You are wrong mate, mesmers got terrible damage but boost the whole group with alacrity, necro got mediocer damage but since they dont give the group anything they are rarely wanted, and elementalists got highest damage on big targets + a crap ton of boons from combo fields that they blast.
Thank you. I lack your expience.
However, my understanding from others is that magic users can take very little damage, relative to heavy armour users.
Which is the point I was originally making.
That isn’t true either. Necromancer has one of the highest passive sustain.
Same with chronomancer that runs domi/illu. You have so much active dmg mitigation that you have to make an effort to die in pve. Elementalists are really the only ones with the ’can’t take much dmg’ problem. If an enemy so much as sneezes on them they flop on the ground dead.
There is a reason I said passive.
In terms of active defense an ele has enough tools to deal with things but active defenses relies heavily on player skill and experience regardless of class.
Agreeing to disagree on specifics is fair enough – any denigration of AD&D won’t be tolerated, though
Our DM took weeks (at least) to prepare his campaigns. The throw of the dice controls all often enough, though, to always make things fun.
That just doesn’t happen in GW2.
Success and failure shouldn’t come down to luck of the roll. That might be fine for pen and paper but not for a video game.
They are talking about saving throws, variation in damage dealt or taken, chances to be attacked, and stuff like that. That sort of variation during play in GW2 would really make this game a lot more fun, I agree.
Saving throws are not relevant since that is exactly the type of thing that shouldn’t depend on RNG. That should all come down to the player using the right skills at the right time … or not.
Getting attacked or not should be based on positioning for always hostile mobs or other actions for non-hostile mobs. There is a devourer queen for one of the hearts in Iron Marches that will attack you if you pick up the eggs.
We used to have vestigial traits in GW2 like that (ferocity, charm, and another I think), and occasionally they would determine the course of an encounter.
Those things never had any impact on combat. They just gave you different dialog options when talking certain NPCs.
Another thing that is missing from this game is a real faction system. Being able to earn faction with any group in the game is really a fun angle to develop, but somewhat complicated too. EQ1 had one of the very best faction systems, and I wish more games would copy it.
I fail to see how that has anything to do with the current topic.
so this still does not work right a year later (what a surprise anet)
either update the master acheivment to specifically say it requires you not to die and TAKE IT AWAY IF YOU DO or fix whatever else is wrong with it
I happened to have cleared it last week. and you can down but not die. It’s a bit buggy though, as dying elsewhere in the instance might also remove the buff. also, do not kill any chack in the pit before braham finished his comments
You can run through the entire instance and then just fight the vet and adds just before the pit.
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You can always turn the commendations into gold.
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