I like the idea of Competitive Jps. It woudl be fun to race others. But make it more hotjoin style instead of tournament. You talk to the npc anytime you want and u join the other racers to race them in a random jumping puzzle and get rewarded based on your placement. I would just personally like it better that way. You can add in title achievements too! like sanctum sprint without items and with different jps.
I did a few lvl 50 runs recently after these "changes"and only got uninfused rings. Then i decided ill stop doing fractals until they change somethign about it again. I’m hoping for the day when these rewards are not rng based. I’m not much of a gambler, why? becuase you always lose more than win…
Nec has proven useful in hotw p1. They can bypass the reflects of the last boss with axe, slow his movement with all the chill/crip/immob that comes with them and spike the protect totem with wells or use piercing life blast(yes i know auto attack for axe sux but any competant nec will use life blast for auto). On stair boss they can quickly take out the adds even if they are spread.
This is generally how i run things. I use mesmer a lot for the dungeons where reflects make everything ez. Mes perma reflects ftw.
AC-ele
CM-mesmer, although theif is nice too
TA up-mesmer TA fwd-Theif
SE-mesmer
COF p1- mesmer P2-ranger
Hotw P1-necro P2/3-any class but ele and guard cuz i dont like them underwater.
Coe-Theif
Arah- havent ran this in awhile, i suppose guardian
Fractal 50-guardian
You could say necro is cheese. But classes like mes, theif and ele can reset fights and get full health over and over with ease. And theives fully buffed dealing 10k +hits wen i hav quite a bit of toughness…. idk i dont feel bad for killing people with condis then.
And I think anet’s treatment of minion master is displaying a lack of connection to the meta. There is nobody who is good at the game who runs MM at high level solo queue or in team queue. This is because the build is garbage. It doesn’t do much damage. It dies 1 on 1 to alot of builds. In team fights it is utterly useless. To nerf it seems odd. I dont mind it because it is lame, but if they really think MM is overpowered then it is a worry. It is impossible to tell people they are wrong in all walks of life. Game development is obviously no different.
Im with u on this so much. I was kinda surprised mm is getting nerfed…. It’s such an unreliable build and easily blown up if you know how. Why nerf it?
To be honest though, diamond skin and zerk stance have not been huge issues for me so far but i agree that 100% immunities is bad design.
I like underwater combat. Its pretty awesome unless your guardian or ele, as their damage feels like its lacking underwater. Every other class has something OP about it underwater. Ranger almost unkillable with pet res, Necro life blast fast cast, engi targeted grenades + op mines +net, mesmers trident and theif with so many evades. I dont have a war atm so i cant comment on them.
While i like the change to a point cuz it gives life blast a use in condition builds.Yea its gunna be a big nerf. Mostly becuase the duration didn’t really change and now burning is locked behind death shroud. We start with 0 life force in tpvp and if someone bursts down your death shroud i doubt you will be able to proc the little 3 sec burn enough for it to do some serious damage. And many of our other condition abilities got nerfed thnx to dhuumfire. I think if they made dhuumfire 4 secs on life blast instead of 3 then it wouldn’t be OP but still be worth casting. It is a grandmaster trait after all.
Considering that condi necros dont have much mobility, cant really reset fights, and can get bursted down easily in teamfights. Necs role as condition bomb damage getting nerfed. I dont really have much hope in the new traits so after patch im not sure what necro will be useful for, can only wait and see now. And plz dont say MM cause that is such a gimmicky build. I might change to power nec and see how useful it is in tpvp. It never really appealed to me before.
DS 3 is not a stunbreaker its an instant cast spell(i think?) but its def not a stunbreaker. And you can use flesh wurm as a stunbreaker which imo is one of the better minions anyway becuz its ranged.
I have to agree with op im a big dungeon runner but on occasion i will completely skip cof if its closed on all servers( i play off peak hours). Generally not everyone will guest and help you with the event too, they will wait until your finished doing it. Doing the event with 2 people is possible but difficult cause of the champ. Idk why so many are argueing against this suggestion. It’s obviously more convenient for everybody if cof just stayed open all the time like the majority of dungeons.
