This is a post for all the fellow Druid healers out there.
Dont be mad if/when some members of the community do illogical things while you are playing healer, or if people discriminate against your healing.
Keep in mind, the community of GW2, went for 3 years without true Healer class, or a healer role. So over that time people been conditioned into a more selfish dps play style. It will take some time for people to get use to the concept of Healers in GW2.
Yesterday, I was playing SPvP, when my groupmates, who could see I was a Druid from my icon, went to the mid cap point in Foe, and simply stood on the platforms, while I was the only person standing in the circle with a equal size of enemy players. My teammates avoided me, making it harder to heal them, and they left me as the only person in the cap point to be the center of focus fire.
But I give them the benefit the doubt. as I said, the game design of Vanilla breed this “All-for-self selfish dps-or-death” mentality which is counterproductive to the new healing role of HoT. Give people time.
When I played healer in BWE3, in WvW, I managed to pump out some serious heals in a 3 way zerg fight, and got some mad props from the commander and my server members.
Also in SPvP, I got some mad props from a skilled Reaper once. the Two of us, pretty much dominated an enemy team with just the two of us by working together. Its really fun.
Yeah Druid got some nerfs, but its still usable as a decent healer. I would like that Cooldown reduction on CF, but thats another topic. lol
How do I record videos while playing?
I love staff! love it.
need some buffs in numbers on heals, but nice weapon.
actually the reason for why its 400 HP and very gated, is because Elite Specs are suppose to be a substitute for “Traditional Pre-Raid-Dungeon gearing up” that we have in other MMOs with raids.
the thing is, since GW2 doesnt have a heavy Gear Progression, this tradition was replaced by a equally time consuming process of collecting Hero Points and Masteries.
I suggest we have a discussion for help getting HP.
near Quazupl Grounds how to get this hp?
so EoTM no longer rewards progress?
how to unlock hero points in WvW?
content can be hard, just dont lock elite specs behind it, because we use those in more than just HoT.
Which HP not gated?
Because while I been searching for HP, means I havnt been doing events which means I havnt been getting exp at all.
So no way to level up mastery and running around searching for HP.
I need the non-gated HP.
man smokescale is impossible to get. nobody does the camp event there for that pet to spawn.
Every class that has access to greatsword, destroys on greatsword.
Greatsword is the be all to end all and Its rather refreshing to not be forced to use it on Revenant as well.
Ranger
15 chars……
I know people say that Staff is a support weapon meant to go with Centaur legend,
but I disagree, and honestly believe it was never meant for support role, as the datamine staff shows us what Anet was thinking when they made the melee staff. It was always meant to be the more defensive/tank melee weapon.
Problem is, it went through some kind of revamp and now suffers from an identity crisis.
Staff doesnt know if it wants to be a Tank weapon or Support Weapon.
And right now, its poor as a support staff. Druid has a support staff.
but its subpar as a tank weapon as well.
Anet, I suggest if you going to make Staff a tank weapon, please do it right and buff it in that area. The current support elements are so minor that they can stay as is honestly.
THE GOOD:
*Surge of the Mists- great for breaking down defiance bar, and for good lockdown cc at the cost of being harder to control.
*Warding Rift – great block and blind counter to ranged fighters.
THE BAD:
pretty much everything else.
Some suggestions:
Staff Auto attack chain needs a damage boost. right now the healing orbs on third chain doesnt make up for the lack of damage. It doesnt even provide vigor or protection. Keep the healing orbs, on third chain for people that play support, but add self heal on each auto attack, since tank build players tend to be the target of enemies. Or increase the damage of the Auto Attack all together while keeping the Healing Orbs on third chain.
Punishing Sweep/Debilitating Slam- these need to be swapped around and apply a daze on first swing. and the Trigger for secondary attack need to be changed. In a more defensive role, players usually are trying to avoid damage. And sitting there waiting for enemies to use a skill against you to use this single chain skill, is not good design. I say, make it so that both hits do better damage, but make the Trigger, to be an interrupt with Debilitating Slam, and then make Punishing Sweep, taunt the foe on hit for 1 second. Adjust the cooldown as needed. But both better damage, and better utility from a defensive standpoint is better design for this.
Renewing Wave – a skill left over from the redesign. This skill is just out of place. The heal is too weak, and the only good elements is the finisher and condition removal. But that cast time on it is killer. I say just make this skill into a ground target leap smash that does AoE heal, but I suggest increasing the base heal of this, and keeping the AoE condition removal. But how about some AoE chill on this or something that can also provide some AoE defensive support. This could also get some added damage element to the landing blast.
man this could been a lot smoother. sadly
interesting conspiracy theory. (not saying its false one)
How would you rate the HoT Fun Factor?
10 being the most fun
and 0 being the least fun.
whats the HoT Pet locations?
Elite Specializations & Hero Point Feedback [Merged]
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So anybody have any solutions to this problem?
I’m trying to find ways to build CF without staff/ TU atm. Although its pretty hard since they nerfed healing % contribution… Atm I’m trying water field blasting but its really low.
Iam trying to find ways to build CF WITH Staff…..
Elite Specializations & Hero Point Feedback [Merged]
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The vast majority of people on this topic are saying the same thing. We expected to be able to play the much touted elites within a reasonable time after release, and for that majority the 16,18,40 hrs or w/e it takes is just ridiculous.
The majority feels that mastery’s themselves are ok, but that locking them to elite’s is not.
The majority feels that personal elites should not be tied into group success scenarios.
The majority feels they should not have to play through most of the new HoT pve zones just to play how they want to play. That by doing so a grind mentality happens and the areas themselves become that, instead of adventures.
The majority feels that the wvw grind isn’t all that much better, because people want to be fighting using their new abilities and not mindlessly running in swarms just for the sake of a nuisance gate.
