Guild Wars 2

Specially D/X variants are free food for DH, we have to be in melee range and we don’t have enough stability to get out of their traps.

The thing is none build steorotype based power damage will work for Ele, even Scepter is not working, because we have 4 attunements Devs are fearing to put any sort of power coefficient to our attacks.

You want proof look to 100b or eviscerate, does ele has any attack that can dish 5K damage every 8s? anything close is 5K Firegrab if all the stars align and that is on 40s CD.

We deal our damage with burning and some power damage but guess what it is bloody hard to build burn pressure with Tempest, you have to go in xxxxxx deep in to deliver burning, if you go with D/F in, you commit, you can’t disengage and you die.

D/D can disengage but A/E/T is not tanky/sustain enough to play also.

I can see the Mojo of Tempest and I have only one big complain left over.

To make Tempest useful you have to give up Arcana and Water (only fresh air make use overload bearable because of that 20s Attunement CD ) and you have to completely rely heal on Auras to survive.

Here come the problem, you only get the Aura and Heal at successful completion of the Overload and with 1 stack of stability that is not happening most of the time. So just to be able cast guaranteed overload you have to stay at back line but AOE effect radius of Overload is not big enough you stay backline and hit enemy or support you team mates.

Either put the Aura/Heal at the beginning of the Overload cast or make the radius of the Overloads bigger because if I go with 1 stacks stability in the middle of fight it is nearly %100 guaranteed that I can’t finish that cast and get a heal.

And guess what happens to an Elemantalist that can’t heal himself, a sack of potatoes says anything to you?

Aegis is more than once then every 20s, you get one every 20s from virtue courage, every 15s one from blocking(mace block/focus block) and one from shout so you can rotate every 10s an Aegis prevent damage and heal also.

It is sad that Guardian, which my opinion only class that is originally designed by ANet to be closest to be classic Tank from other MMOs does not getting a consideration for tanking in raids says a lot about the problems we have at GW2 and state of Guardian specially.

DH or kick, men I love this game, 1000s of build combinations from gear and traits, only one viable build, I guess that must be balancing.

Hmmm, I thinking I making the mistake of assuming the raids has already boon sharing for 10 people, wasn’t this way.

I was sure that I read or heard this from a Guild Wars stream.

If not that it sucks that raids should have 2 mesmer/2 heralds for guaranteed spots for alacrity/boon sharing

Miku Lawrence.6329:

Issues can be several : People don’t know where to put chrono in a raid party ; Chronos not knowing their rotation ; People being hell slow to run back in melee and those getting ported because they can’t sidestep doesn’t add value to alacrity.

Not everyone benefits from it either, so if you have a PoV of a revenant, most likely he wasn’t teamed with Chrono and alacrity went to the other party in priority.

That brings us in an interesting question.

Does alacrity is a boon or not? If quickness is a boon, I would expect that alacrity to be one also and to be shared to the whole squad.

If not what is the boon/alacrity sharing rules in a squad?

Lets say top row is 5 people and bottom row is 5 people in GUI and the mesmer is at the bottom group, so only bottom group shares alacrity?

I think alacrity should go to 10 people otherwise it will guarantee 2 Mesmer spots on a raid and that is not fair.

Moss.5371:

But there’s plenty of kills with chronomancer? Even with chronomancer tanking. There was one with 2 of them too!

I am sure people use Chronomancers but as I said I don’t see peoples skillbars the effects of alacrity or quickness, I expect to have at %50 uptime for alacrity, but I see mostly 5s there, then none.

Well only thing I can imagine, Time Warp to be super duper effective will be for the builds with strong auto attacks like Revenant Sword auto chain , may be Necro Dagger chain, Mesmer sword is not bad also think because quickness helps mostly auto attack chain but I think Warrior/Ele/etc AA are mehhhh.

Think about gravedigger spammed in every 1s instead of 2s under quickness, I am seeing 25K hits from grave digger spam under %50 HP.

what ANet wants

Ok, the raids are released and now everybody shocked with the amount of the DPS requirements to beat the enrage timers. Mostly that means 8 super duper DPS full zerker or full condition, 1 healer and 1 quasi tank/dps.

All the streams and youtube kill videos one thing surprise me, lack of use of Chronomancers, alacrity and quickness use.

When I watch the videos my expectation is to see everybody under perma alacrity and quite big time under quickness while chronomancer can provide every 60s or so aTime Warp.

If you look to fights, there are always phases the boss CCed or locked to one place that you can drop Time Warp and alacrity which will increase the DPS like crazy.

I think if the people will follow this way, this might remove the stress of being super squishy to meet the DPS requirements and less stressful and annoyed raid environments.

If the people can get used to using alacrity and quickness, the fight will be like having 9 mins enrage timers, instead of 6:30.

The thing, people will soon start complaining about the enrage timers to be nerfed but I am sure ANet can do that or not because a group that can use alacrity make the fight a joke.

My 2 cents.

I like to formulate the question this way.

In my opinion tank/healer guardian actually is so powerful, specially on first boss you can go with 1 Tank/Healer Guardian and 9 DPS.

The reason I am asking this, we have a such big competition from the Druid at the moment we are not even considered for the position, with symbols healing, Agis Healing, providing Aegis, blocking for group. heal from Virtues of Resolve for the group, heal on dodge, heal to full with signet elite, we push insane amount of healing and when there are 5 people are arounds that we are giving boons, we are not killable.

