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Rifle charr warriors need to hack the game to be viable.

I miss Ben.

Have you tried not getting the debuffs? You kind of have to eat a lot of skills to take 20k in burning damage, or 15k in bleed and poison. It's not like the classes look at you and you burst into flames. That being said so would they, but that's not really the point here.

Dragon Trigger - Boost - Rework as a shadowstep with a ground target. On cast, you shadowstep to your endpoint, and 1/2 second later a field between your start and endpoint is drawn, dealing heavy damage in a single packet to all targets in the field. Same diameter as the original Boost skill. Eviscerate: The leap evades. Evaded attacks increase the strike damage of the skill while the skill is being channeled. Arc Divider: Recharge Whirlwind if it lands. Hundred Blades: Striking a target with this skill reduces all Greatsword skills by a half second of recharge per instance. Bloody Roar: For PVP, additional strike damage every second you remain in zerk mode, up to a cap of 10% additional damage. Decays by same amount out of shroud. Axe throw: Use the Ranger axe throw pathing. Skull Grinder: Unsplit from PVE. King of Fires: 7 second CD. Imminent Threat: 30 second cd Whirling Axe: Reflects projectiles, like the thief stolen skill. Critique encouraged, this is half serious though.

I'm not as smitten with Nayos as these two, but the whole Wizard's tower story arc so far has been very enthusiastic and well built (as far as mmo stories go, at any rate). The writers have been itching to shelve the dragon fight and write something new, it seems. Good for them.

You can just walk away from a virtuoso on any class that has movement skills or reasonable access to swiftness. They only win if you entertain them. I think that's pretty fair. It's still poorly designed, and surprisingly on brand for the most recent mesmer build for every expansion to date. Chronomancer was unkillable, Then Mirage was, now Virtuoso. Eventually they figure it out though, and at least this one is slow.

I don't think the rev lightsaber is new either, that auto swing was originally used by Scarlet Briar. By the way, they -do- still do bespoke animations. They just usually submit them for things less subject to change. Like, for instance, emotes and: The person that mentioned animations not being changed due to potential reworks may have a point. Would still like to see some new skills though.

Like garlic to vampires. Hssss! Hssss! Putting my money where my mouth is, Hsssss!

Ding ding. Ranked not fully allowing premades, but also not fully prohibiting you from making them was your first warning that this was not a competition of skill.

Correct. From a projectile player's point of view, I can definitely see how firing some projectiles, only to have all of them whiff or come hurtling back at you because a warrior decided they wanted an aegis or block at that moment is frustrating. But if we are going to consider that frustrating, we should also consider how frustrating it is for a warrior player to build up their adrenaline, line up burst, then have it glance or miss because their opponent decided at that moment they wanted blind or weakness. If you want the former to be less frustrating, it should come paired with less frustration in the latter. Either this mitigation trading game can be played until one person makes a mistake, or the game can be "this melee class crumples easily at range, but if they get anywhere near you -you- crumple." Pick whichever one you like. Or dont. I'm pretty sure the interaction with aegis is a bug, which is doubly sad, because it means one of the only reasons warrior is a threat at all is because of developer oversight.

Kinda putting the cart before the horse, isn't it? It's more like the balance is horrible and so people are looking for low-touch methods to get the rewards from it without actually having to interact with it. If you want to minimize the impact of afkers and bots, good balance tends to help with that. If your balance is good, bots will be less effective at getting rewards, and people are more inclined to try to carry close games than give up after the first clash at mid. If people like interacting with your system, the faults (such as poor quality matches) tend to be minimized (more people playing because its fun, more pool to pad out those people causing the poor quality matches.) Let's not conjure this as the grand design of a particularly malicious group of devs. I wouldn't give them -that- much credit. The simplest conclusion is very often the true one. The devs are not very competitive minded and blunder a lot when it comes to shaping competitive. Most of them are Baldurs Gate enjoyers, more so than LoL or Street Fighter. Because of that (and the compounding factors of people in the competitive spaces tend to be assholes that didn't get enough validation as a child), PvP is not enjoyable for a large portion of the playerbase that -would- interact with it otherwise. Because of this, the matchmaker has to struggle to put games together with the few people that -do- remain, and because of -that- it will often scrape the very bottom of the barrel of players and hand you a couple of bots from people who checked out a long time ago (but still should be banned). Oui ❤️ ~ I am a fan of tough love. A little bashing is okay. They're the ones with the means to change this. The lack of data is a lack of -people-, and there's no shortage of those in the other game spheres.

Never change Shion, I always get a chuckle from your constant framing of Gunzerker as some unstoppable force of nature. If only it were so.

Silly is okay sometimes`

Reassuring news~ ❤️

I think it was decent to focus on these, at least for pvp. Mesmer doesn't seem to have much presence in the meta right now, and the few mesmers you do see are running defensive kits like virtuoso/chronobunker. It seems like they want to nudge people toward using the more aggressive options / lean toward power mes builds. I'd imagine that if they focused on phantasms people -didnt- use there would be a similar number of people upset that they were buffing things less immediately useful, like they just did with signets on thief. Perhaps I'm interpreting this wrong, though. These are all true, especially the last two. Regardless of their choice this time, these do need a look at at some point. I wouldn't say it's -urgent- for pvp, but perhaps so for pve. I'm not on board with this personally.

