Curse

X Cytherea X · Oct 25, 2009, 01:38 PM // 13:38

they have barbed spear today. i have shatter assault but no assassin's remedy or mendtouch. make EDA scythes-only already, for RED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GOs sake.

DO YOU READ THIS ANET? EBON DUST AURA. SCYTHE ONLY. KTHX.

Revelations · Oct 25, 2009, 02:52 PM // 14:52

Show your support for the death of EDA here.

Winstar · Oct 25, 2009, 03:16 PM // 15:16

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Originally Posted by Sieg Sunblade

Unless the dervish was good and blinded you before you could get your combo off. Or got a lucky guardian block then blinded you. Am I right?

PS: 7~8/10 at today having a >near perfect< EDA build. I know there's strip and flesh wound to deal with it, it still makes me a little mad.

First, I agree in general having EDA around on a day where there is little to no enchant control is going to suck. But it wasn't hard to deal with it on assault with even a little coordination. Or you could run the hex tele and iron palm and just jump him, kd get your skills off and strip him before the eda can do anything.

Again, an eda bar around with little to deal with it makes for a dull day, no disagreement here about that.

Sieg Sunblade · Oct 25, 2009, 03:20 PM // 15:20

EDA has been a fairly overpowered in 4v4 ever since rend hit 2s cast time and FF got pushed to 5r, to be honest. It's just in Codex these problems are exacerbated by the way even your limited removals are comparatively rare to get. And to be honest, having to spec one or two characters purely to remove EDA is frustrating to say the least, and it makes for boring and rage-inducing matches when your entire team is blind, with no way of getting rid of it at the rate EDA can apply it, and you're slowly dying with no way of generating any pressure output.

Compare EDA's effect with it's cast time, energy input, and ease of shutdown (For want of a better term off the top of my head). The skill is a perfect example of an elite that is worthless in 8v8 (due to the better removals available and more people to blind) but incredibly overpowered in 4v4.

Not sure why you're calling for scythe attacks only. I personally don't see a big problem with it just being 'melee attacks'. Off the top of my head. (Worst I could imagine would be D/A with Jagged, which is still completely manageable compared to D/Ps)

Anyway, just my two cents. NERF EDA. At LEAST Melee attacks only.

Ravi · Oct 25, 2009, 03:26 PM // 15:26

Lets see how eda fares today against "its juSt a flesh wound", actually, im not home yet, but i think they wont even try to use it.

Revelations · Oct 25, 2009, 03:42 PM // 15:42

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Originally Posted by Ravi

Lets see how eda fares today against "its juSt a flesh wound", actually, im not home yet, but i think they wont even try to use it.

We had flesh wound yesterday, and EDA was still a staple. Expunge is probably your best bet. Strip and SA are also strong.

Nerf Me Haha · Oct 25, 2009, 03:51 PM // 15:51

Don't you guys love it? EDA , PS assassins , and no Guardian on monks,
gg on trying to draw from ppl or draw from your own blindbot.
ANET MAKE GUARDIAN A STAPLE ON ALL DECKS!!!

Nirconus Otreum · Oct 25, 2009, 07:03 PM // 19:03

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Originally Posted by Nerf Me Haha

Don't you guys love it? EDA , PS assassins , and no Guardian on monks,
gg on trying to draw from ppl or draw from your own blindbot.
ANET MAKE GUARDIAN A STAPLE ON ALL DECKS!!!

Seriously... Sins and VoR are killin me...

Ravi · Oct 25, 2009, 10:22 PM // 22:22

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Originally Posted by Revelations

We had flesh wound yesterday, and EDA was still a staple. Expunge is probably your best bet. Strip and SA are also strong.

No we didn't

erk · Oct 26, 2009, 01:02 AM // 01:02

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Originally Posted by Ravi

No we didn't

Flesh and EDA were there as Revelations said , you just got the wrong date:
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Codex_skills/20091025

Nirconus Otreum · Oct 26, 2009, 01:20 AM // 01:20

Did fairly well with the following team...

