[Cele has to go]

14 hours ago, Yunari.9065 said:

Anet really stop it Now! WvW Roaming is so hard plagued by this carry Set it sucks! 

stealth --->burst, try to one shot = cele don't die and you are in trouble.. just say it lol. You can have my cele, if  anet also removes stealth.

[Tell me why?]

People thought they were good with their complex rotation but Pmech showed them that they are not as good as they thought they were. Hence, they are complaining for their shortcoming. 

do you guys feel better downplaying others to feel superior?

[August 23 Power Reaper balances feedback]

just like Mechanist, Reaper is people's fav class. I think, devs are just afraid with proper reaper boost, Reaper will just take over the tyria like Mechs are atm.

BTW, I main Reaper. I don't care if it is underpower. I just like the whole idea behind it.

[This game needs to be more clear about how to earn gold]

I just play the game. Give or take I average 5 gold an hour but its enough for me to buy good food and oil to wreck havoc in WvW 😄

[Current state of mechanist class promotes degenerative gameplay]

On 8/18/2022 at 7:55 AM, Tails.9372 said:

Sure but this is one of the rare occasions where its not predominantly the competitive part of the playerbase asking for nerfs. From what it looks like the nerf requests almost exclusively come from the more "hardcore" part of the PvE side of things, either because they can't accept the fact that that their god given right, for their always flawless gameplay execution, to be on top of the dps chart has been "stolen" by what they assume to be an "AFK player" (whether or not that is actually true is something they don't care about) or because they oppose the existence of it on principle meaning that they will always complain about it as long as people are playing it and the only way to truly appease them is to nerf it into non existence.

 

They have 26 other elite spec to play from and they can't leave 1 spec to casual people like us.
Talk about some salty elite stuff.

[When someone doesn't understand what elitist and casual are]

Blame the game not the players except few 🙂

[Thief Nerf thread]

On 8/8/2022 at 10:00 AM, Sinister.5792 said:

 

19kills and above per match with minium 1-3 deaths

so you can't do that anymore, its more or less 1 kill 1 death, it's not balance. I got it.

[Mechanist is currently destroying the game. Please consider adjusting it ASAP.]

On 8/12/2022 at 12:42 PM, EvilSardine.9635 said:

It's completely braindead in WvW as well.

 

I'm seeing players who can barely turn their character or play the game and are basically AFK almost beating other players because of the mech. It's completely absurd.

 

Lowest skill profession in the game by an absurd degree.

people don't know the limit of lie.. Lol.

[About Steam]

I play on steam. I have over 200 games in my library. And, I also play gw2 couple of times a week. I find it weird that people think steam players are from different planet.

[If you can't beat them, join them (rifle mech overlords)]

46 minutes ago, AliamRationem.5172 said:

Does it need to be in order for what I said to be true? 

I'm not sure what's so difficult to understand about this.  The benchmark represents 100% melee uptime.  If a melee and a ranged build are exactly equal on a benchmark, then every second spent at range results in an advantage for the ranged build.  The more time at range, the bigger the advantage.  Is that not obvious?  Why argue the point?

you are right but mech are not the topping dps chart in game though.

[Mech haters - Do you really want harder builds to be stronger?]

14 minutes ago, Polar.8634 said:

Many classes can heal, not every has same utility and boon coverage. Scrapper - is ok healer, just not better then fb, that's why mostly fb is played as quick heal. Same for mech - his rivals as alac heal are tempest and Rene. U see them anywhere? I saw only in YouTube vids . 

druid is as good as alac heal mech. and Yes I do see it frequently on pug raid.

[Mech haters - Do you really want harder builds to be stronger?]

19 hours ago, Sunchaser.9854 said:

You do realize the other specs... Have 10 second weapon swaps on rotations as well as stance swaps and that any half decent player can extremely, trivially easily keep a weapon swap right?

 

Becareful what you wish for....I'd love to have weapon swap on mech. Humble request to Anet, Please make it happen.

[MAGUMA]

3 hours ago, Stajan.4581 said:

I can not wait till I am done with Conflux and never have to go back to WvW again. The fact that Anet put crafting materials....(gift of battle) and one of the legendary rings in WvW is total crap. They really did nto think this through.

without gift of battle WvW is pretty much dead anyway. All these macho people are preying on pve casual who is trying to get gift of battle.

They run like their back is on fire as soon as they get some competition from competent player.

[MAGUMA]

yeah, we are sandwitched between Maguma on left and blackgate on right this week. It's definitely not fun. You fight 1 and 10 comes from woodwork rightaway. Then, they chase you all the way to south pole.

[Rifle Mech is now 28k DPS with 0 input from the player.]

6 minutes ago, ThunderX.6591 said:

Because we have people who ask for nerf instead of asking for buffs to the "not so good class" the end result is what you see and wrote in your post.

IF the same people asking for nerf would ask for buffs to the other classes, the game would be a lot better, BUT even if you say them this thing, they do 🤷‍♂️ and continue to post the same.

Mecha is easy, with EOD Anet double the numbers of players and that mean, new casual join the game, and what a casual would play for high end contents? An easy class like Mecha, or, after some kick from groups, change the game and bye bye new player.

Anet is trying to go Steam, and when you go there, you are in the centre of attention, so much attention that if you go on the wrong side of the scale, a game can be literally destroyed or closing servers............. (the less problem when a game is in the wrong side of the scale could be loosing more people than getting people in the game compared to before joining Steam).

 

Not only new players, but there are some like us, who is hitting close to 40, have job, wife/husband, children and other social aspect of life.

We don't have time nor dex to practice rotation of complex piano playing just to play some instant content of the game.

[Rifle Mech is now 28k DPS with 0 input from the player.]

