LOTRO raid is the best MMO raid for PvE i played so far.
100% agreed, although I wasn’t in a guild that killed all the T2s at the time it was really fun! And if a PvE-skill split were to happen there is also alot of good things that could be picked up. Every class in lotro had a distinctive feel and all (most) of them were really fun to play.
Yes, eles do provide alot. Although not while in tornado which is currently fine given Its function as a damage cooldown (sharknado). Removing that would be bad as the hammertrain meta shouldn’t be encouraged going forward. More range dps and more melee dps to counter them would make for a better experiwnce in WvW.
youre complaining that glass builds got nerfed and you can no longer rely on 5 glass peripherals to do all the damage while your soldier/sentinel geared wrecking ball wanders around like a headless chicken spamming cc and blasting water?
adapt.
maybe you should regear your melees in knights. and have only the commander playing a pure sentinel build.
You do know knights was also nerfed as crit dmg got lower, right?
Having to craft another set of ascended gear (yay celestial pre-patch) is frustrating and expensive. Should be in a pretty decent place once that is done though.
Forgot to mention WvW in the title, my bad entierly. :/
My build is likely going to be soldier armor (replaces celestial), zerk trinkets (from before) and strength runes. More power, similar crit and less crit dmg sums up this entire patch for eles pretty much..
Figured a thread about staff ele gear/traits/etc post patch could be of use. Celestial and crit dmg in general really took a beating which will likely lead to several changes in the way people build their staff eles.
Runes
Boon duration was like critdmg hit pretty badly while divinity remain strong. Rune of strength combined with sigil of battle is looking quite decent aswell.
Sigils
Fire/battle + bloodlust still seems to come out ahead.
Stats
Soldier/Zerk with a high power for a more glassy build. Celestial seems really bad but I’ll wait until the math is done properly.
Traits
Nothing new really apart from what the itemization changes might bring.
So i made this new beefy guardian to command with in Season 2 expecting account bound ranks at the league start by the latest. In the same time I spent most of my time on my staff ele gaining ~230 ranks without boosters. Could’ve had guardstacks on my first guardian instead but now I’m stuck with 2 melee characters with no stacks. Kitten me, right?
The fact that you are upset is your own fault. Anet never said wxp accountbound was coming this patch. So don’t whine on the forums about it please. This is so silly.
It was announced november 27nd 2013 and we’re now at march 19th 2014. Other games have unveiled and released expansions quicker than that. Every patch that passes without it is too late at this point and that is why people are frustrated.
So after simply playing the game (mostly) WvW/sPvP I’ve ended up with enough money to buy myself a legendary. Giant gifts rock btw. Since I mostly play my staff ele in WvW the Bifrost is the natural choice. But with the talks of pre-cursor crafting I’ve sort of started wondering if new legendaries might be introduced as well? There are “big” things coming after LS1 so why not this I figured.
Since I won’t be able to craft another legendary in years with my current playstyle I’d be kinda bummed to see new shiny ones released the month after I created mine. Any information on the matter would be greatly appreciated!
Crit dmg should be a major(ich) stat for celestial. Anything less than the current state of celestial would be disastrous as the set have VERY few uses already. Pretty much no one uses it in PvE and it couldn’t possibly be perceived as OP there. Why ruin it for WvW?
The fact that it has been timegated and that my recently crafted ascended armor & weapons (yeah, i have 3 celestial asc staffs for WvW) costed a fair bit of money pretty much makes this make or break with new games coming out. I have no interest in farming more money to replace a set that might be nerfed due to sheer incompetence.
The ability to pass the WXP to people in need of guard stacks would be nice. Whenever accountbound WXP hits I’m pretty much “done” in terms of needed points.
Don’t go full zerk. Don’t use more than 10 air and next to never any points in fire.
0/10/0/30/30 and 0/0/10/30/30 are both good, but I prefer the former. If you feel confident in your ability to survive I’d go for zerkvalk trinkets, celestial staff/helm/coat/legs and valkyrie, zerk or soldier in the other slots.
Which weapon do you intend to use? I prefer a 0/10/0/30/30 build for both staff and d/d, with different traits obviously having the d/d one focused on auras.
*Don’t go 100% full zerker, even with guard stacks any decent thief or other bursty periphery roamer will instakill you. Just taking a bit of retal damage will put you below the one-shot threshold.
*Having that said you should go for some zerker pieces. Personally i use zerk/valk trinkets (1 cava), ascended celestial staff (1 crit), celestial helm/body/legs (1 crit), swapping rest between soldier and zerker.
*Stay away from anything based off healing-power or condi-damage, It’s really not worth it. The same goes for full soldier/sentinel builds.
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