Guild Wars 2

Kravick.4906:

Well yes, thats where I found the amulet, but I’m not able to find the rings and other trinkets.

You need to complete LS2 Achivements.

kolompi.1287:

Why do you guys mention that we are not supposed to have tanks, no trinity, and that the OP should play other games? Have you not read the post about raids?

Yes we saw it and? Some people read what anet say and predict the arrival of holy trinity since day one for some reason, that’s not new. I saw nothing, zero nada in that post that would lead me to believe that Holy Trinity is coming.

Will they make an harder content? Yes of course

Will it be difficult enough that a larger portion of the community won’t be able to survive with active defense only? Probably

Will some more tanky and healing build emerge in raid to help some player go through smoother? I bet yes. We already see this today, it’s just very marginal and with raid it may make up for a large portion of the community.

Will DPS + Support Meta still be the most optimal ways when played well? I’m 100% sure of that.

Surviability and healing might be more important than they are now. Like a more tanky build doing a more dangerous job or a healer helping the team keep up their health. But you won’t have dedicated tank that keep agro and an healer that keep your team alive. Everybody will be responsible for DPS and their own survivability.

Valik Shin.9027:

NikeEU.7690:

I don’t care about what happens in underleveled dungeons, no one min/maxes for that unless they are going for record runs which is all of 4 guilds in the game.

At level 80 the data is pretty clear: http://www.dtguilds.com/forum/m/6563292/viewthread/23370398-average-boss-kill-time

So again, you giving me some BS anecdotes about your team melting bosses in 10 seconds is not an argument nor is it evidence. This is the data from record runs, until you offer something more compelling than that you should probably let my point stand.

While i understand ur talking about level 80 dungeons , it not what most people do. Even good group tend to avoid them cause they aren’t worth it. So to completely disregard under level dungeons (which some people do min max within reason) is a complete disregard of the majority of good players.

What?? CoF, CoE and Arah are some of the most profitable dungeon in the game with AC.

Khristophoros.7194:

According to your data the kill times vary a lot, just like I expected. So the average is a meaningless number. I mean if you wanted to break a record you’d have to optimize for that specific boss and the previous record would tell you what window of time to optimize around. Optimizing for the average would probably not get you a new record.

I forgot why we’re talking about kill times but obviously it’s a case by case thing.

Remember that those are record run numbers. No pugs reach these numbers. So in reality very few bosses are killed under 10sec which was the initial point we disagreed with.

That’s why we can’t have nice thing. Am I the only one that find that super awesome to use gliding in a raid?

kiyana.4831:

I think it would be a good idea for the expansion for them to add a taunt specialization to tankier classes. By taunt I mean a way for them to attract the aggro from mobs. This would make becoming a tank much more useful to a party.

Plenty of Holy Trinity game out there for tank lover. This game isn’t about that.

It’s not Flavor of the months. Flavor of the months usually don’t last. Meta build usually last until a big update and even then, it’s usually the same build with some modification.

Flavor of the month we have that in the game in PvP. Power ranger was one. A popular powerful one side build that never was viewed as a meta build. Same with Power necro at some point.

The right name is meta. Not the perfect term, but it’s the one that the community use.

I want to choose the title that I love and I’m proud to have, not because it’s the title that give me the best buff.

That would like having to take a ugly armor because it’s the best one I have. We already have account wide buff of gold finding, karma and MF. Why add another one?<

That said, they could improve the Title system. There is so much worthless title that you can gain with almost no effort. There is very few title that tell a story about what you did in the game.

GW2 will have a reputation system ???

Legendary in WoW are a superior tier of gear, but it’s not the highest. The only thing in common with GW2 Legendary is the name.

GW 2 will have a trinity in the future? 110% that the answer is no.

Get the picture?

