If only pistol had more use on a mesmer – would use Bolt/New Pistol for a all round electrical effect. Could even pretend that it the electricity passing from bolt to power the pistol
We aren’t going to release any videos, guides, etc for raids until multiple guilds have cleared the wing. Our goal is to preserve competition for all the guilds interested in progression and not spoil the fun of learning the fights by doing anything to taint that. We will do our best to ensure that everyone has the best experience possible in the raid, which is the whole point of having guilds invited to test these things.
I should make it clear that no one testing will be allowed to video, screenshot, or otherwise record or document any test content whatsoever, whether for use immediately or for future use. That is part of the NDA.
Any guild posting about raids will gather information, screenshots, videos, and all resources only from the released, live game and never through access to a test server.
That’s not the concern. The concern is that DnT will have advanced access to test and practice the mechanics of the raid. They’ll then be able to use that advantage to claim a world first clear on live.
It’d be like giving one runner in the olympics a 5 second head start, then claiming he’d won a world record.
Are you serious?
It is now public knowledge that these two guilds have head start access
Therefore any claims of world firsts or world firsts with members of these testing groups will be invalidated, why is this rocket science.
Because Attuned and DnT are part of the closed testing, they therefore are completely eliminated from the competition group and anyone featuring any member of the testing group will disqualify the world first.
Not all members of DnT and Att are participating. If 10 people from TTS were invited, should all of the TTS guilds be eliminated from claiming world first?
In short, Yes.
You know they will talk to their guild about best ways to kill things, team compilation to take in etc etc. They literally can go in raid, face a boss once then say “This is how i think you should do it!” as you cant prove they did not work it out from just that single fight.
Also there is no list of players that have been invited. Could be 1% of the guild, could be 99% of them. NDA’s generally dont let you disclose your participation publicly on a personal level so how will you know who was and was not part of it? etc etc.
Not that I care. People can rush through it and not care about what the raid actually about all they want, but people can not be blamed if they are not willing to acknowledge these guilds as a World First because no matter which way you look at it they will have an advantage via prior knowledge especially with the major one which is best classes to take. For example, currently we know that you only need 1 mesmer using sword for boonstrip. Could be that is plenty for the whole raid and you can then bring a higher dmg class, or could be you need to bring necro etc for extra boonstrips.
blah blah blah.
All in all, who cares. But this is a pointless announcement that basically trying to give the impression they care about players. Maybe they should think about popping on the WvW forum now and deal with the massive blowout they caused by changing a good reset time (hello borders queued in most upper tiers), to a time that ruined the weekend interest but at least it was in the evening when most people havent got kids/work worries, and then put it on a Saturday morning as their “look we can give you a even worse time as you dared to moan”
meh, been waiting to see druid (wife plays ranger and i spent last 7months or so as ranger on guild wvw raids) … but dont care if get early reveal as I be away at a big cat sanctuary (but of course whilst there i be missing my little siberian cat
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Sods law it got timed to come at this week
I would be screwed without using characters as mules. Infact it actually hampers my playing because of how things currently set up.
11 slot banks – almost all full. Had a bit of a clear out to make a little room. I have a vast range of character bound items (wvw that cant be salvaged yet but can be soon), food which i never know which character I want it on, event currency (ie blooms) i not decided what to spend on, B.L salvage kits, tomes/scrolls/writs, bday gifts such as dyes, utility buffs, boosters/orbs etc, agony infusions etc. Runes/Sigils/Rare staffs/GS that gathering to forge on mass (2 tabs there alone often). Half a tab of fractal weapons, and then we get onto the big one!
Multiple tabs of Ascended equipment for Reaper/Revenant etc . cant put anywhere else as characters are already equipped with what they currently use and cant waste their inv for spare gear dont need yet.
The problem comes with characters though
I have about 300 ascended rings on mule characters, One of them is a bank character but the other is my thief whom now is unusable as he overloaded with storing stuff.
Warrior: Unusable as he got all the emp.frags/blood dust/dragonite and overloaded.
Ranger: Random stuff that I wish to keep for future (SAB tokens, tonics etc)
My playstyle has me using all classes at some point and 3 of them are marked unusable currently. . . And this with me using 2 guild banks to store crafting materials.
Given I dont really have a “hoard” compared to a lot of people I can understand the issues with space. Only reason I know where things are is the simple fact I tried to batch similar things together and put them on same character.
