[Why there is such disbalance between melee and range?]

On 7/30/2023 at 10:23 PM, Batalix.2873 said:

For very mobile fights, melee rotations are easily screwed with.

Then bring a proper class instead of calling for nerf everyone that does something better than you. Deadeye doing good damage? Just nerf it and never mention that DE has literally zero cleave and has to pick targets 1 by 1, while Reaper can burst 50k against 5 targets at once. Don't forget that there is more content than Raids and Strike Missions, so balance should never be based on golem benchmarks or only Raids.

This is just the class design and there is no "ideal" class for everything.

On 8/3/2023 at 10:52 PM, JTGuevara.9018 said:

there is no counter to anything ranged

Have you ever heard about Reflecting projectiles? About projectiles being blocked by terrain or objects between you and your target?

[Open world content difficulty - Open World Tiers? 10 years on]

If you want Hardmode, then gear yourself with white rarity gear and skip most of the traits.

[Please make Three Round Burst (Rifle #3) with the same visual effect as Double Tap.]

Kneeling skills need those visuals too, not only because it's more visible — because it's so freaking cool.

[Do you regret pre-ordering SoTO?]

New weapons and relics, of course. Imagine all possibilities in creating meme and fun builds.

[What do you hate about each class?]

Mesmer: Too many trade-off: super DMG and 0 survivability, or good survivability and zero damage.
Elementalist: Staff — the iconic weapon of every mage — sucks.
Necromancer: Requires quickness to be playable, otherwise you might fall asleep.
Thief: Feels unfair, because everyone does similar damage, but AoE. What's the point?
Engineer: Kits often don't fit any specific role, but you need them.
Ranger: Pets are too weak.
Revenant: Poor choice of weapons.
Guardian: Low HP.
Warrior: Whirling skills.
 

[Will there be no new Elite Specialization?]

No elite specs, but we will get a new weapon for each spec and Weaponmaster training, which means you can use every weapon your class has to offer on every spec. Staff Deadeye, Sword Catalyst, Longbow Firebrand, Pistol Scourge...

So this is actually more ways to play your class than another elite-spec.

[Vote for your preferred upcoming weapon per Adventure Profession.]

Off-hand Sword thief mostly because it just FITS the assassin theme. Mainhand sword is garbage in PvE, so maybe OH sword would save this weapon from being a bad choice.

[So what other features would yall have liked, in this expansion?]

Legendary Ring. This is the only one thing keeping PvE'rs from having full legendary armory without losing sanity into farming WvW.

[Are Quick/Alac Boons or PROBLEMS?]

I would start with decreasing quickness effectiveness from 50% to 25%, because it's causing combat to be too fast. It's so fast, that it is ADDICTIVE.

Sharing perma quickness with low Concentration (or even zero Boon Duration) is also a problem. I like how some personal-quickness skills won't allow you to have perma quick, even with 100% BD. Haste, Quickening Zephyr or Elixir H are good examples — quick, situational boost.

Alac is fine, because it always require you to choose between powerful DPS trait or access to quickness. Quickness is already huge DPS increase, so even if you have to decide between dmg increase or quick, then quickness makes your game faster with the same damage.

[Polish language]

Not gonna happen unless someone create a mod for it (is it even allowed be anet?), but who would spend so much time translating whole game? And giving updated every patch? The amount of written content is HUGE.

[Beta best combos?]

Sword Catalyst — It's fun. I don't know if it's damage will be worth using in any end-game scenario, but S/D Hybrid Catalyst will be 100% one of my favorite builds in Open World.

Pistol/Torch Scourge — You can finally get rid of clunky scepter and use Parasitic Contagion without 50% damage loss.

GS Power Harbinger — Pretty solid option for Open World, but little more fragile than Reaper.

Shortbow Herald — Condi Herald is finally here.

 

 

[Any potential new meta builds from weaponmaster training?]

Hammer weaver will definately become meta.

Hammer holo has good potential for high damage.

Torch for every condi necro build will be 100% meta.

Condi-quickness herald mace/axe and shortbow is possible.

Some people said in game that axe condi willbender also can be meta.

I'm pretty sure that sword catalyst will be kitten in pvp/wvw.

 

[Your personal professions enjoyment tier list]

S Tier:
Mesmer — Even if mesmer is constantly raped every patch, I still love Mirage. Mobility and fancy colors above everything.
Thief — I love putting an effort to actually be behind my target and deliver huge hit. Rewarding class.

