The fact that every villain in Gw2 so far has been underwhelming doesn’t make Scarlet any better.
Also, people like Shiro, Varesh or Reiko (Minister of Purity leader) would like to have a word with her about “How to be the bad guy”.
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Maybe I didn’t phrase it correctly.
I’m currently running a 10/30/0/20/10 build for all the personal DPS goodies in Zeal and Radiance. The last 30 points that I split in Honor and Virtues are simply due to lack of anything good to put points in. Sure, I could go 30 in Valor for 30% more crit damage, but I rarely use any meditations, and the other traits in Valor are not particularly useful.
Vigorous Precision is just too good to pass up when you’re playing glass cannon. The rest of the traits are also useful, but yeah, there’s just nothing else to take, really.
I still switch up my utilities for various encounters, as I said, but my main focus on the build is to do a lot of damage. I’ve been forced to solo or 2-3man bosses a lot in pugs, and a lot of the time when I drop fire fields/reflects/absorbs, people just run away from it anyway. If I ever find me a solid group to do dungeons/fractals with on a regular basis I’ll switch to hammer build for more group utility and start swapping out a few zerk pieces for knight to toughness tank some bosses, but for pugs it’s just a waste of time.
That’s pretty much all you have to know for starting up as guard in DGs.
I’m still running a middle-way build, very close to the one you described.
The only couple of things that differs are manly due to the way my (old) DG team play, so i had to carry cond removal for everybody most of the time and act as “anchor” or tanky guy saving your back anyway – thus zerk trinkets and weapons, x/30/0/30/x0 or 10/30/0/20/10 trait spread, S/F fixed in bar with alternate set being swapped as needed, but Knight Armor with Soldier Runes on top of that.
I have a zerk/scholar rune armor set, but i found it working good only if your party is a full DPS DG running team. Lately i’m mostly pugging, and as said my usual DG team doesn’t run with full zerk chars (we found it kinda boring, tbh), that’s why i prefer to stick with a more safe gear/rune choice for now.
To make it short, in speedrunners terms, is like slapping the DPS guard trait build on the Anchor equip.
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More time gating, great.
Yes time gating is boring, but Anet cannot think of a better way to solve farming problems. Lets see if you can think of something better.
I’ll pick up the challenge.
3 changes:
-Champ boxes rarity affect much more the drops (money, mats, amount of them, lvl of green/blue items, chances of rare/exotic). The gap scale between Exotic/Rare/—-/White rarity boxes worth of drop should be much steeper. Exotics would be a little more profitable than now, while lower tiers of rarity nearly worthless.
-Champs will drop exotic rarity boxes as standard.
-Diminishing Return system: if you kill too many champs in a too short timespan the rarity of the boxes gets downscaled for some time. If you stop killing champs for that given time the rarity returns to the standard exotic. If you keep farming for too long it gets downscaled again and again, until hitting the while box rarity.
Bam, fixed the mindless farming.
If you farm for 2 hrs straight the Frostgorge champs, you’ll soon get only white boxes with 30 copper and some Jute scraps.
You still can do it, but if you do it for too long the profit become close to 0.
In the “right doses” instead, you can farm or do DGs and get profit from champs just like now.
Ofc it would all be down to setting the right “Champs/Time” numbers ratio, to punish the circle zerging but not touching DG running or casual open world parties slaying champs while exploring.
Perplexity are not OP on Mesmer’s, they are OP on other classes that have tons of interrupts like engineers, warriors and thieves.
This.
/15 charrs
how is it that the GS can out dps a hammer? The hammer generally does about 15-20% more dps. (10% more per hit as each hit is 1/2 sec). Whirlwind attack is rubbish.
What.
In terms of raw DPS GS is on a complete another level compared to hammer.
The auto is weak, Bladetrail and Rush have little use outside skipping/starting the fight, but HB + WA (try cast in when you los mobs to a wall then come back telling me it’s rubbish) is a quite huge chunk of dmg. There is no way Hammer could deal 20% more dmg than GS. Even if a couple of his skills (Fierce Blow iirc) can give some nice numbers, the magnitude is very different, and the overall higher CDs of Hammer just emphatize that.
