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Shield: fine
Given the history of shield, this is quite an accomplishment on anet’s part.
They want people to experiment trying different parts of the game. Same thing with pve dailies. I usually just do the easiest pve daily (usually a vista) to complete the daily completionist.
No and no. If walk onto a node and trigger a trap, guess what? You got trapped. If there’s a DH on other team, I never approach a node without being ready to dodge. The ONLY thing I could support would be a cast time increase, but even that I don’t feel is needed.
Are people really winning by “spamming” head shot? Having 0 initiative is never a good thing. I’ve always used it with intention, myself. I think an ICD on Impacting Disruption would be the fairest change for balance. All the rest of the suggestions make the trait or the skill useless.
I think Henry’s been taking the Nerf Wish List a little too seriously.
I’m not sure how the OP knows that these people are f2p. It seems as though you are:
1. Assuming they don’t have HoT (Some people, like myself, run core specs with HoT)
2. Assuming they have a f2p account rather than just an old account without buying expac.
3. Assuming they don’t have enough skill to belong where they are.
That’s a lot of assumptions, and you know what they say about assuming…
I just dodge all traps now, even my own. XD
If you’re looking at open world pve, GS/LB is fine, but typically in raids and fractals people want the most dps and/or utility. Those weapons no longer offer it. Warrior does have a GS meta build, though, if you want to try it.
http://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Berserker_-_Phalanx_Strength
For pvp, I would say GS/LB is definitely viable in a meditrapper build.
The 33% idea wouldn’t really work because conditions are not the same as direct damage. let’s say you pop a 3 second resistance and get hit with an 8 second bleed. You’ve really only mitigated like 12% of the damage. I think resistance is fine and condis are fine.
Not gonna quote the people who replied to last post.
Please don’t insult me. I play rev and thief both and understand the mechanics well enough. There are myriad differences between the two, and I wasn’t the one who compared the two initially. I’m merely pointing out that phase traversal is a much more powerful skill for gap closing. Comparing it to steal would be more apt.
I’d also like to point out that even though thieves don’t spend initiative on heals and utilities (they have longer cds instead), they also don’t have a mechanic to reset their initiative with legend swap. Also, the skill only uses 7/20 of the potential total energy, if anyone is willing to let their energy get to full.
I never really had a major issue with having mixed q last seasons. Sometimes I would get rolled by a 5-man premade. Other times my full solo team would roll them. Also, I like teaming with 1 or more people sometimes, so I don’t like being limited to either 5 or solo. I’d like to be able to grab a couple buddies and q without having to find a complete team.
Pretty sure it actually is a thing. Had a game today and lord got stomped within 0.5 sec after down by thief. Not sure about regular stomp however.
Sounds like thief’s finishing blow.
There must be data related to how many matches it takes to get a reasonable estimate of rating. I think implementing a minimum number of matches to qualify for leaderboard would help this situation. Decay is definitely too lenient, but I would hesitate to make it very harsh to address this problem. Anet wants this game to be accessible to the casual players, and alienating them would only hurt matchmaking in the long run.
Elite trap does decent damage, but it’s an elite skill, so…
Test of faith does mediocre damage up front. You have to pull off push/pull or enemy has to walk through it. Justifiable damage…
Procession of blades does damage over time. If you stand in it, you deserve the damage.
I fail to see a problem here.
OP, I feel your frustration. I run core by choice, but I try not to make it obvious. I win the majority of matches and do well carrying my weight, but I know if we were to lose they would blame my “garbage” spec.
Not much to do but report and hope that elite specs get nerfed to be equal with core.
You forgot to add that you’re in bronze and there should be more mmr gain for top stats.
Also if you admit that you’re far from the best yet still shouldn’t be placed with “bad teamates” you’d be golden.
Quoted for truth.
I’m so tired of the nerf traps bs. If I can wreck trap DHs on my thief, you guys can learn to counter them. I had one lay all his traps on point and stand there while I ranged him to death with scepter on my core guardian.
3 words: one trick pony.
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I agree. Good move.
That’s weird, tonight it was all thieves, eles, and necros for me. In fact, I was the only guardian in all my matches tonight.