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Why would you want might out of combat?
My guess it to stack it up before combat starts.
But even if you could hypothetically put out every boon with 100% uptime, the biggest problem with Herald (in PvE) has always been that the only Herald boons that people care about are Might/Fury, and other classes can easily provide those while offering other unique buffs as well (banners, empower allies, spotter, spirits, grace of the land) AND in the case of a CPS or Condi Ele, easily out dps the Herald while doing so.
Now if they gave Herald a unique buff people cared about, it’d be right back in the meta… Something like, I dunno, making Natural Resonance increase Condi Duration as well as Boon Duration. Yeah, they should do that.
Pretty much. I think if it provided more boons than it currently did it would be a nice utility function, but right now it doesn’t provide enough of anything. It could use more might stacks, more boons, less clunkiness, some kind of unique utility… just something. It excels at nothing and does the job it has poorly.
Right now its only good at passively buffing itself or providing a high uptime on Protection. Protection doesn’t work on condition damage and it cripples you really badly to run it due to the cost, and even buffing yourself that much doesn’t make you a better DPS than others (and some other classes can provide themselves just as much Might).
What I mean by every boon at once is that you have access you every boon in the game at any time and can share, which again, no one else has.
Where’s my Vigor? Quickness? Aegis? Retaliation? Stability/Resistance I suppose for a very short amount of time if I switch to the other legends and turn everything else off.
If Herald truly had access to “all the boons” at “any time” and could share them all, then yeah, what you’re saying would make some sense. Lower stacks of might in exchange for all that, and lower DPS due to energy to upkeep all of them. However, it just isn’t the case.
Herald was nerfed because you can give everyone every buff all the time by doing nothing. It has an incredible good reward/mastery ratio simply because there really isn’t much to master and in raids it was/is preferred to not use skills ever just to maximize the facet uptime which is incredibly boring to play. I won’t deny that it was nerfed too hard and is pretty much useless now and id only ever bring it for the f2 activation or sustain in brings with shield/traits.
Herald is sort of a jack of all trades support, and can do almost every boon (no quickness ever and only one of resistance, stability or alacrity at once) at once to everyone and that strong on its own.
As for Herald falling to the way side for Renegade, I highly doubt it. Renegade is stupidly weak in comparison to Herald in every aspect other than maybe your own damage.
You say it does “almost every boon”, but what really? Ideally you’d only be maintaining Fury, Might, and Resonance; you don’t have the upkeep to do anything else. The Protection facet is pretty good, I’ll admit, but you simply don’t have the upkeep. You cripple your ability to do anything else by using it, and it doesn’t help against conditions. You could probably come up with some neato rotation to maintain Fury, Protection, Swiftness, and Regeneration, but either way your Might stacks are gonna be crippled. Regeneration seems almost pointless unless you have the healing power to back it up; maybe I’m wrong in that regard. Swiftness is a minor convenience in most fights and provided by tons of professions.
It provides no unique buffs like banners/other auras, and the amount of Might stacks is just way too low. If it at least provided a lot of hard CC or vulnerability it could have that going for it, but it doesn’t. No quickness, a poor generation of alacrity at high cost (rip all other boons and hard to maintain)… and a huge heavy ball and chain to do the little things that class DOES do.
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Herald looks like an amazing concept. I’m coming back to the game (old player), trying to decide what class I want to focus on, and Herald looks right up my alley. All of its skills are dedicated to buffing and I actually like the upkeep mechanic, it seems like it has a lot of potential (though I agree with all the energy concerns). I love the lore, the theme, everything about it. I want to play this class.
I understand there is an ongoing campaign at the moment for people to push ArenaNet to improve the energy management of the class; and while that is all entirely true and valid, even ignoring that, I feel like Herald’s support is way lower than it should be.
For an elite specialization entirely focused around buffs, I feel it is lacking. I compare it to options like Warrior, and with one utility skill they almost match the maximum boons granted by Revenant (For Great Justice). On top of that, they have tons of banners that can be used that completely demolish Revenant in support… and that’s just Warrior. Lots of other classes are preferred for support and provide much better options/buffs/support than Herald does, while doing “solid” dps or providing party healing (which Herald can swap to, but stops all boon generation).
Why is Herald’s support so weak? Why has it been kept this way for so long? Not only is it weak, but it comes with so many strings attached. If you want to actually do some damage, you have to stop using the support to use its damage skills… and while that can be considered a worthwhile tradeoff, the support isn’t even good enough. Trying to maintain a decent flow of boons cripples your ability to use your weapon skills; and for what? It’s not strong enough. Other classes can use their support without worry. Herald has to avoid using a lot of its skills just to try to maintain that support, while other classes can just freely do their rotation, or at worst, set a utility skill or two and use them on cooldown. Those classes only get better at support with things like Alacrity, but that doesn’t benefit Herald’s support at all. I would be totally okay with this if Herald’s support was super strong to compensate maintaining all those facets, but it’s abysmal.
I’ve been researching around the forum, looking at polls, and Herald is considered one of the least popular elite specializations. Many forum users seem to consider it as a necessary evil, including it in their Revenant builds because they feel they have to. In the history of patches, it has received only 1-2 minor buffs (and not to support), but has received a fair number of nerfs. It has never been considered “popular” or “strong” outside of Naturalistic Resonance, which just buffs OTHER, BETTER supports to do THEIR job better. This was promptly nerfed and Herald went back down to the depths. Not only was this not a great defining role for Herald, it gutted the only thing they were actually useful for in support, and made Herald even worse at doing their own job.