1) Mainly by crafting exotic and ascended material refinement to a lesser extend. Look at gw2crafts.net like Linfang said.
2) Not much. Make sure your build is up to date, exotic is more than enough and then practice. Ascended can give you a very small advantage, but it won’t help you win a fight against a better player.
3) Not sure what do you mean. They are simply recipe to craft ascended weapons
4) You should work on ascended trinket. They are usually easy to get and give a good boost to your stats. Ascended weapon are also good, but you can either craft it or drop it in Teq, Fractal, etc. Ascended armor you can get from crafting or drop in fractal, but even if they boost a little your stats, they ain’t that more powerful than exotic armor. It should be a medium to long term goal.

Bryzy.2719:

Killyox.3950:

Bryzy.2719:

GW2 has been out for 3 years and people still haven’t learned that an MMO can’t function without even a small level of trinity.

Guardians and warriors are tankiest
Elementalists, Guardians (and close second, Rangers) are the best healers
Thieves and warriors are the best DPS
Necros are the best at applying conditions (aka best debuffers)

Except you are wrong :P Condi engineer with sinister gear on 14th second outdpses everything in the game atm.

Necros are far from best condi applicants, Ele and Engie make them jelly in that regard.

How do you measure tankiness? Sure warriors got armor and HP but many classes got invuls and lots of blinds too and necros have Death Shroud.

Yeah yeah okay whatever, you’re may be right but it doesn’t matter who is this tankiest and best DPS or whatever, my point about there being a certain level of trinity still stands

And still, in most situation we focus Warrior and Guardian way before a Elementalist in PvP

Get over it already. This was settle 2 years ago. JESUS

Jade Nekotenshi.8702:

That’s what I mean: that was an uncommonly awful group! He didn’t even leave the stack (at all, not even a short distance), but “well, the model moved, so you did it wrong”. Yeah.

Doesn’t help that it was pretty much my first run-in with “stack and whack”. Bad first impressions, and all that.

You encounter try hards. People that think they are good, but need a strict setup to be able to work properly. Can’t adapt and can’t even play efficiently (even if they think they do). They are the worst, but they exist in all game. It’s life man, we all need to learn how to deal with them.

1) The only thing that changed in the last 6 months is the specialisation update. The way the build system work and how condition work. It was a lot of fun theorycrafting and a lot more build diversity exist in the game. But Anet is a break to focus on the expansion which will come in 2 months so no new content.

2) I love the meta. Hopefully they didn’t change it. The expansion is suppose to bring more difficult content that will push the game toward more support and the new break bar is suppose to bring more control into PvE. I don’t know if they will succeed.

3) The specialisation changed a lot. Necro is one of the best profession in sPvP these days, still awesome in WvW, but it still lacking in PvE. Ranger and Engineer got buffed with some awesome condition damage PvE build. In PvP, it’s free for all, same with Warrior which can now be DPS and Phalanx at the same time. In PvP, pretty much all profession have some very powerful build.

Is it worth getting back in the game? Depend on you. I love the game since day one, but the lack of content drove me in break a couple of time. But I always get back into it and with the incoming expansion, I’ll probably stick with the game for the next year.

I’m pretty sure there will be a fractal weapon collection. But with the new system, it won’t be that hard to get all skins. For legendary, I don’t know. It would be nice, even if I doudt i’ll do it lol. I’m crazy, but not that crazy.

Valik Shin.9027:

NikeEU.7690:

Valik Shin.9027:

Dungeon bosses drop in 10 seconds anyways with a good group.

No, they don’t. At level 80, the average boss fight in record runs is 24 seconds. That’s record runs. Not casual LFG pugs. Record runs. Where people are doing the absolute best min max damage they can do. So please take note that Vulnerability production is incredibly important.

Are you aware that several guilds use Frailty sigils on their weapons in level 80 dungeon record runs? It’s that important.

Maybe I should post some videos then cause the majority of bosses we can drop in 10 seconds. Final bosses for dungeons r a bit longer sometimes but still not very long. I don’t so arah so maybe that’s what ur referring to.

There is a couple of boss that drop under 10 because all of them are in underlevel dungeons. The vast majority of bosses don’t drop under 10sec even in current record run. If you kill them faster than record run you should make a video and get a record for yourself.

MagoBuono.6548:

One missing key skill and you’re way behind the zerker.