Mo/A with Boon Sig and Shroud of Distress+Viper's Defense
Necro with Corrupt, Strip, Withering Aura, Mark of Subversion, Malaise, Faintheartedness
W/Me with Coward, Sig of Disrupt, Heal Sig, Symbolic Strike
Paragon with Flesh Wound

Ravi · Oct 26, 2009, 01:28 AM // 01:28

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Originally Posted by erk

Flesh and EDA were there as Revelations said , you just got the wrong date:
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Codex_skills/20091025

thats today's the 25th, yesterday was the 24th, amiwrong? look at the link...it...even has the date on it..

erk · Oct 26, 2009, 03:02 AM // 03:02

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Originally Posted by Ravi

thats today's the 25th, yesterday was the 24th, amiwrong? look at the link...it...even has the date on it..

Today is the 26th. by me and has been for 13hours.

Ravi · Oct 26, 2009, 03:17 AM // 03:17

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Originally Posted by erk

Today is the 26th. by me and has been for 13hours.

ah, sorry mate, forgot you were from australia, care to link the skills for the 26th then? because yes it's the 26th for you, but the skill set you're using is the one for the 25th, there's only 3 skills sets so far, and in only one instance you have both EDA and "its just a flesh wound" one the same day, that's all i was saying.

erk · Oct 26, 2009, 05:51 AM // 05:51

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Originally Posted by Ravi

ah, sorry mate, forgot you were from australia, care to link the skills for the 26th then? because yes it's the 26th for you, but the skill set you're using is the one for the 25th, there's only 3 skills sets so far, and in only one instance you have both EDA and "its just a flesh wound" one the same day, that's all i was saying.

Revilations said

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We had flesh wound yesterday, and EDA was still a staple. Expunge is probably your best bet. Strip and SA are also strong.

I agree with him, I don't see your problem, I don't see Revilations claiming Flesh + EDA on multiple days, only EDA. I think you are just being pedantic on what is today and yesterday. There will be a brand new deck in about an hour's time, and 6 hours after that I will be calling it yesterday's deck too

Mind you if they scheduled the skill change for 0:01 UTC instead of 7:01 UTC it might be less confusing. I hate the way Anet sticks to Pacific time instead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) for what's essentially an international game.

Feathermoore Rep · Oct 26, 2009, 06:40 AM // 06:40

Yea. EDA isn't fun. Oh well. It changes daily. So even if the play styles don't suit you one day, a change is only a day away. Or better even, make you a better overall player.

But they stick to Pacific Time because it coordinates with their business day. Just like builds roll out at 3-5pm PST, their day rolls over at midnight. So to save them the ease of RED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GOing up time translations, they just use PST as game time.

the_deSKtructor · Oct 26, 2009, 07:17 AM // 07:17

Yes!!!

Another EDA day!

zwei2stein · Oct 26, 2009, 07:23 AM // 07:23

Today has Spear of Redemption thou ... every physical can take it at cost of secondary and switch to spear set to fire it off when blind bot gets em blinded.

Or even better, do the whole spear thing:

I did fairly well with pack hunter enraged lunge / para / eda derv / monk. Everyone who really needs it has his own condition removal.

Spear of redemption is going to be in play fairly often too, given that paragon skill pool is as limited as dervish one.

DreamWind · Oct 26, 2009, 07:47 AM // 07:47

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Originally Posted by the_deSKtructor

Yes!!!

Another EDA day!

ROFL. That is utterly hilarious. I'll say here what I said in the other thread on this topic...this is the first (of probably many) instances where Anet is going to have to balance around Codex arena.

You can bet your ass they didn't think they would have to balance this format...if anything half the reason they implemented it is because they thought it would have no upkeep. So now that it is blatantly obvious that it needs balance, I will sit back with a bag of popcorn and watch the glorious thing that is Anet balance.

zwei2stein · Oct 26, 2009, 07:53 AM // 07:53

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Originally Posted by DreamWind

ROFL. That is utterly hilarious. I'll say here what I said in the other thread on this topic...this is the first (of probably many) instances where Anet is going to have to balance around Codex arena.

You can bet your ass they didn't think they would have to balance this format...if anything half the reason they implemented it is because they thought it would have no upkeep. So now that it is blatantly obvious that it needs balance, I will sit back with a bag of popcorn and watch the glorious thing that is Anet balance.

You can easily balance codex by increasing rarity of imba skills ... from 33% chance of appearing to something a bit more sane.