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Emitan

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Confusion: The effect of condition damage on confusion has been increased by 33% in PvE only. This change does not affect PvP or WvW.
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I HAVE WANTED THIS SINCE LAUNCH

Shield of Judgment: The cooldown on this skill has been reduced from 30 seconds to 25 seconds.
Dev note: This change is a general usability improvement for the shield overall.
Shield of Absorption: The cooldown on this skill has been reduced from 40 seconds to 30 seconds.
Dev note: Same as above!
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OH MY GOD THANK YOU. I have been trying to make shield Guardian work and this helps a ton
 
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Emitan

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Heal as One: The casting time of this skill has been reduced from 1.25 seconds to 1 second.
Dev note: This change will bring the skill a little more in line with other healing skills with similar potential.
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Still not worth using tbh :/
 
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Moondrop

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General Changes:

Might
Might is an exceptionally strong boon, currently providing a total of 875 power and condition damage if stacked to its full potential. This makes might one of the biggest single sources of damage enhancement available to players. With this update, we’ll slightly tone down the overall benefit of might as well as target a few specific items that augment might gain.
Might: The power and condition damage provided by this boon have been reduced from 35 per stack to 30.

Confusion
Along with the change to might, we are also looking at the confusion condition in PvE. Confused creatures generally don’t swing as often, and the effects of the condition can feel a bit lackluster when they hit. To this end, we’ll improve the damage of confusion in PvE only.
Confusion: The effect of condition damage on confusion has been increased by 33% in PvE only. This change does not affect PvP or WvW.

Items
We’ll tone down the effects of a couple of specific items with the potential to far exceed the role they’re expected to fill.
Superior Sigil of Battle: The amount of might granted from this item has been reduced from 3 stacks to 2 stacks. The duration remains at 20 seconds.
Major Sigil of Battle: The amount of might granted from this item has been reduced from 2 stacks to 1 stack. The duration remains at 20 seconds.
Rune of the Nightmare: The duration of fear applied from the sixth piece of this rune has been reduced from 2 seconds to 1 second. Its recharge has been reduced from 90 seconds to 60 seconds.

Structured Player vs. Player
The following items will now be available for use in Structured Player vs. Player:
Rune of Scavenging:
(1) +25 Condition Damage
(2) 25% chance when struck to cause your next attack to steal life. (Cooldown: 25s)
(3) +50 Condition Damage
(4) After using your healing skill, your next attack steals health. (Cooldown: 10s)
(5) +100 Condition Damage
(6) 7% of vitality is converted to condition damage.

Superior Sigil of Torment:
50% chance on critical: Apply AoE torment (5 seconds, 180 radius). (Cooldown: 5 seconds)

Sentinel Amulet:
+650 power, +650 toughness, +932 vitality

Profession Changes:
With the changes to might coming down the pike, the profession-specific updates this time around will be a bit more focused on the general usability of certain skills, with targeted reductions on outlier skills. You’ll see changes listed below that will make skills more reliable and effective, and in some cases, return them to regular use across PvE, WvW, and PvE.

Elementalist:
Drake’s Breath: Burning applied from this skill has been reduced from 3 seconds to 2 seconds per pulse.
Dev note: Burning time from this skill allowed for extremely long burning durations with a single skill use. This change still allows a long burning duration but requires a little more upkeep to maintain it.

Lightning Whip: The point at which the first and second attacks of Lightning Whip execute have been moved further into the total casting time. The amount of aftercast has been reduced by .2 seconds. To compensate for an increased attack-rate potential, the damage of this skill has been reduced by 10%. When Lightning Whip is used with a Signet of Restoration, the player will only receive healing if the second attack executes.
Dev note: We’ve been able to clean up Lightning Whip a bit, preventing it from being exploited while rewarding elementalists for completing the attack.

Comet: The radius of this skill has been increased from 120 to 180.
Dev note: It’s now much easier to land this skill on moving targets!

Shatterstone: The casting time of this skill has been reduced by 22%.
Dev note: The overall time that the stone takes to shatter remains the same, but you’ll now be able to activate skills a bit sooner.

