I would use NM over BM. The reason is because of protective ward. Without it, the power ranger can be ganked really fast without you being able to react.
Plus, taunt doesn’t work with Ancient seed.
Imo Taunt alone is so awesome it’s worth taking. Also BM makes pets more reliable. You don’t need the Protective Ward really.
If you want to be instagib by thieves, then you don’t need protective ward.
I would use NM over BM. The reason is because of protective ward. Without it, the power ranger can be ganked really fast without you being able to react.
shortbow has way too many problems, i.e. it just doesn’t do damage. if you need the daze from it to proc AS, then just get your dazes elsewhere. we have more daze than mesmers.
Astral force generation seems almost non-existent. Also… shortbow? …
Oops, it meant to be longbow.
Also, I have been generating Astral force. I’m not sure how. But it is a bit useful in keeping me alive when I have no other utilities. I am just not using Celestial form as my main weapon.
The difference between Power Ranger vs. Power Druid is Ancient Seeds.
Ancient seeds will immobilize any target that has been knocked back, launched, dazed or stunned. This lets Ancient seed be synergetic with Point blank shot and Hilt Bash.
Update: If there were players in your squad, while you were leader, logging out for 10 minutes will not solve the issue unless all players also leave that squad. The squad must disband for you to be able to log back in.
ETA For Fix: Unknown/ASAP/We’ve called in the cavalry
nomad in wvw for full healbot. in pvp, likely it’s gonna have to be celestial with healing power runes. cleric stats will get us blown up because we don’t have enough on-demand prot.
I foresee celestial stats being extremely efficient on the druid because it will allow us to do damage, support and possibly win 1v1’s.
Clerics is toughness.
I know it is, so is settler. both of these stats have been useless in spvp for a long time now. 3k armor doesn’t really do much when you only have 15.9k HP and bad protection uptime.
omg, how is it on demand? you have to dodge roll, which is a big requirement. you need to not be cc’d and have endurance. when youre getting kittened on by a thief or Mesmer out of stealth for 10k+ on 3k armor, how will you react to that?
on-demand means you press a button and it appears on your bar instantly. eles have it, guards have it. thing is, without enough HP buffer, even on-demand prot wouldn’t cut it for us as I explained with the cleric guard example.
nomad in wvw for full healbot. in pvp, likely it’s gonna have to be celestial with healing power runes. cleric stats will get us blown up because we don’t have enough on-demand prot.
I foresee celestial stats being extremely efficient on the druid because it will allow us to do damage, support and possibly win 1v1’s.
Clerics is toughness.
I know it is, so is settler. both of these stats have been useless in spvp for a long time now. 3k armor doesn’t really do much when you only have 15.9k HP and bad protection uptime.
Blinding Rage: Whenever you use a burst skill on an enemy that is under the effects of aegis, or whenever you are under the effect of blind. You deal 66% less effect.
Skullcrack will deal 66% less damage and only 1 second stun, if adrenaline bar is filled. Instead of 0 second stun and 0 damage when blinded.
Eviscerate, Killshot and Arcing slice does 66% less damage instead of 0 damage when blinded.
Flurry does 66% less damage in bleeds and immobilizes last 66% shorter.
So, you solo queued stronghold a few times, lost, and made a hate post on the forum. I actually like stronghold a lot and know many other people who do in the high tier scene.
I won many times in stronghold, and I still hate Stronghold. The reason is because of the supply runner role. I was the only one who ran supplies. The times I lost is because I don’t bother running supplies and just kill players.
I don’t want to keep killing mobs and run supply all the time. I want to PvP.
Let door guards able to be resurrected when the door is still up. Supplies will instant res both of them at the same time.
Killing a player drops supplies.
Killing a player in your base spawn a skritt.
Archers will be able to be useful in keeping the door guards down. PvE is reduced significantly. Players don’t have to keep running supply, and players don’t have to keep killing the mobs.
Whenever a mob drops a gear loot, that loot is automatically transmuted to a random skin that is unlocked in the wardrobe.
It will follow the same rules as a transmuted skins does. Meaning, they can’t sell a masterwork tier Zap into the trading post. There would be an option where players can choose to toggle it on and off. This is so that they can sell gear directly to the trading post.
Exotics and rares will never be transmuted. The reasons:
Players won’t accidentally get a transmuted Precursor.
Players would want to sell rares and exotics in the TP.
ANet can profit off of T-Charges.
Why:
Because loot is boring. I don’t want to look the same from level 1 to 79.
I don’t think many others will spend 790 T-charges to make their armor not look ugly. I don’t think PvPers have the patience to farm that many.
Collecting skins will be actually rewarding. This is fashion wars.
More replayablity: Creating an Alt account will have a better experience to customers.
Is this a feature worth it?
