Guild Wars 2

It’s LA’s Aerodome. We were 4 necros using corruption and plague signet to kill one another lol

cuz esports /15chars

Just thinking out loud for fun…

The Hexster
Idea and Role:
Focus on a single enemy by primarily turning it against its own allies.

Specialization Mechanic:
Gain 2 additional illusion slot

Original class skills’ functionalities are replaced.

Assuming Berserker Stat:

F1: Mind Wrack -> Mind Siphon
Shatter your illusions. Your weapons gain Mind Siphon buff.
Increase weapon skills damage: 20%
Weapon skills ignore target armor
Weapon skills execute faster: 20%
Duration per illuion: 1.5 seconds

F2: Cry of Frustration -> Echo of Frustration
Shatter your illusions. Disperse conditions on you to enemies around you.
Conditions dispersed per illusion: 1

F3: Diversion -> Hypnotization
Shatter your illusions. Create a decoy of yourself that inflicts taunt on your foe. The decoy can be destroyed.
Decoy’s health: 7,500
Duration of taunt per illusion shattered: 1 seconds

F4: Distortion -> Backfire
Shatter your illusions. Create a protective field that absorbs damage for you and returns received damage as direct health damage to enemies standing within the field.
Duration of field per illusion shattered: 1 second
Field’s health per illusion shattered: 2,000

New Weapon: Off-handed Dagger
Dagger#4: Phantasmal Enfeebler
Summons a phantasm that attacks enemy and steals boons for you every few seconds
Interval: 3 seconds
Boons stolen: 3

Dagger#5: Shattering Dagger
Throw a dagger to your enemy, stealing boons. Inflict vulnerability if there are no boons.
Boons stolen: 3
Vulnerability: 15 stacks, 15 seconds

New Utility Skills: Hex

Healing: Displaced Rejuvenation
Heal yourself for a small amout and steal your enemy’s healing skill for a few seconds, during which time, you can use the stolen healing skill and your enemy’s healing skill will be locked out. This lock-out duration will be an addition if enemy’s skill is currently on cooldown. (DR you steal from another hexer’s will not steal healing skill again)
Stealing duration: 7 seconds

Utility#1: Swapped Malice
For a duration, your foe will become friendly towards your allies and hostile towards your enemies.
Duration: 7 seconds

Utility#2: Degenerative Fortification
For a duration, deals direct health damage to your foe whenever it receives a boon or cleanses a stack of conditions.
Duration: 8 seconds
Damage done per boon received: 300
Damage done per condition cleansed: 150

Utility#3: Black Sheep
For a duration, your enemy pulses damage every second to itself and its allies. Increase damage per allies within your enemy’s radius.
Number of target (exlucding hexed enemy): 5
Radius: 360
Enemy’s self damage: 800
Damage to 1 ally: 1,000
Damage to 2 allies: 1,100
Damage to 3 allies: 1,300
Damage to 4 allies: 1,600
Damage to 5 allies: 2,000
Duration: 3 seconds

Utility#4: Transmitted Seizure
Break stun then stun your enemy. Enemy that attempts to break your stun stuns itself and its allies within radius for the second time.
First stun: 1.5 seconds
Second stun: 3 seconds
Range: 600
Radius: 250

Elite: Out-With-The-Bang
Your enemy deals massive area damage to their allies if it goes down within the next few seconds. Deals second bigger and more destructive area damage if the downed enemy is finished within the next few seconds after going down.
First hex’s duration: 10 seconds
First hex’s damage: 2,000
First hex’s radius: 250
Second hex’s duration: 5 seconds
Second hex’s damage: 3,500
Second hex’s radius: 360

Traits

Minor#1: Hexer
New class skills, gain 2 additional illusion slots

Minor#2: Fortified Illusions
Illusions gain 30% health

Minor#3: Hexer’s Expertise
13% of power is converted into vitality, 13% of precision is converted into toughness, 13% of ferocity is converted into concentration

Adept#1: Illusionary Replenishment
Shattering illusions reduces recharge of all illusion skills by 0.5 second per illusion.

Adept#2: Mighty Hexer
Gain 3 random boons when you successfully hex enemies.

Adept#3: Duelist’s Dance
Gain a stack of stability when you are disabled.

