Aza.2105

> @"Oozo.7856" said:

> Yeah, don't target specific classes. Deadeye needs the big hitter (relative to other classes), otherwise it's just a useless build. The problem is that damage is just way too high pretty much across the board.

It would be better to distribute that damage across the weapon skills than put it in one skill.

> @"Arheundel.6451" said:

> Wars asking for buffs...what the world has become...it's like I am living in an alternate reality

I don't think I've ever seen anyone complain about Eviscerate. Because no one ever gets hit by it. Its VERY slow, particularly for how much damage it does. I think Wastrel's Ruin (hitting non attacking foe) does more damage. And its much much faster.

> @"Neil.3825" said:

> > Solo-q should be for quick and FUN matches

>

> As conquest is a fun mode, so it seems logical for me.

Not really, conquest was made for esports. It makes no sense other wise. Since you can't really coordinate with randoms. Conquest should be for ATs. Ranked should have a totally different game mode.

> @"Ben Phongluangtham.1065" said:

> The hope is that we'll get it there some day. But it's going to need changes before that happens. You would have the opportunity to see and give feedback in unranked before we pushed the map to ranked.

>

> It's on our backlog, but not something were likely to look at in the next few months.

Definitely cool to hear. I like the way spirit watch is designed. Its the only vertical designed conquest map.

> @"witcher.3197" said:

> Absofuckinglutelynot. PvP is already in the barely playable and boderline unenjoyable field, no need to tip the scales with another garbage map. I hate everything about that map and would rather not have Anet spend more resources on it either, but that's just an opinion.

Wow!!!!!! Such hate for this map. Worse than the old skyhammer? I find absolutely nothing wrong with Spirit Watch. I'd like to see it in ranked.

I'd rather they delay season 11 to launch the pvp skill split with it.

> @"dominik.9721" said:

> No, but you can do actually the same when the mesmer stealthes up in a teamfight.

Theoretically you can sure. But the way you approach answering questions is as if the game is a 1v1 game or you are in the perfect situation were you can follow your suggested directions. In the middle of a fight were there are giant aoe circles contaminating the point, that you are trying to not get hit by, and lets say a holo try to hard cc you. While a team mate is hitting a warrior who has full counter up. You then at the corner of your eye see a Mesmer stealth and you then begin to say to yourself **1, 2, 3 dodge**.

> @"dominik.9721" said:

> No when a druid stealthes up you dont dodge, but when a GS-shatter mes stealthes up for 3s with torch you should predict his burst and press dodge. Makes perfect sense btw.

Is this a 1v1 game?

> @"Odik.4587" said:

> Should it be removed entirely or given everything a 2 seconds charge casts so all kind of people would be able to dodge them ? :)

What should be removed exactly?

> You comparing PvP to PvE and want to have the same in PvP like 2 seconds to be able to dodge mesmer burst that been in game for 5 years ,yet people refuse to learn how to not die to it ... If you dislike it why wont you stick with PVE where you have 5 seconds to dodge an attack with an obvious tell ?

Except thats not what I'm saying.

> @"Odik.4587" said:

> You are clearly not in your kitten mind to compare PVP and PVE .

* Seeing that this is predominantly a pve game.

* That they have no dedicated pvp balance team.

* That class changes that are targeted at pve make their way into pvp.

It seems to that your statement is aimed at Anet, not me.

> @"apharma.3741" said:

> Actually a lot of raid bosses have attacks that will either one shot or kill not only a single player but the entire raid group if they don’t take care of whatever they have to do.

That is generally called a enrage timer.

>There are however open world champions who can one shot players via a teleport and attack and certainly when you get a Zerg of people doing something and scaling it up 1 hit can be a dirt nap whether you see it coming or not.

So what you are saying is Mesmer hits for around the same amount of damaged as a upscaled monster in pve which is meant to deal with a zerg of 20+ people?

> @"dominik.9721" said:

> > @"Ragnarox.9601" said:

> > 

> > well i did get rekt by a oneshot mesmer with 21k hp. i just died in 1 sec...they should put 1/2 cast time on f skills of any mesmer., or even better 3/4. or put restrictions.

> >

>

> Or maybe you learn to dodge mirrorblade.

> You got hit by mirrorblade twice, meaning you had enough time to react even after the first hit. If you would have pressed dodge after the first mirrorblade hit neither the shatters nor the bouncing second hit would have dealed dmg to you.