4 hours ago, Raizel.8175 said:

The mental gymnastics people do here to defend Rifle Mechanist are amazing. Either people are intentionally dishonest - which is already quite questionable behaviour - or they just don't know how the game works - which is also questionable since people here already explained why Rifle Mechanist is overpowered.

To counter some outrageous arguments made in this thread:

• This thread is about instanced PvE only - how Rifle Mechanist performs in other content doesn't matter.
• Rifle Mechanist still has a lot of utility. You have at least one free utility slot (which the LI build uses for Rifle Turret), you have a leap and a blink, a cleanse for movement-impairing conditions, a lot of CC and you also generate a bit of Might. Stating that Rifle Mechanist is a selfish DPS build is utterly dishonest. People claiming that apparently never played builds like pDPS Weaver.
• People arguing with benchmark results are silly. On most builds, benchmarks translate poorly into actual encounters since mechanics will disrupt your rotation. Rifle Mechanist doesn't have a rotation, you simply press 6 buttons off CD. You're also a ranged build, don't rely on ground targetting skills and don't suffer from animation locks. That's ultimately why Rifle Mechanist benchmarks translate almost 1:1 into actual encounters which simply isn't true for any other build. That's also the reason why DPS charts are commonly dominated by Rifle Mechanists.
• Stating "you can simply play something else since Rifle Mechanist won't affect you" is simply dishonest in instanced PvE. Rifle Mechanist is simply too strong to ignore. Sure, I can play another build. But that builds benchmark won't translate as well as Rifle Mechanists into actual encounters and I may also not have such free access to CC. I more likely than not will perform worse playing another build meaning I would grief my own party/squad if I were not to play Rifle Mechanist.

TL;DR: Rifle Mechanist is inherently broken and needs a major overhaul/redesign.

so Mech is overpowered not pressing 11111 is topping chart?

You guys are confusing me. Btw, what about Virtuoso? You call that rotation? Why do you even need rotation to do decent dps anyway?

Btw, I will tell you same thing, that you raiders have been telling us for long long time.. "MAKE YOUR OWN GROUP".  There problem solved for you. You don't have to play rifle mech and you can kick anyone play rifle mech.

[Rifle Mech is now 28k DPS with 0 input from the player.]

28k sounds nice but Can we have 1 video of actual raid doing 28k with autoattack please. I'd like to see it. Thank you in advance.

[Finally done with this dead gamemode]

On 8/4/2022 at 1:42 PM, Paradoxoglanis.1904 said:

5 years of FB scourge meta says everything. They were never even trying to balance anything.

Just curious, how do you define balance?

when enemy team can have everything that your team has, I call that balance. May be, you don't like the way it is balanced but WvW as a whole is definitely balanced as far as meta goes.

Population on other hand is stacked on some server while some are almost empty. That is actually not balanced.

[Power Rifle Mechanist Problem]

6 hours ago, Obtena.7952 said:

On the fence with this because it is important to give a wide range of players a wide range of builds to be successful with. 

But in the end, I think whatever the problem is, it's not related to DPS output or how easy it is to play; we already have high DPS output builds and builds that are easy to play (and some are even BOTH). The fact is that neither of those things would matter if the bot didn't tank so effectively. That has a real impact in that it trivializes PVE content. It's CERTAINLY the case that in OW PVE, mechanist makes most encounters that are meant for multi player events trivial. 

I've seen the same thing in fractals. It can carry hard and I've also seen some players get excited about being able to solo fractals with it when they couldn't before. It's far to enabling at the floor level, to the point where you can ignore the 'group' part of 'group encounters'. IMO, that's related to the Jade bot tanking ability, and that's it. If people are ignoring the need for a group in group encounters because of game design and not player capability, then you know you have a problem on your hands as a Game Director. 

Just read through bunch of nonsense stuff. People were able to clear raids solo as well. Same as HP points, dungeons and others. Good player can do bunch of hard content solo. Casual struggle with same content whether they have clone, pet, mech or minion.

Nobody is avoiding world boss, t4 fractal, raid or strike coz they can solo it with mech.

[Power Rifle Mechanist Problem]

On 7/28/2022 at 1:55 AM, Atticus.7194 said:

I have every single mech spec and have played them in basically every mode from pvp to raids and even I gotta admit they either need a nerf or everything else needs a buff cause jeez these feel a bit unfair atm.

Mech is free kill in WvW.

[Harvest Temple CM <1%]

I say, its okay to give hardcore players some bone here and there but the day I see "for sale on lfg" is the day Anet should nerf it down. or just ban sale period.

Looking at Raid lfg, I can't help but feel like people against easy mode are the one selling raid runs.

[You can turn DE meta into a loot train now]

2 hours ago, Sobx.1758 said:

While it's convenient to just say "google it!", there's no way to find a lie you made up, sorry.

It really doesn't matter to me anymore. I was just venting my frustration. While they didn't say brain dead way of playing game, they did say "play the way you want" which doesn't work anymore.  Too much flash, aoe circles and boon based game for openworld is not my style. I am not afraid of challenging game, in fact it's the opposite. I just don't like cheap challenge which I find GW2 is over saturated at this point.

I am on verge of quitting this game. I don't like the way game is taking its direction.  But, If you like it, good for you and hopefully you can enjoy many years to come. In the meantime, keep game healthy for all of us. Who knows, I might come back someday again.

[You can turn DE meta into a loot train now]

2 minutes ago, yoni.7015 said:

It was advertised that you don’t have to use your brain? 

yeah exactly word by word, did you search it?

[You can turn DE meta into a loot train now]

6 minutes ago, mindcircus.1506 said:

I'd like to see an example of this advertisement

Search it. google is your friend.

[What will EoD be remembered for?]

for me it will be remembered as how Anet tricked me into buying expansion that I didn't and don't enjoy.