We will be adding a new currency that is similar to Proof of Heroics that will allow you to buy new sigils, runes, recipes, and hero points from PoF.
That doesn’t say anything. HP is a different currency from Proof of Heroics. The change is designed to prevent WvWer from unlocking all the runes and sigils instantly.
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Guild Wars was much more serious and grown up in that matter. Sure it also had non-serious tonics for fun but at least there were no unicorn shooting bows and SAB rainbow clouds everywhere. It was much more immersive.
And even if there had been things like that, you wouldn’t have noticed it because of the instanced zones
I’m already afraid of the mount skins.. You’ll see gliders for a few seconds, but when they’re riding on their pink unicorns constantly…
Some devs even considered the standard “cute” giant bunny mount to be one of the things that don’t necessarily fit into the GW universe.
Well this isn’t guild wars 1, this is two.
We have talking salads, overgrown rats but somehow a giant bunny is out of place? Sure.
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Legendary armor up for grabs. It’s gonna get ugly out there this season, good luck all.
^ This right here!
This is why you don’t give access to stuff like that, which real PvP players have no use for.
There is no such thing as real pvp players. There are however dedicated pvpers but those are so insignificant that it is a wise choice not cater to them exclusively to them.
Pvping exclusively doesn’t make you a real pvper, it just makes you a dedicated person, which in a game like this kinda stupid.
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The whole of specialization is to force you to give up something, that’s why the concept of builds exist. It is the reason why the first minor trait activates the specialization weapon.
Arena net doesn’t want to worry about balancing specialization of the same profession. With the current system, they only have to worry about core vs specialization 1, core vs specialization 2 and not core vs specialization 1 vs specialization 2 etc…
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Unless your a pve person going for pvp related only gear i understand. But the ones who think the leader board actually matters i pitty you lol. I have more fun with less toxic people in unranked and i get the same rewards.
Hahaha so nothing has changed since last 3 seasons. Just a few happy or unhappy people from a few little skill and trait shake ups that didn’t change much from the last “update”. Still the stale game play of get on a circle or around it and dance. Since circle dancing conquest it still the thing anet thinks is “competitive”, so it will still be boring. Hell even the PoF update wont help or change much besides those who play deadeye will be yelled at to change to a running run teef. ( I’d laugh if bow / rifle deadeye became a thing lol)
Spammyvill in middle while one person dances around the sides and decaps will stay the same. ZzZzZzZz nothing new so i wont bother again. Seasons 1-4 weren’t bad but weren’t great, then came 5-8 which are just sad excuses for “competitive” “pvp”
If it isn’t fun in ranked, it isn’t fun in unranked either. So why are you still here? To tell the rest of us what a great competitor you are for opting out of ranked play? You’re a real champion, bro.
Seriously pounding your head into a rock, doesn’t make the pain go away. It only causes more.
It is downright pathetic listening to a guy try to act elite over players who play all modes in the game. Hey we get it you only pvp, do you want a cookie.
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Because you’re not going to be part in any raid with the LFG
Because when they see you in PvP you’re the first one targetted
You see, for these reasons Necro is an amazing solo playable class…
/sarcasm off
Say No More /understood
Don’t listen to these complainers all they do is kitten and moan. The necro is an amazing class. A class I am proud of playing. It is the only class that keeps me in the game.
I mean I kick butt using this amazing class everyday in PvP. The only draw back is that reading skills is dang near impossible.
Don’t get me wrong here, I love the Necro playstyle and feel.. I hardly play any other class..
But you can’t deny that the class needs some love.. Some traits are realy lacking..
Or should just be baseline like the signet passives now working in shroud.. That shouldn’t be a trait, that should just be there both in and out of shroud..
The long channeling on greatsword which should be a power weapon? That should be almost instant
My comment was a very obtuse way of saying whenever I am kicking but in PvP it is usually because I am sleeping. Reading is hard when you are sleeping.
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(that said, I do really hope they will be disabled in cities)
THIS. This is an important feature that Arenanet absolutely HAS to implement or it will be a complete deal breaker for me. Mounts MUST not be summon-able within LA or any of the five racial cities. If this isn’t implemented I’ll probably not continue playing.
