Guild Wars 2

Simply put, it’s another degree harder to learn to solo him off the wall. Learn to solo him off the wall first and you’ll be a better player for it.

killahmayne.9518:

Tree.3916:

pdavis.8031:

but that doesn’t mean anyone not running zerk is a sub par player, or have a ineffective build to add anything to a party.

Well….

re: sub par player. I would argue that a person who was an above par player, who knew his class, who has good dodging skills would want to leverage that ability to play the best he can and not allow his gear to hold him back. OK, maybe he is a good player who mains WvW and is too lazy to respec or regear for PVE. I would contend that a truly good player would be annoyed by his gear holding him back from being more effective.

A good player wouldn’t be too lazy to regear/respec because a good player would care about maximizing his potential. A good player would continually push himself to try newer, harder things in order to get better and better. I would seriously question anyone who considered themselves “good” but wasn’t willing or able to run the most effective builds.

A good player wouldn’t say, “oh pve is easy I can run whatever I want and still succeed,” more likely a good player would say, “oh pve is easy, I should try to refine what I’m doing even more to do it even faster and more efficiently.” I would contend a good player wouldn’t settle for being adequate or “good enough” they would want to be “excellent.”

Or maybe a “good player” simply doesn’t care about PvE and runs whatever, which is the case many times.

Re-read my third paragraph where I address that shameful attitude directly.

pdavis.8031:

but that doesn’t mean anyone not running zerk is a sub par player, or have a ineffective build to add anything to a party.

Well….

re: sub par player. I would argue that a person who was an above par player, who knew his class, who has good dodging skills would want to leverage that ability to play the best he can and not allow his gear to hold him back. OK, maybe he is a good player who mains WvW and is too lazy to respec or regear for PVE. I would contend that a truly good player would be annoyed by his gear holding him back from being more effective.

A good player wouldn’t be too lazy to regear/respec because a good player would care about maximizing his potential. A good player would continually push himself to try newer, harder things in order to get better and better. I would seriously question anyone who considered themselves “good” but wasn’t willing or able to run the most effective builds.

A good player wouldn’t say, “oh pve is easy I can run whatever I want and still succeed,” more likely a good player would say, “oh pve is easy, I should try to refine what I’m doing even more to do it even faster and more efficiently.” I would contend a good player wouldn’t settle for being adequate or “good enough” they would want to be “excellent.”

The optimal crit chance for the 30/30 dps warrior or 20/30 ea warrior build (assuming full buffs) will be 94%-95%. Crit chance with Full Berserker and Deep Strikes will be 91%. Make up the rest the following ways…

1. Food
2. Infusions
3. Assassins gear

I think, personally, it will be easiest to eat Trufflesteak or Butternut Squash and call it a day. I already have Precision infusions so I’m fairly good to go on that.

Also, if you have Precision infusions you don’t need Deep Strikes and can change it to Furious Speed for an extra boon, and thus +1% damages.

Why would you use p/p in fractals when the meta build works fine?

nm its Travlane. Answered my own question.

@Riss I guess you have never played in an organized group.

@Walhalla Mai Trinn is one of the bosses that we use coordinated CC on the most. We do our best to make sure her Defiant is off when the blue field comes down.

For both of you, you back up what I said. In unorganized groups you will never coordinate your CC in a meaningful way. In organized groups you can. Is it so wrong for Anet to have a mechanic that rewards organization?

I feel like there is a certain element of players on this forum who wont rest until the game is dumbed down to the point where everyone no-dodges and facetanks every boss while a dedicate healer heals the group and a dedicated control character spams CC to lock down bosses. Sorry, I like Guild Wars 2, whatever game that is you all can go play.

You miss my point. This is the level of coordination that good full dps berserker groups have. Sure you can beat two bosses I cited in a full dps pugs with no coordination, but it will be inefficient, sloppy and incur downs. In a coordinated dps group it will be fast, clean and downs will be rare. That is the point.

As a corollary, if you believe that you can just wear berserker gear and dps all the bosses in the game with no cc, no support and no evasion you are mistaken and should refrain from making comments that stem from your inexperience.