But we are not even coming to discussion in the same sentence for healing position, I now that in raids boon sharing is for 10 people now but I am not sure the limit for symbols are increased to 10 or not? If they are, I believe you can go in with 1 tank/healer guardian and 9 DPS to that instance and go victorious.

With the todays nerf to Druid, ‘Druid: Astral Force is no longer gained when healing a target that is already at full health’ may be we will comeback into the discussion.

DnT is a funny group, they have really an overblown opinion about themselves.

Like nobody else can do it, if they can’t manage to do it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/swtor/comments/1gh423/dread_guard_council_at_nightmare_is_down_first_in/

cursE.1794:

UA; 50% damage reduction on a skill that can largely be evaded through a dodge seems excessive.

There we have it folks. A skill is not op as long as it could be dodged.

/facepalm

I don’t know how often I’ve read kittened stuff like this when folks found an op class and are desperately defending it with ridiculous points like “it could be dodged”. Because these folks really think that the class is actually balanced and it’s their super-ninja skills that let them dominate pvp. This is why you cannot expect a serious balancing discussion in the corresponding subforum, you need to post it in the “pvp” subforum.

With your logic an Engineer/Guardian/Warrior can block the whole duration of sword 3, should I go to their forum and say their block skills are OP.

When I play any of these class and I play against Rev, I know that sword 3 will come at some point and I have those things for that, problem solved.

This has nothing do with skill, this has completely related how the developers design the game.

If you get constant damage you can’t deal that with your description of skill (which is nothing more knowing the animation and dodge which comes from repetition and that is being a robot doing the same content for 1000 times, interesting that some people can define this playing game and having fun, it looks like more job description to me).

Doing the same run with the berserker gear with same strats over and over is so brain dead that I can’t describe.

I don’t die to play a healer or tank, it is just when I am doing that content over and over, I just like to experience something different.

And this not having holy trinity in GW2, is nothing but a marketing move to bypass the problems the others MMO having by waiting as a DPS for Tank/Healers to do a content.

At the end, what we have an one sided game people just clicking 3 buttons to explode something, then get bored and leave the game.

Ok I am no warrior expert but I remember my Eviscerates was hitting like 7K before specialization patch but now I can’ t exceed 5K, was it so OP to be nerfed that much?

I mean it has such big telegraph but hits like wet noodle.

So if I can land eviscerate and GS2 I can deal around 12K damage but this is a big if even with that damage, I am useless next 8s because all the rest hits like wet noodle also.

12K damage every 8s isn’t little bit pathetic? A Mesmer also has burst cycles but it can instagib somebody in his burst cycle ´, with Warrior you deal 12K and you say now what? Off course you can cheese rampage every 100s or but does Warrior hsa to suck because of Rampage?

Enaretos.8079:

Amineo.8951:

You’re lying, I’m sure you bought gems and exchanged these for money, there’s no way you can get a legendary in a week that way and that’s not playing…

Anyone with a decent amount of motivation can make ridiculous amounts per hour. I remember my first of trading as being the best of my life : started with 200g, got to 2K and made a Sunrise. A month after I reiterated, made 2K gold again, made Twilight.

It’s not hard if you really know what you’re doing and you don’t need to spend a dime on gems, although I occasionally do it when ArenaNet releases something I like as my way to support the game.

Playing the TP is playing the game, just more efficiently. An hour of TP a day and then you never need gold again and can sincerely enjoy the game without always being worried about your gold per hour

With the current state of the TP GUI, it is a big pain in the kitten , I played flip wars, I have to sit 6 hours against TP GUI and flip. That is sick, I playing to have fun, not to stare some stupid GUI for 6 hours.

When they published the API to put items in TP outside of the game I will do it again but for the reason I mentioned is the reason they will never do it because I can do it from my handy, etc without logging to the game.

NovaanVerdiano.6174:

posthumecaver.6473:

At the initial release of the HoT jungle was hard but now it is really watered down and now it is typical pre HoT.

You know what to dodge nothing will happen you, the problem with GW2 there is either one shot damage or not damage.

A healer can not to anything for one shot damage and it can’t do anything for no damage.

A healer can only do something, if there is continuous source of small damage or more frequent attacks with smaller damages, which we don’t have at the moment, until we have it, there is no need for a healer.

People hate so much tanks/healers in this game that ministrel amulet removed from the game in one week. It is better have 1000s of hybrid that can self heal and do damage then having this 2 stereotypes.

I am waiting for 3 years these 2 stereotypes to have an existence reason in this game other wise lets delete the skills and gears for those, there is no reason to confuse new players…..

This game has no classic trinity and will never have, if you’re looking for that go play something else.

I don’t care what you think, I only care what ANet thinks.

They have to explain me the dilemma, if they don’t want healers/tanks in this game, why did invest so much time to develop those skills and gear because with your logic there is no reason for those to exist ‘There is no trinity lets delete those skills and gear’.

If ANet is ready to loose that paying population lets say %10, sure I can go and play another game.

Run with Cavalier armor and SR/Blood Magic/Death Magic, 2 wells and take one for the team.

