Video, screenshot, who cares. You get the idea. You like pointing out trivial things and making them into a big deal?
There are certain situations where critical strikes are superior depending on what your current critical rate is, along with what you are trying to accomplish within a specific group dynamic.
By the way, your first sentence is a run-on sentence. Why are you posting again when your last reply was supposed to be your last?
Other than ad hominem statements, you have provided 0 substance on why signets are superior, aside from you are just too lazy to use flags/or be useful in any other way other than dying 2200 times.
DPS is not “half” of the reason you want critical strike, every by-product of extra precision contributes DIRECTLY to your damage, be it from might stacks, bleed, adrenaline, vulnerability stacks. Do you even read the tool tips of traits you put points into? Biggest problem is most of these effects have an ICD/restricted by your attack per minute, additionally, the value of precision does not scale linearly as with power. Critical strike sigils are bad for that very reason, you do not get the same weight out of the same stat budget.
Do you even understand how the damage formula works? You can’t alter the game mechanic no matter how amazing you play. The best of the best would be utilizing the most efficient/optimal ways of doing something and excel at it. Execution would not go far without basic math. There are more information on that page rather than this guy auto-attacking, that is a very small sample size. You can find out most of these information yourself by doing simple math on attacks/minute vs your own critical chance/proc chance.
It seems to me that you don’t really understand the basics of game mechanics. It even saddens me that the content this game provides do not demand anything of that level. I’m sure anet will continue to promote this style of play, as majority of their gem sales depends on rewarding the mediocre.
So you’re basing your wall of garbage on a screenshot as if no one really changes their skills? Yeah? Then you’re really downplaying someone due to that person taking a signet instead of a banner? Really? And you don’t play a warrior? Wut? Then you’re gonna use 2200 deaths as an attack when in reality there are lots of good reasons for that number to be that high?
Take your tunnel vision play style and go work on those challenging story mode dungeons. Oh wait, those might be too hard. Better use your optimal build then.
Well I think the main issue here is CoF. You can literally do Path 1 in 9-10min without skipping anything if your team is good. With Path 2, it will take a little bit longer but still fast.
To me Path 1 and 2 are pretty much equal in length if things go smoothly. With Path 1, fighting the Gorilla boss isn’t necessary. Path 4 IMO is the most fun, with fun encounters at a good pace. It’s a shame it’s not done more.
The issue is PUGs are refusing to learn the fight. They refuse to do it any other way and refuse to learn the proper way. If they stopped pulling to WP and learned how to do it the right way, then we would see more groups doing Paths 1,2, and 4 instead of just Path 3.
I agree that this needs to be fixed. This is essentially making Arah gear more and more common as all pugs that don’t know how to fight him properly, just farm Path 3 and keep dragging him to WP in order to zerg him.
I’ve even heard one person say Arah is an easy dungeon, and easy to get tokens from and all he’s done is path 3 + pull lup to the waypoint. It’s disappointing, and a rather lame way to complete what should be fun fight.
I joined a PUG once and they refused to do Lup any other way except by dragging him to WP. I left that group as soon as I could.
Perfect Inscriptions + Signet of Judgement, I’m pretty sure that’s not a 30% damage reduction. That would be too OP. I would think it would be 20 percent of the 10% added, meaning 12%, but that seems really weak.
Upon further research, it looks like Signet of Judgement + Perfect Inscriptions is a 15 percent dmg reduction.
32-40%, depending on weapon. Moderate, I don’t really expect to compete with warriors for damage. But for survivability, support (empowering might/boon heals), and decent damage, it’s rock solid.
I’ve one of the few that prefers a good amount of toughness with some decent vit, as opposed to stacked vit. Tried both, like this way better – easier to heal, easier to stay alive. I’m happy in WvW, and in all dungeons.
I love both the sword and shield, shield especially for the extra toughness. It’s also a must against Lupiticus for both skills. The extra heal can come in handy as wel.
For kicks, my dungeon team and I decided to try killing everything in the bomb room. All of us have always kited this part, but now that we all have earned the Dungeon Master title, and are all geared, we decided to do it for fun thinking we’d fail.
We didn’t. It was surprisingly easy and smooth, and we did it on our first try. After we completed it, we confirmed that gear and traits do matter here, as you need solid dps and support, along with a person and a team that can target properly and fast, while knowing when to back off in order to survive.
This happened to me around 2 weeks ago. I’ve done this path many times with no issues, so to have this happen was quite disconcerting.
What we discovered was that after we killed the last boss, the player whom the NPC was latched onto was not present during the kill. Therefore, the door would not open, and we could not complete the dungeon.
