Where is the "Thursday Nerf"?

I could just imagine consumables being reversed and everyone flipping out...

instead of the grail giving +100 health you lose 100 health, essence causes you to walk 25% slower and skills recharge 25% slower, armor of salvation makes all attacks critical against you.

I imagine people would be pissed if they bought a crap load of consumables and used them on april fool's tho

My guess is Anet is going to hold of the nerf because of the fame weekend to minimize the QQing that'll happen.

That would be the idea of a practical joke. To piss everyone off.

Imagine the number of QQ threads that update would cause /drool

i no coz liek, we need moar gud skillz 2 make moar bildz 4 bambi farmin

My wife bought herself a new coat today on my behalf for her birthday in November so I have plenty to complain about thank you

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quicktime

+1

I say we sign a petition for A-Net to go on a merciless nerfing spree.

Nerfing is not always the solution.

For the resurrected Gwen thread you'll learn that fire has its merits.

I found a nerf, don't know if it's new or not, but, shock horror, i can't walk through bushes anymore. My new baby mesmer is very upset.

And why, on a GW fansite, has the word mesmer got a red waving line under it?

No builds planned today. Nerfage or otherwise.

lol what's with all the cats?
I haven't really noticed a trend where nerfs every Thursday, but I did notice that they are happening like almost every week. Also, most nerfs are made for PvP, so I don't see why all the PvEers are complaining.

Awww... there goes my theory

As for thursday trend, look through the past update notes on guild wars wiki and notice the dates.

EDIT: This thread has been promptly de-cat-ified, it seems

They are letting the dust settle before the storm of HA this weekend. Would be more bitching than would be bearable if they nerfed anything right now.

Nothing like throwing a little Troll bait in a topic.

I have to assume you have not been playing GW long as Thursday has been the day for balance updates (or any update for that matter) since the servers went live in 2005.

Anyway to answer you question "NO" ANet should not stop changing the game. If they did it would get very boring, very quickly. It is bad enough the way it is, at least the skill balances give it some flavor and changes things up every now and then.

Just my option of course

Krat

I reckon R/D-way will get hit when the double fame weekend pops up.

*Grabs popcorn*

More free fame!

Noooooo! My kittehs, they're gone!

Cats are the harbinger of doom and lockage for a thread. Unless they get EDITED OUT!

Give Anet a week. They'll come up with something truely spectacular

dAMn thoZ PVperS DEy alwAYS GEt mY PVE builDZ NurFEd

And if you were paying attention, they usually only do it 2 weeks a month. Once to get changes in, and another to make amendments to those changes. So the conclusion is: you're full of shit.

Yeah, I didn't quite see the troll bait aspect of it, but it just seems from a casual glance that every update thread becomes firstly filled with people that say "At last, should have done that long time ago" then comes the wave of "this skill was like that for <insert time>! Why change it now?" followed by "oh no, I can no longer farm <insert monster>!". This is usually mixed in with a generous sprinkling of "why didn't they nerf ursan blessing? Ursan ruined the game!" intermixed here and there. And finally, many posts down the road someone will come along that will explain why the nerf was needed, to just cause everyone else to post again with their alternative solutions, quite a few of which, I admit, seem fairly reasonable and also appear to influence the fix being released sometime down the road, to quiet the raging gamers.

It is just my opinion, but that is what the post-update threads usually look like.

As for thursday being update day from the onset, true enough, but the thing is, recently it has become a "weekly" update thing. Given a choice, wouldn't you rather have all updates happen regularly? So that you could plan your gameplay around it. On the other hand, the surprise factor is gone, and too much pressure is on the devs to update the game so often.

hey...my birthday is in November, does that mean I get a new coat too?

** runs off yelling "Honey, I got your card and I'm going shopping! baz777 said I could" **