How about rune of durability? That any good?
I mean I don’t see why an untraited Bandit’s Defense isn’t just as good for this.
why would it need to be traited for rune of the defender to win? the cooldown on the heal is twice as long as the cooldown on the skill
What’s the reasons to take thief?
breakbar is the main one. ele is possibly the worst class for breakbars, while thief is one of the best. And if you need really heavy break bar damage, venomshare thief has the best burst breaks in the game while doing dps on par with engineer, and much more easily. easy to maintain even in the hardest situations, while also offering sustain that’s even stronger than wash the pain away.
They both have their own advantages. Breakbars are important, and vapor form isn’t really an advantage. Thief can move while downed too.
Yeah I would take an ele more often, but there can be plenty of reason to take thief.
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Earth is likely better to counter boon steal because it applies it more frequently in smaller doses. Earth and tempest. Then whatever other trait line you want.
Also move speed isn’t an issue. Tempest gets you easy permaswiftness for running around out of combat. Just start an overload and then immediately swap. 8 sec of swiftness with 0 boon duration. You can do this every 6 seconds, and also combine it with your air swiftness skill to stack duration.
dps golem requires you to have an optimal set of gear for every build you want to test
ele
stacks 25 vuln by itself without even trying, and can also stack might
and also has the highest dps otherwise
The OP’s original method of adding the chances of getting X together to arrive at a single number is, statistically speaking, incorrect.
and it has since been revised to be correct
To OP, please learn how to use statistics before posting. 8,9% chance to have an ascended box (armour or weapon) in T4+T3 +T2 chests is totally wrong.
Actually, you’re the one who’s wrong here.
If I’m not mistaken, every single stat combo is craftable now.
barring the ones that are exclusive to PvP and can’t be gotten for PvE use by any means
thanks for the list, dude
Apparently I’ve just been really unlucky. After doing all three t4 dailies 11 times, the odds of getting at least one ascended chest is 95.4%. but I still haven’t gotten any since the change.
You basically need to have 400 leatherworker, and then you’re set. Mostly. Unlike, say, Viper, It’s cheaper to craft than anything else, and you don’t need any special recipes. But leather is still pretty expensive right now. It’ll run you about 7 gold per insignia.
Enrage timer is cop-out game design, yes, but having the boss hit 5 times harder is an even worse idea. It would be better to make the boss attack much faster than make the boss hit harder. Or even some combination of both, maybe?
And dps requirements could be created in more creative ways. Gorseval’s dps requirement is already good as is. Remove the timer, make it attack more frequently, and maybe make the adds more threatening somehow. Done.
For VG, you could simply make the seekers never despawn in the last phase. (or never despawn at all? too much?) There. No enrage timer needed.
Sabetha and sloth and bandit trio all already have mechanics that make an enrage timer unnecessary (I have literally never seen the timer run out on bandit camp) and that make high dps necessary. Could amp up those mechanics, and amp up attack frequency again. Also it’s weird that Sabetha’s actual attacks don’t do any damage
We have a max range of 900. Gibbing from range? Not really. Sorry if that came out rude. Just because other rifle skills on other professions are op, doesn’t mean this will be automatically op. Which skills in general are op in this ES?
The stealth attack is Killshot from stealth, and with thief’s high damage multipliers
glassiest, sure
lots of hits in google, too. though most of them are dictionaries
First of all, for a raid, you need to have some pretty good gear, optimized for your role. And of course you’ll need to know the ins and outs of playing your class for that role.
Once you have that, you’ll either need to do a lot of research, looking up guides and videos to learn the different boss fights, or find a guild or group doing training runs to teach the fights.
As for a place to go, the southeast wall of Lion’s Arch, just south of the area with all the asura gates, there’s a gate to the raid lobby.
Sniper thief would be broken a f and very bad for the game. Gunflame and Trueshot were recently nerfed for a reason.
Besides, you can already gib people from range. The only thing you’re missing is another 300 range.
Then there’s auramancers that proc protection.
Well, ele can’t give out protection auras to a party without a massive dps drop, as that requires two defensive trait lines, neither of which is Tempest. Earth/Water/Tempest is the lowest dps tempest trait setup. Staff is trash without fire, and dagger is weak without air.
