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I think a lot of you are over hyping PS/EA. i also did this when until i watched a pod-cast yesterday with Brazil, Nemesis, and some other guy… anyways the party wide dps increase is nice if your fellow players can manage good dps uptime and they know how to play their class ex. they could be a staff ele with one of the highest theoretical dps’s over a 30 second period of time, but as soon as they die or as soon as they dont know that they should be using Meteor storm or 100% uptime lava font etc… the effectiveness of PS/EA drops significantly. PS/EA will not make bad players good. It will make mediocre players look better and it may even detract from a team where an engi or ele is solo stacking might before a fight. PS/EA is a band-aid for mediocre players. Good players will combo field and bad players dont benefit enough from PS/EA to make it useful imo.
This is pretty terrible logic. “Don’t run party buffs because the rest of the party has bad dps.” That’s called a self-fulfilling prophecy. Even with 4 other players in Nomads you being on PS is increasing the overall party Power by 3,600 which is like having a second Berserker geared player on the team. Switching to DPS warrior isn’t going to provide that kind of upgrade.
As far as “mediocre players” go, most speed clear guilds run PS+EA so take that for what it’s worth.
I think you may have misunderstood what I am saying. What I am saying is that I do not feel like the benefits of playing PS/EA outweigh the overall boring feeling of playing and even the massive buffs it gives to a party when said party is not even filled with mediocre players. When a player say a thief is running a venom share build and everyone else in the dungeon is running some really not that great build for that type of content or they are simply dead 50% of the time I cannot justify to myself buffing them over increasing my personal DPS. However, as soon as those players run halfway decent builds and are say only dead 10% of the time the entire stage is shifted because then I feel as though I can handle the bore that is PS/EA because to a mediocre Player (One who I define as running a build that takes damage modifiers even if they dont play a META build as long as the build is coherent and remotely useful ie more than a venom share thief, Idont care what there armor is. In addition that player is also not dead 80% of the time) PS/EA is infinitely more beneficial than personal DPS, but to take this further I feel like it loses value again once you enter a party that can have an ele put down staff 2 and hit 25 might then go and kill the boss in 10 seconds. what would be the point in PS/EA there. EA would be useful but not the full PS/EA build.
As for your statement saying its better than letting the party do the content unbuffed. Again that is what I am trying to say. in some cases yeah id rather do the content unbuffed when everyone in the group is playing with one hand and dead on the ground 50% of the time, probably doing some stupid number like 1k dps. Id rather take the DPS build that has a max dps of 13k and probably can sustain somewhere around 7.5k which is either the rest of the parties dps combined or a little less than take PS/EA which has a max of 7k and probably sustains like 5k, but it boosts the parties dps by 1k per person. yeah it doubled the rest of the parties dps, but they are dead half the time so who cares. that is when PS/EA is useless. Again PS/EA is not a carrier. Bad players cant make use of it, most good players have better options, but for people in the middle its great.
What I am trying to say is a great deal of people in-game hold PS/EA to be some kind of PUG savior when in reality its a great build for mediocre play imo. Ive never done any type of record run, but thats not what we are talking about here. Id have to say that 80% of players ive played with would fall into mediocre and that is why I still run PS/EA about 90% of the time. I just do not find it to be the lord and savior that everyone claims it to be. I have gone and read the numbers on your forums ankitten ot trying to dispute them, but my playing experience will always take precedence over any numbers that anybody calculated when it comes to something of this nature. If after this you cannot see what I am trying to say. We can agree to disagree.
EDIT: I consider myself to fall into the mediocre category. I know I am not in the top 10% and am probably not in the bottom 10%. I ahve no problem running meta builds in fact i enjoy most of them.
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I think a lot of you are over hyping PS/EA. i also did this when until i watched a pod-cast yesterday with Brazil, Nemesis, and some other guy… anyways the party wide dps increase is nice if your fellow players can manage good dps uptime and they know how to play their class ex. they could be a staff ele with one of the highest theoretical dps’s over a 30 second period of time, but as soon as they die or as soon as they dont know that they should be using Meteor storm or 100% uptime lava font etc… the effectiveness of PS/EA drops significantly. PS/EA will not make bad players good. It will make mediocre players look better and it may even detract from a team where an engi or ele is solo stacking might before a fight. PS/EA is a band-aid for mediocre players. Good players will combo field and bad players dont benefit enough from PS/EA to make it useful imo.
Hey all,
I have been playing for 3 months or well kinda, anyways I started as a guardian and found the support and pvp to be awesome, but i wanted something with a little more umph (if you know what I mean) so i continued onto warrior. now that i have almost full ascended heavy im starting to find warrior a bit boring. the stigma of warriors are low skill also bothers me a little but i can see why its in place. Now finally the question what would you guys say is a high skill cap and interesting profession? Right now I am kinda looking at Engineer and Elementalist, thief also but not as much as i have friend who plays that and dont want to stack something that wouldnt be useful (also im not that good at stealth).
Edit: I know that most answers are gonna be play what you find most interesting, and thats kinda the problem im not really sure… so im asking you all what yours are and what has held you too that profession for however long.
Thanks for the info, while I like a great deal of things about the guild… After reading your charter and going into the application it doesnt look like i would fit in with your age demographic. Again thanks.
Still looking lemme know id rather the guild be on Fort Aspenwood, but am willing to transfer if I find a super exceptional guild.
Hello all,
I just recently started playing again. i started around launch but only got to level 30 or so before i left. I recently (about a week ago) decided to come back. I just hit 80 and am looking for a guild that would be willing to help me gear up and eventually get into some fractals as well as Spvp and WvWvW. I must say before anything else that a guild with an active VOIP is very important because text chat is no fun. I play mostly during the day and into the evening (night-shift). If any guild that takes me does decide to help me out know that i would gladly do the same to any member with or after me.
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