I say yes. The other direction is to add more lootable gear to make loot exciting, but I think this is the cheaper direction. This is not an endgame or level 80 feature. This is meant for level 79 and under.
Your last comment alone says why we shouldnt have it. You start to go off about how your a adult blah blah blah. The comment i first made was right under a person who didnt like it in GW1 and gave a reason.
Goes back to my original point of why we shouldnt have it and its because of cry babies who feel they should have it, like you.
If im trying a new build and having fun and you want to quit who has the problem?
If I dont want to quit because i spent 4-7 min in que and were losing big and i just want to compete vs other players, who has the problem?
lastly if you want to see big comebacks just watched the last 2 WTS fool, you talk about being a adult but cant seem to look outside your own window and want to have your hand held for information, matches easily found with comebacks.
The fact that you can’t make any real argument and have to resort to insults just proves what kind of a person you are. You want to call me a fool? Go ahead and link me a match where someone comes back from a 300 point deficit on any map other than Legacy of Foefire. Prove what a fool I am. But we both know you can’t.
Wts Orng vs the abjured the Orng were down over 200 pts on legacy and forest and came back to win it.
Ag 36 or 37 Button Mashers were down over 200 pts on temple and came back to win it.
There is 39 Ag tournaments on youtube and many hosted by storm if you wanted to look for yourself. There are plenty of matches with near 300 pt deficits are erased from kylo,temple and forest.
Like ive said before, you want someone to hold your hand and prove it when the answer is right there in front of you but just like in these PvP matches. you really just want a easy way out. Its not a insult but a observationof they way you have acted towards my responses and others who have disagreed with you. Not only that you brought in the argument that you are a adult…… seriously and that your time is more valuable then others who may disagree with you. Like I said before and all my other comments are the reason for not having this button.
Meanwhile, if my team is down over 200pts, I will just afk for the rest of the match.
How about having the players giving signficant buffs to nearby allied NPC, which are so severe that killing the player is going to be a higher priority?
Then you’ll just have bunkers walking them down and no one can stop them. The NPCs will be through the gates well before the player dies. Bad idea.
Also Archers really could use a movement speed boost.
They already got one. And it won’t help either. Their HP sucks and their chase stuff like crazy.
Also they attack players. This absolutely removes their purpose.
Killing a player should drop supplies automatically.
If the enemy is in your base when you stomp them, then instead of supplies, a skritt or archer would spawn to attack.
Door guards can be ressed if the door is still up.
Why? To encourage more PvP.
By allowing players to drop supplies automatically when killed. There is more reason to fight players rather than do PvE stuff. If players are in the base, Skritts spawning would be a comeback mechanic.
The reason I suggest that door guards can be ressed is:
So that archers can still be useful.
Reduce the dependency of PvEing. I don’t want to kill skritts all the time. Let the door guards do it instead. Why bother rushing the door guards if the enemy can simply just res them up?
This SH beta, I can really feel the PvE. It needs less PvE and more PvP.
The Main issue that Stronghold got atm is, that defense is absolutely useless. You just push all the time, running a bit doorbreaker and you can’t do much about it. If you defend, the opponents will respawn too fast to actually get rewarded for defending their.
My main issue is that defense is too strong. I can’t do anything to a player that ganks the skritts before they die.
- 15 Seconds respawntimer is really too low. You can just run in their base, getting killed and run into their base again and the opponent team can’t do much about it.
- The map is really small. You can run through in just a few seconds.
What are you talking about? I can’t reach from spawn to lord’s room in a few seconds.
- You can channel the buff, with a random noob form like Rampage and Plague, that every Necro and Warrior got and get the buff just for free. You can’t cc them because they got 3 Stacks Stab every 3 seconds. Even if you manage to interupt their first channel with every boon rip and kitten. They will just channel again and get it. You can’t kill them either, because of double endure pain proc or perma blind + weakness in plague. Just stupid. Really.
Treb
- Once the last door is open the lord doesn’t regenerate. Here same issue as always. Offense >>>>>>> Defense. You just go in with just 1 guy. Getting killed, respawn go in again and you can’t defend the lord because he stays at his crappy life pool.
Get a shoutbow, make them drop a res banner to waste all that effort the enemy team made to get the lord into downed state.
- You can’t upheal doorbreakers or defender NPC’s right. They just getting rekked by one person that stealthes a few times vs 5 People.
Sure, but wouldn’t that make defense even more useless?
- The Matches atm are all the same. Everyone just kill the doorbreakers and the match will expand to 15 mins. After that the team won who got the warrior or the necro that channels the buff. Because that gives you really good points and that team, wins every game. Who is the fastest on the buff wins.
Then there is me, he runs straight to mid and spawn more skritts. Also, I run to the treb and treb the enemies at the defense lane.
My Solutions for this problems:
- When you are in rampage or plague, make the buff unable to channel like in stealth or invul. Or make the buff like the one in temple. Everytime you get hit, you get interupted.
