[Elkauch]

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General
These are the proposed balance changes for the Dec. 10th build. These changes are not final and are subject to change. We are posting them early so the community can discuss them with us. We wanted to be more transparent with the community about these changes to help expose problems that riskier changes might create.
Our goal for many of the classes was to increase build diversity while still maintaining class roles and identities. Some of the things we increased were abilities/skills that people don’t run very often. Our goal was to increase these abilities to make them viable alternate builds.
How to give good feedback and what to expect.

• Be constructive. If you think a change may cause issues, say why and give examples. Try not to argue with others – make your point and then accept that other people may have different points of view.
• Be concise. Our time is limited and we can’t read walls of text because it will prevent us from having the time to read as many posts as possible. Bullet points or numbered lists are very easy for us to read!
• Be specific. “I expect this change to accomplish A, but I think it will actually accomplish B”. The more specific you are, the better we are able to understand where you’re coming from, what type of content you play, and it helps us to understand the context for your feedback.
• Be objective. Keep in mind that just because you may not like something, that doesn’t make it bad. Others may have differing opinions. They may play a different type of content, or they may play a different profession, so be objective and keep in mind – we have to balance the game for EVERYONE, not just you.
• Be respectful. This goes for your fellow community members as well as for devs. Respect the ideas and opinions of others.
• Be mindful of scope. These are the changes we are trying to get in for the Dec. 10th balance patch. That doesn’t leave us with time to rework entire classes, or redesign entire weapon sets with this update. Keep scope/work/time/resources in mind when you make your suggestions.
• Be mindful of context. Power creep is something we’re trying to avoid. Sometimes a profession may not receive as many increases as other classes. A lot of times, this is because that class is already performing very well in the current state of the game. So keep the overall context/state of the game in mind when giving feedback.
  

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Elementalist:
This patch’s goal for the elementalist was to increase the power of the Earth, Air and Fire lines, while taking away some of the need to go into the Arcane line. This was done by bringing up the base cooldown of attunements so that elementalists aren’t forced to go as deep into Arcane in order to get the old attunement cooldown %’s. In doing so, we decided put some of the most powerful Adept tier traits in Water magic and Arcane to the Master tier to avoid power creep that would have occurred by letting players gain powerful effects in Master and Grandmaster tier of Fire, Air, and Earth and still get the extremely powerful traits in Water and Arcane by only splashing in 10 points.

• Fire II – Burning Fire – This trait has a new effect. Use Cleansing Fire automatically when you have a number of conditions on you. 3 conditions. 40 second cooldown. Moved to Master tier.
• Fire VIII – Conjurer – Moved to Adept tier.
• Fire III – Ember’s Might. The effect of this trait has been changed to Burns you apply last longer. 25%.
• Burning Rage 25 – Increased damage dealt to burning foes from 5% to 10%.
• Air V – Soothing Winds. Increased conversion from 5% to 7%.
• Air XI – Tempest Defense. Decreased the cooldown from 60s to 25s.
• Earth 5 – Stone Flesh – Increased toughness while attuned to Earth Magic to 1.5/level (120 at level 80).
• Earth VII – Strength of Stone. This trait is now Gain condition damage based on your Toughness. 10%.
• Earth XI – Diamond Skin. This trait has been redesigned. Conditions cannot be applied to you when your health is above the threshold. 90%.
• Water I – Aquamancer’s Alacrity. Moved to Master tier.
• Water V – Cleansing Wave. Moved to Master tier.
• Water VIII – Arcane Abatement. Moved to Adept tier.
• Water X – Soothing Wave. Moved to Adept tier.
• Arcane III – Arcane Retribution. Moved to Master tier. Decreased cooldown from 90 seconds to 45 seconds.
• Arcane IV – Final Shielding. Decreased cooldown from 90s to 75s.
• Arcane V – Elemental Attunement. Moved to Master tier.
• Arcane VI – Renewing Stamina. Moved to Master tier.
• Arcane VII – Vigorous Scepter. Moved to Adept tier.
• Arcane VIII – Blasting Staff. Moved to Adept tier.
• Arcane IX – Windborne Dagger. Moved to Adept tier.
  

The following changes were done to reduce the necessity of putting points into the Arcane trait line.

• The base cooldown of the attunement that you just left is now reduced from 16 seconds to 13 seconds. Attunement cooldown rate now increases by 1% per point in Arcane down from 2%. The end result is that now Attunements go from 13s to 10s instead of the old range of 16s to 10s.
• Base global attunement cooldown is now 1.625 seconds. Global attunement cooldown rate now decreases by 1% per point in Arcane down from 2%. The end result is that now global attunement cooldown goes from 1.625 to 1.25 instead of the old range of 2.0 to 1.25.
  