You could run just earth, and still take one of fire or air and still have ok dps, but protection is then limited to 3 seconds per shout you slot on your bar, which isn’t that great.
• Air Signet – No changes to passive. Active: Teleport to your foe and stun them(1s) with a lightning strike (900 range). Breaks stun. Requires target. 30s CD.
Holy kitten, this is a massive buff. What is one of ele’s biggest weakness as a class is that it is terrible at interrupts. This is an instant interrupt. on top of a massive mobility skill and stun break.
It might turn out that this is exactly what ele needs to suddenly have a viable offensive build and be bursting people like rev and thief without being OP, but just saying, this is an enormous change and very easily could be the worst thing ever.
Also, kind of off topic, but
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Is this intentional?
There is no such thing as an inactive account. There are therefore no names to be purged.
Alright, thanks. Rather disappointing, as I was hoping there’d be maybe a rotation that involved making swaps to axe or something for better dps, but oh well.
As an aside, I don’t think I’d ever use scholar/air over strength on PS due to ideal vs realistic pug conditions, but that’s a different discussion.
Condi was mentioned though. Does condi do more dps than power? Again assuming might is already permanently at 25.
Well, the main thing for me is, having that healing power and those defensive stats allows you to correct for other people’s mistakes. If someone gets cleaved by the boss or clipped by a seeker, most of ele’s self healing is also ally healing, so I can heal them up. If someone pushes a seeker out of a green right into my face, no problem. I can deal with it. And I need absolutely no help from anyone else in tanking the boss. I’m fine even if the healer never heals me at all and if no one gives me protection.
And, importantly, I can pull the boss early inside a still lit section before the breakbar so that even if the break isn’t fast enough, the green will spawn in the correct section. And for anyone else who also comes into the damage zone, I can heal them too. It just makes everything so much smoother. You can all but guarantee a kill.
Sure, I don’t do as much dps as an ele in full zerker, but I do do enough dps such that if everyone else did as much dps as me, the timer would be met. And everyone else, except the chrono and healer, should be doing notably more than that. And keeping the run as smooth as possible ensures that they do.
Also, ele doesn’t have the tools to not get hit while tanking—unlike chrono or DH, you have no blocks or invulns, and you have no extra evades except burning speed—so I have a hard time believing that you can tank VG in full zerker without needing outside heals, even if everything does go right. which it usually doesn’t. If you can, great, more power to you. but, see above.
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The big problem with this strategy is, if all people in the group spend 0 points for toughness, the boss will choose one of them as target. And when endurance and active-defenses are depleted, this guy is dead.
Actually, it usually allows you to rotate aggro. I know when I’m at 0 toughness and taking too much heat, it’s pretty easy to lose aggro.
of course it can be done
raiding in masterwork gear can also be done
5-manning can be done too
and clearing in less than half the time can be done as well
If whole group is extremely experienced and coordinated, you can do whatever you want. But if you’re trying to do as much as you can to help the group kill the boss, it’s a very bad idea.
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Yeah, but zealot’s+marauder isn’t zerker. That gives both vitality and healing power, both of which are important for tanking on ele. No one said you needed to go full nomad’s or something and do no damage. You just need to have some defensive stats. And some defensive traits (or a lot of party support).
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really people just don’t want you to run around in selfish tanky gear that doesn’t do much damage and lets you never learn how to play skillfully and makes killing trash monsters take forever and makes you not contribute to a group as much as you could. There are other ways to contribute a lot, or even more, to a group, but it takes more knowledge of the game.
Using berserker gear forces you to learn how to avoid damage and mostly ensures that you’re contributing if you’re alive. Also usually people can just revive you if drop, so dying usually isn’t a big problem in a group. And even if you full die halfway through, if you were doing damage while you were alive, someone in berserker’s gear alive half the time does as much damage as someone in soldier’s gear alive the entire time.
tl;dr it’s the simplest way to kinda ensure that people are pulling their weight
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spear, as a land weapon
any class
I think they just decided to add every extant stat combo to every slot
You can, in that you can hold aggro, but you won’t be a good tank. The boss hits for 6k, in addition to the passive periodic 2k AoE, so you’ll need constant attention from the healer, and you won’t be able to make good pulls to ensure good green circle placement because you’ll die from pulling before the floor change, and you’ll have to pull away from seekers unless your groups seeker control is absolutely perfect, etc. It’s a very good way to have a messy run that fails repeatedly.
