When reading a post by Poelala remember 2 things:
1: He cries about every other class being op while tempest is weak. His threads are titled “Rebound is the worst elite in the game” and “Tempest sucks anet doesn’t care”.
2: He doesn’t understand the game mechanics.
The stuff he is crying about now will not affect DH. Even the QQ about the healing trap is pointless since anyone can shut it down after the first heal and destroy the skill.
DH and warrior are the greatest counters to burning. However a good burn guard can still set up a kill on a warrior in the 4s window you have to down him between his resistance and blocks. Yeah good players will try and avoid PF that’s why its your job to force the proc 2x when it goes down and 2 more times pulling them through.
Hard to do? Yeah. Takes practice and knowing their stability timers. But once you get good at it people drop like flies even good players.
Warriors for some reason have been left alone or buffed for around 9 months now. Someone high up is throwing the balance patches.
No. No it wouldn’t. Having access to both would turn it into a skill spam class.
Weapon skills → reaper shoud 1-5 →utility/wep skills → death shroud 1-5 when cd is off.
Having 5 entire skills is much greater than a single skill.
Baited harder than ele following cele godmode on a stick.
Eles did not need buffed. Their community needs to l2p and not skillspam their rotations and they’d realize it’s still perfectly fine. Eles complain about not being able to do damage, but then given the choice 10/10 will hump every defensive trait in the game even if offered 100000% damage.
It should be a grandmaster trait not a minor master. That would justify it having one of the highest healing per second in the game.
Blocks are the counter play to bursts. You don’t add counterplay to the counterplay and expect a good result.
“THIS IS MY ONLY MOVEMENT SKILL”
Lol supreme checked your post history. You seem to be dead set that every other class must be terrible while ele maintains godmode. Don’t be a troll and just say so rather than hide it.
This is like guardians getting legendary aegis. Or mesmers getting legendary clones. Maybe eles want legendary summon weapons while we’re at it? I’m sure the necros would like a legendary death shroud scythe. Revenants could use some legendary legend effects too.
Tldr; it ain’t happening
Torch 5 is only cover fire, no other use for it. Clean condos on ally’s? Well they’re standing behind you in any pvp situation.
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Adrenal health giving among the highest healing per second in the game from a fixed sub minor trait needs looking at. It should be major grandmaster.
DH power coefficients on their weapons are some of the lowest in the game. A DH not running traps can’t kill any form of attrition build. A DH running traps can be 2-shot by almost any skilled player.
It’s a staple of any software producing company to always retain people with knowledge of the code or contract them to train others before leaving.
Programs should be written with high modularity, allowing for a change to be made to one file independent of the program as a whole. It’s when this rule is disregarded that situations like this appear in games.
I’d rather not pick the thief up in raids by having him run marauders. 1 downstate is a a huge dps loss.
3 months to make a few changes, 3 months later to revise those changes. So we get a full iteration of balance every 6 months, or twice a year. So yeah no balance whatsoever.
So you basically want to be invincible while holding the highest damaging skills in the game. Yep no thanks.
They’re struggling to keep game production going.
They aren’t skilled enough to modify old systems.
Nor can they strip the old systems out since they’re understaffed.
They’re almost a year and a half late still on hot content such as legendary armour so they can’t take on many new projects.
A lot of designed content is removed due to player dislike, cannons in wvw, hot map reworks etc.
Pvp leagues struggling to keep quarterly reports looking good enough to publish.
Old style classes can’t be balanced into the new elite content.
Simply put they no longer have what it takes to edit core systems.
Burn guard smashes Druids when played right. The only chance the Druid has to win is to disengage out of the gate and build his CA before coming back.
Pvp is a joke failing balance even with amulet limitations.
Throw 10 games? Royal waste of time to farm pugs
Get the hammer trait the hell out of virtues to start with.
In wvw I use the kitten tonic on my DH with all 5 traps stacked nearby.
Before long some grunge thief low enough to attack a kitten will come along and find himself getting spiked by a kitten.
I would agree to nerf it since its a gimmick. (OP sometimes, laughable at other times)
Ofc they could buff something else in return.
I play lame duck guardian, I run in and get hit hard by 4-5 guys in wvw. Then I run away like I’m scared, drop a purging flames behind me and laugh my kitten off while they all drop like flies.
Lolementalists….. the class that qq’s loudest in gw2 after years of being god-tier.
Putting a cast time on virtues would be a nerd even with your suggested buffs.
See DH f3 on release for reference people hated it even though it is a powerful block simply because it took away a lot of gameplay possibilities of guard f3.
You never want to immobilize for purging flames. Far, far better to place it so the opponent is strafing the ring the instant it goes down forcing a double proc, and forcing them outside the ring to set up a pull for a grand 4x proc.
This thread is proof eles scream the loudest. Apparently 4 years of god-tier is now making them QQ.
Until recently I roamed with travelers. However Ive changed that as you now need every trick in the book to ensure a win against a warrior due to the buffs they’ve been getting.
Funny how traps were never buffed; only a few qol changes. Yet suddenly the simple minded can no longer handle them.
Ive been playing a lot of classes lately, thief, ele, warrior to name a few. Traps hit so weakly now that barring dragons maw I can facetank the hits long enough to walk out of them without dodging. I could probably backpedal out on anything but my dd who would have to pop his ever handy 15s cd block.
Considering raids can be cleared by almost any comp a DPS meter isn’t needed. If it were content that required a 10% margin to pass or fail then sure. But it isn’t. ‘God-send’ is the opinion of the op. Anet seems understaffed already so why give have the create something that wouldn’t really matter?
If condi gets ax’ed power mesmers will QQ even more. Even though they can already burst down anyone under 18k hp.
Low sustained healing means more downs. Low burst healing means that the 90% damage hits found in raids are more lethal.
This has much more to do with the code than what we would ‘want’ or ‘like’.
It is far, far easier to check a circular area for contact/hits than a square, triangle or other shape. Bubble metas are a by-product of this as checking collisions on other shaped areas would be difficult, requiring many more calculations to be made, and therefore slowing down your game.
A lot of these posts are complaints about death shoud not matching up to reaper shroud.
Do guardian virtues match up in any way to DH virtues?
Do Mesmer shatters match up in any way to continuum split?
Etc.
Thread has become a place for people to cry not discuss balance.
Mate don’t run power guardian and cry that guardian is getting left behind cause it really isn’t..
A little ‘git-gud’ in the form of situational awareness would do you well. Post is 6 months old.
Post complaining about saltiness while being salty…..
Anet have long held a stance that guardians are a slow class.
And that was ok back when classes had unique things that comprised them. However these are being phased out. Even mesmerized portals uniqueness has been lessened by items that can do the same.
Anet have directly stated that a passive movement buff for guardians is “not in the works”. It seems that for them to recognize that this is now a core mechanic for all classes would be to admit that classes are no longer unique.
Anet posted 30 mins ago saying it was fixed. Yet everyone is still crashing….
Don’t even try raiding, fractals, or forming wvw groups. The issue isn’t fixed, its worse if anything.
I thought they lazily slapped quarterly patch onto Halloween. Just like they lazily slapped legendary armour onto hot as a selling point and then never release it.
Entire raid teams getting d/ced.
ANET are ignoring that there is a serious issue here, locking threads talking about it.
Disconnects all around.
Someone called this earlier today but ANET locked the thread and ignored basically saying it wasn’t important to them.
Guardians should get the dragoon spec. We need some high altitude leaps and thunder in this game.