Ranger is pretty much warrior 2.0 with the downside that storm spirit might not be at its optimal use if capping vuln. But all in all this patch alone has been pretty much the best patch for PvE rangers and makes it a serious choice for “speedruns” and maybe even record runs.
Warrior is still useful for might and banners. I would be more worried about elementalist since they are primarily taken for DPS. They have some serious alternatives now with ranger and engineer. Ranger now stacks vuln and swiftness even better than ele and engi does overall more damage with the same vuln stacking and can provide additional stealth.
It could also mean bad times for thief getting replaced by ranger/engi.
I didn’t say warrior would be replaced, more like ditch one ele and a thief for engi and ranger for a new “meta” comp.
Also there’s no reason to nerf whao. The random boon spam builds you see in pvp now are completely garbage and only works against complete knoblets. Yea sure it’s nice to have lots of quickness, might, fury and so on but in order to do that you’d have to take pretty meh trait lines dmg wise and it’s so ridiculously easy to counter with a necro or a mesmer that it will never be competitive.
This buff actually makes all 3 ranger heals usable in all game modes and have a good synergy with their associated traits.
Ranger is pretty much warrior 2.0 with the downside that storm spirit might not be at its optimal use if capping vuln. But all in all this patch alone has been pretty much the best patch for PvE rangers and makes it a serious choice for “speedruns” and maybe even record runs.
Ppl are just going to slot LH over IB and use 4 on it. And then for example ranger could easily keep it and auto with it to get better dps than normal sword auto.
Wait till tomorrow when the actual balance changes hit then we can see what actually was changed since they didn’t tell all of the changes in the preview.
But most likely eles will still be the class to stack just thanks to staff being stupid easy dps.
I know how protection works I’ve been playing since beta. What I’m saying due to the recent changes to vulnerability working with condition damage Protection should work against condition damage. Its a fair trade-off.
Going by that logic resistance should work against direct dmg then too.
So can anyone explain to me the logic behind anets decision with an actual reason that makes sense? Other than they cant work out how to split 10 man buffing from the rest of the game (probably the real reason).
10 man buffs means Anet’s servers must do more computations per second than it does now. This costs money. That’s the reason.
Didn’t stop them from removing condi caps to please world boss zergers.
Sadly it still is. Pretty much afk faceroll even at mossman/archi and so on thanks to absurd amount of aegis/protection/reflects and still 25 might with good dps just from autoattacking with hammer.
External stealth application is super bad for thieves if they plan on doing backstabs. And besides you’d still have to use the scrapper line in order to get that flying kitten and lose out on stuff that tools has to offer.
Y it lingers for around 6+ seconds so it’s not a big deal unless they increase the cd because spirits are too op /cough… what worries me is the pet but eh
It’s more like 10-15 seconds since the spirit corpse still applies the buff until it disappears.
Even if frost/sun spirit dies immediately after its summoned it’s effect will still linger around for good while so the actual downtime of these buffs is rather minimal.
1 ele would still be in every party. They have a solid amount of utility even without IB but atleast it would give other classes a chance to become a part of the “meta” comp.
Some dredge whacked me in the face with 3×4.5k crits and right after for 3×3k normal hits so apparently they don’t have any extra ferocity. You could pretty easily get any mob to crit by going to lvl 37 and applying confusion which turns intokitten
fury.
For dungeons probably risen berserkers in CoE/Arah.
Why bring a party when you can solo? Why solo when you can just pvp? Why play a game when you can play a board game? Why play dungeons and dragons when you can play monopoly, destroying friendships and burning all of your bridges behind you only to realize it’s already 5am and you have school the next morning and 3 group projects to complete together?