Dust Devil: The velocity of this skill’s projectile has been increased by 66%.
Dev note: This is a simple usability improvement that allows this skill to hit more reliably.

Engineer:
Shrapnel Grenade: Bleed duration on this skill has been reduced from 12 seconds to 10 seconds.
Dev note: This is a small decrease in bleeding duration, as the current duration for all bleeding this applies is a little high.

Throw Mine: The proximity trigger for this skill has been increased from a range of 60 to 120. Additionally, the explosion radius has been increased from 180 to 240.
Dev note: We want to define the thrown mine a little more and ensure that it has a much more noticeable impact than other mines in the engineer’s arsenal.

Launch Personal Battering Ram: This skill now has a 1 second daze.
Dev note: The personal battering ram is a gadget that is all about disrupting enemies. This change to the tool-belt skill helps push it toward that role.

Guardian:
Litany of Wrath: The percentage of health returned from this skill has been increased from 20% to 25%. The aftercast of this skill has also been reduced by 0.5 seconds.
Dev note: In addition to gaining a little more healing from this skill, guardians will be able to use skills much sooner after casting it.

Shield of Judgment: The cooldown on this skill has been reduced from 30 seconds to 25 seconds.
Dev note: This change is a general usability improvement for the shield overall.

Shield of Absorption: The cooldown on this skill has been reduced from 40 seconds to 30 seconds.
Dev note: Same as above!

Zealot’s Fire: The increased cooldown component has been removed.
Dev note: This penalty felt unnecessary and it wasn’t fun.

Mesmer:
Deception: This downed-state skill no longer requires a target in order to cast.
Dev note: This will allow for mesmers to better use their survival skill when facing an opponent using stealth.

Phantasmal Mage: The illusionary mage summoned by this skill now applies 4 stacks of confusion instead of 3 with their attack. The duration of the confusion has been increased from 3 seconds to 4 seconds. The illusionary mage’s rate of fire has been reduced by 1 second.
Dev note: This change should improve the overall pressure applied by the mage.

Confusing Images: The duration of confusion from this skill has been increased from 5 seconds to 7 seconds.
Dev note: This skill is all about confusion, and we feel that if you’re able to successfully land it, enemies should feel the pain!

Time Warp: The cooldown on this skill has been reduced from 210 seconds to 180 seconds.
Dev note: This is a general usability improvement to give mesmers a better support option for allies.

Illusion of Life: The cooldown on this skill has been reduced from 130 seconds to 120 seconds.
Dev note: Further improvements in support!

Phantasmal Defender: The cooldown on this skill has been reduced from 30 seconds to 25 seconds.
Dev note: This reduction should increase survivability a bit by enabling the defender to be active more often.

Necromancer:
Locust Swarm: The casting time of this skill has been reduced from 1 second to 0.5 seconds.
Dev note: This change will give necromancers a bit more mobility.

Corrosive Poison Cloud: The casting time of this skill has been reduced from 1 second to 0.5 seconds. The cooldown on this skill has been reduced from 40 seconds to 30 seconds.
Dev note: Because this skill has a subtle effect, we wanted to be able to cast it quickly. We also wanted to allow it to be cast more frequently so necromancers can use it for more consistent (though less damaging) area denial.

Signet of the Locust: The cooldown of this skill has been reduced from 60 to 40 seconds. Base healing has been increased by 4%, fixing an issue that caused the Bloodthirst trait to grant 25% bonus healing rather than the 20% intended. The bonus from healing power has been increased by 108% base, 100% when traited with Bloodthirst.
Dev note: We wanted to reduce the penalty for using the active portion of the skill and also improve the reward for having healing power.

Signet of Undeath: The passive life-force gain of this skill has been increased from 1% to 2%.
Dev note: While this remains a low amount, we’re looking to provide more options for support when necromancers use this signet.

Ranger:
Throw Torch: The projectile travel speed of this skill has been increased by 25%.
Dev note: A little torch love and general usability improvement.

Bonfire: The base area of effect of this skill has been increased from 120 to 180.
Dev note: Like Throw Torch, we felt this area of effect needed to be a bit bigger so that there’s room to roll around and have a little more area denial.

