You get a lot of loot playing wvw if your group knows what its doing. So if your not getting loot then i am sry you may need to work on how your group plays wvw.
‘A lot of loot’. Yeah. Right. It’s still nowhere near comparable to PVE.
Besides, not everyone is in a MLG 420 no-scope ‘zerg busting’ guild. Roamers and scouts are the poorest people ingame.
By the way, this guy below made more than 2k gold in 100 hours of braindead chestfarming. Talk about ‘a lot of loot’.
I always do it this way, pretty easy. Use warhorn #4 at the beginning and at the end to remove immobilize. Use shoutheal traits and sure-footed for longer defiant stance.
Signet of stamina for more dodges and to remove 2nd immobilize.
Even if you go down, you can use vengeance and get to the console in time.
I agree that the game feels very unrewarding and unchallenging. It got better with the living story 2 and the new zones but there is still a long way to go. The truth is, however, that the expansion will deliver what you are looking for, OP. I am pretty sure of that.
Until then, take a break. Really, it helps. There is no point whatsoever in playing if you don’t enjoy it.
I think you overestimate diamond skin, Eremite. If you play a terrormancer or condition engi, then yes, you will get rekt, but that’s only because of the pitiful powerscaling on their autoattacks. Any other build/class would be able to deal with this kind of ele, IMO.
The build I’ve linked above is purely theoretical and is in my opinion worse than a signet/cantrip build.
I’ve dueled Broski (Dahir) a couple times on my warrior. I am not sure which build he was using back then (I think it was 6/0/0/4/4), but I can safely say that it’s a really strong dueling build, both against power and condition builds.
I am using the same build as Derren (the 1st one) but I like to use hydro/leeching on sword&shield and battle/intelligence on hammer. As Burr said, hydro really helps landing your flurry or final thrust and can remove blind, which is always useful.
- Playing a thief without points in trickery is really hard if not impossible. Traited steal is just too good to pass up.
- Playing a mesmer without DE …. No. Playing a mesmer without DE and IP? Babye mesmer. Deceptive evasion should be default already. Compensate with nerfs in other areas?
- Ele… Dependency on arcana.
EDIT: Not saying those are the only ones.. but they are the most important ones imo.
- New acquisiton of traits
- Incorporating the cities into the megaserver system.
(Completely destroyed certain server communities and the sense of belonging, which is huge in an mmo)
It snowballs way too hard, pugging is a nightmare, turret engie cancer is at the strongest, healing cheese (yay eles/engies are even stronger now). Put it in its own queue so it can die without creating too much stench. You can put Courtyard in the same queue as well.
I really like it so far. However, there are 2 simple things that would improve the game mode IMO.
- Increase timer to 17-20 min. In the last 3 three games I’ve played no one managed to kill the lords because the time ran out. Considering that those games will be streamed on twitch some day, it is preferable to have a nice ending with a lord stomp. The game should end with a fight in the lord room, not because time ran out. Super anticlimactic imo.
- I can’t help but think that 5v5 is too small for this type of game mode. There are many roles to fulfill and therefore 7v7 or 8v8 would be fantastic. Not more than 8v8 though.
Though to keep Anet in check, the B2P market is pretty terrible atm. Luckily Zenimax screwed up ESO launch enough, that it may take sometime for them to catch up.
Just make Shield and Torch a viable option in the game. Currently, if you want to be effective, you just can’t play with those weapons. For instance staff is just sooo good, that I can’t replace it with shield even tho I hate staff!! I’m not asking for much, just make it at least viable!
I LOVE playing with rifle but it’s autoattack is just terrible. The removal of bleeding was completely unecessary and reduced the overall damage by quite a lot. 256 bleeding without conditon damage might not seem much but with deep cuts and condition food you could easily deal 11-12 seconds of bleeding damage per autoattack. That DID add up in a longer 1v1.
Now with the fierce shot I feel like I am throwing pillows at people. It’s rage-inducing how terrible it is.
