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In PvE, there are some traits that can boost your survivability while decreasing a bit of your damage. You can put 3 into acrobatic to take feline grace so you can have a lot of dodges or 6 into critical strike to take invigorating precision.
I usually die as D/D when I have a lot of mobs attacking me. What I find working for me is use a shortbow when facing a lot of mobs or in need of heal. Detonating cluster bombs in a crowd of enemies in conjuction with signet of malice works pretty well, the heal will be boosted even further if you have invigorating precision.
Now I can face-tank mobs even without perma blind from pistol and be happy when facing a boss with the damage of D/D. Like you, I also don’t like sword as my weapon since it feels too slow and the damage is lower than D/D. Although I’m also aware that S/P is truly superior when fighting many enemies. It gives cleave, condi clear, shadowstep, evade, interrupt, and invaluable perma blind. I just hope someday they will give us a template of build so I can switch D/D into S/P quickly.
Caltrop with signet of malice can heal you up pretty good also.
Please note that I’m talking this with “damage is the best defense” in mind
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Reroll staff ele, pop armor of earth, meteor shower + lava font. Watch turrets go pop, profit. Bonus points if your meteor shower downs engis as well.
best answer.
Sadly that’s the state of the leaderboard atm. Being top isn’t an achievement, it doesn’t reflect player skill because the devs want to give an equal chance to players less skilled (because logic, right?) and consequentially the system gets moaned about.
Scenario #1:
Unfortunately, the top-ranked players on that board make easier targets to vent on than the developers, despite the fact that it’s not their fault. People are stupid.Scenario #2:
Those players actually think the board is a reflection of skill, and think you must be good. Unfortunately a lot of people enjoy seeing someone who is highly rated fail, more than they enjoy seeing someone succeed. So when you lose to them or get caught in a 1vX and don’t appear to be “godmode,” you get trolled.
Who says it’s an achievement. Wait, Anet does XD.
Unfortunately, there are some nice people and some not so nice. Just read map chat….. That tells you a lot. For instance, someone new asks a valid question….some are very helpful, others, just nasty.
Just play, have fun and hang with friends. Congratulations btw! Someone has to be number one!
Silly me, Like Laniya says, there are some nice people and not nice. Thank you for bringing it to my senses and a cheering-up comment. Probably won’t hold rank 1 for long though.
Btw I must commend the algorithm for matchmaking. I keep getting harder opponents when I win and vice versa. I think It works pretty good even though occasional “4vs5” and “noobs vs gods” sometimes happen (only a few times).
Svanir pushes are a good way to tell. If you team doesn’t kill Svanir at the start, you have a high mmr. If your entire team goes to kill Svanir, you have a low mmr. Also can tell by teammates running to uncontested nodes while someone else is capping the node. Fighting way off of the node(s). Things of that nature are indicators of low mmr
XD interesting. Thx all for replies
Hi, I’m on EU but playing at NA server. I usually play at 5 or 6 hours before reset. Whisper me if you need a guardian with meta build.
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