That’s exactly why i am doubting of using condi build on my engi ) But yeah, condi engi now is pretty cool and interesting.

I don’t find the rotation more or less difficult than power grenadier. It’s pretty much the same. In condi build it’s just that you have 5 skill that are really important to not miss, while in power build it’s more like 3. The difference is small and you can screw up your dps in a power build almost as much as in a condi build.

The main problem with Sinister is that you are horrible with Icebow and you do bad damage to structure.

I’ll try Reaper for PvE and Daredevil for PvP.

Bad boy bab boy …

djsarcher.9263:

I do think OP has a point though regarding Raids and Gated items. Sure it’s not gear progression stat-wise, but if we do see Legendary armor locked for Raids, then we’re in the same boat since it is a separate gear tier, with unique benefits (stat-changing).

It’s a skin and a QoL advantage. It’s optional so not a gear progression. The OP have no point.

If you don’t like the skin you have no reason whatsoever to try to get the legendary armor. It will probably cost you less to craft 2 ascended armor with different stats than a legendary armor that you can stats swap. And if anything, the legendary armor will probably won’t allow you to swap runes like legendary weapons, making the stats swamping pretty much useless.

Ardid.7203:

I really think people make too much noise just to justify their own control obsession.

I really want to know:
Why the gear of the other players is so important?
Is not more important the skill than the gear?
And is not more important the teamwork than the individual skill?

Finally:
If all this “perfect team” thing is so important, why to play with PuGs in the first place?

Personally, I never ask for gear check. All I ask in my lfg is level 80 experienced and If I kick, it’s because the guy searched for it.

But my question to you is why someone would have to justify his requirement? He can play the way he want, with who he want, with whatever requirement he want. How does it affect you? As long as he right them on the LFG, if you don’t like them don’t join.

If the guy like to wait and check every member, why shouldn’t be able to do so? How does his run affect your life?

I find most of those requirement useless and stupid, but it doesn’t matter because i’m not the one playing in his run. He is and he can play whatever the way he want.

I don’t see a hint of trinity in GW2.

In PvE it’s a duality. DPS and Support. And there is no specialisation. Everybody participate in both.

In sPvP it’s more of different role. Brawler, Bunker, Roamer, etc

eulampius.6829:

Diovid.9506:

They are HoT-only. However, the aim is that they are not stronger than core specializations thus people without HoT should be as strong as people with HoT. To what extent that is true is something that is difficult to predict.

Yeah, I’m pretty worried about p2w with this elite specs. Scary stuff, you know. Epsecially in sPvP

That’s not scary. For now, if anything most elite seem underpowered versus the core specialisation. So even if one or two end up on the meta list, they won’t be that much powerful than the core build. I don’t see any problem. Now if one of those elite create a very powerful build like the DD Cele Elementalist, that could be a problem, but I douldt that from what I saw until now.

No gear treadmills, no higher level cap, no holy trinity.

Ya what’s up with that Anet and your WoW clone.

Menadena.7482:

dom.2748:

Anet refuses to add the proper tools to see if people are geared and built correctly so even though AP is a terrible indicator people use what they have because it is still better than nothing at all.

Umm, what business is it of someone else what other people have for gear? Do not trust someone when you ask what they have? Do not party with them. Even the person who has the best gear in the world might stab you in the back at the worst possible time so I have no idea why what gear someone has would make a difference.

What am I missing? I would think whether you trust someone would be FAR more important than what gear they claim to have.

It doesn’t matter if you agree or not with the requirement that he ask. As long as he ask them, people should respect them. Because there is a lot of different people in the game, each with their preference.

I never kick someone because of AP. But if someone with less than 1k AP enter my experienced LFG I’m gonna ask him if he’s on a second account. Even then, I usually don’t kick them if they answer because I usually play with some friend and we don’t mind carrying some people in dungeon. But i’m not that nice in Arah or Fractal.

YES YES YES YES.

For the health of the game this need to be added.

