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Just Finished HoT and...

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The timegated stuff in the expansion made me hate the game even more, especially now that I’m gathering everything I need for the Shining Blade and Legendary Armor.

All I have to say is that I seriously hope there’s nothing like Tangled Depths and Dragon’s Stand in PoF, these maps are horrible…

Mai trin help

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Boring fight, Mai Trin needs a revamp just like Jade Maw, the scripted stuff is really bad, not fun, forced and repetitive.

Upset about "Celestial Infusion Chest"

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Arkk is tougher than Ensolyss (and it’s longer too, you can stun Ensolyss repeatedly for massive damage unlike Arkk) and Artsariiv is tougher than Siax, so I wouldn’t say it takes the same time.

It might be tougher, but Arkk is quicker with a good group because he doesn’t move around so much so the DPS is way higher on him. The event between the first and second boss in Nightmare also takes forever compared to Shattered’s event. The best NM run I’ve had clocked in at 18 minutes while my best SO run has clocked in at 16 minutes (both pug times). So both fractals taking the same amount of time is totally reasonable, though for weaker players, Arkk can stone wall them a fair bit making it take longer.

Concerning the rewards, I believe both types of infusions should have been in the box and the randomness of how many essences you get should be removed, either 3 or 2 or just make it 1 and reduce the amount needed to what Anet deems the number of kills needed. It makes no sense that someone got 90 while I was still at ~70 while doing it every day. Now I’m at 76 while I have a friend at 85 yet we’ve done the same amount of dailies, if not the fact I’ve probably done more. I have no problem with random rewards like coins, armor boxes, rings, aetherblade skins, and the like, but for the guaranteed rewards, I hate them being random.

You think you’re unlucky? I get one of these stupid essences every run and it kittenes me off.

Upset about "Celestial Infusion Chest"

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So, do people still feel 100 cm is rewarding enough? I’ve voiced this opinion before and no one seemed to agree. I consider the rewards for 100 cm pretty underwhelming.

Apart from the rng on essences, yes. It’s as rewarding as 99cm and takes about the same time so I think it’s fine

Arkk is tougher than Ensolyss (and it’s longer too, you can stun Ensolyss repeatedly for massive damage unlike Arkk) and Artsariiv is tougher than Siax, so I wouldn’t say it takes the same time.

Upset about "Celestial Infusion Chest"

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That’s really, really dumb…

The blue infusion looks so much better than the red one, and not only that but considering you can’t even sell the red one it pretty much just makes it so that CM 99 is both easier and more rewarding (unless you are super lucky with the blue infusion drop) since at least you get toxic spores and (more?) mystic coins.

With people finally reaching the 90 celestial infusion amount, it really shows how lackluster the things you can buy are. The tonic turns you into a small asura that you could just as easily copy with normal character creation, when it should have been like the fractal tonic but cycling through CM skins (both 99 and 100), while the infusion chest gives you an infusion worth more gold than a normal +5 stat +9 agony infusion, which you cant even sell and changes your look into something super niche.

Not to mention that the blue infusion makes you feel more cosmic than the red one… If at least you could combine the 2 to get a purple glow like Viraastra/Artsaariv it would have been something, right now it’s bad.

What Classes can Heal in Raids?

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Guardian might become viable when PoF hits with the Firebrand spec aswell.

scale raid bosses from easiest to hardest

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Easy (bosses that PUGs rarely fail): Trio, Escort, Mursaat Overseer, Samarog, Gorseval
Medium (bosses that PUGs can fail easily): VG, Cairn, Sloth, Keep Construct
Hard (bosses that can be an absolute chore to do with PUGs): Sabetha, Xera, Deimos, Matthias

I like your rubric for distinguishing among hard|medium|easy levels of difficulty. It’s measurable and depends mostly on observation rather than opinion. I also agree that it’s better to group encounters together rather than trying to establish whether VG is absolutely harder than Sloth or not.

People keep saying Deimos is easy, but it’s the worst raid boss to do with pugs by a mile, one fail from the black kite, hand kite or tank and it’s GG, and I’ve been in groups that failed below 10% hp…

scale raid bosses from easiest to hardest

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Easy (bosses that PUGs rarely fail): Trio, Escort, Mursaat Overseer, Samarog, Gorseval
Medium (bosses that PUGs can fail easily): VG, Cairn, Sloth, Keep Construct
Hard (bosses that can be an absolute chore to do with PUGs): Sabetha, Xera, Deimos, Matthias

Absolutely dislike the new fractal.

