I noticed our Healing skills scale VERY well with healing power. Medkit packs scale from 1k to 2k per pack, and Super Elixir scales from 3k to 4k. (Regeneration on Healing Mist also scales from 1.5k to 2.7k)
For PvE (particularly FoTM) I’m trying to develop a hybrid build that lets me freely swap equipment between Berserker and healing stats (this obviously means I need 12 free item slots, but that’s besides the point.)
My main problem is trait setup.. How do I organize my traits to be both friendly with berserker AND healer? (Possibly cleric.)
30 in Explosives seems like a must because otherwise Grenades are useless.
20 in Tools are also important because it unlocks Packaged Stimulants (which means more healing. Alternatively, it also gives me other useful traits like Scope.
The question is what to do with the remaining 20 trait points?
It has some of the coolest Off-hand weapons in the game (AoE immobilize+cripple OH Pistol, reflect+daze shield), but we’re forced to use one of the worst weapons: Pistol MH.
Pistol MH is ranged, but our off-hands are all melee-range. So shouldn’t we get a melee main-hand like Mace?
I read somewhere (I think the Twitch transcript) that there is no plans for an expansion this year or the next?
Does that mean we have two years of absolutely nothing, and after they built that cliffhanger at the end of the personal story too?
I could understand one year, but with the living story going on, GW2 is really starting to feel like a Saturday Morning cartoon where they never capture the villain…
To be honest, I wouldn’t mind trenchcoats if they didn’t have such obnoxious clipping and animation issues. (The updraft while running is HORRIBLE on male characters, especially Sylvari…)
Right now the zone isn’t supposed to tell an epic tale. It’s simply supposed to introduce the Zephyrites and their culture.
The Commander of the Pact has been running dangerous errands nonstop ever since the defeat of Zhaitan. From Karka to Molten Alliance, back to Karkaland, and then for once when he thought he could have some fun at Dragon Bash and celebrate the festival, it was crashed by sky pirates!
Give the Commander a break! The Bazaar of the Four Winds has been fun and adventurous, while remaining mostly peaceful.
Quite frankly, I think this is the best living story update yet!
While looking for some mobs to farm (and being successful at that), I noticed the area with all the enemies to farm is also very incomplete… Check it out ingame.
There’s a rock without a bottom, and a very oddly stretched wall texture. (The screenshot is poor, but check it out iname. It’s very weird!)
In the sky are also some weird polygons going across it.
Why is it the areas which are polished, have no mobs worth farming whatsoever? Yet the area with all the sharks and tunas, it’s as incomplete as heck… You’d think they’d want to polish where they attract players?
The difference is, this area is out of bounds and totally unintended.
it’s technically not out of bounds. there is a path you can take to get there. you can swim right up to them easily enough. it’s not like you’re glitching to get out of the map.
Just because there is a path to get there doesn’t necessarily means it’s legit. Just because early FoTM had a path into the “Fractal Limbo”/Dev Zone doesn’t make it legit either.
If you swim outside the area, doesn’t it take you to a void rather than giving a strong current notification? That would imply it is out of bounds.
Not to mention, it’s quite glitchy. I remember when going there once, I was suddenly warped underneath the Straits portal, into the underwater void below Malchor’s Leap.
Personally I’m suspicious about Ellen Kiel. Logan said in the cutscene he doesn’t trust the lionguard, implying they’re involved. That leads me to be very suspicious of Kiel.
Ranger’s only purposes: Soloing Mossman, and using [Entangle] on the Flame Shaman bubble.
Not sure what they can do others can’t do better in FoTM. 1800 Range longbow? Not very useful though… Maybe they can suck up Old Tom projectiles with a bear, but I don’t see why it’s worth sacrificing DPS.
@Kain Francois: You only crit one time when the boss fight starts. Then you’re left with low dmg and 30% crit chance if i remember correctly. FoTM needs tanky melees the higher lvls you go, so in no way is this viable in FoTM.
With full zerk gear and Rune of the Ranger, you should have about 59% crit rate (estimated). Plus you aren’t in the fight alone, as you have allies who support you with fury. Plus it’s always possible to use Red Moa and wep swap for fury.
In High Level FoTM 38, the idea is to go more power-oriented rather than defensive, because bosses do not hit you enough to justify going defensive (as you could heal back to full health before getting hit again.)
Major disclaimer: no promises, no schedule, etc… But if you were daydreaming about what you personally want for your sylvari, what would it be? :} What would its presence feel like? What style? What materials?
GIVE ME MY DANG SWORD BACK! I want my Caladbolg, plz! (And let me beat up Saladhead while at it…)
For a start, I would recommend Trahaerne’s face for males, and Caithe’s face for females. I understand ANET wishes to make them unique, but quite frankly most players simply do not care how “unique” they look, and it serves no purpose anyways when many Nightmare Court enemies recycle Trahaerne’s face.
NPCs always get the cool faces… T_T
I would also recommend more racial armors, especially for Heavy. It’s very hard to get a desired look because the “shading” (for the lack of better words) on Sylvari armors are inconsistent with other Sylvari sets, and they suffer from horrible clipping and stretching issues. Have you seen what Heavy T2 pants look like when wielding a GS? Even on the thinnest body type, it stretches to oblivion… Not to mention the front side clips the leg when using staff. Speaking of which, Heavy TA armor also clips with staff…
Is it my gear? I doubt it’d make a 3k dmg difference…
Even without all ascended gear you should at least end up like this in my picture. Only one ascended trinket in my gear, no stacks, food (not even the best one), fury, 30/30/0/10/0, all zerker and the back-item is soldiers.
How do you get such high crit rate? Both of us are using full zerker with ranger runes?
And does 200 power and 10% crit% dmg really make such a huge difference?
I’d like to hear someone else’s numbers on a Snow Wolf or Moose?
Is it my gear? I doubt it’d make a 3k dmg difference…
You can definitely bump your stats up a bit still via gear.
Get all ascended trinkets and back brace, stack bloodlust, dragon buns, and don’t forget to shoot from the target’s back.
3200 pattack is kind of low IMO. You should be around 4k without stacking might.
But the 9k dmg build in the first post doesn’t use bloodlust or dragon buns… Will a backbrace and ascended trinkets really make such a huge difference in autoattack damage? We’re talking a difference of 3k damage.
Is this viable in PvE Dungeons and FoTM? I’m kinda having a hard time seeing the viability of this, because Signet of the Hunt and Signet of the Wild are only temporary boosts with large cooldowns.
