Balance is awful. Build diversity is awful. Ridiculous changes patch to patch completely removing builds and or classes from the meta. Condition builds still being brain dead and far too rewarding; this is on top of double dipping for offensive or defensive stats vs. power based specs.
You can pretty much roll any class right now other than possibly ele and be incredibly effective. Worst case scenario 7 out of 8 proffs are viable at the highest tier which is not bad at all. Especially when you look at a game like Overwatch, which taking the esports scene by storm, only seeing about 12 out of its 22 professions being regularly picked at the high end of play (~54%). Balance is in a pretty good place in my opinion.
I do like the game, this post was made because i fail to see the reason why the game
refuses to grow despite having a generous prize pool and an easily accessible scene. Talented gamers can pick this game up and likely be playing at the pro league level within a few months given the appropriate circumstances. Conquest is a challenging and engaging game mode when playing 5v5 with comms. Yet here we are.
What is going wrong?
Yeah, 1 spec / class is viable. And that spec is either condi or rly substain!
Anet wants you to play condi so you can make mistakes over mistakes and still manage to survive.. Puke
Atm every class has atleast 2 viable specs 1 with elite trait and 1 traditional without elite. So pls dont cry about that there is no variations.
U mean hotjoin or higher tier?
Im talking about ranked bcs i dont see any point to disscuss unranked arenas.
Well.. Lets talk about viable power builds.
Power Necro – Not good, condi MUCH better
Power thief pretty good
Power mesmer – Not that good, condi MUCH better
Power Engi, not viable.. burn condi/scrapper MUCH better
Rev – Good power.
Power ranger – Not good, druid healer / condi MUCH better
Burst ele pretty good
Power warrior Not good, condi SUPER OP.
Balance is awful. Build diversity is awful. Ridiculous changes patch to patch completely removing builds and or classes from the meta. Condition builds still being brain dead and far too rewarding; this is on top of double dipping for offensive or defensive stats vs. power based specs.
You can pretty much roll any class right now other than possibly ele and be incredibly effective. Worst case scenario 7 out of 8 proffs are viable at the highest tier which is not bad at all. Especially when you look at a game like Overwatch, which taking the esports scene by storm, only seeing about 12 out of its 22 professions being regularly picked at the high end of play (~54%). Balance is in a pretty good place in my opinion.
I do like the game, this post was made because i fail to see the reason why the game
refuses to grow despite having a generous prize pool and an easily accessible scene. Talented gamers can pick this game up and likely be playing at the pro league level within a few months given the appropriate circumstances. Conquest is a challenging and engaging game mode when playing 5v5 with comms. Yet here we are.
What is going wrong?
Yeah, 1 spec / class is viable. And that spec is either condi or rly substain!
Anet wants you to play condi so you can make mistakes over mistakes and still manage to survive.. Puke
Atm every class has atleast 2 viable specs 1 with elite trait and 1 traditional without elite. So pls dont cry about that there is no variations.
Balance is awful. Build diversity is awful. Ridiculous changes patch to patch completely removing builds and or classes from the meta. Condition builds still being brain dead and far too rewarding; this is on top of double dipping for offensive or defensive stats vs. power based specs.
You can pretty much roll any class right now other than possibly ele and be incredibly effective. Worst case scenario 7 out of 8 proffs are viable at the highest tier which is not bad at all. Especially when you look at a game like Overwatch, which taking the esports scene by storm, only seeing about 12 out of its 22 professions being regularly picked at the high end of play (~54%). Balance is in a pretty good place in my opinion.
I do like the game, this post was made because i fail to see the reason why the game
refuses to grow despite having a generous prize pool and an easily accessible scene. Talented gamers can pick this game up and likely be playing at the pro league level within a few months given the appropriate circumstances. Conquest is a challenging and engaging game mode when playing 5v5 with comms. Yet here we are.
What is going wrong?
Yeah, 1 spec / class is viable. And that spec is either condi or rly substain!
Anet wants you to play condi so you can make mistakes over mistakes and still manage to survive.. Puke
I have been thinking of this aswell.
Why would we even have that set since its not even close to be viable?
A little adjustment from ANET and it could be viable again.. But then again, with all passive procs+ aegis, blocks and kitten.. D/D would be destroyed in 2sec.
Fix:
-Remove all passive procs/buffs, make everything active gameplay
-Decrease condi dmg by 30% for every class.