In all the matches I am top damage received but it took the enemy team so much time to kill me because that armor and constant protection, my team decimates the other team.

And when I drop my 2 wells, quickness and %70 crit chance in DS, actually you don’t want to be on me but hey, Necro is an easy kill isn’t? Reverse psychology

At the initial release of the HoT jungle was hard but now it is really watered down and now it is typical pre HoT.

You know what to dodge nothing will happen you, the problem with GW2 there is either one shot damage or not damage.

A healer can not to anything for one shot damage and it can’t do anything for no damage.

A healer can only do something, if there is continuous source of small damage or more frequent attacks with smaller damages, which we don’t have at the moment, until we have it, there is no need for a healer.

People hate so much tanks/healers in this game that ministrel amulet removed from the game in one week. It is better have 1000s of hybrid that can self heal and do damage then having this 2 stereotypes.

I am waiting for 3 years these 2 stereotypes to have an existence reason in this game other wise lets delete the skills and gears for those, there is no reason to confuse new players…..

Lol, sword 3, you know that skill deals 10K damage in 2s, so it has a DPS of 5K auto attacking with quickness does more damage per s.

People see the evades and think they are destroyed with, if there is a 2nd target in the vicinity that skill flat out sucks.

And Hammer 2, you know that you can only be hit with on of the hits, if you are under 240 range you will be hit like 2K damage and at 900 %K damage every 2s that is 2.5K DPS at 900 and 1K at 240 and it has such a long cast time crying for dodge me/dodge me and bugs all the time because of the ground.

I will tell you only this, don’t heal the herald to full and he will die like a stone.

Agemnon.4608:

I remember a thread asking how they could get the phoenix finisher without going into sPvP. It comically missed the point because the entire point of the finisher is to say, “I have achieved this rank in sPvP.”

For ascended crafting if you aren’t willing to put in the work required to make the gear then you don’t deserve it. You must earn your ascended gear. I have sacrificed many great weapon skins and dyes for the sake of completing ascended crafting, and I only have two pieces left. With four bolts of Damask and Elonian squares I’m so close to the finish line for completing cloth gloves and shoulders. Just put in the work and the ascended will come.

Uhm, I just ask the price and I am getting grind lectures.

I just want to know is it a bad time to do this or not?

When I will PVP enough I will get the mats again, I don’t need a mindless grind, it will happen when it will happen.

IAMANDLOVE.3095:

if u cant grind, then dont play mmo!

Uhm, as I said for 2 pieces I didn’t have to grind at all, 3 years of PVP was enough for that.

And I get my gold by flipping when I wait for queue pop up, so no worries.

I just want to know these were the regular prices or with the release of the HoT it is extremely bad time to do this.

Misguided.5139:

Actually, that sounds low. The insgnias alone would cost more than that to buy the patches. The patches themselves are a new thing. Pre-Hot it would have been 3 damask, but they wanted to drive up the cost of leather.

Edit: “pieces” made me think armor, but you didn’t actually say what you were trying to craft

Yeah Armor and you are right I mistakenly said just the cost of the insigna, final armor cost must be even higher.

I am mainly PVP player, in last 3 years I never brought any of my crafting to 500 but then with new Elite specs I got a special interest to Chronomancer and like to try it in PVE.

So I didn’t like to to drop 20-30 gold to exotics, I said let spend the gold to craft ascended set so I can transfer it between my toons.

After 3 years playing the game and salvaging mostly PVP stuff, with the mats in my bank I was able to craft 2 pieces without buying anything from TP.

Now that I am out of mats, I checked the prices on TP and if my calculations are not wrong it a piece costs around 55 golds.

Was it always this expansive of this is HoT inflation? Now I am not sure I want to drop 300 gold to this project.

Arantheal.7396:

posthumecaver.6473:

Arantheal.7396:

posthumecaver.6473:

Arantheal.7396:

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So explaining why his method is flawed does not contribute to showing why his method is flawed? It got posted by me in this thread already:

“Welp, that gives you your actual dps, but keep in mind that it is heavily influenced by
- your personal skill-level – the ability to execute the rotations perfectly to all times (or not)
- your groups skill level – the ability to keep you buffed and on +90% health to all time, while keeping the boss debuffed
- RNG – the amount of times you’re forced to dodge due to Gw2’s random agro system choosing you as its victim
- More RNG – the engine throwing dices for your current weapon strength modifier”

“If you ask me, both methods are needed.
…Just don’t make the same mistake as nemesis and start the clock in the buff-phase^^”

I feel sincerely sorry for you that you had to deal with unfriendly people, abusing this math to discriminate others. This is not fair, nor very reasonable, as you’ve found out yourself already by running fractals without meta-heads.
And even tho you seem to be a fan of nemesis, don’t repeat his mistake of assuming that neutral math can harass people.
Keep thinking for yourself and make up your mind on your own. If you enjoy his builds, keep running them, just don’t follow him into this abyss of paranoia, drama and public shaming attacks.
Jftr, I am male, don’t support tumblr-tier feminism and definitively don’t support their methods of attacking people when they oppose their opinion. Nemesis on the other hand ripped posts from this forum out of context, publicly presented them in his channel, and now tries to let me appear as someone speaking out of his kitten .
And once I start to defend myself, my point & my reputation, he rallies his followers to silence the opposition. At least that’s what your post appears as.
I don’t know you, I don’t know your intend, and i couldn’t care less. But you display a very worrisome behavior if you think a random youtuber needs your call for silence when he’s about to get the short stick in a debate.

