Guild Wars 2

none if we get more raids instead because they are actually fun

Raithwall.8201:

thiefs dont make good tanks at least for the boss we were shown. evade tanking means you are forced to move around which lowers overall dps (not standing in dmg/combo fields/melees not hitting all their skills)
this against an enrage timer —> no evasion tanking

Ever heard of this Skill?

There is actualy a -combatlog Command line argument it was just never enabled

so because thiefs role can in some extend be done by engi, thief suddenly does less dps than necro? i fail to see the logic of some people

Cheby Shev.4671:

Kyle.5931:

Thieves’s Headshots is useful for breaking defiance bar as boss doesn’t die after hp goes 0(at least for Vale guardian and its’ splits), you need to break the bar immediately to ‘officially’ kill it.)

Have you tried headshot lately? Get yourself tied up to one of those Chak Bracers and see how frustrating that little 0.25s daze is against their defiance bar.

The new Daredevil Utilities are far better at it, Fist Flurry has a 2s Stun on the second activation and Impact Strike has a 2s daze aswell as a launch.

I don’t know if anybody noticed yet but the Unshakable Buff is gone since the Breakbar is a thing. This makes getting 25 Vulnerability a non issue for Dungeons/Fractals and basically reduces the need for things like Sigil of Frailty or select able Traits that cause Vulnerability on crit.

To Test if this Buff still applies I quickly did some Thief Staff autochains against the Golem and against Sureshot Seamus on both i averaged 14 stacks Vulnerability Solo which further confirms that Unshakable is gone.

Artemis Thuras.8795:

I swear people are just posting their favourite class at this point.

On the other hand, it means anet did a fair job of balancing classes in terms of aggro control, considering every single class has been mentioned.

ofc thats because every class can fill multiple roles some are just better at it than others depending on how much they loose doing it

thief and mesmer

i dont know whats wrong with some people did you even play daredevil and looked at the numbers?
hint:
look at this 2 skills heartseeker wich was the skill that made thief dps go to insane levels below 25% of bosses before HoT and now look at weakening charge noticing anything? on top of that you get 7% 10% 10% modifiers at the loss of a 1-15% modifier.

Chris Cleary.8017:

Sigils of Day/Night – These will not have any benefit

does this mean Sigil of Force?

seeing this makes me really happy raids have oneshot mechanics and enrage timers

while the challenge mote for thaumanova is 20min on lvl 15 this ingame text suggests that it once was 5min http://i.imgur.com/jJTQ8Hf.png i wonder why they changed it

just finished VB on my thief didnt get reward

all 4 maps on 100% no reward for any of them with my main. i had to mapcomp VB on a other thief to get the reward for the Bo collection

kiko.3974:

14×7 =98
5 infused slot =8×3 +9x2=42
1hour boots=10
Total=150

1hour boosts only work if you have 0 AR a dev stated this on reddit

you get encryption boxes on every level you do and the amount scales with the level

Yelloweyedemon.2860:

Not sure how you can survive that legit way, but anyways who cares…

you only get Agony when you get close to allies so it was kinda ok especialy since its the same for 91-100 and we got used to it

http://i.imgur.com/HH8RVbT.png brb sleep :>

http://i.imgur.com/tuKj8hD.jpg

If they designed the System well, you get enough EXP for the Mastery by leveling your Fractals.

Did anybody calculate the Staff Skill coefficients last BWE?

in pvp there is endgame statistics of damage/healing done/taken maybe they are planing something like that for raids

Auesis.7301:

Maybe not. Alacrity could make Venomshare viable for a condi spec, as the cooldowns are the main thing making it a lame choice.

even with alacrity i think engi gets more out of it, and often venom charges got lost on seekers

Important to know is if we can just have elite spec and 2 core specs trained or if we need all 5 core specs to unlock the elite

this are amazing changes only thing that kinda needs a change is staff 4 as its not really worth using

also the Blue AoE that ports you should be better visible, it kinda gets lost in all the Mesmer wells and Engi effects

thief is probably the best “tank” you can take

the reflect on staff has its uses https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzoQbca_gZo once you get the timing right ofc^^

Jeremlloyd.6837:

Wethospu.6437:

Can anyone verify that it’s really fixed?