- Meta Run
- Speed Run
- Experienced
- Level 80 only
- Full clear run

All of those shouldn’t be selected when you first get the game so that new player don’t get into a level 80, full run by mistake. You shouldn’t be able to select Level 80 only if you are not on a level 80.

That would help so much the community. This should also come with a revamp of the kicking system. The guys that started the dungeon path should be the party leader and can’t be kicked.

forum bug again

People don’t reading the LFG is fairly regular. I just don’t make a big deal out of it. I work on construction plans all day, if I start to freak out every time someone don’t follow my instructions or don’t read the plan I’ll be in a burn out by the end of the week. That just human nature, you can either laugh and shake it off when it happen or make a big deal out of it, which will change nothing.

Erebus.7568:

i dont agree that you should be able to just get the reward instantly without doing the work for it. (if they wanted that they would have made a gold to dungeon currency convertor)
but we won’t agree here. so next part.

Your opinion on that is irrelevant. Anet specifically talk abou that. The discussion is close for 2 years now. This is just useless.

1) Too bad for you. Selling is there since GW1 and will continue to be with the blessing of Anet.

2) A lot of people like skipping and it’s part of the game for them (I include myself). But true enough, Anet doesn’t really handled them very well. Skipping should fall into two category. First is skipping by a meaningful choice. You can either skip for a faster run, of fight for more reward. Right now, most skipping are not a choice since there is no incentive to fight everything. The second situation are obligatory skipping. This should be clear with unkillable super boosted enemies that are hard to skip.

Sorry but IMO your solutions are bad. The first isn’t a problem, while the second are just forcing players to play the way YOU want. Infinite Leash and Barrier are not good design. They are just ways to force player into a specific way of playing.

Anet is clearly working toward the standardization of their skill type. They gave a skill type to almost every single healing and elite skill in the game with the exceptions of Shelter, Mending and Ether Feast. All specialisation gain one skill type for all their utilities/healing/elite and more and more skill type are recycled to allow more synergy with runes and trait across all profession.

With all that in mind, it make sense for Anet to fill all the skill type without any Healing and Elite skills. I doudt they will do that for the expansion, but it’s fun to imagine what kind of skill they could add. Here a list of several option. I intentionally left those skill without any numbers in term of duration, cd, etc. Because a discussion about balance could take forever.

Warrior
– Banner of Healing (Healing Banner) : You and your allies gain health each second
– Watch Yourselves (Elite Shout) : Give Resistance to you and your allies
– None Shall Pass (Elite Shout) : AoE Knockdown
- We Will Survive (Elite Shout) : Give Regeneration for each condition you and your allies have
- Intransigence Stance (Elite Stance): Give yourself a boon each time you get hit while in stance, ICD 1sec
- Rage Stance (Elite Stance) : Gain switfness and double adrenaline from your attacks while in stance
- Charging Stance (Eliste Stance) : Your attack and condition deal 50% more damage for a short time

Engineer
- Armor Suit (Elite Gadget) : Gain Protection and Resistance, APS (Tool belt) : Projectile destruction in a small radius around you

Ranger
- Signet of Regeneration (Healing Signet) : Permanent rengeration on you and your pet. Active : Heal you and your pet
- Signet of Bonding (Elite Signet) : Give 35 point to all stats for you and your pet. Active : Revive all your pets and remove all their cooldown
- Archer’s Signet (Elite Signet) : Gain 15sec of might each 5 second. Active : Attack you do with your bow does 20% more damage and your condition last 20% longer.
- Panic Trap (Elite Trap) : Ennemies that trigger the trap receive Fear and Torment
- Piercing Trap (Elite Trap) : Does damage to ennemy that trigger it with 4 time the efficiency of vulnerability on the target
- Poison Tip Signet (Elite Signet) : Inflict poison on each attack with a ICD. Active : AoE Poison
- Smoke Trap (Elite Trap) : Inflicts Blind and Daze to the nearby foes