Mate the guy took the videos of the world record kill videos, by definition of the people who posted those videos are Elites, I think they are not considering themselves as scrubs who can’t follow their rotation but you are defining them kitten…

You have to clear with those people why do insult them this way but this is your problem.

But what you are doing here is only rhetoric and trolling nothing more..

And don’t concern yourself to much about my situation, just try to feel for the people who were kicked out from group while they just played a certain class.

Wait wait wait, how exactly do you think I’ve insulted anyone displayed in these videos?
Further, what lets you assume that all footage was taken from actual world record runs?
Brazil already stated that his warrior footage was taken from a guide-video where he didn’t even tried to perform on record level.

Get your sources straight, and PM nemesis to send you the source of every single clip he used. Then look up the sources and ask the owners of said footage what it was about, speedrun or not.
THEN you can come back and accuse me of insulting others, while telling me who exactly I appear to have insulted.

…Which I then will respond with " How can stating the fact that reality is imperfect be a insult", but we can save that for later, once you’re actually back from your educational journey.

…Listing facts is considered trolling nowadays…
What are they teaching people in schools!?

Also, just to make one thing clear:
You don’t get kicked from parties just for your class, if you read & meet the lfg or put up your own. If people don’t ask for your favorite class, respect their right to play the game however they want.
I feel sorry for people who get ridiculed on the forums or in mapchat for playing a certain class, but someone who forces himself into a group that did not ask for him or his build definitively doesn’t deserve any tears to be cried after them.
You have always the freedom to set up your own LFG. No one is preventing you from playing the game how you want.

More rhetoric, more trolling, more elitism….

Prove the calculations are wrong then we can speak again….

Arantheal.7396:

posthumecaver.6473:

Arantheal.7396:

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So explaining why his method is flawed does not contribute to showing why his method is flawed? It got posted by me in this thread already:

“Welp, that gives you your actual dps, but keep in mind that it is heavily influenced by
- your personal skill-level – the ability to execute the rotations perfectly to all times (or not)
- your groups skill level – the ability to keep you buffed and on +90% health to all time, while keeping the boss debuffed
- RNG – the amount of times you’re forced to dodge due to Gw2’s random agro system choosing you as its victim
- More RNG – the engine throwing dices for your current weapon strength modifier”

“If you ask me, both methods are needed.
…Just don’t make the same mistake as nemesis and start the clock in the buff-phase^^”

I feel sincerely sorry for you that you had to deal with unfriendly people, abusing this math to discriminate others. This is not fair, nor very reasonable, as you’ve found out yourself already by running fractals without meta-heads.
And even tho you seem to be a fan of nemesis, don’t repeat his mistake of assuming that neutral math can harass people.
Keep thinking for yourself and make up your mind on your own. If you enjoy his builds, keep running them, just don’t follow him into this abyss of paranoia, drama and public shaming attacks.
Jftr, I am male, don’t support tumblr-tier feminism and definitively don’t support their methods of attacking people when they oppose their opinion. Nemesis on the other hand ripped posts from this forum out of context, publicly presented them in his channel, and now tries to let me appear as someone speaking out of his kitten .
And once I start to defend myself, my point & my reputation, he rallies his followers to silence the opposition. At least that’s what your post appears as.
I don’t know you, I don’t know your intend, and i couldn’t care less. But you display a very worrisome behavior if you think a random youtuber needs your call for silence when he’s about to get the short stick in a debate.

Mate the guy took the videos of the world record kills, by definition of the people who posted those videos are Elites, I think they are not considering themselves as scrubs who can’t follow their rotation but you are defining them kitten…

You have to clear with those people why do insult them this way but this is your problem.

But what you are doing here is only rhetoric and trolling nothing more..

And don’t concern yourself to much about my situation, just try to feel for the people who were kicked out from group while they just played a certain class.

And I am not fanboy from anybody, if you succeed to prove Nemesis is wrong with calculations, I will be first person to tell him, he is wrong with his calculations. I guess a fanboy will not do this.

Arantheal.7396:

Nemesis.8593:

You have seen my videos with your own eyes and you know i do not start the clock at prebuffing… in addition to that I have told you 5 times already that i do not start the clock when buffing starts… i only did it once to show what kind of a DPS loss prebuffing actually is.

Nowhere have you ever stated that this is a one time thing, and when we had our little dispute yesterday you even tried to defend your method as valid once again…

Nemesis.8593:

You also saw the real DPS values of the world records, which you now claim no one has done… you also saw the real DPS values of icebow and how it carried people at bosses with a large enough hitbox.

Err, no. What i saw in your videos were you claiming this constantly verbally, while some random fights against mossman /bloomhunger were running in the background. Nor have I ever claimed that no one used icebows. What I told you way back is that linecasting was despised upon by the community when it came to record kills. You maybe mix me up with other people.

Nemesis.8593:

I have told you all of these a couple of times already every time you try to contradict me, besides the fact you have seen these facts with your own eyes…
You also have no records, no guides no nothing… you probably never even did any math on your own.

