So first things first. This is not mine. Its something from a good friend of mine. I am only posting it here because I think it needs to be seen from more people
So there is this webcomic called Pink Alp Bananas.
A few days ago they celebrated their 2 year anniversary. The two heads behind this comic dedicate a lot of time to this and are still going strong even after 2 years.
If you like it and want to see more, send them nice tweets. The anniversary post is pinned there as well.
Thanks for reading.
(also nudge nudge, isnt this perfect showcase material, Gaile? )
Even with 100% condi duration on poison with Potent Poisons your condis given out by the Venoms are shortlived. 40 seconds cooldown never mitigate that you need to dodge OVER the boss because you take Lotus Training. This is almost always lethal with Sabetha, Sloth for example.
The 10% bonus spikes just when you hit the Venoms every 40 secs, yea, but when they are on CD your damage falls flat instantly.
Before you kept D/D autoattack up to keep a good ammount of poison stacks up between your Death Blossoms so your damage doesnt fall down completely.
With DareDevil added to it you need to Dodge + Death Blossom to keep your full damage bonus up.
Also your range for the Venoms got gutted hard.
Edit: Good point, the Self-Might is gone too. For parts like the VG split this was important to have. (Unless you had a Burnzerk PS)
I am a guard main and still to this day I struggle to get into a VG group and actually finish it.
Obviously I went for the tank position and still tried to squeeze out most of the DPS I can do with the obligatory Toughness you need to get (as much DPS as you can do with Guard anyway)
The speed of sound is nothing against the speed of the people who ask me to switch to a Tempest or Condi Engi.
And thus I get moved back to the LFG queue which is by far the worst thing. You can wait a day to get eventually picked. Of course I could look for guilds but those guilds who accept DHs as Tanks for VG or maybe Gorseval (which I didnt even see yet), yea those Guilds already have their Tankspots or Raidgroups closed and good luck getting into one. Plus those who accept you are very friendly, thank you, but then they all run Toughness and complain why I cant hold aggro.
3000 hours dropped in my main and people just raise their eyebrows. Who to thank?
They changed it. I have a full cleric armor on my Chrono.
Before the patch I healed around 2800 each mantra preperation with Clerics.
With Berserker it was 2600 somewhat.
After the patch I heal around 3700 each preperation with Clerics. Boosted with Benevolence stacks and Rice Balls, you can get over 4000 for each preperation.
Rough numbers tho. I am no research dude. Just wanted to make a point it indeed boosted. The tooltip is just bananas
Edit: Transference adds another 10%. You def can get over 5000 healing. Nice
I can confirm that Guards and/or Dragonhunters get flicked off the option list when you enter the LFG
I count out the LFG being a mess right now because I was sitting in LFG for 6 hours now waiting for even one single PUG to pick me up. Whilst Chrono Tanks get picked left and right in light speed time.
I figured out that much. Could be that all unique sound horns are affected. Thats awful. Having unique sounds on warhorns was somewhat nice since they arent really unique on the looks.
How about we get more data?
Here are horns with sounds:
Howler: No data yet
SAB Warhorns: Sound overwritten by standard Tempest sounds
Crimson Lion Warhorn: Sound overwritten by standard Tempest sounds
Leyline Warhorn: Sound overwritten by standard Tempest sounds
Well I took a look into the Commander gear and left my Cleric trinkets in place.
I took Durability rune to synergize a little with Retributive Armor and Furious Sharpening Stones.
I gain somewhat around 100 Power but Toughness and Boon Duration spiked way up. Though I lost around 1000 Healing Power. I wonder if that compensates.
So I am playing Cleric guard since ever because I really like the playstyle. Mindnumbingly running into masses and just laying down that Mace.
Now obviously that isnt much fun in HoT anymore because mobs got double the HP and now I feel my lacking damage.
Problem: I still wanna keep that “going in and staying in” playstyle. Does Crusader help in that case? Will I do a little more damage and still can do Altruistic Healing and all that jazz?
Also, what would be more viable in that case for raids (which obviously needs Toughness but I am liking the Healing Power stat much too)
I remember back in Beta, I carried a Crimson Lion Warhorn with my Tempest and I got the unique sound everytime I did a skill.
So in all that hype I bought myself a Ley Line Warhorn to be extra fancy.
I applied it and to my suprise I am greeted mostly those old farty warhorn sounds they removed not so long ago.
So I didnt test the Crimson Lion skin now because I am low on transmuts.
Whats the state on unique warhorn sounds on tempest now? Are they all overwritten?
If you thought I dealt with everything nicely before… …
To be frank, my game play was not up to par before.
But it is now. Plus the music is better.
No problem sweetie, I’m all about positivity!!
Yea, you’re a little positive hacker, arent you? Which anet is to lazy to do something about even when we throw proof in their faces. Like this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ce1BRAXLvH0
This is when someone says that was just lag.
Anyway, the names match but the account numbers dont.
I’m pretty sure it’s the same person. Just with another account.I’ve seen Zarania.6235 cheat earlier to with my own eyes.
‘Look, here’s a hacker, this person is totally hacking!!!!!111’
‘Nice vid, obviously a hacker…but that’s not the same person…’
‘Well, I’m sure it’s totally the same person, trust me.’
…ok
Sadly I can confirm, I had this person a long time on my server (Riverside) zipping all around in OS as a necro. And with zipping I mean obviously tool teleporting.
Oh and as we speak right now there is a reddit thread with complaining about him up right now.
He was actually on my follower list so I thought I’d give him a little poke about all that fun and what do ya know, instablocked.
Oh well :P I guess I’ll be jumping around more these days in OS, though he switched servers a lot lately. Hopefully I can catch evidence soon
As a Guardian I would just pop my retaliation. After a thief would finally crash through 7 blocks he almost killed himself. And every block stacks burning on him. Please dont try this, thieves.
Ascended gear doesnt affect me in any way.
Because ANet mostly created DPS stats again and ignored the Clerics again.
My self crafted Exotics give me more Healing Power then a single Ascended Ring can give me
I’d love to have team mates who look into surviving and even take use of Combo Fields. To be honest I never ever saw Healing Bolts happen for me. Not in a single group.
The main issue is, there are supporters (very less even) and there are DPS players. And usually those DPS players rush in and just faceroll their damage skills.
But you seem to lack into Heal Utility Skills. Except for that Ice Bow but that disables your Healing Rain and the Healing Well. The Regeneration from the Arcane trait line when switching to Water doesnt help too because you need to spam Element changing a lot.
For the Engy and Mesmer the 2nd option comes first though because so far I didnt find any way to heal AND keep yourself alive longer. I do use some blocking and vanishing abilities though, in case anything goes wrong.
I still fail to build anything like this for the 3 missing classes
So, after playing the Guardian since BW1 I was wondering “How can I really protect people with this guy. He can spam bubbles but over time that wont do”
I began to refuse the idea that there is no dedicated healer class. At least there have to be ways to heal your time, one way or another.
After a few weeks I build myself a Guardian who can fully heal his team even under high pressure. Dungeons are pretty easy now and even with newcomers I can prevent many maaaany wipes.
But that made me wonder “Is this way of healing only restricted for the guardian?”
Browsing the wiki and calculating with Healing Power and Vitality I created healing builds for the Mesmer, Thief and Engy.
Its so much fun to keep your team alive but there is something that still bugs me and maybe others have found a way to do it
Are there builds for the Ranger, Elementalist and Necro to heal and let your team survive effectively?
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Woohoo, some love!