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I actually did play with and against the top warriors. Two of them – Roms brother and Amstardam – are even in my team and I used to main warrior myself. When I rerolled back to warrior after 3 months break I could literally faceroll Levins revenant when we did serveral test 1v1s.
But np mate,you can’t know.
Warrior vs Rev favors Warrior in the current state of the game, but good job on facerolling Levin’s Rev! I won’t take that away from you. 
I meant more along the lines of dueling another Warrior in my statement… That’s where a good Warrior truly shines vs someone just picking it up.
I haven’t tried Sage, but I much prefer Rabid over Wanderer. Everyone knows condis are coming in this meta, so they bring cleanses… Which in my opinion negates the usefulness of the Expertise on Wanderer… and in turn makes the extra condi dmg on Rabid that much more valuable… If I’m only getting one tick off, it’s going to hurt!
I tested the trait cooldown in HotM by leaping through the torch 5 field and waiting for it to expire and then weapon swapping (in combat) to hit something with an int sigil proc and the trait worked despite having just generated a fire aura by other means.
That makes total sense since your first Fire Aura was created via a combo, and not by King of Fires. I think it’s the Trait’s crit-proccing aura that gets the ICD, so I don’t think it’s possible to back-to-back proc a fire aura from crits alone (before the ICD is over, that is)… but the trait allows you to burst any fire aura at any time.
Since the torch 5 field only lasts 5s it wouldn’t be possible to use savage leap through it twice without alacrity, but you could weapon swap to an axe/shield or bulls rush to trigger it again quickly.
Right. I mentioned the use of Sundering Leap and then Sword #2 for the second leap, which easily fits within Torch #5’s duration. Just clarifying.
Thanks for testing it out!
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This post is all replying to you Rauderi.8706. You gave me a lot of great feedback, so here we go!
Adrenal Transfer – If I went Defense, Strength, Healing Signet.. That’s a huge amount of regen. And Signet of Rage ends up becoming a part of the Warrior’s regeneration engine. And I’m not sure regen’s appropriate for the primary offense trait line.
It does encourage spending adrenaline, since I would assume if you’re not actually gaining adrenaline, it wouldn’t activate healing. Something to think about.Adrenal Health – Ah, I see why Adrenal Transfer is the way it is. Should probably nudge this to Strength and keep the passive regen to Defense’s minor. (Granted, the active version would be a buff to Defense.)
You know… I really like the idea of swapping the two traits from Strength and Defense! It makes sense thematically to have them swapped, and not as much the way I had them. I will work on swapping/reworking the lines after I finish typing this!
Chop Block – A bit rough, since it’s a long cooldown reliant on using endurance. Seems like it’d be difficult to plan effectively.
It has a nice synergy with Reckless Dodge, and at higher levels of PvP counting CDs is pretty common. I think in the right hands, this could be really amazing!
Blood Clot – Mingles with Cull the Weak. Probably shouldn’t have two different traits that apply Weakness.
You are absolutely right, and this is the first time it’s been pointed out to me. I looked over the traits again, and there is definitely too many weakness applications… Especially with my Merciless Hammer trait. I will work on a fix!
Burst Precision – I can see ignoring Protection, but this trait would also ignore a fair amount of counter-play in Aegis and Retaliation.
This shouldn’t be like it is… when I made my formatting changes, I made them on what I thought was an up to date Excel sheet… and I thought I found all of the changes, but I guess I missed this one. It will be fixed.
Signet Mastery – Need some details on this one. 25% Threshold? Internal cooldown? I do like the group support aspect though.
If I don’t have specifics down, that’s b/c I’m defaulting back to the way the original ability works. So the threshold and ICD work like Signet Master does now.
Versatile Strike – Encouraging for those who are double-melee, but it doesn’t do anything for ranged folk.
This is my struggle with that trait… I want it to be awesome for Rifle and Longbow users as well, and I would like it to have the same functionality… If you or any of the others reading this thread have any ideas for this, please let them be known!