> Considering now that mirrorblade itself has a huge animation it's absoulty your fault to not react in time. Even when the burst is out of stealth, torch 4 got an animation as well.

>

> You guys are just extremly spoiled by PoF and even by HoT where you can play super inaccurately without getting punished.

> You just aren't used anymore to play properly, to mindgame and to react and dodge important skills with short casttimes.

> I see firebrands, druids, prot holos and chronos running around, facetanking everything but being alive.

>

> Once upon a time you had to evade skills like mirrorblade, pindown, necro fear mark, eviscerate, phoenix and even sigill proccs on a 9s cd. If you failed to dodge it, it was your safe death. You are just not used to proper and accurate gameplay anymore. Spoiled by easy and extremly forgiving speccs.

Monsters in pve don't even have the ability to kill you this quickly. Imagine if a raid boss could go invisible and randomly choose a player to one shot in a second. Everyone would be on the forums complaining. Guaranteed.

Here are flaws in your argument:

* Your advice is based upon as if its a 1v1. Meaning that the player expects the Mesmer is coming at some point since they do not see them. Also meaning they have all cds available and are specifically focused on getting one shot.

* You don't take into consideration the other four enemies he had to deal with, who could of made him use up endurance and use stun breaker. In other words, no one is exclusively saving endurance and stun breakers just for the Mesmer.

* The Mesmer is one team mate out of five and can 100-0 a opponent. Think about that for a second. This type of phenomenon doesn't even exist in pve. A Mesmer hits harder than a raid boss without the long telegraph abilities. You know like....a boss charging for 5 seconds before everyone has to run out. Or a specific phase when the entire environment changes and players know they have to do this to survive. Nope, Mesmer is doing what a raid boss does near instantly and coming out of stealth.

> @"Ragnarox.9601" said:

> 

> well i did get rekt by a oneshot mesmer with 21k hp. i just died in 1 sec...they should put 1/2 cast time on f skills of any mesmer., or even better 3/4. or put restrictions.

>

What I'm looking at is the time stamp. When people say you died in 1 second, other players tend to jump on you and say no you didn't! It actually takes xx amount of seconds to respond!

The screenshot is alarming and only shows what anyone with common sense knows: Damage is out of control. Guardians base health is 11k. So within one second you got hit for twice the amount of the lowest tier health. If that is not broken, then what is? Health is suppose to represent the amount of chances you have before you are defeated. Against Mesmer you only have one chance until you are defeated.

> @"Beast.1769" said:

> Now that the season has ended I want to make a poll again on wherever to bring back duoq,1600+ or even up to 5 people queue

> soloq is an ok idea but in reality it just doesn't really work, also 1600+ is wayyyyyyyyy too low you just get to 1600 from playing 2 placements game at the start of the season I don't want to duoq for 2 games a season. I would like to see anet try returning duoq, ( duoq is way more fun than solo as you can play with your friends), or even more, or some type of new leader board next season as we seen that they do care a little and keep a eye on people in pvp dunno what to say but yeh... poll =) =)

To be honest, I'd rather they ditch the seasons and bring back the website leaderboard. Maybe reset it monthly or something.

> @"Ranageki.2491" said:

> How does everyone feel about how some ranged attacks can pierce through reflect?

> Things like druid's beam auto for example. I kinda feel like reflect should at least reduce the damage on these types of attacks. I mean, on a different angle, it feels a little like having a melee class that can leap out of being immobilized. Just makes reflect feel like a defence that doesn't really do what it should, unless you're facing someone with a class/build that purely uses projectiles. Though I feel I may just be being picky on that.

Well druids auto isn't a ranged projectile, but a ranged channeling skill. Channeling skills can't be reflected since they aren't considered projectiles.

Dodge or die in one second.

> @"BeLZedaR.4790" said:

> > @"Aza.2105" said:

> > > @"BeLZedaR.4790" said:

> > > Playing naked is not all that good. It gives you reduced armor making you more likely to get spiked 100-0 by many builds.

> > >

> > > Playing nacked however...

> > > YOU UNLEASH YOUR MANLINESS INTO THE GAME AND WATCH AS YOUR OPPONENTS TREMBLE IN FEAR OF YOUR PRECENSE, YOU HEAR THEM SCREAMING “BILLY DONT DO IT YOU NEED TO RELAX”

> > > BUT THERES NO STOPPING YOU NOW, “CMON MAN GET YOUR kitten BACK HERE” gachiGASM

> >

> > You can get spiked with having 3700+ armor. Believe me, I've tested. Armor meanings nothing because of how insanely disproportionate damage is at this time.

