Guild Wars 2

Azhure.1857:

Teratus.2859:

It would amuse me greatly if this was the case
seeing hundreds of Zerker Warriors getting wasted because they are too squishy hehe

I look forward to that.

Yeah I’m sure they’re just going to drop an update that invalidates the most popular meta builds that many dedicated players have invested a lot of time into achieving..

Beldin.5498:

The numbers were (percent damage of full zerker) :
celestial 73,57%
knights 77,67%
soldiers 72,90%
(i used numbers based on gw2skills.net for calculation)

Now if we take a mixed build like knights armor and zerker jewlery and weapon
the difference is maybe 11-12% less.

2 wrong traits can make you already loose 15% easily.

And that’s excluding condition damage increase from celestial?

Andred.1087:

Azhure.1857:

Teratus.2859:

It would amuse me greatly if this was the case
seeing hundreds of Zerker Warriors getting wasted because they are too squishy hehe

I look forward to that.

Yeah I’m sure they’re just going to drop an update that invalidates the most popular meta builds that many dedicated players have invested a lot of time into achieving..

Nah. Doubt that very much. But I do expect those that aren’t great at active defenses and don’t have the ability to pull off a zerker meta under the stresses of both new content and challenging content to be separated from those that can actually pull it off. That I do expect.

Teratus.2859:

Zerker probably will be meta for Revenant considering the Hammer is a Range weapon for them..

It’s possible Zerker might not be the meta for HoT in general though considering the new mobs could very well be designed to counter this Meta

It would amuse me greatly if this was the case
seeing hundreds of Zerker Warriors getting wasted because they are too squishy hehe

This is just flat out impossible.

If content would be too hard for Zerk warriors because they die too fast, it would be too hard for full tank/Soldier Eles because a soldier Ele is barely more durable than a Zerk Warrior.

The HP differences between classes are larger than the HP differences between builds.
As long as this is the case, Anet cant create anti zerk content because this content would be unplayable for certain classes.

They can make harder stuff but they need to add tank role for soldier class so we can have balanced comps not just all go zerg and face roll not fun in the long run…

and why, exactly, do they “need” to add a tank role for a game specifically stated to not be featuring the trinity?

people like to speak of “needs” and “problems”, but the real question is whether these needs or problems even exist in the first place.

Just because YOU think that the game would be better with tank, doesn’t mean that everybody think like that. A lot of ppl playing this game are playing it because of how it work now, not because it have potential but could be better with tank/healer or whatever else some ppl want.

Does the game need some little change to make it better? Of course. Making condition viable in PvE group content, making dungeon harder, making better reward vs challenge vs time ratio (i’m looking at you Aether path and fractal), better AI, more interesting and different fighting mechanic for bosses, etc.

But if you think that the core principle of the game need to be changed
(active defense is better than defensive stats and healing ; any composition will be able to complete any content) then maybe you are just in the wrong game.