This is a new game, and necro has new skills. No class's identity should be "shuts down x class". There's a lot of things that shut down warrior, and this is a dangerous argument to make given the fact that thief, mesmer, and occasionally ranger also share this trait. It will backfire if you rely on it. That being said, I disagree with your presentation, but the main point is correct. Weakness is fine. Warriors have presence against necromancers through CC, and weakness is a suitable counterbalance to that (as it stands now, that can change if resistance is nerfed). I am not sure how Burst Precision ought to work, but if Hidden Killer ignores weakness, then so should Burst Precision.

Not that I don't have possibly bannable opinions about pvp at the moment, but I'd rather wait 5~ minutes for a slightly unbalanced match, than wait 5+ minutes for a slightly more balanced match that is still subject to all the problems the former match experiences. Waiting longer won't stop people from afking after wiping at mid or guarantee you won't get duos to fight against, and I have to get on with my day~

I surmise they're quietly playing with addressing afk behavior with dishonor, but perhaps there are some kinks to be worked out.

The matchmaker is working properly. You cannot fabricate balanced matches if the playerbase the matchmaker has to work with is so disparate and small that skill gaps between players cannot be accounted for, especially if the matchmaker also has to honor duos. This is like asking a retail clerk to bring you specifically a 32 inch monitor from the back room when they have none in stock. You will not get what you want, regardless of how efficient the clerk is. The easiest fixes for this do not involve reworking the matchmaker. They involve removing duo queue for ranked at least temporarily, and organization that brings new and returning players to the game mode, like events.

@Cal Cohen.2358. Good change on the mesmer pistol cds. Good change on stone heart. Good change on Unrelenting Criticism. You should listen to the increasingly-frustrated berserker-oriented warrior mains, especially @ZEUStiger.3590, on Page 3. Consider very carefully what kind of game you are asking power berserker to play, and what they have to account for to play that game successfully. They have far less mitigation to work with than every other class in the game.

I would imagine zerker players are flattered consistently by the tight grasp Cal keeps on their damage despite the number of things that a player needs to fail to account for to get hit by it at all. Why anyone would take this over Savage Instinct eludes me, but, if you say so. good. So-So. Patch is alright. Some of the things that had dropped off the map have some wiggle room now. I would keep an eye on ranger for further tuning in the future. The Stone Heart change was very prudent and will reduce the amount of time people can stall without actively avoiding damage. Thief still needs some work, but I'm sure they're aware~

Necro (Core): Viable-ish Necro (Scourge): Not Viable Necro (Harbinger): Viable Necro (Reaper): Viable Ranger (Core): Viable-ish Ranger (Soulbeast): Viable Ranger (Druid): Viable Ranger (Untamed): Viable Engie (Core) Not Viable Engie (Scrapper): Viable Engie (Mechanist): Viable-ish Engie (Holo): Viable Thief (Core): Not Viable Thief (Deadeye): Viable Thief (Daredevil): Viable Thief (Specter): Viable-ish Ele (Core): Not Viable Ele (Weaver): [Redacted] Ele (Cata): Very Viable Ele (Tempest): Very Viable Warrior (Core): Not Viable Warrior (Berserker): Viable-ish Warrior (Spellbreaker): Very Viable Warrior (Bladesworn) Not-Viable / Viable - Ish Guardian (Core): Viable Guardian (DH): Viable Guardian (Willbender): Viable Guardian (Firebrand): Non-Viable Mesmer (Core): Viable Mesmer (Mirage): Viable-Ish Mesmer (Virtuoso): Viable-Ish Mesmer (Chronomancer): Viable Revenant (Core): Not Viable Revenant (Vindicator) Very Viable Revenant (Herald) Viable-ish / Viable Revenant (Renegade) Not Viable/Viable-ish

This is a lesson to game developers that wish to moderate a competitive scene. ♥ If you let people that manipulate your systems get away with wrist slaps, fail to make an example out of them, and allow the community members that are looking for fair matches get exploited, eventually the players looking to play things by the book will leave, and your community will struggle. As much as the people willing to skirt rules would like you to believe otherwise, the game will continue to work just fine if their account they [redacted] 300 dollars [redacted] gets obliterated, and they'll learn not to do it again. ♥ Moderation is hard, I know. But it's necessary; part of the foundation upon which a community is built. If it is difficult to expose situations where people are abusing the game, then the system needs to change to make it easier. And the people that -do- get caught should very visibly be removed from wherever they have an impact, whether that be on leaderboards or through high levels of dishonor. All the power to make things right, and you refuse to use it~

Not true. Destroying other people's creations is a pretty significant lure for people~ It's moreso the fact that most players of the game care about playing a certain way, the ways that the game can be played are separated from one another, people can choose what kinds of people they wish to play with, and people that break the rules in most cases get swiftly ejected from the community by moderators happy to do so, with the harm that they caused promptly undone. Y'know. Good design. ♥ It's not that there aren't starving dogs, it's just that they're all outside, in the cold, Where they belong.