Necromancer
- Weakening Signet (Elite Signet) : You give weakness on foes that hit you. Active : AoE Weakness
- Spectral invigoration (Healing Spectral) : While active you regenerate health and life force over time
- Well of Leeching (Elite Well) : Target area pulses life stealing, but regen your life force instead of your health
- Aura of the Lich (Healing Spectral) : Receive a initial heal. Invoke the spectral enegy of each dead corpse which explode giving health to you and your allie in range. Max of 5 corpses.
- Contagion Signet (Elite Signet) : Each 3second all your foes gain one of your conditions. Active : Whenever you gain a condition all foes in the area gain that same condition.
- Spectral Balance (Healing Spectral) : You gain healt equal to half the difference between you and your target, and this foe loses an equal amount. At the end of the spell you gain a small additional health.
- Well of the Reaper’s (Elite Well) : Target area cause healt degeneration. Gain life force if a foe is downed inside the well.
- Signet of Sorrow (Elite Signet) : Improves Ferocity. Active : Deals damage. Recharges instantly and gain life force if target foe is near a corpse or has a dead companion.
- Well of Spiteful Spirit (Elite Well) : Cause damage to adjacent foes whenever a foe attack or use a skill inside the well.
- Well of Ruin (Elite Well) : Inflict vulnerability to any foe in the well that take damage
- Well of Profane (Elite Well) : Foes in this well lose all boons and cannot gain further boons.

Elementalist
- (Healing Conjure) :
- Blinding Surge (Elite Arcane) : Your next ten criticals blind your foe
- Arcane Storm (Eliste Arcane) : A storm of arcanic power. Each hits are criticals
- Vital Safeguard (Elite Cantrip) : Your maximum health is temporarily increased and gain resistance
- Ether Prism (Elite Cantrip) : All damage you receive are reduced by 50%
- Ether Prodigy (Elite Arcane) : For a short period of time all your criticals reduce you attenument cooldown
- Frigid Armor (Elinte Cantrip) : Immune against critical damage and burning
- Signet of Sacrifice (Elite Signet) : Your utility and healing spells recharge 5% faster, but if they are interrupted they take an additional 10sec to recharge. Active : Your next spell cast instantly but take 30 additional second to recharge.
- Signet of Inferno (Eliste Signet) : Gain a fire aura periodically. Active : AoE burn, you and your ally gain a fire aura

Thief
- Trap of Marking (Elite Trap) : Give Vulnerability and Weakness
- Signet of Promise (Elite Signet) : Each 10sec your attack remove a boon to a foe. Active : You gain initiative and your skills recharge if the target foe dies
- Signet of Striker (Elite Signet) : Increase the duration of your CC. Active : Your attack are unblockable
- Trap of Shadow (Elite Trap) : Stealth you and your allies and fear your foe when the trap is triggered

Mesmer
- Harmonizing Ring (Healing Glamour) : Heal yourself and your allies inside the target area, convert enemies boons into conditions.
- Mantra of Disorientation (Elite Mantra) : Meditate, charging a spell that will give confusion to your target
- Mantra of Backfire (Elite Mantra) : Meditate, charging a spell that will damage foe if they cast a spell
- Mantra of Fragililty (Elite Mantra) : Meditate, charging a spell that will inflict vulnerability on the target
- Ether Feast (Healing Clone) : They could put that skill into that category and just change it a bit. Make it spawn a clone, then heal yourself depending on how many active illusions.
- Phantasmal Hexer (Elite Illusion) : Summon an illusion that transfer conditions from allies to foes

Guardian
- Blessed Field (Healing Consecration) : Form a healing zone your and allies gain health regeneration
- Pendulum Shrine (Elite Consecration) : Consecrate the ground that causes knockdown to foes attempting to control allies inside
- Empatic Sanctum (Elite Consecration) : Consecrate ground. Convert a portion of each hits receive by your allies inside into a heal.
- Pacifist Harmony (Elie Consecration) : Consecrate ground. Negate all condition and damage for both ally and foes
- (Healing Spirit Weapon) :
- (Elite Spirit Weapon) :

testpig.5018:

stat enhancements are not optional.

skins are optional.

And? Legendary isn’t stat enchancements.

