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go and watch izkimar play (google if the following link won’t post)
http://www.twitch.tv/izkimargw2
and then stop talking about bad survivability.
Real problem is that 30 arcane is mandatory, much due to high cd of the elements themselves.
Churning Earth is hilariously bad without the teleport utility. The cast time is astronomical, any class will have regenerated enough endurance during the cast to dodge roll at the end and avoid the whole shizz.
Mesmer Moa cancelling you out of Tornado is also one of the most kitten kitten kitten things ever.
I scored 8.5k (signeted) backstab the other night, followed with haste heartseeker spam. Im like real skilled thief! Granted it was on another glass cannon, but hey, he died before his client finished rendering my thief coming out of stealth.
Existing conds stay and tick during mist form, it only stops new conds being applied during its duration.
It’s dumb since it doesn’t match the description (invulnerable), but there you go
I’m pretty sure movespeed max is what swiftness gives (33%) and it only stacks in duration. Highest speed modifier overwrites everything else. So if you got 10% boost, 25% boost and on top of that swiftness, you still move at max of swiftness.
Not sure what your doing wrong. This is coming from a Thief that uses a heavy conditions, 40%+ crit, and power through out. I’ve almost alway got gold, even when I show up late for an event (just not really late). If the ONLY thing the event has as an objective is to kill 1 guy then you should get gold, but if its Cull the Risen forces and some Champion Giant Mob happens to be smack dab in the middle of it…… you better be killing everything at some point.
What is happening is most of the people there are running power/crit (explorer MF set) and are professions with better sustained dps with that set. With condi build it would just get worse for me. I was deepsing the boss 100% of the encounter and I don’t get gold, geegee.
It’s the archtype wizard
in a fantasy mmo
figure it out, it’s not a hard equation lol
Maybe your server is lesser population or something. I’m on Desolation which I believe is the highest pop in EU? Not sure, but when we’re talking about a zerg on a boss, it’s zerg on a boss. There’s so many people.
Another boss I did, the high priest whatever in the first Orr zone at the end. I was in the even chain for 3 events prior and then the boss full time, but since I was in my support build, I figured I’ll be a teammmate and support. So instead of just dpsing the boss, I put down heal fields and detonated them using my blast finishers to top people up, I ressed people who went down (and a hell of a lot did since there was so many people boss 1 hit anyone who didn’t dodge the aoe attacks), I was in for the whole fight, again.
Result was bronze. Sorry, being a teamplayer in this game currently is always taking one for the team. Same in sPvP. You’ll get less glory if you don’t skirmish and zerg. Zerging gives most rewards, from all the kills you participate to taking points in a zerg, while it’s no faster than 1 person taking the point. The people who likely win you the game, aka defenders, point holders, back cappers and supports, get less rewards.
Well Pinkerton, yesterday I did one of the Cathedral bosses in Orr, Statue of whatever in Malchors. I was in power/crit chance gear myself, I was there at the boss from the very start till the very end, dpsing it all the time and I got silver. Would been bronze in cond gear.
Cond builds are simply going to blow when there’s vast majority of power/crit builds in the encounter present.
Cleansing Water is an amazing trait. If you have (and you should have) Arcane V, you grant aoe regeneration everytime you swap to water that’s every 11-12ish seconds with 30 points in arcane. I mean, that’s a -1 cond per 10 sec for everyone, including you, near you. That’s kitten powerful. Then if you have water V, cleansing wave, you remove yet another cond when you attune to water. -2 cond per 10 sec aoe, that’s OP by itself, but the fact that you spread regen around while doing that. And that’s only from attunement swap, disregarding any other source you have for regeneration, like staff 5
If we’re talking about world dynamic events at like Orr level, conditions and supporting simply blow, because you’ll get bronze or nothing as contribution on bigger bosses when there’s 30-50 people mashing the boss. Only 1 bleed stack is gonna be up, from the guy with most +cond and burning will forever and always be at max duration. So if you don’t have power/crit to damage the boss or you run around healing/reviving, you won’t be seeing gold participation and suffer less loot.
Sucks but that’s how the game is atm.
and the formatting on this forum :/ where’s the edit button…
Staff build, 30 points in fire, you’ll have 4-5 stacks from just the 30 point trait, lay down eruption from earth, swap to fire (1) put down lava font on the eruption (1), have Evasive Arcana (30 arcane) and dodge roll on to the lava font (3), pop arcane wave over that lava font (3), eruption detonates (3), cast fire 3 on the mob (1), cast fire 4 (1), dodge roll towards the mob on the Burning Retreat line (3) etc etc etc
might stacks are easy. You can also use runes with +20% might duration, even several 2rune sets that have the bonus and swim in might.
Combo fields are the easiest way. When we buff up in sPvP at countdown, I’ve reached 23 stacks for the first battle.
Conditions suck when it’s more than 2 people fighting anything.
Play power/crit builds if you want to contribute meaningful damage in group environments.
Play with staff, mass area control. Scepter/X felt awful after playing Staff most game in personal story missions where you get spawned a wave on you.
i like killing tornado users, theres no dmg reduction in that form and they have to be close to you so roll on in and kill them in a few hits since its a caster in close range.
That’s why you need to get protection and regeneration up before you pop tornado. If you are running a heavy +heal build, you are pretty tanky with a long regen running. Just popping a naked tornado is dumb, you need to set up for it. Melee are pretty boned if you drop a frost field down before you start tornado on top of a node.
Actually strike that last, now the 2 trades show up and I can cancel them.
Still haven’t seen any trace of the gold I lost in buy orders yesterday and there’s still no record of said buy orders.
Seems some posts in the topic are about hacked accounts, but what the original 7ish posts at least were about is a bug with trading post and we lost gold while trying to use it, live, within like what 30 minutes of each other posting. My friend who logged in 30 minutes later had the same issue and made a ticket too.
Just happened to me, lost 2 of my 3 measly gold.
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