Well they banned my main account, so I can’t update my threads
Interestingly enough though, they still haven’t unstikied them and they implement many of my suggestions. I guess I have a good cop bad cop relationship with Anet!
Anyhow, my topics are generally out of date but Keyz’s is accurate.
If the dark lord yells at me enough then you will see a new topic of mine pretty soon
A few questions for you if you dont mind (I have log in since they implemented WvW Fresh Air)
1- A lot of people seem to use Focus now, I dont really see how it changed from junk to supercool.
2- People talk about Nomad, Assassin and such gear type. Where can I see the new gear?
3- Back in the day some items were stronger in term of statweight because of +crit damage. Does the new ferocity (or something) stat normalise everything and it doesnt matter what item you put where?
4- Also back in the days Soldier gear ended up with better result than Knight because Power having so much impact on damage. How come people tend to go for Assassin (more prec?) rather than Berzerk now?
5- (edited) Are Elems still laughable damage dealers compared to Warriors. Are they still not as needed as Guardian/Mesmer as support?
1) I don’t know if ppl use Focus in PvP, but in PvE it give as much might stacking than an offhand dagger, while it give you more utilities. They are both good, its just about what you prefer.
2) Wiki
3) Ya it normalize it. Every gear have the same ratio now.
4) Before the ferocity path, a mix of Berserk and Assassin was the best way to go for most profession. Power if good, but with sigil, banner, buff, etc, we had so much power that 3 pieces of assassins were good. Now, we got back to berserker for most situation. Only some specific build that rely on longer cooldown are better with asssassin. It make sense since those build that use big but long attack suffer far most for each time your attack don’t crit. Guardian Hammer build and some Mesmer reflect build use this principle, but at this point its minmaxing and you need to do the math. Berserk will give you the best return in most case anyway.
5) Ppl figure out that Damage modifiers are so much powerful in this game and Elementalist have a kitten load of those. So now, Elementalist are the biggest damage dealer of the game BY FAR. They are also the second best might stacker in the game after the Phanlanx Warrior, but they still do a lot of dmg while might stacking while the phanlanx warrior must sacrifice a lot of dmg to achieve that. Warrior only have average dmg, and since they are use mostly in offensive support, the build that a lot of ppl use in Dungeon ‘’EA warrior’’ have even less dmg. Elementalist do about 14-15k DPS, while a DPS warrior do about 12.5k dps and a EA warrior more about 10k dps. Warriors dropped a lot in the dps scale. Right now the Ele and Thief do more dps, Guardian do about as much DPS, while Engie and Mesmer can do more DPS, but its hard to achieve that on a regular basis if you are not good enough.
1) for pvp i switched from S/D to S/F. The reason is that i play with random players , not in an organized team and so with focus i can last more and deal more damage ( i play 6,6,0,0,2). Even if Dagger offhand has more dps with focus i survive much more and so i make more damage for my team.