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Change or remove Viraastra, keep the first boss and Arkk as they are, that’s all I have to say after doing consistently 100 CM for the past weeks, dealing with trash mobs spawning (and who does like 6k damage per hit) AOEs + the boss spawning AOEs aswell resulting in AOE stacking is bad.

Helseth's review of mirage

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What about other classes? What does the pros think of Deadeye for example?

Legendary Trinket questions/discussion

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Can we please have a way to allow players to craft more than 1 of these trinkets per account? I want to have them on more than 1 character.

Or you know, make it a skin.

Should I continue with Revenant?

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Revenant is a good class but it suffers a lot from design choices that makes no sense, Renegade is flawed since people won’t even play with Kalla legend and even the Shortbow, they’ll just take the spec to get the boost in condi damage and that’s it…

Reward tracks item saved with demo?

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Can I keep the items from the reward tracks if I put them in the bank after earning these with a demo character? Like Transmutation charges and other stuff.

We need more armor skins with PoF

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Why do you need more buttcapes, buttshields and buttcarpets?

I should have said I wanted good looking ones, my bad xD

We need more armor skins with PoF

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I also have to say that the upcoming armor sets are looking worse than the HoT ones. I mean HoT got at least one animated armor (Ley-Stone Armor), a huge batch of legendary weapons and all that minor side skins. If HoT was “only” a feature addon it is kinda sad that PoF, which has been advertised as content addon, barely offers more than HoT.
From what I can see in that datamined items, there are at least two cash shop weapon skin sets, 3 actual armor sets that are looking… okay… and some back pieces that are also not that special. C’mon. Creating such low level quality armor and weapon models such as in GW2 doesn’t require that much time in these days where some games are hitting a photo-realisitic level. What happened then? Did they run out of money or are they just cash grabbing?

Don’t forget legendary armors, it took them two years for a buttcape, a trenchcoat and a bulky when it takes like 1-2 months to release several gemstore items with glowing parts that you can dye like you want…

We need more armor skins with PoF

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Here’s a link to a preview of the upcoming stuff, unfortunately it’s not great news regarding trenchcoats and buttcapes.

http://dulfy.net/2017/08/09/gw2-upcoming-armor-outfits-and-weapons-from-path-of-fire/

Wow that’s pretty bad, why can’t they make stuff like the Black Witch Set (witch hat with hairstyle still rocking is a must) or Shira set in Dark Souls 3?

Here’s how the black witch set looks like

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We need more armor skins with PoF

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By that I mean real armor skins, not gemstore items and no more trenchcoats. Given the fact that Elona has an egyptian vibe, I’m sure there’s potential for decent skins especially light armors, the ones in HoT felt weak and not very original overall…

Legendary Trinket questions/discussion

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I still think HoT Legendaries (outside the armor set which is fine) are much more expensive than what they should be and this trinket is no exception.

Given the fact that it’s only 1 out of 6 slots it should cost 600-700g at best, right now it’s more expensive than the Ascension and some legendary weapons which is not ok…

All Mirage Skills and Traits

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Kinda late here but I’m gonna land it anyway: Are we forced to run Condi gear to play Mirage or it also works with Power?

Could we get some NEW Dungeon Content Please?

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and we get like 3 fractals in 2 years…. sick

As true as this is, it’s more like 3 fractals in 1 year and the other year Anet had no one working on them. Yes it is a cop out just like “Legendary armor was 1 year, twice” but since there is actually a fractal team now, we should be seeing them regularly which is nice.

Plus, seeing new fractals instead of dungeons lets them have each one being 100% unique compared to a dungeon which would have paths that go through the same area. There is also the fact that fractals can go to places that don’t make sense for dungeons, like the past, alternate realities, or space.

Edit: Also fractals scale in difficulty unlike dungeons.

cough cough Mini-raids cough

Firebrand!?!?

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Well, now I know why WP didn’t bother.
Karl McLain needs to go.

No!!!
Don’t tell me firebrand la designed by Karl…
Guardian has been butchered already once and the only thing guardian is good at now is vanilla guard on wvw.
You see the only class that keeps being meta only on one game mode….and in vanilla

If it is confirmed it is him I will not pay the expansion

He is thats why this is again most borring and lazy spec in this expansion which dont give anything new and fresh in pof. Quickness bots with 90 and 60 sec virtues cd.(NOT KITS)

Wow, if the tomes aren’t kits then the skills needs massive buffs or else this is going to suck anywhere, seriously who wants to play a class with such long CDs? Way to ruin the fun…

Which sword skin?

