I think the highest dps build is something like 30/10/10/10/10. That’s going for persisting flames and all the traits that boost dmg by a % and getting blasting staff.
I rarely go for just that though because I like some utility. I usually have at least 30 in fire.
think peoples main concern with obtaining precursors now wasnt the cost or time involved but rather the fact it came down to dumb luck, and that people wanted a way to work towards precursors rather then blow large sums of money down the mystic toilet hoping for some return.
Has anyone gotten the “new” fractal skins that are actual skins and not the ones you have to transmute?
Has anyone received the fractal skin box (is that the right term?) that lets you choose your weapon?
I read a couple weeks ago when fractured was released the changes were not added. Was wondering if they added them or not… I want the pistol but definitely not going to grind if I can’t choose my weapon. Already have a box full of junk fractal skins.
Is this a bug or is this intended? Because it is annoying as hell and I think it should be fixed. The skill is our only way to get swiftness and if it puts us in combat it Kind of defeats its purpose.
I don’t know.. but it is recent. Before it never put us in combat. Also, guardian’s swiftness skill is different because it actually does dmg.
You need to get hit around 75 times (thought the heal/hit was 125) to get close to what adrenal surge is worth as a heal. So this heal really is only worth it in small amount of certain circumstances.
Don’t think I’ll use it.
Not sure where you heard or got this, but they already showed it in a preview and it doesn’t work that way. It even heals from condition dmg.
If you want to un-soulbind an item you need to transmute it to a white. This makes it account bound. Transfer the frostfang to another character and have that char use the splitter to get the legendary stats back. It will be soulbound after using the splitter.
My group tried to do the last fractal which happened to be aetherblade. Not sure if this is a bug or not, but was wondering if anyone had the same problem we did. The (guy) boss at random times would go to cannon phase . From what I understand, he should do this at certain increments of Mia’s hp (75%,50%,25%?). Well he kept doing it before she got down to a certain percent. Which is fine and all but he never left the cannon phase after that?? So she has 7,8,9,10+ stacks and we cannot lower it. We ran around for 10+ minutes avoiding cannons while doing like no damage to her… is this intended?
Personally, I didn’t mind the flamekissed skin. My sister is actually really disappointed that it got taken out, she was planning on getting it at the end of the week. :\ Sure, so what if it was a reskinned and updated cultural armour? Nobody was twisting any arms to force people to buy it – if you liked it, you could get it. If you didn’t? Don’t buy it.
Seriously, I think some people have an overdeveloped sense of entitlement. The light (and the heavy, actually) were visually stunning, I really liked them. I wasn’t going to get them, since they didn’t suit my ‘theme’, but my sister was all over the light armour, and looking forward to picking it up as somewhat of a Christmas gift for herself. Ah well.
Throwing my 2 cents in.
I completely agree with people who are upset about the light armor. They remade a t3 cultural armor by adding a few special effects. What’s the point of cultural armor if every cultural has access to it? Fail number 1.
T3 isn’t prestige anymore (if it ever was considered as such… since you could just buy it by converting gems to gold). The real kicker is it’s actually much cheaper (if you figure you have to transmute the one in-game and the one from the gemstore you don’t) to purchase from gemstore than the original in-game. To top it all off, the one in the gemstore has special effects added. Nothing like throwing anyone who bought the T3 in the mud. Fail number 2.
Thanks for the video, helped a lot. Didn’t know LH was so effective. Yes I know warriors are great in FOTM, mine is up too 45. As I said, I changed my warrior completely over to WvW and general PvE so he cannot survive in high level FOTMs. Plus I want to do something different, the warrior is fun and all but I like to cycle through my other characters and have specific rolls for them. I would like my ele to be my FOTM runner.
EDIT: How is flame axe with the buff, is there any reason to bring that over LH?
Thanks again.
Staff does a lot more dmg now that lava font got a buff from Persisting Flames. In fact, it does more dmg than the LH build and that of any warrior when running the right build.
I think many would say 0/20/0/25/25 is better, but it mostly depends on the situation. I’ve been trying the 10/30/0/30/0 build after this recent patch since they buffed mantras a bit.
Does it actually work and surpass 33% movement speed?
Last time I checked the Engineers “Super Speed” toolbelt skill doesn’t work properly and that skill been around since beta.
Why should I expect that trait to work properly? I bet you gold it doesn’t.
Safe to assume you haven’t used Engi recently then. There’s a cap of 33% movement speed (out of combat). However, in combat you move slower. With the 100% speed boost in combat, you’re able to move as fast as a 33% out of combat speed. Makes for an easy escape.
