This is exactly why I would love to have a damage counter. Since beta I have wondered whether my struggle at melee brings more to the group than just being ranged.
But yes I agree. Some bosses one of the strongest attacks are melee ones. I have died so many times to powersuit because I always forgot that its melee attack hits behind too.
Can open PvE even have good rewards? It is easy and accessible to everyone which means everyone will get more gold which means prices will rise (which is of course what we want because vendor costs won’t scale).
Harder content should be more rewarding because it is actually harder.
Truth is everyone can’t make loads of money. If you want be rich someone else must be poor.
If there is an easy way to make money everyone will be “rich” and nothing has changed.
If you want get gold play market or try to figure out your own farming method.
After spending huge amount of my in-game wealth to acquire a backpiece (yay RNG rings) I would hate to see it get much easier to get. That would just scream that they have no idea what they are doing with their game.
I don’t think we had very special team and it was so easy. So I’m wondering whether sub-par teams could do it with right tactic.
I’m not very experienced with Simin and have ran P4 ~5 times. This last run was first time when I had more or less solid plan on my mind and the team actually executed it properly.
Usually you just get people who can’t use tears, die all the time, etc.
Thanks for the input. Still, it makes a specific team setup required to kill her – you need at least one mesmer in your party, as AoE quickness is essential. Of course, it’s useful everywhere, you can mow down any boss with relative ease using Time Warp and enough dps, and so on – but no fight requires any gimmicky, specific setup like 3 gs wars or Time-Warp-on-cooldown.
This is what makes me believe we’re missing something – either we, players, omit a part of the puzzle here, or a piece is simply missing from the box…
Last time our team had 2 GS warriors (I was one running sparks), ele (ran sparks), necro and guardian. And it was so ridiculously easy.
Though some similar teams have been so slow. But players have been crap too.
I don’t understand why there is need to tank stuff. So that everyone else can auto-attack from range while browsing forums?
GS is a good PvE weapon, even in dungeons.
Not anything which I would know.
Last time we started with usual 4-1 tactic. Then we repeated that tactic at about 25% because one Spark went out of control. We probably had quite good DPS so anything should have worked.
Just because he is asking for a change doesn’t mean he is bad.
Those scavengers are awful for melee players because of them turning around and because of effect being much bigger than the animation.
If they couldn’t turn around while “eating” and area was smaller it would still have same “dodge or bring stun-break” effect. On top if this they shouldn’t keep eating ground if there is no one around but use leap more often.
Are you just trying to say that PvE is way too easy?
Let’s say Lupicus. I have extremely hard time soloing phase 2, and phase 3 is simply no way. At least Eles seem to have it much easier, not 100% sure about rest (summons to take aggro, etc.)
I think it is supposed to have some benefits. But really. running around exploring is the worst WvW experience you can get. That’s quite interesting way to get people interested.
Stuff like WvW dailies. Bah, not fun!
Of course it’s not that simple.