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The Shining Blade, best sword skin ever.

Holosmith Trailer!

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To be honest it feels dull and shallow in comparison to other elite specs. The heat mechanic better be good.

Are you serious? Spellbreaker and Deadeye are so bad compared to this.

Dead Eye

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The animations didn’t look very appealing and ranged DPS from the Rifle will probably be lower than Staff (or else it would be OP in Fractals and against some raid bosses).

Firebrand!?!?

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So again we get most lazy most borring spec in next expansion.

Tomes? Support? Why support cause we have already very good support????

Just look at those amazing other elite specs bringing somethin NEW to their specs….

Again lazyness at its best.

Pretty sure Firebrand will be worst in raids(and unwelcomed), wvw roaming if we dont get excellent tome surviving skills …. (remember DH pre hot when it was crap??)

I am not hyped. at all…

People who tested a while ago (don’t know if it’s true) said it could provide decent condi DPS and perma quickness at the same time.

Thaumanova Fractal boss teleporting at 50%

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Noticed that too today, he does some new projectile attack after porting so it looks intentional :X

I hope not, that boss was already bad for pugs, there’s no need to make T4 dailies longer…

Thaumanova Fractal boss teleporting at 50%

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Is this intended? He teleports to the other side of the area at 50%, go back to the middle at 25% just to teleport again immediately.

WTF did you do to fractals?

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There are two achievements.

Completing 100CM

Completing 100CM without anyone dying in the whole fractal (downed is fine afaik)

100 CM is not that tough (completed 2 days ago), the issue atm is Arkk which has way too much stuff going on at the same time, he should get fixed so people have more time to react.

WTF did you do to fractals?

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Not a big fan of the new fractal aswell, I completed the Challenge Mote yesterday and it was a huge mess, too many mechanics and colours for my eyes with a small area for the final boss.

I’m with OP in that case, I’m a raid player but fractals should never become raids or mini-raids, it’s also unbalanced because the boss fractals are way easier than Nightmare and Shattered Observatory…

Celestial infusion chest.

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2-3 months is not forever

That’s not even a legendary.

Right, some people crafted their legendary sword or hammer today, within 24 hours of it being released in the game

That’s not a good point, most of the materials are the same as the other HoT Legendaries, so they just had to buy the recipes and craft straight away…

Celestial infusion chest.

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2-3 months is not forever

That’s not even a legendary.

Celestial infusion chest.

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You need 90 Cosmic essences to get that one are you kidding? I only got one by completing the new fractal CM, that’s gonna take forever…

New CM Feedback

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Fractals should be as hard as it gets especially in CM. Play lower level if you can’t take it

I completed everything except some CM in Wing 4, I just don’t think it’s a good idea to make fractals look like raids, especially when they were supposed to be mini-dungeons, now they’re slowly turning into mini-raids…

New CM Feedback

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I kinda like that they take the chaotic aspect of matthias and just double it but true there are some buggs that make it not so enjoyable. But i wouldnt want tk see all the chaos go away. Mostly the unintented bugs.

Fractals should not be harder than raids, even if it’s CM.

S3E6 So far...

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“Congratulations, you escaped, now survive as long as you can”.

Oh, btw, we forgot to add that suddenly all enemies get 1000% damage boost for some reason. You now… “challenge”.

The final fight in the final instance is a clusterkitten, it’s as bad as Caudecus but with very generous checkpoints. Still not very funny and I did it as a Guardian, I had to deal with billions of AOEs and projectiles + unblockable attacks (I’m not a fan of it, it should only be a Challenge Mote thing) on top of it…

(Spoiler) Living Story S3E6 Discussion

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Post Chapter Spoilers

I watched the chapter play out, and Livia's characterization was one of the most insufferable yet. Your character rolls their eyes at it a couple of times at least, which is nice, but for the most part it seems like you’re supposed to accept it as heroic.

Yet again, I have to question the morality of the heroes. A hero brags about committing genocide this episode. Are we supposed to be happy about that? What kind of a threat was Lazarus at this point anyway? His people used to be a threat because there was a lot of them and they conspired to manipulate things in their favor. He’s just one person who never did much to begin with, and he couldn’t until this episode anyway, and only because the hero’s actions. It makes her come across as dangerously obsessed to me far more than it does him needing to be stopped.

Caudecus was a much bigger threat to Kryta than someone who had been sealed away and had no more allies (even the White Mantle hated Lazarus by this point), where was Livia then?