>

> Armor has diminishing returns. It actually does matter trust me. But my comment was mostly a meme tbh

Nah it means little and so does any damage reduction at this point. It might matter more after damage is toned down significantly.

> @"BeLZedaR.4790" said:

> Playing naked is not all that good. It gives you reduced armor making you more likely to get spiked 100-0 by many builds.

>

> Playing nacked however...

> YOU UNLEASH YOUR MANLINESS INTO THE GAME AND WATCH AS YOUR OPPONENTS TREMBLE IN FEAR OF YOUR PRECENSE, YOU HEAR THEM SCREAMING “BILLY DONT DO IT YOU NEED TO RELAX”

> BUT THERES NO STOPPING YOU NOW, “CMON MAN GET YOUR kitten BACK HERE” gachiGASM

You can get spiked with having 3700+ armor. Believe me, I've tested. Armor meanings nothing because of how insanely disproportionate damage is at this time.

> @"sephiroth.4217" said:

> > @"Saiyan.1704" said:

> > INC Legendary Bags 2018 <3 <3 <3...

>

> Bet they'll come with "selectable slots" :lol:

It might take several seasons to make one.

> @"Jace al Thor.6745" said:

> > @"Aza.2105" said:

> > > @"Roxanne.6140" said:

> > > In summary, just a whole bunch of nerfs to light armour and some buffs for heavy armour for wvw

> >

> > Armor doesn't matter in this game.

>

> And what makes you think that?

Because I tested it thats why. Its also why you see naked mesmers. Its why a warrior can run around with zerker amulet and still be relatively tanky. And its why when you have max toughness you still melt as if you had a non toughness build. Put it this way, damage is so high that no matter what you wear: Light, medium or heavy armor or a toughness build. You will still melt in a second or so.

Armor could be relevant again if they tone damage WAY down.

> @"Roxanne.6140" said:

> In summary, just a whole bunch of nerfs to light armour and some buffs for heavy armour for wvw

Armor doesn't matter in this game.

> @"brannigan.9831" said:

> This is just stupid. This game has 9 professions and there is only 5 spots on a team. For this to be a workable strategy basically every player would be competent on every class and build so they could see what the other side was playing and switch to counters.. And this game was not suppossed to be rock, paper scissors. Show me any kind of quote from A-net that shows they believed this was supposed to be a hard counter type game? It was a ridiculous claim but the way they sold this was basically play what you want almost every profession will be able to fill multiple roles. The idea that a build should just faceroll because the other team doesn't have anyone playing what counters it is ludicrous.

I think you are sort of misunderstanding. You have to look at gw1 to see why they went into the direction they did with classes filling multiple roles. Basically, without a monk you couldn't pvp. So if you couldn't find one, you might be waiting for along time to find a player who was good at monking. So they removed the limitation of having to rely on a healer by making it so that all professions could be self sustainable. Nearly all professions are capable of filling different roles: Tank, healer, dps and support. But whether or not they are good as another class filling that role is a different topic.

> @"Ben Phongluangtham.1065" said:

> > @"Ben Phongluangtham.1065" said:

> > Keep in mind that balance is a moving target. We know we have more to do!

>

> One more quick note. For the most part, unless we encounter something catastrophic, this is probably the last big edit to this balance pass. Changing more at this point will put our planned release window at risk.

>

> P.S. No, I'm not going to tell you what the window is at this time, release windows can sometimes shift.

I'm usually very critical of anet's balance passes. But this one looks very good. Impressive. Hopefully pvp changes for the better.

> @"Ben Phongluangtham.1065" said:

> > @"Arheundel.6451" said:

> > > @"Ben Phongluangtham.1065" said:

> > > Hey folks!

> > >

> > > I've been promising a list of edits to our initial post and finally here they are! I'm hoping to get the full list re-translated and posted in all languages by mid next week.

> > >

> > > A few notes:

> > > We'd mentioned several times that we were going to consider unsplitting some things. We decided to hold off on that for now, but we will be considering unsplits for the next full balance release.

> > >

> > > Keep in mind that balance is a moving target. We know we have more to do!