A Tier:
Engineer — Most important thing about Engineer is using technology instead of overrated magic. Explosions are fun. Directed by Michael Bay
Elementalist — Mashing lots of buttons makes me feel advanced.
Guardian — I'm gonna put it somewhere in the middle, because Guardian is impossible to hate, but also not the best and not the worst. At least more fun that everything below on this list.

B Tier:
Necromancer — Necro doesn't feel challenging. Reaper shreds things so hard that it feels unfair, but in other way Scourge is too clunky, and Harbinger is too repetitive.
Revenant — Very limiting due to having only specific set of skills, clunky for solo play. I like it in raids and fractals, but only there.

C Tier:
Ranger — It's the most disappointing class here. Pets do almost nothing and you can't rely fully on bows.

Garbage Tier:
Warrior — Whirling is pathetic. Warriors are good only at dying, because this is what they're born for. Pretty lame.

[June 9th Thief Balance Patch Preview Discussion (The original thread)]

Bound buff is literally "buff something to let people think we care about Daredevil".

Who cares about Bound damage? It's only there for 15% damage increase, but since it lasts only 4s, it's still terrible thing and 2x more damage to just Bound won't make Daredevil better.

Wouldn't it be better to buff whole staff AA chain? Rework some traits to move this spec from 2015 year? Do you even remember why Vindicator's dodge was reworked? Because no one likes dodging off-cd.

[How do you think Quickness Deadeye would work?]

20 hours ago, FrancisN.9276 said:

But then it sucks for "no line of sight" or "invalid target" bugs that have been left unfixed for years.

and it probably sucks because you can't gain stolen skills without a target, and they're disappear when mark ends/target dies.

[How do you think Quickness Deadeye would work?]

Fire For Effect + Improvisation.

Fire For Effects triggers on using Stolen Skills, and Improvisation gives you 2 of them.

[Should Anet address the increasing amount of powercreep?]

Just nerf Might and Vulnerability.

[Daredevil makes me sad.]

Warning: this post is about PvE, not WvW and PvP.

I'm surprised that no one is talking about how bad and forgotten Daredevil in PvE is. This class is literally stuck in times even the oldest players probably don't remember — full berserker Daredevil does worse job (in Open World, solo) than meme celestial Willbender/Weaver/Catalyst/Mirage and other similar builds.

Lack of boons, lack of damage, clunky traits forcing you to dodge every 4 seconds to keep damage boost, and of course draining your endurance to 0 because otherwise you lose damage.

Power staff daredevil is bad even for soloing open world. I hope next balance patch will fix Daredevil to something that's worth playing over literally every other spec.

[What is the last POSITIVE change to thief that you can think of?]

Pierce for Death's Judgment. As a Deadeye main, this is huge QoL improvement, because DJ being blocked by ambient creatures, or by whatever on it's path, was pure hell.

Dagger and Rifle buffs in PvE are also nice.

 

But let's not forgot that Staff Daredevil is a forgotten spec.

[May 2 Balance Update Preview]

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Thief is generally in a good spot,

 

Haha, good joke.

Where is Power Daredevil? It exist only as a meme spec in PvE.

 

 

[Did PvE players become more easily annoyed?]

Sometimes people, who don't have fun, don't want others to have fun.

[Overly Bright Dyes & Item Effects [Merged]]

I have to say: this game is more and more unplayable, thanks to all visual clutter caused mainly by new Legendary Weapons.

I hope ANet will understand that we NEED to see the game and enemies, not flashy effects. I want to play Guild Wars 2, not Guess What's On The Picture. Of course I can lower character limit&quality to lowest, but it's not enough.

[Last Legendary Ring !]

1 hour ago, Khaos.6479 said:

The point of building legendary is the skin and show it.   

The point of crafting a legendary item is to change it's stats for free and never buy this type of weapon/armor/trinket again, because thanks to legendary armory, you can use them on every character.

Who cares about lege skins? If you want a nice skin, then check gemstore, they're 100 times better.

[claw of jormag world boss way to easy?]

22 hours ago, SoftFootpaws.9134 said:

It would be better to reduce all damage in PvE

Nerf offensive support, not all damage. The real problem is quickness/might/vulnerability being too powerful.

[Gear for lifestealing]

For life stealing Toughness would be much better than Healing Power, because life stealing traits and skills have super low healing power coefficient (it's often less than 0,1).

Why Toughness? Because you will take less damage, and maybe you will be able to out-heal more incoming damage.