My traits are wrong, (and I’m waiting to get to the next respec) so I can’t really give advice in that respect, suffice to say it should involve the one-handed weapon 15% crit, and whatever blinds and aegis powers you can find.
I see this all over the place. It’s wrong. You don’t have to wait for a respec. You can talk to the trainer and respec your traits at any time. DON’T BUY A MANUAL FOR THIS! Choose the other option. It’ll cost you a silver or two.
I respec my traits a few times a week, just to try different things out.
I’m only in my 50s, so I’ll refrain from commenting on how to play at 80.
I think the intention was for higher hit point totals to increase the length of the encounter and give you more time to make a mistake. Other MMOs have toyed with this, and usually solve the repetitive part with multi-phased encounters. WoW did a lot of this with their Lich King dungeons, but took it too far imo. I felt like I was part of a line-dance instead of fighting an epic boss level monster.
An idea that I’ve yet to see attempted, and have really been wanting, is something I haven’t seen since tabletop D&D. Basically, why don’t they just create a few templates for boss monsters and assign abilities and aggro mechanics randomly by combining various templates together. You could control the overall style of the encounter by restricting what goes into your templates, and keep encounters interesting and difficult by the random combination of different abilities.
It’d be more difficult to tune, but not as bad as it sounds since there are only so many boss level mobs to work with anyway.
Anyway, just an idea for making PvE interesting, unpredictable, and challenging without having to memorize a bunch of Youtube dance steps.
I somewhat agree. I think that, instead of putting in DR, they should have looked into which paths were completed most/fastest and gradually increased their difficulty levels until path completions were more or less equal. Then they could look into what was wrong with paths that are almost never completed, and the data wouldn’t be tainted by people completing them simply to avoid DR.