Master#1: Shattering Damage
Shattering each illusion grants you a stack of buff that gives additional weapon damage.
Duration per stack: 5 seconds
Damage increase per illusion: 2%

Master#2: Master Hexer
Successfully hexing your enemy grants you might, fury and quickness. Hex skills recharge 20% faster. gain 10% additional reduction when your hexes are successful.
Might: 8 stacks, 10 seconds
Fury: 7 seconds
Quickness: 3 seconds

Master#3: Persistent Evasion
Succesfully evading an attack grants you a stack of protection afterward. Grant vigor when you deplete your endurance.
Protection: 3 seconds
Vigor: 5 seconds

Grandmaster#1: Compounding Shatter
Whenever you shatter more than 3 illusions, you gain an additional extra illusion effect on yourself

Grandmaster#2: Vegeance Rebound
Whenever your next hex skill fails, you instantly recharge that hex skill. Failing hex skills grants you protection, swiftness, regeneration and superspeed.
Protection: 5 seconds
Swiftness: 8 seconds
Regeneration: 5 seconds
Superspeed: 3 seconds
Failing: Blocked, Blinded, Evaded, Invulnerable, Interrupted

Grandmaster#3: Last Laugh
Cast Backfire with an equivalent health of a number of illusions when your health reaches 25%. If Backfire is already active, this will grant additional health and duration to the field.
Equivalent Health: 3 illusions
Health per illusion: 2,000
Duration per illusion: 1 second.

I’ve always been bothered by how mesmer always feels like a purple version of thief with some wacky mechanic but it’s never enough to make it stand out on its own. When chronomancer came, it increased the ‘wackiness’ quite a bit but the base class overall still feels rather meh.

In my opinion, mesmer needs way more unconventional skills. If there’s going to be another elite I spec, I’d rather it has something like

1. A skill that temporarily steals enemy’s stat
2. A skill that makes enemy suffers % of damage done to them in the past 5 seconds again
3. A skill that makes enemy hostile to all targets
4. A skill that makes enemy friendly to all targets
5. A skill that makes enemy take direct dmg to their health based on the damage done to you
etc etc

Something along that line, something that’s not numeric like dps meter or boons machine

I’ll have to disagree on arcane skills. You’re arguing from a point of ‘defensive’ utilities, which is TOTALLY NOT what arcane skills are all about. And no, arcane skills are not meant for raw damage either.

Elemental Surge is wayyy underrated.

Actually, I want the old confusion back. With all the chrono traits and other thingies, I can see 10k dmg tick per skill use.

But then you all would complain again…

ahhh.. I miss the days when eles can suicide by just swapping attunements.

I have no sympathy for this change lol. This, celestial amulet and the cancerous double bunker aura tempest.

Good riddance.

I have been playing boon corrupt necro for a very long time. And I think I am really good at it since it is the only spec i feel confidence with it. I once hold off against 2bunker tempests and a shout gd in stronghold until time ran out. They werent able to kill lords and kept duing because of the boon strips. Now, all heavy def amulets are gone and we got 10x more boons currption.

This change is too good. It will be nerfed. I am SURE of it. So enjoy it while it lasts.

PVP Wings require you to play PVP to obtain them. It’s a gamemode reward. Much like how pvp players will never ever get FOTM wings.

I’m sorry your fav skin is gated behind a gamemode you don’t like but deal with it yo.

They suck anyway. Straight out of Korean MMOs

That’s hardcore esport for ya

So esport you rally your enemies just to fight them again.

I’m having the same problem with Drone Race. Looks like adventures are broken.

Tried 5 times now. Every time I hit begins, the client just crashed. 64-bit. Please check. Need them for engi collection

Dadnir.5038:

Terribad idea. It’s been discussed over and over, giving a %age of stat from pet would make the ranger situationnally game breaking. Beside the game would be healthier without these kitten transformation skills.

Let’s take a simple example :
I take bear and shapeshift from your spec. I now gain 2550 vitality which is roughly 25 000 health point. And since I’m stupidly focus on a vitality build I’m now a ranger with 5000 vitality for 10s every 15s which mean 55 000 health point.

I also hard cap at the same time my crit chance and my power because I use rune of exuberance to gain 350 power and 250 precision, gain 750 to prec and power from the transformation and round up what I need with proper food that gain from vitality.

Did I said that I also had 3k toughness on top of that? Yeah, the ranger by pressing your I-win button is now a world boss.

Now, You’ll probably say that it’s not an issue since the ranger hit like a wet noodle… But you know, I have elementalist friends that absolutely like when I do stupid things like that so they give me the lightning hammer/frostbow/fire axe/fiery greatsword to consciensiously destroy everything in front of me.

