Guild Wars 2

After having done Tequatl (sp?) and Jormag’s Claw a couple of times, I noticed something very unsettling: I couldn’t crit them. At all.

With 48% base crit, plus high fury uptime, not a single crit registered on either of them. Well, that works out REAL good on a spec that operates on crits. Adrenaline on axe crit and normal crit, bleed on crit, vulnerability on crit, extra crit chance on burst skills…it basically turns off the entire Arms line of traits and nullifies a huge portion of the stats on my gear, precision and +crit damage.

Which makes me ask two questions. 1, what else can’t be crit? And 2, who thought it would be a good idea, in a game where there is supposedly no wrong way to spec, to make fights where you can very literally be the wrong spec AND wear the wrong gear? To go from doing just fine everywhere else, to suddenly being reduced to an auto attack bot with severely reduced damage is utter nonsense.

I think its a wonderfull good idea to have some high level, bad kitten bosses that needs a little bit of thinking how to approach them instead of bring whatever you got and hack and slash.

However, I dunno how it is on your server, but on mine, the bosses you are referrinf to are going done so fast it doesn’t really matter, make sure you got a few hits, close your eyes, and you get goldreward and you can open the chest. The scaling is imo totally wrong and they should make those fights harder instead of easier.

I’m pretty sure that at no point has ANet said that you can turn up to every situation in the game with the same spec, any spec, and it will work just fine, i’m pretty sure they have said the exact opposite in fact.

Having a boss that arbitrarily turns off whole trait lines and erases multiple stats from your gear doesn’t require any thought to counter, it requires money and travel time. Money for more gear sets and travel time to respec. There’s no tactical or strategic depth in play here due to being able to defeat it by simply throwing gold at it, this is just an absurd damage reducing mechanic that has no positive effect on literally ANYTHING. These fights are overly long as it is.