Update - Thursday, March 5

solid update imo

let the meta settle, see what happens then look at skills like lingering curse and party healing

First Paragons, now Rits, are the primary targets for repeated nerfs? Sucks to be them I guess. At least they didn't touch Splinter Weapon during this update, yet.

Also why the hell didn't the tactics stances get a PvE/PvP split? Way to beat the dead horse on the tactics line... and buffing Healing Signet while nerfing pretty much every other skill there isn't going to make people want to spec into Tactics geniuses...

And omg at AoR buff, it's insanely powerful now. It was fine before, but wth? Finally Shadow Refuge, it started at 4 seconds, then buffed to 6 seconds, then nerfed to 4 seconds, and now it's back to 6 seconds? Come on, make up your minds.

One of my favorite ranger skills unnecessarily nerfed into oblivion. Flail I get, it makes sense, this however just doesn't. gg.

Oh well, I can't play at the moment anyway. Apparently I was suspended for racial slurs.

Well, if it says PvE and PvP, it's for PvE and PvP.

If it says PvP, it's only for PvP.

Always thought the 'no tomes' in HM Eotn was intentionally. Couldn't figure how something that blatantly wrong wasn't fixed already, hence, Anet must have their reasons for not including tomes in those drops.

defence = balanced stance - No KD so sins are still trash

That beats anet's tactics nerfing ideas.

some random buffs that may be interesting to use


and like always, a few nerfs asked by top10 players, as if the shit you can see everywhere else was no problem

I thought this. Especially stance tanks, since its one of the few effective warrior primary tanks thats not been entirely superseeded by perma sins...

until now.

Are you serious...it took 1,5 years to fix this?

After hours of waiting, I got my tournament rewards, but wtf !!! incredibly less than expected, and I didn't get double reward las month, wtf.

This is not a /cry, I am sure I did better, friends with the same predictions recieved more points.

Is there any official place to complain about rewards?

[Aura of Restoration] is now smexy, but [Read The wind] lol, do i realy need +damage?It's still good.
[Rend Enchantments]More time to cast spell breaker on uw. >.>

you mean like we used to before the AOE "nerf"

at least eles got a buff

Developers, if PvE is not the problem then just nerf the PvP skills. This looks like a no brainer.

And meanwhile back at the ranch ... balance changes are all very well but ...

A far more serious problem with PvP is the leeching at Fort Aspenwood. I mean, c'mon. This has been going on since there was a Fort Aspenwood. You can't just throw out a report system, consider the problem fixed and then ignore the all too obvious fact that it is not fixed.

Fix Fort Aspenwood? Please?

Warrior now the only profession with 1 primary and 2 secondary atributes! Way to go a-net!/ sarcasm!

Fixed a bug that caused Eye of the North treasure chests in Hard Mode to not drop Skill Tomes.


Wow....finally

Impressive, most impressive. Pretty good update imo. WAAAYYYY better than for example last month. Also for PS-nerf cryers - flail is nerfed, that means sins will need to bring frenzy or tiger stance. That is a better nerf than touching PS again.

I just may come out of retirement and go back to TAing after this update.

Monks and necros are a tad weaker now in that Arena, could be fun, or still be stupid as usual, we shall see.

I read perfectly well, thanks. Definition: nerf = render less effective. Fixing the AI to add scattering will render RoJ less effective. Less effective = nerf. Get it? Critical thinking skills, FTW.

Arkantos, the horrible Smiter's Boon era has little to do with this discussion. I'm concerned with PvE. Smiter's Boon was not nerfed to oblivion for PvE, but SB builds have never been a big part of the PvE meta AFAIK.

I understand your point about bugged skills needing to be fixed. But, darn it, it is so NICE to be able to go out and deal significant damage to something other than undead for a change. I'm just suggesting that if ANet wants to fix the bug, then they need to fix some other skills so that smiting remains a good alternative. Don't take away with one hand unless you're prepared to give with the other. The reality is that smiting wasn't very viable in PvE until this bug came along. Smiting teams, hero or player, are now a competitive choice vs. necro teams and OP-PvE-skill teams for HM play, and it's easier for a smiter to lead H&H teams. I don't want to lose that.

I think they doled the reward points out in two batches. I got less than expected last night, but then this morning got the rest of them when I talked to the guy again with a different toon.

*edit* Dumb me, I should read all the threads before posting. Regina explained it here.