Versatile Power – I’m presuming this runs on the Baseline Fast Hands paradigm.
Brawler’s Recovery – …which suddenly becomes sexy with BR as a minor. o_O
Yes, and yes!
Merciless Hammer – While I would love nearly 100% uptime on +100% damage… Or did you mean Disabled foes? Hammer 2 stacks on a solid time of Weakness, which would be great synergy with the trait, though it’d step on Cull the Weak. If you meant Disabled foes, scratch it. Please. Hammer is too ruddy slow to ever make use of it, no matter the damage bonus. (Funny as hell on Defiant bar breaks, though.)
As I was pointing out in the other revamp thread(s), hammer could get some huge benefits from Stability, even if it’s just 1 stack for 1 second, enough to cover skill activation. Not even on the autoattack, just the 2-5 skills. If Juggernaut gets constant Stab-spam (and Might) for one trait, why not Warrior?
Yes weakened foes is what I want to be there, and with the tweaks I’m going to make to the other weakness applying traits (thanks to your suggestions)… this is become much more fair. There will be less applications of weakness, bringing this more in line with where I wanted it to be initially.
Mind Over Matter – Also sexy. Warrior needs Resistance.
I love it! Great suggestion! I much prefer the way this would work, and I’ll make the adjustments!
Thank you so much for putting the time in to give some much needed, detailed feedback Rauderi.8706! Your suggestions have been very helpful!
-Brude
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I dont like Axe Mastery as Grandmaster trait. Need something more general.
If you combine its synergy with the new Arms tree (Dual Wielding specifically)… it gives the option for PVErs to do a different kind of extra damage from Berserker’s Power. It’s a choice of more smaller hits, or less bigger hits. Plus it’s a trait that allows the power builds to have a usefully buffed Axe set, while indirectly buffing Forceful GS.
I would like to see the grandmaster earth trait for eles make an appearance on the warrior defense line. Making them able to use Signets while still maintaining the passive on it. This would open up warriors to use their Healing Signet for Resistance.
As for the issue of team utility. I would not like it to be increased rather than everyone elses decreased.
Thank you for giving suggestions in your critique! I wouldn’t be sad to see a trait like this on the Warrior, but the only time I’d see this being more useful than other traits is with Healing Signet… which I’d like Warriors to get away from using all the time (see my new Healing Skills section).
As far as team utility goes, I’d like more offensive utility rather than defensive utility if it is to change.
If I may
The entire adept line in strength needs change.
Why?
90% of the time you will choose peak performance.
the other 2 needs buffing to create more build diversity.
Thank you for your input! I agree that a high percentage of the time Peak Performance will be picked, but with the changes to the Healing Skills that I’ve added… I think Restorative Strength is a big contender now. And as much as I’d like to get rid of Death From Above… it has it’s uses (Jumping Puzzles), and would definitely be a missed trait in the times that people actually use it. If you have any suggestions for replacements, please list them!
All of the professions need an overhaul. The conditions and boons need a redux, that and some boons and conditions need to be profession specific (max 3 profs should have one try of cond and boon).
ramble ramble, the whole system needs a major rework to function properly in the future.
I really like the idea of 3 max condis/boons per profession… it would give more specific roles to players, and that is appealing to me. I imagine it would be easier to balance as well. I guess we will have to wait and see what ANet does with their balance patch coming out soon, but until then I’m happy to throw as many ideas their way as I can for my main.
Sustain.
I believe that we shouldnt have more or equal personal sustain (in a dmg build), compared to builds that sacrafice dmg for it to get it. So as long as that is the case, adrenal health is nice.We dont want to appear on people their ‘’nerf radar’’. Its better to become strong again, but just fly under the radar.
I 100% agree with this, and tried to work all of the trait ideas with this in mind. Finding a balanced place for the Warrior is my #1 goal.
