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Now, meta isnt necessarily the best, but its a meta for a reason.
Meta is best by definition.
new swamp is also a faceroll with 4necro and a druid… only annoying part is the onslaught.. oh well
Why would you run 4 necros there?
Because it’s easier to play and people tend to like to cheese when possible.
Thenthey should stop complain that the fractal takes too long
new swamp is also a faceroll with 4necro and a druid… only annoying part is the onslaught.. oh well
Why would you run 4 necros there?
Not sure why are you addressing it to me. I wasn’t the one that brought dungeons up as an argument. I was merely responding to otome.
Use a translator for “like”
People didn’t buy GW 2 for raids, and adding it in to satisfy a minority of people has just caused the majority to question if investing in GW 2 is a good idea or not.
They should have added the raids at the same time as LS 3, so everyone had something to do not just sitting around whilst one group was doing something new and exciting.
You miss something. When HoT released all the casual ppl got the content they like. While ppl who enjoied instanced content like dung/frac had to wait
I don’t get why people still complain about timers when every boss can be beaten with 4+ minutes left on it smh…
That something can be done doesn’t mean it is an expected result, or that anyone can do the same.
And that prooves that you don’t need Meta teams to beat the content before enrage
Horrible Idea. Why do ppl prefer copying existing content (like chaos fractal) ovet new content.
something that will pair me up with people of similar skill level and experience,
I guess you didnt played pvp recently
Were Geomancy sigil worth it?
1) aoe to big, couldnt walk out
2) out of dodge
If you were running out of dodges you must have dodge random like all the time.
I were panicin from time to time aswell, but the dodge bar filled very fast again.
Ok there we go then. A RAID BOSS yes raid boss, Vale guardian is easier then Bloomhunger. There I said it.
Stepping stone? My kitten . Not true in any sense. The dev who made it absolutely did not play it himself (nor did he often play other fractals) cause there is no correlation in feel, execution, whatsoever with any old fractals, including mai trin. If this is the future of fractals, ouch! Secondly ’don’t worry other fracs won’t be changed? Snowblind was also made a lot more annoying. Luckely is more doable then bloomhunger, but they share the same ‘annoying facto’. Situations that are so overpowered that you are helpless no matter what, unless you hit that 0,01% like bilbo had to destroy the Ring from Sauron. If we fail in VG we know why. IF I fail in Mai trin I know why. If i die in Bloomhunger I sometimes know why. Most of times, there’s no correlation wich a opssible wrong action, and the outcome. This means, if i did any other action, it would not have fixed the failure. (Unless perhaps switching to perma dodge thief, but that cannot be the goal of fractals, forcing ppl to limited amount of fractals). I changed my trais 8×. I now have a build with that i feel (druid) is close enough to the way bloomhunger works. There’s still situations that this build cannot fix, and it has more dodges then classes like necro, engie. Snowblind has this same random kitten now with aoe, knockdowns and frostbite (if they hit you at same time you are poop, playing well won’t change that, unless longbow ranger standing in corner of room away from boss and hoping he doenst come to you. That being said, being a very good player, and having very good player in party, usually improves the chance to still beat him, SO much on snowblind that it’s partially forgiven (the annoyance factor still is there, the mechanic is not that fun rather then annoying. There’s way to fix that. Mai trin is pure genius. Yes it’s annoying, but so rewarding if you play it well. Sure Bloomhunger isn’t out long, but I play gw2 long enough (and bloomhunger 4 hour, yes 4 hours in total already), to know he’s overtuned, and not even a little bit.
Breakbar is overtuned (to much stun required), hp is overtuned (with so much hard mechanics, a high hp bar is the worst way to make it harder. Bug is a devil. Whisps not working at crucial time is suicide by devs. Poison aoe simply is to big, and to hard to wipe out fast unless everyone is power longbow ranger. I can go on and on, but Bloomhunger is wrong in every way. Except perhaps the walk him from X whisp to another, including adds who support him strongly. Makes for interesting mechanic. However the numbers supporting the skillset of bloomhunger is the most crazy dev input i’ve seen. His skills respawn to fast (though this perhaps is not the biggest issue). His skills are to big aoe. His charge is good, but some other skills are just meh. The random confusion you get (instability?) makes the frac even harder then it already should be. It’s just trolling on an already hard situation (aka force ppl to take cleanse spamming). Another issue: if you dont have swiftnes or mobility you can’t really do you thing in this fractal. This is a big balance issue. The small poison aoe’s the he spams is ok and not ok. IF that where his strongest attack, sure np, keep it good balanced. Same goes for most of his abilities. But with all the things grouped together, it’s simply to strong. This guy stole the skill ‘Impossible Odds from sHiro’ Shaved the cooldown 10x, Added 7 skills with also that level of ‘legendary impact’, and now comes together as one Boss. Not 1 but 7 Impossible odd like skills, that hugely impact the battle. To much. Not even Raid bosses are this bad. Now that I think of it: Gorseval is ALSO easier. Yes easy to die, but if you know what to do, big chance for succes. Eeasy to know and see moments to dodgE. His room wide aoe killing = predictable after a while, counterable, and mechanic wise good implemented. Bloomhunger is the opposite. Worst implementation in mmo-scape i’ve seen.
