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iirc different people doing balance. Quickness? Firebrand has a lot of access to it if you take the traits. I'll agree that I also find it annoying but its really not that bad. Maybe if you take 3-4 mantras or something but this was a buff for most of them. The auto charge on respawning at least would be a nice QoL compromise.

I know this is a petty stance to take but after all these years of gaining 2-4 ranks a night. Getting 20-30 in a couple hours of being a ape in SMC feels cheap. Especially since that doesn't seem to be the standard for the game mode.

Hilarious you think I care about you at all. Farming keeps is just a symptom of nothing to fight. Best defense is actually just entertaining us away from your objectives. We literally complete our weeklies because all you people do it run back to your objectives. Sounds about right. Map chat pleb hiding on the walls, watching their team fight.

I mean, "farming" only works if you solo players keep feeding. Why chase trash around a map when you'll come right to us. Can't be that hard to push 25 out of a lords room. If only roaming was a supported play style #newrewards

I feel like you people are doing it wrong. I rarely stay in the circle and have gotten gold most events. Though our general strategy is to kill everyone until they stop defending rather then actually take the objective so :shrug:

I dont really care but I was getting a rank every 6 minutes "defending" smc against zombies. Didn't seem to get that any where else. Doesn't seem balanced between objectives.

The smc take was pretty meh actually. We popped in at the end of the night after gbl dried up because ebg was the only map with no queue for FA. Looked like mag had a good farm going with BG so we went to smc to join in and BG dipped to attack mags keep. Most the mag left. Easy flip.

Yes they stack. However boons and unique buffs have max durations. Super speed for example has a max duration of 10s. If you drop 3 tactics banners at the same time, you'll still only get 10s of the Super speed. Boons have varying duration maximums. Its here somewhere https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Boon. Tho I assume the warriors are in different parties, the banner would prioritize the party first, then the squad. So its not really stacking but more syncing together.

Finished my weeklies on Reset, now I can just enjoy the game mode 🙃 https://imgur.com/a/obYckzp

Anet has never killed a server so asking them "to do something" is pointless. They most they've done is keep a server Full, which is mostly pointless with links. Just like the NA potatoes crying about Mag, y'all need to sack up and fight them. Or deny them content for 6+ months while they server dyes of boredom. Or wait for Alliances because that's definitely make players better and more organized, totally not going to get stomped by more organized (stacked) alliances...

Nah, I just don't care about the PvE equivalent. I also don't care if PvE got a alternative to WvW for GoB. That's on Anet to balance. But if PvE gets GoB and WvW doesn't get something that helps with creating legendaries, that would be kinda wack.

1+1+1+1=1a 1a+1+1+1=GoE Mystic Forge. 4 Reward track items = 1a 1a + X Avengers + Y Conqueror + Z GoB = 1 GoE Thats 5 or more reward tracks + killing people and taking objectives. Limit it to 2 per character like in PvE. If that's too easy, lock the recipe behind WvW map completion and/or a rank.

It'll be worse as the population drops. Without transfers, for better or worse, accounts are locked into a "world" for whatever time frame anet ends up with. Look at Mag and FS, at least people can transfer out of the tier. Come alliances, people will just quit unless they really need that leg gear. If they were to make maps open and close with the active population like EotM, then that's not even WvW anymore. Maybe gear EotM for more competitive players so its easier to find that type of content and just let WvW devolve into a reward based ktrain.

What changed? The orange personal target isn't removed.

My main concern with Alliances is long term. Lets say we have a population to fill 9 even servers for 3 matches. Then lets say over time population drops and we can only fill 4-5 servers. Do they make 2 low population matches? Or shove everyone into 1? How do manage time zone activity if there is no were to go? Probably going to be better then people spread across 10+ dead servers but it feels like maintenance mode rather then a improvement for WvW. The core issue isn't addressed, we need people in WvW to play WvW. If they aren't going to make it somewhat competitive, they might as well flood it with rewards so the PvE kids can just farm it.

A lot of FA pugs are...not smart...and will repeatedly feed mag. I'd suspect mag would rather keep FA in T1 then BG. And the 4 FA guilds I pay attention to haven't cut their play time so they at least get some content out of us.

While I appreciate your feed back and bumping my post. I think both of you are missing what I'm actually asking for. I'm not asking to keep the instant cast mantras or to not go through with this patch. I'm also not suggesting a "solution" because I don't have one. I agree with their reason for "why", just think they can come up with something better then just reverting the cast time. The tome change is surprising neat, so I think they have the creativity to come up with something new.

I think this is a good idea. However, for some counter play. I'd suggest if you own everything on the map and spend more the 10m in front of a enemy spawn, your account gets deleted.

lmao

You do get mob from repeating diamond. Just farm them 😉

Not to be argumentative but is spending money on legendary armor components really "P2W"? I agree with you its a bad idea but wouldn't it be more of a jump start since stats are normalized at the top? Just a question. I'm in the leg gear should be a long term goal camp.

I liked whoevers idea it was to add pips to the weekly achievements. Not a ton but some to slightly supplement completing the pip chests. As a long time vet. This change would make zero difference to me but could shift some of the focus from afking pips to actively trying to complete weeklies (Kinda copium) For low rank and new players. It could go a long way in addressing how long it takes to complete higher ranked chests.

Makes sense. It was the only thing I can think of for somewhat relevant public data. 😕

Its hard to respond to people without comprehension skills trying to be edgy. Cast time was not FUN to play with. Granted the past balance team changed it because it was "to hard" or whatever, difficulty of use is not my stance. No cast time is also not fun and is a brain dead change. Agree. However playability was much improved for large scale. So gather all the wrinkles you got left and realized the OP is asking to think of something different for mantras. Counter play and having to make a skill decisions its fine but the only smooth brains are the ones thinking people are going to be making big brain decisions and not just do exactly what we did before.

No idea if its planned or not but I've never seen a notable population shift updated on worlds outside of NA Monday mornings. You can probably sift through the wikis edit history, its always been promptly updated. https://wiki.guildwars2.com/index.php?title=World&action=history