I play a healing sage. I'm confused by some of the changes, but curious to see how it will play out. I cast Deliverence (2.5 sec cast heal) quite a lot without the conveyance buff in both pve and pvp, so I don't know why everyone is freaking out so much. If a melee's on you, you just alternate what spells you use between every cast. You have many good tools.

I want to see it not drain until after all CC effects have worn off of you. Other than that, I love Resolve.

I think it's funny how he seems to think he and so many others won't be whining just as much about GW2 class balance and every other game they set foot in. The whining isn't based on the class, it's based on the whiner.

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Anything that builds stacks and then has an ability that hits based on the number of stacks is designed as a build-up class. Tracer missile spam was too much front-loaded damage for a class that's designed to build up to the heavy hits. They took some damage from tracer and moved it to the follow-ups. That just makes the class reflect the talents better. I'm mostly happy that these changes obliterate the healing/tracer hybrid.

Anyone who builds an entire character just to use a specific build is silly. This is an mmo, there will always be class changes. They're giving talent respecs for free and that's all that's needed.

They're giving snipers trauma! Good to see that's the gift the pure-dps classes bring to the table

They do read the forums, they just realize that the forums are a very small and very vocal minority. The arguments and thoughts are taken into account, and then paired with actual data (something that is almost never used on the forums)

Good. You should never feel obligated to have PvE gear for PvP or PvP gear for PvE.

The long proc streaks are why I sometimes feel obligated to play Assault. (I swap specs a lot, heh) I much prefer Tactics, and am pleased with the slow being added to Gut

What a silly thing to say. I'd say it was the silliest thing I've read all day, but that changes constantly when I view the forums. I'm sure someone will one-up you. Nothing, and no-one, can ever be perfect. Perfection is unreachable. Everything everywhere and everyone designing anything will always have some flaws. I DC out of warzones a decent bit too. It's a bug, it's known, and it's being worked on. It doesn't exactly make the game unplayable. While it's rough some nights and I DC out of 50% of warzones, I still got to play most of them. Hell, the game has a habit of doing it when I have 1 minute or less remaining in the match. Sure, it sucks to lose out on your rewards, but they aren't what I play it for, so meh. It's not like they have a switch that says "Allow_DC_in_warzones=1" and they need to swap the 1 to a 0. These things take a long while to fix and their priority is bug fixes. If you expect perfection you're going to be disappointed a lot in life.

That's simply not true. If a melee dps taunts on cooldown and does 480,000 damage, he'll often top the scoreboards in medals, damage, and kills. He was a massive help to his team and a good player who beat the enemy down repeatedly. Sure, the dude solo-guarding a node the whole game who got 60,000 damage and 3 medals ALSO contributed a lot, but to say that the people at the top are terrible is a bit silly.

I feel like my skill does affect it, but only because my team-mates are also skilled. When I'm on a bad team, nothing I can do can save a loss (though I can still achieve small victories and make the enemies sweat a little most of the time ) And the more good players on the team, the more potential we can all reach. As such, I try to bring friends and people who know their stuff when queueing.

I heard talking about WoW arena makes people on these forums trust you.

1. Shadow/Assassin sap lasts 8 seconds. You can tell cuz it doesn't fill your resolve bar. THis means you will break out before they can finish capping. 2. Scoundrel/Operative sap lasts 10 seconds. You can tell cuz it fills the resolve bar. THis is a good time to use your CC breaker, since they won't be able to CC you again. 3. Guarding solo is a big risk. 3 stealthers could jump on you at once and you wouldn't know. til it was too late.

Hint: "Learn to Interrupt" does not mean "spam your interrupt every time you see any cast bar" Learn the spells that are spammable and big, and save your interrupts for those.

Please elaborate.

If you never, ever do any damage as a healer in a warzone (which probably means you're bad anyways), you should still be able to get these medals: 10 kills 25 kills 2.5k heal 5k heal 75k healing done 300k healing done 1k defender points 3k defender points

Out of curiosity, why do you think they would publicly announce how they will deal with something? That gives the people who try to hack the game knowledge of what safeguards are about to be put in place, giving them an advantage on getting past them before they're even in place.

That's like arguing that we should hand out knives at a prison because a few of the inmates crafted some knives. People who have no ability to set them up and don't understand how they work will still be unable to make use of them. These sorts of people, despite what you might think, are actually pretty damn common. I've known maybe two people that knew the commands for macros on their own. Ever. In any game. Most people look them up on external services, and having a game mechanic that requires you to go outside the game, is BAD. Maybe if they implemented them with a complete in-game, easy-to-use guide with lots of examples, it might be fair, but you're not "giving everyone the same advantage" because it's an advantage not everyone can use in the first place.

Different members of their team have different jobs. Why is it so hard to understand this? The forum moderators likely have no capability to help program, and once you have enough programmers, you have enough. More won't change it past a certain point, it'd only complicate it. Are you suggesting they should pull the forum moderators away from the forums to do a job they are not qualified for and did not apply for? Why would this help anything? Out of curiosity?

Petitions are against the forum ToS. I will flag any and all threads that have them. The OP is welcome to remake the post without adding a petition to it.

This. Also, 400k is high damage now? wut?

Petitions violate the TOS of the forums.

They exist. I PvP tactics. It's great. I do more consistent damage and can get some great AoE pulse cannon moments. I've tried assault. It's fun, but it's not my style.