And that’s not the only issue… I figured out that by using this elite spec there are trait that are meant to support my pet that are now useless, so as a good ranger I’ll complain that they need to be removed and replaced by trait that support a gameplay that don’t rely on pet and if in the process they could add a button to completely remove the pet it would be even greater…

That’s why numbers always need balancing. Key idea is that the Fusion mode gives ranger a temporary powerful mode. In my head , the final stats result overall after fusion should be more like 10seconds of 50-60% effectiveness of full celestial gear with more stats strength on what you already equip. Meaning, if you run berserker and you fuse with tiger, you will gain “some” other stats while your offensive goes up “noticeably” for 10 seconds. And then we have cool down balancing. Also, don’t see why pet traits can’t function while fusing. Say, if you take natural healing, for the time of the fusion, you are effected by that trait. If you cast “guard” while fusing, you gain protection. Etc etc. Shouldn’t be hard to code. But honestly, if you already decide to trade pets existence for a while for combat boosts, it also makes sense that you give up those pets traits for rhe same duration. Cuz you know… Balance & tradeoff (did you read that I said pets are only disabled during fusion?). Do you know that Signets necros can’t use signets while being in shroud? No one seems to complain. And also by your logic, we should remove ele attunement and engi kits cuz i mean, aren’t they the exact same mechanic that I propose with this spec? Lol

So I wanted to see this happen but it didn’t happen. Nvm, I’ll have my own room of imagination. Kinda hoping devs would take a look and take an idea or two. Anyway, it was a good exercise for my creativity.

Key Idea : Spec is focused on damage and constant engagement in combat in order to sustain survival through augmented regeneration. There are no burst heal but a bit of healing here and there across the board. Fast attack but lack anti-range defense. More like a pure bruiser which ranger isn’t too good with.

Weapon - Main-handed Dagger, focusing on melee and constant engagement in combat.
Skill#1 – Bite – Hit your enemies twice. 2 targets.
– Chomp – Hit your enemies. Gain 1 second of quickness per enemy.
– Chew – Hit your enemies. Gain 2 seconds of regeneration per enemy.

Skill#2 – Hundred Fangs – Leap to your target. Dealing flurry of massive multiple attacks to enemies. Siphon your enemies’ health as percentage of your damage dealt. High damage, 900 range, 1.5 sec channel, 8 seconds CD.

Skill#3 – Wind Rider – Leap backward 3 times. Evade and throw dagger to your enemy for each hit, first hit cripples for 6 secs, second hit chills for 4 secs and last hit immobilizes for 2 secs. Moderate damage, 300 range per leap, dagger has 1,200 range, 1.5 sec channel, 1.5 evade. 10 sec CD.

F5 – Fusion
Fuse yourself with your pets. Gaining percentage of their current stats. Pets are disabled during Fusing time. Fusion counts towards pet swapping and all pets related traits. Fusion will also activate F2 traits.
Inherited Stats: 30%
Duration: 10 seconds
CD: 15 seconds

Skills category: Transform Kits
Transform#Heal: Avatar of the Insectoid - Transform into an avatar of the insectoid, gaining superior healing & condition cleansing abilities.
Skill#1 – Regenerative Slime – Throw slime onto a small radius and heal allies. Small heal. No CD.

Skill#2 – Soothing Swarm – Call upon the swarm onto an area, granting 10 seconds of regeneration. 8 sec CD.

Skill#3 – Cleansing Swarm – Call upon the swarm onto an area, curing 3 conditions on allies. 10 sec CD.

Skill#4 – Cocoon – Heal yourself and your pet while blocking. Moderate heal. 25 sec CD. 2 sec channel, 2 sec block.

Skill#5 – Venomous Coating – Grant Venomous Coating effect to allies for 7 seconds. During this time, 15% of your damage dealt will siphon enemies.

Transform#1: Avatar of the Feline - Transform into an avatar of the feline, gaining superior close-ranged offensive abilities.
Skill#1 – Pounce – Melee attack. High damage. inflicts 1 stack of vulnerability for 5 seconds. No CD.

Skill#2 – Leap – Leap to your enemy. Dealing moderate damage. 900 range, 8 sec CD.

Skill#3 – Stalk – Enter into stealth mode for 7 seconds. Gain access to Hidden Claw. Dealing moderate damage to enemy when hitting with Hidden Claw, using the skill from behind or from the sides does double damage. 15 sec CD. Stealth ends when leaving Feline form.

Skill#4 – Furius Pounce – Deal a flurry of massive multiple attacks to enemy. Gaining 1 sec of fury for each strike. High damage. 10 strikes, 1 sec channel. 15 sec CD.

