Ok, poor example. But what i was trying to put a example to is that there are all kinds of issues with trying to help someone in this way in the middle of a fight if the mob(s) are not otherwise occupied.
Alright, that’s a fair point.
Utilities help bridge some of the gaps though. I always view my PvE experience in a way that I try to help people first and do damage second. Just doing damage, while it’s effective, seems selfish to me. While building to survive can technically be selfish too, you can try to do something with that survival to help seeing as you have the ability to rez people be it manually or with utility skills or tactics.
And I didn’t expect to kill them fast being 100% defensive. With 30 points in BM and 25 stacks of Master’s Bond my jaguar was holding aggro and tanking mobs including Champions. I just pew pew my way to victory. The big difference I noticed was when I switched from Apothecary gear to Knight’s gear. In Apothecary gear I could not solo the Vet undead or what ever he is in Cursed Shore. He tosses out the grubs which in return shoot poison everywhere. However in my knight’s and zerker gear I can. Also, when boss’ in some dungeons one shot pets it is real unfortunate cause there goes half of my dps. So investing more in my character (offensively) than my pet is worth it.
Right, we’re on the same page then
I too run a BM build and while I do support my pet as my main source of damage, I wear Knights armor and Soldier trinkets so that I can crit somewhat often. With the Vet Risen giant, feels like a bad example since that’s one boss who’s damage seems to escalate if you don’t kill him fast. Even on my Phantasm mesmer, it’s hard to keep illusions alive and doing damage because its stomp will knock away Warden so can’t sit in it for protection, so have to rely on mainly damage.
My balanced Elementalist can manage to kill those giants despite not killing them super quick…Swirling Winds destroys the grubs before they land.
i used to play knigh with some celestial….
Didn t took that much to understand i really needed zerker….and i play D/D mostly…
Now despite unfair nerfs that destroyed any defensive capability of the class (expecially focus because only guardian should stop PvE projectiles true? swirling wind its obviously meant to clean the dust ….) you see too often strong regen to the point you can t get past it with anything but zerker.
Also when you have 20 enemies that hits for 14.000 each, you don t care of how much armor do you have, you cre only to clean them before your arcane armor etc fades away….if you need some more armor just use armor of earth, 6 seconds are more than enough…
A PvE player is supposed to avoid a 1-2 second 1 shotting aoe.
A WWW player is considered uncapable of avoiding a 5,75 second aoe for half his health.
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