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It creates some degree of separation; not much, but it still exists.
Yeah…. we don’t need anymore help that really. Players do enough of that on their own, armor doesn’t need to help it along…
My idea of a good reward system is that opportunity should always be there to players willing to display effort and challenge. If the game had more content so that it were a constant test of these things, then I think it makes for a more engaging rewarding system in which people don’t just get tunnel vision, but might actually seek to play well and god forbid, play the content just because it’s engaging in and of itself. A lot of people complain about champion training simply because you can do it half-heartedly and will have similar results, so they don’t really feel like they have to try harder.
People should look forward to Living Story updates as a challenge to be overcome rather than some hamster wheel running. And this being said, I think that content should linger on a bit longer than it has.
This doesn’t mean that each piece of content needs to be nail bittingly close without any sense of forgiveness and there needs to be breather content as well, but I actually do think they’re going to get this right eventually.
I can agree with a reward system that rewards you for being able to do challenging content. Although I don’t necessarily feel it needs to be a stat increase type of reward. An equally nice skin would be sufficient, just as the Liadre mini was sufficient. Some will be able to do it, some won’t. But you should never lock stats behind something like this, thus one of the things I loved about GW1.
Like you, I also believe that eventually they will find their feet, and find a balance, but the game is only just over a year old and that’s understandably not enough time to do the mountain of things they seem to want to do. So, in the mean time, I’ll kick back and hang out for the ride.
(I just have to remember to stock up on popcorn when I hang out on here)
Just got hit by a 10k Backstab followed by a 9k Heartseaker on my 2.8k armour toon from a Thief wielding 2 legendary daggers. Now with even more power creep I can see how this is going to be a lot of fun. So much skill needs to be rewarded.
Enjoy.
Just got hit by a 10k Backstab followed by a 9k Heartseaker on my 2.8k armour toon from a Thief wielding 2 legendary daggers. Now with even more power creep I can see how this is going to be a lot of fun. So much skill needs to be rewarded.
Enjoy.
if you wish to suggest a thief nerf, please do it here:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/thief/Nerf-Wish-list/first#post3313984
Just got hit by a 10k Backstab followed by a 9k Heartseaker on my 2.8k armour toon from a Thief wielding 2 legendary daggers. Now with even more power creep I can see how this is going to be a lot of fun. So much skill needs to be rewarded.
Enjoy.
if you wish to suggest a thief nerf, please do it here:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/thief/Nerf-Wish-list/first#post3313984
You Sir/Lady should read posts carefully before posting.
Have a wonderful day!
Just got hit by a 10k Backstab followed by a 9k Heartseaker on my 2.8k armour toon from a Thief wielding 2 legendary daggers. Now with even more power creep I can see how this is going to be a lot of fun. So much skill needs to be rewarded.
Enjoy.
if you wish to suggest a thief nerf, please do it here:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/thief/Nerf-Wish-list/first#post3313984You Sir/Lady should read posts carefully before posting.
Have a wonderful day!
Yeah and I can see how power creep will make people QQ harder from backstabs.
Just got hit by a 10k Backstab followed by a 9k Heartseaker on my 2.8k armour toon from a Thief wielding 2 legendary daggers. Now with even more power creep I can see how this is going to be a lot of fun. So much skill needs to be rewarded.
Enjoy.
Hmmm, thieves hit hard indeed but also go down just as hard
that is to say they go down fast and hard if you know how to counter them.
learn to counter them I’d say, just like the rest of us had to.
Just pray your build doesn’t get nerfed or that there won’t be a more fun build developed for your profession (both are likely because of skill balances and new skills on the horizon).
eh, zerker is always going to be max dps (or close to it) so whatev’s everything else is just weapons/traits/skills which are easily changed.
Don’t be so sure. It looks like Anet is starting to add some boss mechanics that hurt zerker builds — or at least make zerker builds less effective. If you look at the mistlock instabilities, there’s a couple that affect critical damage negatively (levels 34, 44). Even if these are currently ineffective at their goal, the point is that Anet is actively trying to reduce the universal effectiveness of the zerker build.
(Imagine, for example if Anet added more “structure” bosses that don’t even take critical damage.)
The instabilities are situational and doesn’t mean that zerker isn’t top dps
If things were structures it wouldn’t really change anything anyway since there’s no Power primary with secondary condition damage gear (there’s condition primary with power secondary but if everyone stacks condition gear overall is lowered due to max condition stacks). With the other Power primary gear only providing defensive stats it doesn’t alter the DPS.
Without radically changing the core combat mechanics zerker in pve will always be at the top or equal with others at the top in regards to dps.
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Just pray your build doesn’t get nerfed or that there won’t be a more fun build developed for your profession (both are likely because of skill balances and new skills on the horizon).
eh, zerker is always going to be max dps (or close to it) so whatev’s everything else is just weapons/traits/skills which are easily changed.