Skill#5 – Predator’s Reflex – Evade backward and gain superspeed for 5 seconds. Evade 1 sec. 10 sec CD.

Transform#2: Avatar of the Drake - Transform into an avatar of the drake, gaining superior ranged offensive abilities.
Skill#1 – Fire Bolt – Shoot a bolt of fire to enemy. Dealing moderate damage. 1,200 range, no CD. 20% chance of applying 1 stack of burning for 5 secs.

Skill#2 – Fire Breath – Breathe a cone of fire in front of you. Deal massive damage to enemies and inflict 5 stacks of burning for 10 seconds. 15 sec CD. 1,200 range. 30 degree cone.

Skill#3 – Swing – Spin your wings. Dealing moderate damage and launch your enemies around you. 450 range launch, 360 radius. 30 sec CD.

Skill#4 – Retreat – Knockback your enemy while flying backward. 600 attack range, 900 retreat range, 1 sec evade. 20 sec CD.

Skill#5 – Drake’s Fury – Roar into the sky, calling upon a shower of fire balls in a 360 radius AoE attack. Each fireball does massive damage and inflict 1 stack of burning for 1 second. 10 Fire balls. 2 sec channel. 30 sec CD. 1,200 range.

Transform#3: Avatar of the Bear - Transform into an avatar of the bear, gaining superior survival abilities.
Skill#1 – Maul – Moderate auto attack. No CD.

Skill#2 – Sprint – Sprint forward, knocking enemies along the way. Moderate damage, 1,200 range. 25 sec CD.

Skill#3 – Roar – Taunt your surrounding enemies for 3 seconds and inflict 5 seconds of blindness. 360 radius. 25 sec CD.

Skill#4 – Toxic Appetite – Consume 5 conditions that are on you. Heal yourself for a small amount for each condition consumed. 40 sec CD.

Skill#5 – Bearskin – Become invulnerable for 5 seconds. 40 sec CD.

Transform#4: Avatar of the Canine - Transform into an avatar of the canine, gaining superior control abilities.
Skill#1 – Bite – Bite your enemies, dealing moderate damage.

Skill#2 – Dig – Dig the ground around you, stirring up a cloud of dust, creating a smoke field that inflicts 1 second of blindness every second for the next 5 second. 240 radius. 15 sec CD.

Skill#3 – Leap – Leap to your enemy, knocking them down for 2 seconds. 25 sec CD. Moderate damage. 900 range.

Skill#4 – Rabies – Inflict Rabies on your enemy for 10 seconds. Rabies inflict a random stack of cripple/chill/immobilize/fear/taunt/slow for 1 second every 2 seconds. 30 sec CD.

Skill#5 – Howl – Howl and inflict 3 seconds of fear, cripple and immobilize to your enemies. 240 radius. 30 sec CD.

Transform#Elite: Avatar of the Dragons - Transform into an avatar of the Dragons, gaining superior support abilities.
Skill#1 – Flame of Primordus – Dealing moderate AoE damage. Enemies within the radius are burned for 2 seconds while allies gain 3 stacks of mights for 5 seconds and 1 second of fury. No CD.

Skill#2 – Breath of Zhaitan – Dealing small AoE damage. Enemies are inflicted with 3 seconds of weakness and 3 stacks of poison for 3 seconds. Lower condition duration on affected allies by 1 second per pulse. No CD.

Skill#3 – Wind of Jormag – Dealing high AoE damage. Enemies are encased in ice blocks for 2 seconds and chilled for 3 seconds. Allies gain 5 seconds of resistance. 20 sec CD.

Skill#4 – Fury of Kralkatorik – Dealing small AoE damage. Enemies are revealed, inflicted with 15 stacks of vulnerability for 10 seconds and immobilized for 2 seconds. Allies gain 3 stacks of stability and protection for 5 seconds. 25 sec CD.

Skill#5 – Wrath of Mordermoth – Dealing small AoE damage. Entangle enemies in vines for 3 seconds. Vines also inflict 3 stacks of bleed, poison and torment for 5 seconds. Vines pulse 1 sec immobilize per sec. Clean all movement impairing effects on allies and grant swiftness for 10 seconds. 30 sec CD.

Traits
Minor#1 – Fusion – Grants access to Fusion. Allowing the Shapeshifter to inherit a percentage of pets’ stats. Enables the use of main-handed dagger. Fusion can not be used when pets are disabled.

Minor#2 – Fast Metabolism – Each second of quickness heals you. Quickness lasts 15% longer.