I wish the people who can’t/won’t dodge obvious boss tells would stop trying to ruin the game for the people who can/do.

Defiance and Unshakeable work well. Currently, they are a coordination check. Good groups are able to coordinate their CC so that they can interrupt key boss moves. The most notable are the champion Wurm in Twilight Arbor or the Abomination in Arah Path 2.

Good groups will say “remove the defiant stacks so I can interrupt the next bash attack please” over VOIP and the stacks will be removed. Then the next time he does his wind up attack it will be interrupted and the group will be able to maintain DPS without having to dodge. Proper coordination + well timed CC = optimal DPS.

Unfortunately, this level of coordination is impossible for pug groups. Is that a problem? I think not. There should be a reward in efficiency for coordinated groups that use their CC perfectly. PUGs who spam their CC and don’t coordinate shouldn’t expect to get the same efficiency out of it as groups who manage it properly.

End result: current system encourages organization, tight play, and rewards skill over mindless CC spam. These are the things that SHOULD be rewarded by the game system. Any move to dumb the game down or make spamming skills with no thought more rewarding should be ignored.

Nike.2631:

When do people not complain?

But good players adapt.

So you are saying that anyone that didn’t adapt to the dps meta before this announcement is bad?

I would agree.

30/10/0/0/30 is a little behind the 30/0/0/10/30 build in terms of personal dps, and a bit ahead in total team dps. Which is to say they are both 3-4% behind any of the 30/25 variations in either case.

All that said, this trait is a straight up 10% dps boost for a pure axe build, which is certainly better than anything else you could do with the 5 trait points in a pure axe build. I don’t expect this to have pvp applications though, because it competes with Furious in Arms which is far better in a condi build, and im not aware of power builds for warrior in pvp that go very deep into Arms at all.

Warlord.9074:

hendo.1940:

Pure axe builds don’t even take 15 in discipline for fast hands right now anyway, so I’m not sure what you’re even talking about. When you go 30 in arms you’ll just take rending strikes, deep strike and dual-wield agility.

Since when did pure axe builds not take 30 in disciple. For axe mastery and Heightened focus?

Those are lower dps options. The current meta pure axe pve build is 30/25/0/10/5. Not having Rending Strikes in your build is a failure as a warrior in pve.

Instead of utilizing the official forums to post unfounded complaints that most people don’t want to read, my honest advice from you is to start a blog where you can write things like this to your heart’s content.

Wethospu.6437:

What’s going on:

A moderator moved a message you posted to the forum ‘Dungeons’ with the reason:

The thread “Warriors proven to be OP” was removed from the forum due to “not leading to any constructive conversation”. All posts responding to it have been removed with it. Threads which violate the Forum Code of Conduct will be removed from the Guild Wars 2 Forums

Passive aggressive behavior.

OMG, this game is just stack and press one. omgomgomgomg so easy. Nerf please

Casmurro.9046:

@Tree
According to him those speedclear guilds can only achieve that because they exploit the game, using illegal tactics such as stacking, skipping, turning off the autotargeting and melee atack assist from the options menu.

I remember reading a comment from the player fadeaway, who made that spreadsheet with dps from different guardian builds, he said that with a clerics guardian he was more useful in pug groups in fotm that lacked skill or something, so maybe a tank guardian may be useful for pugging.

Wrong on both counts.

First part, turning off auto targeting and melee assist are options in the options menu. They are not exploits. This is how the game works. He wants to pretend that they are exploits because it ruins his fantasy immersion experience. Sorry, but a person’s RP considerations and cinematic experience are not what the earth revolves around.

Second, pugs have bad dps. You don’t improve their bad dps by bringing a character with negative DPS. The only way that a tank Guardian could at all be effective is if you could control aggro with taunt mechanics or some other way to ensure you took all the aggro. Since you can’t control aggro, the entire concept of having a tank is beyond meaningless.

In the end, the game is based around active combat: learn the boss moves, dodge them. Heal yourself when you make a mistake. Do a much damage as you can while doing so. Buff your teammates as much as you can. It isn’t insanely complicated and we all figured it out over a year ago. Not sure why Nemesis, who has thousands of hours in game, cannot figure this out.

