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Zahr Dalsk · Oct 08, 2009, 01:16 AM // 01:16

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Originally Posted by The Cake Archer

not every skill update has to be 10 pages long and completely redesign a class.

Updates that come only once a month (or once every couple months) should be that kind of update, yeah.

IrishX · Oct 08, 2009, 01:55 AM // 01:55

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Originally Posted by Zahr Dalsk

Updates that come only once a month (or once every couple months) should be that kind of update, yeah.

No, they should not be. They should be including things that actually make the game less horrible. If that means changing one skill will make the game perfectly balanced, then ANet should change one skill.

Zahr Dalsk · Oct 08, 2009, 01:58 AM // 01:58

Yes, they should. An update that's basically been in the works for a month or two should be amazing, it should radically shift many skills and builds, it should add new game features, etc.

Lishy · Oct 08, 2009, 02:21 AM // 02:21

Please, oh please give paragon henchman stunning strike or something useful to the team and not b0rked motigon skills.
Fixing warriors might be good too. I'm all for more Earthshaker if Devona has it.

Also, replace dervish henchmen with critical-scythe

Axel Zinfandel · Oct 08, 2009, 03:33 AM // 03:33

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Originally Posted by Kain Fz

Please, oh please give paragon henchman stunning strike or something useful to the team and not b0rked motigon skills.
Fixing warriors might be good too. I'm all for more Earthshaker if Devona has it.

Also, replace dervish henchmen with critical-scythe

Or at least Zealous Vow attack spammers

Fril Estelin · Oct 08, 2009, 06:36 AM // 06:36

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Originally Posted by Karate Jesus

Are you seriously suggesting that it took them 4 months to come up with the list and just now they're starting to work on it? I highly doubt that.

The XTH, syncing in RA, bugs in JQ/FA, GvG tiebreaker, etc. have all been issues LONG before August....so to think that they're just now starting to work on it would mean you have very, very little confidence in the Live Team's competence (not that I have a whole lot).

First of all, I suspect that the Live Team is working on a lot more things that they tell us. In 4 months, they probably had to plan this work while working on current issues (April update), and prepare for stuff like henchmenbar contest, Test Krewe organisation, the PAX event, etc.

I do think that they're competent, to the extent that they're fighting against incredible odds (not only the amount of things to "fix" but how the PvP community react to their work). If you re-read Linsey's August 28th devnotes (available here: http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/User:...urdock/Journal ) you'll see that they're working on many of these things, but also other stuff (like automation of holiday/weekend events and tonic change). And all that has to be synchronised with different people across Anet (CM,s QA, marketing? law?). And they're working OT.

You can always question Anet's decision to not expand the Live Team, but I think that given their size and the goals they set themself, they're doing a good job. Albeit one that requires time. I'll admit that PvP love was LONG overdue and I hope they can achieve their aims. Regina's update is encouraging (and very honest, I liked the description of how the network team found an idea to fix synching during an ingame chat!).

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Originally Posted by Chocobo1

you need to prioritize PvP love. There is a dire need for skill balance

While I don't question this need, Linsey said (in the same August devnote I quoted before):

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Originally Posted by Linsey

Skill balance updates take a surprising amount of development time, but because much of this is necessary to the process, simply cutting back on how much time we devote to them isn't a good option. It takes a lot of research to properly craft a skill balance update. A lot. We read the forums, read the wiki, review the meta, watch in observer mode, discuss skill balance with players, and most importantly, play the game ourselves. It could easily be someone's entire full-time job or the work of a whole team of dedicated balancers. Trying to do a skill balance every month, along with everything else, rushes the process more than we'd like, and it doesn’t give us enough time to truly polish each update before it goes Live.

Akaraxle · Oct 08, 2009, 07:05 AM // 07:05

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Originally Posted by Foe

Im 99% sure Robert Gee is Harold J Chow in disguise.

Hi, I'm posting to inform you that I'm one of the handful that did understand your joke :P

(Harold wasn't that bad though, at least he tried).

Razon · Oct 08, 2009, 08:03 AM // 08:03

Thanks for the update, Regina!

Is it possible to get the pvp skins for pve characters too?

Meridon · Oct 08, 2009, 08:29 AM // 08:29

Right, my 2 cents on this.

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