Guild Wars 2

spoj.9672:

Well people advocate things like perplexity builds in pve on classes which have no confusion and barely any interrupts. Builds dont have to make sense in the gametype for people to advocate them for roleplaying reasons. So yeah im calling it even if the taunt access is inconsequential and really low duration.

Also we kind of do know how defiance works. If you go watch the stronghold preview stream you can see how “fear me” interacts with the new defiance bar against the lord. It looks like a very pug friendly system. Basically when a CC is used it removes a portion of the bar but it immediately starts regening. So it will require a bit of coordination so multiple CC’s are needed. We dont know about what happens after a successful CC though. If theres no cooldown i could see stunlocking on bosses becoming a thing.

Seems much like Wildstar’s Interrupt Armour (IA) system, which was a much better evolution of the defiance system in GW2.

In Wildstar, a boss would have say 2 charges of IA so it would take 3 successive stun attacks to actually stun the boss. When stunned it created a “moment of opportunity”, when the boss would take double damage before the armour recharges.

I liked it, forced the group to co-ordinate the CC in an immediately rewarding way (interrupt dangerous skills & DPS boosts).

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Discussion seems to be veering away from the case for HM and towards Filthy Casuals Vs NEET Hardcores…

So, OP – excellent post, read it all, found myself longing for it.

My preference would probably be thus – HM dungeons and for an instanced HM Map rather than an open world variant. If it would be open world, then I would reckon it would need a strict population cap.

Esplen.3940:

I agree with Miku. A little after the april feature patch, I was doing CM. We had an Engineer with 17,000 AP who had Legendaries and a Commander tag (which he didn’t turn off).

He proceeded to camp Flamethrower the entire dungeon.

My mother has been driving for a very long time. She is an absolutely terrible driver.

Disappointing to think that going forward the Fractals model is what they’re sticking too.

Doing the same content on X difficulties strikes me as lazy design.

What would dungeons look like in GW3 if they continue down this path? Dread to think.

You’re right Dalanor, perhaps an over-generalisation.

Was hoping they’d added some awesome new dungeons in my absence.

But alas, all I see is Living Story updates.

I recently dipped back into GW2 after 15+ months away – happened to be logged in at Cursed Shore.

Map was largely empty – but I stumbled upon about 100+ people doing this Blix farm.

Started screaming at me because I didn’t know wth they were doing and I was trying to win the event. Everything wrong with GW2 community in a nutshell for me.