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Engineer:
We wanted to maintain the engineer’s core roles while still increasing build diversity. We also wanted to take out some of the random effects for some of the class’s traits. The biggest change here is allowing Modified Ammunition to work with any skills so that an engineer, regardless of build, can look at putting 30 points into firearms. By increasing the swiftness duration on Speedy Kits, we hope to allow Swiftness to be maintained more reasonably without having to constantly be swapping between Kits. This change will also bring down the total up time for Vigor due to its interaction with Invigorating Speed. We don’t like classes having permanent Vigor, and this is one of the areas we needed to tone down the up time of the engineer’s Vigor.

• Explosives V – Incendiary Powder. Moved to Master tier.
• Explosives VI – Exploit Weakness. Increased the health threshold from 25% to 50%
• Explosives IX – Accelerant packed turrets. Moved to Adept tier.
• Firearms XI – Modified Ammunition. This trait now works regardless of equipped weapon.
• Inventions V – Energized Armor. Increased conversion from 5% to 7%.
• Inventions X – Autotool Installation. Increased healing percent from 1% to 5%. * Decreased interval from 10s to 3s.
• Inventions XI – Elixir Infused bombs. Increased healing scaling by 50%.
• Alchemy V – Blood Injection. Increased conversion from 5% to 7%.
• Alchemy 15 – Transmute. Increased % chance from 8% to 100%. This effect can now only trigger once every 15 seconds.
• Tools VI – Speedy Kits. Increased Swiftness duration to 10s. This effect can now only trigger once every 10 seconds.
• Tools XI – Armor Mods. Changed this to now trigger on struck instead of on critical hit incoming. Reduced the cooldown from 25 seconds to 15 seconds.
  

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Guardian:
Tanky and supportive guardians are in a strong position in many gametypes. We do feel that damage guardians are not as powerful as they could be. While we don’t want guardians to be as strong offensively as some of the other classes (given their powerful defensive abilities) we opened up more offensive guardian builds.

• Zeal V – Shattered Aegis. Damage instead of Burning.
• Zeal VII – Zealous Blade. This trait now scales with Healing power (2%.)
• Zeal XII – Kindled Zeal. Increased conversion from 10% to 13%.
• Radiance V – Searing Flames. Reduced cooldown from 20s to 10s.
• Radiance X – Powerful blades. Increased damage from 5% to 10%.
• Valor V – Retributive Armor. Increased conversion rate from 5% to 7%.
• Honor VI – Pure of Heart. Increased scaling with Healing power from 25% to 40%.
• Virtues VIII – Supreme Justice. Number of attacks going from 4 to 3.
• Symbol of Swiftness: This skill now applies 4 seconds of swiftness per pulse, rather than 8 seconds if you have no swiftness and 1 second if you have swiftness.
  

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Mesmer:
The bulk of the mesmer changes are focused on two things. 1) Bringing up some of the mesmer support traits and condition removal traits. 2) Reduce dependency on certain trait lines. The changes to Mender’s Purity and Shattered conditions as well as the move of Dazzling Glamours are meant to accomplish the first of these two. The changes to Shattered Strength and Illusionist’s celerity are what we feel accomplish the second one. Before this change mesmers needed to place 25 points into Illusions for many of their builds. Now they can place only 15 points in there to get the Illusion cooldown which will give them back 10 more trait points to open up some new builds. Finally, we felt that the Mantra traits were fairly difficult to collect. Moving Mantra mastery to adept tier takes some trait pressure off of the Dueling line, allowing mantra mesmers to gain a good trait with only 10 points.

• Domination XII – Confounding Suggestions. Changed to increase daze duration by 25%.
• Dueling VI – Protected Mantras. Moved to Master Tier. Increase Toughness from 400 to 600.
• Dueling VII – Mantra Mastery. Moved to Adept Tier.
• Chaos 25 – Chaotic Transference. Increased conversion from 5% to 10%.
• Chaos I – Chaotic Revival. Reduced cooldown from 35s to 10s.
• Chaos VII – Mirror of Anguish. Reduced cooldown from 90s to 60s.
• Inspiration IV – Mender’s Purity. Now removes 2 conditions.
• Inspiration XI – Shattered Conditions. Increased radius from 240 to 600.
• Illusions VI – Illusionary Invigoration. Recharge reduced from 90s to 60s. Moved to Master Tier.
• Illusions VIII – Dazzling Galmours. Moved to Adept Tier.
• Illusions 15 – Shattered Strength – Moved to Grandmaster tier.
• Illusions 25 – Illusionist’s Celerity – Moved to Master tier.
  

