Guild Wars 2

It is not. At least not for me and I will never adapt. I played since release with staff and bigger marks and you can tell me what you want, I will not agree. Everytime I use staff now, I see and feel the difference – every time! And I cannot invest 20 kitten points!

I find it odd that not more people do complain.

I think that was one of the worst decisions that could be taken. I love my staff, but since the patch its just sad. I play a lot WvW as well as PvE and in both areas is the standard mark size too small. Without discussion! In PvE I encounter only half of the mobs compared to with trait, most are just little out of range. In WvW, where these days every second player is a guardian, I encounter not only half as much, it will also one half be blocked.

Compared to other two-handed weapons, without traits? Completely underground ….

I think it’s just sad how decisions are made, without even thinking about all the consequences. I can not help feeling, this mark size was introduced solely for SPVP.

It is just to cry and I will absolutely never get used to how it is now.

And the worst thing is, there is no other weapon I could equip …

Please find a better solution. Swap with cooldown trait or increase size and merge cooldown and block.

BUT PLEASE DO SOMETHING!!!!! Bring staff back on par! Please!!

Benjamin.7893:

pls

But balance affects every part since it isnt splitted, right? ^^

I play mainly WvW and a very casual bit of PvE. So I absolutly do not care for s/tPvP.

For me as WvW player its like this:
Marks are smaller, cannot reach some points so well i.e. towers battlements or fear 3 ACs the same time, also marks are much easier to evade on large battle grounds. And the tiny bit of damage they produce can now even be blocked… I would still like to invest 10 points, but 20 cost way to much damage and so on… Maybe it would worth if they would double in size.
DS was awesome for WvW. I dont know if it was intended or not, but it was there for nearly a full year. I’m used to it and now? In WvW it was a great way to escape, know your terrain and utilize it… I’m so sad about that we lost this little nasty jump of everything. I also cannot block an attack aegis like anymore. That’s very sad, because it was so great if you know your enemies…
So from my wvw-pov this changes hit my favorite class very hard and nec was already pretty weak in many wvw situations.

What I want to primary add here is, that I think on the long run you really should split PvP and PvE/WvW. Those game types are just too different…

Umut.5471:

Ok, nerf the added buffs before this patch, but why do you move greater marks to another tier and remove ds absorbing options ? We’ll have to use 180 radius instead of 240. If you want to move it to another tier, then greater marks should be 360. Also we’ll die like a glass cannon but without thief’s escape options. Necro is a class without mobility, it uses ds to stay alive in wvw and we won’t be able to use it again to absorb dmg with this nerf. You have just killed necromancer class, congratz. Seriously add stealth or another escape option or every necro user will change to thief(gets buff in every patch like it’s not op) Or add class change scroll to the game, maybe this is the solution.

grave of hearts.7830:

If you read and think about it carefully you will realise that they just nerfed staff to oblivion.
Your marks aside that can be dodge negated,they will most likely be blocked as well.
It litteraly translates to:
You can not have an optimal condition/dps build and unblockable marks at the same time.
But hey,rangers got stealth now!
And they can point blank you from 900 range!
Lets wait for the next patch in 2 weeks,we might see more logic in that one.

I love WvW and I love to play nec in WvW. I absolutly think the same. Loosing unblockable greater marks and DS dmg absorb just killed nec for me (for wvw). I heavily utilized those two things since sepember last year and now !? I will clearly play more with my guardian now… Not that he was already “better” before todays patch… Maybe I wont even play for a while… One of my worst birthdays ever….

Halo.8976:

cubed.2853:

I CANNOT LOG INTO MY NEC!! STUCKED AT LOADING SCREEN!!! ARRRRGHHH

You’re a lucky one.

Well I got in now and I think you are right… All trais resetted.. I hate anet right now so much I cannot even express…..

WvW nec R.I.P.

I CANNOT LOG INTO MY NEC!! STUCKED AT LOADING SCREEN!!! ARRRRGHHH

Dhogoth.1856:

The patch was not released yet and we already have 200 post em 3k+ views, do we deserve a Dev Post?

Rangers and Guards got one ;-)

Still dont get why… Maybe its all because of sPvP? Dont see any other reason for those nerfs…

Well that sucks pretty much… After last patch I thought they got the right way, but that patch just ****… Especially the DS nerf was absolutly nothing necessary! One of the best features the nec had was the jumping down from everything.. That was our “get away” ability and now? There is none! A nec stay in fight even more: win or die…!

And all those other changes… Greater Marks to master destroys my current build…

Bad day, very bad day (especially for me as wvw nec)… And this is my birthday, just you know…

Please set boundaries to variation asap.

Never saw so few player/commander at the borderlands and eternal last week and it does not seem to change this week. Last week was only PvD, this week is only x vs y*x where y is >= 2… Common, while I like the idea of randomization it is so no fun right now…

Also when its random anyway why not just “simply” implement some algorithm that consider population and especially 24/7 coverage. Should not be too hard…

I always use flesh golem for running around in open world pve, Plague for wvw and Lich for instances.

the well was a great support for big group fights. but then they “fixed” healing ball and since it is now capped to 5 targets it’s just crap, i never ever used it since that day.

i really expected a change with balance update, but it seems even the devs forgot about that skill exists ;-)

It would be great to know why corrupt boons was capped… I dont understand that decision..

