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Greez!
- Ziggy
As for a condi build, in raids, abandoning scrapper is abandoning utility for 10% power damage.
Power damage? Come on. Condi build is not focused on power dmg.
That’s exactly what I said. That’s why you should pick scrapper over tools.
Medic gyro is the best heal skill for raids in every encounter, especially due the super speed and condi engi being the ones to go to the green fields. Having super speed for everyone makes this task easier, lets the team reencounter faster, more dps, more effective.
You’re kidding, right? Medic gyro is a solid skill, however it’s still worse than Healing Turret that provides much better heal, 2 water fields and blast + knockdown cc. Super speed does not give you more dps, you do not attack faster. Also if someone is let’s say knocked away, he won’t get super speed because he’s too far, so your reencounter argument is invalid.
Bad arguments, let me explain it deeper to you.
For Vale Guardian, you have aoe on demand super speed. You can either use it to get to a green field, or to come back to the VG after that. If someone gets hit by a blue field, it’s a mistake on his/her own. Neither the HT, nor the gyro can help those players, but they also don’t have to. Getting hit by a blue field is something that should never happen to anyone, they are easy to dodge and blockable. In our guild we always have to pay 50 silver to the guild bank if we get hit :P The reencounter argument is when you have to take a far away green field and the tank already has to move on.
Then there is the reason of protection. When you are not breaking the breakbar for max dps, you want to have protection, yet this happens while you have to stay in a green field right before the bar appears. So revs can’t give you any, so the engis do it. It’s also a water field. Wich is the next point: Blast in a water field. You will never ever be able to blast your HT in melee due to the fields overlapping. In a 10 men raid, you will be forced to move away for blasting HT wich is a dps decrease in most scenarios. Where we are at DpS, not only is the Medic Gyro instant cast wich can save you when you are stunned or knockdowned or whatever, this also means you can attack during the time you would have to set up the HT and blast it. There is then the possibility to just leave the gyro and let it deal this huge junk of damage when he dies. Yes the tooltip is wrong, you crit up to 8’000 with it. If you are the red add, you can also blast it earlier to get a super speed field wich grants 6 sec of super speed for all engis there, wich means 3000 heal. But you can also just summon it at 50% hp of the red add, so it dies when the red add is breakable, dazing him and causing the same amount of CC the HT would, just with more heal and a protection field against the white bubbles.
This about VG. I’ve got more for Gorsy and Sabby if you want to know too, just let me know
I’d be great if gyros in general would have some sort of max range leash, so they would never be too far behind and be pulled over cliffs and rocks etc. Would be a huge qol change. Too bad then medic and purgy wouldn’t be able ot cleanse allies … wich they kinda don’t do anyway >_> … oh and btw purgy aoe pls <3
Honestly I would like to see the gyros have a pretty tight leash, almost but not quite to the point of turning us into mobile AOE effects like that new warrior torch fire field thing. Imagine an engi running at you surrounded by gyros like in that early HoT trailer. Bad kitten as well as useful.
Yea that’d be the best design tbh. But I’d like to have a perfect AI that would leave me (medic gyro) when I have full HP and seek for an ally to heal him, then fast come back to me. FAST come back to me …
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The loot you get from a specific type of enemy drops pretty fast, nothing to really worry about. About your mastery level, the only thing you can do is to use EXP booster and simply enjoy playing the new maps. I don’t know what masteries you need cuz I already had them when I went for Fix R Upper, but especially if you’re not that rich, it’s always a good idea to aim for those ascended weapons.
Hope I could help you a bit
greez
- Ziggy
@Dawdler
well necro is a completly different story, mine has 45k with DS and is still the “reaper zerker”. But celecstial is a huge waste once he gets decent equip. Why not start with the real deal right away? :S
@PierPiero
^pretty much what he said
Thank you.
It is 5-10 min test though
You can do it with golem like I did.
I just ponder did I make gross mistake with math or why nobody noticed that ~1 sec alacrity difference from avenger hit.
You’re sure it’s not just because you’re a mesmer with the trait “+50% alacrity applied to you” :’D
Hey there, can you tell us for what? WvW, PvE, raids, open world? The “full knights armor” seems more like WvW, or you’re just either new to PvE or you just take it easy So tell us! ^^
greez Ziggy
It’s the first step they said – currently all engineer players and designers are working on WvW, after that they work on all engineer kits to have special treatment. That’s what they said))
You really reduce my input down to a “big crit”-comment to shred it’s meaning… Nvm, tough, it’s only one rather disrespectful or rather disgraceful aspect of leading a discussion …
It’s a fact that pre patch, dps have been calculated for past fotm 50 to be more worth to use a condi engi instead of a power engi, because of some dps. Condi engi was about 22-25k dps, power about 18-22k, but less dps is less dps so noone cared how much behind power really was.
Now the hammer gave only a minor damage boost indeed, but it’s also a fact that raid bosses have significantly lower armor than high fotm enemies. So:
The VG vid shows nothing what I didn’t say either: You require 2-3 condi professions for red add, yet if you have more engis, engis who are focusing on VG itself, they should go for power based damage output. VG has insanely low armor, power engi will deal about 33% more damage for sure against VG itself.
