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What happen to the pact? Are they still active?
I am more sad on Trahearne’s death, he’s an under appreciated character. The man fought along me since Claw Island, he’s around me longer than any other NPC.
RIP Trahearne.
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Necromancer is the strongest profession lore wise no doubt. Pawala Joko enslaves the entire continent. Lich sunk an entire continent. Trahearne the another powerful necromancer, hate him all you want but he’s THE marshall of the pact. Then, there are strong necromancers like Necromancer Rissa and Marjory.
Engineer is up there. Scarlet threatens an entire continent with her engine of destruction. Clockworks, legion tanks, copters, pact airships… Enough to say.
I don’t know why elementalist are rated so high. Are there any elementalist that is actually has power level and influential level of Joko, Lich, or Scarlet? Ulgoth and Baelfire are strong, but they never have the same influence as Joko, Lich, or Scarlet.
Also warriors are rated too lowly. Turai Ossa and Jalis anyone?
Tier 1: Necromancer
Tier 2: Engineer
Tier 3: Warrior, Guardian, Mesmer, Elementalist
Tier 4: Thief, Ranger
I don’t know where to put Revenant, Rytlock is pretty much the only named Revenant.
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Sinister Engi for raids, people want Engi just for their unrivaled condi damage. No point use zerker for core Engi when you can just have Herald or Ele for direct damage, Ele still has higher direct damage. My BWE Scrapper is Zerker though.
Also, as long as the timer exists on the raid bosses, I smell huge nerfs on revenants and condi engineers. Those two have some of the highest DPS. When Ele is nerfed, people just move onto other high DPS professions. I don’t think the max DPS meta will go away, especially with the timer mechanics, it just encourages elitists to find the highest damage team comp possible just to complete raids before the timer ends.
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Do people even play a sinister Engi when they came up with statements like thief having similar DPS? Do they even have a higher DPS than sinister Ranger to begin with?
For the first raid, they’re potentially the worst class, but who knows, they might have a place in latter raids. In dungeon and some fractals, stealth are still needed for fast runs.
It’s not that thieves are bad, but someone has to be the worst.
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we can stealth ress ?
Can’t scrapper do the same? Assuming if their gyros are fixed.
Scrappers and his team can fight in stealth as long as the sneak gyro is kept alive.
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With HoT Engineer goes into direct damage direction. Condi engi is fading.
How is Engi going into direct damage direction?
Raid wings stack sinister Engi, at least that’s what I heard of. They deals the highest sustained DPS and their damage mostly ignore armor. It fits perfectly for HoT.
Please remake turrets immune to condi & crit in PvE as well.
Why would you run celestial to begin with?
Elementalist should always be fine in PvE, especially comes to circumstances like bursting large wave of trash mobs or hitting a large hitbox low armor boss.
I have trouble seeing Thief being used in raids. You can easily replace thief with any of the soldier classes. As condi damage most went with Sin. Engi. Unless stealth is really needed, but stealth mechanics aren’t unique anymore, Scrapper has it.
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This is premature, but how are sinister Engi in the first raid at least?
Ele would be broken with weapon swap lol, staff + d/d
I don’t have BWE, why is Tempest so bad? Can anyone explain?
I would just give them actual ranged damage. Sure, ranger means forest keeper yada yada, but most people came from other MMORPGs mistook ranger as someone that masters ranged weaponry. Even in Anet’s description, ranger are bow masters:
Rangers rely on a keen eye, a steady hand, and the power of nature itself. Unparalleled archers, rangers are capable of bringing down foes from a distance with their bows. With traps, nature spirits, and a stable of loyal pets at their command, rangers can adapt to any situation.
Ranger does mean forest keeper, but it’s clear that Anet has intention to make them a long ranged attacker profession. Yet it doesn’t fit the typical archer archetype at all.
Yeah, newbie bearbows ruined your dungeons, who can’t blame them? Isn’t that how rangers are supposed to be played? Instead, we got ranger primarily melee with S/A, spotter, frost spirit. From my experience, Acrobat from Dragon Nest is the farthest thing away from the archer archetype, but at least they still use their bow to shoot.
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No, thief is the definition of balance. They’re decent in all modes.
Inb4 Anet gives up when raid became another Ele stacking activity.
I’m not argueing about Ele’s viability, Ele is definitely more viable than Engi (and Ele > just about everyone else as well), but it does not make Ele having a higher sustained DPS than sinister Engi, especially against high armor targets. As for raids, we can only speculate. Do we encounter high armor mobs in raids? I suppose Mordrems are suppose to be high armor. If so condi damage will work better than expected in raids. I just hope that zerker Ele stack meta, but I won’t surprise if raid became a 5+ zerker Ele meta.
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So, 10s slower than the previous 38 seconds, that means there’s basically a 20% DPS loss.
How does that show that the meta will not be changing? 20% is a pretty big amount, which can be made up by swapping at least 1 ele out for a class like engi, which does in fact change the metaI tested already Engineer and Ele DPS after patch for around 3 hours and elems still better.
Are you sure you are testing out sinister Engi with the right rotation? According to the spreadsheet, sinister Engi have higher DPS even before this patch. Zerker Engi probably caught up Ele in DPS as well. Not saying Engi > Ele, but I highly doubt Ele has higher DPS, if you mean higher AoE burst then I trust you.
Oh yeah should’ve clarified that i tested in a group setup that i generally use in fractals and not solo dps.
Sustain DPS wise sinister Engi is still higher regardless, at least from I know, the DPS spreadsheet is according to the 5-man set up statistics. People want Ele not solely for DPS, it’s for their AoE and burst. I don’t know what set up you are talking about, it must be different than theirs, it would be nice if you post some data.
If you mean solo DPS, Ele has higher DPS, but in a set up, Engi has higher DPS.
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Reaper and Druid. Reaper shrouds is anti-zerg. Druid is the new guard.
So, 10s slower than the previous 38 seconds, that means there’s basically a 20% DPS loss.
How does that show that the meta will not be changing? 20% is a pretty big amount, which can be made up by swapping at least 1 ele out for a class like engi, which does in fact change the metaI tested already Engineer and Ele DPS after patch for around 3 hours and elems still better.
Are you sure you are testing out sinister Engi with the right rotation? According to the spreadsheet, sinister Engi have higher DPS even before this patch. Zerker Engi probably caught up Ele in DPS as well. Not saying Engi > Ele, but I highly doubt Ele has higher DPS, if you mean higher AoE burst then I trust you.
Ele is still tier 1 in dungeons, sinister Engi supposedly have higher sustained DPS, but it only works in a longer fight, large AoE bursts from Ele are preferred. I do predict that sinister Engi will become meta though, Mordrems tend to have high armor, so condi damage will be useful in raids if that’s the case.
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