Fingolfin.6917:

I only not quite sure why 30 in discipline is so much worse than 25 in arms. On paper it looks to me as if I get about the same crit chance but higher crit damage. Ok, so you get rendering strike in arms. Is this really the main reason to go that deep in arms and no go into discipline?

You are missing out on a 10% damage modifier and Rending Strikes, which works out to a 3-4% damage modifer for your whole team.

Adding critical damage has diminishing returns. Increasing your Critical damage by 10 will add, say, 5% overall DPS. Adding another 10 will only incease your damage by 4%. and so on. A damage modifier like Attack of Opportunity will always be a 10% boost no matter what. And as your team stacks Might and banners and Frost Spirit the benefit of AoO is still 10%, 10% of a far larger number. Whereas 15% more critical damage is always just 15% critical damage, which is a smaller piece of the pie the more buffs you stack.

For a fully buffed team, the 30/25 build is roughly 3-4% better dps than the 30/0 build and that isn’t counting the 3-4 stacks of vulnerability from rending strikes, which is a 3-4% partywide dps increase or the 3-4 additional Might stacks that the build maintains thanks to FGS. In practice it turns out to be vastly superior.

I wasn’t arguing anything. Someone said they couldn’t imagine that strategy failing. I cited a time when it failed, ironically by that person’s own guild. Wipes happen to everybody its NBD.

What I am on about now is the OTT reaction that has run the full 5 stages of grief so far. Probably, the right response was to go “yeah that was rough but wipes do happen.” and let that be the end of it. Denial, anger, etc were probably not the right way.

Anierna.6918:

Tree.3916:

I’m not making it up. I can tell you exactly who 3 of the 5 people in the group were but I have no idea about the other 2. One had your tag and one didn’t. Honestly though calling people out isn’t cool, since everybody wipes every now and again and there is no need to name names when the point I tried to convey was conveyed.

PM me the names plz, and the link. I didn’t realize a vid existed until you mentioned it now. I didn’t realize a 4x FGS stack had failed or even could fail, unless the pull was bad. Bad pulls happen every once in a while – usually it’s when the boss aggro’s an NPC instead of the puller.

EDIT: this could all be academic. Diplomatic Dictators also has the [DD] tag, so it might not have been us. They’re a PvX guild on Kaineng.

I liked your post before the edit where you trashed your own guildmates over something that is no big deal really.

And you can fool the kids, but you can’t fool me. I know who was in that run.

Clumsy.6257:

Tree.3916:

Anierna.6918:

I can’t imagine anyone not killing something with 4x FGS. I’ve seen wipes with only 2x FGS, but never with 4×.

I don’t need to imagine it, I’ve seen your group wipe to the Ghost Eater and Spider Queen with 4x fgs on live stream. I’m sure it was a case of someone failing spectacularly, but nonetheless it happens. High risk high reward strategy and all that.

Nobody from DD streams. We did have a trial stream a tour with 4 trials/1 member but that trial didn’t pass. Its not surprising it failed.

I’m not making it up. I can tell you exactly who 3 of the 5 people in the group were but I have no idea about the other 2. One had your tag and one didn’t. Honestly though calling people out isn’t cool, since everybody wipes every now and again and there is no need to name names when the point I tried to convey was conveyed.

Funny how credulous people are impressed by his math about “dps uptime” when the numbers are completely made up and have no bearing on reality.

There is one set of numbers that are not arguable: kill times/clear times. Nemesis can pick any boss. We will do a full berserker kill of that boss. Then we will give him a week to beat our time with that kitten build in the group “tanking.” When he beats our kill time he can talk about DPS uptime numbers.

Good luck!

Whatever you do please do not change Lupicus. this is possibly the best designed boss in the game, there is absolutely no revamping that could possibly be done that would make the experience better. Please please please do not try to fix something that isn’t broken.

Edit
Should add a sound effect that triggers when you get within 1200 range of Kholer in AC that sounds like an alert and a robot voice saying “Warning this boss is optional” so anyone that gets near the boss knows it is an optional encounter.