Endure Pain isn’t invulnerability. Condi can still kill you and you can still be CCed.

Legendary is optional too you know.

By far the best position for Glacial Hearts is a Master in Valor. Since that trait is mostly for a sPvP Medi guardian Hammer build.

Glacial Hearts doesn’t have a symbol.

lolzertank.1928:

yeah good points here guys, I wish they would overhaul the staff abilities. Change them up and actually make the useful… I really love the idea of having a staff on a guardian.

No they shouldn’t. The Staff is amazing, just not for PvE fighting. It’s perfect for zerging and running around, both in WvW and Open World PvE. Each weapons have strength and weakness.

I a meta elitist, but you are right on that. People should respect the LFG whatever the LFG said. It goes both ways.

The only points I would made is that maybe they did respected your LFG. ‘’not skipping, non-exploit, playing content’’.

First of all playing content mean zero kitten. That have zero value because everybody have their own definition about playing the game. About anything can be playing content.

Non-exploit is pretty narrow. Don’t use bugs, safe spots where the ennemy can’t reach your, but you can reach them, etc. But with your history of posting I fear that you think that stacking and LOSing are exploit. THEY ARE NOT. You may not like it, but they are legitimate tactics (inefficient tactics most of the time, but tactics).

I’m not saying, that’s what happen, but maybe. If I join a not skipping, non-exploit, playing content LFG, I’m gonna mostly play how I play usually, just not skipping mobs.

Quiznos.4296:

Crimson Clouds.4853:

Advertising the selling of “access portals” (home instances, possibly mesmer portals) along with advertising items is certainly not allowed.

This makes no sense to me. Why home instance portals? The price for entry would inherently be equal or less than TP equivalent items… Otherwise no one would logically pay…
Am I missing something?

Anet don’t want people to sell the gathering of nodes in the home instance. My bet is because the stuff in your home instance is mostly stuff that you can buy on the Gem Store.

Oh Oh Oh I know the answer to that. Get better? Pugs are using corner stacking only because it’s an easier method and because they are used to it. In speed run there is maybe 5 bosses that are worth doing in a corner, if you count optional bosses that number is maybe 10. That for all dungeons/fractals of the game, which represent a tiny percentage of all fight.

Not our problem or the game’s problem if pugs are bad and use easy inefficient tactics.

And then what do you do with the gold on your free accounts? You can’t transfer gold or stuff to your main.

5) I like skipping and stealth. But I agree that it’s not made in the best way possible. They should have part specifically made for skipping that made it hard to skip. They should also make it a difficult choice to make between fight and skipping. When the fight is boring and not rewarding the choice to skip is easy. But when I can go quicker by skipping, but I lose some nice fight and some reward, then the situation is different.

6) It depend what mechanics the devs will include. If the content is hard enough (harder than level 50), we probably gonna see some healer in some group just to make the run smother and easier. For necromancer specifically, if they could include mechanics where the necromancer is actually good, it would help. Enemies that have high crit chance and dodge, so that weakness is important, enemies with boons on a regular basis so that you need to corrupt them, etc. Necromancer have some strong mechanics, they are just near useless in the current PvE content.

7) Depend. That’s mostly because of projectile defense, because outside of that, most profession can do the job that a guardian or a mesmer can do. Maybe not as good, but still. Remember that raid are 10 man, so you have room for more build diversity in your group.

8) Support is a pretty big part of the PvE content right now and just by making stuff harder, it will be an even bigger part of it. As for control it will depend on their break bar system.

Dropping the Staff would be a great start

Tbh Staff is just a bad weapons for PvE Figth. It’s a great lootstick for zerg events, it’s good for switfness when you run around, but for actual fighting, not so much.

You can either drop the staff so you have 2 weapons to fight with, or you fight with your GS only, and swap to staff between fight. We probably can give you a build for both.

Many Pesky Monk.3140:

Not adding anything at all for 8 months is not good, especially for a game with limited challenging PvE content as is.

Also, I think you need to take off those Anet bedsheets for a second. What was my purpose for creating this thread? I wanted to see, if with the expansion, they would be addressing the issues that I’ve mentioned. So I don’t get where you’re seeing me complain about the lack of kitten.