Hunter’s Call: The casting time of this skill has been reduced from 1.5 seconds to 1 second.
Dev note: We’re looking at giving a bit more responsiveness to the ranger’s warhorn abilities.

Call of the Wild: The cooldown of this skill has been reduced from 35 seconds to 30 seconds.
Dev note: Reducing the cooldown of this skill will allow for a bit more frequent support to allies.

Heal as One: The casting time of this skill has been reduced from 1.25 seconds to 1 second.
Dev note: This change will bring the skill a little more in line with other healing skills with similar potential.

Thief:
Blinding Power: This skill no longer interrupts your own skills.
Dev note: We feel that removing the skill-canceling nature of this skill will improve the overall value of the skill and provide better potential for both damage and support.

Dancing Dagger: The projectile speed from this skill has been increased by 33%.
Dev note: This skill is intended to help thieves catch their enemies, which is pretty hard to do if the daggers are slow.

Needle Trap: The bleed duration of this skill has been increased from 3 seconds to 10 seconds.
Dev note: As a condition-based trap, we felt that the damage portion was underperforming by quite a bit and could use some help in that area.

Shadow Pursuit: The duration of might granted from this skill has been increased from 5 seconds to 10 seconds.
Dev note: This trap is quite difficult to use and can be disorienting when activated. As such, we wanted to further reward thieves for using this skill.

Invigorating Precision: The health gain from this trait on a critical strike has been increased from 8% of damage dealt to 15%.
Dev note: This trait was very hard pressed to return health of much value, so we increased the amount of health rewarded by a significant percentage.

Warrior:
Kill Shot: The casting time of this skill has been reduced from 1.75 seconds to 1.25 seconds.
Dev note: This skill has traditionally been extremely difficult to land on enemies. Our goal with this change is to make the skill easier to land while leaving all of the indicators in place that a burst skill is going to occur.

Brutal Shot: The casting time of this skill has been reduced from 1 second to 0.5 seconds.
Dev note: This is a general usability improvement, which will allow for the skill to be cast quickly so warriors can use higher-value skills faster.

Arcing Slice: The damage from this skill has been increased by 10%.
Dev note: Now that this new skill has had a little bit of play, we feel like it’s possible to give this burst skill a little more damage potential.

Rush: Adjusted the animation and attack radius of this skill to hit much more consistently.
Dev note: The swinging portion of this skill will now activate much farther away from your target and carry you to them—much like other leap skills behave.
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Sigil of Torment and Sentinel amulet in PvP; this could be big.
D/D nerfs, lulz. S/F buffs, interesting.
Throw mine buffs, yay. Go go gadgeteer! Perhaps I'll give battering ram another look.
Mesmer downed state and torch phantasm fixes, these are very needed.
Faster necro horn cast, I'll take it.
Ranger torch buffs, be afraid. Horn buffs are nice but I don't run power builds.
Kill shot meta incoming; oh lord what have they done.

Biggest real change is either new sigil/amulet or mesmer buffs. Biggest whined about change will be kill shots.

But I will definitely be trying out scepter/focus ele, sentinel turret engi, stealth torch mesmer, and sniper warrior in pvp.
 
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Emitan

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Levyne said:
It has a nice low cool down if you don't need a cleanse, and you don't have to prime it like Troll Unwhatever. It's useful on some places (Tazza, Molten Duo, Nightmare tree)
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Troll Unguent was good enough for me in GW1 and it's good enough for me in GW2.
 
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Cathcart

Member
Wow, a 30 second reduction in cooldown time for Time Warp. That's awesome.

Screw your might stacks, everybody getting chaos armor, lol*.

* It's better cause confusion!
 
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Cathcart

Member
Subreddit getting too spoilery. Guess I'm gonna have to marathon through S2 this weekend or else I'll have fewer options for killing time at work lol.
 
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Minamu

Member
Got up to 21 Mystic Clovers today before I ran out of skill points for Stones. Also bought Obsidian Shards with my Laurels from 104 down to 50, should be enough for some form of ascended amulet, although I have no idea which one is good for a Mesmer.
 
