june 18th catalyst nerfs preview

[Khalisto.5780]

the recent changes to signet landed a bit stronger than we expected, in order to balance that out we removing the auras from signet when using written in stone and replacing for 3 seconds of superspeed and 3 seconds of stealth

[Saiyan.1704]

36 minutes ago, Khalisto.5780 said:

the recent changes to signet landed a bit stronger than we expected, in order to balance that out we removing the auras from signet when using written in stone and replacing for 3 seconds of superspeed and 3 seconds of stealth

This should be a reddit post, this is too darn funny (and ironically accurate).

[shush.7641]

And one patch later:  We delete another CD reduction trait from Ele, make it baseline and it gets replaced with "shock utility" :  Every time Ele uses an utility, heal or elite skill, the Ele grants shocking aura to himself and all allies on the same PvP or PvE map and in addition to all ppl on his home WvW server (if we ever release alliances we will come back to it. Dev giggle, rofl rofl lmao in distance) . 

Edited July 7, 2023 by shush.7641

[Lan Deathrider.5910]

11 minutes ago, shush.7641 said:

And one patch later:  We delete another CD reduction trait from Ele, make it baseline and it gets replaced with "shock utility" :  Every time Ele uses an utility, heal or elite skill, the Ele grants shocking aura to himself and all allies on the same PvP or PvE map and in addition to all ppl on his home WvW server (if we ever release alliances we will come back to it. Dev giggle, rofl rofl lmao in distance) . 

Also Devs: We hear that warrior offhand weapons need work. We're adding 3 might stacks for 4s to the 4th weapon skill of offhand weapons, please note that this does not include pistol, shield, axe, dagger, torch, or warhorn and only activates when striking a CC'd opponent. We'll be watching this set of changes very carefully to make sure that they do not become too powerful.

 

[Greyrat.2378]

We felt like the Catalyst still does not quite match our vision of the Omni-Man meme, so out of solidarity we've implemented the surrender feature where the side that is matched against stacked Cata team can just immediately surrender to get it over with.

[DanAlcedo.3281]

21 minutes ago, shush.7641 said:

And one patch later:  We delete another CD reduction trait from Ele, make it baseline and it gets replaced with "shock utility" :  Every time Ele uses an utility, heal or elite skill, the Ele grants shocking aura to himself and all allies on the same PvP or PvE map and in addition to all ppl on his home WvW server (if we ever release alliances we will come back to it. Dev giggle, rofl rofl lmao in distance) . 

The reason they choose shocking Aura is that's it's obviously useless in PvE. Npcs don't fight back afterall. So that the combo with the new trait "Quick Aura" doesn't get to powerful. 

Quick Aura gives 10s of Quickness on Shock Aura for the party. No ICD. 

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[Trevor Boyer.6524]

2 hours ago, shush.7641 said:

And one patch later:  We delete another CD reduction trait from Ele, make it baseline and it gets replaced with "shock utility" :  Every time Ele uses an utility, heal or elite skill, the Ele grants shocking aura to himself and all allies on the same PvP or PvE map and in addition to all ppl on his home WvW server (if we ever release alliances we will come back to it. Dev giggle, rofl rofl lmao in distance) . 

All Eles gain +1 to all attributes in all game modes for each Ele character that is logged into their server.

2 hours ago, Lan Deathrider.5910 said:

Also Devs: We hear that warrior offhand weapons need work. We're adding 3 might stacks for 4s to the 4th weapon skill of offhand weapons, please note that this does not include pistol, shield, axe, dagger, torch, or warhorn and only activates when striking a CC'd opponent. We'll be watching this set of changes very carefully to make sure that they do not become too powerful.

 

New update for Warrior:

Whenever a Warrior successfully lands a burst skill, it will refresh all Ele auras on every Ele in the game, including opponents.

2 hours ago, Greyrat.2378 said:

We felt like the Catalyst still does not quite match our vision of the Omni-Man meme, so out of solidarity we've implemented the surrender feature where the side that is matched against stacked Cata team can just immediately surrender to get it over with.

Then it immediately directs back to your character select screen with a prompt that says: "Are you sure you don't want to play Catalyst? Please make a Catalyst". If you ignore it three times, it automatically selects an empty character slot and just forces you to play Catalyst. When it loads you into the map, the character is wearing a t-shirt that says CMC on it.