I swear to God the longer it goes on the more I'm convinced that the fight was about GW3 or something. The limits of their heavily modified GW1 code become more apparent the more you start recognizing the patterns, and every year it gets worse.

Taken at face value it really doesn't look good, to phrase it mildly, does it? Work/life balance has been the argument for change since 2012, fucking hell of they still don't get it right. There hasn't been a content drought since Season 3 under the old management, and if SotO is what NCNet manages to create with a dev pool as big as the one that created Season 4, then may God have mercy on their souls. All signs point toward End-of-Life milking mode, but I'll wait on their next buy-to-play Living World snippet for my final verdict. Maybe they surprise us.

Eleven more weeks to legendaries. Sigh.

Mirage Ambush AoE heals, but offers neither alac nor quick. Sooooo....staff/rifle?

Portal has a 1,2k range. Porn. But only one charge. Still porn.

I'd assume that Chrono jail will still be real with potentially Mirage as an option and Virt for memes.^

Edit: well fuck me up the arse. Staff Memestrel works just fine, no rifle needed. Gonna test it on Affliction 100.

Edit2: Staff/Rifle Memestrel is going to be an absolute fucking monster. Can't be arsed to live without uber rezz? Fuck Mantras, camp rifle.

Forged with Fire is a 5min meta that pops every hour and has an easily completed heart attached to it.

More self-harm! Healers are already thrilled for the 5k health Necro with 25 stacks of Bight and 50 stacks of Kryptis Essence Effect popping Signet of Undeath.

Yeah, it’s much more interesting that way and a curious thing that you don’t find those numbers anywhere anymore. It’s also from interest that almost the entire 2014 numbers are during a complete and utter stop of content deployment. Almost 12 month of absolute 0 content updates in favour to rush out HoT. And it still had better numbers than everything that came afterwards up to EoD.

Though it’s revenue . Squeezing more out of less players can highten the revenue as well, and Anet got nuked from orbit by NCSoft pre-EoD.

Hear, hear. I'm pretty sure there are like five OG fans left that actually enjoyed the concept of a casual open world MMO. The most bizarre thing is that Anet actually managed to take off by not competing with WoW and instead pandered to an entirely different consumer bracket.

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Yeah, it's mostly me being a pedantic prick. It just boggles my mind to fuck people over for blocking some twats. What the fuck kind of bizarro clown world bullshit is this. Imagine a room full of adults going "yeah this is fine". Breaks my mind.

Compared to pre-HoT numbers: https://i.imgur.com/Vgd7ejp.png

It's sad to see GW2 being barely able to scratch even the pre-HoT numbers of twelve month of content drought. Never mind the pre-HoT numbers during active content deployment. Took them almost ten years after their bait-and-switch.

Yep, I agree, LFG is a mess.

It's an insane mess. Block some dude that fucks your mum in PvP, then have him join some random meta train later. This squad's LFG entry will now be hidden for you. You can't see it. Congratulations, by blocking some cunt you just limited your ability to participate in the game.

I feel like the game is being hold together by spit and voodoo.

I hope it does, I enjoy being able to create male sluts. It just seems a bit weird that my toon has giant pecs now. I'd remove his armour and check but then I have to spend five minutes picking runes and stats and infusions whatnot.

Edit: okay so I finally bothered to check on another character that didn't have legendary and no there are no magic special pecs, I'm just crazy. What a relief.