Anierna.6918:

I can’t imagine anyone not killing something with 4x FGS. I’ve seen wipes with only 2x FGS, but never with 4×.

I don’t need to imagine it, I’ve seen your group wipe to the Ghost Eater and Spider Queen with 4x fgs on live stream. I’m sure it was a case of someone failing spectacularly, but nonetheless it happens. High risk high reward strategy and all that.

[img]http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/duty_calls.png[/img]

Ugh… can’t get the image to work.

And then you have the runs where your whole team wipes because you still manage to somehow fail to kill it even with 4x fgs, right?

As Flissy said, 30/25/0/10/5 is superior DPS to 30/0/0/10/30 in a pure axe build. Warrior’s personal dps is middling, and the reason to run warriors in a group at all is Banner of Discipline, Strength and Empower Allies.

Basically for warriors, if you are not running a banner or not running Empower Allies, you are pretty much just as much of a leech to your party as a random DPS necromancer.

There is no problem with the design of any of the dungeons, especially AC. What we have here is a mindset problem.

We, in our minds eye, are the best there ever was or at least not as terrible as this forum might lead us to believe. Nothing can beat us, I have accolades to prove it. I 100% map completed, I farm Orr, I run WvWvW successfully. What we have done here is reinforce the concept of “I am a good player” by doing content and completing it without much challenge.

Throughout our time doing content casually, we don’t learn how to overcome challenges because, quite simply, open world offers little challenge. Now, put ourselves in a situation that requires some skill and coordination and we fail. What is our first thought that goes through our mind?

1. “This is too hard”
or
2. “What did I do wrong and how can I do better?”

The first thought is indicative of the above mindset. “How could I fail at this when I am clearly good, I’ve done all these other things that prove I am good.” This mindset tries to rationalize why they failed by placing blame on an external entity (the content in this case). Obviously if I fail then the content is too hard and must need a nerf regardless if others are able to complete the same content.

The second though is indicative of a more healthy mindset that recognizes the shortcomings of itself and tries to rationalize the failure by looking inward and exploring for internal solutions to the problem.

Anet would never release content that is impossible it’s just not good business. Plain and simple as that.

tl;dr;
Some people just don’t have the mindset to succeed.

(Flame away)

Edit

@Tree, I love you.

I love you too.

I find grouping for content unnecessary as well. I get buffs from fields since they don’t prioritize who laid them and who blasted in it.

OP was banned from the forums approximately 2 months ago so we will hear no response from him.
But I can speak for him that it is still breaking all our spirits.

Source: He is in my guild.

(For mods reading this I am not talking about modding practices. Just stating a fact to answer the above question.)

Warden.8927:

laharl.8435:

I’m sure you probably make any class work with smart use of consumables like harpy feathers, whisper spy kit, portals etc. Try it out with your ranger!

I might aswell give it a go, what else could I capatalise on?

The plethora of resources on YouTube in regards to solo’s on specific classes.

To the person who pm’d me, I can’t say your account name for fear of infraction. I am being punished so I cannot respond to your pm, therefore I have to respond publicly.

“I’m new to calling out to meta mentors. I’m interested to learn how to run the paths I haven’t run for the quick dailies.
I’m quite interested with all COE paths, the easier Arah paths and TA Up.
But I don’t mind learning unpopular paths like the ones from CM.
What’s next? I have no clue lol
"

My next questions to you are,
What class(s) do you play/main?
Do you have exotic berserker gear?
Do you have ascended berserker trinkets?
Do you have multiple exotic or higher weapons?
Do those weapons have stacking sigils/sigil of night/sigil of force?
Do you use the standard dps meta traits for your characters?

Sorry I can’t do this in the PM and I hope you see my response. I’m not ignoring you… just dealing with a draconian forum…

Pie Flavor.1647:

fractals 49 and 50 are very good for farming and very easy, tequatl with a random group or the zerg that goes there usually nets around 50g/hour and is VERY easy.

other easy things include Arah dungeon and WvW

50g an hour is not true and fractals are bad gold per hour too.