Minor#3 – Quick and Painless – Gain 3 stacks of might for 5 seconds when you gain quickness.

Adept#1 – Purified Transcendence – Remove a condition and heal for a small amount when you transform. 3 sec CD.

Adept#2 – Power of Two Souls – Fusion breaks stun and grants resistance for 5 seconds.

Adept#3 – Refreshing Emergence – When Fusion ends, all your pets’ skills are recharged by another 20%

Master#1 – Master Shifter – Gain 3 seconds of quickness when you transform. 8 sec CD.

Master#2 – Retained Momentum – Leaving Fusion grants 3 stacks of stability for 5 seconds and 5 seconds of protection to you and nearby allies.

Master#3 – Binding Empowerment – When Fusion ends, you and your pet deals 10% more damage and gain 10% more received healing for the next 5 seconds.

Grandmaster#1 – Accelerated Regeneration – Quickness also affects all form of heal-over-time effects on you. Regeneration heals 20% more while you are under the effect of quickness.

Grandmaster#2 – Soul Transference – Taking a fatal blow while fusing will kill both of your pets instead. You are healed for a small amount and forced out of Fusion. (Fusion can not be used when pets are disabled)

Grandmaster#3 – Unbridled Unity – You now gain 50% of pets’ stats when fusing.

Tengu was meant to be playable race but they ran out of time. It will only make sense if it’s added in the next expac.. I mean.. Dominion of Winds is sitting right there. I’m more interested in whether we will get Bubbles though. That one will probably come with underwater combat overhaul which is probably now or never at this point.

Grab a gun and headshot in-between the eyes. That’s how you shatter diamond skin. Consider using phoenix force for more extreme measure.

In all seriousness, tempest can spam auras. That’s perma protection, which is now 40% reduction, on top of regen and vigor and other -dmg% gear. And the heal. Diamond skin is a very smelly, stinky icing on a rotten pile of cake.

It tells a lot when a very specific spec is mandatory and everywhere in the matchup.

Expect nerfs, don’t delude yourself.

Necro isn’t supposed to be healing support. It’s a self-sustaining, one man army class (to what extent is up to debate).

I can’t find a party for 51+ fractal because my char has lv50 so I am forever forbidden from using 51+ tier LFG.

Why is this silly restriction here in the first place?

There are other 9 people who are willing to stay ready and stick to their monitor for the match. If you have to afk, you afk. If you’re not ready, you’re NOT ready. 9 other people are. The system is working the way it should always have been. Some people need some lesson on social responsibility.

As for the DC case, I think grace period for 1-2 minutes are enough. In fact, leaving your match 30 seconds is more than enough to wreck the team rotation and causes snowballing loss. It doesn’t matter if you’re gone for how long, point is, you contribute to the loss factor. And that’s more than enough for dishonor.

System seems fine for me.

No… Just give the NPCs “immune, static downstate”. Meaning when the npcs are down, they don’t bleed. They don’t take damage. They will die only and only when they are finished. Surely this would reduce more randomness and accents the kill steal mechanic. I think it will be a lot more interesting.

There’s is no 5k burn. those numbers are artificial. Turn on simple condition floater, that is the real condition damage ticking.

So it’s B

I have a more simple solution. One word…

Downstate

Generic false assumption.

A few good players teaming up together to bypass team arrangement, making team composition skewed. That’s pretty much as far as it goes. It takes a lot more than just being in the party to be a premade. And it’s usually obvious since the first few seconds if you’re up against REAL premade: where each of them heads to, class combination, spec combination, confidence & aggressiveness, etc.

Real premade are still not that abundant in PVP. I play almost every day and maybe I face a full premade once every two weeks.

I’m sure they will be adjusted when the next big balance patch hits, which might take a while. I’m gonna guess that it’s coming with raid or pro league. The thing about DH traps is that even though they are broken, they are not over-the-top kind of broken, e.h. lingering light etc. So it’s more about “how much” should they be adjusted in term of damage and numbers which is going to take a while. They need to see how best people can adjust to it before taking nerf hammer. It’s the ele’s burn level of problem.

Starting from about yesterday, every time I transfer into a new map, once the load screen is gone, I always end up having very massive lag with ping sometimes spiking to 3k. This usually lasts for about 1-2 minutes before the game becomes normal and playable again. I have been runing 64-bit version. Not sure if it’s related but there it is.

Anyone having the same problem?

It’s a fire field. It’s currently not affected by the trait. It should be.

I’m gonna assume that this is an oversight.