Boss Doggie

Boss Doggie

all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Time to sell superior sigil of battle

also why are they nerfing elementalist again? dat dagger nerf :(

Also
isn't treehorn still aware/in control of himself? Maybe firstborns are immune
 
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hythloday

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Ashodin said:
I told you blank blank blank

Edit: Points of INterest is live!
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Ash, can you put this type of thing in spoilers? It's not overtly giving anything away, but it leads people to infer there is something Trahearne needs to be protected from, and so on and so on.
 
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Mxrz

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Twitch comments, geh.

I'm surprised and pleased they're hititng might stacks, even if only a little. Guardian shield buffs! Woo! . ..skills still aren't terribly useful. Don't play necro enough to know if those buffs will help much, but glad some of freakin' fear junk is being toned down.

Wouldn't expect new races, but I do expect something closer to a traditional expansion. More along the lines of EotN than Nightfall, given no need to do starter areas/base game.
 
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Wanderer5

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Ran through Ep 8 story with my warrior, and I am now ready to tackle them achievements! The bomb and rock one are looking to be a bit annoying.:p
 
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shysaursoft

Member
*runs in*

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*runs out*
 
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Ashodin

Member
eeeeeeeeeeeeexcuse me? We already know since Scarlet's time that it might be possible that Mordremoth can corrupt Sylvari. This is what I'm referring to rather than any spoilery things you people are thinking about.

Shame on you!
 
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Hawkian

The Cryptarch's Bane
ash seriously. there are implications that make it pretty obvious why you'd mention something like that. please tag.
 
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Emitan

Member
Wanderer5 said:
Ran through Ep 8 story with my warrior, and I am now ready to tackle them achievements! The bomb and rock one are looking to be a bit annoying.:p
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The bomb one is actually super easy as long as a bomb doesnt spawn on you while channeling the fire.

The rock one is pretty annoying :/
 
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Nemesis121

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Ashodin said:
I'm leveling a Sylvari Warrior now and I realize jeez I really need to do all the personal stories haha
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Now you realize why She didn't want Faolin to know the truth..my friend who doesn't have a Salad Master Dragon Race character was wonder why she didn't want Faolin to know the truth, Imagine if she knew? the Nightmare Court Leader...
 
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shysaursoft

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Finally got to do the Vinewrath overworld raid today, thanks to a timely announcement from Sia (thanks again!). I love it, it's like a little Marionette encounter. Not as tense, but also not prone to a single person ruining it for a hundred people. I've only seen the South boss (beekeeper) - I dig the "My First Raid" mechanics. Hopefully ArenaNet grows these kinds of things from here, and makes them mechanically more complex as new ones are added.
 
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Retro

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Just a reminder, starts in one hour!

Hawkian said:
GAFGuild Season 2 Event - 9:00PM EST, January 16th, 2015 - A Very Orry Christmas
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Come say a final farewell to the holiday season by bringing some Yuletide cheer to the one place in Tyria that needs it most. Deck yourself out, get your Mini Ho-ho-tron by your side, and let's conquer the unsunken lands of Orr one more time. The Risen could use some caroling, trust me.

Those of you battle-hardened by Operation Tidal Sword and Occupy Orr know what we're in for. We'll meet up at Fort Trinity, and then forge a path through the Straits of Devastation all the way to the Gates of Arah, the ruined capital of Orr. Along the way we'll liberate the temples to the 5 ancient Gods: Balthazar, Lyssa, Melandru, Grenth, and DWAAAAAYYYNNNAAAAAAA. Depending on whether or not we crush Balthazar's priest quickly, we may stop off in Zho'Qafa to poke Zhaitan in the Eye as well.

For our newer players, the temple events may be a little more involved than you're used to (especially Balthazar and Grenth), with a legitimate threat of failure. But GAFGuild will rise to the challenge! It's great loot- tons of Heavy Moldy Bags, which sell or can be opened for T6 mats- and Exotic armor and trinkets are available from the vendors which unlock after each Temple. Balthazar's vendor also sells Obsidian Shards if you're in need.

Minimum level is 70... any less than that and Risen Thralls will oneshot you on the move and you won't have any fun! Apologies to our newer members that don't have a character that high up yet; we'll make sure our next event is something everyone can attend.

Hope to see you guys there!
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