Oh great. Another post by some by a complainer. Well done OP.
OP, pro tip for you: Don’t stand in the little red circle. Geez
The ranger changes make sense. The engi changes seem to be made by someone who doesn’t even play the game.
I have no problem with them getting revealed. I have a nig problem with rocket turret getting buffed. I don’t know how to make it any clearer to ANET. STOP with all the AI junk.
@OP:
Play whatever you want, Just understand that most likely S/D will get nerfed next balance patch. ANET seems to nerf whatever thief spec is considered meta.
This is horrible. EotM is not a balanced map at all. Please keep the PvE map (EotM) separate from WvW maps.
I think this goes along with a larger issue, lack of ability to move around the ui. It would be nice to actually be able to move parts of the ui around freely instead of either one or two options or no options in most cases.
Is there a reason this hasn’t been implemented?
We haven’t had a new map and a year. We haven’t had a good map in much longer. There hasn’t been a season in PvP. The matchmaking and leaderboards are still poor.
Does that answer your question?
Engis have become the easiest class to play. That says a lot given that hambows are still around.
It is faster to go up in team queue as well. Get a team of players. Until you get into the top 1000 or so, you’ll mostly just be beating up on pugs. In the top 1000, you’ll still get a lot of matches against pugs.
They haven’t released a new map in over a year. The last two maps were both horrible. It feels like ANET has run out of ideas.
Oh, and the fact that after 2 years, they still haven’t learned a good balanced methodology. Hint: Releasing massive class changes every 3-6 months is dumb. Modify skills as needed. Maybe follow a game that actually has achieved an esport such as LoL and watch how they balance.
@Mark,
You need to understand why people are frustrated. There has been virtually no communication related to WvW. There were two CDIs that had little ANET participation. There was a third CDI said to start after season 2 to discuss what worked and what didn’t. That didn’t even happen.
Even if you can’t talk about what is being developed, at least try to alleviate some fears. A lot of people are afraid that ANET will take junk from EotM and add it to WvW.
Another way you could help is to publish one of those WvW vision messages. In the past,, ANET posted blogs discussing the vision for WvW over the next half year. Might be a good time for that.
@Mark,
What you need to understand is that people are frustrated. When is the last time we saw a WvW update? Correct me if I am wrong, but there hasn’t been anything new all year. The only thing I’ve seen is a new PvE map named EotM. That doesn’t count.
That said, I’d rather see nothing than bad decisions. Please do not mess up the current WvW maps with junk from EotM.
I don’t buy the qualifiers excuse. This is the first game I’ve seen — even if I include a game like WOW, which was never particularly serious about PvP — in which the qualifiers involved people who could be mistaken for someone who just picked up the game for the first time. The gameplay was just terrible.
The shoutcasters don’t need to be modest. They were much, much better than Blu. Substantial calls and analysis happened in the middle of matches. It was very refreshing.
Life lesson: If you don’t like it, don’t watch it. As we like to tell 4 year olds… “You get what you get and you don’t throw a fit”. Take the advice.
A shame. This community continues rewarding mediocrity too much, just because we can’t expect much better in a struggling game. It’s no coincidence Blu wasn’t involved in the best shoutcasting we’ve had yet — on Saturday and Sunday, in the otherwise terrible TOL qualifiers.
Jealous much? Cheer up. No one cares if you like him or not.
At least Blu offered to ask questions to some of the devs. That would be more answers than we get from ANET on these forums.
T1 and T2 are about zergs and havoc groups. You don’t go there to roam.
I wish Mark would realize that his job involves more than just infracting people. We need actual communications with players.
I actually would just like to see 3 changes to warriors:
1. Reduce the damage on eviscerate
2. Do not allow warriors to contest or cap points when under the effects of endure pain
3. Everyone knows, except for the guy above me, that fast mobility on a warrior should not be allowed. Either increase the cooldown of both, or change one of them. I like the target idea.
In PvP: Go eat some snacks and watch the game. Easy mode.
In WvW: Sentry a tower or get a roaming spec. You are useless to a zerg
In PvE: No one will want you.
In other words, not sure the point of a engi main. Use another class as your main and use engi for PvP where it is currently OP.
As I posted in another forum, you need to understand the way ANET thinks.
Community: We hate AI in PvP. Get rid of it.
ANET: Ok, let’s make AI even stronger.
With that mindset, I fully expect a buff to spirit weapons.
Eviscerate definitely needs a nerf. It is incredibly easy to land and does too much damage. It just adds to the whole “warriors require no skill” mindset.
You need to understand the ANET balance philosophy. It is like the George Constanza (seinfeld for you nubs) do the opposite thing.
Community: Turret engis are OP and need to be nerfed.
Community: We don’t like to play against AI
ANET: We hear you. We will buff rocket turrets.
