Echostorm.9143

It's just increasingly clear for balance decisions and changes like this that the devs pretty much live in pvp and wvw boonballs and see the game through that lens.

This feels awful and much less fun. Please roll this back. Being able to keep the buffs for more than 2 hours is nice, being able to load them faster is also great but this timeout makes open world MUCH less fun. Please roll this back.

The Jade buffs were a welcome and popular addition for open world players that made combat more fun and reduced grinds. Open world balance cannot and should not be measured in the same light as competitive and instanced modes where the buffs are not allowed anyway. For casual players, esp solo players the buffs were a nice optional boost for players of any skill and disabilities.

I feel that for the overwhelming majority of players combo fields are something they don't understand at all and any use of them is a happy accident. With that in mind perhaps a refactoring might be something to talk about.

For PVE Heal Alac Scourge is my fav build please don't mess with it except for buffs. For WvW I don't know why anyone would use it.

There is still no reason for me to use shortbow over mace / shield in PvE.

Came to check this as well as have been down this road before. Might be time to add more space eh? Hint hint, nudge nudge

For all of the infuriating and misguided choices you guys make on a regular basis it's nice when you do something like this that reminds me why I'm still here. Thank you Anet.

There is no reason to nerf hearald but they should have buffed the kitten out of the range on everyone elses buffs to make it fair. It's insane that FBs are still 180.

Adaptive Armor is ruined thanks. Function Gyro was something to pull out in emergencies now it's just one more key to hammer mindlessly and hope for the best. If it was keeping people alive too well in competitive nerf it there but stop punishing PVE! kitten and saying it's for shortbow? Shortbow better be seriously different than the last preview because it was beyond worthless. What is wrong with you guys??

Mirage is doing a little too well in WvW so we're going to nerf it in PVE. 🥺

I'd also pay for an item that let me combine all my gobbler gizmos into 1 MEGA gobbler, like Gleam of Sentience, or even just being able to add more things to gleam

I'd pay 50 bux for an item that could contain all of my portal books and scrolls, like the LW3 and 4 tomes and scrolls for Arborstone, Wizards and various lounges.

It just doesn't feel like it belongs there to me, give the leap to Greatsword, it would be more use there as you say. Nobody with a range weapon from a bow to a rifle ever thinks, "Boy, if only I could get within a few inches of my target before I shoot them"

These were some of the better weapons I tested. The animations felt a skosh long giving a slightly weighted down feeling and the radius of the effects is much too small and could be greatly increased along with some of the buffs and healing to compete better with the weapons it is hoping to replace. The Nature buff felt like a bridge too far, most of the new weapons seem to suffer from the desire to over complicate their usage. (eg. engi bow and necro sword) The values could simply be increased by 25% and we can get on with it.