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PvE is definitely not my area of expertise, but yeah, it was a decision to make that change affect all gamemodes, rather than another competitive balance split. I can't speculate much on that decision, though.

I don't roam, so it's not really my area of expertise. Whatever discussion I would be able to contribute to that topic would be uninformed.

I mean to be honest I’d expect thief to be able to sneak into things since… they are thieves? Also so many spots they can’t just do that or even port because of the “no valid path to target”

For which balance change specifically?

@@sheffplaysgames for example they allow transfusion to be op and game warping for year with no efforts to tweak number of targets, cd or range to make the ability more reasonable. Scourge will likely already take a hit and need to specialise more damage oriented (as their boon coverage and uptime is pretty bad) or full support and learn into being able to supply barrier. But then transfusion arguably one of the most thematic and best utility next to boon corruption necro offer is gone in all game modes. This pattern where anet nuke something into the ground and then wait and see if they need to buff it back into relevance later is just comically them for me at this point. I would prefer to see them trying to tweak stuff bringing op, meta warping stuff down in power with the variables they have to change and maybe even buffing classes that are really underperforming. They are capable of this and did so recently with revenant spear taking it from the most broken pve thing in the game where a boondps was the single highest benchmark in the game to a much more reasonable spot without making it unusably bad. You mentioned some ways scourge and transfusion had alot of skill expression in the video as well as the issue of a good scourge Vs bad scourge being too much of a deciding factor I find it hard to believe anet didn't think we could give transfusion pull a 30-45-60 second internal cd and make it only pull 1-2 people depending on cd maybe make the range rven shorter so the scourge and squad have to play around that or the scourge has to place a sand wraith on downed playets to pull them. I agree in it's current state it's not good for the game I can see alot of ways to fix it without destroying a really good thematic class fantasy utility they came up with. But i guess we'll see how this shakes out. Since launch of Gw2 balance feels like it has been all over the place and the they nerf stuff into the ground to then buff it later as its completely underplayed in the meta is a pattern I've seen so often from them now and probably alot of cool ideas are in the bin somewhere cause they came up with couldn't be bothered balancing it to a reasonable spot and then just ditched it. Necro spear 5 is another good recent example rather than try to balance that shorter effective window, only eats 1 boon, max 5 targets for fear of it getting abused they nerfed it before the potentially abuse and class stacking could even happen. That mechanic seems to me like a natural counterpart to aegis the ability to negate 1 boon application on an enemy. We have alot of boon corrupt and steal in the game already which is fine. So i guess the issue was necro spear 5 being the only one to have this ability yes I can see that as an issue but if the ability were balanced well enough I think it would be something that could have been added to other classes, weapon kits that were lacking a bit. Would have been my choice as it was cool bit of kit and tech rather than being scared of it over performing before it ever did so. Sorry for the long post but I have given examples of two balance changes that were a bit heavy handed and one that was appropriate. Tldr: Just wish they used a scalpel and 3d printer for their balance more often than the sledgehammer and chainsaw.

I'm inclined to agree. Winds of Disenchantment got nerfed for the same reason -- there's a giant difference between removing boons that have been applied, versus preventing boons from ever being applied in the first place.

@@sheffplaysgames Whenever I see people lamenting that there should be more Boonstrip or Boon prevention I always scream in my head that the reason we have so little and they get constantly nerfed in Competitive is because Boons are such a large part of a character's power that if you remove it you nerf them severely. If say, Protection only reduced damage by 10% or 15% then something that could remove it or prevent the application would be a minor inconvenience. When it has a 33% damage reduction, then it's a MAJOR part of the character's defensive capabilities and removing or preventing it completely wrecks them before the fight has even begun for real.

these changes make roam one shot fiesta. some classes come with eod are more powerfull than others such as willbenders. and some come with eod rely on use of celestial like catalysts. idk how specs with low mobility and boons will survive againsts willbenders in current situation.

Professions and specs with low mobility and boons are probably going to struggle to survive against most things in a 1v1 situation regardless -- those are two very important factors that those professions are missing. It's difficult to not generate boons, and not have movement utilities, and perform well.

What are the design flaws of boons, exactly? They've been a core part of the game since release.

​@@sheffplaysgamesboon pumping was not easy at the begining. after eod anet simply lost his way how boons applied and sustained.

Should give you a pretty chunky heal, but I think if you wanted as much raw healing as possible, you'd play Vindicator or something like that.

it’s not really a healer if you even max out the capabilities 😂 fb is terrible in comparison to tempest our scrapper.

With how much I have to struggle with my mic to get it to sound good to me, I'm shocked (but appreciate the compliment nonetheless).

@@sheffplaysgames TBF I even told you the taste of your voice while with ViP so, yeah, your mic sounds really good, but your voice does help a lot.