Blinding fury.
We have other tools like Berserker stance which provide blind immunity too and if you combine that with blinding rage, the 20sec internal cd will be almost done. That is why I made the comment regarding the cooldown.
And I completely agree with you! One of my goals behind reworking the traits was to give Warriors options other than Stances. I think this trait and Mind Over Matter accomplishes that, and makes Berserker Stance less mandatory than it is now.
Peak performance and Rampage.
I feel the unblockable part is to much on rampage.
Its fine for the other physical skills.Several dragonhunter traps are blockable and dealing with the traps and such lasts shorter than Rampage (15 sec).
Rampage has swiftness, stab stacks, cripple and chill reduction, superspeed if that new trait of yours is selected, 25% dmg reduction and
all its attacks except autoattack are more than 500 range.
I rather see a bit extra lower cooldown on rampage than it being completely unblockable.
Fair enough. I’m one who believes that Elites should be game changing abilities, just like they were originally advertised when the game launched. This obviously isn’t/hasn’t been the case, and when any Profession’s Elites have worked this way… they’ve been nerfed. I’ll think on it.
Versatile strike.
There are also Rifle traits in the discipline spec. For both rilfle and non-rifle, an adrenaline on swap was equally good as a minor that you get by default,
but a 300 range dmg attack on weapon swap is mostly good for non-rifle.
Maybe it could do more range if a rifle is equipped? Or something else that makes it equally good for rifle?
I see your point, but I’m not sure what change could be made that wouldn’t make the rest of the weapon sets OP. My first thought was to make Versatile Strike also cripple, but that’s an AOE cripple every 5 seconds, and as much as I’d love that… I feel it could be a little broken. Let’s toss around some ideas on it before I change anything, and see what the community can come up with.
What is the internal cd on heavy armor?
I added the details in yesterday, and gave it a 10 sec ICD. I considered how the trait would work with or without Reinforcing Mace, and that seemed like a fair number.
stop looking at traits
warrior need better utility, better skills and better burst skill..not traits..If you look at the document that he posted, than you can see that the changes in traits improve some of the things you mention.
Burst skill trait for better burst skill (new burst precision trait).
Group wide unblockable for x sec (utility).
Better sustain. Better defences in general.Anyway, feel free to throw in suggestions for things like non-traits, that you would like to see.
Like in here or in the suggestions for the warrior thread that he posted in the opening post. Whatever is best.
This. I appreciate your input lighter.2708, and would like constructive feedback. As Yashuoa.9527 pointed out, I address a lot of the problems you’re concerned with, but you have to actually look at my spreadsheet to see that.
As far as where I’d like to see the feedback go… this thread is my preference. I think that everything in Suggestions for the Warrior is great, but my main focus is now with this thread. I do plan to add more on Weapon Skills and Utilities in my reserved posts, but I haven’t had time to put them all together yet.
Thanks again,
-Brude
…some traits, stuff like internal cooldown the number of chance% for something to happen are not specifically listed.
Maybe you could add those?
The only specifics I added on the chart are to traits that I reworked/replaced. The rest function as they do currently.
Blinding rage.
Some nice blind protection.
Maybe bigger internal cd?
Getting the number balance is tough, so let me explain why I did what I did. I gave Blinding Rage similar duration to the Engineer’s Utility Goggles. I halved the Fury and Blindness Immunity from 10 to 5 seconds b/c I’d rather have more-short bursts of blindness immunity than less-longer bursts of it. Sure Utility Goggles has a 40 sec CD, but it’s also a stun breaker and has a toolbelt skill that applies 10 stacks of Vulnerability and 6 seconds of Reveal. This is why I feel the 20 second ICD is in a nice spot.
Dislike:
Merciless hammer.
I think that boon removal shouldn’t be 50% on all hammer attacks, but rather be 100% removing x boon(s) on one/some of the 5 hammer spells for example. That way its more reliable. Whereas 50% if lucky, could make it overkill or unreliable if unlucky.
