It is very effective if you have organized group with ppl knowing where to stack/melee etc. For that case using Sword/focus – main set + pistol – secondary set is quite effective. It rly goes well if you do, for example, COE where 99% of encounter is easier to be done in melee fight.
-Put the gauntlet in a separate area from the crown pavilion. Let the people who want to farm and the people who want a challenge do their own separate things. I don’t want garbage framerates in my gauntlet fights just because the zerg below me is nuking a boss to hell. Oftentimes I spawn in the arena, but objects aren’t loading, so when I can finally see my character, I’m downed.
-Remove the glass around the gauntlet arenas, and replace them with invisible walls, like the ones around the ring you stand on while queued for the gauntlet. Glass walls force my camera to zoom in much closer than I would like, and if there were just invisible walls, I’d have better visibility, and the spectators would have a better view of the fight. It’s a win-win.
Didn’t read all the posts (CBA to read all QQ-s about mesmers’ portal), but did anyone also mentioned about other proffessions skills also “must” be nerfed together with portal?
We all know about warrior’s hammer leap and sword leap, engi’s rifle leap, perma swiftness boost (guard/rngi/thief/ele/necro etc.) which could help a lot while doing some certain JP-s and offcourse on top of this Death Shroud of necro, which just simply could let you to forget about falling damage.
Portals are just the most obvious example how proffesion skills could be used in non-combat mechanics, but, indeed, not the only one…
Thats funny because the only boss i range is the shaman in grawl fractal. Melee’d GL plenty of times. Also never range trash mobs in fractals, los and cleave/aoe them down quickly.
So you also melee Ashym, Dredge Powersuit, Ice Elemental and Old Tom.
I guess you also kill attack face to face Mossman and Bloomhunger.
I’d really like to see how fast your team wipe when doing those bosses in melee.
Yeah, although on dredge and ice elemental you do range while kiting, but melee burst under the lava to speed the kill up. Bloomhunger is easier in melee. Mossman is probably the hardest to melee but entirely possible with a good group. Ashym you only need to range for the last 25% of his hp to stop him from using the fiery gs. And you range old tom? lol.
+1 to this post. If OP doesn’t know how vastly melee dominates over range in most of the PvE encounters, that means that nothing is left to discuss.
Not every class has easy access to stability. As an Engie, I don’t have very easy or lots of access to stability.
And this is the time when you should learn a bit more about your class.
Both 2 skills on your shield + Gear shield from toolkit + elixir S. That’s 4.5 skills (half is given as regards to Toss elixir skill).
You still trying to insist that you don’t have any option to avoid pulling?
Did this path today with a group of people who never done it before. I, personally tried it twice in the past, though with failure on Simin both 2 times, but I was able to explain the tactics for previous bosses to group-mates.
We made it within 10 minutes only (1st attempt with failure and successful on 2nd).
We followed 4+1 tactics in the beginning, but we assigned each spark to each player so after 1 sparks everyone was running exactly to his own spark to pull it in the center, so we ended up her with 4/1/5/5/5 scheme.
All guys were using superior undead slaying potions purchased for tokens in LA. Half of the group also used Superior Sigil of Undead Slaying in the weapon. Group class composition: Guardian/Warrior/Thief/Elementalist/Mesmer.
I, as a mesmer, was assigned to use tears of Dwayna, since I still could attack her with my phantoms without using auto-attack skills. Warrior was using banner of discipline coupled with “For the Great Justice”, guarduan “Safe Yourself” and I used “Signet of Inspiration” to multiple the might&fury boon and transmit it to the whole group under effect of “Time Wrap”.
Elementalist/thief/me was using flash/shadowstep/blink to get to sparks ASAP.
So, in fact, the most important thing was not a build itself, but combination of utilities/skills used to support and strengthen each other.
And, finally, after some pre-work done, I’ve got my shining “Dungeon Master” title.