Alacrity and Quickness are probably a bit too prevalent right now. I think there's a lot of people who would like to see Alac/Quick exist as personal boons exclusively.

Because both Alac and Quick are two utterly broken OP things that should be removed from the game entirely?

he is using ARCdps and the ARCdps healing addon

Correct. There's a guide to setting it up elsewhere on the channel if you are interested in using it.

Thanks!

Cele made roaming more welcoming for less experienced player. Something tells me you'll prob see a lot less roamers.

​@@smoov5046it's still a good stat even without concentration and expertise

Are we going to talk about WB and Thief and their crutch mechanics? Didn't think so.

Zergs used cele first then roamers did to compete when swarmed by them. Also thief is only crutch with deadeye or p/p condi daredevil since they only rely on stealth d/p and s/d builds mainly just evade or blind with barely any booms yet will ended can port and get every boon basically in the game while having high dps stability to never get cc’d and invulns and blocks and tons of aegis. Revealed getting buffed so the thief crutch is less valid also the fact that thief gets melted by any class face to face

Thank god. I’m so sick of roaming invis players or willbenders. I play holosmith lately and I legit struggle in those fights because I have virtually no mobility or ways to move around. Then I switch to willbender and have 10 ways to move around a area. Total bs and broken. It’s not even fair someone can go in and out of combat with ease with no punishment

To anyone wondering, it looks like it's since the yesterday Arcdps update, nothing to do then !

Glad you figured it out -- when in doubt, update Arc. :)

That's Bullyfoot, from [HATE]. He's pretty high energy.

True!

Appreciate the clarification!

The numbers and bars? That's ArcDPS. Or do you mean something else?

@@sheffplaysgames yeah what's that

@@demianpelos It's a damage meter. I made a guide to setting it up and using it here: ua-cam.com/video/Yl-kn7zAWrQ/v-deo.html&pp=ygUWc2hlZmZwbGF5c2dhbWVzIGFyY2Rwcw%3D%3D

Which part isn't working?

@@sheffplaysgames all of it

When would that have been?

Any time I see a video pop up on Reddit that includes good, step-by-step documentation of where the terrain issues are, and what the specific skills are that are used to exploit the terrain, I pass it along to support.

I have no idea what cheats these are. I'm familiar with terrain exploits to get into towers, but that's already reportable. I know for a fact that I've sent some people on an ArenaNet sponsored vacation after seeing them glitch into a tower and reporting it.

@@sheffplaysgames ua-cam.com/video/dPwA-oSJnmY/v-deo.html

@@sheffplaysgames ua-cam.com/video/46tP9c9ptKY/v-deo.html

Do you have any that are a little more recent? These look like they are a few years old, so I'm not really sure how actionable they would be.

​@@sheffplaysgames ua-cam.com/video/KbIqiLhOMuA/v-deo.html

I believe that's been suggested a few times, but has never seen implementation. Definitely a good idea! I'll pass it along.

i completely agree, when EOD come out I pointed out that in PVE you practically got a mount and a glider for free with a base account with only EOD (not having POF and HOT) a basic one without mastery, and was one of the greatest idea the PVE dev group had, Instead in WvW You got nothing at all, no mount no glider, You had to buy HOT and POF (even just POF) but only for WvW and not for PVE, this was a real fail from the WvW team, they really do not understand, as PVE devs did, that as the game it's now You have to have those two things, you have, even basic, same happened with skyscale in SOTO, good job PVE group, but again in WvW the situation is still the same, You paid for 1 or 2 expansions (EOD and/or SOTO) and you can't use any mount or glider in WvW, unbelievable...

@@naramsin5271 Glider at least is one mastery point, but yeah, the Warclaw gating is at least a few hours, which is pretty rough.

@naramsin5271 @WarlordShinkouhyou tagging you both in case you didn't see it -- Warclaw will be unlocked by default with Janthir Wilds, as long as you own HoT or PoF. en-forum.guildwars2.com/topic/148991-upcoming-changes-to-the-warclaw/#comment-2156893

With ArenaNet participation, probably not too regularly, but I'd like to occupy the podcast space a bit more with Kriff (State of the Mists) and Indo (Commander Roundtable) on hiatus, and Quietly (Say Chat) retired from content creation.

@@sheffplaysgames yea WvW definitely needs atleast one creator talking about the state of WvW, even more so with all the changes happening

If I cover the minimap, then people can't stream snipe me. :)

Just because you have yours set up that way, doesn't mean Shef's set up is wrong. He has his set up how it works for him. You're right though. it IS the little things that give us away. Yours speaks volumes.