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Necromancer:
For the necromancer, we felt that a few traits and skills were too powerful, while others were lacking in efficacy. We brought down some of the raw DPS conditions that necromancer enjoys, while also maintaining their pressure and sustain elements. The necromancer’s mobility will remain where it is currently, as we want the Necromancers to be focused on sustaining themselves through death shroud, siphoning health, and slowing down their opponent’s ability to act.

• Mark of Blood. Removed 1 bleed in PvP only.
• Signet of Spite: Removed one bleed.
• Spite 15 – Death into Life. Increased conversion from 5% to 7%
• Spite X – Chill of Death. Increased trigger threshold from 25% to 50%.
• Curses IV – Weakening Shroud. Increase recharge from 15 to 25.
• Curses VIII – Banshee’s Wail. Increase cooldown reduction from 15% to 20%.
• Death 5 – Reanimator. Decreased cooldown from 30s to 15s.
• Death VIII – Reaper’s Protection. Decreased the cooldown from 90s to 60s.
• Death 25 – Deadly Strength. Increased conversion from 5% to 10%.
• Blood Magic 25 – Blood to Power. Decreased health threshold from 90% to 75%. Increase Power from 90 to 120.
• Soul Reaping II. Vital Persistence. Increased reduction of life force drain from 25% to 50%.
  

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Ranger:
For the ranger, we’ve adjusted the placement of some traits so that rangers should have more build combinations. For example, by swapping Nature’s Vengeance and Spirits Unbound so that rangers can have spirits follow you in tier 2, players can now opt out of the higher damage output from spirits and still have options elsewhere. We also brought up some Marksmanship and a Skirmishing trait to make power specs more appealing. We feel like rangers also currently have too much endurance regeneration through traits. Due to this, we’ve made adjustments to Wilderness Survival traits, and we’ve also brought down the passive of Sun Spirit and the active effect for Storm Spirit.

• Long Range Shot. Increased the damage at 500 range by 20%.
• Long Range Shot. Increased the damage at 500-1000 range by 15%.
• Marksmanship V – Predator’s Instinct. Increased the threshold from 25% to 50%. Increased the Cripple Duration from 2s to 10s. Increased the cooldown from 15s to 30s.
• Marksmanship VI – Beastmaster’s Bond. Decreased the cooldown from 90s to 60s.
• Skirmishing XII – Moment of Clarity. Stun Duration increased from 50% to 100%.
• Wilderness 5 Natural Vigor. Reduced the increased endurance regeneration from 50% to 25%.
• Wilderness VIII – Oakheart Salve. Decreased the recharge of this trait from 20s->15s
• Wilderness XII – Bark Skin Increased the damage reduction from 30% to 50%.
• Nature Magic I – Circle of Life. Cleared up the text of this trait to clearly identify that it happens when downed, not defeated.
• Nature Magic V – Strength of Spirit. Increased conversion from 5% to 7%
• Nature Magic IX – Two Handed Training. Added the following functionality to this trait. Greatsword and Spear attacks have a chance to grant Fury on hit. 50% chance. 3s Fury. 10s cooldown.
• Nature Magic X – Enlargement. This trait now uses Signet of the Wild to trigger. This reduces the cooldown to 60 seconds and allow it to interact with the Signet of the Beastmaster and Signet Mastery traits.
• Nature Magic VII – Nature’s Vengeance. Moved to Grandmaster Tier.
• Nature Magic XI – Spirits Unbound. Moved to Master Tier.
• Beastmastery VI – Mighty Swap. The might from this trait is now applied to you and your pet.
• Sun Spirit. Reduced the passive burning from 3s to 2s.
• Storm Spirit. Reduced the damage from the Call Lightning skill by 33%.
  

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Thief:
One of the issues we are working on for thieves this patch is the dependence on the traits which boost initiative. We did this by shaving a significant amount of initiative gain from these traits while simultaneously boosting the generic rate of initiative gain by 33%. We have also somewhat reduced the effectiveness of high evasion thieves by reducing vigor up time and adding some cast time to the Shadow Return skill on the sword. This prevents these thieves from evading too much and too easily dealing with being disabled (stun, daze, fear, knockdown, etc.). Also we are trying to improve the survivability of thieves in the Acrobatics line through easier access to the Hard to Catch trait and increased effectiveness of the Assassin’s Reward trait. This will reward thieves who are actively engaged in the fight rather than those who are just dodging over and over again. The change to Infusion of Shadow is meant to stop players from gaining initiative by applying stealth while already in stealth. This should keep thieves from being able to recharge all of their power while idling in a very long stealth. We felt that using a lot of different abilities to maintain stealth is ok, but re-using the same ability over and over for almost permanent stealth was just bad for the game, especially when gaining large amounts of initiative.