Ahhhh this is a great suggestion! I’ve never been a fan of RNG b/c it hasn’t been a fan of me, so I will take your suggestion and run with it. I’ll make adjustments shortly after I finish replying to this.
Peak performance.
Isnt this way to strong on Rampage?
I was concerned about this exact thing when I adjusted the trait… I ended on the thought that Rampage has a huge CD, a short duration, and is easily controlled by a player who knows how it works. Would this change be a nightmare for new players? Yes, but so are Dragon Hunters… and they are easy kills once you know how to play against them. Same concept.
Mind over matter.
Too strong imo. You can fill up the interal cooldown of mind over matter by doing mind over matter, healing signet, berserker stance and than mind over matter again.
This adds up to 6+6+8+6=potential 26 seconds of conditions not really harming you.
Good call. I didn’t take all of those things into account, and wanted to argue “But… but… Diamond Skin” at first, but you’re totally right. I upped the ICD to 30 seconds, which should put in more in line with where it should be.
Burst precision.
I like the new Burst precision, however I am not 100% sure if it going through stability is okay as well, because some of our burst and primal burst finishers have interrupts on them.
Meaning we could interrupt someone with several stacks of stability.
Necro’s can corrupt boons, so warriors getting this new burst precision maybe doesnt have to be a problem, but I would still like to bring it in as a point of discussion.
Like raising the question wether stability should be excluded from that trait or not.
Great question! I’ll be honest… I really struggled leaving this one as is. The intent is to make burst skills ignore Protection, Retaliation, and Resistance. The 2 boons that make it the most difficult to implement are Stability and Aegis… Stability more so than Aegis. I’m not sure on the answer, and I’d like to see more discussion on this one before I make any changes.
Versatile strike.
Why remove the adrenaline on swap and what is the range of Versatile strike?
With the addition of Adrenal Transfer, I felt that it would add too much sustain. I included a range indicator.
Sustain.
Wont our sustain be to high now with Adrenal giving 6%-8%-10% on our finishers?
Doing finishers will especially happen often with Berserker spec.
Maybe the heal numbers need to be a tad lower?
I actually LOVE the amount of healing a Berserker would get with the numbers like they are. I think in its current state, going Berserk is too weak. This would give it more of the “Unstoppable” feeling I think ANet intended it to have. I did change the wording a bit to reflect that you have to land the burst skill to gain the healing, like with Cleansing Ire.
Thank you so much for all of your feedback Yashuoa! I look forward to more soon!
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Hello fellow Warriors! If you don’t remember me, I wrote the Suggestions for the Warrior thread a little while back. It was received very well, and b/c of that I said I’d attempt to write up a full overhaul in a nicer format.
This will be very similar in appearance to the Warrior Redone thread, but the content and ideas are a bit different from what they are working on. I do want to applaud the work that’s gone into that thread, and kudos to emkelly.2371 for all of the work he’s put in. Way to go!
Ok, so here is what I’ve been working on! I went with google docs, and tried to make it easy to read. I’ve made a lot of changes to our traitlines (excluding Berserker… I didn’t feel it needed anything with the changes to the other traitlines), and would like critiques. Please be kind, and if you think something should be changed, please leave your reason/s as to why. I did my best to make things as balanced as possible, but as we all know… balance is up for interpretation. Enjoy!
-Brude
Edit – I forgot to add that all of these ideas are with the idea that Fast Hands is baseline (which it needs to be)!
Edit 2 – It should be said that not all of the ideas I’ve used are my own. You can look through the Suggestions for the Warrior thread to see who came up with what. I’d love to give credit individually, but that takes too much time… and this is already a monster time sink, haha. Thanks to everyone who contributes! It makes it all worth it!