Yea i dont think nerfing crit damage is the way to go :/ . I’m gunna have to rework all my builds even my non zerker ones. Cause even though some dont have full zerker they all rely on crit chance and damage. sighs
Yes plz leave the party chat after leaving party. I just got trolled by 2 players who were for some reason kitten that i asked for a tighter stak in the beginning of the dungeon. They decided to let me help them all the way to the end then kik me before i could get reward. Very annoyed right now :[
Run around kite them until beserkers stance is up. then begin transferring conditions they put on u bak onto them with deathly swarm, putrid mark and plague signet if you use it. Cripple, chill, signet of spite should keep them at bay for u to kite. Almost every warrior has 1-2 stability moves so corrupt one of those. important thing is to save your skills for the right moment. Blowing cooldowns on beserker stance or fear wen he has stability is a sure way to lose. otherwise once you get used to it wars are not that difficult imo.
IMO the issue is the occasional and powerful 1 hit mechanics the enemy bosses have. If u just dodge those single blows you will be safe to dps the rest of the time. If dungeons had more constant damage towards us that was weaker, but hit consistantly throughout a battle. Stats like healing and toughness would come more into play.
IMO frostfang fits necro well. They do have some icey spells and triats and frostfang just adds to it + life blast has a little ice affect with frostfang.
Its intereseting cuz i have some pvp weapons that are extremly expensive in pve. Like wings of dwayna. I wonder how that will work. And the fact that arah armor is a million times more time consuming to get in pve than it is pvp…
Wrong way round buddy. Everything is significantly easier to get in pve. Thousands of Hours in PvP = rewards from less than 50 in pve.
The recent glory update didn’t actually do much for the people who were already higher rank, just let the lower rank players get the same gear with less play time.
I mean the best example is CoF armour. Few thousand hours to rank 50 pvp or <24hours in pve. PvP is the hardest area in the game (which is really not saying much anymore) so it should reward the highest.
Well it goes both ways yea. 1 arah path takes at least 45mins unless ur in some elitist speed run. You will have to do that multiple times to get a full set in pve. While i can get pvp arah armor form just playing some hotjoin and buy mystery boxes in like 1 day. Wings of dwayna is 400g for pve and i got mine for free in a tourney box
I just logged ele recently and he had 5 staks of emp frag alone , i likely hav over 20 stak of emp frags XD .. spread over 7 lvl 80 chars lol. I’m iffy about refining them becuz the consumables(like toxic sharpneing stone) using bloodstone dust and not bricks. What if its the same case for emp frags too?…eh. And anet is going to have to add a major sink for thick leather unless they want it to stay a vendor it type material.
I can kinda maybe understand a restriction for spvp. But for dungeons/fractals? I can’t think of a reason not to allow it. After all, you can already play around with tonics/town-clothes/costume brawl in there.
i would like to know ur reasoning for restricting it from pvp. Aside from mesmer clones not sporting it. At first i thought that way too cuz of gw1 and costumes but thinking more now it should be usable in spvp too. Just dont show the potion buff when targeted.
Its intereseting cuz i have some pvp weapons that are extremly expensive in pve. Like wings of dwayna. I wonder how that will work. And the fact that arah armor is a million times more time consuming to get in pve than it is pvp…
These mats are just piling up on all my chars(save for putrid essence). I’m tempted to trash or vendor sell them but hoping you guys(anet) make a change so these mats are more used. I found a use for bloodstone making cons, dragonite i dont really receive much of so ill take any i can get and being a dungeon runner emp frags just keep piling up on all my chars with nowhere to use them :[ …I probably have over 10 stacks of them, and thats after crafting a bunch of ascended stuff too.
Life Blast has some crazy homing potential. I know this because during the lyssa boss event in malchors where she teleports around i just spam life blast and unless she teleports behind me it pretty much always hits even after the blast takes off and she teleports. I cant think of another example atm but it has been this way for awhile now.
