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To be fair the Anet team is no different than other MMO's devs. They ignore everyone, and when the game loses X % of players or people are upset enough that it is starting to annoy them, they suddenly write a blog on how they want to improve communication --> 3 months later , nothing changed and we are back at the beginning xD The only constant is disappointment, except if you play guardian as they get everything 😛 PS: the changes in this patch are not bad, as they fix some of the terrible choices they made in the June balance patch. It's just that these classes feel very bleeeh to play since the June patch due to the mechanics, not the numbers

would love to get a follow-up, the pinned post is just a "woops we F'ed up" post - the real question is did the balance team read the other feedback, are there any other changes, what are the next steps are & what is their goal? Several people including myself have suggested to increase the boon share range on druid while in CA and not limit it to the healing radius. Until now I do not know if 1 dev actually bothered to read this. The problem is that nobody knows at this moment what the vision is from the devs for each class. Maybe it's time for a Q&A from the Dev team on some hot topics raised by the community regarding the class balance and combat. Can be done in general with a further breakdown per class.

Since they are increasing Alac to 1 sec from 0.75 it should help but they should also increase the radius in which the boon is given. At the moment it's to small! especially vs. every other class. I am not saying to increase the heals their radius btw just the boon share on them!

Let's be honest, we all know we can expect Guardians to get more buffs in the next few balance patches. it's the weakest class in the game /sarcasm 😛

While you are updating druid alacrity anyway --> make the radius larger (not for the heal) but for the boon sharing. It's ridiculous that people need to stack like Tetris blocks so we can give alacrity

Forgot to mention the 1 spam 🙂 even so spamming isn't fun and a flaw in the design. Also if staff 2 for example would get alacrity it wouldn't be a bad no matter the elite spec. your using, It could make for some interesting builds.

Healing is fine, the regen boon is given like sweet candy and you have healing from both warhorn, your pet ability, etc. The numbers that we can output healing wise are fine to be honest. if you need extra healing drop grace of land and use lingering light + you can blast sublime conversion as well. Boon sharing, while regen, protection, swiftness, might are easy to keep up even if you do not use spirit of the sun (could be wrong on the spirit name) Alacrity is a pain! Not because it is impossible to keep up but because it makes no sense to have as part of your 4&5 CA abilities. Pre patch it was waaaay to easy nobody can say that is not true but how it is right now is just wrong. Giving it a utility skill would make that one skill again a must have on your bar so why not look at a different option? Maybe not the best idea but linking it to the staff nr 2 ability might be quite nice as it pulse heals allies it gives alacrity. That little extra would give a bit of freedom to use CA 🙂 + (wishful thinking I would like to see a blind effect on Ancestral grace) Currently it only doesn't make sense, it's also not fun to play this way.

I voted for HOT mainly from a gameplay perspective (Meta events, hero points, etc) but PoF adding mounts was amazing and just like with HoT I really enjoyed each map. EOD isn't bad (far from) just didn't like the elite specs for the classes that I play & the maps were not that fun to explore.

I would actually hope that they make the world bosses more complex both in beginner area's and "late" game. They are extremely easy right now and barely take a few minutes. The only change I would like to see is that they reshuffle the boss cycle each few weeks so certain meta events, bosses, etc. get more attention than usual. For Example a HoT Reward week - double the rewards for a week the first time you do X event per day.

Having new weapons is one thing but you should address some of the base ranger traits in the meantime to allow utilization of the new weapons in different elite specs. I still not convinced that hammer will be used more , GS still seems to be the most obvious choice for 2H Interested to see what people come up with build wise

In Pve healing / support druid is just not fun right now. Don't take me wrong the perma alac we could easily provide before was to easy. I wouldn't have minded some changes, they could have changed the trait: Natures Vengeance instead so that each spirit gives buff X - Alac is applied by each spirit but for each time activating the spirit's ability they lose X% of health. This would have resulted in better upkeep of your spirits. - all Spirits provide conditions (or additional conditions) instead of boons when your power or condition state is higher than X + Also here spirits lose health for each time we activate their skills. This could end up with some interesting hybrid builds even or full condi builds and please the support players. That's at least how I see it 😛

you can't use the excuse of "they will correct it" they have test environments , people giving feedback and a passionate community that is eager to work with the devs to balance the game. Yet we get this patch. Issue's can be fixed ...but this you cannot just give a pass and say " if the change is truly harmful then the change will be corrected"

Curious to see some of the untamed builds to be honest, it's not a spec I personally enjoyed so far but maybe it's time to mess around with it. Based on your feedback Untamed is still rather Meeh but curious to play around with it while we wait a year for a good balance patch.

Scourge, Mirage and willbender are not the only ones with major issue's after this patch. Saying that they will do "tuning" is ridiculous. + if they are making more changes on the 18th why not wait in the first place until that date?

Hi folks, Curious to see your stance on this topic!