Aveneo.2068

Your whole 'restructuring' is a bad idea and will just kill WvW entirely. People also have no more reason to fight for their world; which was what World vs World was all about. Just admit that it was a stupid idea and keep things as-is. Stop forcing through a dumb idea for no reason. Instead just do something about server transfers. Now I stopped playing WvW and nowadays just do my PvE dailies. Heck, I haven't even touched the latest expansion as I just can't be bothered anymore with ANet constantly finding new ways to make the game un-fun. However, my friend plays WvW all the time and really loved playing with certain guilds and knew a ton by name, when they would be on; etc. With this whole crap about 500 randoms 4 teams bla bla she is going to lose all her WvW friends and is just thinking of playing PvE; because to her WvW is just going to die and she will not have any friends to play with. So just admit that this was a stupid plan, your ANet team couldn't get it working, and you should just keep things as-is instead of pushing through a halfbaked thing. But you won't because you guys are incapable to admit that this was a dumb idea from the get-go and believe yourself to be infallible. You want to kill WvW that badly? Well, you're about to do just that. If your car has two flat tires you're not going to continue driving yet that's exactly what you are doing right now by pushing through 'restructuring'. "Well, we couldn't get things to work the way we wanted; so here's half of the stuff. Have fun" Let me guess, my account is still getting counted towards one of these 500-man groups even though I haven't touched WvW in years (only to do dailies back when we had those PvE+WvW+PvP to choose from). It's stupid, you know it's stupid, yet you're doing it anyway. There's a word for that you know... I know you don't care and think you're above everybody else. It's a real shame really thinking you're so much better than anybody else while you're sitting in your ivory tower (the few people who are left that is as a lot were all laid off). So you're just here pretending to work and keeping the lights on. Just stop messing around all the time just for the sake of messing around. It's the same as this whole 'shake up the meta' nonsense you keep doing where the strong get stronger while the weak get weaker. Well done ANet /s RIP World versus World Died through Restructuring 2024

That's awesome but these condis aren't applied to the druid but to random people. Additionally you'd have to be looking at an eclipse for quite a while before getting eye damage. Besides, this is all a terribly pointless discussion and I'm also going to disable email notifications now. I've been here since launch back in 2012 and just no longer care about this game. It just annoyed me that once again ANet is messing up the one character that I liked to play. Out of the 18 lvl80 characters I have I only really enjoyed Ranger and Guardian. So whatever. Just give me my effing eclipse icon and move on. I doubt that ANet even looks at these forums anymore so it's all pointless to discuss these things anyway.

Have you considered looking up the definition of druid Seriously though, I simply find it a very lazy attempt at naming something while the effects also make no sense. How many times do people suffer from damaging effects when there's an eclipse? The whole premise makes no sense. I really hope they will at least change the icon; or did they also fire the entire art department back then and will just pretend that an ancient seed is now an eclipse? 😉

I see. Guess I'll have to give that a try then; seeing as how ANet has completely gutted the Druid traitline now and every trait I chose for their specific purpose has been completely altered/neutered. Thanks!

Please explain as to my knowledge we can't access Staff when using another Elite Specialization yet. As far as I know the separation of weapon from Elite Specializations was going to happen with the new expansion; or has this already happened where we are no longer locked out of using certain weapons depending on which specialization we choose?

False irony as I wasn't complaining because I 'lost' to anyone like those spasm-kiddies do every time they lose a fight in WvW. I'm complaining about the nerfs in general; not that I lost any fight. Staff was a solid choice that gave some added mobility, speed, and control to a class that was sorely lacking in those aspects. Now it pretty much lost both speed and control with mobility being questionable at best as Staff #3 never got its evade frames back. I just came to expect that Ranger (or in this case the Druid traitline) gets nerfed once again as usual while the other classes get buffs. That's usually how it went in the past and how it goes in the future as ANet seems to hate Rangers for some reason. So yeah, I'll just stick to PvE and zergs as that's apparently where ANet wants us.

Thanks for the link to the build, I appreciate it. However, I'm primarily LB main with Strength runes while primarily using Staff/Druid as a secondary because it used to have added mobility (with evade frames back then before those got removed)+speed (so long as I didn't get movement impairing abilities on me), condi-cleanse (nerfed from 13 to 3 back in 2022), and the grasping vines when enemies got too close and then I could use my LB#4 to set up the grasping vines from "Ancient Seeds" to get some distance. Now it seems that the majority of reasons I even went with the Druid traitline have been removed. Guess I'll just stick with my LB and stay on walls. 😟 Apart from that I'll just have to stick to PvE or running around in a zerg.

Well ofcourse it was complained about. Every time someone loses they whine and moan on these forums. It's why I hardly visit this forum anymore. I also remember that Ranger was trash for years, to the point of where you just got kicked from groups all the time. Then finally Rangers became somewhat viable after years of abuse only to get nerfed into the ground again. Guess our new 'balance' team consists of Thief-mains again. Go figure... Ah well, I hardly play this game. Mostly do my dailies and some PvE when I have time. It just sucks that Rangers are always the first (and often only) class to get nerfed all the time. Anyways, I said what I came here to say so I'm done with these forums for the next couple of months.

