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Hideous Hero approves. Im a bit relieved that staff often isnt the best weapon choice for druid in this meta, but this nerf is very uncalled for.

Druid was designed to be a support spec, being a sidenoder was a byproduct and it was left there till PoF release,now Anet wants druid to cover its intended role and AG got actually buffed ...as long as you try to support allies and not simply run away, a similar treatment has been applied to ride the lightning AG in this patch is not buffed in any way, even not when you play "support". The loss of the evade frame is huge my man. "Buffing" the skill from a CD of 18 secs to 15 secs when you support someone is just hilarious.

Well they never done it so far, so they might give it a try now. Doing it by themselves clearly didnt work out.

There is no logical explanation for it.

Can we stop nerfing Druid by any kitten means? Ty.

Please revert the nerf on Druid Staff #3 and stop touching skills that don't need anything. It really makes no sense. Take a look at traps and spirits instead of druid staff ffs. Holy kitten.

Every class can 1v1 as long as the player behind it is good enough. You quite often see Sindrener 1v1ing warriors on his thief. Does this mean Thief is now a 1v1 class and should be nerfed because of it? No, it means the player is good enough to be able to 1v1. Every class should be able to 1v1. Some builds are just better suited for it and require less skill to be able to 1v1. What even is this comment. I never said Rev is a 1v1 class. I said its not bad at 1v1, IN COMBINATION with being an excellent teamfighter and +1'er (being excellent at 2 things at the same time was my main point btw, you might have missed it). Firebrand for example is an excellent teamfighter, but bad as +1 or 1v1'er.

It feels a bit like Rev is too good at different roles atm, because it can teamfight and +1, and isnt even so bad in 1v1. I think Anet should focus on one of those roles. One way to nerf its teamfight abilities would be for example to change the functionality of its Glint heal. If Anet wants it to be a teamfighter, then its teleports could be looked into.

Mirage is still useful since its capable of winning duels versus warriors. Other dps mesmer builds are not that uncommon either it seems in high pvp tiers. Its not godmode like it used to be, but its not bad at all. Mesmer has probably been the most meta out of all classes due to portal, but now they have to reinvent themselves a bit. And lets be thankful that Chrono is not meta. Chrono meta was definately the worst and most boring meta of all for me.

Funny how, according to some people, a thing can lose its complete value if one person got it by cheating. Zero logic behind that.

it's not like no one ever paid for a Monthly Gizmo anyway right? Has literally nothing to do with this topic.

How about we leave the only truly non-grindable reward alone?

Boons already are flying around in PvP now, we dont need more of that. Being supportive through healing is better.

I don't disagree with that, as I still play druid as well. Yet, Druid has never been a real support class, it was a duelist. Anets intention to push Druid towards a support role is not a good decision if they do it in the way theyre currently doing. This is a reason that Druid is now not a duelist nor a support class, which is why I can imagine that many people find it boring.

Ele had tempest, which was main support class. So Druid allways had another class that was better at supporting, yet Anet tries to make Druid still a support class (see last patch). It makes no sense.

Last mAT indeed showed that FB is so mandatory in somewhat organised PvP, that its both not fun to play or watch. Nerf it.

I play a Vanilla Core Ranger that @Trevor Boyer.6524 Recommended-- Nm, Ws, Bm A/A Sw/wh with Pig and Wolf--Harrier+Mad King Im not a fan of Harrier at all. Having no toughness AND no vitality is too punishing in current meta, especially for Ranger.

My old core ranger build with NM/WS/BM a/w + s/a seems to get decent again. But it will depend on how the meta evolves now, since condi classes are basically a counter.But I keep maining my druid like always :)

WoW is much older. So? What does that have to do with having a reasonable competitive scene?Making the comparison with WoW doesn't justify the statement that GW3 competitive would fail. One of the reasons behind that is that its much older.

WoW is much older.

PvP-focused MMOs usually fail, so no, it wouldn't sell itself on different media for long. The combat system and the game itself allow for competitive gameplay imo. But the balance system and the game modes don't. Don't forget that this game had a reasonable competitive scene in the past.

I also noticed that lowering several graphical settings didnt change my performance in terms of FPS. It's like if my GPU doesnt want to work for 100% when this game is running or something.

There could be a GW3. But they should really think competitive PVP through. If this game mode is good, then the game will sell itself on different media and could compete with other competitive games. If they'd make it another casual PvE scrubfest, then no thanks.

Since the Windows update I get blinking and slow loading screens. I get high ping spikes and huge FPS drops now and then. Tried several solutions, but didnt work. I noticed that my overall FPS is much lower than it should be. Its somewhere between 30 and 50 mostly, while it should be able to handle a stable 80 easily.

Ranger is quite fine. Its just not as OP as for example Chrono. Still we have several builds that work in pvp for druid, soulbeast and core ranger. It might be one of the best balanced classes atm.