With Path of Fire around the corner, and Revenant getting ANOTHER support specialization (???), I feel like Herald is going to fall to the wayside. Am I alone in thinking this could use some buffs? I WANT to play this spec and enjoy it, and I definitely know I’m not alone, but I feel like ArenaNet is just not letting it be that way due to the balance.
I make this post out of concern, and hopes that something can change, or I can be proven wrong that Herald is actually a great support. Maybe I’m just missing something, because even after all the years have gone by since the release of Heart of Thorns, nothing has changed… in fact, it’s only gotten worse.
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Disabling SLI had no difference on FPS besides shifting the GPU usage all onto one GPU. Bus speed of the GPU is normal.
Anyone else have this problem?
Getting ready to maybe play the new expansion, and once again, I realize this game has horrible FPS issues for me…
I have i7 4790k, 32GB RAM, and GTX 1080 x2 in SLI. I play basically every game I have in 4k at 60-144 FPS with absolutely no issue.
Then we have Guild Wars 2. I barely manage to maintain 40 FPS in most areas on 1080p. It gets worse or better depending on how populated the area is, dropping below 30 FPS or even further for very spiky gameplay. Changing the graphics settings doesn’t seem to do anything besides shadows (I have those off). Even supersampling/ambient occlusion/etc don’t change the FPS at all.
Is this normal for this game? Does it just run terribly? I’m used to playing other MMOs (like WoW or FFXIV) and they do not have this issue.
My driver doesn’t crash, the entire computer crashes. But, thanks for your input.
bump, still an issue. :|
I figured it might be heat or power related, but as far as I can tell, it’s not.
My CPU can reach about 72C, but why is it only this game that has a problem? And why only during certain content? That is a “warm” temperature, but for an 4790k, I’m being told they can go up to 90C before it starts to become an issue.
My only guess is it might be power, as I only have a 750W PSU, but different websites are giving me conflicted estimates on how much I truly need. I also have played much more graphical intensive games than this (Battlefront 3, FFXIV, other games with max GPU load nonstop) and I never crashed in those.
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Hi,
I came back to Guild Wars 2 for the expansion, enjoying it etc, etc. I’ve been playing it for a few days now, have gotten to level 70 something, done tons of different dungeons and gone through many zones, everything is great. I play for hours in a single sitting.
However, in two very specific locations, my computer will straight up shutdown: on, then off. I’ve had this happen:
-In a Sylvari personal story quest. It makes you go through a mirror and into Orr. At a very specific spot in the mission (while fighting mobs, give or take ~5 seconds being in that part of the mission), my computer will shut off. It has happened in that same spot 3 times consistently. I still have not cleared this mission.
-In the Eye of the North. I’ve had this happen once (I’ve gone there once). I was checking out the vendor and moving around a bit before it happened.
Everywhere else the game is perfectly fine. My computer temperatures don’t seem abnormal. I’ve also not had this happen in any other game I’ve played (which is a large variety of computer games, including ones more graphical intensive than this). Any idea why this could be happening?
My computer:
i7 4790k
GTX970 x2 (SLI)
1600 32GB RAM
Game settings:
All set to highest except:
Shadows (High)
Depth blur (Off)
LoD reduction (Off)
EDIT: Happened again during the story mission “Dead of Winter” in the tomb.
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I have been unable to login to my account for, at minimum, 12 days now. I quit playing for a while and contacted support when I tried to login and it stated I was suspended. We talked, and then they stated they would contact me as soon as possible… and yet still, nothing.
Below are screenshots. I really don’t know what else to do, it’s been over 10 days since they’ve said anything. I even tried poking the ticket by saying something but still, nothing. Can’t play the game.
Suspended: https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-tJMftHxQrbk/ULSh9SX_AcI/AAAAAAAAB4I/RSKhwidrrIg/s921/guild_wars_banned.png
Customer Support: https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-PBhuNzbVbUY/ULShj8T0aiI/AAAAAAAAB4A/h4KZqsl3uAk/s894/cant_login.png
I have been unable to login to my account for, at minimum, 12 days now. I quit playing for a while and contacted support when I tried to login and it stated I was suspended. We talked, and then they stated they would contact me as soon as possible… and yet still, nothing.
Below are screenshots. I really don’t know what else to do, it’s been over 10 days since they’ve said anything. I even tried poking the ticket by saying something but still, nothing. Can’t play the game.
Customer Support: https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-PBhuNzbVbUY/ULShj8T0aiI/AAAAAAAAB4A/h4KZqsl3uAk/s894/cant_login.png
Death shroud was a silly idea to begin with. It’s nifty I guess, but it’s so unnecessary and being in it isn’t fun.
The minions are just so unreliable, their AI is stupid. Half the time they don’t attack, other times they walk into an AoE and just die. Their whole issue with attacking things is the real problem though.
Use the keys, not the chests
Certain (elite?) skills are bugged when your level scales down. They don’t provide the proper benefit that they do if you don’t scale down.
The reason I know this is true is because if I use an ability like Become the Bear in an area where my level isn’t being affected, my HP goes up a very large amount (around double). If my level is modified AT ALL (even -1) then I only get 1-2k HP and it’s a very small increase. I would assume this is not only affecting vitality, but also the other stat benefits it grants.
Biggest examples I have include:
Become the Bear
Tome of Courage
Likely also affects:
Tome of Wrath
All other Norn forms
Other stat scaling skills