XD if you can’t stand something like that, I’m surprised you could keep playing this game until now. Not like it’d affect you in any negative way.
I agree. All those pink hair and terrible auras are far worse than anything mounts could do. Mounts at least do no clash with the game’s aesthetic.
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You can’t stack as a pre-made because it was blatantly abused. It pleases the 5 and kittens off the 100 solo’s that they farm in an evening.
I don’t see any problem here, nothing is stoping the solos from forming there own group, also nothing is to say that group of 5 people are good enough to destroy every match that night.
I really think Anet giving in on this was a mistake every competitive game ever allows this regardless of tears there’s a reason for that. And how do you blatantly abuse winning a match fair and square? This community is the reason why Anet doesn’t wanna bothering balancing half of you guys are entitled children expecting everything should be equal in a natural unequal system.
Get rid of this notion that everybody wins if you want that goto PvE keep that out of PvP
Look at all the complainers who said teams ruin everything. Now teams are gone yet many of them are still bronze/silver, so I don’t see what changed except PvP lost much of its dedicated players and streamers which hurts both the game and the company that owns it.
Premades were a problem in the early seasons, I agree, but later on they just became a scapegoat for bad people to blame their losses on.
Don’t think in all black and white. Many of you fall into the “premades are esport tryhards! esport bad! we purge!” train of thought. Teaming up is an important part of community building.
I met so many friends just playing in a duo/trio, then picking up good players and working out way up to a full party. That is no longer a thing. If you duo with someone, you’re full and the only otion is to wait a couple of hours, try to get 3 randoms in, and if we lose the first round then we either come back next time or most likely, never.
Eversince that change my friendlist is just dead. ATs are nice, but the steps should be solo -> semi-premade -> premade practice -> tournaments. With the missing steps this system already failed.
I thought this was a MULTIPLAYER game, but apparently having fun and makng friends should be illegal. We should just farm some open world PvE map spamming autoattacks not saying a word like mindless drones? Is that your vision of a better game?
You are absolutely correct. People are going to find any reason to blame other for their failures. My comment comes down to this, they aren’t enough people to sustain a team only PvP format, which is the only way for Arena Net to bring it back without causing a firestorm. Arena net decision to remove team Q was deigned solely to remove another reason for players to QQ.
About your last point. Multiple player does NOT necessarily mean teaming up. The only requirement for Multi player is having n>1 playing in the same space. besides no one is stopping your from teaming up with 30+ players in WvW or PvE, so the definition still holds.
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Because you’re not going to be part in any raid with the LFG
Because when they see you in PvP you’re the first one targetted
You see, for these reasons Necro is an amazing solo playable class…
/sarcasm off
Say No More /understood
Don’t listen to these complainers all they do is kitten and moan. The necro is an amazing class. A class I am proud of playing. It is the only class that keeps me in the game.
I mean I kick butt using this amazing class everyday in PvP. The only draw back is that reading skills is dang near impossible.
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The simple truth of the matter is; I have played with the same several people over the past 10 to 15 years, across many games, and they have recently looked at GW2 and thought “we cannot actually play as a 5 stack team, so why would we play GW?”. To which I have no response.
Only being able to queue as a two stack is the best part of pointless, I thought GW2 was supposed to be an MMO? And if the developers cannot make the game work with 3v3 or 5v5, perhaps they should stop advertising it as an MMO…
You can’t stack as a pre-made because it was blatantly abused. It pleases the 5 and kittens off the 100 solo’s that they farm in an evening.
I don’t see any problem here, nothing is stoping the solos from forming there own group, also nothing is to say that group of 5 people are good enough to destroy every match that night.
I really think Anet giving in on this was a mistake every competitive game ever allows this regardless of tears there’s a reason for that. And how do you blatantly abuse winning a match fair and square? This community is the reason why Anet doesn’t wanna bothering balancing half of you guys are entitled children expecting everything should be equal in a natural unequal system.