If you go full damage armor stats and traits(pow/pre) and start off the fight with smoke bomb the enemy should be blinded long enough to kill them. Thats pretty much how i lvled to 80 with engi. Also fury can help boost your crit chance over 50% at low lvls. I found Elixir gun is also useful for an xtra heal, condition remove, stun break and escape tool.
My engi just hit 80 and i need advice on runes. Im going almost full beserk with 30/30/0/0/10 vuln staking build. I was deciding between ruby orbs, scholar runes or rune of altruism. Does altruism work with heal turret and would the power tradeoff be worth it? I dont do organized dungeon runs i mostly pug it. So being perfectly meta is not a concern. I still want to deal good damage though. Any advice experienced engis?
1) Pathetic guaranteed rewards (I can make 5x the gold of a 49 run, Dredge included, just by running a casual AC)
2) Pathetic RNG on new reward systems (haven’t seen a single Fractal weapon since the Fractured patch. At least I got 12 Warhorns and 4 Torches before.)
3) Terrible scaling and dungeon design, biggest culprit being Dredge. Instead of fixing the actual dungeon and making it any measure of fun, they fix workarounds and extend the length even more, completely blind to the actual problems.
Thanks, I’ll stick to normal dungeons. I’ll have Frostfang and Bolt by the time I get a Fractal Axe and Sword. Just for the record, I’ve been trying for either of those, every single day on 30s and 40s, FOR OVER AN ENTIRE YEAR.
THIS so much! I made a huge mistake going for fractal weapons. i Shouldve went for a legendary i would have it by now >.> .. but i alrdy spent a bunch of time and gold for fractals. So its hard to quit now…. IMO they just need to release the fractal weapon boxes like they said they would and up the gold reward to at least 3g at lvl 50(5g if u get dredge lol). Fractals is an obvious gold sink gambling game. I hate gambling…u mostly lose and their is no sense of progression once u reach lvl 50.
As for dredge they should just cut out the entire first part since everyone skips it anyway. Also wen u get the door u have to use bombs on, it can be pretty ridiculous how fast the dredge grab ur bombs. Idk if its a glitch or something but on occasion it takes several tries to get 1 bomb off. Sometimes it doesnt take so long tho :s
I personally love pugging it with my necro. I find necros especially useful in Hotw dungeon more so than others since they can bypass reflects and keep removing boons. They also take out adds during boss fights very fast which helps your team so they dont hav to worry about them. Also being in full zerker my necro is really tanky still. If you can line up traited life blast to hit multiple enemies its really powerful! and i find chill and weakness good for pug groups.
I am running a few knight’s trinkets on my guard with the rest as zerk. I have never been gear cheked in any of my fractal runs and all of them since the update have been successful( except one we got a glitch and had to leave :o). With most of them being done in under an hour. I only got up to 41 atm tho. imo its not really a big deal. Only really hardcore groups will care. and those groups are not very fun to party with anyway cuz there all perfectionists, being with them is like walking on eggshells lol. Unless u can play perfect too.
I recently fought them with my beserker theif and they went down ez! spam pistol whip…evade, evade, evade. they didnt touch me lol. This was in kessex hills too. Also zerker nec took them out fast with well bombs. For ele mayb u should try opting for zerker gear and go staff. Use meteor shower on them and if they start using confusion use the healing rain+ cleansing fire, u should hav enough time to finish them off. With pvt gear u are just giving them more time to stack confuse on u. Like lord kuru said finish them fast.
I’m not gunna try to prove u wrong( cuz its true were not eh best for pve) but i will offer some usefullness of the necro. When you need to damage enemies that use reflects like in hotw p1 necros hav so much ranged stuff that isnt a projectile. Its really helpful to keep dealing damage. Their poison can also f up regen on enemies. I also find them to be really tanky even in full zerk if u spec into death shroud. Death preception is pretty fun to use for 100% crit chance in death shroud. You have a reliable 6-8k life blast and i enter death shroud to make my wells crit. Necros are also pro at taking out adds during boss fights. And condition necros offer long chills and weakness which is party support on the enemies it affects.
