Guild Wars 2

I have two issues that were particularly frustrating tonight when trying to ward off a major zerg tonight. We’re outnumbered probably 8-1 at the least. More likely 10-1. However, that’s fine because I got to test some things… and they were useless.

1. Ballistas get blocked by anything – Why can’t Balistas shoot over the edge of their own walls? It’s frustrating how often ballista shots built on tower/keep walls get nullified by the edge of the walls. The ballista itself is physically aimed above this railing of sorts, but ballista shots always tend to blow up at the slightest climb in trajectory. However, a ballista can shoot nearly vertical straight up despite the 3d model looking incapable of doing so.

Isn’t it a little silly that a Balli is better at shooting straight up than it is at shooting straight forward? This is one of the issues that keeps them from being used more often.

2. I was running a glam confusion mes build. Yes, laugh, but I wanted to give it a try again! However, confusion hits for around 200 don’t really do much of anything. The confusion nerf months back was too drastic. You could double confusion damage on Glam builds and it would still be mildly effective, but at least it would be effective. The current version is pitiful and not worth using. A zerg can still mindlessly spam through it, removing the whole point of a condition like confusion.

etiolate.9185:

1. Ballistas get blocked by anything – Why can’t Balistas shoot over the edge of their own walls? It’s frustrating how often ballista shots built on tower/keep walls get nullified by the edge of the walls. The ballista itself is physically aimed above this railing of sorts, but ballista shots always tend to blow up at the slightest climb in trajectory. However, a ballista can shoot nearly vertical straight up despite the 3d model looking incapable of doing so.

Isn’t it a little silly that a Balli is better at shooting straight up than it is at shooting straight forward? This is one of the issues that keeps them from being used more often.

While their trajectory seems to be a bit off, I wouldn’t say that it neccesarily is that much of an issue.

etiolate.9185:

2. I was running a glam confusion mes build. Yes, laugh, but I wanted to give it a try again! However, confusion hits for around 200 don’t really do much of anything. The confusion nerf months back was too drastic. You could double confusion damage on Glam builds and it would still be mildly effective, but at least it would be effective. The current version is pitiful and not worth using. A zerg can still mindlessly spam through it, removing the whole point of a condition like confusion.

I think it is unfortunate that you look at Glamour purely as a DPS build. Glamour builds are still powerful. Remember that the Glamour fields are utility skills (and powerful such) in their own right. The confusion is something that’s being added on top of an already powerful effect.

etiolate.9185:

A zerg can still mindlessly spam through it, removing the whole point of a condition like confusion.

The main reason that confusion was nerfed into the ground was the QQ of zerglings that couldn’t spam their 1 anymore without dying..

Gab Superstar.4059:

etiolate.9185:

1. Ballistas get blocked by anything – Why can’t Balistas shoot over the edge of their own walls? It’s frustrating how often ballista shots built on tower/keep walls get nullified by the edge of the walls. The ballista itself is physically aimed above this railing of sorts, but ballista shots always tend to blow up at the slightest climb in trajectory. However, a ballista can shoot nearly vertical straight up despite the 3d model looking incapable of doing so.

Isn’t it a little silly that a Balli is better at shooting straight up than it is at shooting straight forward? This is one of the issues that keeps them from being used more often.

While their trajectory seems to be a bit off, I wouldn’t say that it neccesarily is that much of an issue.

etiolate.9185:

2. I was running a glam confusion mes build. Yes, laugh, but I wanted to give it a try again! However, confusion hits for around 200 don’t really do much of anything. The confusion nerf months back was too drastic. You could double confusion damage on Glam builds and it would still be mildly effective, but at least it would be effective. The current version is pitiful and not worth using. A zerg can still mindlessly spam through it, removing the whole point of a condition like confusion.

I think it is unfortunate that you look at Glamour purely as a DPS build. Glamour builds are still powerful. Remember that the Glamour fields are utility skills (and powerful such) in their own right. The confusion is something that’s being added on top of an already powerful effect.

I am pretty sure if ballistas trajectory was fixed then they’d be far more useful. There are situations where they should work but do not work just because of trajectory issues.

And I don’t see glam as purely DPS. I can do a glam build that doesn’t involve confusion, but the Glam Confusion build is pretty heavily loaded towards just that confusion effect. A glam build with Phantasm damage is far stronger than a glam confusion build and that’s mainly due to confusion not hitting hard enough to matter.

Balistas are a joke and always were. Untraited AC >> superior balista with mastery. Why? No LoS required for AC. A single AoE player can destroy any balista used to defend a tower. Just one. Because the ballista has to be placed on the edge, to be able to hit anything, and therefore can be hit back with ease. Balistas do have some uses, but in most cases, an AC could do the same job and better just because there is no LoS required for it. I don’t remember when I placed a ballista the last time..

Tribio.8531:

etiolate.9185:

A zerg can still mindlessly spam through it, removing the whole point of a condition like confusion.

The main reason that confusion was nerfed into the ground was the QQ of zerglings that couldn’t spam their 1 anymore without dying..

So much truth.. if only there was a way to get rid of condition on yourself and/or other people…