Also, as said, cause GS auto is weak you can swap to a weapon with a better one (ie: Axe) and back to GS as soon as CDs run out, thanks to Fast Hands.
Hammer is not bad per se: but if you’re looking to DPS (and as War in a DG that’s pretty much what you should do), weapon wise, it has no space compared to the GS + Axe auto rotation.
Ofc, if you’re playing open world anything works. If you’re playing WvW, Hammer is great. And has it’s place in spvp.
But DGs? Nope. Unless you’re the “I play what i want and i don’t care, deal with it” guy, but then this whole discussion about effectiveness is pointless.
A weekly limit would work so much better than this daily thing.
Like, you can craft 7 max per week: if all in 1 go or 1 per day is up to you.
With current system it feels more like a chore – as dailies.
Tried to get the watchknight skin but didn’t have enough time so I missed it. After that, just ignored LS completely, haven’t even done Teq yet. Sold my precursor, got a Foefire weapon and now I purely play for fun … and unsurprisingly my time spent playing is far more satisfying than before where it was just farmfarmfarm.
Play for fun and fancy skins, like GW1 good old days.
+1.
Tbh WvW would have been my main endgame focus trown in the mix, but the latest Anet decisions have pretty much killed any interest in it for now (also need better rig).
We’ll see in the future..
Oh, also ignoring Ascended. Like, if i get them ok, fine. But never farmed my back off for it.
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I was attracted to GW2 because it was a sequel to GW1.
+1.
So much disappointement, in this regard.
I’ve stopped caring about LS and achievement points (cause let’s say it: LS is just AP farming and skins) long time ago.
Granted, you may have some issue into finding what to do, but you won’t regret it.
Well, ofc if a skin i’m interested in pops up, it’s time to farm…
Ranger query, though: what the hell is MH axe supposed to be good at?
A little of everything, aka nothing.
Like Mesmer Scepter.
It would take away any means of choosing the build to run.
I think some posts on this page just burnt some of my cerebral cells.
You okay man?
Yes, i think. Weren’t yours anyway, you’re innocentasafefsadfdfd.
People sell path runs. Legit.
Dungeons needs serious fixes. But DG team has been disbanded.
Both things are well known by quite some time.
Your point?
I think some posts on this page just burnt some of my cerebral cells.
Kurzik.
And maybe Vabbi.
And Obsi.
And Primeval.
kitten Gw1, it was soo good at this.
The “issue” is that tokens made acquiring stuff too fast for the developers intended pace, seems.
Wonder why most MMO’s use RNG for loot – even when you can’t progress to next dungeon until you get it?
Right, cause it’s time consuming, thus devs have more time to work on next time sink. Oh, and if it’s P2P it will likely make your sub run out, to make you pay again.
You can see it clearly comparing the “core” Gw2 DGs, where tokens allowed you to point what you wanted and get it as first reward – and then move to other stuff, if it was the only thing you wanted – and what came after, like fractals, RNG and time consuming at its best. You can’t say “I just want Fractal -insert weapon here- then i can ignore fotm foverer” cause it’s completely random.
Just nuke the plot hole named Scarlet for good (she is just wrong, in too many ways. period.) and give us a real in lore and properly backgrounded villain.
On the other hand, it’s much easier to level up at higher levels compared to lower ones.
Craft straight up to 40.
“You’re a troll” said from the guy adding “Learn to play” to his posts while talking with the top dungeon experts and theorycrafters on this forum isn’t really meaningful tbh.
And rework defiant to give some meaning to CCs – aside the “push boss to the wall”.
But most of all, until proper content with proper AI is released, zerk will rule regardless of buffs to conditions or support or whatever.
Which, tbh, makes me quite curios about new TA path….
As long as you’re talking about PvE: no.
Defiant is a way too big limitation to make CC worthwhile. And thing you can actually CC consistently, would die before actually needed to be CC’ed if you run a high DPS weapon combo.