Get rid of this notion that everybody wins if you want that goto PvE keep that out of PvP
That’s a nice post.
Given the current state, is in Arena Net’s best interest to not kitten off the many to please the few. I mean Arena Net has been trying to please the few and that led to the disaster we called the gw2 competitive scene.
It only took them 5 years to give up on that few.
The point being, your argument of saying kitten the majority is not going to convince arena net to see your side. Especially since your side is a very small and insignificant part of the population. Arena Net has decided given their actions to please the well rounded player i.e someone who does PvP, PvE and WvW versus the exclusive PvPer. It is for this reason why legendary armor was introduced even though PvP only players have no need.
You are better off finding a game that caters to your needs than expect a 5 year old game with a dead competitive scene and a mainly PvE crowd to cater to your needs.
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Sorry that you’re poor, but, don’t take it out on all of us that enjoy the new content while you twiddle yourself worrying about wvw only and an hours worth of work in money.
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Don’t worry, i’ve read every word you wrote, even though anet will probably delete it soon. I was on the fence on whether to preorder the game or not due to this stupid gliding update. but after reading what you wrote and reminded me about how anet has treated us in the past I’m I’ve decided to pass on this expansion. If I wanted a gear treadmill grinding game there are better games out there that do it. And you’re right anet wants to see people like us gone. I used to enjoy the game for the same reasons as you, and I bought stuff off the gem store to support the game, especially for fashion wars. but with every single fashion thing coming out now being an outfit that you can’t mix and match, and/or being gated behind RNG chests, I’ve stopped buying gems.
Why would arena net delete the post. It is in their benefit to keep it. The players are doing a great job of destroying whatever silly argument you thought you might have.
Honestly, if you are not happy about a product don’t continue to support it. Like you currently are. Don’t sink money into something you seem to hate. Move on.
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Just play the mode because you love it! If you are playing for the rewards this mode isn’t for you. You will get it some day! It is a long term goal! Yada yada
People in pve had legendary armor the day it came out. Full set.
The day it came out.
Wvw? Nah
I think most raiders are unskill buffoons, but you are being disingenuous. PvE had a path to legendary armor for MONTHS (12+ months). The method was known. WvW just started getting the parts necessary to create a legendary only a few weeks ago.
So why would people be able to create a full set? With that said, it is probably still slower than PvE.
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Ele had Best survivability? Why was I one-shotted so often then in PvP by thieves and guardians?
Without the restoration of Celestial I’ll be doomed on remaining on the losing end of the battles. But well. I mostly gave up on this. I’ll get points also for losing. in the end, I’ll get the rank anyways. It just takes longer.
You shouldn’t be one shorted by thieves or guardians. Did you consider the possibility that you aren’t good?
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It’s fine for a personal belief in the real world to say “Yeah, there’s only one God because a god must be the creator of all things” and the like. But in a fictional universe, the term of what makes a “god” is ultimately defined by the writer(s), and there are beliefs in the world which would say “you’re too strict on what defines a god”.
And in the matter of story building it is very complicated to put an omnipotent being in the middle, if he is omnipotent has no story to happen, he only does what he wants and end. Snap his fingers and him destroy all the world. The Saint Seya series is an example of overcomplication when making stories with beings who were supposed to be omnipotent, its turns into an Deus ex-machine party.
Except that the gods in that series are not omnipotent. That’s why they can be defeated by lowly bronze knights. Athena isn’t neither was Hades. They get reborn but they are not omnipotent.
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I wasn’t going to PvP at all until, I heard about legendary armor. anyways, I decide to queue up at the end. Played a few matches. I will have to try and play more during next season. Hopefully with a more viable reaper class not scourge, reaper.
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If Anet cared at all about their CUSTOMER’S opinion then we would see some kind of respond. In every profession forum there are people that have severe issues with this patch and they’ve yet to respond even once….they don’t care what we think. If they did then maybe they would act like adults and actually communicate.
With the amount of players there are, just think there’s also a lot of requests from the CUSTOMERS, some valid, some not. Everything takes time, patience is a virtue. This patch JUST came out. Enjoy some bacon and just wait
sure. what you said is true, but this has been going on for years. so no. screw waiting. Arena net needs good pr right, now the only way to force their hands is to disrupt it.