> > >

> > > **Revenant**

> > > Skills

> > > • Forced Engagement: Reduced the energy cost from 25 to 10. Increased the cooldown from 10 seconds to 15 seconds in PvP and WvW

> > >

> > > **Thief**

> > > Skills

> > > • Larcenous Strike: Reduced the power coefficient from 15% in PvP and WvW

> > > • We decided not to do the following buffs;

> > > • Heartseeker

> > > • Shadow Shot

> > > • Infiltrator’s Strike

> > > Traits

> > > • Swindler's Equilibrium: Increased the cooldown from 20 seconds to 30 seconds in PvP and WvW

> > >

> > > **Ranger**

> > > Skills

> > > • Seed of Life: Increased the cooldown from 1 second to 3 seconds in PvP only

> > > • Rejuvenating Tides: Reduced the base healing per pulse by 15% in PvP only

> > > • Solar Beam: Reduced the damage by 17% in PvP only

> > > • Celestial Avatar: Increased the cooldown from 15 seconds to 20 seconds in PvP only

> > > Traits

> > > • Refined Toxins: Increased the cooldown from 5 seconds to 15 seconds in PvP only

> > > • Rugged Growth: Reduced the healing by 50% in PvP only

> > > • Grace of the Land: Reduced the number of Might stacks applied from 3 to 2 in PvP only

> > > • Fortifying Bond: Reduced duration of shared Might stacks from 10 seconds to 5 seconds in PvP only

> > > • "We Heal as One!:" Reduced duration of copied Might stacks from 10 seconds to 5 seconds in PvP only

> > > • Fresh Reinforcement: Reduced shared Might duration 10 seconds to 5 seconds in PvP only

> > >

> > > **Engineer**

> > > Skills

> > > • Light Strike: Reduced the damage by 40% in PvP only

> > > • Holo Leap: Reduced the damage by 17% in PvP only

> > > • Corona Burst: Reduced the Might stacks granted per pulse from 2 to 1 in PvP only

> > > • Holographic Shockwave: Reduced the damage by 22% in PvP only

> > > • Detection Pulse radius increased from 600 to 1200 in PvP and WvW.

> > >

> > > **Elementalist**

> > > Skills

> > > • Arcane Blast: Reduced the maximum Ammo count from 3 to 2 in PvP and WvW

> > > • Plasma Beam: Reduced damage by 20% in PvP and WvW

> > > Traits

> > > • Electric Discharge: Reduced the power by 28% in PvP and WvW

> > >

> > > **Mesmer**

> > > Skills

> > > • Phantasmal Disenchanter – Increased the cooldown from 20 seconds to 30 seconds in PvP and WvW

> > > • Illusionary Riposte: Increased the cooldown from 12 seconds to 15 seconds in PvP and WvW

> > > • Illusionary Swordsman: Increased the cooldown from 15 seconds to 20 seconds in PvP and WvW. Decreased the number of might stacks from 8 to 4 in PvP and WvW

> > > • Mirror Blade: Reduced damage by 14% in PvP and WvW

> > > • Signet of the Ether: Reduced the cooldown from 35 seconds to 30 seconds in PvP and WvW

> > > • Illusionary Counter: Reduced the cooldown from 8 seconds to 6 seconds in PvP and WvW

> > > • Jaunt: Reduced damage by 50% in PvP and WvW

> > > Traits

> > > • Elusive Mind: This trait now applies 3 seconds of Exhaustion when breaking a stun

> > > • Bountiful Disillusionment: Reduced Stability duration from 5 seconds to 3 seconds in PvP and WvW. Decreased Might stacks from 5 to 3 in PvP and WvW

> > > • Mental Anguish: Reduced bonus damages from 15% and 30% to 10% and 20% respectively in PvP and WvW

> > > • Confounding Suggestions: Increased cooldown from 5 seconds to 15 seconds in PvP and WvW

> > >

> >

> > Great list hmmm....are you still on board with nerfing stability on corona blast? Last update you decided to limit the stability application to actual hit rather than free stability application

>

> Yeah, that's still happening.

Is this list in addition to the original proposed changes? Or is this a entirely new list and the old proposed changes were scrapped?

> @"CedarDog.9723" said:

> I'd be fine with that if PvP only rewards are available in PvE, etc.

Not sure what pvp only rewards you are talking about? Also before they revamped the reward system, vendors sold bags. I think up to 20 slot. I believe your rank gave you access to better bags. So what I'm asking for isn't new.