Deathly Claws is the Lich Form auto-attack. It's supposed to wreck people. It seemed pretty OP at first but people know how to deal with it now.
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and -All skills in the grenade kit have had their rangeupdated nerfed from 1200 to 900
and -All skills in the grenade kit have had their range
This...
and -All skills in the grenade kit have had their rangeupdatednerfed from 1200 to 900
Time to use da Mortar.
Might be a typo? Seems odd that only the warrior one would have a different range. That part of the livestream was missing the powerpoint slides too, so... who knows.
....the fuck?
In PvE? Nope. They're likely to be aiming to get it up to par but because of ramp up time it probably won't matter unless you're running Hybrid. There's a slight chance that with the expansion certain specs will win out using Hybrid or Condi, but not only will it take time to figure out (during which time people will still want Berserker primarily) but I doubt that losing Ferocity from traits is actually going to even things out enough.
In PvP, I dunno yet. I also wish I played more WvW to be able to talk about anything outside of the roamer meta.
Vigor: Decreased the endurance regeneration rate from 100% to 50%.
I didn't recall them nerfing Vigor. That's... big. Less dodges, all around. Weakness is indirectly buffed. It means that if I take the Warrior Signet with the 50% endurance regen, I'm fully running with Vigor and I don't need Warhorn anymore... but I love Warhorn...
Healing Breeze: Now "Receive the Light!" I'm actually really glad this voice clip is still in use. I'm going to miss hearing it spammed though. It was so funny....
Litany of Wrath: Reduced the cast time of this ability from 3/4 second to 1/4 second.
This is the Guardian Meditation Heal that everyone felt was trash because of the cast time. Medi Guard with even more synergy now...
Smite is still not a symbol. Oh well. I just wish that they'd move the damn Scepter trait from the symbol trait line then!!!!!
Permeating Wrath: Virtue of Justice’s passive effect no longer only burns your target, but also burns the area around your target each time it activates.
I made the thread in the forums, and it actually helped! Scepter (and eventually Longbow) buff!
Guardian build for the time being (if I'm not more distracted with every other class) will be Radiance/Honor/Virtues with Scepter/Torch and Mace/Focus.
Mimic: Updated functionality of this skill. This skill now causes the next utility slot skill you use within 10 seconds to recharge in 1 second. Increased recharge to 90 seconds.
Holy shit Mimic.
Actually, too many Mesmer things to even comment on.
Necromancer... got a lot more poison... Oh wait, Blood Magic siphons really are going to to heal in "Shroud!" I can finally make the Vampiric Necromancer I dreamed about since September 2012!
Unholy Fervor: Reduces recharge of axe skills by 20% and deal 10% more damage to vulnerable foes.
They got rid of the auto-attack to reduce cooldown mechanic. I'm actually kinda sad about this.
Signets of Suffering: Reduces recharge of signet skills by 20%. Signets grant 3 stacks of might for 15 seconds on cast and convert up to 2 boons on affected foes to conditions.
Woah.
Everything about Curses Master line will make Condi Necros happy.
Weakening Shroud: Critical hits inflict weakness for 5 seconds (10s ICD). When you enter shroud cast Enfeeble on nearby foes (Enfeeble is functionally identical to the dagger skill Enfeebling Blood.)
YES YES YES! I will actually have to consider swapping Blood Magic for Curses. They actually listened and put a trait in that helps power damage in Curses.
Uh... wait a second. They actually made Death Magic attractive to me...
Blood Magic minor traits drop the bomb. Except Mark of Evasion... you can't use that anywhere nearby mobs without getting into combat...
They moved Warhorn trait into Blood Magic where it beyonds and... and... Vampiric Presence... You and allies near you siphon health with attacks (combat only). This effect stacks with the siphoning granted by Vampiric... drool...
Blood Magic Grandmasters... drool...
The only reason for me to not go into Blood Magic now will be a lack of Healing Power on my gear... Guys, I think I have a problem. Too many of my characters are going to have Healing Power at this rate. If Parasitic Contagion healed you in Shroud I'd be dead right now.
Scrolled back up and read Mesmer anyway. Once again I want to own all five traitlines at once. Guess I still won't be using my Mesmer much.
Thief has some cool things going with it. But my current build is still... not viable.
Woah, reading about the new Thief trait Don't Stop, Cripple now slows your movement speed by 50% instead of 33%!
This took me over an hour to read through... And it was only for the four classes that weren't covered... I'll theorycraft/remake my current builds tomorrow... Hopefully that_shaman's calculator will be updated...
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Consume Conditions: This skill is now considered a corruption skill and applies 10 stacks of vulnerability to you for 4 seconds after use. Increased recharge to 30 seconds.
I missed this... They did something similar to Plague but I shrugged it off. Damn. I really will likely use the Well heal now and go Blood Magic, with or without Healing Power. I just need one or two more sources of condition removal...
appletoasty
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People like different content. Dungeons obviously matter to some people. You should respect that
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Vigilant Walrus
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People like different content. Dungeons obviously matter to some people. You should respect that
Ash doesn't respect anything that isn't greatswords. It's just the way he is.