Edit 3 – Changed some formatting on my sheet for ease of viewing changes. I also changed the name of this thread, b/c my name in front of it doesn’t add anything to the goal of what I’m trying to achieve.
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I’ll work on compiling a list of the best ideas in this thread into a similar format as the Warrior Redone thread. I like the ideas going on over there, but I have a different vision for what I want the Warrior to be. This kind of thing takes an enormous amount of time, but I’ll do my best to get it up and running as quickly as possible.
In the meantime, let’s keep the ideas rolling in this thread!
I’m really digging all of this discussion! So first I want to say thanks to all of you so far for your input, and I share that sentiment with those of you that post after my reply as well. I also want to add that if I don’t directly respond to something you said, it doesn’t mean that I didn’t like your idea. Now onto the quoting and discussion!
Even though you explain your part about survivability, I still wouldnt mind a bit better survival.
I wouldn’t mind more survivability either, haha! I’ll take whatever we can get, really. But I’m all for the “The best defense is a good offense” approach, and as a Warrior it just feels right to be able to completely smash someone.
Self applied fury giving blind immunity could maybe be a bit to strong?
I did a little bit of research so I had the specifics, and below is a list of a Warriors access to Fury (excluding Runes).
- Dual Strike – Axe OH (3 seconds)
- Arcing Slice – GS Burst Skill (5->10->15 seconds)
- Furious Rally – Banner of Discipline (8 seconds)
- For Great Justice – Shout Utility (8 seconds)
- Battle Standard – Elite Banner (3 seconds)
- Signet of Rage – Elite Signet (25 seconds)
- Berserker’s Fury – Critical Strikes Adept Trait (5 seconds)
With these fury numbers, I totally agree that if they all procced immunity to blind for the full fury duration that it would be too strong, and would become the next Fast Hands (a trait that most would consider mandatory). I think self-applied Fury proccing an effect with its own duration (like you suggested) would be better for balance purposes, haha.
Fast Hands doesn’t really need to be baseline. Rather, we need skills with reasonable cooldowns and skills that friggin’ matter for weapons. Would it be nice? F-Yeah, it’d be nice. But it’s not necessary.
I’m on the “Fast Hands needs to be baseline” team b/c of the exact reason you said it isn’t necessary. Our CDs are MADE for that kind of weapon swapping! I just think rather than changing the whole formula, we could move a decimal (an algorithm sized decimal) and get what we both want… which is essentially the same thing!
Blocks
I could see it happening in a trait line (Strength or Discipline?), but not at the rate you suggest. On swap means unblockable every 5 seconds. It’s game-changing enough that it’d probably be a Grandmaster trait. Something like “Activate Signet of Might after an attack is blocked.”
I don’t disagree that going unblockable would need a limited rate of accessibility… any major implementation like this would. I actually prefer my second trait suggestion over the first for that reason. With Fast Hands going baseline (in my dream world), it would require the discipline (see what I did there) to stay in your weapon set long enough to reap the benefits of going unblockable. It opens up more opportunities for player skill to shine, and those are the kind of things I appreciate most. Sure the numbers can be tweaked and ICDs can be given out, but I’m just going for ideas at the moment.
Evade
Focusing on Endurance makes this a purely PvP line of thought.
Besides, if I wanted an elite shout: Taunt, gdangit. It’s pathetic that Berserker barely gets access to it, and it’s absent in the rest of the class.
I did say that my suggestions were coming from a PvP perspective. And I would be thrilled to have an Elite Shout that taunts!
Rage / Physical
Yeah, Physical skills and their big brother skills probably need more love. I can’t specificy for Rage skills, but Physicals need, need something better before they’re worth slotting.
Yeah Physical Skills fall under that list of changes that goes on and on and on… I just didn’t include it in my summary.
Blind
I like the trait suggestion, especially if it extends to other players. That would make For Great Justice amazeballs in the right situation.I’d also be okay with a Blind Fighting trait: “When Blinded, clear the Blind condition and become immune to it for 3 seconds. 8 second cooldown.” Or something like that.
