Richard Marcinko.5132
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You have to keep in mind the Balance Team's Goals in balancing. They make sure that they and their 5 friends are all happy and they nerf to the ground any class that they can't 1 shot. The leak told us what they're doing, all we have to do is remember it. That's why I'm playing Witcher and other games, because Anet told me flat out my favorite class doesn't matter.
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The most telling part of this entire thread is that despite being tagged twice not one mod or dev has felt the need to address the 4 pages of complaints and concerns here. They don't care. The only thing that will wake them up is if people stop giving them money. I used to spend a couple hundred a month on this game for years and was glad to help support it because it was a great game. Then between the hatred for mesmer that started a couple of years ago and the devs balancing for them and their friends instead of what benefits the game the most I closed my wallet and haven't spent a dime since. If everyone did that and listed why both in the forums and game it might actually get it through their heads that the behavior isn't acceptable. I'm not buying the next expansion unless something gives.
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Says the obvious necro main....
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I've responded with this before but it still holds true, if you take into account the leak that devs balance based on the input of 5 or 6 people and don't listen to the people playing the game, all of this makes sense. They don't balance for players, they balance based on what helps the friends they play with.
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What I can't believe everyone is forgetting is the balance devs leaked conversations stating they balanced based on a few friends. The balance team never went with what was best for the game or the community just whatever benefited them. When you remember that point suddenly a lot of design choices make sense. I used to play this game every day since beta and Mesmer was my favorite class. I spent untold thousands of dollars on the game. Now I can't even bring myself to login because of what they did to that class because of their friend's input. I still look at the Mesmer forum to see if it's gotten any better and it's time to come back but I am always disappointed by the still constant nerfs on what is the most unique class in any game I've played. I'm sure this will get removed shortly because you can't bring up the truth here.
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I am working on an open world condi build and would like some advice from the people that know Engineers best. Also, the gear and trinkets are all stuff I can reasonably get right now. I plan on working up to full ascended but that will take some time and I'm looking for a realistic build to start with.
Thank you in advance.
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I forgot to add that this is open world.
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So I am trying to come up with a tanky condi Virtuoso and need some help with the build. It does "Decent" damage but I think it should be doing better than it is and I'm missing something.
Thanks to the people that know more than I do for the help.
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What build are you using?
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@Omnicron.2467 said:Please give us some hope that all the comments in the Feedback Thread are not for nothing and tells us in an official announcement how you intend to respond to the issues raised.
The mood, as I read it, it pretty low, feeling that nothing will come of out feedback. An announcement would really help the communication with the player base, by making them feel heard and knowing what they can expect.
I have been reading the thread and the issues raised are fairly consistent and can easily be summarized into a few main bullet points. I would just like to know how you as a company feel about the issues raised.
I can cover this one even though I am in no way affiliated with ANet. They Don't. Just like the other times the community was pissed off they will ignore it until it blows over. It never changes, They no longer care what we have to say. All of the feedback they received after the announcement and they did not care. It is no longer anything but a product to make money off of. They don't care if they lose people because there will always be people that will buy things and the ones they lose aren't a concern anymore.
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As someone that has more Norn characters then any other race, Kill Braham, make it painful as hell , I really want him to suffer badly for making all Norn look like Whiny, Drunk, Spoiled Mamma's Boys without a single redeeming quality. Sometimes when I'm in a cut-scene and he's there being his usual whiny ***hole self, I have to skip it because otherwise I will put a greatsword through my monitor. He dishonors Eir every time he's on my screen.
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How about this, The clones still appear, but they literally do everything you do only no damage. You dodge, it dodges, you use scepter it uses scepter, etc. All the Damage comes from you but the attacks "Hit" at the same time giving the illusion of not knowing which one is the player until it's destroyed. Damage is now easily balanced but the theme of Mesmer is retained. Just my dumb idea.
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@ollbirtan.2915 said:
@Delofasht.4231 said:It is not fine in modes other than PvE... that surely indicates a problem with the design. Even in PvE, supportive and many offensive builds are performing even worse than they were, and that is in optimal conditions. Any suboptimal condition is resulting in far worse representation and performance. Further even, in WvW and PvP, Chrono is now performing even worse than before because it has less instant tools to deal with many situations.Renegade says hello.I actually switched to Renegade after Anet destroyed Mesmer... Again... It's not even close. I do 5-7k more DPS with 50% of the effort. Mesmer is in the worse spot since Beta.
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@BadMed.3846 said:Mesmer
Illusion of Life: Increase the cooldown of this skill from 75 to 90 seconds in PvP & WvW and reduced the duration from 15 seconds to 8 seconds of its effect in PvP & WvW.Welcome change. Thank you ANET. We needed exactly this type of re-work. I understand there will be many cries but this is the right direction. We need the same CD increase and duration decrease across all Mesmer skills.
Power Break (Mantra of Pain): This skill now requires you to face your target and respects line of sight.Welcome change again. Make these mesmers do some work rather than spam skills. But we still need nerfs to this skill.
Power Lock (Mantra of Distraction): This skill now requires you to face your target and respects line of sight.Same as above but still neeeds nerfs.
