Master Po.8154

In general, I'm happy to see the patch this time, cause at least things are heading the correct direction and the professions who need love badly are getting some (and some of them still need more). But I'd like to remind you guys that during the last balance patch live stream, you mentioned that by adding alacrity to Tempest overloading, you were looking forward to the fresh air power alac Tempest build. You know what, I do too. I fancy this thunder god playstyle quite a lot but the sad news here is power Tempest does way too little damage in PVE group content. I really hope that you guys add this to one of your to-buff list at least. As an ele main, Tempest is very fun and it's sad to see that it is now a heal-only build for instanced group content. Please make alac power (or condi if power is too much to ask) tempest a viable build

I'm confused, if catalyst is the most over-performing profession for the best players out there, why it is not the top 1 on the snowcrows benchmark? My theory is that the only reason the high caliber teams stacks catalysts is because multiple dps catalysts can cover the quickness for that group so they don't need a dedicated quickness provider. I kinda get it a pure damage dealer can provide ~25% coverage of quickness is a bit weird, thus I'm totally fine they remove that. But why they still feel the need to nerf 10% of damage for quickness catalyst? Are they too popular compared to other quickness providers such as harbinger or cQB? Sorry that if I sound a bit aggressive. I am mad but not towards you.

As an ele main, I feel like I'm in a toxic relationship. Seeing the patch everytime makes me wanna break up but I love the friends in game too much that I have to continue enduring the pain. I'm not the unreasonable kind who is mad whenever I see nerfs, but these nerfs are just too unjustified I don't think any ele main is able to stay cool about them. Since devs stated that you use the popularity of professions to make balance patches, can you at least once share the data you guys used to nerf catalyst in this patch? If you are able to provide reliable data for you decisions (that catalyst is too popular and should get nerfed) I will shut up.

At this point, I would say any change is good. We really need more diversity for builds/comps for WvW, it's been the same for so long that it starts to get boring. Every team needs a FB and a scrapper, and only good damage dealer are scrouges, heralds and DHs. What's worse and more hopeless is that none of the EoD specs are strong enough to get a spot unless they are buffed

I'm an ele main and I'm very disappointed about Catalyst. The current version of the sphere is a joke. I'm not even gonna talk about the energy/cooldown of the skill, just how impossible to utilize them. 1. I don't play raid nor other hardcore PVE contents, but I know that a DPS class who can provides quickness needs to compete with quickness cFBs. And Catalyst can't reliably maintain quickness for the whole group and can't even provide quickness at the very beginning of the fight (no energy for sphere). And the group even needs to stand within the 240 radius circle to get buff? OMG seriously? Why would anyone choose Catalyst when others provide more to the table and not limiting your movements. 2. In PvP and WvW roaming, the sphere is a complete joke. Watch any streamers/youtubers playing catalyst in pvp or roaming in wvw, the sphere is just there to look pretty, doing nothing. No one would ever fight an Catalyst in the sphere. (Not that it's insanely powerful or something, just super easy to avoid) 3. In WvW zergs, given how mobile zergs are when fighting each other, the sphere is not gonna buff anyone, and it doesn't do damage either. The whole class mechanic thing needs to be reworked.

I've been having some insane lags for the last one or two weeks too. I thought it was my Internet but everything else works perfectly fine, only GW2 is having issues. I joined my guild group for wvw raid tonight and I can hear their voices in dc clearly with no lags but as soon as I engage with enemies, my lag spikes up to around 4000 and it's literally unplayable. In PVE maps, I sometimes get about 500 ping for about 3 seconds occasionally which never happened before. Anet, if this is something you can fix, please help.