I’m a bit surprised that not many people talk about this but every time players use the glint elite on herald, the effect crashes my game’s FPS to unplayable level. This is most prominent and almost always a death sentence for me in pvp.

Is anyone having this issue? So far I don’t have problem with the skill from other sources, notably Rylock in story instances. It’s just the player version.

kdaddy.5431:

DavyMcB.1603:

The class obviously seems far from being fine-tuned but that needs time. Honestly, everything about rev seems fine to me (I don’t play it) pvp wise except the kitteng hammer that hits 2.5k base damage on zerk gear with 1.2k range on 2sec CD. If Unrelenting Assault is on the tip of Himalayas, Hammer#2 is at the opposite edge of the universe. That’s how over the top it is. I run a cleric druid with a lot of defensive trait and that skill took 70% of my HP in a blink.

And the hammer auto hits way too hard for a class that’s not specialized in range. Even LB ranger can’t hit that hard.

There is nothing wrong with revanent. Its a L2P, this is exactly what happened with Pew Pew rangers when they got a distance and dps boost.

Also me and another revanent tried to kill a druid and couldnt do it today. The other rev was a support and didnt do any dmg but they were giving me constant heals. Im running rune of strength with zerker amulet and fire and sigils on my hammer. I had around 20 stacks of might and constant fury and i couldnt kill this druid. Didnt get this druid health to 50% which is fine to me since i was the only one with dps and it meant i needed to move on.

This is a style of play people are crying about cause no one wants to change anything about there builds. I see DH complaining about revanents because of range. I see DH complaining about Pew Pew rangers in game. I see people crying about revenants but the counter to this build is the old meta thieves and mesmers but no one wants to run them since we have new specs.

Seriously right now there are more viable and usable builds then ever but everyone only want to play the new specs.

Couldn’t be any more wrong. Rapid Fire is nothing compared to Rev’s Hammer#2. That skill can basically one shot a glass thief… from1200 range with 2 sec CD. Rapid Fire can’t even do that lol Also, RF has 2sec channel which means enemies can at least mitigate it to some extent. Cascade just creeps under those kitten of AoE effects then BOOM, half your HP gone. Not counting how the auto can hit just as hard as LB without a distance penalty. Even DH’s LB has root penalty on its more powerful skills which don’t even hit as hard.

Rev’s hammer is plain broken in term of damage cheese. Try to justify it if you must but this one will get nerfed soon enough.

It happened for like 20 times already. Every time I tried to do some achievements in the story instance (HoT), most often than not, when I get killed and press Retry from Checkpoint, the game disconnects my client.

It’s super annoying and frustrating and make achievement run extremely tedious since I have to reenter the instance over and over and over and over and over… again

Please fix this. Everything about HoT seems fine except these story instances. I don’t understand why they are overwhelmed with bugs and whatnot.

The class obviously seems far from being fine-tuned but that needs time. Honestly, everything about rev seems fine to me (I don’t play it) pvp wise except the kitteng hammer that hits 2.5k base damage on zerk gear with 1.2k range on 2sec CD. If Unrelenting Assault is on the tip of Himalayas, Hammer#2 is at the opposite edge of the universe. That’s how over the top it is. I run a cleric druid with a lot of defensive trait and that skill took 70% of my HP in a blink.

And the hammer auto hits way too hard for a class that’s not specialized in range. Even LB ranger can’t hit that hard.

It’s probably gonna be whatever was scrapped before the druid we have now.

I am still waiting for shapeshifting kits.

Bhawb.7408:

Oh man, a whole 600 HP/s in PvE. Welp we did it boys, nevermind Blighter’s Boon is obviously amazing nothing to do here wrap it up.

Cop out one sentence and mock it. Typical forum whiner. Refusing to understand and see anything beyond that one particular thing they want.

At least I tried.

roll eyes

My PVE necro heal 600+ hp per second (could reach 1k+ depending on number of surrounding enemies) while in DS because of that trait. Still not accounting the whole Blood Magic line and minions and dagger#2 and so on… It’s not supposed to be a standalone trait, it’s a synergetic trait. It’s like taking Deadly Chill on berserker gear and say its damage sucks.

BB is fine. The only thing missing is Zealot amulet.

Honestly, even if we have access to CA on demand, healing is still pretty much subpar. The game is designed to never have hardcore trinity; hence, the whole combat revolves around that principle. It’s simple, how can you be effective healer when there’s no ally targeting to be used? or you can’t see their HP? You AoE da crap out of your heal hoping that it will heal something or someone. That’s healing for GW2. Fortunately, due to the stacking-friendly environment, it works to some degree. The healing mechanic, though not entirely mediocre, is… kinda meh. It works but it’s nothing to be in awe for.

