This thread reminds me of that guy that some months (years?) ago completely remade the UI. Guess what happened? Yeah, exactly.
You’re wasting your efforts and good will here.
Can somebody please explain to me how that distortion works? I checked mesmer and I see there is a trait which shares it for 1 second with the party, but how is it possible that I see it on the warrior for like 7 seconds?
edit: And of course, congratulations! It was amazing to watch it.
Well of Precognition gives 3 seconds of distortion (+1 extra second to allies with inspiring distortion trait). Then you give everyone 1 second of distortion when using a signet (blurred inscriptions + inspiring distortion). Then you have F4 for another aoe distortion…
But this is probably going to end with the incoming patch :p
I was being constructive. D/D is crap, period. Yeah yeah, maybe it has single target highest damage, I don’t know, but it give you no utility whatsoever. Staff gives you aoes, plenty of dodges/escapes, blinds.
If you don’t have the xpac you will be subpar (of an already subpar class lol), you need to be aware of that.
Acrobatics line is crap, you shoul definitely go as you said, crit/DA/trick.
1)Yes, reroll your class. Thief can dish out some good damage, but they offer nothing to the group. I’m not saying having a Thief means fail, just that a Revenant can deal same damage, but at the same time they buff the group.
2)As for your gear, get some marauder stuff (power, prec, ferocity, vitality). You don’t lose much dps, but gain lots of survivability. Aim for 14-15k HP.
Drop dual daggers please, that’s so old. Either run a staff or /p for blind fields.
For the love of God, throw those dolyak runes out of the window, and replace them with scholars.
Drop acrobatics and get daredevil. What? You don’t have the xpac? Too bad.
I also prefer trickery over deadly arts. You lose some dps, but gain much more utility.
Thief is a fun class, but in PvE we’re at the scum tier right now.
What Agnes said. I have 8 GB RAM and run into some serious frame drops during very huge meta events. In those cases, I have to lower the graphics a little bit.
2 months later and I’ve seen everything the xpac had to offer. Now I’m back to grinding the same stuff over and over for cosmetics, like the good old times.
This is the whole Mesmer situation again, where they kept nerfing them patch after patch, even the dumbest things, for no absolute reason. It took 3 years of whining to get them to properly fix it.
So yeah, be patient follow thieves, in 3 years maybe we’ll have a decent profession.
I don’t want to go off on a tangent but WHATTTTTT? The Mesmer has for at least 90% of GW2’s life been close to the OP line and sometimes crossed it. There was this short time when condi got nuked but then they buffed it and brought in Perplexity. Mesmers are still probably the strongest of the non-Elites in duels, roaming and skirmish. They still possess as much or more utility than just about any other class.
If their is a comparison it would be to the Ranger which suffered patch after patch of nerfs until it was laughably easy to kill even skilled ones.
They were good in duels, but that’s it. They were completely useless in PvE (guardians did everything better), in WvW they were veil bots and in PvP they were rallybots in teamfights.
This is the whole Mesmer situation again, where they kept nerfing them patch after patch, even the dumbest things, for no absolute reason. It took 3 years of whining to get them to properly fix it.
So yeah, be patient follow thieves, in 3 years maybe we’ll have a decent profession.
Last time I tried this meta, I saw a staff guardian. So yeah, no wonder it fails all the time.
When designing these events, Anet need to remember that some pugs are kittened.
Daredevil is top physical dps in the game on goreseval.
For what its worth.
Why?
Assuming others provide the 25 might and fury, which any good comp should, it simply has the highest sustained damage in the game. The rotation is a simple dodge, staff 2, then a full auto chain while you reposition.
This combines a huge list of modifiers and strictly speaking is the highest direct damage build available. Dare devil alone adds 10% 10% and 7% mods. Then you have all the ones from crit strikes and deadly arts.
Staff 2 on a large hitbox is the most initiative efficent damage outside of low health heartseeker. You can also deal damage during situations where most other classes have to stop their damage to either dodge or use cc, since both your xodge and cc skills contribute good damage.
Laslty, invigorating precision transfers your damage into slef sustain making you very durable during a fight even without a healer.
The only reason Heralds appear to have crazy damage is Quickness uptime, but a good chronomancer can time warp every 30 seconds, and a heralds f2 buff can extend that quickness better than the herald using impossible odds, so the thief can have their better base damage buffed even higher with all of the offensive support from others.
Basically, while a thief doesnt bring offensive support, it benefits the most from offensive support provided by others rather than doubling up on say 3 revs or extra warriors or chronos.
Thanks for the infos, I’ll keep them in mind when I’ll get to that boss.
Just did this with 2 thieves (one was me). Stealth is removed upon striking the seal, but at that point I simply used shadowstep to get back in the tunnel quickly.
What class are you playing? I solo’d most champions with my thief.
I remember only a couple I had to ask help for (VB, the one in the bottom left, and TD, the one with the sniper and some adds).
Try looking for a cheese build for your class. For example, thief has P/P with dodges and inv precision, mesmer has condi staff.
It just happened for the second time: only ~5 mins remaining till night time, and my whole party was moved to different instances of VB, making us lose all the progress to tier 4 and partecipation. What is this?
Getting an organized VB is already tough, now you even get moved out of your map for no reason.
If you want to play HoT, then no. Thief range options are pretty bad even with buffed pistols, Thief will die in melee from almost any mob. If you want to tryhard even in pve then go ahead, I dont enjoy getting killed by almost every mob.
What? No, you don’t. Just learn to use your dodges and blinds, and drop that frigging no quarter and run inv. precision instead.
I have a couple marauder gears, running at 15k HP w/o any major issues.
1 hour ago we had a nice t4 going, but 5 minutes before night everyone was moved to different maps, out of nowhere, just like that. That was some real bullkitten.
I’m not saying it’s okay setting everything to low.
They’re working on a fix that will probably take some time. It’s not an issue that can be solved in a couple minutes. In the meantime stop whining and be patient.
Yeah, setting (almost) everything to low has definitely solved the crashing problem for me. Done 3 DSs without any crash. It’s a temporary solution I can deal with while waiting for a fix.
I’ve been crashing exclusively in DS, during the meta event. Everytime I attempt it, I crash at least once.
A few times I’ve been lucky enough to get back in the map, but most times I’m not that lucky.
It wouldn’t be such a big issue if the game reserved you a spot for like 10 minutes after crashing. But no, you crash, you lose everything. Fix this ASAP please.
Just don’t know why they would change the pull when there was nothing wrong with it in the first place. This is just a flat out nerf stated in different words.
My bet is they kittened it up unintentionally when they increased its refectable area.
Let’s hope it won’t take them 6+ months again.
If it’s intended… meh.