If you’re in a group that’s organized and experienced enough that 4 people could literally be afk the entire fight and still clear the boss, then yeah, you can tank with a zerker ele. The only other scenario in which a zerker ele tank would be even remotely good is if you had 4+ magi’s healers such that people dying isn’t an issue but dps is.
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already maxed out? ie the party doesn’t need might/PS but does need banners
and also doesn’t need cc
in PvE, in a pure DPS contest. no survivability or dodging or etc needed
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revenant is fine
brings massive breakbar utility, useful boons, party ferocity bonus, and decent dps (similar to engi/necro/guardian, higher than warrior, lower than ele/thief)
I don’t see the problem
on the other hand, celestial is good for being the tank at VG
but that’s about itThis was the exact one I wanted to do as a tank, jet they did not allowed me.
If the group needed a tank, and they said no to a celestial ele tank, then that’s still not elitism: they’re just bad, because ele is arguably the best tank for VG. and zerk would be terrible for an ele tank. but I don’t think anyone would want an ele tank to swap to zerk. Did they know you were signing up for tank?
but if they already had a tank, then of course they’d say no to someone wanting to be tank.
or if it was an experienced group looking for a quick kill, and you weren’t very experienced, then they’d also say no. tank requires the most experience and is the most important job at VG, so an inexperienced tank is absolutely the best way to prevent a quick kill.
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It’s not elitism. Celestial doesn’t do what the team needed. If you’re in a dps role, using celestial means you aren’t doing enough dps to pull your weight. You can’t expect people to carry you.
on the other hand, celestial is good for being the tank at VG
but that’s about it
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It’s fine as is. It encourages people to populate the lower level maps a bit.
I have no idea what the 10 could be referring to.
Something is in error, but it’s unclear what.
I recomend getting energy sigil on staff since it got buffed.
What.
What buff?
ohh it’s the right click, is it?
was wondering why I am suddenly targeting a necro minion during a raid
ignoring the bit about swap outs, this would be great.
I click to target about half the time. Pressing a key to cycle targets is inefficient when there are several and you want a specific one. I have to use the mouse to aim AoEs anyway.
air and earth still need some help though
I’d strengthen the 2 skills, as that seems to be the theme of staff. Skill 2 is the main damage. but air and earth don’t have that so much.
So I’d make air 2 have either a faster cast or do more damage (currently it’s about the same dps as autoattack). and perhaps also lower the cooldown. I was kinda wary of giving it too much blind, but blind is a weaker condition than it used to be anyway.
For earth 2 I’d shorten the delay by enough to enable blasting an air field with the air field cast first. and hmm…
The only off hand weapon people like, for 5/6 bosses, is warhorn. Staff is universally good though. And if you’re auramancer, it’s more like zealot’s than celestial, and with fresh air.
Dps is the most in demand role, whether it’s staff or d/w
a lot of old players have quit, but there are also a lot of new players, so a friends list isn’t a good measure
tl;dw
list pls
Take what you want to see when you play ;-).
My main is human female at the smallest size and i don´t regret it.
mine is a female human as well
I regret this decision.
if conjures worked as is but after summoning the one on the ground, your summon skill turns into a swap, like kits, that works until you run out of charges. would make them good
I happen to think about 70% of female light armor is atrocious
Elementalist – extremely strong healing and some condition clears and stun breaks, and a lot of defensive buffs, including powerful short duration unique defensive buffs. also decent non-unique offensive buffs
Ranger (druid) – extremely strong healing and some condition clears, and good offensive buffs, including unique persistent offensive buffs good for long term dps. also a ranged revive
Mesmer (chronomancer) – Powerful disables and crowd control, momentary invulnerability, and extremely strong offensive buffs. Also Portal (long distance transportation).
Revenant (herald) – a strong persistent boon duration buff, and any boon in the game except quickness (but not all of them at once). Can also do pretty good healing
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for ele,
asura > charr > sylvari/norn > human
so, asura