Poledra Val.1490

Like I said in the pvp forum, this balance patch will likely obliterate any faith that the PvP and WvW community you guys at Arena Net tried to create a few months ago. I obviously want to see the "full" patch notes next week but going by everything I have read this is potentially one of the worst balance patches I have seen in years. Your people clearly do not have the right sources to nerf or buff incredibly obvious Professions/Specs that are dominant and broken beyond measure in both pvp and wvw at the moment. There are many comments here which explain what is very wrong about this patch so I will not try to expand on it at this point. I am aghast at how terrible of a job this balance patch is, very underwhelming and dissapointing.

This essentially will make Druid halfway towards immortal and once again pvp is driven into long winded bunker meta. Anet wants 15 min full matches and we will now get it.

Now is the time to give your feedback. Go to the main thread and post it there. Be specific and include good rationale and you might be heard and listened to. It wont make the slightlest bit of difference every rationale and logical reasoning has been given out multiple times.

Legitimately feel this patch could kill the pvp and wvw community its outright just god awful. I dont know were this balance team gets it feedback but they seriously need to change there sources.

The Guardian dodge trait only gives healing upon dodge I wish it gave more then that.

You didn't even give a good reason as to why Druid shouldn't be fixed. That class has been garbage tier ever since it's healing coefficients end up getting a bat. Druid is WAYYY easier to balance than Deadeye because with the damage nerf in pets they are actually controllable now. If anything they should tick back up the healing, watch it, and if it is too strong tweak as such. You can't sit there and say that Druid can't be balanced when it is not even the same iteration as its predecessor The problem with Druid is that it has the same problem with Ele in pvp. If they are buffed even slightly they are incredibly broken and if nerfed they almost next to useless its difficult but as it is there are more important things to balance at the moment.

The clear contenders for the nerfbat are Revenat as a whole the entire profession is exceedingly strong atm with lots of elements of it being broken. Not far behind that is Holo nades but that is a really simple fix honestly if Anet get there act together, they can fix these issues. War defintely needs a buff its extremelly weak at this moment in time.

Come on guys give Anet a break they might nerf this clearly obvious build in an increment period of 2 years possibly, you never know.

I don't think a very small minority counts as "everyone". Im posting this thread in the sub-forum of pvp when i say "everyone" i am referring to pvp players since the vast majority who read this section are pvp players. Obviously not everyone in the game will love gw2 pvp, clearly.

Like everyone else I love gw2 pvp I think the mechanics and combat system is arguably the best in my opinion in the current mmo market. I feel that Anet need to take a long hard look at themselves though and realize that you simply cannot make promises anymore like they did a couple of months ago, "more balance updates in pvp, more fixes, dedicated pvp teams" etc. Sounds wonderful yes sir im all for it lets see it in action... Two months later promises are broken essentially once again and the situation is basically the same as it has been for the last several years. Obviously the pandemic stopped things from progressing but the bottom line is this...I work remotely from home to via pc and other then some re-organizing in the space of a couple weeks this should not be an issue anymore. In my opinion this is no longer an excuse for broken promises and honestly its very easy to type out a sentence and say were going to do it, at this point in the games life cycle I would like to see action rather then just words. Breathe life into the game there are people who play it that adore it and Anet's relentless silence about this is clearly an indication of indecision of what to do next once again and is counter productive on so many levels. Mota proved there is still big interest in this mode why not use this a spring board to make pvp an all round vibrant environment.

Obviously necro is not as mobile as thief nothing is but to say Necro is not quite mobile now is questionable when you look at it logically. As for the evade/block frame as others have said it simply does not need it, it has probably the biggest health pool in the game along with some really good defensive utitlities and bottom line is if you are asking for a block and evade frame it means you still have a lot to learn about the class.

Let be honest here, mesmer has been so utterly dominant for more then half a decade in gw2, its great in my opinion to see other classes shine through.

Specify. What do you want shaved from damage, sustain or mobility? We talking Condi, power, or both? We talking any specific legend/spec? I would hazard a guess and say Revenant as a whole is pretty much busted at the moment in every respect. Given Anets turtle like responses to fixing something obviously broken i would wager they may fix it by the end of the year after multiple "fractional changes". Maybe by mid 2021 who knows?

Does anyone remember Anet promising how they would do more balance patches for pvp, I do:) What a farce.

I think people need to take 2v2 and 3v3 with a pinch of salt its nothing but a distraction to what pvp is actually balanced on, conquest. In my opinion deathmatch in gw2 is just utter garbage due to class stacking, inbalance, solo queing is almost an impossibility in these mini seasons and obviously Anet will never balance around these mini seasons and rightly so, since its a waste of time to do so.

Its fun for a side thing, its more fun then 2v2 but to be blunt its going to get old in a week and in two weeks people will want a normal conquest season back. In addition i hope Anet never makes the blunder of trying to balance pvp around these off season side shows.

Defintely not, this is fine to have as off season. Balance should never be based in gw2 around a deathmatch scenario, its always going to be about conquest by a huge margin. Its funny how these questions always come up, when 2v2 was around someone asked the same thing. Also comparing gw1 to gw2 pvp is like chalk and cheese there is literally no comparison both games are so inherently different they have nothing in common bar the title of the game and lore thats about it.

That pretty much describes the balance changes accomplished in an 8 year period. Yes although true I was coming from a place where someone who is going by their more recent models of development and who may not know any better. After 7 years I know better and definitely not a white knight on anets behalf, I'm honestly surprised gw2 had any pvp players left after all these years but I guess its issues are starting to weigh on its players given it's current population.Yep absolutely unfortunately the development team dont seem to learn a lot and just keep on making the same errors. Whether its company policy or not i really dont see the logic in holding up an obvious problem that needs a fix. Just bizzare really in all respects.

That pretty much describes the balance changes accomplished in an 8 year period.

This is how 3v3 will turn out for most people I find. The first week will be fun to try out builds etc then only 2-3 builds will be utterly dominating the season and after a week most people will likely find it pretty dull. Especially from what i understand of it its only going to be played in Courtyard? So thats 1 map for 2 weeks. Well its a nice little bonus thing to have during off season but to be blunt nothing beats conquest its the bread and butter of pvp.

There is one thing that Anet still has a huge issue with still years later, that is open communication with its player base in all modes of GW2. In PvP for example we were all expecting a mini season of sorts yesterday, however we are utterly clueless of when this will happen or if it will happen now. Balance changes are also another issue were there is literally no communication at all at the moment, extremelly dissapointing. Yes we are all aware of the global pandemic and how it has impacted every company globally but to drop a few lines down in social media for all its playerbase and have some clear and consistent avenue of communication would be greatly appreciated by the vast majority of the playerbase in my opinion. At least they are still consistent in there silence. "Observes tumbleweed goes by"

Im going to pull my card of "last mAT was won with 3 renegades in the same team" one more time for kicks.

Absolutely agree with the visual noise the rengeade produces its far to much need a great deal of toning down imo.

So this semi immortal build also needs some slight nerfs, you could pretty much have a bot running it and press every skill 1 through 5 and live for a fairly long period on a node. Bit silly if you ask me.

Im sorry the "a bit to strong right now" got me laughing. Its horrendously broken in practically every respect, you only just have to look at the fact that almost every thief and his mother is running this build at the moment. Bottom line is this, this build carries sub par players and that is part of the nature of a broken build.