This can’t be real. You can’t get the same skin twice … or can you? I think a verification of this would be enough to make me uninstall the game and buy Wildstar. No one and I mean not a single developer in the world, could screw up this badly.
My three Fractal Pistols, and my two Fractal Greatswords hope you enjoy WS.
These are people wearing clerics gear obviously, “zerkers” most definitely need to dodge. Please show me how you complete Arah in berserker gear without dodging.
Ahh, misunderstood what you meant.
Still, how does one fight Lupi without dodging? Kill the grubs and use movement skills to get away from the AoEs?
Here you go!
They facetank some, block some others and heal through the rest.
Source: every person who has ever played anything other than zerk.
Actually there are numerous videos of people completing arah and fractals with unbound dodge buttons. Ofc these are people that usually play with berserker gear and know their class and encounters well.
I’m sure they will pop up sooner or later, posted by someone less lazy than me.
Amusingly enough that wouldn’t contradict what I said, since it would be people showing zerkers not needing dodge buttons
This good man speaks the truth!
The Trinity is generous, the Trinity is versatile!
Father Power, Son Precision and Holy Spirit Ferocity do not contend against support or CC, for they are needed to prosper in the way of the Berserker.
A accurately placed Aegis, an artfully applied Blind, a magnanimously timed Evade, Invulnerability in the most crucial moment; they all find favour in the eyes of the Holy Trinity of DPS.
FGS4 definitely need to be “changed”. That’d definitely get more of an reaction than making certain projectiles unreflectable. As of now the DPS on this move is utterly insane. And it’s quite hilarious that if you do target the monster with the move, it does such laughable damage.Have a developer ever addressed this?
They have.
Considering that they added a tooltip to reflect the fire line damage, I’d say that they’re aware of it.
Also, if memory doesn’t fail me, they have commented about it. Can anyone provide that quote?
1. Even if you nerf zerk into oblivion something will always be the “meta” and people will look to utilize that.
2. People using the LFG tool or otherwise trying to group with like minded, efficient and experienced players is not “toxic” at all. In fact it is the people who continually whine about this kind of thing that drags the community into the gutter.
3. Regardless as to what some seem to be implying, the fact is that using full glass zerk is more difficult than other approaches and does take more skill.
Now some seem to be under the impression that it should require more skill, well i’m all for that, but I wonder, just who the heck they think they are to be the arbiters of how much skill other people should have in order to use a build type/gear set?
What happens when the difficulty to use zerk is increased by 10% but a few people continue to cry about LFG zerk groups? Let’s increase it some more? How about another 10%? Oh wait, Timmy the lolfacetank still thinks zerk is too easy, let’s make it another 10% harder so he can sleep better at night when using his over9000 too much toughness build.
4. 99.99% of the content is faceroll easy with zero meaningful kill timers and/or is able to be done in non zerk gear. The introduction of kill time events like Liadri is done in order to push people out of their comfort zone. Even then such events were a cakewalk in condi gear, as is pretty much everything else.
I think it’s amusing how he calls me unintelligent when I tell him not to assume.
Anyone else want to see this guy and mike get into a fight?
Fine, we do it your way. We don’t know what ANet wanted to achieve with this change.
We’re not even sure that it’s intended, and though it could very well be, it is much wiser to wait for an official response, rather than smearing non-sense all over the place.
For example, not long ago Mesmers’ distortion started providing Evade instead of Invulnerable. This made mesmers stay stuck in several non-dodgeable AoE skills, such as Eles’ Staff#4 and Guardians Hammer#5.
After a few complaints, ANET declared that it was unintended and reverted the change a few days later.
Whether these changes to reflects are unintended or not, it is not very intelligent to assume anything until an official response is given, and this thread, along with some others were created to fulfill that function.
Well, they just don’t changed one reflection skill or just one boss but multiple bosses of different types in different dungeons. If that is a bug, it’s a really huge one.
Too huge in my mind to be just a bug.
And while that might indicate that it was done on purpose, it is still not a very prudent choice not to put words in their mouth, as none of those changes are in the patch notes. We’ll have to ask, wait and see.
There’s no need to make a kittenstorm out of this.
Quoting from OP of the thread linked : “I don’t know if anyone has done this yet but I probably won’t ever do it again because the chances of getting the fractals that I did are so low it’s insane.”
My respect for this guy, he deserves a special award. I still maintain my statement : fractals are not soloable (he had one guildy to allow him to repair) and not regularly (you need a good draw).
person – “here is a guy who soloed fotm 50”
you – “fractals are not soloable”
me -
Let me break it down for you guys, simply. Right now, I can log into GW2 but instead I’m going to read a book. Do you understand what I just wrote here? I. am. choosing. to. read. a. book. This is not good… This is not good at all…
All in 25 years of life? While also helping the sylvari race get going as one of the firstborn? Nope, I don’t buy it.
Considering that Sylvari are born as able-bodied adults, 25 years does sound pretty plausible.
I mean, how long did it take our characters to become strong enough to bring the battle to Zhaitan? One year?
Oh, so it’s for building around signet of fury. I prefer Battle Standard.
You do know that the 5 might from signet of fury only lasts 10 seconds on your party and not the full duration you get on yourself right?
No, no, you get Forceful Greatsword, which grants you Might each time you crit with your GS (No internal CD). In conjunction with Phalanx Strength, your party gets 7s Might, too.
Basically, you’ll be giving your party a bunch of Might as long as you’re critting something.
Ahhh…. Well, if you’re running phalanx strength w/ a 0/6/0/6/2 build on warrior, you’re going to give your party 25 might @ all times. Combine that w/ the 2 main banners and utilities such as fgj and warbanner, you won’t get kicked often in either, as long as you know how to play. W/ Guardian, you need to learn your Aegis timing for group play and run gs/hammer in fractals for perma-protection (I’m not as good @ guardian, so you’ll wanna ask mentors that main guard).
