Guild Wars 2

Aomine.5012:

Eurantien.4632:

You mean launches? As far as I’m concerned it should stay this way (despite the new tool tip saying otherwise). The reason being, I don’t think someone walking into something they can’t see (spike trap) only to get hit with not only 6 stacks of bleeds but also an entangling root is healthy for this game. Not to mention the possible consequences of immobilizing a launched player who may or may not be considered in the air (air immob).

DH says hello.

Their traps dazes foes, dealing MASSIVE damage when triggered, and cast in like 1/4 sec. Not to mention all of them grant at least one boon.

+1

mistsim.2748:

Heimskarl Ashfiend.9582:

This is the main reason I wanted Smoke Cloud on the F2.

why? just get a thief.

Can you even see past your own nose?

Or do I need to dumb down the reasons (AGAIN) why the smokescale change was inexplicably stupid?

Sina.9208:

“General Bug Fixing, Polish, Balance, Performance, Etc.

As we continue to monitor Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns™ on live, we’ll keep pushing out bug fixes and polish and performance updates. We’ve reached a point where these will come bundled together in larger, less frequent updates as we prepare for the activation of additional expansion features. We’ll also be releasing limited balance updates to fix really key game-breaking issues. Once every quarter, we’ll release a new, major balance update to shake up the meta for the next quarter."ú

This is from the blog post, aka nothing will change for a LONG while

Sadly, you’re correct.

Unless it’s to nerf something we have that’s useful.

Irenio CalmonHuang.2048:

Ancestral Grace placing you in combat was blatantly unintended. I should have a fix in for that to go out… hopefully sometime soon.

Was the massive knee-jerk nerf to Lingering Light also intended?

Could we get some reasoning behind it?

The only ‘fix’ it’s getting is a nerf once enough pvp’ers complain.

But I do agree with these bug changes.

Nothing’s changing, folks.

Not the Smokescale F2. Not the Lingering Light overkill.

Nothing.

Unless they find something else we have that’s useful.

AgitatedFox.5287:

https://twitter.com/RoyCronacher/status/649387083312664576

b…but he said he’d…take a look…

And you see HOW MUCH shouts have improved.

>.>

Calling it now.

The ICD on Ancient Seeds will be increased to 25 seconds.

I wouldn’t bother. Whatever you come up with, they’ll nerf as soon as somebody kills somebody else in pvp with it.

Relshdan.6854:

will happen within the next few days.

If not tonight…

Just wondering what tonight’s “new build” will nerf.

The smart money is on Ancient Seeds.

Already there. Had one of my rangers in full ascended Settlers well before launch.

Aside from the nerfs, it’s working really well.

Edit: kitten . This is a pvp thread. I’ll show myself out.

As others have said, we’ve been waiting 3 years.

What we were promised with HoT is not what was delivered.

And the nerfs just keep on coming.

Telling us to “just calm down” is only tossing gas on the fire at this point.

(And Irenio being either vague or AWOL isn’t helping.)

kiwituatara.6053:

We just don’t want a repeat of the first 2 yrs of GW2 launch.

I’d say we’re already getting that.

Every time some scrub gets destroyed in pvp, they go running to the forums to scream about how whatever beat them should be nerfed.

And for whatever reason, the devs are LISTENING to that.

Why can’t they balance skills/traits to work differently in pve & pvp?

Why aren’t skills/traits being balanced to work differently in pve & pvp?

They’ve done it before.

And it would solve the problems here.

Eval.2371:

Mcrocha.3891:

Yes. 3s passive blind spam is not healthy for pvp.

Agreed neither is nerfing by 400%. Thats no healthy for anything. Can you tell me of a single trait that if nerfed by 400% would still be an attractive choice? They might as well have just deleted the the grandmaster out of the line.

After the nerfs to Ancient Seeds & Grace of the Land come, they will have done just that.

“some change to Smoke Assault” = another nerf to it’s damage.

Go away. You clearly have no idea how useful the smoke field was as our F2.

And you’re just going to start another flamewar over it.

Daharahj.1325:

If I get Ancient Seeds nerfed with a troll post I’m gonna feel pretty guilty.

It would prove a point at least.

…why would you do that? Knowing how hard they’ve been nerfing us lately?

Shhhhhhh… the pvp’ers will hear you.

There are no buffs, only pvp.

And pvp demands nerfs.

So they get them.

What the pvp forums want, they get.

The last week has been hard proof of that.