• Increased the base rate of initiative gain from .75/second to 1/second.
• Shadow Return on Sword. Renamed to Infiltrator’s return. Added a 1/4s cast time.
• Pistol Whip. Reduced the after cast on the first half of this skill by .25 seconds.
• Deadly Arts VI – Sundering Strikes. Increased the trigger chance from 50%. Remove ICD. Decrease Vulnerability duration to 6s.
• Critical Strikes VI – Practiced Tolerance. Increased conversion from 5% to 7%.
• Critical Strikes 15 – Opportunist. Increased trigger chance to 50%. Increase cooldown from 1s to 5s.
• Critical Strikes VIII – Signet Use. Reduced initiative gain from 2 to 1.
• Critical Strike X – Critical Haste. Increase trigger chance to 25%.
• Shadow Arts V – Infusion of Shadow – This trait functionality has been changed to “Gain initiative when you enter stealth.” 2 init.
• Acrobatics III – Vigorous Recovery. Reduced Vigor duration to 4s from 8s.
• Acrobatics IV – Assassin’s Retreat. Increased swiftness duration to 20s.
• Acrobatics IX – Quick Recovery. Reduced initiative gain from 2 to 1.
• Acrobatics X – Assassins Reward. Increased healing scaling by 35%. Moved to Grandmaster Tier.
• Acrobatics XI – Hard to catch. Moved to Master Tier.
• Trickery 5 – Kleptomaniac. Reduce initiative gain from 3 to 2.
• Trickery IV – Flanking Strikes. Move to Master tier.
• Trickery VII – Bountiful Theft. Reduced vigor duration to from 15s to 8s.
• Trickery VIII – Trickster. Move to Adept tier.
  

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Warrior:
The overall goal here is to reduce the damage for the very high control warriors. This means reducing some dependency on going 30 points into discipline for Burst Mastery, making warriors spend 20 points in Arms to get the benefit of Unsuspecting Foe. We also reduced the damage on the hammer’s burst skill to separate the control from the damage. We don’t mind warriors doing massive damage, or doing great area of effect control, but we’re trying to prevent them from easily doing both. We also increased the readability of Skull Crack, which will allow opposing players to more easily react to it. Combustive Shot on longbow also saw some rework. It will scale better with adrenaline levels, and still provide strong burning per adrenaline level, but the raw damage was toned down slightly.

• Strength 5 – Reckless Dodge. Increased Damage by 25%
• Strength III – Great Fortitude. Increased conversion rate from 5% to 7%.
• Arms IV – Unsuspecting Foe. Moved to Master Tier.
• Arms VII – Crack Shot. Moved to Adept Tier.
• Arms XII – Last Chance. Increased the threshold form 25% to 50%. Reduced the cooldown from 45 seconds to 40seconds.
• Defense 25 – Armored Attack. Increased conversion rate from 5% to 10%.
• Defense XII – Spiked Armor. Reduced the recharge from 15s to 10s.
• Tactics 5 – Determined Revival. Now correctly displays the amount of toughness.
• Tactics 25 – Reviver’s Might. Now applies 3 stacks of Might instead of 1.
• Discipline II – Thrill of the Kill. Increased Adrenaline gain from 1 to 10.
• Discipline XI – Burst Mastery. Reduced damage increase from 10% to 7%. Removed erroneous adrenaline gain fact.
• Earthshaker. Reduced damage by 20%.
• Staggering Blow. Reduced damage by 23%.
• Skull Crack. Increased the cast time from 1/4s to 1/2s. Updated the animation and effects of this skill to be more clear.
• Combustive Shot – Increased pulse duration to 3s. Increased burn duration per pulse to 3s. Normalized damage per pulse. Updated pulses per tier to 2, 3,and 4 respectively for tier 1, tier 2, and tier 3.
  

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[Phaelgalis]

Un bon gros nerf des familles( 20% quand même) sur le marteau et la masse pour le guerrier, bah c'était bien le temps que ça a duré, cela fera peut être taire les boulets incapables d'esquiver ou d'avoir un break stun et de la stabilité sous la main. Par contre le nerf sur la compétence d'adrénaline de l'arc je vois pas l'intérêt d'autant qu'on perd 3% sur toutes nos compétences d'adre.

Le guerrier s'en sortira toujours en mcm mais pour le pvp il peut aller se brosser apparemment. Mais bon c'est un retour aux sources faut croire!

[Hit0]

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Warrior:
Arms IV – Unsuspecting Foe. Moved to Master Tier.