I can only agree. Staff without greater marks is pretty useless… Not sure why they made them so small…

I bet, if this would be a total fake they would have made a statement by now. But there is nothing except silence…

I hope they bring in GvG sooner than later, so all of you dont have to abuse a game mode for something it was simply not designed for. :-P

So long play your way, but please stop complaining if it does not fit your way…

I like minigames a lot, but if you can leave without punishment, if you can stay akitten forever, if you are constantly kicked into a running game, then it is no more fun! If I completed my achievements I will never ever play the game again for these reasons! Thanks for noticing!

@Dranul I think rally is much more an advantage for a small heavy organized group fighting against a much bigger amount of mixed players. Especially if you dont have that much untrained/upscaled players. If someone of your group gets downed he nearly immediatly rally, since its constantly someone dying once you move ^^ Dont get me wrong, I dont have a problem with the system or the way you play at all, just analyzing ;-)

@Dranul
Well I know, but not everyone has a VPN like me and the free YouTube proxys have a very bad quality afaik. So you lose a lot of potential viewers and thats very sad, because you guys obvious put a lot of work into ;-)
I play necro as my main since first beta with currently nearly same spec, just more for random RS roaming and not for flanking a angry buffed cc steamroller, and he is definitely doing a very good job, at least in this vid’s scenes. ;-)
I wonder if your playstyle would also work out so well without the kill rally system…

Medozorz.5920:

Video from this reset. Hope you like it guys. : )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34p2ctk7OKQ

You should know, that in germany, we can only see such a video by using a vpn/proxy. Otherwise, since you used illegal music, the video is blocked and it look like on the attached pic.
However, well played love to see a nec doing so much dmg with wells :-)

Teppic Indica.3487:

PS: atm RS is down 2 positions even if they are stomping AG(my server) and we’re 2 positions up – go figure? who is playing the better game

Your evolution is negative, you did not notice? RS goes down and you go up, because of the evolution of two other servers, nothing else is happening here :-P

There seems to be a problem here. Various people complained about sound bug @ wvw ts, but could not say where it come from. However it seems to be the Minipet Molten Firestorm, please investigate/fix this issue asap.

Thank you!

Well that explains the high numbers we see. +90% crit dmg is really a lot for wvw.

I feel like fighting against Guardian Square… ;-)

I’m running nearly the same amount of power and from my experience this numbers are a little bit high. How much +crit you have or whats your attribute distribution? Thats a very important information missing here. This is absolutely not the average case what I use to see. But I wish it would be :-)

Always these prejudices and excuses. Very horrible posts that I had to read here… :-(
144 posts and 4021 views in just 20 hours, amazing xD

I cannot understand how they could match rank 7 vs 10 vs 20. 10 and 7 ok, but rank 20!? A little bit too much RNG for my taste ^^

Thank you for your effort. Anyone who does not appreciate that has only themselves to blame! Personally, I would have had nothing against a German matchup… Well at least we had a hour or so :-)

EricHanke.1394:

This is intended behavior, this is to prevent mini pets without underwater animations from being used or summoned in water.

Please let them respwan automatically or just make them invisible underwater… This was one of the best bug ingame!

I can understand it is unintended behaviour even it was funny to watch those creatures underwater. However I love to have my miniature outside and this is so annoying, because you enter the water so often in this game. It is not acceptable to open everytime my inventory and put out my mini if I just dipped into the water. I replaced my favorite (paid with gems [!]) mini with one that does not despawn…!! I dont care for mapchange, maybe down could be removed, but underwater just s**cks.. Sorry.

I have not played since short before the new arrow card ability was introduced. However I startet playing wvw again after the 50% nerf and what the hell did you do to the game!? I have the feeling it is just now all about having enough arrow cards and enough ppl to use them.. It was much better before the ac abilitys. Very very bad design decision from my pov…! You should really invest your time in improving what is there and not in just producing as much new content as in pve…

It is called Wold vs Wold and not Guild vs Guild, you notice the difference?
Sure lag isnt nice, we all dont like it, but thats anets fault.

we had some flay hacks taking out t3’s in the matchup from last week. so right now we are a little bit sensitive to this thematic and maybe sometime overreact, because it is not always as easy to be 100% sure.
shame on anet that such things are still possible…
what you guys wrote sounds plausible and i hope it is the truth, after all only you will know. that some ppl chased you but suddenly gave up without informing the rest sounds exactly like our little server ;-)

Mizhas.8536:

If BB goes down its because RS has focused on us. BTW hackers are on both sides cause i’ ve reported several speedhackers by myself.
Don’t worry, we’ll meet again and this will not be forgotten.
Congratz RS.