Chaos Storm: This skill now always dazes on the first strike but can no longer randomly daze on other strikes. This change also applies to Lesser Chaos Storm. Added skill fact to show chaos storm's duration.Welcome change again. CC reduction is needed. Mesmers must loose at least 60% of their current CC abilities.
Chaotic Interruption: This trait has been re-worked and now reduces the cooldown of one of your weapon abilities by 5 seconds when you interrupt a foe.This is stil going to be overpowered. Any reduction to mesmer CDs is not welcome. Please remove the CD reduction.
@Curunen.8729 said:^Illusionary Warden: removed the defensive bubble. This phantasm now only throws axes.Still overpowered, it already does damage as well as spawning a clone after its attack, it should only do one or the other.
@Leonidrex.5649 said:
@Curunen.8729 said:^Illusionary Warden: removed the defensive bubble. This phantasm now only throws axes.Still overpowered, it already does damage as well as spawning a clone after its attack, it should only do one or the other.ye Medic is getting HARD reading these changes, ill add my own.Mind Stab it deals damage AND removes a boon.Still overpowered, it already deals damage and removes boon, it shold just remove a boon. Not both.Let me sum up these 3 posts. "We won't be happy until Mesmer is useless in any PVP/WVW Content because Reasons."
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The destruction of Mesmer, every time I go to log in I think of my 7 year mains current state and play something else.
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@Henrik.7560 said:they are killing their own game with terrible balance updates and useless features, eventually they'll see it themselves :)
I wish I had your optimism. Anet is like my in-laws, can't ever admit they made a mistake, or may be wrong about anything.
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I can't even stand to login anymore. Anet sent me a survey and I told them as much, I have contributed $50-$100 per month on this game buying gems but they took my favorite class and trashed it. Now they don't even have the decency to respond to any of the posts asking for an explanation. I switched to playing other games. It kills me to see how pathetic the class that I have spent a lot of hours, and money on. I don't know who at Anet decided to implement this B.S. but they shouldn't have a job anymore. Obviously no one there plays mesmer. I have been playing since beta, I can't even bring myself to login for daily's anymore. I keep visiting the forums and reddit in the hopes of some good news, every patch seems like nothing more then another kick in the Kitten. I know Anet doesn't care about the little amount of money I contributed in the grand scheme of things, but I refuse to support this madness.
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So by your logic then you must create a new toon every time you die, you know for the role player in you.... I spend enough just redoing my armor every time someone QQ's about my Mesmer and it gets nerfed again.
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It's been said elsewhere but it needs to be said again, the only explanation that makes any sense at all is they wanted to kill off all of the HOT specs so people would be forced to buy POF. The more I read about the patch the more it seems like this is the case. I can't bring myself to even open the game anymore for daily's. They killed both my Reaper and my Chrono.
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I think someone in the Mesmer forum said it best, they are Killing all of the HOT specs so people will be forced to buy POF. I hope this isn't the case and they have a plan to fix this but it's looking more and more like that's exactly what they're doing.
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RIP chrono
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@Kylden Ar.3724 said:
@"Ansau.7326" said:When I thought anet couldn't surprise me more, here they come with shatters that can only be activated when you have illusions up. No on-demand shatters to cleanse, heal, interrupt, remove boons, reflect or CS if you have 0 clones.Worst mechanic rework ever, the clunkiness is astonishing...
I haveThe answer is that there are HoT owners that still has not bought PoF. This cannot stand. So Chrono must die in all engame modes.I hope this isn't true but it is the only reason that makes any sense at all on why they would treat chrono this way.
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Between this patch and the Dec. 11th patch it's obvious that someone at Anet is seriously out to destroy this class.
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@"kratan.4619" said:Anet, Please continue with these types of item acquisition processes. Being able to slowly work towards a goal is what keeps myself, and many others, logging into the game. When I have no long term goals, that is when I stop logging into the game. Also, there is no need for this "transparency" as far as what other collections would be needed for next steps, the only people that want this are ones who just want to work ahead on other steps. As a suggestion, it would be nice for future collections that they use a unique item/currency that cannot even be harvested/earned prior to completing the previous collection. Completing each collection would then unlock the ability to earn the next collection items. Just submitting my own opinion just like everyone else in this thread.
ANET please DO NOT continue with this type of process. Not all of us have 18 hours a day to play. I'm currently on the saddle and I am having a hard time finding motivation to play when I know I'm going to be spending the entire time on one map farming currencies. Up to the point of the Saddle was a pain and I hated it but I could live with it. The saddle is just a kick below the belt.
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The best part of all of this is ANET's lack of any forethought at all. Think of all the money they're going to lose out on because of the people that won't finish this collection for months or at all. I'm not going to spend 2000 gems on skins when I won't have it before the end of the year because I can only play for a few hours a week.
Game balance changes feel AI generated
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They told us 3 years ago exactly how they balance the game. Their friends and a chosen few complain that "X" class is unfair. They Nerf the hell out of whatever class/skill caused them distress. Buff what makes them happy. Then laugh at us on the forums complaining that the changes make no sense.