My dream punishment for the lead dev: he is forced to pug with ppl who only own the game for 1 month, and he must succeed Bloomhunger 10 in a day at lvl 77+. My brain says he will fail (and he should know every mechanic very well). That doesn’t correspond with community tuned instance, but more like a dev experiment. Failed experiment if i may say so.
PS there bug where the whisps (that if not place wiped the party) do not work, is the worst bug in the world. You first invent a world breakign hard boss, to then BUG ppl who are an inch away from succes. Unintended or not, shipping like this, kill the love for gw2 in me.
I am not sure if we played the same fractal, but i duod the fractal yesterday on an ele/ele setup.
Legendary weapons aswell and fractalleaderboard…. the list is long
I love the Mesmers playing with persisting images trait
One of the small elite team who isn´t affected by idiocy.
unless they changed pistol whip(pw) on tuesday’s patch, I am 99% confident that pw does not break deep freeze stun. I always do instant double freeze on mossman/ first archie with thieves guild, mug, double PW, and warrior tremor. Everywhere else defiant stripping in my opinion is a waste of time.
CCs that remove Defiance won’t break the Deep Freeze. If whatever you’re fighting doesn’t have Defiance, is Deep Frozen, and you CC it again, then it will break the Deep Freeze.
Use your brain, [Stuns overwrite Stuns] so if you use the Basilisk Venom CC it will break the deep Freeze….
I dont like that you try to compare two different things.
The Fractal Change gonna be to make Fractals “harder” while the PvP change were Made to make it Possible to reach rank 80.
But the PvP Change made it far to easy to reach rank 80.
Same gonna be with Fractal Change, 1island = 1fractal is an stupid idea.
Did you tried Nomad stats already?
Most of the fights don’t need a second Icebow. For the small number of fight that do need it here my strategy.
I replace my shortbow with D/P since I usually don’t need to blast anything. Start the fight in D/P, use the Icebow, drop the Icebow, strip quicky 3-4 Defiant (depending on the rest of the team), then switch immediatly to D/D for the rest of the fight. That way I lose dps only in a small window, while still stripping boons. It is probably more efficient if everybody participate in the stripping, but it can be hard to coordinate so that you don’t overstrip.
Anyway, In guild run I usually run with D/D – D/P and almost never bring Shortbow because I use Black Powder and my group blast in it. I usually only take shortbow for a moment when we need to make 2 stealth in less than 30sec.
Its more dps if the one who dropped deep freezes you start defiance dtripping go to D/D AND USE THE 5 then pick up icebow deepfreeze and do the icestorm. On this way you have chained freezes perfectly and you got the revealed buff for icebow 4
Double Freeze is not needed in dungeons ever the only place where its “needed” is at Mossman and uncategorized champions and even there its just a matter of Steal+Scorpwire+Basilisk Venom together with what the team has.
You know that Basilisk breaks Icebowstun?
Finally someone who uses his Feedback for DPS. I were always wondering why all mesmer use it just randomly. Also great time good Job.
That a Mesmer can replace a Guardian is wrong, but a mesmer can easily replace an thief and do a better job in every Fractal except Ascalon, Mai Trin and Jade Maw
Hmm, reflects, condi cleanse, blinding, pulling mobs together, stability, boon rip, portal, stealth, quickness, party-wide evade on demand.
You dont have a Big access to Aegis. But you are right Mesmer is a Great addition to the party thats why i said you can replace Thief in fractals by a mesmer this would make the Fractals shorter if your mesmer is able to use his Portal.
Pretty much everytime I’m at the Molten Duo fractals boss, I randomly start taking high damage ticks + burning. The combat log says it’s the Firestorm’s fireball that is damaging me but there is clearly no AoE or anything nearby.
Is there any way to avoid this? Are his fireballs meant to still have damaging hitboxes even after their visual indicator is gone? I find it very detrimental to gameplay.
Afaik there is no way to avoid it. Sometimes there are invisible aoes …..
Just whip it all day erry day. While headshot is faster for defiance stripping you’ll be doing 0 dmg and there’s rarely a need to get then down immediately. Not to mention other classes have cc in their dps rotations/are very low cast time so they can just as easily take off a few stacks.
I hate playing with thieves whenever I’m on my ranger, makes it impossible to use path of scars without CCing the boss.
GG you broke the Icebowstun with your recommendation.
@OP never use Pistolwhip it overwrites stunand takes to long.
