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I read a post about having a pick-and-ban phase in our matches and I thought to myself, “I wonder how we can do that?”. Note, this is not a serious post since the development time required for this might be a bit much to implement. Think of this as more of a “what-if” proposition.
Before, I continue, this is kinda of like drafting your class and hopefully rewards the people who are most flexible/creative in pvp. It also, kinda requires a working knowledge of more than one profession if you want to play effectively.
Also, this is a long-time-investment format. (not sure what else to call it haha…)
So here’s my idea:
First! Profession Picking Phase
After the map has been selected, each player locks in a profession to play. This means we would need a new UserInterface/System that lets the player select the profession they want to play as, regardless of which profession enter the queue with. We would need a default skin for each professionXraceXgender combo. Of course, this will also be the option to play as one of your alts. (If we want to implement some sort of anti class stacking thing, we would do it here as well) .
Next step, Banning!
Once the professions have been selected, it’s now time for the specialization banning phase
Now that you know what your enemies are playing, your team can ban out specializations that the enemy team can’t play with. As for the number you can ban, I leave up for discussion. For now, let’s just give each team 5 points worth of banning, where core specializations are 1 point, and elite specializations are 2 points. This means you can ban out 2 elite 1 core, 1 elite and 3 core, OR 5 core specialization! This leads to metrics on which specializations are the most banned, and hopefully can aid a bit in learning which specs need more work (but this time with metrics
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One extra restriction: each profession(on that team) may only have as many specializations banned as that same professions on that team. This means, if there is only one mesmer on your team, only one mesmer specialization can be banned. If your team is crazy enough to play 5 of the same profession, the enemy is allowed to ban 5 of your core specializations. So, play nice and don’t stack.
Last but not least! The build phase!
Each player gets 3 minutes to quickly select their Weapons, Utilities, Healing, Elite, Runes, Sigils, Pets…. AKA their build. Anet already has a very good build swapping UI set up so I commend them for this, but it could always be improved if they had some build saving mechanism. Don’t forget, you might not have access to some of your specializations, but that’s probably because you picked a profession that everyone think is OP.
Then we play a best out of 3, gets rewards, and hopefully not get facerolled. Inbetween rounds, the losing team gets a 1 minute break period to update their builds.
That’s the core of the idea.
Questions? Helpful criticisms? Discuss please :]
edit: spelling errors
(edited by DragonFlu.7314)
Specific Game Mode
PvP
Proposal Overview
Changing Empathic Bonds to be more active
Goal of Proposal
Give the player access to more active condition removal.
Proposal Functionality
Change Empathic Bonds so the pet takes away 2-3 conditions when called back (hitting F3) on a 10 sec cd. Also, as a quality of life change, it would be awesome to be able to see how many seconds we left on trait cooldowns.
Associated Risks
Rangers must learn to where the F3 key is. Jokes aside, this would mean the player must look at his conditions to decide the best time to use the condi-cleanse, but forgetting to send the pet back out to fight (F1) may get the ranger into sticky situations… At the very least, it should be more engaging then how the Empathic Bonds currently works.
Changes I would like to see with ranger skills and traits:
Serpent’s strike: add a 1 second immobilize to the skill to last the duration of the skill.
We are channeling the spirit of the snake, and although the constricting snakes don’t really use poison, I think the immob will provide some good utility for pvp and roaming wvw
Hornet Sting: Either reduce starting animation frames or add evasion frames at the start of the skill, or both
You hit people with bees which equals semi-panic, so a mini daze that lasts for smallest duration technically possible makes sense. The intention is to use the hornet’s sting as an interrupt, which when paired with Moment of Clarity will let Monarch’s Leap hit harder and help a bit with setting up pet bursts. At the same time, making the interrupt too long will make such a low cd daze/stun kinda OP…suggestions for balancing this one plox!
Two-Handed Training: This really should be a 10% damage increase to make it more compelling to for us to pick up. ALSO I think it should work on our bows too…cuz we use two hands for those things hahaha.
Opening Strikes: When pets are swapped in, they would automatically have Opening Stikes if you have 15 points down the Marksmanship line.
Signet of the Hunt: When this is applied to the pet, it would instantly refresh the “burst” skill on the pet, interrupt whatever it’s current action may be, and force the pet to use the “burst” skill on it’s next attack.
A quality of life change imo so the pet utilizes this buff better. NOTE that only the signet should refresh the pet’s skill but Moment of Clarity shouldn’t.
Traps in general: Spike Trap can you plz pulse 2 stacks of bleed and cripple every 2 seconds? Also, it would be nice to give all traps the ability to immoblize on activation if you are traited in Trapper’s Expertise, similar to how the trait affect Spike Trap.
Entangle: Can this sap a little endurance every tick. Also, create a circle of bramble around yourself so you can use it as area denial.
Search and Rescue: Reduce the cooldown on this, to something like 15-25 seconds. It’s not that useful right now, AND fix that pvp cooldown…it’s still 180 seconds for a res that isn’t instant res or even that fast.
Lightning Reflexes: Increase the damage from this skill. That way it could potentially be used in a burst combo. A stun would be nice too, but I don’t think rangers should get access to too many hard CCs.
Beastmaster’s Bond: uh…i’m not sure what to do about this…maybe allow it to give you 3 seconds of quickness as well?
Predator’s Instinct: change this to siphon hp instead of cripple but keep the internal CD
Bark Skin: Does anyone use this? maybe make it trigger at 50% but would that make it too strong?
I wonder when we will get a land pet that can put down a smoke field =[
All I had on my mind at the moment. Feedback would be great!