Well… I bet many would probably say guardian offer more support with boons than mesmers. They both offer a nice amt of projectile reflection/negation. GS is mesmers ranged weapon and offers good spike dmg but not so great dps. Guardians staff/scepter i believe has better dps. However, I wouldn’t recommend always being at range.
Note how Riyanto.8197 has rerolled to an alt to do this RNG stuff.
All characters have a hidden Luck stat (not related to MagicFind) that determines how the RNG treats them. You should reroll until you get a “Lucky” character, like Riyanto.8197 did.
Mesmers are gods for this path. We have the most reflects and contol effects. These are needed for the oozes, the generators, and the last boss. So.. mesmers are very very very very far from useless.
plus its not shatter builds that suffer from heavy retal damage, its blurred frenzy, since it hits 8 times, and especially if you hit more than 1 person 8 times.
I’m aware of the logic behind why bloodlust stacks should work…but when I have tested it they didn’t affect my poor phantasms. The different between 250 power and not 250 power should be quite obvious when looking at average amounts of damage. I didn’t see any change. And I was able to see a difference between just switching off boots and no boots, roughly 25ish power. I still stack up to 250 anyway though just for my direct damage, before I unequip the stack-building weapon.
Anyway, hoping to see at least a little boost from the ascended weapon damage, but from what you’re saying I certainly shouldn’t expect much I guess.
Not sure how you tested it, but I am 100% sure bloodlust stacks affect phantasms. Tested it again today in the mists on dummies with no crit hits. Even recorded the before and after. The difference is noticeable when I did it with 1081 power(no lust) and after with 1331 power.
Scizzor, you’re mostly right. The one thing you should know is that weapon damage does matter. The damage calculation for most skills is damage = weapon damage * power * skill coefficient / target armor.
With that calculation, weapon damage definitely matters. The ‘attack’ stat is useless though. That being said, traits that deal damage (halting strike) utilities (MoP), and phantasms all seem to more or less ignore weapon damage somehow sorta. Still unclear exactly what’s going on, but more testing is needed for sure.
Sorry, yea Attack dmg is important (for most skills), however for some reason phantasms aren’t affected by it. (Which is why I said ascended weapon strength won’t matter). I’ve tested this with the PvP sturdy sword (258 Weapon strength) and the PvP sword (905 – 1,000). Phantasm skills update after swapping weapons, but the phantasm still does similar dmg even though the weapon strengths are significantly different.
Hey Pyro, that’s good to hear that the orb buff works. I was worried it’d work like bloodlust sigil which (I don’t think) affects them?
Keep me posted on the increased weapon damage. It’s possible it’s so slight it wouldn’t matter/be apparent, but at least we get ~ 20 more power.
Also, do we know whether Guard Leech x5 affects phants?
Ty.
Actually, I believe illusions are affected by bloodlust stacks. Anything that affects your stats with a set amount (ex. +250 power) will affect your illusions. Percentage boosts (like +%5 dmg from force sigil) do not affect your illusions. When you swap off a weapon w/ the bloodlust sigil you still keep that stat bonus even though you aren’t wielding it. I believe this is why the illusions are affected by the bonus stats is because the stats are added to you and not to the weapon. (confusing I know) Which brings me to your last questions which is your weapon strength does not affect the phantams. Phantasms are affected by your power stat NOT your Attack stat (Weapon strength changes your Attack).
Best I saw was about 90-95 percent on an overflow. But we had only about 80-100 people and not the required 150+.
Also I think not everyone was full ascended berzerker dps build with level 80. That’s why we can’t damage him enough.
Not every server is like Blackgate with 150 full ascended guys camping the map waiting for him to spawn.
Other servers: Everyone joining maps and also people doing map completion.
Hard to get that many full ascended people there. Even I only have exo and still want some achievements but probably Í’m not helping much cause you need to be top geared.
The thing is berserker gear won’t make you better when attacking the dragon or the fingers that spawn. You cannot crit the dragon/fingers/wall therefore precision and crit dmg are utterly useless. PVT might actually be the best stat for the dragon. Those fighting the mobs obviously can wear whatever they want.
They’re not “bad”, they’re just not as quick as power builds. Power builds are better if you want to be the most efficient for sure. If Thrudrheim likes playing condition mesmer in PvE, I say have fun with it since that’s what playing the game is about anyway.
