that thief.. . where as the thief still needs to hit the warrior but for a few more hits total bc of the warriors high hp/defense/toughness etc.
if there IS a nerf to crit dmg… shoudl prolly pop thieves into middle HP category. 10.8k hp just isnt enough for this mediocre to “on par w/ other classes” dmg.
I have been kicked two or three times from a group as you say here, so it may be something on your server? But yes, way too many doesn’t know what they’re doing, yet they join experienced / speed groups, and as I said; I agree on that point. People shouldn’t join something they’re not up for. In tPvP I meet a lot of negativity against the thief. There it’s go meta or gtfo, but that applies to pretty much every profession. Thieves get hit pretty hard there due to the devs hate against stealth and thieves in general. As for dungeons and fractals I sometimes meet some negative feedback, but I tell them to give me a shot and I’m usually doing a few dungeons / paths with them after that
Hmm, valid point about the waiting and not spending your in-game time waiting. I never get kicked, so I don’t know man :/
it really compounds with the problem anet made by making thieves barely if at all desierable for dungeons/fractals. so on top of being a bad team class …. bad players make it doubly worse and these 2 combined make thieves auto kicked from alot of higher end groups.
Turn off auto attack and take control yourself :-)
CTRL+RMB enables/disables auto attack for a weapon skill.
i will try it on this way, thx.
…and everybody says #3 is unusable, but it’s very effective against 100b and other abilities/attacks with a 180° attack radius and ‘cast’ time.
who the f*** runs with bleeding build and #3 since the patch with more condition removal? (WvW, pvp)
100b will own your DB spam. i bet 90% of the 100b attack hit you. that means you might dodge 1 out of 10. that is of course if the warrior doesnt afk in 1 spot and moves a couple of inches :P. very easy stuff. dont use DB as an evade. just trying to help. more important yet dont go blowing a bunch of gold on a d/d DB build. its not a competitive build. i like it for lvling up…but wouldnt use it outside of that. soon as u r ready for team play its totally useless. everyone else in the party stacks bleeds too so…. whywould they need more when 20-25 stacks is so easily achieved?