I have not tried to contradict you, I simply pointed out where the flaws in your method are. This has nothing to do with the person using these flawed methods. You make this a personal thing, and I still don’t see a reason why I should care enough about you to attack your personally. If anything, your behavior is worrisome from a observer POV.
Also yes, I don’t publish spreadsheets usually, but I have tons of build-recommendations in my post-history, mainly because I rather come up with individualized builds in PvP situations, a place where dps is only a small portion of your concerns. Feel free to look them up.
Besides, explain me what my publish-behavior has to do with the validation of my points? Why do I have to be a avid user of a method in order to understand & utilize it when needed? Does that mean you have even less of a clue than me, since you straight up refuse to use it?

All you do is contradict me with 100% false claims and provide others with misleading information… straight up teaching them bad things with 0 proof to back up anything you claim.

Nope, that’s solely your business.
- You start the clock at random times.
- Tell people your actual dps is what they can expect to meet always, instead of spreadsheet math (mistake here is that there is no one playing like you, since everybody has unique skill-levels & unique RNG outcomes, so no one will ever meet your numbers as well)
- Use RNG as argument why spreadsheets will never reflect reality and right after that try to use exactly this – theoretical calculations – to build the RNG of dodges into normalized calculation models.

Nemesis.8593:

Why isn’t this against regulations ?…

“Providing misleading information nonstop” should be against the rules on this forum.

It is, guess why you get banned so often. But misleading information is not what you think it is, it is constantly derailing threads with ad-hominems & public shaming attacks. Could you maybe stop using these vicious methods and rely on the content of you points only? I don’t know if you realize that, but you keep attacking those who disagree with you, constantly. Look up in the rest of the thread, where I had civil discussion with others. Have you seen me jumping their throat for disagreeing with me?

Here’s a question for you since you are so “happy to help”.

What’s the damage rotation behind the 25K DPS revenant ?
(I bet you are going to look it up right now and make a comeback…)

You have absolutely no idea what’s in those spreadsheets or how they reached those numbers or why… but you continue to make assumption after assumption after assumption…

You’re right, I don’t play revenant currently, so I’ve not looked up how meta-builds look like for it. But if you want to, I could give you my interpretation of what it says about sinister engi, since I was personally very interested in that topic.
As stated above, I don’t use the meta that often, still the content of the spreadsheets is very easily understandable. I mean, there are literally just the continuous calculation of 4 values, generated by your gear-choice + individual formulas for each condition type.
What is there, so complicated that I wouldn’t understand it unless I crunch the numbers 24/7 for 2 years^^

I think i’m getting a headache again, there’s simply too many “experts” who don’t even have the slightest idea what damage rotation were used in the spreadsheets but they continue to make claims… X is better then Y, this is better then that… you should do this and that…

No idea if you even address me with that, but if you do, read my posts again. You might learn a thing or two. Also, quit the constant ad-hominem. It just derails threads & leads towards infractions for both of us and anyone else who steps down to your level.

Just to remember you where I came from:
You compared your high-dps necro to a warri buff-support build, and told everybody that your higher personal dps on your necro build were reason enough to push phalanx strength warris out of the meta, using your flawed dmg calculation model. This was literally the point of your first video, and the first time I responded to you, because it seemed odd to me.
I challenged this, by pointing out the flaws in both your method and your final conclusion. You decided to call me troll, and ripped my posts out of context, even trying to publicly shame me in your 3rd clip by publicly posting them on youtube.
And this very behavior is prohibited by the CoC of these forums, sadly it didn’t happen on these forums…
Hence we’re sitting here, me defending myself against the public shame attack of a random youtuber, that is trapped in his own limited mindset of how dps-calculations and the meta in general have to look like.
And you… no idea what you’re up to still. Clicks? Money from dulfy for your builds? Just the comfy feeling of being perceived as right? I sincerely have no idea.
You wouldn’t get all these headaches if you’d not have attacked me – and others – personally in the first place.

I love your stereotype of men in the internet.

I follow Nemesis since he published this video.

It was fresh breath for me, to play something different and also see that there are other people think like this, GW2 can’t consist of Berserker, Berserker,……

Since then I used this build all the time in Fractals, with advertising, “come with me, you will not die and we will finish the fractal” and all the people who were kicked from other groups, necros, rangers but also meta glass cannons joined me and we finished the fractals instead of hours of wiping with PUG groups. Sure will it be slower then speed run meta battle group but it chances of finishing a fractal is much higher then a PUG wiping over and over.

When I argument it in the forums, ok my DPS is not existent but you will do DPS much more when I am around people ridiculed me.

Those beliefs were because of those spreadsheets telling a Warrior will do 14K DPS but mentioning nothing about it is not doable when you are at down state half of the time.

Now, Nemesis did the hard work and added one by one every single damage entry in the combat log to calculate the real dps of those classes plus the augmented effect of the Ice Bow.

So anybody who wants to prove he speaks BS or he is wrong with his calculations has to just the proof of his work which is calculate the numbers in the combat log.

So if you are coming out here and saying, his all work is BS but you have no proof, this is just hot air.

If you are not doing this proof work you are either.
- You know his results are correct and you are just trolling here.
- Or you are just lazy.

In both case silence is golden.

Guys, why are you searching reasons to grind, just play the game, I am at the 2nd map, I even didn’t rush to open other maps.

