The people saying that this has been done and is overpowered must be forgetting the massive amount of power creep that has occurred since it was removed. Sure it was OP back in the day, but dps today is easily 2x what it used to be, across the board (well, except for Mesmer).
History lesson time. Did you know that phantasms were actually once the most viable Mesmer build, and even one of the best duelers in the game? That’s right, it used to be viable to cast 3 phantasms and kite around while they attacked your enemy. In fact, phantasms were even able to survive long enough to get multiple attacks off in team fights before dying, that’s how much less aoe dps there was.
So sure, damage on phantasm death used to be OP, but so would any of the current meta elite specs if it was dropped into pre trait change GW2.
Over the last year a large percentage of the GvG/Roaming/“For the fights” type guilds have been transferring up in tiers, with the majority settling on T1/T2. As long as there are 24 servers there will always be a few running on every server, but if the trend of the last year continues then most of the WvW crowd will be stacked/jammed into 1-2 tiers.
I only say that because after our group moved up we saw and have continued to see many guilds from lower tiers that did/are doing the same thing.
Because the lower tiers are absolutely dead except certain times of the day. It becomes a vicious cycle. Lower tiers need bodies to reinvigorate the wvw but no one wants to move to a server that only has 2 or 3 hours of good wvw a day.
I can’t even imagine how bad lower tiers must be when Blackgate is down to having 1 map queued at a time during NA prime time. Even on last reset we didn’t queue all maps.
At first it surprised me that so few people here seem to understand economics. But then I realized how bad most people are at managing their own finances that it really isn’t so surprising that this discussion is taking place.
Just to clarify what should be common knowledge:
- Opportunity cost is not an “opinion.”
- Opportunity cost is not a “perspective.”
- Opportunity cost is not a “point of view.”
Opportunity costs exists with every choice you make whether you like it or not.
Except that you’re playing a game…where how much ‘economics’ you want to deal with is completely up to you.
By your logic, you are wasting 7.25$ an hour sitting on your kitten playing a game, when you could instead by out working a minimum wage part time job. Seems you’re choosing to ignore ‘opportunity cost’ just fine there because it doesn’t suit your view.
You can decide how much economics you want to pay attention to, but just ignoring it doesn’t make it go away.
And btw I don’t ignore opportunity cost when thinking about leisure, including gaming. I just place a higher value on leisure time than 7.25/hr, so I don’t work an extra job.
At first it surprised me that so few people here seem to understand economics. But then I realized how bad most people are at managing their own finances that it really isn’t so surprising that this discussion is taking place.
Just to clarify what should be common knowledge:
- Opportunity cost is not an “opinion.”
- Opportunity cost is not a “perspective.”
- Opportunity cost is not a “point of view.”
Opportunity costs exists with every choice you make whether you like it or not.
- Blast finishers = aoe swiftness, aoe might, aoe healing
- Dagger storm = cripple and moderate dmg (depending on build) to ~15 people
- Stealthing mesmers for portaling
- Best class for scouting – stealth, traited steal on critter + shadowstep = 2700 range instantly
- Easily gank enemy scouts
- High mobility + escape makes them ideal to contest keeps
- Obviously good for roaming – 2 thieves DS = instant camp
This is what its like to fight a T1 guild? kitten can’t wait till ur out of my tier. WM – frustrating to fight against – I learned quite a bit tonight.
Oh god I know. Specifically I learned how bad culling abuse can get. I’ve never been so ready for it to get fixed.
Just out of curiousity and being new to the tier, why the bad blood between CD and FA/IoJ?
I encountered a few FA hackers last night who flipped a tower, tried to flip a keep and another tower. And that left a certain bad taste in my mind. But 99% of FA seem like honorable opponents, and I haven’t seen anything particularly bad from CD yet.
Most of the bad blood on the CD side is probably because of the recent FA/IOJ merger.
Imagine you get to a new tier, fight with the same opponents for a month, and when you are really starting to dominate, and will soon move up, your two opponents merge onto one server, and then another server come into the mix. It’s slightly annoying.
Edit: lol at all the FOJs doomsaying trying to call a CD collapse. Sorry, we’re a tight-knit server.