Don’t be so sure. It looks like Anet is starting to add some boss mechanics that hurt zerker builds — or at least make zerker builds less effective. If you look at the mistlock instabilities, there’s a couple that affect critical damage negatively (levels 34, 44). Even if these are currently ineffective at their goal, the point is that Anet is actively trying to reduce the universal effectiveness of the zerker build.
(Imagine, for example if Anet added more “structure” bosses that don’t even take critical damage.)
The instabilities are situational and doesn’t mean that zerker isn’t top dps
If things were structures it wouldn’t really change anything anyway since there’s no Power primary with secondary condition damage gear (there’s condition primary with power secondary but if everyone stacks condition gear overall is lowered due to max condition stacks). With the other Power primary gear only providing defensive stats it doesn’t alter the DPS.
Without radically changing the core combat mechanics zerker in pve will always be at the top or equal with others at the top in regards to dps.
The mistlock instabilities show (at least IMO) that Anet is thinking about the zerker issue and trying to reduce the effectiveness of zerker gear.
Zerker gear is not optimal in WvW so it is possible under current game mechanics to have fights where zerker is not the best.
The funny thing is that making different types of gear viable and the existence of the (unholy) Ascended gear grind greatly conflict.. I feel Anet has put themselves in a no-win situation here.
I can’t remember what the devs said (it was either on the forums or during the Fractals live stream), so if someone can refresh my memory I’d appreciate it.
Did the devs say that ascended armor will be obtainable through fractals when it’s introduced? (I think they said yes, but I can’t remember). And a secondary question/wishful thinking, did they mention how? (like with fractal relics instead of pure chance from a random drop).
Ascended armor will be available in fractals in the same way weapons are.
I’m assuming the same will hold for all other places too, but they only mentioned fractals since it was in a fractals thread I read it.More RNG to this game? Well, GJ
That’s not any different than how other lootable armor drops work. All games use RNG for loot drops. They simply limited ascended to certain areas for loot drops, which is again…not any different than other games.
Examples:
GW1: Totem Axes only dropped from Root Behemoths, and only in the single section in which they existed in the The Falls zone, and you weren’t in any way promised one just by killing the thing. Kill several and you might get one. I know I, and many others, did several runs fruitless runs where we walked away with none.
WoW: ‘X’ armor piece can only be obtained from ‘Y’ raid, and you have to fight every other raid member for it by rolling. Additionally it has a minuscule chance of dropping, so you have to run the raid at least ‘Z’ times before you even see one drop.
What in the world are you up in arms about?
Well, that’s easy, since you mentioned WoW, you’ve kinda played my card. WoW has guaranteed drop from the loot table for the specific boss, so it’s really easy to get that item while raiding regularly, on the opposite side, GW2 loot tables are huge when compared to WoW, and no guaranteed drop in here (Well maybe except some green/rare quality items, which are of no use in the terms of gearing your character). Do you see the difference now? It’s like Total RNG vs Controlled RNG, which is a huge difference to me.
Also GW2 has much more stat options when compared to another game like WoW, which only lowers the already slim chance of getting the drop you want.
And I’m not talking about the possibility of a patch screwing your stat configuration instantly, rendering your heavily grinded gear useless….
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I dont know about any of that…its true that you can do any open world content and regular dungeon in rares.
I’ll say that trying to solo the Tower of Nightmares in rares is folly and a load. I dont think you can do it in rares. Must have exotics, better have some ascended on you. Most likely there was only a small percentage of people that could roll through that place, come up to a passage blocked by an event, solo the event, and continue on. I highly doubt anyone could do that in all rares.
Bracing myself for the lies to come streaming in “Oh I did it in masterwork” “Oh I did it in fine gear”
I can’t solo the whole tower in rares, but I can do decent amounts of it. Although..I do have an exotic skirt now (playing an ele), everything else is rare I believe. Haven’t really felt overly inclined to go out of my way to upgrade as yet.
Anywho, the issue I run into is when people start just running through and the groups I end up facing are scaled for more people. Otherwise, I can usually manage the foes, and several of the events. Although that spider champ is impossible alone… I’ve not had the chance to try the wurm alone, usually end up with at least 2 or 3 other people by that point.
The tower is; however, completely duo-able. My guildie and I (her guard, my ele) have fought our way up from floor 1 to the top together (we were very, very bored). We took the krait champ on floor 1, the wurm on 2 (skipped that kitten spider), and contended with portal events on floors 2 and 3. It wasn’t always the smoothest, but we made it through. Then we went and beat up the hybrid, and got the krait mini for doing it w/o dying. I was ecstatic. We then repeated the process (for the instance) so I could get that achievement on my husband’s account. Honestly, I didn’t think we could do it… but we did