I really really enjoy action cam on melee spec and I have been using it since HoT launch. But now I ‘ve just been on my ranger and the action cam + sword auto is just a total disaster. If I fight targets with big hitbox, it’s quite alright because the reticle still thinks that I’m targeting things so it keeps me in place. But once i got something around me size or smaller, the AA makes my ranger fly all over the place.

Is this gonna be improved or do I have to live with it for the rest of my GW2 life? lol

Labjax.2465:

DavyMcB.1603:

God, I explained it once, hopefully you will understand unlike the rest.

People should realize that those precursors on TP, what you see is just their FACE VALUE. The precursors of the old system were purely RNG based in term of their generation, meaning your 1000g spark possibly and probably came from 2000g worth of opportunity cost from throwing rares, dungeon boxes wasted, etc. etc. Normally this difference was absorbed by other people who were involved with the generation of that precursors: i.e. people who spent 1000g and still didn’t get the precursors.

When the RNG is gone, the TRUE value of the precursors appears, meaning, there is no one else to help absorbed the cost of the precursors but only the crafter himself. THE SYSTEM COMPENSATES FOR THE LOSS OF RNG by pushing EVERYTHING that used to constitute the value of the precursors through crafting.

ECONOMICS people, it’s not THAT HARD.

Anyone who think precursor crafting would make precursors equal or cheaper than the ones in TP must never have taken or slept through their economics class… or got an F.

Economics is gated behind classes that cost money. They are P2W.

In all seriousness though, it is absolutely, positively ridiculous to expect a bunch of people playing an MMO to understand how economies work. People come from all walks of life and all jobs and talents. No doubt the people who are ignorant of economics have some skill or talent that you don’t.

Be proud of your knowledge of economics, but don’t put down others for not knowing, is what I’m driving at.

I know. I got carried away. But I mean, some people are really refusing to understand even if you shove it in their throat.

Aomine.5012:

DavyMcB.1603:

God, I explained it once, hopefully you will understand unlike the rest.

People should realize that those precursors on TP, what you see is just their FACE VALUE. The precursors of the old system were purely RNG based in term of their generation, meaning your 1000g spark possibly and probably came from 2000g worth of opportunity cost from throwing rares, dungeon boxes wasted, etc. etc. Normally this difference was absorbed by other people who were involved with the generation of that precursors: i.e. people who spent 1000g and still didn’t get the precursors.

When the RNG is gone, the TRUE value of the precursors appears, meaning, there is no one else to help absorbed the cost of the precursors but only the crafter himself. THE SYSTEM COMPENSATES FOR THE LOSS OF RNG by pushing EVERYTHING that used to constitute the value of the precursors through crafting.

ECONOMICS people, it’s not THAT HARD.

Anyone who think precursor crafting would make precursors equal or cheaper than the ones in TP must never have taken or slept through their economics class… or got an F.

You know nothing of economic.

Supply and Demand value is much more important than the said RNG value.
RNG value doesn’t mean anything if there’s no demand for it.

Anet implant this system without considering inflation, and here’s the result after excessively putting selective few mats in insanely high demand (iron ores, platinum ores)

And what did people use to craft those rares to throw in MF to get those precursors? RNG is just one but a very significant factor in the old system. I never stated even once in my post that demand and supply don’t matter. My point was that the price difference was largely contributed by the loss of RNG. Because, if you hadn’t noticed by now, THAT is basically the major difference/transition from the old system to the system we have now. In the old system, the generation equation of a precursors was always attached with chance-based multiplier, be in from chest drop, MF etc. etc. What you see in the old system was loosely their weighted average value based also on their opportunity cost. You had people who spent 3000g and got nothing. Then you had people who threw 4 rares and got spark. Was spark to be based on 3000g or 60 silvers?

Are you so naive to think that in the old system when you see a 1000g spark, it was the true, absolute value of that spark? You’re saying as if demand&supply mechanic is purely arbitrary. And by your logic, the law of supply & demand wouldn’t mean anything if there’s no demand for it too.

Do you know what this situation actually mean? It means the current precursors in Tp are under-priced and if I have golds to spare which you should be glad that I don’t, I would flip all of them and laugh on the pile of golds while you people are complaining how Anet doesn’t do things right.

God, I explained it once, hopefully you will understand unlike the rest.