I got a problem. I will just want to stand in Gravity Well from the enemy all the time just for the animation of being KD, lifted, than pulled back.. Will be like an invisible Hulk attacking you
tbh they had this type of heal in the game for ages, has a lot of counterplay in spvp and in pve you need to time it well for the attacks that will do a decent amount of dmg to heal you up… but it is indeed great going from 0% to 100% instantly when you find the right attack to use it on
I actually disagree, my way around this is OOC, run nature/fury/swiftness.
This will stack up a ton of fury and swiftness (talking 1m+ if you not fighting for awhile), and then when you enter combat you can just use the actives of fury/swiftness and use the might stacking and still gain energy for weapon skills(or even run regen if you want) … then just use fury/swiftness if for some reason you get low
Using fury facet onlyy ooc means you probably won’t have fury when you swap to the other legend (not really a great idea to stay on glint) unless you doubletap nature.
I prefer to stay in regen + swiftness ooc and then start with dragonbreath and fury+might in combat, with healing ready when needed and no energy debuff, then I swap to Shiro 5-6 seconds later to get another 6 seconds of fury and eventually doubletap nature. This way I can easily have daggers + quickness + fury + 20 might all by myself. Bursting all the way.
Once Shiro’s energy is over I swap back to Glint and everything is (almost) recharged.Of course, activate facets second effect before swapping.
Nope, when i was travelling between locations I could easily end up with 1minute+ of fury built up. This is really noticable in WvW where you often roam a long time looking for fights.
This way you got a lot of in fight time where you can avoid using it, and just bring it back up when needed
Yeah I love the heal, you just got to remember the double use (i never use the passive in combat) else you find yourself dead and wondering “wtf happened”
even if it is only a option to make “all symbols” more transparent (ie will affect guardians symbols etc) then I could cope with that too.
Just needs dulled down a bit, but if they can add the option to change teh symbol brightness level yourself that be good. Definately does clash with legendaries footfalls
I run meta-zerk and all welcome groups. I run optimal setup and random setups. I actually start both types depending on my mood at that point.
I’m in EU. I only do fractals, not dungeons. And run 3-5 tiers a day regularly. Times completely vary from 02:00 to 22:00. Most regular problem is not people not fitting the LFG discription although you get some of the wrong class joining that easy to get kicked in meta groups (even when you can tell a zerk is not in zerk you cant pinpoint WHICH of the 4 other people it is so hard to make a fuss) it actually people that join the wrong lvl range for their AR. Depending on my mood this could mean I vote kick them at the final boss as this is where you really notice it with a couple of exceptions, but it the people that lie about their AR that kitten me off. Though sometimes revenge is sweet
Had someone join a lvl 50, carried them to the final boss which was Jade Maw. They insta-died on entering the fight area. Left them dead and completed the boss.
The release and run back to get the chest, of course they once again instantly die. They start crying for a rezz. I just stood there doing nothing. They insisted the whole fractal they had 85AR, even when they instantly were dying they kept saying it. They got really annoyed that I refused to rezz them even after I stated that I do not help people that lie to me
Now I think free accounts are going to make this problem worse for quite some time. But I think I make an AR check at start of any dungeon I do and if people do not answer just kick them out. Least that way they need to at least know the AR necessary which is a start to knowing mechanics of fractals and if find out they lied just remove them from the boss and be done with it.
I only play my mesmer in fractals. One thing to note, if you want fast runs then you got to really utilise the full skill set with it.
It is rare for me to go through any single fractal without multiple changes to my utilities as we move. But one the main thing you bring on alot of them is the reflects, as it one of the things you can do best.
I admit that it was my first, and remains my fave class that is underestimated by a lot of people. I seriously enjoy running it through the Cliffside fractal. I use a lot of utilities but in the end the thing that catches most peoples attention is the use of mimic/blink/portal to fly through the run portions (and also the arm seals).
Normally when divine is down on 3% I am already on route to the gate leaving phantisms behind for damage. Once it open I am through with a portal down before they even retrieved hammer. mimic blink up the top and quickly drop the portal for them to be straight up.
