Game Update Notes - June 23rd, 2015

[carnifex2005]

https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/foru...s-June-23-2015

Running around the new LA right now. It is a spectacular rebuild. Very well done ANet.

[zito]

Um so much for giving players a 3 week notice on the personal story fixes Anet

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Attribute points on equipment have been increased by approximately 30%.

NO

WHYYYYYYYYY

I was hoping they wouldn't of done this

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There is literally no difference between burning and bleeding now besides damage

lazy

[rhandric]

Um so much for giving players a 3 week notice on the personal story fixes Anet

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NO

WHYYYYYYYYY

I was hoping they wouldn't of done this

They did; their notice that it was coming was their "3 week" (+) notice.

And the attribute changes to gear is due to the removal of attributes from specs. Of course, they could have changed formulae to account for the loss of stats, but they went a different (and much easier) route.

[zito]

They did; their notice that it was coming was their "3 week" (+) notice.

yea 2 months ago....

And the attribute changes to gear is due to the removal of attributes from specs. Of course, they could have changed formulae to account for the loss of stats, but they went a different (and much easier) route.

I'm aware of that, it wasn't needed.

[rhandric]

yea 2 months ago....



I'm aware of that, it wasn't needed.

There are 2 choices for them: either add the stats to the gear (or somewhere else), or rescale every calculation in the game. Adding the stats to the gear is infinitely easier.

[zito]

They didn't need to re scale anything. The game already operated without any trait investments before which gave the bonuses in the first place. Stats in this game are inflated

[melodramocracy]

As a player who just came back to the game after a very long hiatus, and was just getting re-acquainted with how thing work, I gotta say the new trait / spec setups are... well, weird.

And I already notice that the changes and added abilities seem to have made the game quite a bit easier, at least while leveling.

[carnifex2005]

Here's a video of the new LA if you can't log in right now or are at work...

[Malthanis]

They didn't need to re scale anything. The game already operated without any trait investments before which gave the bonuses in the first place. Stats in this game are inflated

Inflated in comparison to what, exactly? It's not like they're going anywhere, or like we're dealing with power-creep like other MMOs with constant vertical progression being added.


As for the LA update: it's pretty awesome. I'm currently enjoying hunting down karka hatchlings (gotta get rid of that dragonite ore clogging up my inventory).

[Clymene]

The changes to hero panel UI are atrocious. Screen is cluttered with the same information 3 times.

[zito]

Inflated in comparison to what

Comparison to zero trait investment to full trait investment. The old trait system gave you 800 stats for whatever reason when you were fully traited compared to nothing when you have nothing traited.

Keeping it and putting it into gear served no purpose but the inflated stats in the game.

[nevermore]

Yes zito, we know, you did Lvl50 fractals naked and with 0 agony because you're amazing at this game. Think of all the low-life peasants who are not as superb as you.

[zito]

Yes zito, we know, you did Lvl50 fractals naked and with 0 agony because you're amazing at this game. Think of all the low-life peasants who are not as superb as you.

That has no relation to my point, the stats from traits are not needed period. The game already operated without them. Keeping them there and putting them on gear instead just inflates gear even more then they already did a few months ago.

FYI it was level 39 fractals

[Kazgrel]

I'm not seeing stat inflation so much as a shift in stat allocation. Logged on my ele (full ascended zerker gear) and noticed my crit chance had dropped by about 4%, but I gained around 200-300 power.

Not related, but also noticing that crit chance when downleveled has been significantly nerfed. Had the daily in Snowden Drifts for events, and instead of the 80ish % crit I would have in times past, I was only at 37%. Despite that nerf, though, with the condi cap removal for bleed/burn/poison, champ mobs seem to explode even faster than before. I almost wonder how Teq or any other major boss will be now (hilarious, I bet).

Only put in about a hour or so into the game since the patch, most of which had me redoing builds on all my toons.

[zito]

downscaling in general has been nerfed

[zito]

It's hard to call it "inflated" when it's how it always was. :O

Yes. Both existed. Zero trait investment and full trait investment. Play both at the time and see the difference. It was unnecessary.

[zito]

Pretty much all stats are "unnecessary" in this game, though. Making a case for this allocation or that allocation being "unnecessary" or "inflated" is really just arguing that stats shouldn't exist at all. (Which isn't unreasonable considering the design of the combat in the game, but it seems silly to single out a particular stat source as being more unnecessary than others.)

Where was i singling out another Stat source? This specific change was made so I'm going to talk about that over others because well its the most recent.

Adding more stats to gear was unnecessary in the long run.

[carnifex2005]

They nerfed the Mortar Shot (Skill 1 of Mortar Kit) damage by 28% last night but fixed the 10% damage boost for explosions so it isn't as bad a nerf as one might think. I still love the new Mortar Kit and has replaced Supply Kit as my go to Elite. Still don't like the new med kit though, so I'm not running 5 kits.

[Malthanis]

They nerfed the Mortar Shot (Skill 1 of Mortar Kit) damage by 28% last night but fixed the 10% damage boost for explosions so it isn't as bad a nerf as one might think. I still love the new Mortar Kit and has replaced Supply Kit as my go to Elite. Still don't like the new med kit though, so I'm not running 5 kits.

I absolutely love the mortar kit. I finally have something that works really well as my long-range option for my flamethrower build.

Haven't had the time to mess with the med kit. I'd imagine you'd need at least some healing power in your kit to actually make it worthwhile.

[zito]

Mesmers got nerfed more, lol ok guys the least you can do is make mesmer interrupt traits work in pve but whatever. Like at this point they can nerf us to oblivion if they make half are traits work in PvE/some components of WvW

You can also craft your own mystic forge, expensive. You can also buy it and they are going for like 500gish atm.

ALSO MONK OUTFIT COMING OUT NEXT WEEK



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so um

time warp glamour, 3 min cd last 10 seconds. Glamour traits like CD reduction do not effect it.

feel my wrath from guardians. 30 sec CD, last 5 seconds, gets effected by shout traits. Cd reduced to 24 seconds. 37 fucking seconds of quickness for the entire party in a 3 minute time span

WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK

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FUCKING ANET GO FUCK YOURSELF

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