A warrior built for mobility has terrible damage output, terrible group support, and terrible everything EXCEPT mobility. If you get killed by one, you weren’t playing well enough, because it is one if the worst builds for combat EVER.
(insert the 500 other reasons from other threads that even the OP posted in and knows off by heart)
By the way, it makes perfect sense for the athlete to outrun a bookworm. Fantasy broken my buttocks. The fantasy would be broken if the bookworm outran the athlete.
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Warriors don’t need to be built for mobility to still be faster than most classes. Any warrior with a a sword and an off-hand war horn can outrun most other classes.
Maybe other classes need more swiftness and leaps?
@OP, agree, rangers should be a lot faster, but that doesn’t mean thieves shouldn’t.
Anet could make better use of the currency in this game.
I want to know when i will be able to get what i want, like ascended amulets, 20 days + achievement chest or a hour of BoH train in EotM. Dungeon armor, 1 day for helm/glove/boot, 2 days for the chest piece…
Precursors should be sold for a balanced amount of gold, karma and laurels.
Fractal skins should be sold for pristine and regular relics + shards.
RNG is awful, i left D3 because i couldn’t stand droping lots of kitten legendaries everyday and when i got what i want, it had the worst stats possible.
If WoW is so much better then why don’t you play that game instead?
God, I love this argument so much. It’s like going to a restaurant that serves a similar dish as another, except this restaurant serves it cold when they could easily heat it up like it’s supposed to be, then when you ask them to heat it up, they tell you to leave.
Your rebuttle isn’t adding to a constructive discussion at all. They were merely comparing and contrasting a mechanic. That doesn’t mean they don’t like everything else about the game, which is keeping them playing. Your rebuttal isn’t doing anything except being a cop out for discussing an issue people are having. We’re here to discuss and it’d be nice to
Just heat up the food. We don’t need to go somewhere else. If we wanted to, we wouldn’t be here. We just like warm food.
In response to saying WoW has a better stealth mechanic, yeah that’s true. It’s also not as spammable as it is in GW2. Rogues can’t pop in and out nearly as easily. I feel the combo’s Thieves can do BP/HS leap make them rely too much on stealth which in turn makes ANet design them to have to rely too much on it, resulting in them being squishier and spammier. If they were able to have more active defensives that weren’t just evading and disappearing into stealth, they could have more sustainability in a fight and not have to spam abilities quickly and run away when someone looks at them wrongly.
I like the Thief class, I really do. I don’t want it nerfed, I just want it reworked so it’s more fun to play as and against.
Rogue is a duelist, not a assassin/thief.
The thief in this game is a true stealth class that can use it at will. If this mechanic isn’t good for you, go back to whatever game you find it’s working as intended.
We don’t need 2 WoWs. ;D
Because burn is a single condition easy to clear i focus in condition damage to tick as high as possible.
IMO you should use Runes of Undead or Scavenger. And 2 pistols (sigil of Corruption and Bursting), a sigil of Corruption on your harpoon gun, so you can swap them and don’t lose your stacks. You offhand can have sigil of Battle, Doom, Earth or Tormenting.
And frankly, I know how OP Blind spam is on a Thief because I exploit it every day. I mean that skill alone is what makes Thieves viable for high-level fractals. Not sure if complete melee immunity was ever the desired effect though. I doubt it.
I believe it is, that’s why champs and bosses have Unshakable. Otherwise any thief would solo them easily. Against trash mobs it’s is supposed to let us “immune”.
But i agree that the build-in combo on BP is too strong, Thieves shouldn’t be able to drop the Smoke Field and use the Projectile finisher at the same time.
Clearly you guys dont have a grasp of what RNG or statistics mean. Let’s say you have 1:1,000,000,000 chance to drop a precursor. This is your chance to drop everytime you loot something, doesn’t matter if you already got 1k items, your chance won’t be 1:999,999,000 for the next drop.
When you see a tagged player you know they’re experienced, and know what they’re doing.
I too had to laugh at that statement. Having 100g to blow on a (potential) status symbol is NOT a prerequisite for experience, skill or tactical thought. That is not to say really good Commanders do not exist but the tag is in no way an indicator of ability.
I (and many other players) would welcome some sort of Commander Ranking system (I know it has been discussed in several threads here) so you could somehow see the tags and get an idea of their actual ability. How to pull that off fairly is another issue.
I had a guildie with blue lvl 40 trinkets saving gold and karma for his commander tag and legendary weapon. ~1150 AP
That’s just sad… =/
They could make rune of strength craftable. Since last patch i drop only one exotic with this rune in Orr. Most of the condition runes are really cheap (because of the Pile of the Putrid Essence), except Perplexity.
It’s because the kb register 2-3 clicks. It happens with with Death Shroud as well.
What they could do is to add an 1/4 “invisible” cooldown, but i’m sure some people won’t like it.
would be nice to have a better way to get upgrades off of karma/wvw gear, unfortunately bl kits dont work on them, and 250 gems would cost more then the actual upgrade :/
I want to recover my upgrades from wvw gear too. I have a whole bank tab full of wvw gear with bloodlust/force/bursting sigils and strength/hoelbrak/melandru runes that i can’t recover to sell. And 20+g per extractor isn’t worth.
