I think I was in Celestial form while carrying a kit (bombs) @ East Octovine, and when I dropped the kit, I was still in Celestial form, but my button was gone, and my action bar was my normal weapon action bar (not the Celestial bar) but my character was still glowing blue.
On my Necro I solo’d every single HP in Auric Basin with no issue (except for Balth where I had to bug him in order to solo him)
Druid was a bit more challenging but for the most part your pet soaks up the damage and you can heal him and keep him alive forever while you Dps the mobs.
Please someone post this to reddit. If we see this happening in next ESL stream I think Anet might be forced to shut down Gw2 out of shame and embarrassment
Yeah I think you’re right. It’s been so long I don’t even remember the old system. But I do remember transmuting my chars multiple times a day just for the lulz and never having to worry about charges running out. They must have been easier to obtain back then. Anyway that’s a moot point. The point is the current system is kitten, and we desperately need a new option.
They have removed the ability to queue outside the mists
They removed mmr leaderboards
They removed solo queue
They removed the ability to see player ranks
They removed amulet jewels
They removed any rank progression when someone at anet (WHO must have no design experience) decided to just make everyone rank 80
They removed in game tournaments
Yup, I used to love pvp, would solo queue all day, pick up with random people and just play.. But this Meta is just not fun. PvP is a miserable, painful experience. I want my money back
Ele play tempest bunker because nothing else is viable for the class in this high-damage/condi meta.
If they nerf tempest we will just use rune of earth and still bunk on point because there is nothing else left to do for the class in pvp.
Because they design tempest to just do what we could already do they gave us more healing and protection, but if they nerf that tempest becomes completely worthless.
What Anet needs to do is create build variety, instead of trying to create the meta.
Well it’s the same thing for chrono, in all honesty.
Nothing else is viable, shatter is laughable really and I won’t even start with condi mesmers…
Chronobunker is unfun and clearly not why I main a mesmer, but I still think it’s much more in line with the recent block and WoP nerf… I wouldn’t want other “fixes” or they could very well fall out of meta… their damage is laughable truly.
Maybe something done with Alacrity, make it a normal boon or reduce the amount on wells… that’s the only thing I’d consider as far as necessary changes goes.
But yeah, I can already see people accusing me of defending mesmer because I main one and unwilling to see it’s “OPness”
For Ele it’s even worse. Compare a glass Chronomancer/Scarpper and a glass staff Tempest. Which one do you want for your team?
Chronomancer has multiple ways to survive a combat, at least until help come, or you can stealth port away.
Scrapper on Marauder has as much sustain as a full bunker Tempest
Marauder Rev has a lot of blocks/evades/boons and a great heal
Even a glass DH and Thief has more survivability than a glass Tempest.
On Tempest, as soon as people realize you’re glass, you will be totally shut down.
Good luck running away from a Rev with port every 5s, perma stab and chill, and autoattack you for 4k. In low MMR you can sneak in a few Meteor, but when you face decent players I’d love to see how it can survive. Even then, a Marauder Rev/Scrapper is still a better +1 than glass Tempest because they have better DPS.
In short, glass Tempest has worse damage, and worse survivability. That’s why most of the Ele run bunker. There is nothing else.
…because D/D celestial and s/f fresh air were never a thing, yup, glass staff is definitely the only ele spec.
Did you just start playing ele last week or something?
Now I know I’m not the only one that’s disappointed with the transmutation charge system. I miss the good old days when we could transmog to our heart’s content for free. The new system wouldn’t be so bad if there was a way to obtain transmutation charges aside from map completion and the gem store. Those are two really lousy options.
So how about it? Introduce new salvage kits that salvage a weapon/armor piece into a skin instead of into materials/essences of luck. Make these salvage kits relatively easy to obtain (basically anything besides map completion/Gem store…)
The main pvp devs left anet didn’t they? It’s really noticeable. Time to find a new MMO boyz.
Good luck. Unless you like typical Korean MMORPGs or what they’ve done with Elder Scrolls Online, you’re kind of screwed.
Which, all in all ESO is kind of fun now a days, since they fixed a lot of the problems they had at launch. Been playing it off and on.
B&S doesn’t look too horrible I guess.
Waiting for Black Dez mainly, looks awesome.
B&S looks horrible. The grind, the combat, everything.
It’s a typical Korean MMORPG, made by NCSoft no less.
If you’ve lost faith in ANet, I have no clue why you’d have any faith in the guys over them.
Clearly you’d think upper management would be incompetent as well. But maybe I’m weird.
Black Desert…
I don’t feel like repeating myself, but I will.
it’s a typical korean mmorpg
I would get about as hyped for it as I did for ArcheAge, such as to say, not at all.
It’s always odd seeing people get hyped about models that never work out in America.