So Rangers had some useful tricks so they needed to get nerfed into the ground... My man, did they also nerf the Thief class with their constant invis builds? Those are even more annoying to play against. 😉

I doubt that "Ancient Seeds" was useful at all in WvW with everyone and their grandma running stability. Additionally it also wasn't continually applying immobile; only once per 10s and only then if it was preceded by a stun/daze/knockdown/launch. "Natural Stride" only gave you 33% movement speed if you weren't affected by movement impairing effects; of which you get tons in WvW. As for the name of the trait, I just find it lazy and uninspiring. But it's fine if ANet wants to be lazy and uninspiring. It's not like they've been innovating these past years anyways.

Sorry, but I see little celestial meaning behind an eclipse (moon moving in front of the sun). At least "ancient seed" to me made sense in terms of being a druid; what with nature and all. But to each their own I guess. I just find the name to be poorly chosen and the effects even more poorly designed. So now we have 3 GM traits for Druis that are pretty much useless instead of 2. Additionally "Natural Stride" was also nerfed. Originally it reduced the duration of movement-impairing conditions while also increasing your movement speed by 33% as long as you had no movement impairing conditions. Now they call it "Natural Balance" and removed everything it originally did for a temporary 10% dmg reduction and 10% dmg increase upon entering you celestial avatar (lasting 10s). So yeah, it looks like they completely gutted the Druid trait-line. 😒

I don't understand why ANet had to turn "Ancient Seeds" to "Eclipse". The new name makes no sense and these slight offensive effects make no sense to me either. I'd much prefer they kept "Ancient Seeds" and give it a slight buff instead (like giving the Druid a few seconds of Regen). Heck, not even the new name "Eclipse" makes any sense. "Ancient Seeds" looked and felt like a perfect skill for a Druid with vines shooting out of the ground to keep an enemy at bay for a a little while. Maybe not overly usefull in PvP/WvW but I really loved the entangling effect when used with my Longbow #4. Now that is gone apparently 😟

Why on Earth did ANet kill Druid? "Ancient Seeds" as a Grandmaster trait at least allowed me to perform a knockback and then allow for my follow-up attack to entangle my enemy; giving me a few moments of breathing room. Now this skill is called "Eclipse" and feels pretty much useless. Heck, they haven't even bothered to change the icon. Original skill: Ancient Seeds Striking a stunned, dazed, knocked down, launched, or defiant foe summons roots to entangle them. Now: Eclipse Your celestial avatar skills are offensively augmented. With each skill having some minor offensive effect (that most of them already used to have by default). At least I distincly remember that my "Lunar Impact" already stunned targets but now it will only stun them when I have the GM trait? I don't know who is the current 'balance' team but imo they're once againg seemingly treat Rangers like second-rate citizens! There was nothing wrong with Ancient Seeds and it felt and sounded like a perfect druid skill with vines shooting out of the ground to entangle your enemy. In fact, it could have been given a slight buff considering it was a GM trait with only limited use that had to rely on a combo. Maybe they could have given the Druid a couple seconds worth of regen after rooting an enemy in order to make it a bit more viable (it was a GM trait after all). Now all you get are some minor damage effects when you're in your temporary Celestial form (that seems like they were skimmed off from other skills). So is Druid now some kind of Necro-lite? Really looks like I should look at the other trait-lines now. Hell, I even made a legendary staff for my Druid; but it now seems to suck. Already "Ancestral Grace" was nerfed into the ground years ago when they removed the evade frames from it and now the entire talent tree seems to be pointless. Unless I'm missing something here and one of you can tell me how I can still retain my mobility as a Longbow/Staff Ranger. And don't suggest another weapon instead of Longbow was I wanted to play a Ranger with a proper Longbow (and I liked having the longest range of every other class with Staff being primarily used to keep my distance). EDIT: Honestly I sincerely hope ANet will revert this 'Eclipse' and change it back to "Ancient Seeds"; but who am I kidding. Every time the devs touch Rangers they're made worse again. I already hated it with their previous gang who were all fawning over their Warriors and Thieves while constantly nerfing Rangers. Then at some point Rangers started becoming somewhat viable and weren't kicked out of every group. Looks like we're going straight back to the constant Ranger nerfs again with whatever 'balance' team they have now. Really hoping that Druid or Staff is still viable because I'm not feeling it atm. 😒

From what I can see practically all the other "Mount Adoption License" options appear to be available yet the "Imperial Wonders" versions appear to be missing since November-December 2022. Seems someone forgot to add them to the Gem Store. I hope that an actual ANet employee will read this so they can let the person in charge of the Gem Store know that they are missing so that they can make them available for whoever wants to buy them. Imperial Wonders Mount Adoption License Imperial Wonders Mount Select License

"Imperial Wonders Mount Adoption License" and "Imperial Wonders Mount Select License" are missing from the Gem Store. All the other Mount License packs appear to be available but those two are not. Considering that those mounts are directly related to the latest expansion they should be on the store indefinitely. Ofcourse nobody from ArenaNet is ever going to read this (or any other post in this thread). Prove me wrong ANet and tell me you are still here and reading this! 😒