Well, those patch notes were depressing

TheGreatBlackBear wrote: »

I'm pretty sure I'll still do100k+ on both stamden and magden with destro backbar when this goes live. It's hilarious that they thought that locking winter's revenge to being stronger with a destro cast would deter stamdens.

It still doesn't feel good for such good class skill to require a staff, for you to be disincentivized from using it with literally any other weapon

During week one I have been very existed regarding having a good healing skill, but as for week 5, its tooltip is ~50% lower compared to vigor which also give you 3k armor, this skill became mandatory and I'm not sure what skill I should cut for it.

Well. I guess I take it?
I am not too unhappy with the changes.

Let's face reality: When we look at the whole picture, Warden gets somewhat more in line. If we use "class tiers", I'd say in regards to Warden we move from D or C tier towards B or even A tier, with almost all classes congregating at A tier. Likely outliers still: Templar & Dragonknight for general PvP / brawling (closer to an S tier) with Nightblade for ganking (S tier ganker) and Necromancer still being an ultra-high ae-burst-bomber vs groups (S tier bomber). So yea, Wardens will sit next to Sorcs with less mobilty but more damage - in theory, when we hit our skills.

Furthermore, that is in regards to PvP too - I assume PvP will slightly improve due to increased time to kill - a lot of common 1shot builds will no longer exist and Magden will have access to a class specific burst heal with stun. Not too shabby.

Now for PvE. I will have some fun exploring new builds and ways to play content that might give new challenges. Might I die in Maelstrom or Vateshran? Maybe. But it is fun running this stuff with a glass-cannony-style character anyway. So might get more exciting for some runs.

Worst thing for me? Well, it's 2 main issues.
#1 is pretty much everything the community suggested would have been better then what actually was implemented.
#2 most people feel way stronger and a few (at least) will be pausing or quitting this patch.

So yea, the negatives are about the patch, the communication, all the stuff that is going wrong - I just do not feel like a valued customer, just like many others, with all the fallout that comes with it and will likely negatively effect the game and the community years to come.