Base damage is really too high and 3 burning stacks on a single skill is like spike damage, not condi damage.
Professions like Ele D/D , guardian and condi engi (with flamethrower + ip + pistol oh) can stack a ridiculous quantity of burning too fast. I think every burning skill in their case shouldn’t apply more than 1 stack.
As I stated in my previous post. You should be rewarded less for facing people with lower leagues and punished more if you actually lose against someone who is in a lower league. This way those farmers will be punished for spamming games as you cannot really consistently win games unless you are skilled. Vice versa as well.
I think the odds / final score matrix will determine how many pips you gain/lose and odds will calculated with the actual parameters in the matchmaking formula more or less.
So divisions will be basically a progression status similar to “you have X points in the old leaderboard”. If you are in the higher divisions it’s like you have more points in the old leaderboard.
In the old machmaking formula your position in the leaderboard didn’t count for odds calculation so i think it will be the same with divisions.
Basically Divisions will be a different old leaderboard visualization.
This is a speculation of course based on what we read on blogs but in this design i don’t find a strong correlation between your skill level (ranking) and the division level.
For Teamleaderboard is different because there will be an ELO system with decay and we’ll have an unique MMR for the entire Team Guild. This simply means the best Guilds will cover the higher spots.
I don’t think it will be the same with PVP leagues.
I agree.
I hope a dev can give us some extra details but i think this will be the scenario.
Like you can unlock sigils buying or dropping them, and you have a menu in your legendary where you can select every sigils you’ve unlocked everytime (like stats now).
Considering we’ll have 4 queues with stronghold (2 unranked/2 ranked) i’d put a little limitation for unranked for 1-2 players only (solo/duo queue), keeping free ranked queues (every combination).
Wait, you took a stream from the captain of one of the 2 finalist teams for the PvP World Tournament as your evidence that PU is a problem? You took the stream of one of the best PvP mesmers in the world as your evidence that run of the mill PU is broken?
Are you high?
You right, it requires too much skill stay in hide for 6s and press 2+3+f1 (doing 15k+ in 1 sec)
The previous meta before June 23rd 2015 was far more balanced. Right now D/D Cele Ele and Mantra Mesmer are pushing too many archetypes out of viable build structure.
I see always the majority of the action between 2 lanes, champions spawn and keeps. The fact now enemies can drop supplies inside the keep, it gives to team the chance to counter attack without take supplies in the middle camp.
It’s a good move for defense because it promotes defense better but there is always a problem with the middle center supplies.
I think middle camp should be different i dunno how but in this state is not really good like fight/stop enemies in other places.
On one side, it’s incredible. Mallyx can deny pretty much any stomp, and rezz and instantly cut the melee pressure. Great Dwarf Elite is amazing teamfight buff, Ventari has fun playstyle with that Tablet.
On the other side, it wants to exist as profession with clear tells, clear counterplay and skillshots in a land of instant damage, instant CC, broken bursts and often little counterplay.
I’m having tons and tons of fun with it. I believe that especially Mallyx and Ventari take way more than any current profession when you want to play good. Throw Mesmer, Thief, Ele, Engi, Necro whatever you got. It beats them.
It’s not only watching your foe, but also your Energy, maintaining condititions, watching Tablet placement and setting up damage sequences at the same time while having long cast times that have to be covered by pre-casted stability, LoS and no “oh kitten” button at all.
You kitten up your energy management, you’re dead.
The profession isn’t complete and feels incredibly weak compared to other stuff out here, is even more vulnerable to focus fire than Necromancer, but…
When you actually do stuff right, it’s astonishing satisfaction.
Playing revevant i have the feeeling is not the revenant to be bad but other professions to be OP.
Basically revenant misses what other profs have and transform them in op stuff.
I win elites, stealth, instant burst damage/interrupt, invulnerability, 1200k teleport, amazing damage from distance etc.
in other news: this rune set is required to prevent “stealth 1shot” specifically on glass/low armor classes, it has the added bonus of being able to be used as a means of sustain, free stomp/res (if no cc). I like the idea of the rune and I like the many uses that proc has, I can’t really offer any solutions to the issues surrounding it though. I know from personal experience it has allowed me to turn the tables innumerable times.
It’s an honest attempt to link some pvp aspect to the new expansion, it sounds a little like a p2w but honestly it makes sense after all.
Stronghold is a new game mode pushed with HoT and is free for all, a little pay component is not so bad imho.
In general the champion idea works really well for shaking meta (moba docet) anet decided to implement it in a npc/passive format and it’s interesting.
I hope they fixed other stronghold aspects like archers, player damage on guards and channeling.
In general, every class in zerk does too much damage but thief/mesmer (now with insane damage and interrupt) and guardian have better mechanics to survive in a teamfight and do damage at the same time.
Elementalist has amazing traits and probably is the best class with celestial amulet right now.
I think, you will get with the new trait systems, more variety with the same amulet.
I mean, for example for mesmer more chance to customize a zerk Shatter build with different Lines.
So basically you’re losing stats line but you have access to more traits.
After that we need to see the general balance cuz some professions have more advantages with zerk amulet and other prof are forced to Be tanky to survive.
It’s a good thing in general but i agree power creep and stealth needs to be under control or it will be really difficult to survive if you don’t have stealth/disengage/inv. etc.
• Attribute points on equipment have been increased by ~30%
• The attribute difference between exotic and ascended gear has been changed from 5% to 10%
• Base attributes at level 80 now scale to 1000 instead of 926
• Each profession’s attributes will be updated to have half of their functionality be part of a specialization and half of their functionality will be a baseline for that profession. (see individual profession notes)
This will change a lot in the balance.
We’ll never see pure zerk builds with + vitality or + toughness from defensive trait lines or for example an engi build with +300 power from the first trait line.
This is a work in progress and the UI for it made it out on accident today. We have corrected that.
Since we spilled the beans on it, I’m happy to let you know that this feature has come about from the feedback we have received from our community during our Stronghold Betas. We hope to be showing it for real in the next test we do for Stronghold.
John
Wait, no more hot join? (no more practice button?)
Everything revolves around balancing archers, player damage on guards and channeling. Balancing these aspects, pvp side of this game mode will be really more relevant than now.
It’s a good game mode, they need only to balance stuff (basically players damage on guards, archers effectiveness and channeling) to focus more on PvP instead of pve.
The majority of the community hates this ‘’grindy feeling’’ and you want to contunue with it ?
(fine by me … i simply i want master Helseth to play seriously this games again…..)
We don’t want the leaderboard to be a grind either. We’ve changed the system over the course of testing to remove elements of grind.
Are you referring to changes after the first week?
Because it’s true you gave more weight to loss BUT games played are always a huge component.
Basically if a player plays 5 games daily and he is super strong he can’t compete with a bad player Who plays 30/40 games daily (it’s always a team game)
And this is linked to the fact that soloer/duo compete for the same leaderboard with 4+ full premade.
, I’m happy to let you know that this feature has come about from the feedback we have received from our community during our Stronghold Betas. We hope to be showing it for real in the next test we do for Stronghold.