July Skill Balance predictions

very little if anything i don't think it will happen till august

i like that the critical would make it a lot harder but it may have to be reduced duration cause sins would be able to go perma by just critical eye and high crit chance. mabye 5 seconds

If rits get toned down, I want to see ALL the imba builds from other professions being nerfed too. It's just unfair if rits get toned down whilst imbagons, permaform, and all the other builds still exist. After all, rits would have barely received a month of fun before that being taken away.

That's true, but I'm OK with this new type of permasins as they could only maintain it in combat. Even the health loss can be removed. It would limit perma to weapon attacks and not spells, and they can't be perma while running unless they wait out the recharge after each group of foes.

It is modified democracy......!!!

WE complain and vote on the things to change. THEY decide wheather to change it or not!

I predict there won't be one this month. And then there will be another giant QQ fest.

Dude nerf Brutal Weapon? WTF? You're obviously insane

only thing on the above list worth agreeing with is Shadow form and not because I care about PvE I just enjoy PvEers with tears in there eyes.

brutal weapon never seen this skill being used (passably because it is terrible) so not worth mucking with

Savannah Heat this skill needed to die its dead and another Gimmick bites the dust

Order of Undeath um who cares minions are bad in real PvP and they are a huge cause of over agro in PvE

Anet is removing Heros from Organized PvP deal with it it needs to be done it is PLAYER vs PLAYER

1. Nerf Discord.

2 second casting time
15 energy
20 second recharge

If target foe is suffering from blind and under the effects of a necromancer hex, that foe suffers 5...70 damage.

Seriosly discord needs the nerf. People are abusing it for PvE.

2. Nerf RoJ (PvP only)

2 second casting time
25 energy
30 second recharge

For 5 seconds, target foe and all foes adjacent to this location take 5...30 holy damage each second if they are not suffering from a condition or hex.

The reason for this, I am SICK AND TIRED, of seeing monks in AB with RoJ and someone snares you with Deep Freeze or cripped, and you take all the damage. First of all take off the burning. Second, make it so you can at least escape it.

3. Make ALL blocking skills stances.

The reason for this, I AM TIRED of rangers and mesmers spamming Distortion or blocking skills. It's so bad now, in pvp, you pretty much need Wild Blow.

I predict it will be something like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36pFj5w-mu4
And then people will poke their brains out with a pointed stick and eat them.

Hm... Ok, Ok, I'll try to do it right... let's see...
* Some Speed Clear hindering.
* Then more Speed Clear hindering.
* And after than even more Speed Clear hindering.
* Some tweaks in some ritualist skills.
* Some changes to mesmers and dervishes too, at least in PvE.
* Eh... "changes in skills". Yeah, I predict at least one or two functionality changes.
* Some kind of RAAAAAGE. Or at least an uproar.
* Apologies for something.
* And then this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_v468ptuXw

My Palantír went black, I can't see anything else...

Don't look at me like that, I'm as astonished as you. I think I'm going to sue the guy that sold it to me.

This is a riverside skill balance discussion. Intelligence here is like a fish walking around in a desert.

Leet Tankur, not only is that completely nerfing Discord, but it is making it completely unusable... It is an elite for goodness sake. All they would have to do to nerf it would to increase the casting time to 2secs OR increase the energy to 10, whilst leaving the dmg the same... Discord isn't a problem IMO because it is not as useful in PvP/ is extremely conditional and easy to counter via condition removal or hex removal... I agree with Shadow Form being nerfed however...

Shadow Form:

25e
3c
60r

Done.

Uh...wrong. It's player vs player, not player vs player (and heroes)

If you seriously want to start HA'ing after the game has been out for 4 years, then you shouldn't even be playing it.

This doesn't need its own thread, so I'm gonna merge it with the other whiney nerf thread.

EDIT: K DUN!

not true at all ... people will form better teams than sf gimmick teams, personally i cant wait for them to nerf it, i think it will be in the the august update though, i really want b/p to come back into style, revert splinter weapon T.T lol , make some necro buffs too, they havent been shown love that much lately just nerfs lol

Yeah. Spawning power affects all created or animated creatures. It skills that affect creatures should affect all animated or created creatures. Just with lesser effects in the case of minions. But the same effect for nature spirits and asura summons (which actually create polymok pieces instead summoning real creatures). Ebon Vanguard assassins are left out, they are actual summons not affected by Spawning power.

umm yeah... someone is mad cuz they dont have nf or eotn so they cant d-way & find me another good build for human necros in pve, i love running discord along side my heros & there is more things that are to overpowered in pve, "SY!" = pretty much cant die, just put a recharge on it, shadowform= invincability, i wanna see this thing nerfed to smithereens but i do love knowing i can get at leaste 1 ecto every 20 min

Leet Tankur is right, stop complaining. Discord is ridiculous.

In addition to this, brutal weapon isn't set it and forget it like SoH was (of course with SoH's -1 energy regen). So you must keep recasting. All these things together I believe make brutal weapon pleanty balanced. Maybe take a few points of damage off, but not much.

discord already pretty horrible, requiring hex & condition on target
longer recharge if you want it to be less spammy. more energy is pointless for a necro