Just play the game, you will get the masteries one day.

Personally, I do META events until I am bored, then go to fractals when bored from those, when I am done with them some PVP, when that is done some Teqahl/Karka Queen gold rush, when that is done, legendary hunt….

There is no reason to grind like mad to get that 160 MPs, play the game you will get there one day eventually.

SchmendrickTheMagician.8247:

posthumecaver.6473:

SchmendrickTheMagician.8247:

Problem with shiro/glint rev is that they are so incredibly tanky in MARAUDER amulet even. Their sustain needs nerfs. Problem with rev though is that all other legends are basically underpowered. Jalis is useful only for the elite, Mallyx got gutted when the self-conditioning and condition-sharing was taken away, and Ventari was bad from the start.

Which sustain are you actually speaking of mate?

Do you mean, they heal to full when you attack them during the glint heal? If you say yes I will not ask any further question.

2x ~6k heal and long block from Shield #5
~2k heal from staff #4
very low cooldown block on staff #3
semi-spammable evade+stunbreak in shiro
12 second cooldown evade that does tons of damage and stacks might

Uhmm, you lost me,

does this count as sustain now?

“very low cooldown block on staff #3
semi-spammable evade+stunbreak in shiro
12 second cooldown evade that does tons of damage and stacks might”

So the thief with most evades has the most sustain now?

“2x ~6k heal and long block from Shield #5” these are at 25s CD and on most of the time is a death sentence because when you are rooted you will be loaded with condis with competent people and that 4K heal will disappear in a nano second.

“~2k heal from staff #4” that is what on 20s CD and 2K heal, common…..

When you say D/D has too much sustain it is OK but compared to that Revenant sustain is a joke.

Hi guys,

a quick question for Chronomancer gear.

A while ago I asked a question about Chronomancer at the following thread ‘http://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/professions/mesmer/Chronomancer-build-for-BWE3’ and got some awesome answers like

Xstein.2187:

So, you can do something like quickly summon some illusions pop continuum split. Quickly use mimic, well of recall, well of action, well of eternity, time warp, continuum shift, mimic, well of recall, well of action, well of eternity, time warp. Of course, its suggested you save time warp for another continuum shift since it has such a long cool down. However, this rotation gives 28 seconds of quickness, 28 seconds of alacrity, gives a bunch of healing, removes 6 conditions, gives 24 seconds of slow, provides chill for 20 seconds, and does a little bit extra damage. Most fights don’t last this long, so its best to utilize your skills and rotations to save cool downs based on the length of the fight. However, this shows you can easily make actions 50% faster and reduce skill cool downs by 66% for a full encounter on your allies. By doing this, in another thread, it has been calculated that it is theoretically possible for a chronomancer and 4 eles to out dps 5 eles. Same applies to other group compositions, eles just provide the most standard dps out of the classes.

I finally brought my Mesmer to 80 and I will get the gear, the question is, in HoT area it seems like squishiness is not good and I feeling that a lot with my Revenant, I geared him as a Berserker and I regret it a lot but I don’t want to invest another set of gear at the moment.

So for me the question is, what to do with Mesmer, it seems absurd not to gear a Mesmer as a berserker but I don’t want to do die in HoT areas every second that a mob looks my direction.

So what is your advice?

SchmendrickTheMagician.8247:

Problem with shiro/glint rev is that they are so incredibly tanky in MARAUDER amulet even. Their sustain needs nerfs. Problem with rev though is that all other legends are basically underpowered. Jalis is useful only for the elite, Mallyx got gutted when the self-conditioning and condition-sharing was taken away, and Ventari was bad from the start.

Which sustain are you actually speaking of mate?

Do you mean, they heal to full when you attack them during the glint heal? If you say yes I will not ask any further question.

Ohh another MMO player with the urgency of “I press 3 buttons everything should explode”.

Sry, I enjoy lot more to res my ally in the middle of 3 peoples cleave. For me it is more exciting then clicking 3 buttons and instagib people.

Only thing you have to watch is not heal them full with Glint heal, they are so squishy that they will go like stone if they don’t get enough heal from it.

Ohhhh, Ministrel was not the reason the Druid OPness…. what a surprise…

Thank you for shafting bunker guardians for nothing.

I think only thing that can save Tempest to make Overload effect to drop some area and don’t follow you and you will be free from animation lock, do something else then being a Pinjata to other players.

I am know experimenting a version of D/D Tempest ,which actually play as D/D when I have more then one people on me, just pop the Overload/get Aura/get Heal stop Overload.

I need the RTL because the greatest weakness of Tempest is mobility, with D/D you RTL hell out there, heal to full and return to fight, so such a thing is possible with D/F…

I prefer an Overload that, lets say i drop to node then I am free to do what I want to do.

BMKLD.4602:

Laraley.7695:

to make fresh air zerker ele viable.

Before HoT came out, I quit the game due to the fact it just got extremely stale and nothing new was happening. After HoT came out, I stopped playing ele in every game mode and swapped to revenant. Not gonna say it’s bad, obviously it’s pretty fun, but today I thought I could mess around with the old fresh air build and I can tell you it made me realize how much fun it actually was. I miss playing it a lot. It’s lots of fun, but it’s just so weak.

