MedievalThings.5417

Guild aura and presence were used for defense. Nerfed to useless. In the process, also making chilling fog useless. Because now you need a comp to fight off a comp, and if you have a comp, you didn't need the other things anyway. Before you could at least pug defend, fast close the wall, trapping/killing a few. Use fog to snare stragglers, kill a few more. Maybe successfully defend. Now, with all the boons, and no counter to them, you just can't make a dent. Things like bloodlust which attackers use..."this is fine" - anet. What Anet says - defending is too strong, we need to make adjustments. What Anet meant - someone is still defending things, we will continue to nerf/remove things until you stop.

Agree. I'm kind of expecting them to F up the implementation and it be a full gear check, stats and all. Guess we'll find out in 45 mins. Or it will not show the stats on the gear, but still say the names "celestial fashion item of the trapper" basically failing at the intended task.

But why...? Fix lag, bugs, exploits, cheating...nah. But allow people to snoop your character cause it might sell a gem store item...absolutely. Anet for ya.

Nah, just didn't want Anet to miss anything in their crusade to make everyone play how they want (and by that I mean only the way Anet intends, by nerfing ANY and EVERY thing that a defender can use).

Dear Anet, We stopped a zerg multiple times last night by prolific use of these things. It was pretty funny. Guess you should add this to your nerf list. We not only slowed their ktrain, we stopped it altogether. Signed, Pugs that defended something.

The "fun" for me at the moment, is to down someone and then chase their teleport hacking downstate body across the map trying to kill them before they just teleport to spawn to avoid death. It's like a mini-game, that I have to play daily because they have no anti-cheat software running.

My fear is that if they actually make a GW3 it will be a mobile game.

Pretty easy when they already said "we have no current plans for a GW3".

We had someone yell at us for defending because they were trying to GvG inside garrison. Ours. The other guild was stacked killing the lord, but sure, that's the best place and time to GvG. We're sorry we interrupted.

Anet does NOT want boon strip to equal boon application. Because if it did, pugs might beat guild groups more often. Losing to pugs consistently kills guilds. Guilds dying equates to people leaving the game. Anet would rather babysit guilds with boon-sharing, instant resses, easy keep/tower takes then to actually balance the game and make skill matter. It's almost certain the boons are what is causing most of the skill lag in big fights, but that's ok as long as guilds can stand in a pile of 50 pressing 1 and boons and auto-win fights.

Sadly, the only thing that will happen is Anet will suddenly realize that the first cannon trait, in ranks and abilities, removes boons. They will in record time rectify that grave oversight, and while telling the players they are buffing the trait, their buff will be "no longer removes boons and does 25% less damage to players". You might ask "where is the buff?", to which Anet will reply "we let you keep cannons".

I wish they would revert this or listen...but ALL of this is intended. They nerfed defensive siege, nerfed wall health, buffed ktrain boons, gave them a shield gen, nerfed repair participation, buffed ktrain boons again, nerfed keep supply and moved it to camps for the ktrain, nerfed invulnerable tactic, nerfed boon strip, buffed ktrain boons a third time, nerfed boon strip again, nerfed disablers. AND, during the 10 years they did this, they didn't remove downstate, which only existed because the game launched without healers. So, they keep adding healers and boons, and buffing them, removing any and all things that make it so boonballs have to actually fight with skill. Yeah, there is no chance they are going to listen because they do NOT want people defending.

Next patches notes: The karma train is still crying that someone made it take them 30 seconds to take a T3 tower, so we have just removed all the walls from anyone who doesn't control SMC.

Facts, who needs facts right. Their friend is clearly under the platform running that sword/focus, greatsword AND rifle build everyone is running. Not to mention that taking the rifle portal doesn't stealth you and the range is so short he would still have had the enemy targeted. It's "possible" that this could be a bug with the dog AND legitimate gameplay...but almost certainly not.

Just L O L.