So should I invest in commanders armor or can a berserker tank chrono be enough for these raid bosses? So far only tanked VG in full zerker except a ring so not sure about the rest.
Guaranteed rewards sound pretty bad, depends on if the droprates for the other stuff are good/if we can get something out of those.
While not present at the release of raids, we’ll also be adding new guild decorations that can be built to showcase your guild’s raiding accomplishments.
This one made me laugh though. Is Anet even capable of pushing out content in a complete form?
Raid leaderboards coming soon!
They are good at breakbars, and are in a much better place than they were a few months ago, so yea I wouldn’t sweat about it. Break bar away!
I think i’ve gotten it to proc one time or another, changed from using it though to 25% movespeed cause open world.
So overall consensus is no need for dagger anymore on reaper? Greatsword all the way?
Isn’t ranger with torch like second best damage with an easy rotation?
Ascended armor really was and should have been the reward, especially if they want / expect people to have ascended in raids.
The living story achievments give viper amulets?
You want to bring guardianway back to the meta?
Has any1 ever started a mass guilt trip on Anet to get them to release dungeons? For example start a mass petition to donate 10$ to a charity of Anet’s choice if they implement a new dungeon.
My god I actually love this idea.
This change is disgusting. You already spend more time skipping than actually fighting (except for HotW or low man parties) and now they buff DPS out of the kitten while nerfing mobility to the ground.
Obviously one has to see how it will turn out, but I think dungeons will be really boring with this change.
Not just dungeons, everything is less entertaining with bad mobility. WvW, open world PvE and even for some builds PvP are all affected.
“Hey, let’s make it harder for everyone to move around!”
I wonder who had that great idea…
Prelude to mounts / world gliders?
This thread proves it, we need to nerf swiftness. The proof is right there.
Basically, the signet is a fantastic idea, but its current implementation makes it unwanted in pvp, pve and all other modes. This could be a great dps signet / utility signet if it were just changed.
-No blast finisher
-No alternative way to spend the Life Force
-Heal that still will be outclassed by Consume Conditions. Hard.
-No stun breaker on shouts
-No alternative way to spend the Life Force
-No projectile defense, focus defense
-Still soaks the damage, now reduced by 15% if you manage to keep Chill on all attackers
-No alternative way to spend the Life Force
-No really interesting traits
-No direct boon support to allies, not even with might.
-Long cast times.
-No new Conditions on the Condition-based profession. No slow, no taunt
I think this about sums it up, still lot of useless utilities and skills and traits. And those shouts, my god…
Should be other ways to get ascended. Not just crafting. (Surefire ways, not RNG)
Vampiric shout, allies gain lifesteal on hit for the next 10 seconds.
Well for the casual crowd, dumbing things down might be the way to go. I mean they did make that hyena thread.
Wonder when they will close down this thread and go to General Dungeon Discussion Thread – Part 3, the threeckoning
Actually I didn’t mean that sarcastically, well the “dot dot dot” part is but that’s more me stuck working in the system and not directed to anyone on the forums.
I have been poking about this fix for a month now or so internally now. Been asking to get someone in here to talk to everyone about this bug and what’s up with it but as of yet no dice. I am doing everything I can to get this resolved or some explanations for you guys.
But yeah, I have some extremely tied hands and poking with my poking stick is about all I can do because I don’t control development or production schedules or design decisions. I do take screenshots of comments and paste them into some internal emails though… And the # of live reports, and the forum links, etc. I can make a huge ruckus when it’s needed, but in general everything I do is behind the scenes and I don’t take credit or spill the beans on what occurred to get it to that point.
While I have all the answers, really I am the next thing to a walking encyclopedia of the GW2 bug DB at any time, I can’t really go around shouting what is happening one way or the other because it can change daily… and letting some things I know be known would probably result in my not working for ArenaNet anymore. That’s something that would be kinda poopy and I would like that not to happen, so I avoid it and instead just say slightly nebulous things like “soon” when I see a fix coming for the next release. One day that “soon” will have some real intent behind it. Today actually seems like a good day to “soon” some threads so…
Also yes, reading and responding on the forums is not actually part of my job. I got to a point where I just really didn’t like how you guys felt ignored in this forum and I’m trying to do something about it. I tend to only post positively and I won’t respond to all threads.
tl;dr I will keep fighting the good fight on your behalf.
Thank you very much, really nice to see any proof of life. Know that you are a friend of the dungeon community now! Nice to know there are those that still want to help and make others happy!
Think its doable to do at least some 45 seconds of quickness with the mesmer, just using time warp + quickness well and the chronomancy shatter thing. Which should be more than overkill.
So now all we need is a dedicated dungeon team and we are set!
