DemonSeed.3528

A reduction in cast time would actually be nice, it'd push the limit of when I can more than likely bait out the enemies burst by luring them with low hp. What if it was at 1/2 instead of 3/4? That is still interruptable and it goes on cd if you are too early anyway. Or what if something else was tacked on there besides the small heal if you didn't get hit? The danger with aed is that you count on the enemy to hit, and to hit you, which is why it's so do or die because what you are left with when you need to use it is so low that you most likely won't recover the aftermath if aed doesn't go off. It's a heal that requires active steps and your enemy to dance with you. I actually really love this heal and people think you are crazy for using it hehe but I can't help it. (At least with glint heal on herald, if my heal doesn't go off I can swap legends and use another heal provided I have enough energy). I'm also using aed from wvw perspective.

I agree, but I still try to do without alchemy just to be different/see if I can hehehe. It's like the same thing I tried doing with thief, I tried to make no trickery builds but they need a do over since sbow with no trickery wouldn't be advisable. I also try do that with warrior and no discipline. In any case I did end up with my own fun inv/tool/scrap build that I use from time to time, I don't think the balance patch affected it.

Weird, I don't see thief zergs anywhere xd. Are you sure more than anything else?

What if for some incredible reason they gave 1 weapon for the new elite, but introduced a new weapon for the whole class? Best of both worlds.

It might've happened a while back when they split some ground/underwater skills, I think a few were changed like maybe some rev/guard/engi or whatever. I do know rocket boots on engi was split - maybe that's when the change occured but it was many months ago. If this was only something you noticed recently, then I don't know, maybe it's been stealth updated to work underwater and the wiki not updated, but it could also be a mistake. Interesting choice to use underwater though.

I've been using aed quite a bit in the past month or two, and I really had to adjust my way of thinking to use it. I had to pretend it wasn't a heal and more like a pre-emptively casted block (sounds strange but that's how I went about it). It's a death knell if aed get interrupted due to the nature of when you are supposed to use the heal so I try to get it off with some stab or whatever else I got. What kind of changes could they do for it?

Which is funny because they already increased the cost of Death's Retreat before.

I don't mind no stealth stacking if only they'd make revealed status traits more worth it.

> @"DeceiverX.8361" said: > Just like Karma, core game resources seem to only be there for Posterity's sake. > They could put actually good food in the WvW merchant inventory, but that'd be expecting way too much. There's even food that they had drop from black lion chest (from the battle-hardened kit) at one point that could do well there, I can't remember the names off the top of my head but I remember one gave -8% dmg reduc as opposed to -10% etc, they were like a tier lower which matched all the other foods from provisioner. - Canned Rice Ball with "Lucky" Fillings - Can of Eggplant Saute - Can of Stewed Oysters I wish they'd add higher tier foods though, for a bigger cost, but like you said, it'd be expecting too much. Speaking of which, they really need to update the foods in there.

lol I'm guessing it's more than useless for a person on their own to use this then, even in pve lol. ps - it sounds good as an alternative mini/pet that comes out every now and then

Thieves do have traits that proc off being stealthed. Afaik only mes is the only other class that has something that procs off being in stealth. Other than that, it depends on whether the build they have relies on stealth itself, it seems to hit them more than any class that just gets marked on the map, as revealed does nothing for those other classes unless they are in a comp that heavily relies on their group play being in stealth. https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Stealth#Traits_that_affect_stealth https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Stealth#Traits_that_benefit_from_stealth_on_self

> @"Evenge.4067" said: > > @"DemonSeed.3528" said: > > Why don't the banners just drop on the ground when you leave the area, so you can pick it back up. It can either drop the exact spot you moved out of territory or spawn near the tactivator with the timer still going but someone else can pick it up instead of having it get wasted. > > It should just spawn back at the tactivator, otherwise trolls or opposition spies would find an obscure place to drop it so it couldnt be found or used. Yes, very good point. Maybe touching activator can ping the banner position on map? But spawning back at tactivator might be better.

Why don't the banners just drop on the ground when you leave the area, so you can pick it back up. It can either drop the exact spot you moved out of territory or spawn near the tactivator with the timer still going but someone else can pick it up instead of having it get wasted.