Ca c'était obligé le meta de ce trait est bien trop puissant pour un rang adept. Je m'en passerai perso sans problème jouant avec mais sans avoir misé tout dessus je vais lui préféré le trait qui reduit le cd de l'espadon toujours.

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Arms VII – Crack Shot. Moved to Adept Tier.

Ca j'en revais mais je ne pensais pas qu'ils le feraient, le retour du template "BANG! 28K ONESHOT " sans se faire anihiler par le moindre clone ou pet qui viens se mettre devant.

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Discipline XI – Burst Mastery. Reduced damage increase from 10% to 7%. Removed erroneous adrenaline gain fact.

Faut qu'ils arretent de toucher à ce trait. ( enfin j'espere avoir compris et que c'est juste l'erreur de gain d'adré indiqué dans le tooltip et non le fonctionnement du trait qui est modifié encore )

[Afaifizz]

Des trucs sympa sur l'ingé c'est cool.

[funerium]

quasi rien sur les tourelles d' ingé, dommage, on verra sur le live

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[bouye]

À voir comment marche leur pulse (attendre la durée max demanderait de perdre 4s à rester dans le symbole pour un stack théorique de 16sec et des poussières) mais je pense que du coup mon Guard va être encore moins mobile sur le champs de bataille. Il eut été plus intéressant de faire que Symbol of Swiftness se stacke enfin avec les autres speeds plutôt que de modifier son fonctionnement de telle manière.

[Bloodkissou]

Bientot 100 % de gardiens en McM, chouette ....

[Rimkooz]

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Publié par Phaelgalis

Un bon gros nerf des familles( 20% quand même) sur le marteau et la masse pour le guerrier, bah c'était bien le temps que ça a duré, cela fera peut être taire les boulets incapables d'esquiver ou d'avoir un break stun et de la stabilité sous la main. Par contre le nerf sur la compétence d'adrénaline de l'arc je vois pas l'intérêt d'autant qu'on perd 3% sur toutes nos compétences d'adre.

Le guerrier s'en sortira toujours en mcm mais pour le pvp il peut aller se brosser apparemment. Mais bon c'est un retour aux sources faut croire!

Sauf si j'ai mal compris le nerf est que pour le marteau , le F1 masse lui n'a qu'une modif de cd de cast, si quelqu'un peut confirmer?

Sinon je trouve le 20% et 26% un peut bcp mais à voir en pratique, après bouger le 50% sur cible stun normal ce trait n'avais rien à faire ici

[Yuyu]

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Encore du nerf sur les voleurs , j'ai de plus en plus envie de lâcher le jeu tiens

Ahaha, je suis en godmode chaque fois que je joue le mien.
Non la classe est bien pété avec les cd inexistant et l'invisibilité à gogo.

Et dans le patch, il y a un nerf de tous les gains d'initiative via trait (dont le fameux gain sous passage invi), mais à l'inverse la regen imitative passive de base est légèrement augmenté.

[Phaelgalis]

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Publié par Rimkouz

Sauf si j'ai mal compris le nerf est que pour le marteau , le F1 masse lui n'a qu'une modif de cd de cast, si quelqu'un peut confirmer?

Oui autant pour moi j'ai confondu les lignes de skull crack et stagering blow, faut que je consulte l'ophtalmo.

[Eilleon]

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Publié par Yuyu

Ahaha, je suis en godmode chaque fois que je joue le mien.
Non la classe est bien pété avec les cd inexistant et l'invisibilité à gogo.

Et dans le patch, il y a un nerf de tous les gains d'initiative via trait (dont le fameux gain sous passage invi), mais à l'inverse la regen imitative passive de base est légèrement augmenté.

Je suis plutôt du même avis, j'ai même l'impression que c'est un bon up pour mon type de spé surtout avec l'accès à hard to catch en 0/0/20/20/30 !
Faudra vraiment le vouloir pour mourrir ^^

[Pervx]

C'est bon ils ont pas touché au spam 1 au marteau , tranquille

[FreeForArya]

