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GW skill update january 2010
Halandir
Member UncommonPosts: 773
Fairly impressive skill update IMO.
Yeah I know some will hate it and we will see the usual cries etc. 
(Face it: Ranger spike was OP and becoming boring!)
Personally I look forward to spectating some interesting GvG's in the february monthly tournament.
Some nice changes for Codex arena as well and I cannot help being a little impressed with just how much thought and attention to detail Anet and their "Test Krewe" have managed to put into this skillupdate. Confirms to me that the separation of PvE and PvP skill functionality + the addition of the Test Krewe were both good choices.
Pretty amazing just how much we get "for nothing" having played this game for almost 5 years without monthly fees. Good job Anet + Test Krewe, keep it up! 
We dont need casuals in our games!!! Errm... Well we DO need casuals to fund and populate our games - But the games should be all about "hardcore" because: We dont need casuals in our games!!!
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I'm waiting for the day SF is finally fixed/nerfed/whatever. Looks like it might be fairly soon. Save up your ectos for that day.
Now for this update, I'm a fan of rangers and kind of sad to see this nerf. I suppose it was inevitable but it doesn't feel good if you play that class.
I can see that but to me it seems the point was not to punish people who enjoy playing rangers. A lot of PvP rangers were rolled just to run a spike build in GvG's. The changes will have little to no effect on people that like to PvE with their rangers.
Oh and rangers did enjoy a little indirect love with the change to Ebon Dust Aura
As for the upcoming Shadow Form nerf - It is absolutely OP in PvE, but I doubt the change will have any impact on the PvP metas. "Invinci-mode" is never a good thing in any multiplayer game - no matter how "entitled to it" the player feels
We dont need casuals in our games!!! Errm... Well we DO need casuals to fund and populate our games - But the games should be all about "hardcore" because: We dont need casuals in our games!!!
(repeat ad infinitum)
Anxiously awaiting the Skill revamp coming this Feb. It's going to be interesting to see what they do with SF/SB. Like one other member stated, Get your Ecto ready. The price is going to sky rocket. I can't stand farming ecto as it is, I'd rather just farm gold.
That way I don't have to spend my time sitting in UW with some PUG team wasting my UW Scrolls from Farming Raptors.
Well, now I have to rethink part of my build. I've used Power Shot for a long time, and now my whole system is all out of whack. I don't think I'll notice any after-cast, though. I hope the other skill changes don't hit the players who use them that hard.
I lost all my dignity a long time ago.
Not the first time it happens with Rangers, before the 1s attacks the few bow attacks with casting times could be used with no aftercast. So it eventually happened again, spikes getting too strong and consistent.
Aftercast is a boring mechanic IMO, skills should be balanced in their cast times to consider this spam usage that should exist to quickly deplete energy but not with universal aftercasts.
A ranger in GVG should be chosen for his versatility and not his spike.
He can play the main group, play single man gank squad, runner (when there is no one lese), a power player.
He is capable of pushing just where that push is needed. But then i like the balanced builds, what do I konw.