Guild Wars 2

Hey

After nearly a week of doing fractals with my guild i wanted to share some thoughts on the matter with you guys.

I really like new form of fractals, one a piece is fast enough for everybody to play as much as they plan to play, without unexpected prolongation if you get cliffside, dredge and mai – thats a big plus

Although there are some problems that emerge;

-First of all, Toughness in higher lvl fractals
I really get it why you liked the idea of scaling toughness through fractal lvls, it encourages variety of builds and make condition based characters more viable, that’s very cool on paper. The problem is, though, that with scaling toughness – instead of vitality – we’ll soon see sinister/viper meta just replacing existing berserkers in high lvl fractals.
Ergo – nothing will change.

I mean yesterday while doing uncategorized, I was hitting champion ettin for 2-3k whlist having 3+k power, come on!

Now, Dante, why won’t you go with tanky guys if that’s too tough for you?

It’s not the case. Some players/guilds (me included) will try and find fastest way to beat the encounter – that means offensive stats on everything – and let me tell you, survivability is not an issue!
The problem is fights taking ungodly amounts of time. Bosses hit less than before HoT, but are sooo tanky that without full condi party it takes literally ages to take them down

Before HoT came out, there was alredy fair variety of builds between condi and berserkers in PvE – not high enough, but there were more and more condi players each week.

So, at 70+ & full zerk glass, was that ettin back to one-shotting if you goof up, like pre-hot 50?

No Artemis, damage of mobs is severely nerfed. Doesn’t help we got those op as heck defensive potions which reduce damage by 25%. During our runs the last two days I was able to just run around a bit and not dodge much (partly because I didn’t want to because of Boon Fumbler) and I could facetank some hits easily, there wasn’t too much challenge; that being said, I run Necro, so I naturally survive a bit more. The rest of our party didn’t have too many issues either from what I noticed, not even the Eles.

The issue with toughness this high is that, for the first time in three years, you’re actually forced to run specific builds. Before that, full glass always was recommended, but you were able to choose between being a glass cannon and fast or being tankier and slower, but allowing to survive one-two more big hits. Now, if you’re not Sinister or at least very close to it your DPS is going to suck, even as direct damage glass cannon (aka. Zerker). This is very, VERY bad.

QQ sinister/viper meta inc!

Exactly!
Same problems, different nameplate

LF Full Viper Party | 2 engi, guard, ranger, warrior EXP ONLY >.>

Dante.3780:

Exactly!
Same problems, different nameplate

LF Full Viper Party | 2 engi, guard, ranger, warrior EXP ONLY >.>

No love for Condi Reaper ?

The best thing about this is, this basically requires hundreds of gold for many people just to get sinister gear/change their current gear to Sinister, even though it might not make sense overall.

The worst about this is that some classes simply don’t have strong PvE condition based specs. When it comes to power specs, at least every class has a viable spec when it comes to DPS.

Hidden.2103:

The worst about this is that some classes simply don’t have strong PvE condition based specs. When it comes to power specs, at least every class has a viable spec when it comes to DPS.

This.

condi dps across the classes needs some work.