Trying to change him would be like trying to force Miktar to use the litterbox, or making Kos stop pooping maple syrup. You can try, but you're not going to be succesful at it!
You guys taking things so personal!
Dungeons in general are just a way to make money in the game (and get skins) in comparison to other games they have very little significance to the game as a whole.
They're there specifically to be "there". As part of a feature set. Further reinforced by the fact that we knew that there was a team dedicated to revamping them and was pulled off that project (presumably, to work on HoT and LS).
I'd wager a large bet we won't get dungeons touched in the expansion at all.
Dungeons in general are just a way to make money in the game (and get skins) in comparison to other games they have very little significance to the game as a whole.
They're there specifically to be "there". As part of a feature set. Further reinforced by the fact that we knew that there was a team dedicated to revamping them and was pulled off that project (presumably, to work on HoT and LS).
I'd wager a large bet we won't get dungeons touched in the expansion at all.
That's kind of a lame attitude, honestly. Lots of people enjoy the challenge of the dungeons (whether it's speed-running, soloing or self-imposing rules to increase the difficulty) and just because you aren't into them doesn't mean they don't matter to a lot of people.
I also don't think the game has dungeons just to meet some kind of "MMO feature quota," but because they genuinely intended for dungeons to be another content platform aimed at challenging group content (and in that respect, there's nothing else in the game like them). The problem with dungeons as I see it is, there's people who want more challenging dungeons but the vast majority of people seem to want more efficient dungeons when it comes to rewards. Aetherpath is a great example; challenging, diverse, interesting from start to finish, but people don't run it because it's not rewarding enough compared to farming AC 1&3 / COF1&2 / SE. It takes too long, it has too many fights that can go wrong... it's inefficient if all you're after is loot. They probably look at the data for dungeons and see how many paths are being wasted, how little payoff they got for all the time spent on the Aetherpath, etc. and figure their time is better spent elsewhere. I can't say I blame them, if that's the case. It may be a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy, but it seems clear that ArenaNet is better at doing big, open world stuff than they are at dungeons. In a perfect world, we could have both, but it's just not going to happen in reality.
But maybe I'm weird. I loved running Blackrock Depths back in WoW even though it was a huge, confusing enemy-ridden clusterfuck you could spend hours in and still not see everything. Everyone hated doing it to get attuned for MC, but I thought it was easily the best dungeon that game had to offer.
Perks of being friends with an Anet employee's wife:
I got some extra convention swag
Oh damn, nice haul. The female centaur card is fitting (and it's signed too, sweet).
I don't know if its coincidence or not but the other piece of art is called The Thief Queen so theyre both pretty fitting
LumpOfCole
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YES.
Muh LAWD.
YUSSSS.
AGE OF SHATTER.
It's like my eternal GS/Staff build is now DEFAULT MESMER, and I get to pick all sorts of other goodies.
The 10 stacks of Vuln would have been enough I think, but the increase in CD makes it pretty ugly overall and is a really hard nerf to build away from. The trait shifting means even Condi builds which were taking Terror can't take the CD reduction trait on Corruption skills to lower it back down. Even that trait though now has a pseudo-penalty of causing all Corruption skills to afflict yourself with more conditions per use. Outside of pets I don't know if Necro has enough transfers to give that trait a potential drawback. I'm not that beat up over the Elite duration nerfs, but it would have been nice to see those two skills actually get some rework because they've always been pretty garbage in terms of playability.
I dunno, after reading the rest of the notes I think the Necromancer probably lost some ground overall. Blood Magic made a lot of strides but for good reason, and looking over the rest of the class notes it certainly seems like power levels went up everywhere.
I won't ignore your entire post, so my response is "when did I say they didn't matter to people"? I'm referring to the point that ANet most likely largely as a whole has been steered away from providing more of that. It's most likely a bulletpoint rather than a rallying development banner for them.
And I never said they added them in the beginning this way either; just the fact that as they are now, they are fixed points of reference that needn't be updated because only 5 players at a time get to see the content. They want HUNDREDS of players to see content at a time, if possible.
And let me get this right out of the way as well: I love dungeons. I love them wholeheartedly. I love the idea of taking down hard bosses and challenging encounters just as much as anyone else. What I don't love is the efficiency mentality that has emerged around them and the sort of elitist "meta" of stacking and specific builds (that I know GAF does not hang on builds, but stacking seems to be prevalent).
I cannot find a group in the guild to do dungeons either because of my own gameplay times, which comes late late at night. It makes me wish we had more oceanic players. So there's that coloring my judgment.
My post response was not aimed at anyone nor was it meant to be inflammatory in any way, but a rather calm statement of the facts as they currently appear to be.