To the OP, if you like grinding then queensdale or frostgorge champion killing trains are the thing for you. You kill the same champions over and over in a loop netting approz 5-10g an hour depending on drops from champion bags.

Running each path of explorable modes in dungeons is a good way to make an easy 30-50g depending on drops but takes a good group about 2-4 hours to finish all (reasonable) dungeons paths.

You can farm the trading post fairly well if you like making small profits that add up over time. Buy crafting materials when they are low and sell them when they are high. gw2trade.com is a good website to track the history of sell prices.

If you have a dungeon accessory recipe that is valuable, run that dungeon for tokens and craft the item to sell.

My question to you is, why do you feel compelled to even complete the daily? It is optional content to reward you for participating in normal game play.

Dear Anet Dungeon Team,

Please remove this optional boss because it is to hard for me.

Sincerely,
Rentapest

I’m posting in a zerk thread!

On Topic:
@OP stop trying to tell me how to play. I play how I want with the people I want…

dlonie.6547:

Rising Dusk.2408:

Resets only happen when:
- Party leader logs onto an alt
- Party leader leaves group

I have had login server issues in the past during login server maintenance where my party has been disbanded randomly, but I don’t think it has been anything prevalent and was only during scheduled maintenance periods. It is also possible that your party leader was lying and did one of the above two things to reset the dungeon. ANet has confirmed that they are looking for resolutions to this.

A couple of kitten necros kicked our instance owner the other day in AC — we’d already made it all the way to Kholer!

Glad to hear they’re looking into fixing this!

I wouldn’t be so sure about that. Last time they “confirmed” [The Crossing] was in the game it really wasn’t.

tl;dr;
It wont be fixed unless it corresponds with a Living Story update…

nadnads.3562:

didn’t your mum teach you if you don’t have anything nice to say don’t say any thing at all.

His mom is no longer in this world… Thanks for bringing up such an emotional subject…

Scholar Runes exist.

Travlane.5948:

Delay.6908:

If we are talking PvE and highest DPS you have to assume max buffs for everyone since.. thats how it is in organized PvE parties where these builds shine, and im like 90% sure that if all buffs are met the thief will out DPS the warrior quite easily due to higher damage rotations that occur more frequently. You cant compare thief and warrior with no outside buffs since everyone knows the warrior wins due to his crazy self buffing power, but in an organized group where everyone si sharing buffs the warrior loses that advantage and the thief pulls ahead.

if the enemy isnt doing dmg and the thief has to heal up/invis/dodge/evade yes true.

also if u consider community buffs…the Thief isnt OP….

you say the warrior can do more dmg due to buffs….true.

so who does more dmg? thief or warrior? its warrior saying “well dont buff me i already have the buffs” and the thief saying " well buff me so i can do more dmg since i cant by myself" and the warrior saying “well HE is not doing more dmg if HE cant get the buffs HIMSELF…. i win”

get it?>

The context of this entire thread is PvE dungeon groups. everyone shares the same group buffs.

1. Skill coefficients/time Thief > Warrior
2. Base damage modifiers Thief > Warrior

It’s very simple.

I wonder if I would blow your mind to tell you the following classes also have better dps than warriors: Guardians, Phantasm Mesmers, and Elementalists.

People don’t want an in game speed run leaderboard. The hardcore community who would compete for such a thing are already able to track this in a way that is a lot more legit than this exploit-to-win speed run leaderboard.

Please, please, please do not devote any development resources to a leaderboard that almost no one wants.

LordByron.8369:

2) *if you say cliffside is intended than you are saying stacking and lOSing is intended….being the biggest part of how arm seal is done.

That’s the #puglyfe method for the arm seals. Good groups do this…

http://youtu.be/faGhrvwxObo

Dare to improve.

Romo.3709:

Tree.3916:

Conski Deshan.2057:

Tree.3916:

Proposal Balanceing Rewards

Solution:

1. Remove all rings from the drop table at 40+. Take the 40-50% ring drop chance and add it to the chance to get an armor/skin/wep.

