Yeah, title says it all, since they are not immune to her spammed aoe and have no way to avoid it whatsoever everything dies almost instantly. They are all absolutely worthless.
Now you might say well Liadri is a more specialized fight you are not expected to go in there with whatever build and beat it but this is especially bad for rangers which get not just builds but their entire class mechanic rendered absolutely useless. It is utterly impossible to have a living pet in any situation in phase 2. Entire skills and traits dont have any effect at all. For a fight that is completely focused on cleansing that spammed weakness having important condition removals like empathic bond and Signet of the renewal tied to having a living pet is so not funny at all. It also forces to specc out for more dps than other classes have to since a huge chunk of the damage with no choice of getting it some other way is just taken away for no good reason at all. Im trying my best to get the orbs achievement but i already doubt its even doable handicapped like that and i will have to do it on another class.
Oh, and having the pet getting coming out when hit by only a single projectile and it -on passive- standing every possible place but not where the ranger stands makes it already annoying to just get it living through phase 1 since i have to avoid the aoe in a much larger radius than i would have to myself. For mesmers its also quite annoying i believe but their pets are not balanced around living any hits anyway so its not that bad.
Since there were small improvements like pets being immune to laser barriers in aetherblade fractal i believed you were slowly learning that theres nothing cool or fun in giant aoe onehits completely unavoidable for npcs but i guess i was wrong.
Why is it a problem to just make npcs immune to her aoe? You had almost a whole year to do it!
Ranger – Drakkar Lake[DE]
Full melee Ranger since August 2012
They don’t even need a full on immunity, make it so ally NPCs take exactly 20% damage from a hit. That way they can survive 5 blows, and that’s it. It’d make them more useful.
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