Guild Wars 2

I just recently got my warrior full berserker armor. I must say, I just blast through any content with ease with the exception of WvW.(then again you get high enough base armor with warrior it doesnt even matter in WvW).

Why do anything else other than farm cof path 1&2 and get riches? 6gold a day is wonderful.

I just wish all other stat combinations were viable but I guess it comes down to playstyle. Everyone likes to do big damage numbers. No need for heals and support, the content is too easy. No I don’t want trinity back. It just feels that there is lack of actual team composition. Everyone just damages and CC is a joke because of defiant stacks on bosses.

I get the reason though. No one wants huge kitten bosses ping ponging all over the place.

Instead of just defiant stacks how about a percent chance the CC will take effect?

Bottom line. Once you go berserker you don’t go back.

Chewablesleeptablet.3185:

Instead of just defiant stacks how about a percent chance the CC will take effect?

Would be pointless. You can use berseker for everything because no boss has any relevant attack that cannot be dodged. If no boss has any relevant attack that cannot be dodged, there’s nothing worth interrupting. If there’s nothing worth interrupting, between wasting time with crowd control or just doing more damage, it’s always better to do more damage.

Erasculio.2914:

Chewablesleeptablet.3185:

Instead of just defiant stacks how about a percent chance the CC will take effect?

Would be pointless. You can use berseker for everything because no boss has any relevant attack that cannot be dodged. If no boss has any relevant attack that cannot be dodged, there’s nothing worth interrupting. If there’s nothing worth interrupting, between wasting time with crowd control or just doing more damage, it’s always better to do more damage.

Dodge? Never heard of it. 10s Boss kills btw. And HOTW is so boring ….

Khal Drogo.9631:

Dodge? Never heard of it. 10s Boss kills btw. And HOTW is so boring ….

Same idea applies. Even if Defiant didn’t exist, the most meaningful crowd control against those bosses would still be killing them.

I went berserker and I went back. It made the game too boring. Simple as that. I don’t care about speed. I don’t care about farming. I don’t care about efficiency.

I care about fun. Boring just isn’t fun to me.

Vayne.8563:

I went berserker and I went back. It made the game too boring. Simple as that. I don’t care about speed. I don’t care about farming. I don’t care about efficiency.

I care about fun. Boring just isn’t fun to me.

Stacking is so efficient because the boss designers either intentionally or unintentionally made it that way.

6gold a day is slow for CoF. I make at LEAST 6g an hour doing CoF.

Khal Drogo.9631:

Vayne.8563:

I went berserker and I went back. It made the game too boring. Simple as that. I don’t care about speed. I don’t care about farming. I don’t care about efficiency.

I care about fun. Boring just isn’t fun to me.

Stacking is so efficient because the boss designers either intentionally or unintentionally made it that way.

Yes, I agree. But either way, it’s not for me.

you’re golden… until you step into wvw and melt like tissue paper in a zerg fight.

penatbater.4710:

you’re golden… until you step into wvw and melt like tissue paper in a zerg fight.

In which case you roll a zerker ranger…and melt face from 1200 from the back of the zerg. Zerker wins again!!!

No Walking.6349:

penatbater.4710:

you’re golden… until you step into wvw and melt like tissue paper in a zerg fight.

In which case you roll a zerker ranger…and melt face from 1200 from the back of the zerg. Zerker wins again!!!

and get caught and die coz you’re not in the zerg/with the commander.

in pve zerker is the only set :|

when most Attacks hits for unreasonable damage just because anets want us to evade everything (we have only 2 dodges actually) it becomes pointless to have ANY armor.

You get oneshot anyway…

The sad part is when zerker is not only the best in easy content like cof, but also in arah, in fotm 48, in every single part of the PvE world.

Erasculio.2914:

Would be pointless. You can use berseker for everything because no boss has any relevant attack that cannot be dodged. If no boss has any relevant attack that cannot be dodged, there’s nothing worth interrupting. If there’s nothing worth interrupting, between wasting time with crowd control or just doing more damage, it’s always better to do more damage.

This. The omission of an energy system really hurt GW2 in that regard. Bosses/mobs can’t threaten you except through your health. Which makes it all boil down to dodging the hugely telegraphed attacks, no strategy involved.

Since this game is a complete DPS race, It’d be so easy to make CC matter atleast against bosses to keep up the DPS. Say a boss heals/protects themselves regularly and you need a well-placed interrupt to prevent that. Or a boss steals massive life with the next attack that hits and you have to blind/weaken/etc it. Or it runs to a safe area and you have to snare it.
But that would require a overhaul of the atrocious Defiant mechanic.

Yeah, ANet said they don’t want to make pure role classes (like tank, healer, supporter, desupporter and such), so they made

Berserker
and
Hybrid

for all classes.

My elementalist is using power/toughness/healing gear. My mesmer isn’t fully geared, but she’d get toughness/precision/condition dmg. If I’d roll a thief I’d go with vit and con dmg. If I had a guardian it’d have PVT. Should I go on?

Vayne.8563:

I went berserker and I went back. It made the game too boring.

Yup this guy pretty much has it.
I Went there was like:
WOW look at the numbers!
Look at how fast they die!
Look at how fast I die If I don’t time my dodge right!
Look! MUFFINS!!
LOOK, at that chainsaw CUT into the meat of that log! Eh.

Yeah pretty kitten boring. But hey, we all have our play Style… Cept I have none/one.