Guild Wars 2

I’m going to give my view of agony and agony-based attacks, as I’m wondering if anyone else feels the same way.

Agony-based attacks:
- “Force” players to dodge/block/evade them, at least every other one, requiring focus and attention toward NPC tells and animations.
- Feel like a serious threat to party survival
- Can never really be trivialized by the current max amount of agony resist gear available

Problem with current design:
- Completely trivialized with release of copious amounts of agony resist gear
- Turn a specialized tell attack into something players really don’t pay any attention to, as 1% HP per second drain is completely ignorable
- Time-gates certain levels of FotM with strict requirements. For example, my Guardian still does not have Ascended Earrings (I absolutely hate doing dailies) and therefore is heavily restricted from certain levels in the mid-40 with agony instabilities

I’m just tired of watching people sit and take specialized agony attacks to the face. I honestly don’t think this was what the designers envisioned in the development of agony and FotM but it has just somehow snowballed into an ugly stepchild.

Are there any upcoming design changes to improve/change/fine tune agony? Or are we stuck amassing huge quantities of AR and just facerolling through our FotM?

If it isn’t something the designers envisioned, I perceive that logic would dictate the floor of agony ticks would be much more threatening than 1%.

I have no other contribution.

How do you even hate doing dailies? Just by doing stuff in the game I usually get 5/5 naturally.

Tachii.3506:

How do you even hate doing dailies? Just by doing stuff in the game I usually get 5/5 naturally.

You can’t gather in dungeons.

Unless you’re doing fractals and you get the molten one, which is sweet.

But yeah I rarely get dailies too. I’d rather spend my time doing other things so I don’t focus on it.