Also, I felt like the reveal for Livia was tailored to counter speculation about Anise, but all it did was make it feel more weird. Why have this running thing about Anise being way older than she appears and her trying to keep some questionable actions on the down low, when it’s actually a completely different, entirely new Shining Blade member who has that backstory. That’s dramatically strange, to say the least.

Finally, the ending was a big letdown compared to last time. Last time we had a huge build-up and a direct lead-in. This time we got a vision that was way too vague for me to understand or care (was quite surprised to see the player character be so confident about what they got from it), and then (what felt like an ad) teasing the real tease. It felt contrived because the chapter itself was essentially Livia's personal vendetta that hijacks the plot, with you only essentially only getting back on track as a reward for helping. The actual plots we were dealing with didn’t really get a climax in the climactic episode.

It’s seriously not that great compared to LS1 & LS2 finales, the final fights and what comes after for both really felt way more epic than this, I mean c’mon, Scarlet and Shadow of the Dragon were much more a threat and they were only champions…

New legendary hammer and sword

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Sword?!?

Wasn’t expecting that. :o

And it looks great: https://a.pomf.cat/lhbrvq.png

Yeah it looks amazing.

I can only realistically make this or Astralaria for Mirage… going to have to wait to see which weapon I end up using more, Sword or Axe before committing to one or the other.

I was going to start making Astralaria for my Mesmer and Guardian because of next elite specs but after seeing this, I’m doing the sword instead because Ele might get Sword aswell.

New legendary hammer and sword

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Sword?!?

Wasn’t expecting that. :o

And it looks great: https://a.pomf.cat/lhbrvq.png

The sword isnt trash!!!

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No lie, this might be the best legendary weapon they released in this expansion (Astralaria was first before this), visually of course, I’m interested about the footprints and projectiles now.

Wing 4 is too broken for me

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Not gonna continue arguing with you guys, as if it was the group fault for having 15 tears spawn at an alarming rate when these were cleared constantly every time we went through the realm and outside…

And even if wing 4 is the easiest wing, why most pugs have trouble with Deimos then?

Wing 4 is too broken for me

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Especially Deimos, wipe at 20% because over 15 tears shows up in the Demon Realm is really frustrating. Also Cairn green circles being invisible and Samarog doing a random reset out of nowhere…

Besides that I think Deimos mechanics are not fun to deal with, it’s just overwhelming, the fact that one guy is doing nothing is wrong to me, and the black goo is another thing to discuss because of how it works.

Legendary Armor: Feedback [merged]

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Medium Legendary armor is one of the ugliest sets they ever made.

Legendary Armor: Feedback [merged]

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Light armor is cool, Medium armor is very bad it’s another trenchcoat and Heavy is ok but not bulky enough for my Charr Guardian…

Next Elite specs like Caladbolg quest please

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I mean epic 1v1 against your next elite spec and some lore interaction in an instance at the end of the quest, that would be really sick.

So, Leadership runes...

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I’ve been gearing my Mesmer so far but these runes are really expensive, farming pieces to get the runes of thorn for my necromancer was nowhere near this, so I’m wondering if I really need these 30% Boon Duration or I can go with Durability runes instead?

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Isn’t condi Ranger best dps? I mean they could out-dps eles in certain situations and they got a buff (minor but a buff)

Yeah forgot about that, but with the recent changes made to Engineer and Thief, I don’t know now…

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Where did guardian get stronger?

They got greatsword buffs, Whirlwing Wrath has shorter CD and does 20% more damage, and the Symbol does 22% more damage, the other abilities have shorter CD aswell.

Also, blasting light fields cleanse conditions now which makes some encounters much easier.

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I’m pretty sure Thief is the best DPS now (followed by Engineer) since the big nerf of Meteor Shower (hits 2 times less than before) and Overload air (7% damage nerf), Ele might be on par with DH now (for small targets that is) which hopefully will deliver more love to the other professions.

ANet, what do you have in mind for last item?

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I expect a new fractal with challenge mote required at lvl100 for the last item.

Rant: Git gud at Cairn the Indomitable

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My pug group cleared this on like our 3rd try within an hr. Positioning is so easy on this due to the dash.

I don’t know why I have so much trouble finding groups like that, I killed the Mursaat Overseer and Samarog last week with pugs in a training group, could have done the same with Deimos, but Cairn? Nope, people still don’t dodge the swipes after a billion of tries and don’t res anyone…