What they should do to make that Alphard change more reasonable is to reduce the amount of visual clusterkitten that affects bosses.
I mean seriously, no one needs to see a bright pillar of neon light that indicates he is burning! It removes vision from players and therefor makes it more like a guessing game where the main challenge is to look past all the other effects so you can spot a movement in his arm indicating the attack.
That is the worst kind of “difficulty” they can provide us with.
That’s because you should RANGE in p2.
Duh. Everyone knows that. Oh… Also p1.
I got told so by a very pro huntar… ranger that joined our party the other day.
Please call pug rangers by their rightfull name. You’ve comitted heresy by not refering to them as huntards
Can’t be done. This was done to fix the workaround where people had bloodlust stacking sigils on their underwater weapons, stacked bloodlust and then keep the stacks when they exited water.
The warriors are much harder, you can just LoS the Mages and walk out of their AoE.
The warriors spam an autoattack that does at least 7k, and occasionally use a Rush which has .75s cast time (in melee) and deals 22k damage.
Hardest to solo in melee fotm edition (silver and below), assuming no blindspam:
1. Ascalonian Warrior.
2. Lashtail Devourer(s). They have a channeled poison+cripple attack that CCs and kills my ele in 1s.
3. Sons of Svarnir (Bow and maybe Greatsword). Their barrage denies meleeing really hard and forces you to dodge out at least once or twice. You also constantly have to break LoS because of the channeled attacks. And if you give them ample time they summon pets which also almost 1-shot you.
4. Earth Elemental(s). Ring of Earth – 16k. duh.
5. Fanatic(s), when you cannot instantly burst. Their life-siphoning skill easily does 16k with only a few crits.
And you can LoS the ascalonian warriors, line of warding, blind and dodges and they are useless.
Now try to dodge the unreflectable aoes of the mages with no tells
I gave as one of my favorite hard bosses Alphard back when her pull-bomb used to oneshot. That was a fun boss to solo/duo and very hard to melee in a pug group
if I fail to dodge or evade her shot, I’m instantly dead, and the same goes for most classes
I fail to understand why is this bad.
It’s bad because the effort in completing this encounter in nowhere comes close to the reward you get for completing it.
And considering Anet’s standards for Rewards in this game, it hardly seems possible that they could buff the rewards to meet the current threat level that Mai Trinn represents.
That being said, it doesn’t make sense that she remains as hard, as that would imply a reward + other fractal end bosses overhaul, which would definitely improve the game but it’s certainly not a priority whatsoever for Anet.
I wanted some fancy insulting, but i have a serious question instead.
Why you favour your own build instead of the accepted meta builds? Including berserker gear ofc.
Because the game is fun when we have several builds, and we actually PLAY the game, not fast-run towards all content and then complain this game do not have enough content. O.o
You have several builds. Your build definition seems to be stats. Build to me involves traits, runes, weapons, utility skills and playstyle.
A good majority of the bosses in this game are clearly bad-designed boring HP-sacks. You want to make those encounters last longer because suddenly if they take longer they are more fun?
YOUR** fun isn’t exactly fun to others. You demand zerker’s playstyle to be nerfed so that they are forced to play with you and not with other zerkers that share their same mindset.
It’s pretty clear this game’s focus is not PvP. I think we GW1’ers who bought the game with PvP in mind and challenging hard-elite areas are all too disapointed to give it another try for GW3.
They removed it because the new PvE players coming in to PvP were getting flamed for having a low rank. In order to cover their wallet, Anet removed a big part of rank-exposition.
Most people who think the axe warrior build is boring probably haven’t played it. Doing the proper rotation is a bit more challenging than the gs+axe build and it’s significantly more active, especially the EA build that Eviscerates as part of the rotation.
I feel like I’m surrounded by crybaby carebear casuals. “waaaa I wanna use my twilight waaaaa I don’t care if its 10% less dps” is no different than “waaaa I like my celestial gear because I play how I want.”
Well atleast there was some weapon swapping there. How do you feel about GS-camping being the best DPS option now? As boring as only-axe in my opinion.
Are they still supposed to drop everywhere in the world?
I mean currently, all they’re doing is making our crappy loot even more crappy. Was this changed after this patch or was it always like this since the Twilight Assault patch?
You tell me where do you find all this enjoyment in GW2 obviously flawed dungeon encounters? Ranging, strafing while pressing #1, circling the boss is your idea of fun to? Or is it perhaps the obvious complex and deep encounters the devs have designed for us?
What’s that? Neither of those? I thought so.
We can all start have some fun in dungeons when they actually become fun or
challenging to do. It’s not how changing our mentality will suddenly make dungeons fun. Just because you put a lipstick on a pig, it aint stopped being a pig.
Im doing what it takes to get through dungeons as efficiently as possible, as focusing and striving to beat them as fast as possible is one of the few challenges we have in this game.
Until then, they are nothing more than gold chests at the end.
World A has 400 players in WvW
World B has 2000 players that want to go into WvW
World C has 1500 players that want in as well
But only the first 400 from each server can enter and the rest have to que until World A has more players trying to get in, I mean are you guys at NC kittened or just incapable of writing a script that could do what I listed and make the game play a bit better? Or would it be too much to ask for free transfers to all servers so that your customer base can at least get on a server that has a single hope in hell of having an enjoyable experience in WvW? Again NC is full of kittens!!!
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Look at this guy. This guy wants free World Transfers to the opposing worlds. I wonder how that would work out….
Took you long enough to think? That’s right. Spies + trolls would be everywhere in WvW. You would be playing cold war all over again and it would suck. No action.
How do you determine through this wonderful script of yourse which is the limit until you start handing out free server transfers? And why should you? You picked a server for a reason. What you’re asking here is server hopping at will.
Just wait in line like everyone else. There’s no more stupid thing than a guy who proposes an awful idea and sells it like the other are the kittens for not buying it.