I would like you to consider what direction you’re pushing this class. It goes from one support spec to another, witht little differences. I’m sure there are people who enjoy it and people who find tempest fun, but to me this support auramancer is the dullest build I’ve ever seen. It’s okay to have this for people who enjoy it, but for the love of god let us have at least one dps spec viable. Just one, it’s all I ask.

I’m not sure why fresh air never really got buffs like mesmers and other classes did, why it got rather nerfed, but zerker fresh air was just slowly losing viability with each buff other classes got. And in the end of the day ele couldn’t compete with buffed classes while itself it recieved pretty much nothing.

First of all, please fix scepter already. There have been tons and tons of threads and requrests and I really really cannot believe the weapon is still as bad as it was a year ago. The changes it got was rather a joke. And if I should be honest I rather dislike the change to Dragon’s tooth, I prefered when I was able to cast it from LOS, when it was faster and possible from any angle. Not asking for this to be reverted, just saying.

There really needs to be done something about ele survability. Base survability is pathetic, while traited it’s insanely strong. Why keep forcing eles into taking survability traits all the time? Why can’t eles run mostly dps stuff and be fine just like other classes? Why do we have no utility outside of support stuff? Why do we depend on boons so much? Why such high cooldowns on essential things? Why are all the AA’s on scepter so bad? All of this is the reason why fresh air zerker ele build is near to extinct.

Another huge issue is the fact it lacks sustained damage greatly. It’s almost hilarious marauder ele will have less damage than celestial specs. Yeah, it has burst, but one skill on 20 second cooldown is not really gonna cut it. Other than that? Some decent skills, a lot of trash skills, but in the end you just give up trying to deal any damage to people who facetank everything, but will still outsustain you. With all these high sustain high damage builds running around, ele can just alt f4. It doesn’t have enough damage, it doesn’t have enough sustain, nothing.

The spec has a lot of wrong with it right now and I’m not saying it needs to be this one exactly, but come on let us have a choice. If you need to revamp the class, I don’t care, just do something, please.

I really wanna play ele again.

I don’t get it, I’ve been playing fresh air Scepter/Dagger for more than a year now, mostly on fractals (just switching to Staff when needed). I have very decent survivability (3 heals + water switching, air 5 dodge, water 4 and earth 2 for damage reduction, vigor) as well as control. I do not feel like doing much more damage when I’m with staff. I’m at lvl 76 at fractals now and never felt useless.
What I feel like is that I do less damage overall than my warrior, but I offer much more utility

He is speaking about PVP, the combos you have to pull damage are 10 times harder then a Mesmer but Mesmer does have twice the damage and survivability of a fresh air scepter ele thx to invisiblity/clones and etc.

To play fresh air secpter ele is taking big risk, big risk must have big rewards but at the moment playing D/D is lower risk but has much higher rewards.

When this is not imbalance I don’t know what is.

Well only sustain Rev has the heal that heals them to full if you attack them in the duration.

Otherwise they have no sustain and condi cleanse, double dodge sword 3 and don’t east staff 5 then you are golden.

You know if the problem was abuse of one amulet they could put rules in ESL like they did for Vampire Runes or not more 3 of same class rule.

A team can only have one person with Ministrel Amu but no, instead a team who is running 4 hybrids/1 glass (which boring as hell also) refuse to the change it comp to deal with the problem but just complains it will make the game more boring. Wuttttt?

And for this bunker guardian is shafted that is what ticks. me

And for the guys who just wants to play pew pew builds and blow people off, there are also other people in the game that does want to play other play styles.

Support builds are already not wanted in PVE cause insta kick and now you say we don’t want them PVP also, so why we just don’t delete the steorotype and be done with it.

If you don’t respect what other people want why we would respect your wishes.

Do you enjoy beating people who does not know your profession mechanics.

Isn’t it more challenging fight more fun? Do you only prefer to faceroll the keyboard and win?

I would really like to hear your opinion on how you think the amulet helps game play. Especially from a person using and not using it aspect.

Is this game moto not ‘play whatever you like’ and now some people/developer (in the name of ‘healthy game play’) tells me it is kitten!!!!!

Wutttt??

You can’t play a healer Guardian in PVE Dungeons/Fractals while it is insta kick and now you can’t in PVP while it is kitten.

Why don’t we delete the traits and get over with it? Then I will not get the impression that it is a built that I can play in the game.

kdaddy.5431:

Crinn.7864:

kdaddy.5431:

Another thing is chaith explained why it was a good thing to remove the amulet for many different reasons and the heavy majority of the community attacked him as if they were all dodo birds walking off a cliff and thinking they had won.

Can we please stop saying anything was “explained”

If you go read Chaith’s posts and boil down what he said, he made two points:
1.) The EU tourney had slightly longer match time.
2.) Bunkers are cancer.

He never actually explained how longer match time is a bad thing, nor did ever even attempt to explain how bunkers are “cancer”

Moreover neither he nor any of the removal backers even attempted to counter the point that hard bunkers allowed for more build diversity allow allow teams to use the hard bunker to compensate for glassier builds.

Alright so let me try to understand both sides. I wont go back and read it since i think it was deleted but from what i did read it went on even more then that and i wasnt gonna read everyones comments since they were writing the Iliad.

