Guild Wars 2

Remember they said they “rework the entire condition damage calculation system” before ? just 1~2 years ago , since that the direction of this game become “condi only” . i was hoping they’ll make a place for both power and condition build player, but it seems like in the future. we can only deal damage by applying all condition skill we have to mobs/boss.

The funny thing is they surely nerf condition food/utility item , but instead they enhance the trait of most class to make sure their condition damage output will not drop too much. (Actually condi warrior get damage buffed) ; Look at power side , they did something to make sure it will never come back again.

But truth be told , the last balance patch they did make me feel like they cheat my money. We bought HOT expansion for its content , including elite spec. and now they screw up the elite spec so we might want to buy POF , to “fix our feeling”.

This is insane, each content of expansion should be isolated. its “A PRODUCT” , u cant nerf(or broke) my old air-conditioner then tell me to buy the new one (you’ll like it again). Even Microsoft never broke the feature of windows xp to force people change to windows 7, 8 or 10 (they just stop the security and bug-fix maintain service). Some people like me still will upgrade to windows 10 because they did very good job , and i like this new operation system.

Path of fire is the other expansion of gw2 , both HOT and POF has many awesome feature , but if u make one of them become bad to increase the sales performance of the other one. Well , its not wrong , its just a dishonest action which will drive people out.

I’ve played PPS for 1 year , that’s my main character for all high level content: t4 fractal ,100 cm , raid
I don’t have the survival problem .
There’s one thing u have to consider , should u always take banner? For me my utility skill is wild blow, endure pain and frensy. If my team have chrono, I’ll switch frensy to banner of discipline. Most of time I don’t replae endure pain to banner of strength unless we need heavy burst damage like when engaging subject 6 .

About my build , full berserker armor , trinkets with all mighty infusion. Oh yeah , and scholar rune. And double axe , GS , sometimes I might switch off hand to shield .
During the fight , u can melee when

1. Mobs didn’t focus on you.
2. Endure pain is active.
3. Blood reckoning is active , and u successfully restore health by arc divider.
4. You disable mobs by wild blow or other player use their cc skill.
5. You have enough endurance to dodge the attacks.
6. For boss fight, only when u break the bar. This is critical when against boss in 100 cm.

You still can switch axe to rifle if needed, some ppl said rifle isn’t “the meta build”, but it still useful and can deal good burst damage , just remember don’t count it’s auto attack.

My opinion for PPS

Ohh, I’ve tested it before . Sadly ur burst skill must hit something, even the trash mobs.

My advice is depend on what is the greatest need in group, if ur group need support ( eg, heal, need more cc, or more protection) , u need to keep an eye on these situation while dealing damage(as a druid , of cause ); but if all members are experienced , u can just be a dps member.

My advice is stealth yourself when someone’s engaging you, u can easily gain stealth while leaving CA Form. But if u don’t have such energy to become CA, u can use GS 3 inside the smoke cloud created by Smokescale. In the meantime Smokescale will rush to the enemy. While in stealth (3 sec) you can decide to change the pet that can knock down your target(or anything that can disable target for a while. Our pet become unstoppable in few sec, thx ANet) and empower yourself to strike by surprised; or u run away for distance to take the next step. Maybe heal yourself or shoot him from a far. Well this is effective against thief. If he surprised you.

I’d prefer to act aggressively.