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I would love to say it still Kinda works, But I haft to agree, I would like to pick up support Specter again, It was a blast to play, and the MetaBattle testing build does work in HoT Raids, Buuut It's not great, and The "Teleport, Teleport, Teleport, Teleport, Teleport" Rotation get Hella old fast, I would love to see a more exciting play. DoubleTap I know Specter ain't your Babe, But we Support nerds would love to see some Heal Alac Builds Competing with Druids... and Mechanists *cough* hopium Edit: Looking back at this is amusing. I'm so glad I get to read through the notes and then again see the notes when MukLuk does it. Always good to have a twice-over. Guess the ANet Gods Heard my plea long before I wrote this. Anyways this whole message is basically BS if you actually read the not-so-fine print 😂 Thanks for the Oh So Fitting Reactions peeps :Confused:

Dang! Respect to Rubi for writing this up, this took me two days just to read through, CRAZY wall of text. I Look forward to a lot of these changes, as a specter support main/wannabe I may have liked to see more of those boons given to me as well. But I am very happy with the boosts across the board. Will def play some Damage Specter

I almost hate to agree with this because I'm 100% for Developers taking their time and making the right decisions, But I would really like to see bolder bold decisions coming from ANets Balance Team. I appreciate the step to bolder 😄 but from an outsider view this doesn't actually look much bolder at all. And still leaves a lot to be desired apparently.

I'm reserving judgment but I would really like to know why these changes where needed? Keeping people inside this circle will be notably harder. And doubling boon duration but halfling uptime kind of makes me see this entire change as an over all nerf with this additional reduction added on top; Aside for greater access to quickness because of the decreased cooldown or cores. Edit: A nerf for boon uptime I guess, and not including banner of strength as well. I know the on drop effects are better now. I don't see much combo field stuff outside of WvW though so I don't see finisher and field changes as super great, especially considering WvW prolly can't use banners because of their immobility.

I like! Look forward to playing worrier in game! I Made leggy armor for this occasion xD Def feeling the hurt last time. Edit: After examining the changes I do feel that it loses value in WvW by them not being moveable. Although the blast finishers are cool. Also in general it's a little contradictory to give superspeed on a banner drop that can't move for 15 seconds, WvW would love, but the super speed would be the only thing worth while. It's basically encouraging players to put it somewhere everyone is trying not to be. I would love a mechanic like sam spears where you can maybe update the position once or twice by pulling the banners to you like a spear with a turn over skill. Also I know I'm not including alacrity in the equation but by doubling the duration and halfling the up time we haven't really fixed much, we still kind of need 100% boon duration to keep good uptime with is just unreasonable to expect from a class that doesn't make itself into a good healer. And even healer roles usually don't go much higher than 80% Anyways I'll reserve criticism until it's release, I love that Banner of Strength is now on equal playing grounds with "For Great Justice" That as least seems to be a perfect fix, but I don't think banner worrier is out of the storm just yet.

Hahaha Okay so maybe I missed the point a little, and Farting boons is an accurate description of what's going on. Also as a used to be Alac Ren main and now a Specter main, seems like everything I got here is looken P nice, so maybe I'm not the most qualified for the discussion. I also learned a new word today xD "homogenization", been hearing that one a lot. And I think it's accurate. It's is really sad to see. I think I can get behind you, and a lot of the community in saying that the idea of having all professions homogenized takes sooo much away from the game. However I do consider ANet's goal a noble one. I know for sure that the Ele players want a place in the meta. But I also see that it's not happening. And I too was underwhelmed by this patch. Still, I would like to see more civil ppl like you, around. I read a comment earlier saying Death threats come with the territory. And I gotta say some ppl kill them self over that so I see it as no joke and totally unacceptable. I just hoped to some how get level heads to prevail... somehow. Anyway Thanks for the reply. Nice read!

I actually disagree with most of this. Although I do haft to say yes please prove us wrong. There are a lot of sceptics who have had that one coming for a while. However with the post is answering questions. Def not questions I asked, probably not questions you asked, there where a lot of questions but I certainly do consider it a part of interacting with the community, would love to see more, unless you know that they pulled all those questions out there butt for no reason and I missed something. Next I can say it would be nice to see ANet aim higher for keeping in touch with their community and having them read and contribute in discussions. But doing that would be a challenge, and probably not what you would want seeing as they don't have a professional know it all for every player in the game. (I know that's extreme) but having ppl in chat answering questions or whatever may not be as impactful as you may think, there's a lot of shiz to read and responses written in 30 seconds aren't really going to help with that. It could make things worse. Besides can you name a GDS that makes you feel more heard than ANet? ALSO PLEASE DON'T ASK THEM TO POSTPONE ALL THEIR PLANNS A MONTH OR MORE!!! Just let Game designers do what game designers do. We can put up with a little trouble knowing that they will likely be back soon, we've seen lots of profession changes recently, there's no reason to think we'll be stuck with this for long, just take a 3-4 week break from the game, you won't miss much, and that will get you through 90% of it. And of course last but not least, This is Arena Net's game, I know it sucks to hear, but they arn't trying to make the best game for you, or the next person. And there isn't a game that if everyone got to pitch in, everyone would love, because everyone's idea's give and take and usually don't see the big picture. It Seems ANet want's a game that anyone can pickup and play the profession that seems most interesting to them and use it anywhere in the game to fill any role. That's the game they want, and it sounds pretty cool, but it's going to make a lot of classes feel generic, and the path there isn't always going to make sense, even worse that may not be their gol next year. That's kinda what you sign up for with "Live" games.

Heyo I know a lot of ppl are upset about these changes, I just wanted to remind that this is a very different direction for Guild Wars 2 with the removal of custom effects like Spotter, Assassins Presence, Banners and Spirits. The removal of such important features was never going to be an easy journey but it's the direction Arena Net wants to take the game. Because of that it's only natural we see the outlining changes here tuned down to a mere idea. Let's all experiment with the new toys Anet gave us and see if anything good comes of it before we judge to harshly. Remember when they added quickness to Scrapper, and MukLuk tried it out? It wasn't good then either so Anet boosted it. And now quick scrapper is a pretty big deal. Basically what I'm saying is hang in a little longer they're trying some new mechanics not rebalancing the game ofc it's gonna be weak. But hang in there, play with it first and Anet will get back to us when they figure out what changes they just put in work and what changes don't. All we can do is hope that it's sooner than later. See MukLuk's afterthoughts on the build, aaand then see ANet's changes to eng in response