2. Take Armor and Weapons off the drop table at 50+ (since most people doing 50+ will be full ascended) and add that chance to the skin drop table. The end result would be a 60% (or so) chance to get a fractal skin at level 50+ which will still require significant replayability in order to deck out your toons.

I would be for removing the Rings, but not the weapons and armor, I can always use more BIS weapons and armor to stick other skins on , and thats not likely to stop any time soon. Plus a 60% chance at the rarest skins in the game seems quite high.

If you get a Magis armor skin, you would use it? I mean, I’m sure someone out there likes Magi’s stats, but for 99% of players that is a dead drop.

And 60% chance at a skin isn’t that great when you consider that there is a 1/14th chance of getting the one you want. To gear all your alts in fractal skins would still requires hundreds of level 50 dailies.

That’s all and good, but what if you already have every skin you could possibly want? I’d much rather have ascended box drop than a skin these days. Those are actually worth more. And after you get every possible skin you want (since 60% chance is VERY high) after 10 runs, there would be no reason at all to bother in 50+.

A 4% chance to get the particular skin you want is not high. After 10 runs you would have 6 skins, which is less than a 50% chance of getting the one you want. It would take a month of dailies to have a good chance of obtaining the particular skin you want. Personally, for my alts and for stacking weapons, I need about 10 more Fractal swords. Under the current system it would take me the remainder of my adult life to get that many.

An ascended box that doesn’t drop Berserkers stats is worthless. Worthless drops are a slap in the face.

What does that mean?

I’m gonna play the “this isn’t impressive because he is against a wall” card. I like to see solo’s where wall mashing isn’t the main strategy being used. (I won’t even mention FGS…)

Conski Deshan.2057:

Tree.3916:

Conski Deshan.2057:

Tree.3916:

Proposal Balanceing Rewards

Solution:

1. Remove all rings from the drop table at 40+. Take the 40-50% ring drop chance and add it to the chance to get an armor/skin/wep.

2. Take Armor and Weapons off the drop table at 50+ (since most people doing 50+ will be full ascended) and add that chance to the skin drop table. The end result would be a 60% (or so) chance to get a fractal skin at level 50+ which will still require significant replayability in order to deck out your toons.

I would be for removing the Rings, but not the weapons and armor, I can always use more BIS weapons and armor to stick other skins on , and thats not likely to stop any time soon. Plus a 60% chance at the rarest skins in the game seems quite high.

If you get a Magis armor skin, you would use it? I mean, I’m sure someone out there likes Magi’s stats, but for 99% of players that is a dead drop.

And 60% chance at a skin isn’t that great when you consider that there is a 1/14th chance of getting the one you want. To gear all your alts in fractal skins would still requires hundreds of level 50 dailies.

It’s meant to be a monumental struggle to get any piece of prestige not a skin you’d waste on an alt lightly, the drop rate shouldn’t be assumed with alts in mind. It’s like gearing all your alts with a legendary. Also you misunderstood what I meant the skins would be all for the same character (I have 50 unique skined exotic stave’s all bound to my main).

Who says its supposed to be a monumental struggle? Is that an anet quote? You are describing the world as you want it not as it is but you’re making a declarative statement that implies you’re describing it as it is. Tldr; just because you want it to be a monumental struggle does not mean it was intended to be.

Right now you have about a 0.7% chance of getting the particular fractal skin you want from a level 50 run. This isn’t a monumental struggle, its a grind beyond belief. under the system I proposed you have a 4% chance of getting the particular skin you want from a level 50 daily chest. This is is a gigantic improvement, but not a soul crushing grind. If you think a 4% chance is “too high” then I would suggest you install some Korean grinder MMOs where a 1/10,000 drop rate is considered good because clearly you enjoy grind.

Also, I would prefer the “monumental stuggle” in a game came from the content, and not from the loot table.

Conski Deshan.2057:

Tree.3916:

Proposal Balanceing Rewards

Solution:

1. Remove all rings from the drop table at 40+. Take the 40-50% ring drop chance and add it to the chance to get an armor/skin/wep.

