Lucky Leaf, Ángël, Clergyman, Side Kick -Lets make Gw2 a better game
The play around the 90% mark is more skillful and IMO better than your suggestion as it isn’t that you’re looking for a window, but that you’re just playing around that marker. It just takes one or 2 autos from a power build to knock you below that 90% marker and then a necro or other condi class can keep you below that once you run out of condi clears (which you will).In both situations you will need to be trained to bring you below a health marker, but in your suggestion the length of time of condi resistance is actually longer because it’s easier to hover above the 75% mark than it is to be around the 90% mark (even with the condi damage uptime of 50%) due to cleanses. The 25% health cushion along with the rotations of condi cleanses means that I will definitely be able to keep condi’s off of me far longer than I would if it was at the 90% mark even if I was trained by 2 people.
Now let me tell you why it is more balanced than the current 90% threshold.
Counterplay – Current form of DS doesn’t have it
Saying I have to change my entire rotation simply because a class completely counters me, is poor balance design. No other profession has this against another class or build.
If this was the intentions, then Arenanet might as well kept Turrets because it had “counterplay”; forcing players to rotate and strategize around that engineer appropriately. Not to mention there would be Other accounts of class countering another class or build… there isn’t. Even full Cleanse builds vs Condi builds have some form of counterplay between the two players.
Lettuce’s DS proposal has it.
I’m not saying Lettuce’s trait change proposal is the best one. As a matter of fact, i’m sure it can be better. All i’m saying is, it is a better solution than the current perma-condi-invulnerability above 90% threshold trait. At least I can save my burst conditions on Fire – Air and towards the end of Water if it the trait was changed for just Earth. Not to mention that other condi classes, like Mesmers, can boon strip the Resistance boon during his Earth attunement to add another layer of counterplay. At least we have options, unlike what the current trait offers.
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I would like to see promised Profession Forum Specialists, though.
We really need those. And it’s not like there’s a lack of good candidates.
IMO, most forum people only post or type “good”, a lot of these forum warriors are baddies in game. I think their perception of balance is skewed.
Everyone’s perception of balance is skewed. Including very strong players who are often the most skewed as they have a vested interest in maintaining the powerful nature of their comp.
As for this list. I hope arenanet do realise this:
Thief has almost always been a mandatory pick because of their unrivaled mobility and the uncounterable stealth plays the class allows. This means that every competitive team is always going to be forced to have a thief and that the thieves performance can almost control the entire matchup of the game. As an example, if a thief severely outplays the other thief it’s going to have a much larger impact than any cele class outplaying each other and there isn’t much the team can do to stop this from happening.
I mean, I would +10000000 this if I could. This whole game of gw2 is decided by who has the best thief. Its like air superiority in warfare. If you have thief superiority then it is so easy to play every other class and feel like a pro.
Honestly 90% of games with organised teams is just who has the better thief because the profession is simply too strong to deal with without your own thief.
They need to add significant counterplay to thief. Or reduce its damage. And by counter play I mean like ways to interfere with their initiative regain
If you want to increase counter play to stealth thieves will need other defensive skills/traits to play with otherwise your just deleting the class from viable play.
ZZZZZZZZ
Who cares if they aren’t required in every team. They have had THREE years of being the best class. THREE WHOLE YEARS. NP finding a team as a thief for 3 years. Deciding most games for 3 years.
Time to give other classes a chance. They should make the significant nerfs needed to thief. Then if and when it becomes not viable then and only then should it receive buffs to compensate.
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Kortham Raysplitter (Yak’s Bend)
Necro axe is useless and corruptions plain suck… better nerf Chilling Darkness!
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I think I should remove this quote given the recent developement.
Unrelated to many of the comments here: I applaud the use of trait symbols on the character status bar since the update, and I think we need more of this. Sure, we want to elegantly avoid turning the UI into too much of a giant mess like those other games, but it is better to be informed of someone’s traits and passives through those icons or through an animation than not at all.
Just off the top of my head, add the trait icon for Diamond Skin when elementalist’s with Diamond Skin are over 90% hp (same case with Ranger Bark skin), and an icon for elementalists that still have the passive 50% proc for armor of earth, as well as the procs for Cleansing Fire, Arcane Shield, and so on…note I am not singling out elementalists, I am just speaking about what I have more familiarity with.
By making these changes the player and the opponent can make more informed decisions in battle.
Josre
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