Given I run pugs only, most the time they not very quick on first seal as they kill all the enemies instead of leaving enough to do it without needing a respawn… this means all cooldowns are back.. so next run is another portal/mimic/blink routine. .. run rest way up, portal between the arm seals using mimic for more uptime. Then once seals are broke portal/blink through the floor straight into boss room withotu needing to run at all
There is no other class that can have that sort of fun, and the time saved doing these sorts of things are massive. Just most people do not learn of the little tricks a mesmer can do to speed up runs and help them out. The amount of times people have complained about Cliffside being too long at start, then when I portal them past half the stuff they turn around and say “Ok that was actually fast” – is astounding. And I love it when get grawl fractal where when everyone whines, im cheering because i love fighting that boss due to the fact I get so many reflects available it actually easy and fast.
Although I bet even you have to admit, that most people that want “meta” groups dont actually understand them.
For instance, there was someone that kicked me out of a group for not having scholer runes (had strength as wasnt making a 2nd set just for pve when i know it wont be my main after HoT) …. I joined them on another account that had a scholer rune set on armour. Guess what, most of the group was rarely above 90% health and thus their scholer runes were useless… when questioned on it they simply told me that it still better to use that when only get the bonus 10-20% of the time then to use another rune where you will always have the bonus but is only 5% boost.
Hell even if you didnt know how meta groups should would, takes very little knowledge to know that you need to be above 90% health no less then 50% of the fight else a rune that gives 5% dmg increase for the entire fight is better.
I didn’t stay in the group of course, did not want to help them through it on an account I don’t care about… but I was just too curious that day to not do it after the attitude they previously gave me!
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Although this thread is rather pointless, that I also have to admit
I basically always pre-casted shiro heal. Fury+initial dmg burst vs a 2k heal when you need it. There really is no reason NOT to pre-cast with the way it was with the 1s cooldown on them.
0.5s may make it slightly more a choice, but I highly doubt it. Shiro heal is really a “use when off cooldown” heal as it no good in an emergency. 2k heal and then 1k per second on hit really had no chance of helping when you get hit for 3k+ most the time when take damage.
With 0 icd on the daggers it would seriously need to consider if you want it for spike dmg or burst healing on demand. Hell, without an ICD you could actually consider dropping the duration to 10s which then would make it even tougher decision. Pre-cast and possibly miss out on some the burst dmg as you couldnt engage quick enough, or solid healing after engaging and having lost health (which then actually gives the enemy more chance of countering/interupting you)
I understand the spike concerns though and do think the best solution is to increase the duration if you feel you unable to remove the internal cd. Although take this into account Roy.
The Warrior Elite – Go berserk mode – Initiated the Berzerk flurry skill at point blank range – 8 stacks of burn instantly on target (pierces too iirc). And we all know burning dmg pure tick is insane. That is on a 5second timer – so is it really that insane that the heal that is on a 30s timer can do 5.4k dmg over a couple of seconds. Would also say the heal is at best comparable to what a berserker will be getting from the new healing skill that they receive (infact the warrior “should” get much higher health return if it is built for any decent sort of dmg, especially if conditions it previously placed on an enemy returns health also)
Personally 15s with no cooldown should make it a usable heal (not great but usable), as a on demand heal .. 0.5s I doubt it because in the 3s it takes to get the full heal you still would have took a lot more dmg than what it healing you for so it can not really be held back for a “on demand” heal and likely will remain as part of the opening burst rotation for more dmg in order to hopefully beat the enemy before you actually need a heal.
15s duration/20s duration/25s duration makes no difference in my opinion. You would still cast it just before you hit Phase Traversal so the opening hits (that will have unblockable ability on them) force the enemy to waste more cooldowns then they would necessarily have to in the first 3-5seconds of the fight. If you want a real heal you would always need to switch to your other legend (and if it is Glint you have to hope the enemy continues to hit you
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If this is how the warrior is, I dread to think what the Engineer will be like. Probably they will just simplify it whilst keeping it as one of the best condi and burst dps classes, just so it easier for everyone to do :P
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They’d have this if Unyielding Anguish was more easily controlled as to where people would get teleported.
I actually tested this. They get teleported to wherever you’re standing in the circle, so for example: If you’re standing left of the center of the circle and you have someone coming from the right, they will be teleported to the left. I have attached some files for a visual representation below.
EDIT: For better wording on the last attachment, I meant to say that “The enemy is almost always teleported back to the side they came from.”
Tested some stuff on golems and something i noticed that if you standing in the middle of it then they will teleport the way you are facing… and always displaces them to just in front of you if you are not in the displacement.