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If you want real change, write an or tip to one of the bigger gaming sites. This will force Arena Net’s hand. Make them respond whether they want to or not.
That’s what I am tried to do.
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I think we can all agree that Arena Net dev do not play their own kittening game. I mean my god, how the kitten do you screw up so badly on a class that was already weak.
I mean, at this stage I feel like Arena net did me a favor. I wont bother with the expansion.
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According to the rumors, the game will require 400 points during the next specialization. At first I laughed then I told myself, I wont be buying the expansion if that is true.
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ok condi is beyond what any berserk/power build is. the problem is when you fight a team of five and three out of five are condi. say guardian, necro and mesmer if they are sticking together or the entire enemy team is “zerging” the whole game i get where every one is complaining that condi is way to strong i deal with that zerging garbage often enough to be allowed to even post on this matter. so say the guard and mesmer throw there condi’s on you then the necro and then out of no where you get feared you die the moment the fear hits you. same with the torment from the necro and the mesmer. you dodge most of their hard hitting condi skills at this point you have 3 stacks of torment 5 stacks of confusion, bleeds,burn, and the most annoying imo poison. then the necro fears you and you instantly die. point is one condi player is not to bad but three condi players mixed with two power players say the other two are thiefs you will lose. the only thing condi players sacrifice is power thats it unless your vipers amulet.
It’s the same repeated argument from WvW.
Most WvW anti-conditions argue that this harms your roamers and people who fight at most 5×5. But though, WvW is a mode designed for large-scale battles, at 20×20, condi is not a problem. Most ppl that like roaming are thievs or “hit and run” dudes
The same now in PVP, if the guy does not like 5×5, then goes to 1×1 duels. 5×5 is about team. If your team is so vulnerable to condition, then its mean thats is always made up of “hit and run” classes, like mesmerz and thievs.
You should play more wvw before telling at 20×20 condi is not a problem XD. Guess what, guilds who plays in guild arena 20v20 skirmish use tons of of condi cleanse and resistance, but in fact most of the kills in those guilds fight come from condi dmg.
WvW has the balance of PvE which has very little direct relevance to PvP balance.
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While i know you dont want people messing with the precious esport, but can you also apply dishonour to WvW so you cant enter a map since its still a PvP mode
Where is the logic in that?
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One thing I bothers me is that unlike the personal story and season 2, this story did not feel epic. It felt out of proportion to the threat Mordremoth posed. Also, I understand that with deaths that occurred during the story it ended on a somewhat solemn note, but defeating Mordremoth should have felt at least a little victorific.
That’s because the actual fight in the physical realm is taking place in the Dragon’s Stand map’s meta event, where you have a more epic experience of defeating Mordremoth.
In Hearts and Minds you only break the power Mordremoth has over his subjects (Sylvari for most part).
More like you destroy his mind, while everyone else is destroying his body.
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“At birth, I was blessed by Balthazaar”. I uh, guess he changed his mind.
Yeah, I kinda had that issue too. Anet really didn’t think this crap though.
What does being blessed by Balthazar matter? Religious people say you are blessed by god, but it doesn’t make true. Given the fact that the gods actively stopped communicating with humans, this would make it doubly true. You cannot be blessed by someone who hasn’t been around for centuries nor does it matter since in gw lore gods have been known to be removed.
You already seem to be operating from a dislike of the story and will find anything to complain about it. The problem this isn’t a good point to be contentious with.
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Does anyone else get the idea Anet doesn’t understand classes have roles in pvp? They act like they want any class to be able to fulfill any role, but that’s ridiculous. Scepter dps ele, lol.
Also, 55% and 33% nerfs on Rev plus a survivability nerf? RIP power rev, you had four seasons.
Class roles are a player invention NOT Arena net intention.
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Just because Dev don’t respond doesn’t mean they don’t care. Players love to complain whenever there is a nerf sometimes extremely valid, most times simply hyperbole. I suspect most developers simply learn to tune out the noise.
