Just a bit of random curiosity, what builds are the devs running these days? I know their pvp matches don’t consist of Warriors running around going “trolololol” for 15 mins, so I was wondering what the devs enjoy playing and why they picked those particular builds?
One thing is for sure, and this is not meant as a diss.
Even with the massive amounts of insider knowledge, none of the dev’s run builds that are innovative or anti/counter meta. They tend to run simple builds that don’t require a lot of thought, because they are simply not that invested in this format.
I’m not saying this to brag, but I have successfully 2v1’d developers before. My proudest was at the beginning of the hambow atrocity, I was runnin hammer/gs and 2v1’d Powerr and Nightmare who were running hambow
The reason I asked is because in another thread Justin says he plays a lockdown Mesmer. I am simply just curious about which builds they enjoy playing the most and why (and the one dev that responded didn’t really answer the question. =[ )
I have 1 of each class, just to keep tabs on how they feel in general.
But if I’m actually trying to hold my own, I run:
Sword/Sword + Bow Warrior
Hambow (to keep tabs on how it feels in the meta)
Various Necros
Various Guardians
Various Mesmers
On internal servers, been playing around with a few new Ranger specs
I don’t get as much time to play as I used to, but when I do play, those are the specs I gravitate towards.
So…how does hambow feel compared to, let’s say, mesmer? Sincerely….let’s see if it’s the same for me used to main mesmer and forced to reroll war instead if i have to go for a dps role…
I have 1 of each class, just to keep tabs on how they feel in general.
But if I’m actually trying to hold my own, I run:
Sword/Sword + Bow Warrior
Hambow (to keep tabs on how it feels in the meta)
Various Necros
Various Guardians
Various Mesmers
On internal servers, been playing around with a few new Ranger specs
I don’t get as much time to play as I used to, but when I do play, those are the specs I gravitate towards.
I would ask you to try a D/D 10/30/10/10/10 Elementalist. Use any utilities / heal you want with a berzerker amulet / jewel. Run VI / VI, X, (Fresh Air- Believe is XII) / VI / VI / VI (can be swapped in sPvP as the 25% run speed from D/D not necessary. I’d go vigor on crit or arcane cooldowns reduced.
This spec gives a lot of damage for D/D but you may find without going 30 water 30 arcane you will melt. And I guarantee if you swap out /D for /F you still wont have enough survivability.
So…how does hambow feel compared to, let’s say, mesmer? Sincerely….let’s see if it’s the same for me used to main mesmer and forced to reroll war instead if i have to go for a dps role…
I would be interested to hear some devs’ comments on current builds/ professions too. But I wonder if they have the time available.
I play Warrior mainly and I dip a bit into guardian and necro. Warrior has been and will always be my favorite, I played it during all the beta weekends and will continue to play it. I mainly run Ham/Bow and Sword/Sword + Bow, but I usually run the most glassy warrior I can run and then go all in. When I am feeling saucy I run my old Axe/Shield + Rifle build.
all warriors devs use bow? i think i made the best decission when i made my Main (and only character) a condition damage based warrior. I’m most of my time shotting arrows and areas, combos and more stuff. I’m happy for the last 6 months
However, i’m curious about the new changes we’ll see on 18th march. Will it make someone change their weapons or do you think it will just improve them? i’d feel dissapointed if i need to remove X weapon because now it’s useless.
Haven’t played my warrior in a while, but I believe I left him with sword/shield + longbow condi. Then I was playing static discharge engy for a while (still too noob to micro kits). Now I’m having a blast on my siphon necro!
how u devs are not bored of conquest ? most of the builds arround are to run arround in circles inside a circle, obviously not thieves wich they have another job.
You know what i could make a huge thread saying blablalba there is no team work in the builds or stuff like that but it doesnt matter. u guys just gona close your eyes and ears and say everything is ok.
so, outta 4 devs posting here, only one uses ranger, and only on closed development test servers with builds, settings and traits that may or may not ever end up on the public servers. Great!!! No wonder why it had to end with a CDI thread to make it clear that the profession has major issues.
Would be fun, if the developers had to spend 1-2 hours a month on public servers with each profession. If nothing else, it would make them to see some of the issues we, the players, see, not just the issues they see from a development/balance POV.
Not to mention they may learn a few things they didnt know (as in unexpected side effects of their work).
Lv 80 Guard, Ranger, Ele, Thief, warr, engi
Currently @ some T1 server in EU
On internal servers, been playing around with a few new Ranger specs
So, you’ve obviously seen the need to replace pets with something more functional like perma-stow-to-buff or preparations from GW1 and return 100% dps to the Ranger, right? You’ve also obviously seen the need to keybind the active/passive command, right? RIGHT? RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT????
RNG is a bell curve. Better hope you’re on the right side.
