Guild Wars 2

I don’t play much WvW anymore if any at all to be honest. Mostly because of this stupid server linking that occurred. I don’t have much to say on the subject, but I personally don’t like it and I wish I wouldn’t have blown off the poll that voted it in haha. Anyways most of the people that used to be into WvW aren’t online anymore, and sure maybe new people have come around, but I miss the old people that used to really enjoy WvW for what it was. You could zerg, you could roam, you could capture camps all day, you could escort yaks, and it just seems like its not the same anymore. Anyways thats my 2 cents on it. I miss the old FC where we had some server pride.

drcraig.9403:

Shaogin.2679:

Seems i need to repost this…

Wow, that time of the month already for some of you eh?

Okay, first of all, stop comparing condis to other games and trying to impose their laws on this game. Condis are not a “kill your enemy slow” source of damage. They are an alternate source of damage, just a different way to play.

Ok, more bubble popping time…..most condi builds require at least 2 of the following to be effective, condi damage, precision, and expertise. Boy this sounds alot like power builds needing power, precision, ferocity. Now now I know what you’re thinking, “But wait, power builds MUST HAVE all 3 of those stats, but but but condi reall only needs 1!” Not true my friend, plenty of power builds drop either ferocity or precision to take more defensive stats, aka our bruisers. This reduces their potential damage, just the same as condi users do when they go for their defensive stats.

Now on to the gameplay. You say “Well condi is just applied by autos and passives!” Well……yeah, welcome to how everything, including power damage, works in GW2. You telling me that you guys don’t have passives that deal direct damage or auto attacks that deal direct damage?

Now, mitigation is another topic I see often. Let’s set one thing straight to start with, the majority of methods for avoiding direct damage is the same for avoiding condi damage (aka block, blind, dodge, etc). Well then you guys say “Well condis go right through armor and protection, but power damage doesn’t!” Well that is true, but please tell me, what do condi cleanses and resistance do to power damage? Nothing right? Yup, they only effect condi damage. But here is the real kicker, whereas armor and protection reduce direct damage, resistance and condi cleanse completely negate condi damage. Poor power builds, sounds like they have it so hard.

Now for an example. My 2 favorite builds to play are Flamethrower Engi and Maurauder Engi, cause you know, Scrapper be boring as kitten. Now when I’m playing my condi Engi, I have fun setting a bunch of noobs on fire and bursting them down quick. However, I have no use in a teamfight due to constant group cleanses and my lack of aoe condi application. I accept that though, just one of my build’s weaknesses. But then I come across decent players that, gasp, bring condi cleanse, and I most often have to severely outplay them, disengage, or die. After a while of that I get bored and hop on my power Engi, and enjoy dealing much higher burst damage that isn’t completely negated, and I get to enjoy throwing my grenades into team fights and making a difference.

So this whole power vs condi argument is ridiculous. They are alternate methods of achieving the same goal, that’s it. Please stop kidding yourself into thinking one requires more skill than the other, they don’t. At some point you have to accept that the condi player that killed you either a) had a really easy time cause you didn’t want to or don’t know how to use your condi clear or, b) you were prepared to fight a condi class but you were simply outplayed. Stop blaming the game for your own shortcomings, unless of course it’s one of those patches where Anet completely broke something…..cause that does actually happen sometimes.

Sigh…since when does “condi cleanse completely negate condi damage?” You take damage until you cleanse don’t you? Or, how about this. You have 8 conditions on you ( this happens all the time ) you can cleanse 3, do the other 8 stop dealing damage? No, I didn’t think so. Condition damage and stacking is out of control. I don’t for one second believe you should be able to cleanse 100% of the applied conditions all the time. I do however think that cleansing 10 condis to only have 10 more stack on you 3 seconds later is a problem. I also think it’s a lazy and unskilled playstyle.

So a cleanse is more of a mitigation then?

brannigan.9831:

What a joke. It’s always some amulet that is a problem. It’s too hard to make tough decisions so make easy ones. Necros thank you for a bigkitten

Whats a necro?

Pretty solid subreddit, thanks for this!

ds dante.3209:

Yeah actually curses could be a good trait line to put on , atm is maybe the least used traitline on the necro

Curses is a very strong traitline.

I cant tell if the game is too hard or too easy based off these forums. Its like every post about something being terrible has a post saying the exact opposite.

fonvitale.9621:

Hi,

Third week. No explanation.

More games played and the meta starts to settle down.

With the current state I think that we can say:

- There are classes which can stack much more condis (even hard damage condis) than necros can. Therefore, these classes have better condi damage than necros. Furthermore, some of these classes can apply condis while not receiving damage (invulns) or while ccing.
- There are classes which can clear condis at a much higher rate than necros can reaply them.
- There are classes which can heal at a much higher rate than the damage done by necros.

These things are features of the main classes of the current meta. It is so now and before the patch. So, why the huge nerf to necros? Was it so necessary?

I like to see the community offering solutions. It demostrates how much love we have for the game. But remember that a solution is required when a problem exists. Who has made the problem? Is our work or responsability to offer a solution if we have not even received a coherent explanation? As a customer, I am very disappointed.

Hugh said: “Players, fight for your game mode”. I say: “Anet, fight for your game. If not, look what is being developed”.

I’m not going to ask for more explanation. Bearshaman was right. I’m crying in the wilderness. I’m just going to play until get no more fun.

Thank you all.

Just out of curiousity, does threatening to take your ball home ever work? I mean why not just like offer a solution in a different thread? Constructive criticism would probably draw a response faster than passive aggressive comments.

Hep me Anet I’m stuck.

Caredelth.1324
DrParadise.2506

Hey thanks for all the support folks! It was an awesome time, and we will be posting more videos in the future!

Also ET, whenever we clash its been a worthwhile fight. I wish there were more worthy opponents FC could fight like yourselves. Stay strong and keep fighting the good fight!

Just some fights from LION’s fight’s this past reset!

“https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQU-4dSkELA”

Most DR, but overall a fun reset!