Guild Wars 2

Changer the Elder.2948:

- While it has a nice idea in it, the fight with the Self-Doubt is more a fight with a crippling procrastinator issues. Whoever thought to have undodgable tendrils (they obviously are… but not with 120 ping, because their window is just THAT small) that give me 2 minutes cooldown on autoattack is a great idea… well. Let’s just say that your taste and mine will never align, pal. It’s also astonishingly punishing for certain classes. My particular Self-Doubt found me with a ranger longbow (15k rapid fire + knockback + range all over the room), a signet of stone (improved toughness) and signet of the hunt (health regen, which at some point heals it faster than my blocked skills can damage it). My friend, in comparison, had a lazy warrior with a greatsword telegraph. Thanks for kicking my sorry tail for maining a ranger. “Play it your way” indeed.

Said friend with the greatsword doubt here, this part really cannot be overstated.

What I got was greatsword warrior with all the bog standard greatsword attacks with huge telegraphs. You can just walk away from 100b, whirlwind doesn’t do much damage and autoattack is pitiful. Didn’t even use bladetrail or rush, I could easily outregen his futile attempts at damage with healing signet, a joke of a fight really. That coupled with headbutt being strong CC and burst doing tons of damage made bypassing the stacking defense mechanic trivial for me even with cooldown increases since all I had todo was walk around while waiting for them to come back up again.

Compare that to what he got (and I visited the instance since first I didn’t believe it would be that much more difficult for rangers)…

A longbow ranger who uses rapid fire and point blank shot.

That alone is a problem, rapid fire tracks you and does a lot of damage while point blank shot is a strong CC. You can’t even kite the boss since longbow hits the whole arena effortlessly.

So what else is a problem here? Strongest single attack ranger has (to my knowledge) is rapid fire which hits multiple times, meaning that it stacks a lot of the defense buff on the boss. On top of that, pet autoattacks stack the buff too and frankly that is ridiculous.

All this coupled with the ranger doubt having regen signet made it a very long and stupid fight. I honestly believe it wasn’t playtested at all with the fearless achievement in mind.

The difference between what I got and what he got is just way too large to be ignored.