I know and I would never claim that it is not the same for our players ;-) And I guess that you will be right, we will sooner or later meet again ^^ So long gl.

If BB goes down one tier you can blame your flyhackers guild. They produced so much anger against your server… I feel sorry for you if that really happens just because of some few ppl… But I guess you will have a week of fun, especially you will probably level pretty fast with the new system introduced by the patch.

Maladon.5760:

cubed.2853:

I have to say, if there will be no faster way to earn ascended with the patch only through playing wvw I’m really depressed. I mean we have the daily, but there should be some combined way like less laurels, but in addition some badges or/and ectos. Just through laurels is really unfair for the hardcore wvw players…

Is it really? How many ways can you earn laurels?

No but you earn rings very very easy through fractals compared to laurels only. I just think it should be more rewarding to play wvw…

I have to say, if there will be no faster way to earn ascended with the patch only through playing wvw I’m really depressed. I mean we have the daily, but there should be some combined way like less laurels, but in addition some badges or/and ectos. Just through laurels is really unfair for the hardcore wvw players…

Slomo.1029:

Earlier today I saw 3 blue keeps on your BL and your guys were running in our BL. So I was like “yeah, probalby 6 sup ACs behind each gate, ez”.
Ninjaed bay while RS was defending Gari. Then we ran trough the garrison then, we were all shocked by the amout of siege you can put into a single keep!
Voicecom went like this: “Lets look at it from that angle,…now from that angle… now from there…. Okay just leave it, there is no way to cap that!”

I dont remember the guild tags, but your zergli entered gari from west and left over the stairs on the east, right? We wonder if you try to attack, sadly you guys were smart enough not to play with your fortune – you definitely missed the best ;-) And I think I can speak on all of us, we are honored you feared our little Sparta!

Losing T3’s just because some BB’s have to fly hack sucks so much after all that hard work we put into this matchup :/

+525 – thanks for the great and hard fight @BBs ;-)

amiable.4823:

Stealth would not be anywhere near annoying if it automatically re-targetted stealther upon exiting.

I absolutely agree.
To introduce so much stealth in a mmo with pvp was a huge mistake from my point of view. Stealth is the worst thing you could every implement. However it is in there and there is no way it will be removed.
However for me it would be ok if I would not loose target each time.

Its absolutely no motivations, I could imagine a lot of people leave too if Outmanned buff pops up.
But the absolute worst is that an enemy sees this.

GrandmaFunk.3052:

hum.. aren’t they already? Downed players are half sitting up with a hand outstretched and moving and their map icon is a blue swirly symbol. Dead players are flat on the ground, motionless and their map icon is a blue skull.

I mean the little white icon over the downed/dead head on your screen. Yes sure they lift the hand and have different icons on the map, but you know, there are so much particle effects, sometime you are far away, the map is zoomed out for wvw and then you mostly still have to fight and keep yourself alive. I just think it would make fight more intense and people would revive more if you can very fast distinct between those two states through these icons over the player, two different colors would already help me a lot.

Ahh, here are my walking loot bags! And they can actually talk!? Thanks so much for dropping AG and BB :-P I hope you found some too ;-)

I dont know how deep changes something like this would need, I guess it would not be so easy, but please consider it for the coming updates. It really would make the bigger wvw fight more intense if we could distinct immediately between dead and downed.

Noooooo … I just completed my second char after some intense month with my main I was so happy to try some new play style. But this looks like it means I have to play my main again most of the time. If it just would give me some reward for what I have already done. Please introduce some liquid world xp jugs :/ I’m curious how long it take to maximize this new stuff for a char? Please give us some hard facts soon :-)

same for me :-)

Gamblit.5041:

More “stats sets” is in no way indicates Ascended gear.
Since there is only one set of gear atm, they are probably going to add Berserker, Knights etc. exotics.

It would not make any sense to not reward ascended since you can and should be able to play wvw without any pve. Well the new daily system solve this somehow, but I hope they will find a way, maybe some combined solution like with the earrings. It is very vital to wvw to have progression and a advantage from participating. I mean the new system shows they understand that you need some more rewarding system and items are a great way to improve further and to bring more ppl into wvw. Just imagine how full wvw would have been if they introduced ascended in wvw with fractals together.

Well I do not need more details than that finally something is coming :-) Also a little suprise is always nice ^^

Quenta.2978:

Figured this would happen. A bigkittento the WvW folks. Hairy Hank and his mamby pamby PvE can just hop into the WvW and be on the same level as those of us who have been WvWing for months.

Well most have all kind of ascended stuff, so its not the same level ;-)

What I think would be a nice way to solve it, take a snapshot of your database and run a script like you did after the karka event. So you have plenty of time to implement some retroactive love.

Well you should be able to analyze the titel and give some reward out for it dont you? I think long time wvw players should be rewarded, we are always behind in wvw, on gold and on equipment (still no news on that) and now you do not even get a little bit of bonus… I can absolutly understand why some ppl are a little angry, if they play the game only for wvw ;-)