first you do this, then this. and this, and this… and this.. oh.. and then that.. and that.. and this , and this, and this… and dont forget that.. or this….
This vid i found, just shows how terrible the elemental class realy are.
I mean… soooo much work.. for so little… just why ??
it’s not “work”, it’s gameplay.
apparently, you prefer hitting the same key repeatedly until the enemy is dead, some players prefer a more involved style.
When i leveled my flamer-engineer. i used my napalm bomb.. then just burn the mobs down.. Groups of them. and if i was bored.. i started with my elixir gun instead to pull mobs together so i can aoe with flamer.
the difference is day and pitch darkness.
i know its 2 different classes.
i just wonder.. why the hell, do you need to work so hard on elemental..
to gain so little ??? makes no sense, since elemental are light armor.. and low hp also.
So, ..hate to break it to you but.. you are probably the only person in this entire game that compares Engineers to Elementalists and comes away with the conclusion that the Engineer is way stronger.
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it’s not that the Ele requires “so much work” for “so little impact”.. it’s that you play at a really low player-skill level so you don’t see the potential benefits of the “extra work”.
In short, how do you guys occupy yourselves at max level?
Mostly by doing all the same stuff that we were doing before max level.
To me, it seems like the biggest problem for wow vets isn’t that there’s no “end game” as they know it, it’s that they’ve been trained to rush through “leveling” to reach “end game” and when they reach max level, they realize that it’s still the same game they were playing 1-79.
ie: no magic switch will be flipped at 80 that changes the game you were previously playing into a whole new experience.
if you enjoyed the stuff you did while leveling for it’s own sake, you’ll enjoy the game at 80… if the stuff you did on your way to 80 was just “something I need to rush through so I can be 80”.. you’ll hit max level and immediately feel bored and directionless.
But the issue is when you have a big numerical advantage on one side, it is a major (overly so imo) force multiplier for your siege. That basically puts the onus on the defenders to have to go outside and defeat a greater force to blow up attacking siege, because they can’t do it from inside their structure, which is kind of the whole point of holding a fortified position.
That’s why most real-world fortifications have sally ports. Defenders having to go outside the fortifications at times is an intrinsic component of siege warfare.
What skill is required to do this? How good do you have to be to select the right trait? How much practice does it take to be able to aim an arrow cart at a breach? There’s no skill involved in this.
The skill comes from both recognizing the synergy here, choosing to incorporate it in your build (evaluating opportunity cost) and playstyle.
Or.. you could say the skill components is on the other side of the equation and comes from players learning not to rush their whole zerg into siege range before figuring out what’s up there shooting at you. That and finding a way around it.
Assuming you also change your entire look very often.
You aren’t meant to redesign your entire appearance every day based on your mood… though you could if you wanted to, you just need to pay for that privilege.
If any professions where able to have the same advantage using siege
While they don’t have the exact same advantage, as several others have pointed out, the Warrior is not the only class to have some it’s mechanics applied to siege use.
Yes/No.. say your guild represents 20% of the server’s active WvW population and the whole guild goes offline for one entire match:
-pop-based ranking system: your ranking just dropped 20% no matter what(using simplified math here, i understand it would take more time and have fancier math)
-current system: you probably won’t do to well with 80% of the population you normally have, but those 80% still have the power to produce a potentially better-than-expected result(or a much worse one)
one system relies partly on skill, coordination and in-game effort whereas the other is based solely on attendance.
the “levels of participation” vary constantly for dozens of reasons, there’s very big changes day-to-day and even averaged out week-to-week there’s dips and surges.
It’s vulnerable to manipulation because all it would take is a few big guilds to take a break for a week or two and then force a tier drop.
Since “grind” means doing a repetitive task you don’t enjoy over and over for an eventual reward… yes, grind is always a subjective topic. What is a grind to some is a great afternoon of gaming to others.
For those that are unable to read the thread: the current bug is a result of the recent change to engi turret mechanics.
It’s not actually a bug at all, it regular behaviour that is now possible since they removed the bug that was preventing sigils from working with kits. (ie: before kits/siege/env-weapons were ignoring a bunch of other systems, like traits.)
whether you think the current synergy is balanced or not, it’s not a bug.
False… Otherwise NSP (Ex-T6) would be rolling over T7. Just because a server is 1 tier above doesn’t mean it have a massive population advantage over the tier below it.
Except that NSP has lost some of it’s most active guilds over time.. we’ve been losing our population, that’s exactly why we slipped from t6 into t7 in the first place. War left, Meow left.. Os is the only big guild we have left.
When was the last time you looked at the size of the Arrow Cart AoE? It is far from a ball.