Engi: overpowered shot
I would prefer Net Shot to Overcharged Shot. Both have their uses and I love them dearly. But Net Shot is truly underrated in PvP. Then I also love Slick Shoes for its ridiculously long CC duration. Using them against the Golems in Aetherblade fractal or against the Kitty Golems are so much fun! And not forget about our Elixir elite <3
But the pun :o
You had me there! /o\
Ha! Haha! Iris you now owe me a hug!!
Back to overpowered stuff. Ele’s one is attenment switching: not only do you get 5 New skills, you can trait the attenment to give buffs!!
Edit: you guys have it all wrong about memsers btw. The most overpowered skill they have is illusion of life! What can be more OP than res’ing you whole party in one go :o
So warbanner?
Not sure how i feel about those traits, shatter phantasm has the potential to be strong but if the phantasms still drop like flies, too early to tell.
Would love a “spend x lifeforce, grant aegis and might to allies, apply weakness and vuln to yourself” or something like that.
Make lifesteal scale with might, add vampiric aura, ferocity aura and it will be a start.
Yall do know Raid Dungeons are coming right? Its in the works…
Sourcerino?
Hope and imagination. All we know so far about “challenging group content” is open world boss pve zergfest. Many hope it’s otherwise, but really, unprobable.
I can see the LFG groups now, “exp meta builds, not HoT powercreepers”.
Right all professions are getting specializations, if you get the paid expansion. For those players who don’t or can’t get the expansion, they will be getting a bit left behind compared to the new professions.
Examples being chronomancer quickness + alacrity + phantasm blowout fire sale or the guardians 15% partywide damage increase + walking aegis / wall of reflect + insane traps.
It was to my understanding specializations were going to compete with the normal professions, but so far its hard to see how.
Does chaos storm shotting count?
Yea i’m noticing a huge power creep with both, they really going to turn this into pay to win unless they balance normal skills accordingly.
Well this sells it:
Big Game Hunter: Striking an enemy tethered by your spear of justice causes vulnerability with every attack and increase 15% damage dealt. This will boost your allies’s damage as well with all the vulnerability stacks.
Guardians get their very own vulnerability now.
What i’m worried, that 1s vulnerability, will mobs still have unshakeable? The mobs will have half a second of vulnerability every second? Sounds weird.
So you are saying that the tomes are… on the table?
Seems the new specialization has dps increase traits, at least 25% increase. How does the aegis wall work, is it actual perma aegis or for the duration or?
Whats a dungeon?
It’s like a living story instance, except people whine about it.
Can switch your character for an alt when boss is at 50%, depending on computer speed. Done.
I wrote:“50, gearcheck, swp rdy”. Would you be mad with me if I kick you for wearing celestials?
Yes, you elitist.
Gearcheck=you just ping and every build is perfectly fine.
Play how you want.P.S. Imma kick every single pug guardian on sight after HoT. Every single one.
I’ll kick every ranger, unless they can send me a picture, that proofs, that they’re using quickdraw.
Double-pewpew.
“Pewpewpewpew” O_O
WvW thief scrublords are already crying…the tears will be delicious.
Rune of the warrior quickdraw meta is coming. The meta is changing!
More than balancing around ascended, could just make ascended more accessible, you know, PHYW, get it for completing the “challenging content”, fractal rewards (Not RNG) etc. The fact that only reliable way to get it is crafting is what is wrong, its a gold sink.
Can’t help but feel that if they moved Forceful Greatsword to the last trait line we’d have a more balanced situation similar to what we have currently.
Yeah and kill GS for other parts of the game.
I really hate that kind of suggestions because these who suggested them don’t take a moment or two to think about the consequences in PvP WvW.
Anet only balances around pvp, so why throw those suggestions when they are already thinking about it. They need pve / wvw / dungeon balance.
Funny how silence can send such a loud and clear message.
Basically the last 2 years is more than enough of a message.
No worries, everyone will call it guardbow anyway…
Tardbow or bluebow are valid options too.
I wonder if the symbol damage is stackable, more symbols = more damage? Might be overlooked. 4 guardian 1 war parties!
Let’s remove the chance for others to learn how to dodge because I have mastered it already!
Interesting comments at this reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/352t7r/what_does_heart_of_thorns_need_to_keep_you/
I find it interesting since most of the comments from what i saw want dungeons, raids or challenging non zerg content, which seems to be the complete oppossite of what ANET is doing.
5 months since last content, still see no reason why they can’t just open it up and call it a year.
GW2 is about grinding, what would you do if you didn’t have to grind for that new gear?
If anything, we need more hyenas to counteract the incursion of players into their lives. Hyenas, band together.
Dungeons are just too old, and it’s easier to get their rewards by pvp than by actually running the dungeon, especially if new. It’s all about rewards, fractals has it bad, dungeons are disproportionate to time investment.
Where’s that dead horse gif? With the gentleman? And the beatings?