-Make more builds viable (Example : GS on necro , D/D on thief)
I didn’t read all of this but I’d like to add:
Mesmer blocks last a max of kitten (with continuum) when you just don’t mindlessly hit them while they’re blocking
Can i ask you how to predict a mesmer to block when its instant?
You can then.
Blurred frenzy
Block
Dodge
Block
Dodge
Well of precognition
Continium Split
Blurred Frenzy
+refilled dodges
Can someone count how many seconds of evade+block that is?
So what do you do if another class blows all their dodges, blocks, defensive skills all in a row?
Two things are happening if a Mesmer decides to chain all these skills:
1. They aren’t attacking you. They aren’t summoning damaging phantasms, and Condi builds are kitten at the moment so clones AA is negligable.
2. They are wasting key cooldowns/stunbreaks for no reason, leaving them sitting ducks once this godmode rotation ends.
Also without this active defence, mesmer’s hp is destroyed very quickly in power builds.
And condition build’s offensive pressure is very poor even if they can spec for more toughness.
Thats not true, if he hits u when ure blocking he gets slowed.
Well of cog u can do burst when your evading, same as Distortion.
Main difference here is that its a mindgame between thiefs dodges and mesmers evades/blocks..
Think mesmer has the upperhand since he can dmg while hes evading..
I can beat alot of good mesmers, i just have to w8 a looooong time and dodge everything perfectly before i can pressure him.
Daoc sure still have The best team skillbased system. Now this have been replaced with The noob zerg style in games like warhammer, gw2 etc..
Running arround with a party of 8 men was kittening awesome. And it some were running with more then that They would get flamed on The forums for beeing zerging noobs..
Ah kittening hell i miss that game… This game should not be called guild wars. Sure guild fights happens but all The massive zergs are to much. Zerg wars 2… Simple
Well if feel the immobilize is rather important.. specially to get a successful confusion bomb after the gluebomb with any change the foe can dodgeroll of out it.
Feel that i have enough condiclearers, blinds and pretty much lacking some dmg so i rather go with sitting duck and get some more precision and con dmg.
……… and the other classes are rubbish in FOTM.
So when are they gonna balance it out abit? This is getting silly.
Are you implying that fractals aren’t balanced?
What proof do you have?
Why do you feel the classes currently aren’t balanced?
Have you looked at videos online regarding fractal runs?
How long have you played the game (/age)?
What is your main?
Do you have alts?
These questions will give us insight on your decision making process to slander the great content that is called fractals. Let me know if you have any questions.
Hi mister.
Well i play an engineer and i dont find my char THAT bad.. but i have a warrior and he’s 5 times better in fotm.
Just plz watch the descripton for each party .. 80% shows “Warrior, guard, mesmer zerg group”
I mean, why get an engineer’s dmg when u can get a warrior’s dmg which is higher? why get an engineers healing while ele’s healing are better?
Warriors offers the best dmg output
Guardians offers the best dmg reduction
Eles offers the best healing
It’s simple really..
Would u like x2 necros and 1 ranger in your group? if they are decent players?
If the zergs would dissapear it would be a dream coming true…
But people seem to like running arround in a huuuge blob…. using 0% of your brain capacity just tagging everything they see and getting benefit for it.. stinks.
+1 to your suggestion !
Smaller the raid is , the more YOU have to concentrate and do good.. thats a fact.
For starters a cool thing would be to get rid of all The kittening blobs.
Sure its a good way as an upscaled to just tag every foe, avoiding death and to be there with no purpose rly.
But when you are Lvl 80, with decent gear.. I have a Hard Time believing someone thinks its fun running in a 100 blob zerg (i swear im not pointing fingers to The french :-))
Make some sort of a big xp/wxp penalty if you are in a certain radius of People..
Lets say you are in a 20 man raid, Which i think is a good number.. U wont get The penalty. But if u extend The numbers by Lets say 10, u are getting a penalty, 20ppl ute getting a bigger penalty.. Maybe Even reduce stats?
Bring forward The orginized guild groups.. Give them bonusen.
I rather Want a good guildgroup to kitten my kitten then 50-100 People comin over you.. Rather sure that 20% of The People in The zerg are eating Burger with 1 hand and pressning 1+next target key.
I dont know.. Maybe i just miss daoc so much .. Warhammer online and gw2 could have awesome rvr/wvw but instead ppl seems to feel conforting running in zergs theese days.
If i have sigil of paralyzation on my 1h mace.. use my stun burst skill and then quickly switch to GS, will the paralyzation-stun still work even if i switched to my GS? Or do i have to stay with 1h mace+shield during the whole stun to get its full effect?