Oh, and prolly DPS is lower than Axe/GS.
Ofc, in WvW or sPvP i’d say the opposite – Hammer is king. Especially for zergdiving.
But for PvE, high DPS is the way to go, at current state of the game.
Thus, Axe + Mace(or Sword) and GS (or LB for might stacking/ranging).
I’m starting to think that gates should get a buff.
Or at least another tier or two of upgrade.
Reinforced gates melts like butter.
Wooden ones are non-existant.
Agree. I’m the first one to prefer playing “the middle way”.
Manly, cuz i found speedrunning min/maxed DPS team dungeoneering boring.
But doesn’t mean i want to play with condition guardians, bearbow rangers, GS camping mesmers or PTV/Cleric shout healers warriors.
That’s just wasting time.
If they did listen to us, it’s only because of drastically declining WvW numbers (as stated in Devon’s infamous alpha forum post).
To head it off at the pass, there have not been drastically declining WvW numbers, or even marginally declining numbers. WvW continues to be as strong as it has been over the past several months. We made some decisions internally and were able to accommodate changes that it didn’t seem feasibly originally and that’s why the changes that are going to be announced later this week happened.
Have yuo tried looking further T1/2/3?
Because, you know, all the latest changes you made lately rewarding the largest server of the 3 pushed a LOT of ppl to transfer and bandwagon/stack on top servers.
Take a look at lower tiers numbers.
My guild and friends are very active.
Lucky you.
Most of my DG team left GW2 for good.
And can’t really blame them.
Just got kicked at the last fractal ! I want anet statement that they are not working with the gold sellers / atm i see all that kick players from last fractal / dungeon not being banned and still active everyday in-game ! 2 reasons : anet doesnt ban coz they dont care or anet doesnt ban coz they work with goldsellers ! What is it ?
Wat.
i dont understand why people want to “fix” berserker. there is nothing to fix. it is fine.
This.
I do see the crutch of some ppl. Seeing the PvE DG Meta being “5 DPS and go” instead of something more structured packing support, CC and Condition on top of raw DPS in equal measure. I agree somehow.
But, Zerker gear is not the issue.
Encounters are. Other gear options are. Skills not being affected by gear are part of the issue too.
Because golems are already OP.
Or, better said, the current prices makes golem rushes of 10+ golems too frequent for boosting them further w/o making defense completely meaningless.
Inbefore the 4th TA path will be removed after 1 month.
When you have to wait for LS crap to touch TA before seeing something new on the horizon for DGs, you know that’s something off.
The DG team is slacking hard, LS does all the work!
Oh wait, the former has been disbanded to funnel in the latter…
Wvw is on its last leg. Please save it.
Instead, starting 4th October leagues will kick in.
Sorry to say but you’re wrong in a few things there, Rangers is a NO as well as Engineers. No room for them in good dungeons.
You have no idea of what you’re going to unleash.
/popcorn
Anyway, best class to carry a pug?
A good player.
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Anet dropped the ball on DGs long time ago.
LS zerging open world skilless stuff caters much more ppl thus is much more profitable for them.
As long as a tactict don’t “break” the game to be faster (see: glitching trough doors with Res Scrolls – if you what i mean, GW1 vets…) everything is fair imo.
You’re saying the game should basically oppose our way of playing just because it’s different than yours. Or because it doesn’t adhere to your ideas and policies about what the game should be like.
No, I’m saying this because I’ve seen several games die, and whose deaths were highly accelerated, if not outright caused, by elitism that was left unchecked.
In case you haven’t noticed elitism is this game’s smallest problem.
Check :
Gear Grind.
Daily Grind.
Time Gating.
No expansions.
Living story adding temporary content.
Zergfesting everything instead of any challenging permanent content being added in the game.
Diluted lore.These are this game’s real problems.
Elitism – is somewhere at the bottom of the list – and honestly it isn’t a problem.
When faced with an elitist exclusion a player can go one of two ways :1)Cry and leave.