People should realize that those precursors on TP, what you see is just their FACE VALUE. The precursors of the old system were purely RNG based in term of their generation, meaning your 1000g spark possibly and probably came from 2000g worth of opportunity cost from throwing rares, dungeon boxes wasted, etc. etc. Normally this difference was absorbed by other people who were involved with the generation of that precursors: i.e. people who spent 1000g and still didn’t get the precursors.

When the RNG is gone, the TRUE value of the precursors appears, meaning, there is no one else to help absorbed the cost of the precursors but only the crafter himself. THE SYSTEM COMPENSATES FOR THE LOSS OF RNG by pushing EVERYTHING that used to constitute the value of the precursors through crafting.

ECONOMICS people, it’s not THAT HARD.

Anyone who think precursor crafting would make precursors equal or cheaper than the ones in TP must never have taken or slept through their economics class… or got an F.

Ohoni.6057:

Nightfury is obviously intended to be a “gold sink” shiny. It’s there to reap the golds from rich people and bridge the gap with the standard player’s wealth which was recently adjusted.

Getting rich people to spend their gold is not a positive thing when it means that they get something cool that other people can’t have.

We’re talking economy. There is no such thing as empathy in that.

It’s fine the way it is. You have enough easy HPs to get 250 point. I just helped my friend get his elite spec fully unlocked yesterday. It was all done in HoT map and not once did we ask help from others except the Vampire Broodmother, that one has clunky mechanic anyway . Leave some challenges for people who want them. If you’re running a zerk thief and have a problem with it, then it’s your problem.

Geee. I’m not a hardcore elitist but HoT is such a refreshment from the bore-fest old Tyrian map. Don’t dumb it down to that level.

I didn’t feel attached to the character but that emphasis on the head exploding is way over the top.

Honestly, if it were up to me to write the story, I would make it so that Trahearne is the one that contain Mordremoth within him at the end. The story makes it so that Mordremoth is physically unkillable. It doesn’t make sense that just because we kill Trahearne the dragon would suddenly be dead. The dragon’s essence should live on, in the dream, inside Trahearne. It should be like the phoenix vs. jean grey thing. And then I will take that opportunity to rewrite Trahearne into something more awesome.

But meh… the writer made his choice.

Nightfury is obviously intended to be a “gold sink” shiny. It’s there to reap the golds from rich people and bridge the gap with the standard player’s wealth which was recently adjusted.

It won’t get cheaper. At least, not any time soon.

based on personal observation, as long as it’s <300 you should be OK on any classes. If you’re on a daredevil when dodging is a lot more sensitive, I would say <200 is the right threshold. once it gets >300, any classes will become a problem, especially the one that revolves around instant activation and movements like dodging or blinking, etc.

It’s called “being mindful to others”

Clearly this concept went over your head

#lmao

It’s a video game. What the hell are you expecting? Infinite possibilities of occurrences through an eternity?

#lol

The concept of opportunity cost went over the head of OP…. By a thousand miles.

Because of the significant incorporation if condition dmg, HP is just as much of an ‘armor’ variance. Normalizing HP is like asking to normalize armor defense.

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Not to mention that with preset fractals per level it is now possible to finish them INCREDIBLY quickly if you chain farm the same one or two. This is probably the fastest gold from FoTm in combination with selling the boxes (other than selling the 1 time achieve chests).

O.o dude what’s wrong with your account name?

It’s really hard to conclude because not every spec is equally wellthought out. Chroni is a direct upgrade to shatter mes. Reaper is pretty much a total rework on necro. Dragon hunter is a reborn ranger. Druid is basically a new class. Daredevil is intended to make thief a brawler but instead it makes stealth d/p more effective. Glint is pretty much a requirement for any rev build. And so on..

glaphen.5230:

DavyMcB.1603:

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DavyMcB.1603:

You can interrupt him during the windup or evade while the attack is being executed. Mes’s sword 2 has pretty much the same evade frame and cooldown, thus the two skills completely nullify each other. Thief with dd can evade easily. Other classes aren’t as lucky, they can def maybe the first 2 UA but if they don’t kill quick, they will have to take it at some points.

Not sure if it can be cast evaded, I’ve tried it multiple times but I think any times I actually evaded it was because I dodged out of range.

Cast what?

Pretty sure you can’t evade the 3/4 second cast of UA.

You can.. It’s just that with normal dodge, you will still get hit because the skill lasts longer than normal dodge. That’s why mes’s sword 2 and daredevil are the only 2( that i know of) that really have effective evade against UA

Edit: I see what you meant. UA is a channelling skill, so even if you evade the first attack, it won’t stop.