Meteor Wars!

[Fat Disgrace.4275]

so, is this really meant to hit this hard ?

[reddie.5861]

@"Limodriver.4106" said:someone hit me for 18k, 1 patch nerf it next patch buff it more than before the nerf what a joke.

thing is it got never nerfed..

meteor got buffed on the "nerf" patch maybe in PvE its a nerf but first hit got buffed second hit got buffed till w/e hit it get nerfed.in generally in WvW you dont do 1st and 2nd and 3rd hit on same person so its flat out buff.

[Gwaihir.1745]

This is making wvw unplayable in water areas like hylek since the meteors cull and circles are underwater.

[Fizzee.1762]

This isn't healthy for WvW or fun to play as Ele...Meteor needs reverting, and other skills need a tweak to make weaver less reliant on 2-3 skills.

[Nomad.4301]

Just finished a raid in WvW and can say definitively that meteor shower is so broken right now that not only were both zergs running around 15-20 weavers each but it was so bad that this one skill single-handedly brought back the pirate ship meta in FULL FORCE.

This lead to some of the most boring fights I've EVER had in WvW. Please take a look into this. Right now meteor storm is like an AoE version of Death's Judgement that can't be reflected/destroyed and hits way more then 5 targets for 10K+ per tick.

[Catchyfx.5768]

Anet balance at Its best. :-)

[Guizao.4167]

@Amorimm.6732 said:If by some miracle an arena.net dev reads this, here's what ya need. #1 Revert the Scourge nerf to Dhuumfire - it was not needed, #2 Revert the changes to Elementalist with Meteor, since it's CLEARLY busted, #3 Don't make a stealth snipe class (Deadeyes) able to 1 shot majority of classes, so revert that too thanks, #4 Stop listening to the massive QQ threads about what is and isn't overpowered, and instead listen to the intelligent voices in the WvW community who have at least some minor understanding of game balance. Thanks, on behalf of the entire WvW community who actually enjoy the game.

But decreasing Lava Font damage by 40% was a really good call, wasn't it?

[Gwaihir.1745]

Guys pull out the hammer guards! The 5 man slams into the weaver backline insta downs are hilarious.

[Player.9621]

yeah its ruining the fun. in wvw at least, idk about anywhere elsedefinitely needs an icd or something

[Rampage.7145]

It is not an ICD problem, the damage calcutation for the skill itself is bugged, that is it, this is not intended, but everyone knows arenanet dosnt read WvW forums u saw how fast they patched the deadeye bug (less than 24h) cuz affected their glorified PVE, WvW it will take until the next balance patch o some shit for this guys to do something about this (if they even do somethign about it at all), enjoy 3 months+ of meteor wars bois.

[Straegen.2938]

There is a massive shift in the amount of Weavers in zergs chain casting this now. In an isolated duel, my Warrior with 30k HP and 3.5k armor was getting hit with 6k-10k shots from a non-optimized Weaver. The frequency of the hits may also be up as one MS downed my Warrior. On a full zerk Weaver, those shots would likely land 2k-4k harder.

This has to be the hardest hitting skill in WvW right now doing more damage than most single target skills.

[Blocki.4931]

I noticed that something was off when a single Weaver almost instantly blew up an Arrow Cart I was manning. Took maybe 3 or 4 seconds. Definitely not the experience that I've made before.

[MedievalThings.5417]

I decided to not fight the urge, have logged my crappy geared ele for some lols, and seriously just downed a bunch of HoD at Woodhaven with 1 MS.Anet, pls disregard all posts about MS being broken...I'm gonna let this one go and aoe the weeks away.

[XenesisII.1540]

whelp reset night should be fun...

[VAHNeunzehnsechundsiebzig.]

honestly? the damage did not change (much). But you see more elementalists at the moment.

And if two or three put their shower at the same spot, you will be bombarded pretty hard. As it should be.

[Gwaihir.1745]

@"VAHNeunzehnsechundsiebzig.3618" said:honestly? the damage did not change (much). But you see more elementalists at the moment.

And if two or three put their shower at the same spot, you will be bombarded pretty hard. As it should be.

I mean you can check who hit you and most everyone here is referring to a singular meteor shower. It's pretty hard to defend this given its so broken that most diehard mains are just loling on ele this week.

[Glacial.9516]

I suspect Meteor shower may have been mistakenly given the 60% initial damage increase the other Storm spells received in this patch.

[Chasind.3128]

everything has been nerfed, if ms is nerfed then really ele has no place. they get spiked dowen easy, their heals suck so all they have is dmg. just look for red rings. ez.

[Felipe.1807]

yeah, 3.5K armor plus protection and got hit by 13K damage...i dont know how someone can think this is balanced, considering that is a long range AoE skill

[XenesisII.1540]

So close to the 20k darn it.

[Jski.6180]

In good conscience i do not think i can play ele in wvw till this is fixed.

[Dawdler.8521]

@"XenesisII.1540" said:So close to the 20k darn it.

Server isnt really such a big secret it need to be blacked out to protect the individual. I dont think that bronze footman will personally feel hit by anything other than said meteor shower.

Just saying.

[XenesisII.1540]

Good point

[Spurnshadow.3678]

My anecdotal experience from a couple days ago:

Playing on my rev. 2750 armor with damage reduction food 10%, plus guild group running protection, guardian buffs, and my traited damage reduction. Pop dwarf for more damage reduction, jump off to the side with the group. Get caught in 2 warrior bubbles, boons totally stripped, but my damage reduction buffs are still active. Got downed by 3 meteors that hit between 10-12K.

[Tammuz.7361]

hopefully anet will at least comment on wether this is a bug or got missed getting put in patch notes so we know what the next 3 months meta will be like...