ANET: The only way we can annoy the community even more is if we buff spirit weapons on guardians. Let’s surprise them with that (a prediction from me)
@OP:
You must play a completely dps focused guard. There is no way a guard will get a HP buff. It is currently the ONLY must have class of tournament teams.
The current PvP meta is S/D. Revealed means very little there. No impact.
It is a much bigger impact in WvW where people use D/P and P/D more.
They won’t buff offhand dagger since the current strength of S/D.
The issue with D/D is that #3 is useless to a power spec. It should be removed and a new skill added. Give thiefs a new melee main hand weapon and make death blossom the #2 skill there.
What confuses me is why any of you care about the leaderboard. Who cares? Teams are judged by how well they do in tournaments. You can be the #1 ranked person in team queue, but if your team doesn’t do well in the big tournaments, no one cares about you.
Solo queue leaderboards are even worse since a number of people refuse to play skyhammer.
In other words, just play. Leaderboards mean nothing.
@OP:
The “best” team isn’t playing the worst team. Only a few teams are ranked. The others are just randomly assigned numbers. You just got a tough match-up. Unlucky, but fair.
I’m fine with all the changes except for the buff to turrets. That makes no sense. They needed a nerf to turrets.
I wonder why Helseth wasn´t allowed to go to pax when he said he´d bring a firearm, but now firearms are ok in germany haha.
And I´m pretty sure anet is hiding voting results cause they are void, too.
The voting didn’t matter. ANET picked the people they wanted. Oh, and they left a number of all-stars off the list simply because someone at anet got rekt.
The OP must have had this message written before he watched the stream. Fail message.
Not sure why anyone would even watch this tournament. No one wants to watch a top EU team go against pug NA and chinese teams.
ikr. I haven’t been infracted in like a week. Come on ANET!
Spirit watch would be fine in team queue if they give the orb carrier its own set of skills. Right now, the map is just too unbalanced for tournament play.
Not to be a downer, but I suppose this means we won’t see any major balance updates for awhile, which is somewhat disappointing.
This is my concern. Remember that ready-up is only every other week. That means 8 weeks to get through all the classes, and then who knows how long after that until the release.
A serious question for the ready-up show: Why does it take so long to release balance patches? That is especially true for certain specs that are obviously OP. Why not “shave” them as needed. It’s how other games do it, and it works well, especially if you ever want an esport.
I generally get nervous whenever Grouch talks about Engineer balance because he has always been the bearer of bad news in regards to Engineer balance.
Yes, because those new turret traits were soooooooo bad. :p
it takes a special kind of stubbornness to ignore the majority of the playerbase like Anet are doing on the Skyhammer subject.
what do they hope to gain by leaving in a map that most of us despise?
at this point they can’t hide under the excuse that its only a vocal minority that hate this map, it is evident every time the map rotation gets to skyhammer in hotjoin and almost everybody leaves.
I think the devs are off playing a different NCsoft game.
I like the idea. The problem is that S/D is currently considered OP. If they were to buff offhand dagger, sword would need a major nerf.
@OP
Not sure where you play that queues are still a problem.
I just want to see a patch more often than once every 6 months.
Why do you even care about leaderboards? Just play however you want.
@OP
You mean S/D thieves. of course S/D thieves are the counter to everything right now.
@OP:
So you want to take a class that is currently really strong and make it better?
If skyhammer or spirit watch pop-up, quit the game and do something else for 15 minutes. Problem solved.
Note: Only works for people who do not care about the leaderboards or their W/L and just play to ruin the fun for teammates
Fixed for you.
On a serious note – there should ban from PvP for week or so for behaviour like this.
No, they should respect the community and remove the map from solo queue.
Should try soloq if u want to pug
I don’t disagree, but until rewards are equal, team queue will basically be solo queue. Why should a premade get stuck playing against a pug team? It’s not fun, unless you are one of those people who like 500-100 matchups.
Why should? dunno man maybe because Teams do TeamQ.
I apologize if your team can only beat pugs. I didn’t mean it as an insult. I’m just saying that most teams would prefer competition.
Should try soloq if u want to pug
I don’t disagree, but until rewards are equal, team queue will basically be solo queue. Why should a premade get stuck playing against a pug team? It’s not fun, unless you are one of those people who like 500-100 matchups.
If skyhammer or spirit watch pop-up, quit the game and do something else for 15 minutes. Problem solved.
Note: Only works for people who do not care about the leaderboards or their W/L and just play to have fun.
I think they named it TEAM queue for something.
Yes, to play other teams. Look up the definition sometime. It might help you.
I’d hope he meant that it is obviously an OP build so just get used to it.
Stop matching premade teams against 5 pugs. It isn’t fun for anyone.
People already complain about trickery builds. I don’t see them doing something that will buff that build.