Kos Luftar
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Patch notes for June 23rd:
http://www.dragonseason.com/activity/390/
http://www.dragonseason.com/activity/390/
Kos Luftar
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ProbAbly had to do that because you don't get stars from traits anymore.dat power creep
anet betrayed us
game is dead
Cant play heart of thorns until you finish living world season 2 and have iLVL 90 armor
Just remember that many percentage bonuses are just certain traits being baseline, like illusions doing more damage.
Something I'm considering making a thread about is that I'd like every "conversion" trait that gives you a percentage of one stat into another to do something a little extra so it's more sexy.
A decent example is from the Guardian:
Retributive Armor: Gain up to 250 bonus toughness (based on effective level) when blocking an attack. Gain ferocity based on 13% of your current toughness.
I'd really like them all to do something more when often they're master level traits that give 10% and the amount you're going to get from those traits is anywhere from 60 to maybe 200 more attribute points. In terms of precision, that'd be anywhere from 3% to 10% increase critical chance, but then for that 10% increase you'd have to get 2000 in that stat.
Something I'm considering making a thread about is that I'd like every "conversion" trait that gives you a percentage of one stat into another to do something a little extra so it's more sexy.
A decent example is from the Guardian:
Retributive Armor: Gain up to 250 bonus toughness (based on effective level) when blocking an attack. Gain ferocity based on 13% of your current toughness.
I'd really like them all to do something more when often they're master level traits that give 10% and the amount you're going to get from those traits is anywhere from 60 to maybe 200 more attribute points. In terms of precision, that'd be anywhere from 3% to 10% increase critical chance, but then for that 10% increase you'd have to get 2000 in that stat.
UltimateIke
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The 5% difference in stats between exotic and ascended berserker worked out as an 11% difference in DPS, so a 10% difference in stats is absolutely going to be noticeable.
This is basically exactly what I was expecting to happen.
God bless.
Hmm... I need to make sure everyone has the right stuff equipped then.
Fuck yes! Save my WvW build.
Give me back all the skill points that I spent on 8 characters unlocking it. :<
These all make the low-level dungeons harder. Maybe Spider Queen in AC won't die in 4 seconds flat.
It will also make exotic and ascended gear both less important in non level 80 areas.
For the average joe playing this , sure but for speedrun groups or WR setters a 10% difference can mean the difference of finishing seconds earlier in ascended then the group in exotics .
Kos Luftar
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I don't get how every class now seems to have some kind of healing (others) trait line, as if healing others in GW2 will ever be viable.
Healing only worked in previous games because other party members did not have to ever move around and neither did the healer.
Engi inventions trait line will continue to be the least used one for me.
Healing only worked in previous games because other party members did not have to ever move around and neither did the healer.
Engi inventions trait line will continue to be the least used one for me.
Perhaps I should have contextualized my quote. Your damage number is for full exotic versus full ascended. For a mixed player (ascended trinkets/weapon and exotic armor):
And hence, I said people wont really notice it. Most have these, armor is the biggest problem due go its cost and what people truly fear about ascended being better, due to its goldsink.
As for thorgal's post, people who do speedruns and whatever *already run* full ascended, including infusions, so the point is moot.
Crafting all those ascended weapons & armor will finally payoff, woo.
Still not sold on the new elite guardian signets. Maybe with the 20% boost trait. But giving up Renewed Focus isn't easy, even if Virtue range is getting nerfed in the bottom.
HamShoutBow time.
Everything getting damage boosts. Healing all over. Solution to the celestial meta was to make everything celestial?
I want to think there's a plan. Dunno what it is. But I want to think its there.
Still not sold on the new elite guardian signets. Maybe with the 20% boost trait. But giving up Renewed Focus isn't easy, even if Virtue range is getting nerfed in the bottom.
HamShoutBow time.
Everything getting damage boosts. Healing all over. Solution to the celestial meta was to make everything celestial?
I want to think there's a plan. Dunno what it is. But I want to think its there.
appletoasty
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Maybe the new content is so ridiculously hard that we need the buffs
You mean settler/nomad.
UltimateIke
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http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/3a1egw/623_why_is_ascended_gear_getting_stronger/
LOL. Ascended gear has been in the game for over two years. Get over it.
Also, people are saying those patch notes might be fake? So maybe we'll find out something soon.
LOL. Ascended gear has been in the game for over two years. Get over it.
Also, people are saying those patch notes might be fake? So maybe we'll find out something soon.
Is settler/nomad becoming good some kind of new meme, or is it actually true ?
I personally have a hard time figuring-out anything with all the info we got, I'll see about all that when it's in-game.
I guess on top of all that we'll be getting new Lion's Arch next week then.
appletoasty
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Drama queens on Reddit? Shocking
Drama queens on the internet?
UltimateIke
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ARAH
Kids these days don't know the meaning of 10/10 dungeons.
UltimateIke
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http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/3a0xf6/arenanet_sent_us_the_entire_patch_notes_for_next/cs8dtq6
I think Devon Carver is on the WvW team?
So all the other Wallet/LA/etc. notes are still coming.
I think Devon Carver is on the WvW team?
So all the other Wallet/LA/etc. notes are still coming.
Thats my line. OG do not steal kthx
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