It depends on how you wanna play I guess.
This is the second time I’ve seen 0/6/0/6/2 recommended for Phalanx Strength. What makes this a good setup for PS?
I thought he spawns a TON of adds if you lure him into the water, or does it still work?
A bunch of skelk spawn in the water if any player is nearby. Unfortunately, those only attack swimming players, and there’s a really small bit of terrain on which people can stand and range the Mossman from there, safe from the skelks, wolves and the Mossman himself.
On the bright side, people fail to glitch him properly most of the times and end up sharing a delicious bouncing blade to the face until everyone is downed.
Edit: I just joined a party that’s trying to glitch him. I’ll come with updates!
Round 1: Got destroyed by bouncing blades.
Round 2: Normal kill. They resigned to fight him without glitching him.
Seriously, if there are 30+ players zerging around trying to kill one boss, despite they know better, they’ve deserved to take that long. Just go on a gold pavilion and lern how to so it the right and intended way.
Why would most people know better? How would they even know what a ‘gold pavilion’ is? Most people will zone into a pavilion with 4-6 bosses alive, the silver timer long since run out, and no one there having a single clue what to do next.
Because they can read and use their brain. The problem is that they don’t.
Is common sense really that rare these days? I can understand that a new player, unfamiliar with the events could not understand anything at first glance. Veteran players in the other hand must have not learned anything if they can’t figure this out.
It baffles me to see players not only defending this most kittened game design ever but actually insulting other players. THE ONLY THING SCALING SHOULD DO IS PREVENT BOSSES FROM DYING TOO FAST!
Indeed. The scaling system is supposed to be a background process, not an obstruction that the players have to take into account. It should be behind the scenes, making sure bosses don’t die too fast, and offer a proper challenge for each group size. They should not make battles drag on for way too long, because there are too many players. That simply means it isn’t working right.
You got it wrong there. The problem is pretty much the players.
Theoretically if every player that joined had provided an average amount of DPS, the event would be done quicker in zergs. Unfortunately, your average zerg is majorly composed of players that sit back wielding ranged weapons and simply afk spam 1 on the enemy and just wait for the loot. These players are dead weight and only drag the event further.
Transformation skills like tornado, plague and lich form can be used as stomping or ressing players from downed state. This isn’t possible while on the form and if activating skill while stomping or ressing it cancels what you are doing but if activating skill at same time with stomp or res you start ressing or stomping while on transformed form. This same exploit can be used with death shroud.
This has been possible since launch [citation needed] and is not considered a bug nowadays. Just a gimmicky mechanic.
Once you get downed, you’ve already lost the fight.
If you didn’t, I’m sorry. I promise I’ll come up with something that gives optimal laugh for everyone.
That’s too efficient, it’s not gonna appeal to them :/
Efficiency is a stigma.
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I was simply making fun of certain guy who’d use the word stigma so much and so often that it made me cringe.
The thing is, we all have our playstyles. Whenever I set up a LFG ad, I word it, so that it is more likely to attract like-minded players, but instead I get play-how-I-wants.
Excluding my naivetè, who’s at fault here? If people didn’t join groups where they’re clearly not wanted, there would be no need to kick anyone from any groups due to playstyle preferences, and this would lead to less threads about Berserker gear and elitists ruining people’s fun (and the other side of the coin) being created.
Though I usually encourage discussions, as they often produce solutions to existing problems and ideas for new content, this thread looks like it was written to purposely upset people or by someone with little knowledge of the game’s mechanics. As such, I don’t think that it’s worth the time or the effort to try and squeeze meaningful arguments from its creator.
Whether you agree or disagree with me, it’s up to you.
The content being designed solely around it isn’t fine.
looks around for content designed solely for berserker gear
>.> <.<
can’t find
Open your eyes. Almost every dungeon boss can be stacked and burned down. They are just meat sacks with high health pools. It doesn’t matter if non-zerkers can kill them too. Zerker is and always will be the best way to clear that content unless Anet changes something.
Are you saying there shouldn’t be a “best” gear option?
Should we all wallow in mediocrity?
You guys need to take another look at my first post in this thread…
It’s not designed around berserker, berserker is just the most optimal. Dungeons are actually designed around people at-level in greens of whatever stat combination. Fractals are designed with exotics of any stat combination.
Exactly this.
Like I said before there’s a difference between something working best and something working. All gears work. That’s the basic truth.
ITT: people not reading what I post.
Yes you can do non-zerker.
Non-zerker is less efficient (hence why zerker is meta).
The reason why zerker is meta is because of the design of the content.
The content is too simple.
The content is stack and DPS.
The content was designed this way.
They designed it so that bosses only throw out 1 or 2 deadly attacks that can be dodged.
They designed bosses with high health pools that can be wedged into a corner, stacked and burned.
They might not have intended it, but this is what we got. Plain and simple.
So you guys are saying Anet didn’t sit down and say “Okay, how do we make Zerker meta?” Yes you’re right. They didn’t do that. Instead they sat down and designed something, and the best solution to their design happened to be the zerker meta.
So the content is designed, regardless of intention, to produce a zerker meta. Hence why we have a zerker meta.
Dªmn, it takes so long to sell a dungeon path these days.
Between the undercutters and people who fail to read, it takes longer than solo’ing the path itself.
Since launch the server time option for the in game clock would coincide with the pst/pdt time in the west coast of the USA (which is where there servers were located).
Right now it is 10:35pm pacific time yet the ingame clock is showing 5:35am. So the servers have been moved to the middle of the Atlantic?
It only stacks bleeding on entangled enemies. As Liadri would walk past the destructible roots with ease, it will only tick once, therefore it wouldn’t do much.