Was laughing so much at teh “mist golems” … i left a trail of smokey golems as they were displaced, banded back to place, displaced again just infront of last time, rinse and repeat
So i guess in theory if it on players, if you drop it and move off and people enter they could get massively displaced to where you moved too. Be interesting to see what happens if you drop it, switch to shiro and teleport 1200 away.
Just curious if anyone knows, my guess is they probably done it when they added the beta character slots, but kinda hoping that it is yet to be done so i can strip my characters for their armour to be accessible.
Long shot that will get an answer but may as well ask
Yeah, I’m looking at buffing it because 10% crit for a GM trait is a bit weak. Might try making fury 100% better so it’d give 20% extra crit.
Revenants may get some access to swiftness.
Great news on both fronts. Said right away it should be 100% boost at gm level. And swiftness is a must. Infact is there any class that has 0 access without combo’s? Only one with no wePon access i can think off is thief that gets it in traits iirc
Since this announcement fractals have been hidous to pug. Sooooo many poor players that dont know what to do yet are in a lvl 30+ fractal. It isn’t even necessarily the mechanics that are the issue. Unfortunately today it was Rangers making life hard and giving the good ones a poor name (i cant even take my ranger to dungeons due to such people )
Firstly it was a lvl40 ranger that insisted on using bow4 on everything. Mai Trin boss being the worst. He refused to stack, and every time i took off all the defiance ready to pull her into the field he knocked her back for no reason even when asked constantly not too.
Secondly it was a lvl30 fractal, and someone (ranger again) that had 15 or less AR. Would not answer questions for ages and spent most the time dead. Lucky for him I was in a good mood and didnt put a kick request in even though he had no right being there. Couldnt be bothered to rezz him in bosses though as was easier just to not bother and 4man it
Ill hopefully be testing it in an organised PvE environment. Probably high level fractals. Might even record some footage. No guarantee on that though. And yes I will be analysing the damage and PvE implications extensively.
let me know how it goes. I currently use my mesmer (toon #1 created) in the fractals.
I used Necro (toon #2) in wvw for a very, very long time. But got bored of the simple playstyle of it on guild raids. I actually would like to use it in PvE but you know the stigma they have. But with fractal changes coming I am hoping that the reaper will be a great addition to the team. Shame wont get to test the new high level fractals to see if you need conditions or if zerker is fine but I am seriously interested to hear how you go with this, and if they are a strong option.
I personally will be focusing my reaper testing on WvW in a melee train, and testing revenant out in a focus party.
Hoping that the fractal change will throw everything in the air and give some more “open” spots to a strong group setup. I.e. Only necessary be PS warrior and an Ele. Beyond that if it opened up more it be great
Lich is good, not going into details but my guild uses it very effectively in 20-25man raids. Just it has to be used in a particular manner if you dont want to be focused.
Surprisingly I haven’t seen enemy guilds use the tactic against us, and I actually think the shock of seeing what we are doing is part of why it is so effective. Which is why we don’t actually use it often, and only active when we need a quick shock and awe
Shaman is great, simply because it makes people greatly appreciate me
It the one fractal where people always comment on how well I control the fight on my mesmer, with many saying I am the best they seen. Always is nice to get some gratitude when often it all about the DPS. The fact that even when everyone goes down I keep going and get them back up helps I guess
Mai trin is merely annoying due to the length of the barrage phases. I die 1/500 probably, if that. Just mimic/veil etc for lots of stealth and stand around waiting. Once over take control of Mai whilst people rezz others and if possible get the stacks down so can damage right away. Simply put, just reduce the length of the barrage phases and this fight would be perfect. People would still need to learn the mechanic, but once they have they wouldnt get bored ever time they are fighting it. Even halving the duration would be a step in the right direction.
I agree they the 2 best fight mechanics of all the fractals though, Maw is the one I hate the most though. It is just bad in every way. No challenge, No fun, easy kills whilst waiting for the stupid thing to slowly die. . . on the brink of getting lifesteal weapons just for that :p
also there is “auto attack on target change” in option iirc.
And there is many reasons why you wouldnt want to attack something you are targeting ranging from a simple “Dont want neutral enemy to change to hostile quite yet” to “I just want to emote the person I have targeted”.
Would be annoying to auto attack an enemy player when im just trying to wave to them, or as I do more often /laugh @ , before i run away without being put in combat by auto attacking the enemy zerg