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JonPeters
Game Design Lead


Summation of high risk concerns for elementalist. Not ignoring other professions, I just have time for one right now.
Diamond Skin
We really love this trait as it opens up some very powerful potential in the earth line to run a defensive elementalist without relying on healing power. The strength of this build is going to be the ability to quickly string small heals together to maintain that condition resistance. I think it could see use in both high damage builds looking to avoid weakness and blind, as well as in defensive builds looking to tank condition heavy classes and condition heavy mobs. I think the big question here is the base health/armor of the elementalist. Of course if you are just an elementalist you just want us to raise these, but balance must work around some fixed things and profession health and armor are an important part of defining what a profession is so that we can create powerful tools that players can actively use to circumvent these weaknesses. In this case if this trait is not powerful enough to be a grandmaster, I believe the right answer is going to be to lower the threshold, not to increase elementalist base health.
Aquamancer’s Alacrity
We moved this trait because all profession cooldown traits are in master tier, and because that is a good investment for this type of improvement. That being said, they may all not be powerful enough to warrant a master level triat right now, but I would rather increase the cooldown to 25% to get people to consider them than to have them be adept tier and allow elementalists to run all four of them.
Cleansing Wave
This is the one I am most on the fence about of all of the elementalist changes. It is a borderline master level trait and I think a better solution would be to leave it at adept tier and instead of moving Soothing Wave (which is only moving because it is better to have a 100% worthless trait at adept tier rather than master tier) we would redesign Soothing Wave into something worthy of master level.
Arcane Abatement
This is moving to adept tier because all of the fall damage traits are in that tier and in our opinion it doesn’t feel good to have to spend 20 points in a line for this kind of trait. Alacrity was the first choice to swap with it here because of the reasons stated above.
Soothing Disruption vs Cantrip Mastery
This one was debated internally for a while as well. I think swapping these traits would also help build diversity as it would let you splash 10 points in water to get Cantrip recharge, but would make you really consider going into water magic for the Regen and Vigor which is much more flavorful. I would love to hear some elementalist thoughts on that potential change.
Last but definitely not least.
Arcana
I see the logic in not wanting the two changes in this line to counter each other. Moving good adept traits to master level is contrary to reducing the need to spec into this line. That being said, Elemental Attunement is just a beast of a trait and could honestly be compared with most grandmaster traits. I think a good compromise would be to place Renewing Stamina back in the adept tier, placing is where the other professions get this type of trait, and instead move Final Shielding to the master tier where it could live alongside Arcane Retribution as two good choices in arcane builds that take Arcane Mastery in the adept tier. That could leave some interesting builds such as: 0/30/30/0/10 for fresh air, diamond skin, and renewing stamina. It also still leaves builds that put only 10 points in Arcana a chance to gain Protection by going 30 air for Tempest Defense, and 10 Earth for Elemental Shielding and still have 30 points leftover.
I still believe there is work to be done at the grandmaster tier in Fire at the very minimum and that Air and Water are the only truly good grandmaster choice right now. There are also still a handful of just terrible traits that will still get looked at, but we felt like we were already bordering on changing too much.
I hope this helps to steer the discussion for the elementalist changes here. I’ll post this on the elementalist sub-forum as well. Hoping to get to each profession one at a time.
Thanks,
Jon

Hallelujah ils vont peut être pas achever l'elem DD =)

[Elkauch]

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I think the mesmer discussion has been pretty positive overall and productive but I wanted to bring up some points that I am seeing and some new ones as well.
Scepter
Scepter is still missing something but we don’t want to overload the autoattack as we think that promotes more mindless play and are trying to move away from builds that focus so much on the “1” skill. I feel like that scepter should be the tricksy defender that can stop enemies from attacking and defend allies, but maybe it’s single target nature is keeping that from working.
Confounding Suggestions
We were hoping this change would improve this. I’m mostly seeing people saying they liked the old one. That will certainly be a topic of discussion early next week so I would love to hear some opinions either way in case there is a split.
Mimic
Last thought. This skill is for almost all intents and purposes just not working, but is causing some broken behavior with certain bosses. I would like to replace it with a complete redesign and am open to discussion on that as well.
Overall I think this a good small step for a profession that has a lot of roles it can fill fairly uniquely. I think this might give us 3 strong mesmer build archetypes.
1) Shatter
2) Phantasm
3) Mantra
I think right behind those are the interrupt shutdown mesmer and the signet mesmer, so future suggestions towards those are appreciated as well.
Thanks,
Jon