@@DevahBluJasmine Solemn is just a bit of a character. I'm sure he didn't mean anything by it. He loves the meme. I've got my ArcDPS windows configured for easy stream visibility, and if Solemn's got his set up over the minimap it's probably to maximize the viewable region of the screen so that you can see over walls, etc. Something my config definitely does not help with.

@@sheffplaysgames Fair, Shef. I understand the arc window obstructions, but people play what works for them. No need to try to shame people for their setups, though.

I like playing with my friends too much to quit, unfortunately. But I definitely make time to play some other games. I'm very into Dyson Sphere Program, Project Zomboid, and Against the Storm right now. It's nice to have a few games on rotation for when you get tired of one of them.

I wouldn't say that its great, given that it drove a bunch of people on JQ, BG, and TC to quit the game completely...

@@sheffplaysgames It had nothing to due with the 2v. The problem was the ridiculously long duration of 9 weeks. Some of us were playing 8+ hours a day, some even 12-16. It was insanity.

@@kylequest That's interesting. Most of the people who I've talked to from those servers, during Seasons, talked about how the 2v1 wasn't fun for any of the three servers, and ruined their enjoyment of Seasons overall. If your perspective was different, I'd love to hear from you in an interview about it. Hope into my DMs if you'd be interested in contributing.

@@sheffplaysgamesThe backstory of Season 2 was that BG's "War Council" tricked the dev's into opening BG by tanking. They had guilds lined up to transfer in the moment the Dev's opened them and they did. JQ and TC were closed the whole time and there was nothing we could do. BG obnoxiously boasted about stacking and how they were going to win season 2. The collective despising of BG grew and we decided to punish BG for it and we did! It was still a lot of work and a lot of overtime to contain this ridiculously super stacked BG. After 9 weeks players were burnt out and pissed at the dev's for all of it. So the game lost players. It didn't help that later in the year for season 3 Grouch had a BG tag on the GW2 stream. ua-cam.com/video/AggU1IHWd_Q/v-deo.htmlsi=GsRoFomts1P7TthR Back to the topic of today. Yes, the dev's can themselves cause a lot of problems when they remove player agency. My advise to Grouch back in the day was to open worlds and give free transfers. That giving the players agency was the best solution. And, I stand by that today.

@@kylequest What's the incentive for a group to play on any server that's not in the top tiers, if you can transfer to any server for free and ignore population limits? If T1 is BG, JQ, and TC, why would somebody want to play on Eredon Terrace, or Sanctum of Rall, or Kaineng? Especially if players continued to receive rewards for winning as they did in Seasons?

Already fixed. I've turned off the notifications for PTT activation and deactivation, and made a new OBS scene that keeps my microphone on push to talk instead of always on. Should keep the audio *much* cleaner in the future. I like that my stuff is a little bit rustic and bespoke, but in this case it presented as a bit too amateur, and I'll have it looking and sounding better next time. :)

It has its ups and downs, but the community within the gamemode is great, and definitely what keeps me coming back to it.

lol you sad sad person.

Roy and Cecil were in the same squad I was -- Cecil even took over commanding near the end, after the other tags logged off. Our plan was for it to be a sort of shared activity that we were doing while we chatted. But I don't think that we made that very clear, and I can either do a better job of integrating it into the conversation next time, or just not play during the interview and find another activity or format. Great feedback regardless though, I appreciate it.

That's on me. I wasn't familiar with how to set the tech up. I can take care of it for future stuff like this though. :)

Thanks for the engagement on the video!

​@sheffplaysgames, no problem bud! Good luck with your channel. Edit: just to be explicit my comment was aimed at the changes not your channel. Reading it back I realised it was ambiguous.

Understood, no worries. :)

@@sheffplaysgames :)

For the EU part? That was Roy's suggestion. I don't play much on EU, but wanted to come see it, and he said Kormir's Library was a good one. :)

I will -- I got annoyed by it myself skimming through doing the timestamps. I've already changed that on my end, I wasn't aware that the recording was picking it up.

Old servers, pre Restructuring, were thousands of people, and those people could coordinate transfers to stack them. Under Restructuring, the maximum number of people that you can "stack" is 500, and transfers aren't possible. It's a smaller grain size to work with.

"Don't see there being anyone in 2 weeks" that's because people people stopped playing the mode or the game.

Actually, megaservers dominating everything else are less of a problem now than before. I don't even understand how you people don't see that. EU example : there was one single megaserver, WSR and no one could do anything about it. Now, the guilds that were bandwagoning WSR are divided amongst 4-5 teams, and all of them are D1 to D2. Those players were together before the WR.

@@Hasarian- It's not and wasn't ever about the server but about the guilds and where they go, that is the same now, they simply do not choose directly the "server" as before, all the other stuff it's the same as in the past, they didn't solved anything at all...