Making my Blinding Rage idea shareable would be amazing! It would add a totally different layer of support that the game doesn’t have, and I’d be thrilled to see something like that implemented.
What do you all think about this for Tactics. I just merge some traits to open 2 Major an 1 Minor for some new ones… oh an i was thinking of moving Powerful synergy down to Master so a Grandmaster slot would open. (?^o^)?
PS: this is my 1st time posting Q//Q
Your diagram was a little hard to follow at first glance, but after I looked at it for a minute or two I like where your heads at. Cheers! And don’t be afraid to post! Your opinion is as valuable as anyone’s in this forum.
Blood Reckoning: Heal yourself and gain adrenaline when you hit a foe. All adrenaline you gain while Blood Reckoning is active heals you.
I like where your heads at! Good idea!
Keep the ideas rolling, b/c the more replies/views this gets, ideally the chance of ANet seeing it goes up! I’m pretty busy this week, but if I have some free time I’ll try and add a bit more to my list of ideas!
First off, I want to give a big shout out to ANet for all of the hard work they’ve been putting in lately, and for all of the utilized feedback and communication they’ve kept with us during the last couple of months. It’s been amazing! Now onto my feedback from BWE3…
I main Warrior and exclusively spend my time in sPvP, so that’s where all of my testing and suggestions are coming from. Since BWE2 I’ve only REALLY tested the Berserker, and for the most part I have enjoyed it in both a Damage and Support role. The changes from BWE2 to BWE3 were significant; some for better, and others for worse. Here we go…
#Berserk felt much better without the delay and the attack speed increase (10% to 15%) this time around. With that being said, it still didn’t feel strong enough to me… I’m not sure what it needs exactly that would benefit all builds, but for starters… lowering the cool down would be great. I felt myself waiting to go Berserk a little bit more than I would have liked in BWE3 due to that.
#Always Angry felt EXACTLY the way it should. This is one of my favorite changes for the Berserker in BWE3.
#Bloody Roar was GREAT when it worked. With all of the Stability/Blocks floating around these days, this trait wasn’t nearly effective enough to choose over Eternal Champion, though. If it went Unblockable, that would be great… but that might step over the line of being a little overpowered. (I’m trying to be reasonable here!)
#Dead or Alive felt like it was in a good spot. Taking what Amulet you ran into consideration, it had what I felt was the proper impact on your survival.
#Smash Brawler was a fantastic change, and I feel it’s in a great spot in the Adept Trait line.
#Blaze Breaker felt good, especially pared with Leg Specialist. I feel the 20% damage nerf from BWE2 hit it a little harder than it needed to be, so if it gained 10% of its damage back, I wouldn’t be upset.
#Flames of War is still underwhelming to me. I really want to like it, but with the recent Shield buff, I feel like this either needs to remove more conditions, inflict more burning damage to enemies standing in it, or gain more benefit by changing Heat the Soul (I’m not sure the best route to go with this one, but compared to Shield Master and Quick Breathing, it’s incredibly weak… maybe when traited your abilities also created a Light Field and rename the trait “Light the Way”?) to be a competitive, yet not crazy over powered off-hand choice. I chose Light Fields b/c they aren’t really that amazing, and it fits thematically with the torch. That on top of a fire field would make Powerful Synergy a much more appealing GM Trait, too.
#Arcing Sear was another favorite change of mine. The larger radius made for some devastating combos. I’d be lying if I said I didn’t miss the growing fire field, though.
#Decapitate felt better than it did in BWE2, but didn’t really change the game in my opinion. The AOE splash is cool and all, but something I’d like to see that skill benefit from is a longer leaping distance.
#Flaming Flurry still suffered from being incredibly difficult to land. If you set it up properly, it did some pretty fantastic damage, but if the target was moving, you could maybe land one of the projectiles. It would greatly benefit from not locking you in place. I’ll add that the animation is one of my absolute favorites, though!