Engineer rifle autoattack is faster and hits harder. Long range shot has a potential range of 1’900 and hits harder, even targets <500 range, slightly longer casting time. Even mesmer’s spatial surge is better…
Fierce shot did pretty good damage after the march 16 patch but it was a bug…
Mind you the fierce shot is not the only problem of rifle (obviously)… Those have been mentioned in other good threads.
Quite frankly, I can only laugh at the bots killing each other. UD is a joke of a title ever since Edge of the Mists was introduced. When I see someone with UD, I know he or she killed 250’000 zerglings. Congrats, you earned it, I guess. When I see someone from ULTD with UD, I know he or she wasted precious time running into a corner, killing themselves with retaliation.
Does it affect me? No.
Does it have to go? That’s for ANet to decide.
The fact that you need to go 6 into air to make scepter even work properly just shows the terrible design of the weapon. (No, those gimmicky earth #1 builds do not count.)
So many kitten individuals on this forum, unbelievable. They have made this MONTHS ago. In no way would they insult their playerbase like this, are you kittening nuts.
Theres also the possibility that the new specialist doesn’t want the same reception as the last one (which was downright rude and nasty) so they are laying low. They don’t need to respond, just read, collect, and send information.
I quote:
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I really don’t dislike Marmatt, but what he’s delivered so far is kittenpoor. Even if you are ill, it takes 3 minutes to tell someone about your absence.
I saw Marmatt online last week and pm’d him to ask him what gives. It wasn’t him but his brother playing on his account. He told me Marmatt was ill and not around at the moment. That might explain the absence.
it has a place in a support bunker role but arguably hammer is better if your going for prot up time. On a side note, have you seen the data mined revenant shield skills? Closer to what guard shield should of been imo.
Revenant… Doesnt really seem that powerful actually tbh. Their damage is lacking, their healing is relatively lacking (actual realism of using their heals is lower than many classes, 2 heals doesn’t make them twice as good at healing). They have like 1 really useful utility per legend and are forced into others because they are all bound together. No weapon swap so if you use hammer your damage (so far) pretty much perma-blows.
They have a few decently strong skills (Banish Enchantment, Mist Wall) but beyond that…. I really haven’t seen much that felt like it would be that potent in pvp.
In pve having revenants juggle their Jalis elite might be a thing, but frankly it would slow down the whole process just to play it safe, and that’s if it’s perfectly executed.
What exactly are people finding so OP? O.o
The revenant we played in the beta had full celestial gear and no power or condition duration from traits. Of course the damage was lacking.
Every single utility we’ve seen so far are decent. The healing skills are meh, retaliation is a kitten boon.
The elites are fantastic, both visually and functionally.
I don’t agree with removing food altogether. What I do agree with is removing the -+ condition duration food. (Koi cake, lemon grass, veggie pizza, etc.) Very little diversity atm, those 2 are just too good to pass up.
Unfortunately, I have to agree with the OP. Taimi and Canach are really the only characters I like (From DE 2). The others are basically nonexistent for me, thanks to the poor writing in Season 1.
In addition to the lack of teles, rangers also lack burst. Every other berserker class out there has a true burst, unloading lethal amounts of damage instantly or nearly instantly (maybe not necros, I’m not terribly familiar with their “meta” build.) LB rangers do good damage, but it isn’t fast enough. Many of the meta builds can simply outsustain a “burst” by 2 longbow rangers, where basically no one can survive a burst from 2 of any panic strike thief, medi guard, GS mesmer, even a static discharge engi because you don’t have time to react.
Melee rangers pack way more burst than and even more mobility than LB rangers. I’m pretty surprised more people aren’t trying those. They still fall flat from lack of teles, and despite insane 1v1 abilities, don’t have the sustainability of a thief.
Melee ranger has more burst than LB? I don’t think so…
The damage modifier on RF is 1320*3.75
The damage modifier on Maul is 434*1.5
Plus maul is a lot harder to land, and you’re getting hit while you do it.
GS is weak. Seriously weak. Especially compared to Guard GS.
The autoattack is still kitten, even after the buff.