2. Take Armor and Weapons off the drop table at 50+ (since most people doing 50+ will be full ascended) and add that chance to the skin drop table. The end result would be a 60% (or so) chance to get a fractal skin at level 50+ which will still require significant replayability in order to deck out your toons.

I would be for removing the Rings, but not the weapons and armor, I can always use more BIS weapons and armor to stick other skins on , and thats not likely to stop any time soon. Plus a 60% chance at the rarest skins in the game seems quite high.

If you get a Magis armor skin, you would use it? I mean, I’m sure someone out there likes Magi’s stats, but for 99% of players that is a dead drop.

And 60% chance at a skin isn’t that great when you consider that there is a 1/14th chance of getting the one you want. To gear all your alts in fractal skins would still requires hundreds of level 50 dailies.

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

Adam.4103:

For PvE refer to this https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/guardian/Guide-DPS-Guardian-for-PVE.

It’s actually a myth that high toughness means you will always get aggro. Quite often the person with the highest DPS gets it or it can switch at random several times during a single fight.

Near as I can tell it was made up by a guy who wanted to justify running full tank AH spread in a speedclear DPS group. He then proceeded to increasingly contradict himself by getting rid of all his toughness gear but still claiming his (now nonexistent) extra toughness was helping him keep aggro.

As for WvW, the extra toughness/armor from PVT is primarily a buffer to prevent you from getting instagibbed by stray hits. If you think having any amount of armor or health will keep you from getting destroyed while standing in a spot where fifty enemy players tab-selecting the nearest target will automatically target you first, you’d better try just a bit harder.

To be fair, bosses tend to have individual aggro profiles.

The ones that jump to mind…

1. DPS. The Slave Driver in CoFp1 is pretty keenly attracted to attacking whomever is doing the most dps to him. Doesn’t matter now that people kill him in 6 seconds, but back in the bad old days when pugs took 30 seconds to kill him it was very noticeable.

2. Toughness/Armor. The Champ ettin in Uncategorised fractal undeniably tends to go after the person with the highest toughness. For a while when I was the only full ascended armor in my group he would ignore the guardian and focus me unless teh Guardian equipped Knights pieces, and then suddenly he was back on the Guardian.

3. Profession. Certain bosses have a clear order of preference. The Golem in CoE focuses Elementalists, as any ele player will tell you. Lupicus targets Guardians and Elementalists above anyone else with his single target life steal in phase 3.

Blind spam with 15 in Radiance is pretty much the best thing you can be doing in fractals assuming you don’t have a Thief. Also, points in Radiance are a pretty big DPS increase. I don’t see why you need 20 in Virtues for Fractals since there are almost no conditions. The 10/25/0/20/10 fractal-hammer build is pretty much amazing.

Proposal Balanceing Rewards

Current Drop table research at level 50 has Skins/Wep Box/Armor Box at about 10% each chance to drop. Rings at about 50% chance to drop with a 20% chance of nothing. For people who do Fractal 50, rings essentially also ‘nothing’ and armor boxes are essentially more ‘nothing.’ Thus, the chance of getting something useful is about 20% and that is only if you value the different color ascended weapon skins as desireable. If all you find worthwhile is fractal skins, 90% of the time you will be disappointed, ignoring the times you get a fractal skin you don’t want.

Solution:

1. Remove all rings from the drop table at 40+. Take the 40-50% ring drop chance and add it to the chance to get an armor/skin/wep.

2. Take Armor and Weapons off the drop table at 50+ (since most people doing 50+ will be full ascended) and add that chance to the skin drop table. The end result would be a 60% (or so) chance to get a fractal skin at level 50+ which will still require significant replayability in order to deck out your toons.

3. Increase Karma rewards by 3x for lower levels to encourage people to play lower levels and not just do 50 every day.

Pros: People would get rewards tangibly appropriate to the content level they are doing, and feel properly rewarded for it.

Cons: People would probably only do fractal 50 once they hit that level. Though my rebuttal would be, that would only serve to show what the rewards people actually value are, and would be at least partially countered by the Karma gain from below 50.

thanks for reading,

Nike
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