Update - Thursday August 7

Oh and the lag with this awesome update is still here. Any ETA on when that will be fixed?

Master of Magic looks too sweet now.

So Ele's can just spec in Energy Storage and go 12 in an attribute from a secondary as well! AND have 12 in every element!

Oh, I need to explore this.



And sniper support is LOL!


EDIT: Will the GvG changes blow up the format as much as it looks? It seemed most of the top guilds just played for VoD.

Will take a while for the dust to settle after this one, new meta wont emerge for a while.

Less grind for PvE only skills is a good thing.

OMG a buff to a smite skill, they've put something in Izzy's drink or what? Yet two smite elites (WoC and RoJ) still suck imo. Nevertheless thank you Anet and Izzy.

Nice rework on Unyielding Aura. I'll see how that goes.

Nice change to Lightbringer Signet. It's elite form made it unusable.

Better hero AI is a good thing too.

Still too early to see the effects of UB and SF.

most of the pve skills buff was a buff to increase their effectiveness at low level

The buff to SY! made my head explode.

HM will be harder...lolz.

Or easier for some when you consider Kournan Scribes and Elementalist Bosses will reduce their high fire attributes to 12.

So the only thing that was fun for you was not having to think much when you play? You could achieve the same results with bad builds in NM.

Not much of a loss, nonetheless.

Asuran Scan....no cast time...

Phys just got pumped full of steroids.

Come on now. Its not that hard to say it. And by the way alot of comments comming out sounds like more people than your few group think its better and not worse. Yay for fun and Nay for boredom. Unless you like the boredom of slowing grinding away at things.


No it was a buff to UB. The hit the wars using it but buffed it for everyone else. Outweighs the slight touch to UB that makes it a buff.

Also, I'm wondering how the new [life transfer] will work if it hexes multiple foes. Will the hex need to be removed from all enemies suffering from it to end the health regen, or just the initial target?

Very good update for PvP imo. PvE side 99% of the PvE skills just got the lower values upped, so they didn't actually "get buffed", so to speak in power level.

Master of magic will set a 12+1+3 skill to 12, meaning the runes are useless and GoLE will remove it. So it's kind of meh if you aren't running a low-E prismatic build.

the funny thing is that ursan blessings' skill now do physical damage

Don't know what people are talking about the update causing lag. I've had average of 200ms all night (normal for my network connection)

Nice +damage

And yeah, i've been lagging pretty bad, i usually have around 100-200ms whenever i play.

It's been 500, And spikes of around 2250ms.

Best Update Eva! :d

I agree since it was that way before Ursans. Now they'll kick mesmers, rangers, sins and the others just like they did before and go back to the holy trinity and all those that whined about Ursans will just start whinning again about being rejected because of their class again. lol

Can you say Xinrae's? Holy hell. And I'm pissed about OoU but the other buffs are MORE than enough to cancel out that one skill.

They killed Ursan and made the PvE-only skills powerful even at a low rank.

My only problem is they combatted power creep with power creep. I think PvP is dead now to be quite honest with you.