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So I wanted to talk about the bigger discussion topics for the Dec changes for you as well.
Shattered Aegis
As soon as I get in on Monday, I’ll post the damage #s on this and the power scaling. I think a meaning ful discussion about this change is going to require that. One danger here is that big WvW zergs using this could be really powerful, but I will say that the numbers are decent.
Supreme Justice and Kindled Zeal
I feel like there is a build here, but TBH I haven’t gotten it to work in our internal testing yet. This is as good a place as any to talk about stat conversion traits.
Currently they do not convert 100% of a stat because certain stat bonuses such as those from signets do not get converted. For that reason we are being conservative but normalizing all of our conversions to the follow #s for now.
Minor: 5%,7%, and 10% respectively for adept, master and grandmaster.
Major: 7%,10%, and 13% respectively for adept, master, and grandmaster.
I’m not sure this will be enough, but I do not want these traits to be overpowered as I feel they are fairly passive. That being said, I think they are good simple traits and with 12 traits per line it is absolutely fine to have some passive simple to understand traits.
Another thing about this build is that you do not have all of the information you need about this power guardian right now, but I can’t reveal more without spoilers. /tease
Symbol of Swiftness
To clarify the new Symbol of Swiftness will give you 4 seconds of Swiftness every single pulse regardless of if you have swiftness or not. This is a improvement in many situations and a slight loss in the situation where you were using the Symbol as just a one time buff. I think this makes it feel more like a Symbol, which is good. We are still discussing the idea of it being 5 seconds, but there is some danger of that going pretty high with boon duration.
Power guardian vs Condition guardian
I think Dec 10th will see the emergence of the power guardian, but I think that the condition based guardian still has a ways to go. Ultimately this is because it is hard to cover the burning and frankly you need a good reliable second or even third condition that guardians simply do not have right now. I think for those professions lacking that 3rd damage condition we are looking at supplementing them via runes and sigils rather than skills/traits right now but that won’t be something we attempt until the build that follows the Dec 10th build.
I think that is everything for guardian and hopefully you enjoyed a few half spoiler/half teases.
Thanks,
Jon

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Ok I had some time to talk through some of the engineer discussion. Overall Engineer is in a difficult place because they have a ton of good adept traits, not a lot of good master traits, and again a good # of grandmasters so you end up spreading points fairly diversly to get all the good adept traits but lose out on a lot of power by failing to get as many grandmaster traits. Here is what I see a lot of talk about:
Incendiary Powder
Moving this was just something that was a long time coming. It was simply forcing almost every engineer into 10 points in Explosives which was really hurting build diversity. We have tried to counter this by improving other triats that might now be reachable by dropping those 10 points. For example Modified Ammunition, Elixir Infuxed Bombs, and Armor Mods. Now all three of these lines, some more than others, have a strong reason to invest 30 points to match the strong grandmasters already in the other lines.Grenadier, Autodefense Bomb Dispenser, HGH, and Automated Response.
Firearms
We still feel this line is lackluster and in the future some merging and redesigning will take place, but we took the lowest hanging fruit for now. We talked about this line more than any other trait line, but at the end of the day the work and testing required got out of scope for this release. The other spot this line could get a quick pick-me-up is by making at least 2 or 3 of the adept traits in this line good choices.
Invogorating Speed
The indirect nerf to this through speedy kits will reduce some surviveability in the alchemy line, but we felt like it was important given how much other strong stuff that line has.
Master tier traits
Some good suggestions on builds that might open up if we improve some of the master tier traits would be good to see. Here is a pretty decent list of master tier traits that I still find underwhelming.
Explosive Powder, Enhance Performance, Power Showes, Elite Supplies, Deadly Mixture, Potent Elixirs, Packaged Stimulents, Power Wrench, Leg Mods.
Keep the discussion going and let’s see if we can find some room in those traits to bring those trait lines some more into play.
We won’t be able to address all of the concerns, but we will address the most pressing if we can.
Thanks,
Jon

[Minaus]

Pour les War non English (trad moyenne mais compréhensible)

L'objectif global est de réduire les dommages de contrôle très élevés des War. Il s'agit de réduire la dépendance pour certains allant de 30 points en discipline pour la maitrise des déchainement (XI), faisant aussi que les guerriers consacrent 20 points en armes pour obtenir attaque surprise (IX). Nous avons également réduit les dégâts du marteau pour séparer le contrôle des dommages. Nous n'avons pas pensé cela pour que les guerriers ne puissent plus faire d'énormes dégâts, ou ne plus avoir de grande zone de contrôle, mais nous essayons de les empêcher de faire facilement les deux. Nous avons également accru la lisibilité de Brise-crâne (F1 masse), ce qui permettra aux joueurs adverses de réagir plus facilement à lui. Tir combustible (F1) à l' arc a également vu quelques retouches. Il sera réellement en fonction du taux d'adrénaline, et continuera à fournir une forte brûlure par niveau d'adrénaline, mais les dégâts brut ont été atténué légèrement.