I actually used shadow savior a lot on my d/p, p/d, s/x, rifle, sbow, etc. I think it works with shadow flare too but it's not in the tooltip as a shadowstep nor in the shadow savior wiki page, but if you test it you should probably see dark savior appear in log. I'm still trying to figure out if I will keep sbow but I will camp on main weaponset. I don't want to but it looks like sa/trickery may be my goto for the moment.

If we get anything, it will just be nerfs until the expac comes, and we all know why.

> @"cyberzombie.7348" said: > What concerns me is sb builds that doesn't use trickery. If used even once, a thief would be practically tabbed out of other skills unless they manage to regen initiative through other sources or buy time with aa. Yes, I have no trickery builds previously and they were already stepping on the line as do-or-die builds (mostly die). I do not think I can use them with sbow now. I will either have to use de with rifle or drop sbow completely on core/dared. In fact, I think I will probably have to rethink whether I will even take sbow at all, at least for core or dd. I could take it with my de, but I prefer rifle on that. This change alone kind of killed the diversity I was trying to make with builds that didn't rely on trickery. Time to make a useless full ini regen build xd

Hello, I just want to ask you thieves and the ones that pvp, how has this sbow change affected the decap role? A lot/some/none? If it has drastically changed it, what role do thieves have now for pvp? Just as +1 and no decap? Sounds painful to decap waiting for the ini to regen trying to get where you want lol. Will you guys be using shadow portal more? Or just drop sbow instead?

It's possibly lag oriented, I'm still getting it right now. It's kind of similar like the invisible wall you get after wp'ing but this looks like the client is struggling to sync. My ping isn't showing any spikes currently. It's definitely registering my keypress, because it moves, gets stuck, move, gets stuck (this is with a direction key held down). This is around a moderate sized zerg fight. Feels more like the server is struggling with its load or something. I don't know, it's just not normal behaviour for me, I don't get this even in 3way fights usually. Something is off lately. PS - like the other mentioned above though, definitely don't forget to clean your keys too, and re-init your kb software or reinstall, and test with another kb. Luckily I have another one coming in soon just to double check.

Yes I've found my character rooted in place while just trying to move normally, requiring more taps just to register movement. That was like last week though, not sure about after the patch. I'll keep an eye out. Could possibly be a razer issue to not sure but I have one too though.

The radical changes are coming, but not the ones you want xd

I was getting them randomly everywhere in pve/WvW, even armistice bastion just idling

Just out of curiousity, why are there no servers hosted on ipv6? That could provide an additional layer of alternative routing for some.

> @"sostronk.8167" said: > Was in the middle of a PVP match about two hours ago. Suddenly a 1400 ping and disconnect. Now I can't connect at all. Did some speed tests and other random stuff on the internet for last two hours without any problems. Seems to only be GW2. But is it everyone? Are you on na? I was just having problems this hour trying to get in from char select. I can login from launcher fine, but once I tried to get into game from character select, the maps would time out indefinitely or boot me out of the game because of "~~network problem~~" "game lost connection to server". There may be routing issues possibly, so try connecting with a vpn and see if you have the same problem.

> @"Veprovina.4876" said: > > @"Ubi.4136" said: > > > @"Threather.9354" said: > > > > > Are golemancer runes really so busted that youd run it on every member of the party? Nah, most likely not. > > > > But large guilds are. It allows everyone in the guild to run as dps, because they just need the boons, not the defensive stats (the golem is the defensive stats). So, 40-50 players, all in comp'd specs to get boons, superspeed, alacrity, yet ALL are dps, since the golem soaks up the damage that the support specs would normally need to cover with healing. Don't leave out that the golems walk through walls, can get barriers and CC + 600 dps each. The lag doesn't improve the situation either. > > Well that does sound bad, but honestly i've never seen a large group ALL use golem runes. > How often does that happen to become a problem? > Just curious, not being sarcastic or anything. > Because, so far, the fights i've had with my guild past few weeks, 3 times a week, i haven't seen anyone use a rune of the golemancer... > So i'm curious where exactly is that problem coming from, who is running a full zerg with those runes? > And how widespread it is. I mean, just because i haven't seen it doesn't mean it doesn't exist or isn't a problem so i'm just wondering. From what I've seen it's more of an NA thing, at least that is where I've seen it used - I think EU side don't care as much for it but I had more looks through the tiers on NA than I did on EU.

Ok, I thought I was imagining things. So is this only something happening lately or what? I haven't had this issue until now. I noticed it occurring in my last two days when I finally had a chance to get into smaller fights.