That a Mesmer can replace a Guardian is wrong, but a mesmer can easily replace an thief and do a better job in every Fractal except Ascalon, Mai Trin and Jade Maw
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Typo ^^
And use #5 on mai makes me rip her stacks faster than aything else, since I tank her in the spot without need to move away. Of course, vapor form also works, but cd’s.
For what do you need to tank? Stay close to her untill elctric field comes then go range (while she is doing melee attack) and block her teleporting shot she will stay in the whole aoe without any tanking needed.
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The underlying problem with Frost Bow is that it is validating the Conjure category almost on its own. Once, long ago, and possibly now in some niche roles, the Lightning Hammer would be conjured. Not so much now. Earth Shield? Hah! Lava Axe? Shadap! Bring Frost Bow #4 into line? RIP conjures.
Why has it taken this long for ANet to publicly aknowledge (then backtrack) on the frost bow? Well, track record. It took them 2 years to fix FGS. It wasn’t (just) imbalanced, it was demonstrably broken.
Why will Frost Bow be much longer to fix it? Much like FGS, trying to fix the bow has exposed underlying weaknesses inherent in the conjure category. The thing needs more than a few tweaks to damage/projectile count, almost every skill on it would probably need to be looked at to compensate. Then this opens the can of worms labelled “What about the rest of the conjures that almost nobody uses?”. Bam! 4x the work. Cue someone in management at ANet shaking their head and shuffling this to the bottom of the pile.
Sorry, but if you really see things into this way, you surely don’t know how to play elementalist.
I agree that Ice Bow is the most used, mainly on group dungeons due to its fast burst damage. But calling that none of the other weapons are used, or have uses? Guys, there’s a lot more content into the game than just dungeons, and anet don’t need to patch everything into one unique gameplay aspect. No matter how thye “Balance”, there will ALWAYS have some particular skill that are better than other, and thus will be more viable and always chosen.
As a ele main, I say to you that I still run Lightining hammer on solo battles A LOT, due to his nice dps and stuns. I still Use earth Shield every time I get mai trin, because the Earth shield #4 has a inciridble powerful invulnerable effeect that allows me tank mai into the aoe area to rip their stacks off. I also use FGS very regularly on open pve (Mainly for movment, I admit), only fire axe that I never tried to be honest.
So coming here saying “Ice bow need nerf to give more usability to other conjures” is just very overseen.
There are a lot of types of game content out there, its not only based on dungeons. And even if you nerf Ice bow (What would be very unfair), it would just make another meta skill in its place, not variability.
Ye i see how exp. you are. The invuln skill on earth shield is #5. Nevertheless skill #4 is also great as a pull if u have no guard or mesmer. And using earthshield for Mai Trin is an horrible decision.
You should always buy Fractals 40+50
LH Scepter Builds are since the new traitsystem an horrible dicision. Better take a Staff
The most effective way is to stealth at first, then freeze the boss out of stealth and right after that pull the 2 quaggans to the boss with binding blades or mesmer focus. Then the ele should use his chillfield so that the quaggans dont run away. Bring Stability because the quaggans knock down. In a high dps team at least the 2 quaggans will be dead or almost dead after a few seconds of burst.
However, i wouldn’t expect this from a pug.
Isnt that exactly what i suggested already?
I dont know for what you need Reflects at this boss???
Another Strategy is to freeze the boss and if you have mesmer or guard to pull them together. then you dps with icebows and meteor. To prevent quaggans to moove away from aoe you can place chillfield as elementalist.
I don’t know, either. I’m just trying to figure out what kills everybody and why they stack and fail… and how the majority expect this fight to go. I haven’t run this a lot, but I thought people brought reflects for the boss’s icy breath. It’s possible that pug groups just aren’t bringing enough DPS to stack. Judging by the number of views vs responses, it doesn’t seem like a lot of others know either.
You cant reflect anything at this boss afaik. The reason why some pugs may place their a Wall of Reflection is the same reason why they place one at Arah p3 Endboss, Pure inexperience. You want to kill the Quaggans first in this boosfight. The easiest way in my eyes to do that is to group all 3champions and killthem with Icebows + Meteorshower.
Another way for an low Dps group is to pull quaggans out and kill them first..
This Path is indeed obe of thoose who gets only runned rarely like se p2 for example.
I dont know for what you need Reflects at this boss???
Another Strategy is to freeze the boss and if you have mesmer or guard to pull them together. then you dps with icebows and meteor. To prevent quaggans to moove away from aoe you can place chillfield as elementalist.
Wh are you acting so rude after i asked a few general questions
Quick question since i am not playing for so long. Where can i vote for the Players/Guilds voting for thoose rulesets?
Guilds that participate in records (set a record) are invited to vote. So basically get involved and have your voice heard.
And there is only 1 record needed? Also if the record , lets say, 1 year old is? That diesnt sound very good if guilds are still voting for rules who arent good in pve anymore.
Quick question since i am not playing for so long. Where can i vote for the Players/Guilds voting for thoose rulesets?
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