Force 5 - Esquive téméraire . Augmentation des dégâts de 25%
Force III - Grande robustesse . Augmentation du taux de conversion de 5% à 7 % .
Armes IV - Attaque surprise . Transféré dans le dernier Tier .
Armes VII - Tir d'élite . Déplacé au palier Adepte (10pts au lieu de 20) .
Armes XII - Dernière chance . Augmentation du seuil de santé pour déclencher célérité de 25 % à 50 %. Réduit le temps de recharge de 45 secondes à 40 secondes .
Défense 25 - Attaque blindée. Augmentation du taux de conversion de robu en puissance de 5% à 10% .
Défense XII - Armure Hérissée . Réduit le temps de recharge de 15s à 10s .
Tactique 5 - Réanimation résolue. Affiche désormais correctement la quantité de robu.
Tactique 25 - Pouvoir de réanimation . Applique désormais 3 stack de pouvoir au lieu de 1.
Discipline II - Frisson du meurtre. Le gain d'adrénaline passe 1 à 10 par joueur tué .
Discipline XI - Maîtrise des déchainements . Réduit l'augmentation de dégâts de 10% à 7%. Supprime le gain d'adrénaline qui était érroné .
Ebranleur de sol (f1 marteau) . Réduction des dégâts de 20%.
Coup déséquilibrant (4 du marteau) . Réduction des dégâts de 23%.
Brise-crane (f1 masse) . Augmentation du temps d'incantation de 1/4s à 1/2s . Mise à jour de l'animation et des effets de cette compétence pour être plus clair .
Tir combustible (F1 arc) - Augmentation de la durée d'impulsion à 3s . Augmentation de la durée de combustion par impulsion à 3s . Dommage normalisé par impulsion. Impulsions mise à jour par niveau à 2 , 3 et 4 respectivement pour le niveau 1, niveau 2 et niveau 3

[Fregolo]

Je trouve le nerf des dégats du marteau un peu abusé la, 20 % et 23 % ...

[Ombre Vengeresse]

Ma wawa marteau n'apprécie pas ce nerf !

[Psykoyul]

En même temps... perdre 20% de dégâts transforme-t-il le F1 marteau en un mauvais skill? Un AE stun 2 sec sur CD 7 à 10 secondes? Et finisher blast pour ne rien gâcher.
Chacun est libre de penser ce qu'il veut mais perso je trouve que le skill restera très bon.

Du coup on pourrait éventuellement envisager qu'un skill qui va perdre 20% de dps et quand même rester très bon est actuellement un peu.... OP. Non?

[Voks^]

Bonne idée de rendre encore plus prévisible la classe qui l'est déjà le plus du jeu.

[Olaff.Magnusson]

Y'a pas que des nerfs, mérités d'ailleurs, chez le guerrier , il y'a des p'tits up sympathiques.
Up aussi chez le gardien, comme si il en avait besoin ^^, les spé méditation étaient déjà OP (genre smite condition qui : purge, fait de gros dégâts, soigne à coup de 2k, donne furie et tout ça sur CD court ) et les builds, genre 0/30/30/5/5 épée-focus/ espadon, vont faire encore plus mal.

[Taovos]

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Publié par Psykoyul

En même temps... perdre 20% de dégâts transforme-t-il le F1 marteau en un mauvais skill? Un AE stun 2 sec sur CD 7 à 10 secondes? Et finisher blast pour ne rien gâcher.
Chacun est libre de penser ce qu'il veut mais perso je trouve que le skill restera très bon.

Du coup on pourrait éventuellement envisager qu'un skill qui va perdre 20% de dps et quand même rester très bon est actuellement un peu.... OP. Non?

le marteau c'est pour les team fight, en 1vs1 ça s'esquive très facilement^^

A part les guerriers stun lock je n'ai jamais craint les guerriers, à moins bien sur de duel avec une classe ou build que je ne maîtrise pas... Les guerriers sont la classe la plus prévisible du jeux et donc la classe avec laquelle on va faire du kitting facilement. Tout ce qui a été donné comme up au guerrier a compensé cette énorme faiblesse, ils ont sans doute trop up le guerrier mais attention à pas trop le nerf non plus. On verra, surtout que les gardiens meditations commencent à remplacer les guerriers en tn à présent

Sinon ne parlant pas anglais je ne comprend rien à ce qui est marqué

[Rimkooz]

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le marteau c'est pour le

Sinon ne parlant pas anglais je ne comprend rien à ce qui est marqué

Pour la partie guerrier ça a été traduit juste au dessus du post que tu as quote
Sinon je pense qu'il on un peut de soucis d'équilibrage 20 et 26% rien que ça mais le signet lui qui pourrais mérite un nerf nan ils y touche pas -_-
Bref d'la merde nerf à la hache et peu être pas forcément ou il faut

[Thelanas]

lol @ rôdeur

Tous les traits useless up...ouais trop cool...

Mais rien sur le pet no brain

Nerf des spirits, ça se sentait venir vu que c'est le seul build joué en Spvp et nerf de la regen endu comme pour le voleur....

Ce que j'adore c'est le nerf sur les deux spirits les plus utilisés (sun et air) et en même temps ils switch deux traits liés aux pets...sont vraiment à la ramasse

lol