Having developers play the game always seems like a good idea, but of course their time to do that is limited, since they have actual work to do as well.
I wonder why more companies don’t employ a small pool of full-time test players who are assigned to each play certain classes for a certain number of hours per day, doing different sorts of activities in the game, and file detailed reports and feedback on the issues they run into, and what they see other players doing.
It seems like they could get people to do this for disgustingly low hourly rates, because, “I get paid to play games all day LOL!”
On internal servers, been playing around with a few new Ranger specs
So, you’ve obviously seen the need to replace pets with something more functional like perma-stow-to-buff or preparations from GW1 and return 100% dps to the Ranger, right?
I don’t think there’s any need for that at all, that’s what a warrior is (and not even, that’s old kittenty warrior) and there’s no need to completely rebalance things by taking away a class mechanic and changing the class completely for no benefit when several builds already occupy the role exactly. I want to know where this “ranger needs no pet” circlejerk comes from. I didn’t make an engi and then complain endlessly to get toolbelt skills (or kits) removed in return for more damage.
Mortryde/Cold/Thugmentalist Bara
really bad engineer
On internal servers, been playing around with a few new Ranger specs
So, you’ve obviously seen the need to replace pets with something more functional like perma-stow-to-buff or preparations from GW1 and return 100% dps to the Ranger, right?
I don’t think there’s any need for that at all, that’s what a warrior is (and not even, that’s old kittenty warrior) and there’s no need to completely rebalance things by taking away a class mechanic and changing the class completely for no benefit when several builds already occupy the role exactly. I want to know where this “ranger needs no pet” circlejerk comes from. I didn’t make an engi and then complain endlessly to get toolbelt skills (or kits) removed in return for more damage.
the remove pet circlejerk comes from some official statement back in the days saying that pet DPS is responsible for about 25-30% of player DPS. So people have this insane idea that if they remove the pet completely, they can get back those 25-30%.
Those same people does not realize that even without the pet, ranger DPS is actually quite high. You just have a hard time seeing it as you do stable damage contrary to burst damage as with most others. So while you may plink away on your SB doing 1-2k/hit @ melee range, you wont get those shiny 14-20k hits that a warrior can produce, so you must do horrible DPS in return… There is no sound logic behind min-max thesis’ regarding rangers. In the end, ranger DPS is usually higher then most others, because their main damage source is their AA, and not some “dodge and their DPS is null and void” burst attack.
Lv 80 Guard, Ranger, Ele, Thief, warr, engi
Currently @ some T1 server in EU
Like I mentioned here, I play everything in PvP, but I spend most of my time on engineer. On the PvE/WvW side, I have two level 80s – engineer and thief. Everything else is level 1 (original gangster) or level 2. I have 16 character slots so I have multiples of some professions loaded with different specs.
On engineer, I tend to stick to bomb/nades (or nades/TK/RBoots in WvW), running either 30 5 0 20 15 or 30 0 0 30 10 (no AR). For everything else? Zerk lava-tomb icebow staff ele, shatter mes, spirit ranger, condi or bunker war, condi nec, bunker guard, d/p thief, etc.
Like I mentioned here, I play everything in PvP, but I spend most of my time on engineer. On the PvE/WvW side, I have two level 80s – engineer and thief. Everything else is level 1 (original gangster) or level 2. I have 16 character slots so I have multiples of some professions loaded with different specs.
On engineer, I tend to stick to bomb/nades (or nades/TK/RBoots in WvW), running either 30 5 0 20 15 or 30 0 0 30 10 (no AR). For everything else? Zerk lava-tomb icebow staff ele, shatter mes, spirit ranger, condi or bunker war, condi nec, bunker guard, d/p thief, etc.
Hope that answers your question!
y u no Power Ranger?
Lv 80 Guard, Ranger, Ele, Thief, warr, engi
Currently @ some T1 server in EU
So…how does hambow feel compared to, let’s say, mesmer? Sincerely….let’s see if it’s the same for me used to main mesmer and forced to reroll war instead if i have to go for a dps role…
I would be interested to hear some devs’ comments on current builds/ professions too. But I wonder if they have the time available.
So…how does hambow feel compared to, let’s say, mesmer? Sincerely….let’s see if it’s the same for me used to main mesmer and forced to reroll war instead if i have to go for a dps role…
I would be interested to hear some devs’ comments on current builds/ professions too. But I wonder if they have the time available.
Time available. Nuts not available.
Ignore hard questions mode – ON
You guys should stop working for anet and go straight into politics…no joke
@ Empa..all is vain, even trying to ask something…
Do you guys do dungeons/fractals/wvw/spvp together? If you don’t, and you pug, how does your group react? Do they still do all the tricks people normally do to make dungeons go faster, or do they take an extra 20 minutes to look good and innocent? :P
And finally… are you even able to turn that anet tag off?
who were running hambow