I always though a great grandmaster trait was to move lingering elements to the grandmaster arcane line and have it function with everything past the 5 point minor traits. I mean it wouldn’t that over powered. you already wasted 6 points out 14 in your traits and could pick a few % modifiers in damage in the earth(10% withing 600 of target) and water traitline (10% dmg about 90%.) I guess it would be overpowered lol with constant switching.
Both damage modifiers you mention work regardless of the current attunement. The ones that could work with LE are: Internal Fire, Air Training, Piercing Shards.
I wish the system would work the same way as previous one and transmuting pre-level 80 characters would be cheaper. Nowadays, I would love to transmute my alts but it just feels like such a waste. Back with the old system the <79 stones were so abundant you had no troubles making alts look fabulous.
Maybe half a charge to transmute a pre-80 character?
Whats the point? 7 days below lvl 80, 1 year+ at lvl 80.
… and you might not be able to do anything about.
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Well, i can do a few thing about it.
- Engineer spam granades, bombs when they go stealth. May use shield 44 or 5.
- Mesmer and Thief wait a few seconds then pop their own stealth.
- Staff Ele can drop Lava font or Ice Spike on his feet, then swap to earth for protection.
- Warrior can strafe around the point he did CnD, use Whirlwind.
- and dodge early or later based on the previous BS attempts (that works for all professions and everyone should do that).
If you can’t take a few hits to know the thief’s style, then you deserve to die. Take your kitten PvE gear back to your dungeons.
Edit: And maybe the most important, they are still there, why did you stop attack??!?
The only “family” that won’t work together is On Kill. Or the same sigil, independant of the tier (2x Sigil of Fire).
You can use 2 sigils on crit, 2 sigils on swap…
Edit: I believe that Sigil of Restoration, Stamina, Speed and Luck may work, because they dont stack any effect.
Backstab comes from the Assassin style. This is a kittening role playing game, the class is supposed to surprise you. While the thief deals 8-13k to a single target, a staff ele can hit 5 enemies for 2-4k.
They should have added a couple of percent boon duration to Celestial to make them useful still.
Agreed, before the patch i created a thread about it, asking for 15 all stats x5 (75 total), and the 6th being 10% boon duration. I hope they change it in the future patches.
You can as staff because fire attunement is the highest damage you can get from all, but you’ll still need to attune to water for heals and chill, air for CC, and earth for blast, CC and defense. PvE only.
Although, the best weapon set to spec in Fire trait line is scepter/dagger, but the other skills are too strong to stick with only one attunement..
There is some changes they could do:
1. Make F1 be a ground target skill when you don’t have target.
2. Pet should always be in front of the ranger, not running 15 feet behind.
3. Allow the pet to be stowed while in combat.
“transmutation charges for Map completion after April 15”
Is this retroactive? Just like the PvP gets TCs per rank, will the PvE gets TCs for 100% map completion BEFORE April 15?
I just need some clarification on what this mean.
They’ve covered this already. Transmutation crystals and stones are being converted into charges (1:1 and 3:1 respectively), so yes whatever stones you get for map completion now will be converted.
Retroactively getting rewards yet again for maps you’ve already been rewarded for and having said reward converted to the new system…you must be kidding. They aren’t going to reward you again.
Ok, but after the patch, will the area completion reward you with 1 transmutation charge? Atm i can get 3 transmutation stones.
It doesn’t need to be infinite. 120s duration and 60s cooldown after they die would be enough. As Cheese said, while they are up the elite skill turns into a special skill.
And there is nothing wrong with the elemental elite be like Flash Golem. Engineers have the Ele/Warrior/Necro elite skill.
Usually i open with d/d, if the enemy do a lot of damage or can evade my CnD, i swap to d/p then i kill ‘em, or just run away :P
I don’t use SB unless i join a zerg to get some champ loot.
I didn’t like that they removed the repair cost. Now ppl will care even less if they die. -.-
If wp cost is removed then they won’t penalise the player for being unresponsible and don’t pay attention to what can kill em.
Don’t use with Quick Venoms, it will lower the BV cd to 36s and you won’t be able to proc the runes every activation.
This runes are great with Withdraw too, because you can get great boons like 10s of protection, 10s of fury, etc.
Nothing should be RNG in a game where being skilled is what decides the fight.
So no crits?
I don’t want GW2 this way, but i’d like to play a MMO where all hits from behind turn into critical hit, and side strikes would be “mini” crits, something like 30-50% of the critical damage.
Everytime i waypoint while my weapon swap button is on cooldown, it turns gray and i can’t swap again. The only way to fix is unequip/equip any item.
It’s been happening with my ranger, didn’t test with other professions though.
The guild chat disappears because you can represent different guilds on each character. But if you are representing the same guild on both chars the previous chat should stay visible.
@Everything else, agree, this changes are great and i hope they will keep bringing more stuff.
Warrior – tanky class
Necromancer – reminds of a class based on blood magic, so they need a bigger health pool
Engineer – fits his medium armor
Mesmer – duelist mage, should be tougher than elementalist
Elementalist – GC mage, ranged combat, great AoE damage
Thief – bursty rogue style, relies on few strikes to kill the enemy, shouldn’t be in combat for long
Ranger – No good reason to be in tier 2
Guardian – No good reason to be in tier 3, Anet should swap them