2)Improve himself and become part of the community that’s being “elite”.Do we really need people in category 1? If you’re going to play the game at the same skill ( experience/ competence) level you were playing when you first started – why are you even here?
Issue is, Anet wants the people in category 1.
Because they’re easy to satisfy (see: Zergfesting everything instead of any challenging permanent content being added in the game. Living story adding temporary content.), they pay more in the cash shop for convenience items, they don’t care if some things are “off” (Diluted lore. No expansions.) and most of the time don’t care about (Gear Grind. Daily Grind. Time Gating.) because “It’s optional”.
Easy and cheap to satisfy and keep playing, yet very profitable trough CS items.
What do you want more kitten out of players?
(warning: might contain traces of hyperbole, generalization and sarcasm.)
Big numbers are not DPS
This and
Guardian may suck at self buffing but they’re pretty strong in a group
this.
AndrewSX, its me or if the mob die when you have the offand without bloodlust you dont gwt the charge
Yes, that’s how it works.
Swap to off hand with bloodlust sigil when killing stuff – problem solved.
I don’t really see the issue, tbh.
The only racials i could think of any use for a mes would be
-Asura: Pain Inverter (AoE Confusion), Tecnobabble (3s Daze) Radiation Field (gives you access to poison).
or
-Norn: Snow Leopard elite form. For the most imba escape skill in the game when roaming in WvW.
Anyway, go for the look imo.
As far as sigil goes, Bloodlust on a off-hand (focus)
The problem that I had is that I was afraid of swaping weapons, so I end up putting bloodlust on main-hand and battles in off-hands (so I can swap on cooldown getting might and bloodlust’ stacks).
There isn’t much difference at the end of the day – the main point is that if you have Battle on the shared weapon you’ll get it proccing swapping on both sets. That’s like double the amount of might compared to putting it only on the off-hand. Sure, you can put a sigil of battle on every off hand and bloodlust on shared sword tho.
It’s just matter of preference imo.
Pug quality is a complete roulette.
I’m redoing the gear of my Mes (need more e-kitten worthy stuff), so atm don’t have my hands on everything, but:
General DG, pugging: Sw/F + Staff. I prefer to have a “Oh crap” defensive weapon like Staff when pugging with strangers.
DG with buddies: Sw/F + Sw/x. Usually OH Sword.
I always swap out utilities, traits and weapons troughout a dg, even every single boss encouter if needed.
Also, adapt the choices to the party composition.
As far as sigil goes, Bloodlust on a off-hand (focus) and Battle/Strenght on the MH shared Sword for some might – especially if you’re not running with a 25 might stacking party. In that case, Force would be my choice.
Other weapons (2 other OH weapons, Staff and GS), pretty much whatever you prefer.
The only weapons i almost do not use are scepter, GS and torch, except situations where they’re strictly needed.
Ofc, Zerker armor and trinteks, 0/20/0/25/25 or something like that.
The devs CANNOT be so ignorant of the situation as to see this as a fun matchup in any way.
Fun fact: they are, or at least pretend to be.
There are tons of diffult bosses.
Manly the ones where the main challenge is “Don’t fall asleep”.
They’re everywhere!
As long as it will work like other legendaries – aka: ascended stats, QoL function of switching stats on demand, maybe some special effect – don’t mind.
Higher stats, it’s istantquit.
There are a lot of variants, but overall, a bunker build with 2+ shouts, PTV armor + Knight trinkets and Soldier runes is a good base to build your char on depending on your needs.
Oh, and never leave your staff at home. Always slotted in WvW. Do whatever you want with the other set, GS Hammer Mace/Shield whatever but staff as backup is invaluable.
Over 300.
(aka: 0 healing on gear + 30 pts in Vitality trait line. )
Power is being returned back to the masses, hopefully more than the same seven or so people will begin posting in this subforum.
Appealing to causuals and masses is probably one of the top 3 reasons why this game is going downhill with design decisions.
Thieves are good, both dmg and utility wise.
The main issue? Finding a player able to play it.
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