200 characters in that area seems pretty dense to me.
speaking of this whole “5v200”, why did we even stick to an arbitrary number that’s not actually possibly in the game currently with the population caps?
What’s the most a server can muster in a mapcurrently? how many can you get to be at that specific battle?
like 50? 60? what does tier 1 see during prime time with queues?
Might have something to do with the fact that When Kain left T8, people said the same thing, and Kain beat t7 like a hapless puppie, stomping T7 harder then they ever stomped T8, I mean, I am not sure how T7 deals with the shame of being stomped harder by Kain then T8 was, I am sure they have their stories, on how they justify doing worse then T8, but, lets be real, their vanity on how good they think they are compared to T8 is not founded, never has been, and history has shown it.
There’s no point to comparing the Kaineng that was in tier 8 for months to the post-migration Kaineng that plowed through 4 other tiers just as badly as tier 7.
It has little to do with “good”, it’s just active population and coverage differentials. It’s not personal.. everyone from tier1 down has lived with it too.
Unless you get the same kind of massive transfers to your server.. you’re not going to be able to compete with the higher tiers.
Ya but in this extreme scenario of 5 holding down 200 indefinitely…. those 200 had to cram in a ball and go stand under the AoE to begin with… which sounds like a tactical failure on their part, whether this mechanic was in place or not.
Now the difference is they might actually pay for their overconfidence, rather than laugh it off thanks to the AoE cap.
OK so the more I think about it, the more it appears to be overpowered..
but.. an interaction that leads to an advantage for defenders that’s especially effective against zergs…. isn’t this exactly the kind of balancing we’ve needed in WvW?
It’s not like we aren’t trying …we’re getting massive pressure from both servers in EB.
This morning we were stuck barely holding on to our keep with GoM and HoD each having a 30+ zerg inside the outer walls for a while.. it was pretty funny when GoM showed up to assault the inner gate and realized there was already a lineup. =)
The number being fielded at ET and FC cannot be considerated real numbers aswell… There is a lot of people that refuse to fight as long SF still in T8. To not mention people who come in the fight but do not bother going against SF since it’s a sure loss…
So I’ll paraphrase your answer to be : “No, we don’t have anywhere close to the population we’d need, but maybe all those extra players will magically show up once we have a new opponent.”
But it’s a pretty safe bet based on extrapolating comments made by ET and FC players about their population levels.
what have you observed on your own server? how often do you feel your server can field multiple 30-40player zergs in more than one shift? because that’s what HoD can bring to the table.
Sorry to burst your grand schemes but HoD’s actually in the lead right now.
Also, a T7 server dropping in to T8 might not be that much stronger than SF… but they certainly won’t be any weaker. T8 needs to stop daydreaming that SF moving out of the tier will solve their population issues, you’re gonna get stomped just as badly by any other server.
how are you even in the guild in the first place lol. If a guild invites non-trustworthy people and grants them access to bank which has 200g, then it’s the kitten guild’s fault. They should learn to pick better people or simply don’t store 200g in bank. I mean who does that? store 200g?
While every guild should take steps to protect themselves from this kind of activity…. your post stinks of victim blaming.
So anet needs to be the cops, step in and perma ban you.
The problem with that is it forces Anet to review countless interpersonal arguments over who did what, who may or may not have the “right” to do X thing.
It would take a whole new team just to handle these policing requests.
Yes you would have a problem with people running in at the tail end and pushing you past the limit but that is something we would just need to deal with since I don’t see them changing it to a split system.
That’s the thing though, their main design philosophy is that you should never be unhappy to see other players show up to help you.
Are you sure of this? I commonly play with 2 other guild members over a period of several hours, doing events as they come up, and I haven’t seen this +100 influence boost per event in the guild panel.
Well afaik the guild log only shows total influence gained from events from everyone in the guild over the course of an hour, it’s not granular enough to register individual events.
But I went to double check and I was indeed in error: the 3+ guildies for 100 extra influence is for dungeons, not events. The event bonus is 20 extra influence for 2+ guildies in a party; and it’s per event, so if you have 4 parties all with guildies doing the same event, you still only get the bonus 20 once.
Many professions/builds use their elite skills rarely-to-never… now without going into a tangent about why the elites aren’t being used(CDs too long, effect not worth it, etc..), would turning that Elite skill slot into an optional 4th Utility slot be feasible?
Just have it as a slot that can load either an elite or one of your remaining Utilities.
I don’t see the technical challenge of making the change being too difficult but I am worried about potential balance impacts.
Are there any professions/builds that would benefit from it to a much greater extent then others?
