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Wow, I'm actually impressed with the level of Necro hate in this update from Anet. So Guardian still gets to convert conditions into boons but necro loses the ability to convert boons into conditions? I'm sure what ever Necro hurt you in WvW or PvP should be proud they could bring about this change. Gonna be fun seeing the increase in thieves of all flavors and warriors in WvW playing with the tweaks to their various builds. Lord knows I'll probably load up in a few of mine just to abuse some of these changes. Sadly, one of my necros is now going to become completely useless because her whole thing was stripping/converting boons to put pressure on a fraction of the billion boons that everyone gets spit out on them in WvW.

Reaper was always meant to be a bruiser, but its as if every time they do these passes Reaper gets even more damage lumped into it. One of my necros has been a power reaper ever since they introduced it into the game and I spent about a year exclusively maining her. The last thing she needed back then was more damage and yet here we are, years on from that and Anet keeps piling it on. I just don't understand the mentality.

Can't wait for the next big balance pass where Reaper gets more damage again because they apparently aren't hitting things hard enough.

So, what I pulled from that was "balance changes" are going to keep coming out as per usual and the next content updates in the game (instead of being LWS and something active players can get by just logging in and taking part in the game) will be paid (at a "slightly lower" price). I promise you now, Anet, if you try to sell a trickle of content that would have been a LWS arch for a few dollars less than you've just sold an entire expansion, you will have a dead game on your hands, because it *will* lead to some rage quitting. In a world where people can go on a service like steam right now, and buy an indie game for 10-15 dollars and have hundreds of hours of enjoyment, I'd be very careful about trying to fleece your current player base for trivial additions to the game. Suffice to say, I'm definitely not paying for anything until I see how its all implemented. Ball is definitely in your court.

stop. giving. them. bad. ideas. Cripes, now we are gonna have fishing spots at the JP or some nonsense....

ngl, for a while there I used to play my thief and ranger with the mini, so I could bait someone to chase me into traps. lul

The feedback they do and don't pay attention too is the problem. Many of us have been asking for defense of objectives to be made more rewarding, and asking for support roles to be better compensated for doing anything support related since they literal start of the game and yet here we are. Unless you are zerging around and doing damage in fights and not bothering to protect a structure, you will be rewarded. Everything else is bunk. So in the end, join a zerg and hope they don't require you to be on comms or you might get kicked from the squad or just left behind on a map or you can have a go at solo roaming to flip camps until the enemy zerg finds you and roles through you.

So... Pretty much since the very beginning of this game, there has been a whole group of WvW players that have begged for defending objectives to be more rewarding, and instead (after 10 years) Anet has decided that reducing available supplies in a keep and making it harder to defend while disproportionately rewarding K-training/zerging a map even more was the better option. Good job on making it pointless to build/mount a single defense of an objective.

To put it plainly, if you're going onto these maps hoping to find and do meta events "organically" you're going to be disappointed. Only way you're finding organized groups to do the metas is through LFG or a guild that is setting out to do them. Sadly, the idea that players will simply be around and will mobilize for these things anymore is a pipe dream.

Chapter 7 from the story tab is Forming the Pact that culminates is beating Zhaitan. Every step of that is now complete, including the killing of big Z. Every step of the main story is now complete on this toon and at no point was I given credit. So, the literal last thing was exactly that. As you can't re-do it, all this leaves me asking my original question: is this achievement broken?

Yeah, I know they are character bound. I was clearing out these achievements on a particular character. It never updated this one as completed with the completion of story chapter 7. Ergo the question.

Interesting set of chievos and a huge source of xp for people who are new without toms to quickly level. HOWever, the one under Volume Five, for complete chapter 7 of your story. What is supposed to give credit for this one? I literally just took a toon that hadn't completed those final Orr quests and did them all and got nothing from it. Is this one broken or something?

LI builds are good yes. Braindead builds are not. Braindead builds that out perform more involved builds is broken. Engie was made braindead with this patch. Now, the most recent hotfix to this has dealt with some of that, which is good, but unless they are balancing all classes to have the same level of effort to output, then its all moot and ceases to be "balance" at that point.

No, see here's the thing. I am the absolute furthest thing from a sweaty try hard in this game. I certainly don't try to get my toons built with meta builds, or seek out legendary armor, and I avoid raids like the plague. Just not my thing. In fact, I am probably the poster boy for dirty casual veteran in this game. The problem I had with the changes made to engie in this update was that it completely trivialized the class to the point that people were able to "play it" virtually hands free. short of moving out of a red circle occasionally it, literally required no more input, and it could pull some serious numbers. Add in a few key presses for the mech and the number could go up even further. Absolutely NO class in an MMO like this should allow for that level of hands free play. It certainly shouldn't be out performing other classes to the degree that it was when they are having to put in more effort to come close to the dps and boon uptime. Its not healthy for the game in the long run, and it isn't healthy for the class and its players. This doesn't have anything to do with the "git gud" crowd and everything to do with the "I'd prefer my game to not be on rails" crowd, which I'd hope would be most players.

honestly, I think they're probably doing it right now because its meme-worthy. Literally for laughs.