It is fixed. We tried as soon as we could log in.

We care about CM

same problem for other runes with heal interaction like rune of the aristocracy

Quiznos.4296:

I hope you don’t need to hit lvl 100 fractal… I was looking at the maths. Looks like you’ll need all the normal plus 5 infusions (for 70 AR), AND 3 plus 25 infusions to total 145 AR needed for the minimum 1% health loss per tick @100

I hope we wont be able to just outgear agony and actualy have to avoid the boss attacks.

Taku.6352:

Asura ranger with technobabble can do 6 second daze and after druid comes out any ranger can do 6s AoE daze on 5 second cooldown.

I kinda expect them to nerf MoC tbh

assassin.7895:

Does that mean the entire new class mechanic is worth( )less in raids? I mean an entire class relying on dodges and it’s bad in HoT? Wow. I’m just waiting for PVE mobs which apply revealed. Makes thief much worse with 12k hp. Really curious which role thief will have in upcoming content.

there is still invigorating precision which is incredibly strong for thief sustain if needed

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Broken_Prison_Bar also gone since NPE

you only need 1 cc for Archdiviner to get his stacks to 0 if you know how his selfstun works and this is mostly done by a warrior

Whenever I see Thiefs run d/p on Bosses i die a little inside.

Everything above double freeze (wich can be done without pistol offhand) is not worth it imho.

Thief will have its place if the Content demands a lot of spamable blasts (waterfields anyone?) aswell as fast skips/interactions and there is also some niche things that Thief is good at that weren’t needed so far.

i dont know if it has been mentioned yet (search function???) but daredevil cant dodge underwater

If they make Vampiric Aura and Spotter apply to 10 people, Ranger and Necro will have a almost guaranteed spot in Raids and even if not people can still play what they like :P

TheFamster.7806:

And now we have some “visionaries” who wants AIs to dodge away from AOE and such.

allready hapening but in a dumbed down version for example at mai trin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8ZG9-A8ClY

Some things i can think of

• Alphard has -100% condi reduction so you wont apply any conditions to him except when having condition duration of some sort
• Lupicus cleanses conditions on every phase switch and when someone is getting hit by his life drain aoe
• Hunter&Crusher does a condi transfer (thank god its only 1 stack/condi)
• The Crystalline Entities are immune to conditions
• Subject Alpha cleanses conditions regularly while using his skillset

they definitely still drop got my eighth arah p2 recipe this week http://i.imgur.com/gPxzr8N.png

MasterBlaster.6827:

Just using my Whirl later :S

But: http://u.xpo.pw/hYh.mp3

dat aberage™

best part about any record the fails

Prisoner.2419:

10-12 man non-linear raids please.

just anything non linear splits are fun!

this one can reset Guards F3 for a extra Aegis other than that all Elite Specializations will be able to completely reset elite spec Skills as you can see here , but i dont think this falls under the current Rule as you dont use a Skill twice in a row.

there is no need to share the token or do you see the token anywhere in the links frifox and me provided?

allready possible here for example my thief http://gw2efficiency.com/c/Perryy

I dont even….

Lord Kuru.3685:

Card.9704:

Or run nomads and be able to tank the ball of death.

Someone do this! It’d be a nice companion piece to that nomads HoTW butcher run.

https://youtu.be/0IYrDgwlJdM?t=4486 here did that a while back :P

Classes are generally not chosen for DPS but for utility but the ranking goes something like this

top tier : ele thief engi depending on length of the fight
med tier: guard warrior ranger
bottom tier: mesmer

I haven’t done any exact numbers on this so I cant 100% guarantee it to be right and depending on the scaling it can be different.

For just normal Dungeonruns most Groups still run 2x ele war guard thief as tihs groupcomp covers most offensive and defensive needs as well as out of combat mobility.