How about we replace the staff which bads love to camp with..and get a throwable spear(javelin) and revive the paragon? maybe a mix between 800 range and meele like first skill is a throw, second is a more powerful throw that inflicts burning or blindness and the rest are like swipe spin and a cc(launch, stun, knockdown).
Since mesmer can remove conditions with mantra and guard can add purging flames if you need even more is the traited resolve really worth it? You should be averaging 4 boons (swiftness, fury, might, vigor) so the dps gain is not that much. Maybe 25/30/0/5/10. I know 5% gs damage isn’t as big but 150 more power could be.
If you still wanna tank a bit you can get all zerker with scholar runes but use hammer and signet with 10% damage reduction(forgot name). It’s 43% damage reduction which is probably more than enough and 33% reduction for your whole party.
Lfg will be one of these:
1) lf2m frac50 ping gear(all slay sigils too) or kick!!min 10k achiv 1leggy no necro!
2)Read>>selling fractal 50 get your relics 1g 50s daily reward!! easy ranking since nov ’13!
I heard the devs are pretty excited about them so there’s that.
Edit: The only way these would work since infinite progression is out of discussion anyway is if the leaderboards would reset every week or something. Since fractals are different lengths and difficulties it would make sense to have them separated. But seeing how devs don’t really know the game they’ll probably be like “meh swamp and ascalon are the same”.
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Don’t kid yourselves. This whole thing is done to please the casuals who found fractals “hard” and “not worth it”. The content will be far from challenging.
But cheer up. The leaderboards will be dominated by a select few and this is so awesome. Pugs won’t stand a chance and I hope the gearchecking will also include rank checking. Maybe ISP speedtests too.
Why can’t people opt out from participating in the ranking stuff and keep their progress? Some of us were looking forward to get to fractal 80 ourselves.
The title should be “I got screwed by Anet and all I got was this lousy title” huehue
But in all fairness..what if you enjoyed doing 79 for example more than once? Not just getting there but actively doing it from time to time just to practice your dodging or whatever. I feel the issue is not the 0 compensation but locking those levels out of reach forever. Or maybe until the next fractal reset if this becomes a thing.
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Since fractals went away from the original idea of infinite progression(which coincidentally would’ve been a nice thing to have leaderboards for) I suggest they just make it open world and the top would be the fastest squad(yes, pve commander ftw) to finish them without dying(cleric gear also ftw).
Also, to the guy who said the stuff about jockeys and horses and cars, this would be like if you were a top jockey training for years and then cars came out. But instead of horse riding becoming obsolete they would shoot your horse with a rifle(maybe killshot?) and force you to drive a car.
One more thing. No one wanted leaderboards because casual people don’t care about ranks obviously and people who are actually good don’t care about ranks either. I doubt some silly title is what they desire. Titles are more in the vein of afk in LA with all the legendaries(commander tag optional but recommended). I believe, and correct me if I’m wrong, but people who did level 79 fractals did them to prove that they can because seriously 90% of the community doesn’t give a ???? about that and no title will change this.
tl;dr Let people who want to farm dollies farm them and let people who enjoy stuff without hurting anybody enjoy said things. Can’t we all be friends?
P.S.: stop balancing PvE around WvW it’s stupid and inconsiderate.
I understand that you guys cater for casual players mindlessly farming in champ trains and I’m perfectly fine with that being a casual myself but spitting right in the faces of people who did arguably the hardest content without any reward(i.e. for fun) is just terrible.
Resetting people to 30 for a so called fair start is obviously wrong and the leaderboard? Seriously? That’s a joke and you guys know it. Turning yet another part of the game in a grindfest?
I understand that you won’t change your mind because the players who are affected the most are a very small part of the community, the majority being the zerg open world bunch who are probably more than happy with the new carrot on the stick that fractals are ought to become.