No really, in PVE condition mesmer is pitiful. Mesmers have limited access to damaging conditions. The most commons ones they have is bleeding (limited) and confusion (Pls don’t use confusion in pve and think you are effective -.- ).
I’m sorry but precursors are hardly based on “effort” when it just comes down to luck. Like many people of this thread of said, there are people who have done over 600 mystic forge tries and got nothing. I didn’t even spend any gold on my precursor. I used my karma and bought 20 rare daggers from the WvW karma vendor. I got spark on my 3rd try in the mystic forge.
World 2 zone 2. Wtf is this. Not sure I even made it half way. Random darts killing me. The room with the box you have to push and jump over 2 dart areas… -.- Soooo cheap. Wouldn’t be as bad if you could tell where the darts were. But you cannot. So basically, you instantly lose a life unless you have done it before. Multiply that by the amount of hidden dart areas in Zone 2 and you lose at least 8 lives your first run through……
Did anyone notice the comment about getting consumables that raise your Account MF permanently? He implied it was based on MF you currently owned that gets changed by the update. Anyone see a possible run on MF equipment between now and Tuesday?
Is it possible that having your stash full of Explorers and Travelers equipment may translate into a massive permanent boost to your account wide MF? Surely that aren’t that stupid.
He already said mf equipment will be changed to a different craft-able stat of your choice, not an account mf boost.
I kinda have to disagree with trickery being underwhelming. I use it for a solid DPS increase and decent support w/ steal. Deadly arts on the other hand I hate speccing in. Never go deeper than 10 for Mug.
You know what I hate? People that think they “own” the WvW servers and can choose who is allowed to play or not. Ridiculous. Especially true on top tier servers where commanders complain constantly about under leveled players.
Thank you all for answers. I like to carry every avaiable weapon with me and to know when i can carry out the best from them… so i was asking about “when is better to use hammer over gs (and viceversa)?”
Also can you explain better of what “trait” for hammer are you talking about? 20% reduced CD? or the one for chill? Also spam hammer #2 with 4sec cd will not give you a good mobility since the range is 300 (… i don’t remember exactly but very low) and the animation last 3/4 sec… with swiftness you can cover 300 range in less than 3/4 sec.
For traiting hammer he means go 20 into Honor and pick up Writ of Persistence (Symbols last longer) and Writ of Exaltation (Symbols are larger). There’s also Symbolic Exposure in the Zeal line (Symbols apply vulnerability to foes), but I don’t like going 15 into into Zeal. With writ of Persistence and some boon duration, you can keep perma protection up and do constant AoE dmg. 20% reduced CD for Two-Hand weapons is nice for GS, but situational for hammer. Like 95% of the time you will only be using you’re autoattack and skill #2 (has a low cooldown already) in PvE/Dungeons, so its not too useful there. In WvW or PvP, I could see bringing the Two-hand trait.
Lastly, the 300 gap closer is nice in combat, not so much out of combat because of aftercast. Note also the skill moves 300 but it also has a radius of 180.
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My trait setup is 0/0/30/30/10. To get some nice Healing and Vitality and for “Two-Handed Mastery”. Please note: This is personal preference, don’t judge me, I just like to have a decent health pool. And “Altruïstic Healing”, it is a dungeon build you’re looking for, isn’t it.
This build makes me cry. Poor guardian. Some much potential wasted.
That’s assuming you can get the phant to spawn in the combo field in the first place. I can never get it to work reliably. I suppose you could throw the field on the phant…
Umm… you only have to shoot thru them… Not hard to lay down iduelist and then use feedback on the opponent… lol
Yes mesmer have lower dps. However, teams don’t bring mesmer for it’s DPS that’s what they bring warrior for. They bring mesmers for their utility. This topic is moot.
Yea! You can turn your settings down enough that you can become completely immune to her epilepsy attack! Unfortunately, I can’t say the same for the red rings that are hard to see because of the dome floor texture.
Yea I beat him on my first try wasn’t really that challenging for me but I read his buff before starting. Said he did less dmg in close range… soo that’s what I did.. I meleed / casted phantasms and it was relatively easy.
Hey Zenon, I find it easiest on mesmer. Took me a few tries to get achievement. I run a phantasm build and use IDefender, IBerserker, and then IDuelist right at the beginning of the match on Strugar. I then proceeded to kite around until I saw him throw meat and blinked to it. Very helpful to have some kind of speed boost (I was using Runes of Centaur). They seem to completely ignore the phantasms… Anyways I just let the phantasms kill Strugar while I prance around the arena collecting the meat.
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