Shiyo.3578

Speed running groups were running like 4 catalysts so it got nerfed. Yes, < 100 people got a class nerfed for hundred of thousands, that's anet logic and balancing. It's because they balance the game around an EXTREMELY tiny minority.

legendary armor, yes.

Stability shouldn't be a boon in the game, period.

Yeah, people either get 1 shot and 1 shot you back, are literally invincible, or have positional hack on demand. Class design is absolute trash for PvP.

If they're going to make zerg vs zerg unbearable fun, can you at least just copy/paste all pvp changes into wvw so roaming is at least tolerable?

Literally nothing needs to be buffed. Stealth, mobility, sustain, and burst all need to be nerfed. All healing abilities on a global 60s CD. All defense trait lines deleted and remade into something that fits the game(tanks don't exist in PvE, bunkers aren't fun in PvP or WvW) Please no. They already wasted 2-3 years of class design development trying to make boring core specs viable and now they're ALL trash again.

You need to find 9 people with the correct builds who are decent and know mechanics for a grand total of 1.5g. Pretty terrible reward for the effort required.

Absolute trash compared to Alac Renegade or Alac mech. Actively makes PvP and WvW not worth queueing into. Why would I want to fight a pocket healer that can stealth on demand and have up to FIVE shadowsteps, while also being a thief so it can have sword2 and d/p stealth? Hard pass. This is a spec that KILLS all your PvP game modes. It's THE WORST designed spec in the entire game for PvP, and sucks at PvE. No one wants to fight this trash, and no one wants it in their instanced groups. Deadeye2.0 / 10.

Elementalist. All of it. Yes, the entire class.

This spec also blinds everyone around them by puking on their entire screen. I don't want this spec to be played. Ranger already has a spec that can play power, condi, OR hybrid. It has a healer. It needed a buffer(no alac/quickness on druid), or a bruiser. It got a "worse harder to play soulbeast that blinds everyone and does 30% less dps".

Those don't have a free tank, one even has 11k hp...

Not good to have in an action game.

My flesh golem lost 50% of it's HP soloing a random normal mob in sirens landing(and took forever to do it). I swap to mech and my mech kills it in < 5 seconds with 100% HP left. Not true at all.

You got that after seeing vids and benchmarks saying the complete opposite in the OP?

Someone I know was muted for having a different opinion from the masses. That PvP discord is useless.

Worst balance in the genre.

I don't care how easy or hard things are, lower skill builds are great to get more people playing your game. The issue is the robot. If it could not be targetted by an enemy and was just an entity that existed as a cosmetic, the spec would be ok. Willbender has 11k HP and no pet to tank for it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_XVn26s8S4 Somehow made even more braindead with the recent mace buff. Which would be OK if it didn't have a free invincible tank.

The mace buffs made this spec completely face roll. It's better than Renegade which was already too strong. Compare Alac Mech to Alac Specter / Mirage / Willbender - it's a joke.

Has proof of Mechanist overperforming in every single game mode, while also being the lowest skill floor class in the game.

You're contributed nothing to this thread but personal attacks. Stop posting on forums.

Also needs to be adjusted.

The OP has top players destroying the game in PvP, open world, and raids with mechanist with video proof.

Except they nerfed torment runes battle scars and every sustain trait for this EXACT reason 3 weeks ago.

This is probably why expansion maps are intentionally made to be crap gold/hour and not worth farming while LS maps are the best for farming. Expansions sell elites/systems(mounts glider) while LS sells you farming maps. Ugh...