The majority with many alts are worried about the hundreds of additional hours of “gameplay” necessary to run around with specs they’re tired of simply to play the way they want to play
The majority feels they were promised new exiting roles to try and only upon entering HoT have they realized that their elites will be crippled to the tune of many many hours (which for many working people accounts for days and weeks of not being able to use their new spec) x any alt they have or may wish to create in the future and that this particular hero point system becomes a grind for fun.
The minority wishes for everything to take a long time to complete, and believes time itself gives satisfaction in all areas of the game.
The minority is afraid that if Anet caves on the elite grind they may do so in other areas of the game, no matter how many times the majority tells the minority this is not a global time involvement complaint, but simply restricted to elite hero point grind.
This is definitely a hot button issue right now and one that has attracted many people to voice their opinions so anet will, and I hope soon, address it with more than just snarky remark towards people who just bought their game.
Yes yes yes this so this
Elite Specializations & Hero Point Feedback [Merged]
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Reduces the grind, especially on classes we not interested as much in their core.
Make them account bound. This way you can keep your intended 30 hour grind, but we as players wont be punished by having to do this 9 times over.
its already hard to navigate the zones, and with most of them requiring a group to complete, they are extremely hard to complete. In this grind heavy mastery design, nobody likes wasting time sitting there waiting for other players to discover the same hero point you are standing at.
this is a decent quick patch up.
whose decision was this change?
This is what a last minute elite specialisation looks like.
nah because it was much better in BWE3….
Hey Arenanet, you overnerfed Druid.
now Staff is super slow at generating energy, and we no longer start off with CF energy when we spawn. And the amount we have, resets every time we are defeated.
This was over-nerf.
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wow its far worst than I thought. I thought it was 200 for all skills and traits, and rest of the 200 for items.
but I barely had anything. Only have 1 skill from 170 HP. wow….
Ranger Druid……..
you sound a bit jealous.
still cant make Revenant. I want to play around with the character creation.
bleep just got real
Hey its 23rd now in America, bro..
are there a video of all these finishers?
Spirits need this in PvP anet..
well that means cant have Solo Guild Halls after all now.
welcome to Earth my friend..
You were discriminated against.
could be worst. imagine living everyday under discrimination.
Reaper means harvester
And Necro Reapers are already harvesting tears.
And it hasn’t even come out yet…
Am I wrong?
…for the full Elite Spec, how many of the never played Ranger, just want to play Druid-People are going to drop Druid?
It is quite a time Investment if you just create a fresh Ranger for the Druid:
- 200 Ranks in WvW
- 40 HoT HPs
- 210 Core HPs + 19 Maguuma HPs (or any combination of the two)
Those are the 3 Options you have to unlock the full Druid with everything. People that already had a Ranger won’t have big Problems getting the Druid, but Freshmen have to invest quite a hefty amount of time into the Ranger if they want to play Druid.
What do you think? Will this 400 HPs drop the Druid Population by a large margin?
Didn’t Colin say it was only 200 for full traits and skill. Well we had 170 as a Datamine for full skills and traits. So that’s only 30 more, and HoT HP give tne each. That’s simply 3 more to do if you already have 170 from core content. I don’t really care much about the skins right now. That can wait. I just want the full skills and traits.
Ready for bad slots for Revenant.
Also some additional tools. Have to delete a character to get that name back that I saved.
ArenaNet stop playing around… Give us new male Norn faces that aren’t old and ugly!!!!
HoT - new hair, faces, cosmetics? [merged]
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They were more than datamined actually. There was a bug for a short period that actually let people apply some new hairstyles.
The preview didn’t work so the only way to see was to accept changes, some people with perm hair contracts did so and when the kits were briefly disabled and fixed said players were left stuck with the new styles, though they didn’t seem to mind as that meant they got head start use.
It is assumed but not officially confirmed that the new faces/hairstyles are being released with HoT.
We’ll know in like 1 day and 6 hours and a few minutes.
Please tell me that one of them was a new young smooth face male Norn please please say its so, please!!!!!
All that exp will go to core map masteries. Do we even know anything about those masteries?
This looks kind of interesting, and GW2 was listed on the games menu.
Where you see that?
On the menu, go to PC Games. I’m using the mobile version so it may be different if you’re on a PC.
I still dont see it. I am on mobile. Dont see pc option
Thats why. Cant click that drop down on my mobile device.
This looks kind of interesting, and GW2 was listed on the games menu.
Where you see that?
On the menu, go to PC Games. I’m using the mobile version so it may be different if you’re on a PC.
I still dont see it. I am on mobile. Dont see pc option
The mist has a place i like to hide at from the crowd. Its in the ruins.
Stop fighting the Cancer like a Thief, and start demolishing the cancer like a DD Ele.
This looks kind of interesting, and GW2 was listed on the games menu.
Where you see that?
I don’t get it…..
With the new Action Camera addition, along side the new F2P model, any plans for a Console release?
If only Norn males had a new smooth young face. Hate the lack of young options. May go Human now.
Daredevil - hero points/elite spec thoughts
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As an engie player, I would take the 3rd dodge instead of the F-Gyro every single time. Care to trade?
Darn this person does have a point..
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How many Hero Points are in the new HoT zones?
40 hero challenges and they give 10 hero points each for a total of 400, which is how many points you need to fully unlock an elite spec.
If you have world completion already, you’re halfway through the elite spec. Considering elite specs include other stuff to unlock however, you’ll likely only need 10 or so hero challenge within HoT to fully unlock all skills and traits.
Well they did say 200 to unlock all skills and traits. The characters i wanted the ES on i got to 170 anyway. So 3 HP challenges to go in HoT.