There has been a thread about this alrdy. but yea since chiroptophobia greatsword came out i would love to hav bats flyign around me as a necro plz! im all for it. i dont really care that greatsword is overused by warriors and mesmers. i want nec to hav it anyway >.<
Even with the nerfs conditionmancers still feel pretty good. I just wish they would stop adding condition immunities and change it to something that still counters conditions.
When i read the description of this skill i immediately thought this is anets way of giving us better party utility in PVE. I dont think its going to see much play in pvp, could be wrong.
When they hit beserker’s stance just run around for 8 second or even run away(i slot signet of the locust for speed sometimes and you might wana bring at least 1 stunbreaker) then start fighting wen it ends. Its pretty much the only thing u really can do with beserkers stance with conditions. But after… corrupt their stability(they will probably pop another) and now u can slow them with cripple/chill. Makes things easier.
I havent seen a topic for this yet but the new fractal always bugs for me and the group. We can never get the cooling rod from the right side room on the mini map. The one where you release the asura stuck behind gates. The last door to the cooling rod never opens. Anyone else get this bug too? The good thing is we always finished with just the 2 cooling rods.
Temple runs used to be always worked on in TC. The reason people stopped was cause the temples were/are bugged. :[ Before this recent patch dwayna, melandru and lyssa events were all bugged(possibly balthazaar but no one does that one anyway). Only grenth was done once in awhile. Now lyssa is working again but dwayna and melandru still seemed bugged. it sux having them bugged for so long :/
I just did this fractal today for the first time ever on 32 and it was super ez. Didn’t even get close to downing. Although its pretty long, even when you get her shield thing down it still seems long. Wish they would reduce time on cannon phase and reduce her health a bit.
I’m still saving gold for fused shrotbow for my theif. So i guess im not at that point yet. but i’m sure ill figure out something to spend it on. If you dont have every profession yet you can always make alts and spend money on them :p
You now know that most T3 owners are the people that asked anet to steal things other people got legit.
T3 from now on = shame…. just remember this.
So you say it was unfair to t3 owners but you want the skin to stay anyway and now you want to reskin tier 3 instead? do also think thats fair for tier 3 owners? cuz its not, why should tier 3 have an armor reskin cuz of anets mistake?
Talking about fairness.
You think Anet was fair on their decision? They only considered the complainants.
I didnt know we need to play forums also so we can enjoy the game.
The only fair option now would have been to put all tier 3 in the gemstore with sparklies.
Furthermore, why not remove all three armors from the game? If removing it because it is sort of simular to one armor in the game, why not think of a whole set of armors in the game that it is stealing some thunder from. “Flame Legion Armor Set” has flames all over it too, and is much harder to get than a Tier 3 armor set in my opinion. I’m genuinely upset about this whole issue, taking out one armor because a few people complained, and then not even bothering to issue a statement either on the login page OR the gem store page as an announcement. Causing me to upload gems for NOTHING.
Like a million posts have said they dont remove the other armors cuz their not tier 3 racial armor. And more than “a few people” complained. Def way more complaints about it being up then taken down from what i see.
You now know that most T3 owners are the people that asked anet to steal things other people got legit.
T3 from now on = shame…. just remember this.
So you say it was unfair to t3 owners but you want the skin to stay anyway and now you want to reskin tier 3 instead? do also think thats fair for tier 3 owners? cuz its not, why should tier 3 have an armor reskin cuz of anets mistake?
The dyes are actually not reverted for tier 3 medium. I tried using the same dyes to get my old look back before the october patch and the colors came out different. the pink i used is now a lot duller and country blue no longer had the the nice saturation effect it had before. They did bring back the texture which was good but im trying to figure out a way to make the dyes work again.
Did someone here request cultural armor in the gem store?
Nope but since they dropped the “cultural” part of human light tier 3. I’m going to request they add the other tier 3 armor to the gemstore. And remove the “cultural aspect” altogether.