Back to the topic, the EU scene though i dont know for sure but i do recall people being unable to kill druids in many of the matches. Which is a terrible meta. Bunker wars 2 if anyone remembers was god awful.

Your 2nd point about chaith saying bunkers are cancer is a little taken out from your mouth then his. His team usually consists of bunker/boon comp and i think the difference is that even d/d had a limit.

Pure bunkers is a hard point to push across here. Your saying more build options which im fine with but just 1 week ago i could go 1 vs 3 and be confident no matter what they were running i could survive on a s/f ele.

If you want more options for builds you really need to ask anet for more amulet and rune options. That amulet was not fun to fight against and it was kitten when team ran 3 of them. Having a combination of ele/druid/guardian with that amulet on 1 team was a what is the point type of fight.

I would really like to hear your opinion on how you think the amulet helps game play. Especially from a person using and not using it aspect.

You are only telling one side of story, what ANet did first when people start complained about the bunker meta 2 years ago , they buffed condition classes because that was the correct way of killing a boon bunkers, overwhelm them with condition damage/corrupts they will die.

So we got Terrormancers/Dhuumfire and etc, but that community whined so hard about it, those are nerfed to oblivion and even doesn’t even exist anymore.

So know we have hybrids can’t do enough power damage to kill a boon bunker and also doesn’t have the condition pressure to do anything about.

Instead of adapt and bring condi builds (which I think will be awesome and ‘healthy for the game’) whine and say ‘we can’t kill bunker with our hybrids, please remove them from the game.’

Yeah, right……

Saiyan.1704:

lilz shorty.1879:

SlayerSixx.5763:

Guardian, regardless of build, sustains off of his abilities. If you got stealth ganked, there’s not really much that can be done. If you got ganked by two people you saw coming, that’s a l2p issue.

It’s not a L2p issue at all. The health pool is and has been to low for the class. Anet refuses to tackle the core issues with guardian with the multitude of patches that have hit.

You can get stunlocked or randomly interrupted so much now that we can get one shot even just by a DPS DH. It is beyond dumb and has never been so bad.

This is your 1v2 Zerk Thief + Mesmer scenario. If you’re a bunk guardian, you’re going to get stun locked and bursted down fast but if you see them coming then your Focus#5, Mace#3, Dodge, Shelter, F3 Stability, SYG, Elite, F3 Stability, Staff #5, will allow you to survive for awhile rather than get 1 shotted. These classes spec don’t burst faster than a zerk mes/thief combo.

Bunk Guardians never had health pool issues prepatch unless they went up against any kind of condi burst build like burn guard.

So what happens if you have none of this CDs while you were bursted 10s ago with some miracle you survived and you are going to next fight.

None of these CDs will come off CD but the CD of the Mesmers/Thief already did.

So stunlock and dead one in 1s, only thing I want at least a chance to dodge because Mesm alone can deploy 16K instagib damage in its opener and I have a freaking 13K HP.

Every thing what you said above only tickles the guys in stealths and except DS4/DS5 I have all of them in my Reaper build plus RS4 deals 5K power damage and I am seeing poison damage ticks for 1K for 4s and the cleave of RS AA 1.5K/1.5K/3.5K with %100 crit chance against medium armor guys.

Sry but you can’t even compare DS cleave with RS cleave.

Zombie Fury.5804:

This spec needs to get nerfed or remade badly they’re a better ranger then rangers are…I was on my necro on skyhammer and had a DH camping skyhammer the entire game with all his traps up there…the second you tp up you get 1 shot absolutly nothing you can do about it. and nerf the perma knock down from the wall in ability.
oh and on a side note- https://dviw3bl0enbyw.cloudfront.net/uploads/forum_attachment/file/208459/xZ2VRTd.jpg (40k trueshot) should NOT be a thing…at all

I think I was there also, he caught me off guard first time with my Ele.

2nd time I entered with Earth/Focus 5 invul and putting mag aura to reflect true shot and rekt him

The Reaper is so good against steath escapers before Necro did not have anything to cleave the stealth, now if a Thief drop SB or Engi stealth, use shout Elite and then cleave everything to death

Before my D/D was great to cleave stealth now Reaper is awesome with it.

Take the well that corrupt boon place on the trap that DH hides in it, spam the marks, use shout heal so you get LF, when you have enough LF, pop RS, pop stability, kitten DH.

I am so happy with my Reaper that I have nothing to complain.

First time in GW2 I am accused to be Pay 2 Win because I am using Reaper

I love DHs with my Repear, they all think sitting in their trap is so safe for them.

Put a well in the same trap to corrupt their boons, force them out and I swear to god they are so squishy that my Repear auto attack hit nothing else that hard.

Funnily enough, one week ago with the amount of HP and Toughness I had, they were not able to one shot me, even without my CD.

Sure they killed me but at least it will take 2-3s which will give me a chance to react.

Now that I have paper armor or 3.5K toughness does not make any difference, I still die in 1s.

SlayerSixx.5763:

Guardian, regardless of build, sustains off of his abilities. If you got stealth ganked, there’s not really much that can be done. If you got ganked by two people you saw coming, that’s a l2p issue.

You know I have a limited amount of CDs, when they are on CD and somebody opens on me there isn’t too many things I can do and believe me I need all of my CDs to survive with my pathetic 13K HP pool as a tank.