I had high hopes for HoT PvP. It all comes down to the next major balance patch for me. We shouldn’t be forced to choose from 3 or 4 (Elite no less) specs to be viable.
Not to mention I was expecting mountains of new PvP content. Instead what did we get? Strongholds. And that’s it. 1 Lousy new map with boring gameplay and an assortment of broken or lazily designed elite specs (like Dragonhunter).
The combat system in Gw2 will likely still be #1, but that can only carry them so far…
3. Home > far point. This is such a dumb common mistake that is played at diamond level. I remember I was 1 pip from Diamond, we destroyed at mid point and instead of my 3 allies running to secure home who was contested, they all chase to far to catch the two people low on health. This puts your bunker at a very bad position that can go very poorly. He can run to help home, but that leaves mid open OR at far point will be an outnumbered 3v4 without a bunker. The bunker could follow far but that means mid AND home is vulnerable.
You’d think it would be common sense, but the greed is strong. Let them flee away, take the chance to help home quick and run back for the second clean up.
SO MUCH THIS.
I swear every godkitten kittening time these mouthbreathing kittens chase far point for absolutely no kittening reason when we already have 2 points. Sure, pressuring them @ respawn is great, especially if it’s a very one-sided game and you’ve got a solid team. But most of the time that isn’t the case, and with most of the games I’ve lost, the entire kittening team goes far for absolutely no reason, and this usually results in us getting 2 or 3 capped.
Most of the time it’s just an ADD problem. No one wants to sit still and relax. They’re too high on mountain dew or something to realize that far point is where the ENEMY TEAM RESPAWNS. So chasing far and giving up CLOSE is an inherently kittening stupid idea.
Let’s go play WoW guys, or any moba of your choice. We won’t find a balanced PvP game here. I must say at least Bli$$ard is trying, unlike Anet. What do you even expected from a Korean owned company? These guys (Koreans) have a large history of kittened up mmos.
Arenanet’s 3 co-founders all worked as lead programmers for Blizzard.
The balance in WoW is horrible though, so I don’t really know why I pointed that out.
I have 26k hp on my druid and I got 100-0’d by a dragonhunter+necro 2v1. DH spammed 4 traps while Necro spam condi’d me. I was dazed from full health all the way to death. I used my 1 stun break and tried to get off my heal, but alas I ran into a fragment of faith (which was nearly impossible to see with all the visual noise of 4 DH traps) and the lockdown continued.
Double Rev is still a force to be reckoned with. Almost no class/spec can survive against that much condi pressure for more than a few seconds when being focused.
but…that’s the same as a ton of other specs…
No it’s not lol. The only thing that comes close is condi reaper and they don’t have even 1/4th of the evades/blocks/mobility/healing of Rev
I find warrior bunker support build is pretty good. It is actually one of my favorite teamates when playing my glass staff ele build. Either way, I’ll be sure to report anyone who is only going to participate in pvp if they get a specific team makeup. I won’t deny that warriors and thieves (to a lesser extent) could use some help in pvp. Thieves are still good at what they have always been good at, and their elite spec just helped them do more of the same. That was a mistake in my opinion (even though I find dd fun). Warriors got a elite spec that is simply bad in pvp, so the best warriors I’ve played with just don’t run with it in pvp. Warrior is not terrible right now, but they have gotten no power up with HoT. I play most games on my ele without my elite spec, but when our team is heavy necro and other classes/builds that require some extra support, I’ll swap to shout tempest. Shout tempest pulls ahead for most games, but I can’t give up the multikills I get when playing damage staff. Only issue I have with the build (besides thieves, which are mostly absent from meta) are when my teammates can somehow die before I get a kill (which usually doesn’t take more than a 10 seconds at mid). Even still, I’ve won many mid fights where the enemies rally over and over, but eventually along with the help of one solid bunker on our team we win out. Glass staff is useless when you don’t have someone to “draw aggro” on the point, which I find warriors are really good for making players want to focus them. They don’t last as long as some of the other bunkers, but they bring a lot of cc, good rezes and decent condi removal. Thieves just can’t handle the amount of damage that bruiser builds can dish out right now, and bruiser is the other name for this meta (besides bunk). They are still the best decapers, and against some teams that is highly effective. (again not so much in the current meta where there are almost no straight damage builds; although I play one)
Double Rev is still a force to be reckoned with. Almost no class/spec can survive against that much condi pressure for more than a few seconds when being focused.
The only time I die to DH is if I’m just screwing around and not actually trying to be aware of positioning or traps. Sure if they port into a team fight out of nowhere and drop 2-3 traps + Dragon maw, chances are at least ONE person is going to be out of evades/dodges/mobility CDs and get eaten alive. Gimmicky and lame.
DH is broken. It’s not overpowered. It’s just broken. The gameplay is asinine. The skillcap is low. It’s really just a gimmicky cartoon that just annoys people profoundly in hotjoins and solo queue.
