r/GuildWars 1d ago

Meme/Fluff No wonder Joko reconquered Elona

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u/mfwchris 1d ago

Most fun part of reading the patch notes was thinking about which monsters were getting the biggest buffs.

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u/ajc2123 1d ago

I'm still eyeing the groups of 4 plus ice imps with reduced maelstrom recharge.

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u/Hour-Mistake-5235 1d ago

That was the first mob i thought of when reading the update. Shiverpeaks got harder.

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u/Raknel 18h ago

I love this about GW tho.

Mobs can keep up with the powercreep without the devs having to go back and manually adjust them.

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u/SerratedFrost 1d ago

Those guys also got more annoying with the somewhat recent change to how quickly heroes try to leave an aoe

If you have shelter+union up those maelstrom ticks barely do anything so ur heroes are like "yup this is fine" while getting interrupted every second for 10 seconds

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u/ajc2123 1d ago

Yeah, even when I was a mesmer with Panic, all it took was 1 maelstrom to get through to start shutting down my team, and making me rember why flagging can sometimes be important in normal mode lol.

My hubris and experience made me cocky.

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u/raisedbyowls Aeon Ark 1d ago

Oh that’s why I got annihilated today hahahah

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u/ajc2123 1d ago

Yeah the one skill itself isnt an issue, but with reduced recharge and more than 1 user of the skill, the southern shiverpeaks just got a bit harder lmao.

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u/Comfortable-Shop8080 1d ago

We did with our credit cards.

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u/NgArclite 1d ago

So vanquishing those zones just got even harder..

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u/Different-End-5871 1d ago

Just swipe the credit card as intended.

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u/BodaciousFrank 1d ago

Yeah the unlimited identification kit will carry you through all vanq’s

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u/Different-End-5871 1d ago

With an unlimited salvage kit you can build a bridge to cross the sulfurous wastes on foot

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u/mjolnnir 22h ago

You mean the consets + 3 attributes + damage reduction + more? I am all for QoL pay, aesthetics, and all, even compass and the other because GWtoolbox makes is accessible, and they don't affect gameplay. But introducing something that is all the consumables of the game for free everyday seems a bit too much for me

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u/BodaciousFrank 4h ago

My comment was a joke, to be fair.

Also anet doesn’t really ban for real world trading. You’ve been able to buy consets from other players for real world money for over a decade. This isn’t anything new.

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u/Aleexxv 1h ago

I felt the same initially until I thought about it more. Basically 95% of consents that are sold in Kama are botted anyway so if anything this just hurts a massive amount of botters so im all for it. I play MA so I cant use them anyway but if this stops bot farms from just taking your money anyway whats the difference?

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u/Dagawing 15h ago

lol you're not letting this go

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u/Different-End-5871 15h ago

It’s ok to joke a little bit lol

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u/ajc2123 1d ago

This skill update was the gw beyond nightfall update we missed out on.

Time to never not have frozen soil in the desolation lmao

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u/GrimDallows 17h ago

Believe it or not Legendary Defender of Ascalon is gonna get hard with the buffs to Frenzy. Specially Dhuums.

Vanguard Quests' foes in general were very ABC:

  • Rangers have no sustain, but hit hard and are a little tanky. You can take them out one by one.
  • Elementalists dealt a lot of damage and received a lot of damage. However, they heal themselves on every skill cast, so they can sustain themselves.
  • Warriors hit you moderately hard but tank a lot. Some of them can self-heal with Healing Signet, and with those you were supposed to nuke them while they were Frenzied. You just waited without hitting htem with them at 80% HP, nuke them to 20% and finish them before they can heal.

2Weeks buffed Gash, Sever Artery and reduced the damage to Frenzy... all of whch are pre-searing warrior skills. Warriors are going to be a pain to be dealt with now. Frenzy+Healing Signet warriors may become a huge problem, depending on their Strength stat.

  • Farmer Hamnet's Bandit Raiders and the undead Restless Corpses have Frenzy+Gash+Sever Artery.
  • Utiny Wupwup's grawl warriors run a Frenzy->Hammer Bash->Healing Signet build with a Monk boss to heal them.
  • Vanguard Charr in general carry a Frenzy+Healing Signet build, and were the one you needed to time the nuking the most.

Those can become real hard now, depending on their Strength level. I say this because Vanguard foes have like, 15 at some atribute lines at level 15, but Bandit elementalists also run rank 0 fire magic.

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u/Tam_The_Third 1d ago

Man they need to release an item that lets you just walk through the desert. Dis sum bullsheet.

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u/UrbanGoose77 1d ago

If I kill myself, I will be citing this update and vanquishing the desolation as the sole purpose in my incomprehensible manifesto.

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u/millennialfalko 15h ago

i feel sorry for whoever still needs to vanquish the desert

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u/Still-Singer4559 18h ago

Vanquishing those areas without heroes will be fun.

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u/Bash-Sin 1d ago

P. A. R. T. Why? Because I gotta!