Soon, it won’t be working at all.

Nerf inbound.

As a ranger main for the last 2.5 years, I’ve lost the urge to play any of mine.

If/Until they sort this mess out, I’ll be playing my Reaper.

GG, Anet. You’re forcing people away from the class.

Knighthonor.4061:

Staff is horrible right now in recent patch in SPvP. Had to regen CF. CF doesnt even last long.

what next?

What’s next?

Ancient Seeds will be nerfed into uselessness.

Grace of the Land will shortly follow it.

Ancient Seeds…. then Grace of The Land.

Both will be on the chopping block sooner rather than later.

+1 to the OP.

Getting tired of seeing “new build will be available in 10 minutes” & knowing it’ll bring another nerf.

Gotejjeken.1267:

It’s funny. Druid was created as a healing / support spec, and subsequently nerfed out of being able to be a healing / support spec.

This…is why the zerker meta exists. Anet has no idea how to actually balance the game.

Sure they do.

If the pvp crowd complains, it needs nerfing.

Thus, balance.

I just want to take a moment to point out how accurate your sig is.

Could we have some sort (ANY sort) of explanation as to why ranger/druid has been hammered seemingly non-stop since HoT launched?

Are you going to provide us with any hope at any point that we might someday be effective?

Or are Ancient Seeds & Grace of The Land next on the chopping block?

Fun is not allowed if you play ranger.

Neither is effectiveness.

Ancient Seeds is next.

Then Grace of the Land.

Just wait….

We’re rangers. That’s how Anet handles us.

Daharahj.1325:

What a mess.

ANet is forcing me to adapt every couple of days with their panicky nerfs, might drop Druid spec altogether until things settle down a bit.

What’s next? nerfing Natural Stride to 25% speed? Remove the bleed from Ancient Seeds? Celestial Shadow no longer grants stealth?

Probably some variation of “All of The Above.”

I’m not sure they care about balance anymore. As soon as we have something useful, the nerf hammer comes down.

Please give us smoke field back as the F2.

Almost every patch since HoT launched has nerfed us.

oshilator.4681:

LegallyBinding.4937:

Doesn’t seem overpowered to me.

It absolutely isn’t.

I’m just predicting another knee-jerk reaction & nerf.

Called it.

They’ll just nerf ancient seeds next.

We’re not allowed to have useful traits.

Ranger

Druid—Lingering Light: Increased the internal cooldown on this trait from 3 seconds to 12 seconds and reduced boon duration to 3 seconds.

LegallyBinding.4937:

Doesn’t seem overpowered to me.

It absolutely isn’t.

I’m just predicting another knee-jerk reaction & nerf.

The nerf hammer is coming for this trait.

Knee-jerk changes have been the norm for us as of late.

I’m gonna point you at this thread for another alternative -

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/ranger/Krisp-s-Poison-Druid/first#post5677546

I’ve been using a variation on that & having a blast.

Just dropping by to vote again to reverse this change & give us back the smoke field as the smokescale’s F2.

Again, the swap made no sense. And it still makes no sense.

Icantthinkofaname.7163:

To all the people saying “you only need to put in a couple hours” you are wrong. if the event is guaranteed to succeed then it would be fine. But the ability for you to get part of your class mechanic is dependent on whether 100 other people also try as hard as you. What other people do should not effect obtaining part of your class mechanic. Imagine if there was a mesmer shatter skill, necro minion, tool belt skill, ect. that you could only get if 100 people completed an event chain together. I am in favor of challenges, but this is one thing that is out of the ranger’s hands that should not be.

Agreed.

And also, people are just farming the event chain there now & letting it fail.

Hero Points =/= Class Mechanics.

BeckaPL.2670:

Well, just experienced how annoying this gating is first hand. Doing the meta events to try and get E Wyvern and tiger only to realise just before the time ran out that my instance wasn’t trying to finish it they were just farming the exp. So it was a colossal waste of time. So gg, we’ve got to rely on people who couldn’t care less to actually do the event rather than farming it for the experience.

And that, in a nutshell, is why these pets need to be moved to more accessible locations.

lordhelmos.7623:

This is especially unfair to rangers because no other class has to go out and collect their class mechanic, let alone have it be gated behind a two hour event that requires 100 people to coordinate.

This. So much this.

Would it be too much to ask Irenio to “deliver” again by placing the electric wyvern & tiger pets so that they can be obtained without having to depend on a 2-3 hour world event chain?