They don’t care in a way that they have their vision of necro in mind. The result of this vision was fun but unviable state of necro pre-HoT, when you got instantly booted out of every group for picking this class. Reaper made necros awesome again, but then proceeded to get slowly nerfed into class initial state. We aren’t there yet, but it’s pretty one-sided road. Hence the whining.
That is just such a childish mentality to have, just because they don’t do what I want means they don’t care. If you believe that, that is perfectly fine but it doesn’t mean they don’t care. All it mean is they have a difference of opinion on the class.
Also whining exist because people want their class to dominate others. That is why no matter what game it is, nerfing leads to a lot of whining.
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The reward for hero challenges in HoT is not for doing them daily, but so you have an incentive to help other people doing them. No nerf needed
The rewards are not enough incentive if they aren’t anybody playing on the maps. As the game moves forward not nerfing the challenge is extremely idiotic and poor designed.
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This forum has held some really awesome thread titles of late. Also, I might have to try some minion stuff sometime soon. Seems like it could be a lot of fun.
Haha, Thanks. I promise you’ll enjoy it even more with that chill buff!
Interesting build, will try it. I still think the heal minion is absolute garbage. Being a ranged minion, if it dies from random AoEs the poison field won’t do much. I would take “Your soul is mine” instead, especially with the shout trait: better heal on shorter CD with life force on top, you can’t go wrong with it.
Don’t forget they changed how aoe damage works with minions. It’s greatly reduced against AOE attacks, same against single target attacks. Unless someone wants to waste a burst or eviscerate on your minion, your gonna have it up pretty constantly, especially with the heals you pump out. if they DO focus your minion with single target skills, well, that’s damage mitigation too…
“Player-owned minions will now take 95% reduced damage and condition duration from nonplayer attacks that do not specifically target them. When the attack specifically targets the minion, then it will deal full damage and condition duration.”
The minion change only applies to pve-content afaik.
Almost like he never tested the build at all.
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Op the reaper is not an upgrade or at least not intentionally. It is good that we got nerf to the ground now so Robert can now reconsider his decision and not have to rely on what if.
‘m trying to find the good in reaper since the Blighter’s Boon nerf, but its few and far between. The best thing I can find in it is chill spam crit substitution for tankier amulets that don’t have precesion but do have ferocity.
I guess the dream is dead. It was nice while it lasted.
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For aoe classes the current system gives you precise control over it. So no , the action cam has adv and disadvantages. Just like the current standard.
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Third, Gravedigger… I know it has been mentioned but it needs something to handle not being spammed for bosses/mobs that have a large HP pool. Maybe, instead of reducing the cooldown 100%, only drop it down 75% or something… I get that it is a clean-up styled skill, but it really is silly and, with the trait to leech HP on the skill, you are not going to die in these cases…
Thank you. First one I see that feels the same as I. Gravedigger is nice but for mobs with large Healthpools it’s just silly(and quite boring). Personally I feel that the full CD reduction is pointless as it has quite low CD anyway. And everything else you can only really use it on once or twice. I would rather have something else on it. The lifesteal on the trait is pretty bad though. When gravedigger is such a slow skill the amount of life stolen should be higher.
I don’t get the logic behind both of guy’s comments and maybe it is best that way.
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One of the best things about the original was that it had a plethora of farming builds and locations. So you never had issues like embers and CS events failing on purpose (like) in GW2. The best ‘farmer’ in the world can’t be in two maps at once.
The key though, was that it was also ‘fun’ to do.
One of the best things about nostalgia is, the mind has the amazing ability at will to block out the bad and focus on the good. IT is the reason why a lot of people complain how the 1950s were great hint it wasn’t.
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I noticed that Revs show their resource bar (sometimes?), why don’t necros show life force yet? It’s kinda crazy that this has never been implemented, even though you can see our health bar while in DS. It would benefit allies and enemies both.
How exactly would that benefit our allies? Necro is a selfish class, we care about no one but ourselves. Also why would i want to help our my enemy?
also same reason why we don’t see a thieve’s initiative.
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