Against Gorsy the lack of one kit will ofc hurt the condi engi more. Condi engi has only one or two AWESOME skills on each kit, yet what makes condi with missing a kit so weak is because condi has no strong aa. Have you seen the damage numbers of burst skills like napalm, fire bomb, IA or blowtorch compared to their auto attacks like nades or pistol? Or even compared to the average skills like pistol 2 and 3, or bomb 3 etc. A power engi does not suffer from that. He has the same excellent burst skills, but still got a solid aa. The no glider challenge worked because of the warriors, not the engi. They could have used a power engi too, or even swap a profession out for a necro and send all the glory to him like he was the cherry on the ice cream cub – sounds familiar, doesn’kitten :P cough DNT cough
And then there is sabby, where she has low armor, some of her adds low and some medium armor, but overall it’s the same game again: Less armor than in fotm, but more than VG tough, I’d say here both professions are pretty much on the same level of damage output, but I like power more because of the mesmers quickness. Alacrity helps both, condi and power, but quickness only truly helps the power engi #better aa. Also there’s more utility and the possibility to go ranged in the last phase where druid goes in, but that’s a different story than dps.
I don’t want to destroy you here, I’d rather like to recall that “famous” players are only humans aswell. Don’t beleve everything they say and recommend. I mean just look what DNT did to the air sigil :P Sure if you truly follow the so called authority bias, you also won’t beleve me, wich basicly is good IF you do so because you have made expiriences yourself instead of watched videos where someone did something and it worked for a reason other than what it seems.
Don’t hate me for that statement please. I just try to be nice
greez
- Ziggy
Heyhey!
This is the standard DpS power Engi for raids. About the traits tough:
- at Sabby instead of grenadier, glass cannon
- at not 100% fury uptime (if it ever happens) instead of pinpoint distribution, no scope
- if you lack mobility or sustain and don’t really need dps like against vale guardian, use 312 instead of 333 at scrapper
Power engi is a very very strong profession. Our guild always wants one in our team for ANY encounter in the current raid. He can do so much to help the team. Condi engi is only good for the red adds at VG, everywhere else go for power builds if you have multiple sets.
- greez Ziggy!
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The shield is the problem. It requires major buffs and skill reworks to be seen again. The problem is in a condition build, the pistol offhand is ultra mighty and cannot be abandoned and in a power build, the hammer does everything the shield does, just better, more often and with damage. Same reasons for both, pvp and pve. The shield needs help
interesting tought, i probably gonna need 2 leadership equips
i’ll look into that “good tofu”. gimme some time to respond …
Domination adds minimal damage. You’re using shield phantasms anyway, and they do garbage damage. You’re not producing a lot of shatter damage, and the boon stripping is of course unnecessary.
I only use one shield phantasm. The others are sword phantasms for VG. You don’t need more than one shieldy for the alacrity uptime if you do not use mimic or soi, since then you can use calamity wich increases personal damage aswell where the 12.5% dmg modifier starting to make sense too.
Inspiration lets me produce a third illusion faster (iLeap -> block = 3 illusions with defender) so that I can start the combo quicker. The heals from it let me tank active floor panels without needing to rely on the Druid for heals. Since you need to move VG ahead of the rotation sometimes, being able to sustain that damage is pretty important.
iAvenger → iSwordsman → iLeap, done. Timer starts when you attack so you got time to channel that block (wich btw get’s reduced from 2.25s to 1.5s soon <3). We start the combo at the same time.
You don’t have to tank the active panels, you can move into them for just a moment, let the VG follow you, turn around and stay in the inactive one, while he stays in the active one. Then you get the druid heal together with your team. It’s a matter of positioning.
What damage are you talking about you want to sustain btw? o.ô
Persistence of memory is really nice because it allows me to use BF or the block to mitigate close to 100% of attacks from VG. Again, the Druid could heal you up, but mitigating instead leaves your Druid free to keep the rest of the team healthy. That’s not an issue if everything goes perfectly…but nothing ever goes perfectly. If your team has to hit a circle on an active panel, you want the Druid to be fully topped up on cooldowns instead of having potentially burnt some healing you.
You block the blue fields with your shield, you don’t need anything but alacrity for that. Then you evade serval attacks with common sword 2 skills or dodges. The rest of the team should barely get no damage, except for the green team wich is with the druid anyway, or the engis who are selfsustaining. The druid has almost nothing to do rather than to heal you up a bit and buff the team with “grace of the land” at these phases.
Well maybe he is a bit too tanky, maybe. But that’s FAR FAR less a problem than you not having chronomancer runes + Signet of Inspiration. Perma Quickness for your group is far more important than a bit more dps on your chronotank.
Why would I use soi? I cast 1x TW (22s), 3x WoA (18s) and 4x ToT (24s). This means 64s quickness every 51s. With that considering reality is not a perfect world, I indeed might miss my allies with one or two skills (or they miss the wells) and keep a 100% quickness uptime. Without soi, and calamity instead A) your personal damage is higher, not just a little bit, and
you have a higher alacrity uptime for your allies = higher passive damage / group damage.
On one thing tough I agree with you: group dps is far more important than personal damage. That’s why I do not use soi, nor chronomancer runes in raids.