Take a chill pill, breh.

Well not updating a particular portion of the game and not updating the game at all are different concept. The last living world episode was 7 months ago and since then they release the specialisation update, which was pretty huge.

Anet was pretty steady when it come to update. After all they did 29 content update in the first 2.5 years of the game. Granted, these were not all big and great, but a lot of them were.

Like Protogunner said. Anet is concentrating on the expansion so that’s why we are left with no new content the last 7 months and the next 2 months.

Terrahero.9358:

Thaddeus.4891:

You don’t even need to do map completion. Just run around and do more hero challenge, which are easy. A little work won’t kill you..

Multiply that “little work” by 9×. Or do you only play one single character? I mean it’s possible, but i get the feeling most people have several characters.

Look at my next post right after that one.

Many Pesky Monk.3140:

Moonlit.6421:

Did I really just read a thread that said pve is abandoned lol? X3

Dungeons have been abandoned.
Fractals haven’t gotten any updates since I’ve last played, like 8 months ago.
DE’s throughout the world have also been abandoned, haven’t gotten any fixes on any of the existing ones that need a fix either.

The only new thing/s are those 2 zones that got added, as far as I know anyway. But do tell if I’m wrong here.

You are right on dungoen, but we know that for the last 2 years.

Fractal : So what? Does everything need an upgrade each 2months or they are abandonned? It take time to code those thing. In 2 months they gonna get a major updage, nothing to whine about here.

Just 2 weeks ago they fixed Ogre Wars.

Can you at least wait for the expansion. It’s right there. Who the kitten whine about lacking update 2 months before an expansion. Should Anet take a break of the expansion to give some new upgate?

It depend on what build. Here some possible combination that could work (we’ll have to test them).

D/P (DA/TRICK/DD) : on the current meta, SA is mostly for survivability, which DD can do better IMO. Mostly because while dodging you don’t let the enemy decap the point. The big problem here is the lost of Hidden Thief.

S/D (DA/TRICK/DD) : Mostly getting back the old S/D build with some upgrade.

D/D (DA/DD with TRICK or ACRO) : Condition build. You mostly dodge and #3 to evade while doing condition. Trick isn’t as mandatory there, so maybe Acro would be better because in that situation, more dodge = more damage.

It’s you. Nobody ever saw that ever and nobody talked about that in any tread before you.

Yes we all know that they changed acrobatics because they knew that dodge was their focus for the DD. Is that a bad or a wrong thing? IMO DD is better overall than Acrobatic for the dodge concept. That said, they don’t have a lot of option, they need to nerf the dodge from Acro or a Acro/DD thief would be just insane.

Where I disagree with Anet, is that they should gave Acrobatic a new personality. Now it just seem like the akward Daredevil little brother.

symke.3105:

What is/was challenging content and why?
You say dungeons and fractals are easy and that’s something that contradicts my experience, so I was wondering what you find challenging enough and why that is so?

A lot of us can solo most dungeon and trio fractals so not really that hard. But that’s the thing. Challenging will depend on each person. That’s why I REALLY REALLY hope that the difficulty will be variable. So that casual can complete the content, but that elite players can still have a challenge to face in a year.

The get the exact same game 99% of us have right now. You have either a payed account of a Free one.

With the expansion you will have either a core accound, a free one or a HoT one. If you plan to get the expansion, you should just buy HoT now, it will cost you less. If you want to try the game, take the free account and see if you want to upgrade to HoT.

Ranger hate is just ignorance and past experience. I don’t know, bear bow seem to had traumatised a lot of people lol. In reality, ranger is a good profession since september 2014. It’s not the best, but it’s pretty kitten good profession.

Pls don’t play Pistol Thief. Jesus.

Rifle Engineer is pretty good as a power grenadier.

I think that most elite won’t be part of any meta in dungeon. Maybe chronomancer and reaper will be better than Mesmer and Necro, but that’s it. And I don’t think the difference will be huge.