#Gun Flame was something I didn’t test b/c it was bugged, but the videos were pretty entertaining I have to say.
#Rupturing Smash wasn’t as good as I had hoped. It was one of the changes I was looking most forward to going into BWE3, but it didn’t perform well. The knockback from BWE2 wasn’t amazing either, but I’d take it back with the current version’s damage in a heartbeat. I think this skill suffers mostly from not being a circle AOE like Earthshaker is, and could just take some getting used to. With that being said, I’d still prefer the knockback.
#Scorched Earth was the sleeper hit of BWE3 for me. It worked a lot better than I expected, and aimed very well. Ironically the aiming arrow was bugged and never appeared for me… but if it would have, it was EXACTLY I wanted it to go!
#Skull Grinder was something I tested a lot in BWE2, so I didn’t do much with it this time around. I do like the skill though, and how it fits the Eviscerate role for Condi builds.
#I tested Rage skills the least out of everything, as I’m not very impressed by any of them. Sundering Leap is the Rage Skill I tested the most, and I appreciated its nice synergy with Leg Specialist after the change from BWE2. The change to Blood Reckoning was appreciated as well, though it still isn’t strong enough for use in sPvP.
In my overall assessment of the Berserker, I feel like it’s headed in a good direction, but is still sitting way below the other new Elite Specializations like the Reaper and Chronomancer (who isn’t am I right?)… and that’s because it’s missing one thing that Warriors have been asking for, for a LONG time… and that’s Fast Hands going baseline. I tried my best this weekend to play without the Discipline Line, and really gave it “the ol’ college try”, and I felt nerfed beyond belief without it… which was incredibly restricting to build diversity… like it always has been. If Fast Hands went baseline, along with a few of my other suggestions from above… I think the Berserker would live up to its name, and truly be a force to be reckoned with.
Thanks again ANet for a great weekend, and good luck in your next three weeks (ermahgerdthreeweeks!) getting the expansion ready!
Sword (main hand)
If you see a Mesmer with a sword, stay away from the 600 mark. Once you’re that close to him, he can and most likely WILL root you in place. He’ll then proceed to pull off a Pistol Whip Rip Off and be completely immune to all attacks when doing it. He can even reflect all attacks back at you while doing it if traited, as if it wasn’t bad enough. If you think you can take him on, just stay away from him and he can’t do jack kitten! Just watch out for the Autoattack which strips boons off you and applies vulnerability.
I find it amusing you think Blurred Frenzy copied the Thief Pistol Whip ability… just a heads up… Pistol Whip didn’t originally make you invulnerable to damage. Nor did Infiltrators Strike root your target in place. So in fact, the Thief main hand sword abilities “ripped off” as you would say, Mesmer abilities.
Sword (off hand)
If you see a Mesmer with a sword in its offhand, laugh at it. Laugh until the cows come home. Then stop laughing when you see the Phantasmal Swordsman and kill it before it hits you, it will poke your eyes out. Don’t hit him if he holds the sword up, doing so will spawn a clone. Easy as eating cake (unless your a diabetic).
You can laugh at me all day with my OH sword, and I’ll be sure to dance on top of your dead body after I completely dominate you. Remember that just because you might not have a clue how to use it properly doesn’t mean others don’t.
Your post for the most part is pretty solid, and it’s nice to see someone trying to actually help others in the community. Other than the 2 discrepancies I pointed out above, nice post.
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The Clock Tower is one of the best MMO events I’ve done in a LONG time. At first the amount of people and large characters bothered me, but you get used to it. I’m actually really happy with all the people attempting at once, b/c throughout all of the trials and errors I made a few more friends that I can enjoy the game with. Keep up the good work ANet, and don’t let all of these whiney haters get to you.. If they really want everything handed to them they can go back to playing WoW and paying a monthly fee