Use treb.
- When the last door is open and you manage to defend your lord from your opponents completely. Let it restart from 100% again.
100% no.
- Expand the map and give it paths to split and paths to teamfight at.
Map is already big for a 5v5.
- Give every NPC a buff that gives them extra 500% Healing from players or something like that. When you heal an NPC for 2k heal and he facetanks a mirror blade spike for 15k every 9 seconds, it’s not really something you can hold. I mean you make a game where the holy trinity doesn’t exist and you are forced to block/invul or dodge damage, but npc’s just stays their like, “what is dodging, or blocking?”, THAT CAN’T WORK. The NPC’s are just useless, you could throw them out of stronghold and nobody would care. Or let them respawn every now and then. But this is just kitten.
That would make defense even more useless. Which you complain about.
- Points for defeting NPC’s. If you would get Points for defending enemy npc’s it would be much more profitable to defend your base and the team are not just spaming doorbreakers over the map, the whole game.p
Please give druids the spellcaster holding animation rather than the hammer holding animation. Druids are spellcasters, they’re not using staff like a martial artist like the revenant and Daredevil.
Stealth, instant res, and teleports counters Invulnerability stomping. A Necro with transfusion will save you from getting stomped, also a thief that drops a shadow refuge. A warrior banner can instantly res you.
You continue to compare features that already exist to a single feature that doesn’t exist. This is a flawed argument from the start. Removing those features, which are already core to the game, is also significantly different from adding a new feature. Any way you look at it, your argument is neither relevant, nor productive to the discussion on this thread. You keep arguing as if I am opposed to all dueling. I have already stated on multiple posts that I am not opposed to dueling in general.
Not really. There are games that does away with PvE or PvP. Guild Wars 2 can certainly do without PvE, as sPvP and WvW don’t integrate. Same with WvW and sPvP respectively. ANet can remove gold and make karma or the other hundreds of currency they have as their main currency.
So, finally we come to a straightforward answer. You want something to do while you wait for your fractals queue. Fair enough. Personally, I think that if they allow it in the major cities, it should be in it’s own area. The arena that was almost due north of the Bloodcoast Ward WP, maybe. Not my first choice of implementation, but we will obviously have to agree to disagree.
Out of curiosity, what are you going to do if they don’t allow it in cities or even in the open game world? I mean on one hand, hey dueling is here, but on the other hand, it sure ain’t what you want. Seriously, I’m not messing with you, I’m honestly asking. Can’t go back and forth with someone like we have without being a little curious about the other person’s mindset.
I would be very annoyed and continue to ask ANet to put Dueling in the cities as I have nothing to do while I wait for the party list to fill up.
1. Dueling can indeed be a useful tool to teach pvp tactics and situational awareness.
2. Public dueling, as a result of it’s need for people to challenge will take place in locations that are heavily populated, i.e. banks, BLTP, crafting tables in major cities.
3. As a result, the increased activity and population added by dueling will tax server resources and induce lag.
4. While the majority of duelers may be polite friendly people, many are not. Anyone who has played WoW or LotRO is familiar with the obnoxious duelers who will not leave a person that doesn’t want to duel them alone.
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2. You know this because…?
3. Do you work for ANet? How do you know the state of ANet’s server? This sounds like BS.
4. True. Then remove WvW, PvP, PvE, Zerk gear, etc. because obnoxious players play those and I don’t want to be harassed.
2 & 3. Empirical observation
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4. I have talked before about logical fallacies, yet you seem to be determined to make apples to oranges and strawman arguments. So let me restate my point in a way that will make it clearer:
The goal of adding a new feature to a game is to do so in such a way as to expand enjoyment of the game, without detracting from the current ways to enjoy the game. The feature you would like to see added, judging by the feedback of players other than just myself, is one that has some pretty negative aspects to it. I, and some of the other players in this thread, have decided to focus on ways that would maximize the positive, and minimize the negative, if Anet does decide to seriously consider adding dueling.
This thread is discussing the idea. You seem determined only to belittle my arguments, without offering any counterarguments. This is neither discussion, nor is it productive, since all your arguments boil down to, “my way or the highway.”
As a result, I have nothing further to say to you. I hope that if they do add dueling, you are able to enjoy it, even if it doesn’t take the form that you want.
2 & 3. aka. you are pulling this out of your pile of poo. I can do this too: ANet has a megaserver system that puts players into another map if it gets overfilled. WoW can’t do that. Therefore, ANet won’t feel the impact of lag. In your hypothesis this means, I should be lagging a lot when I playing a snipped irrelevant attempt to advertise your youtube channel How do I know? Because empircal oberservation of whatever crap you are talking about.
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So, allow me to respond:
2. I have seen dueling in other games. It always occurs most often in high population areas. Why should this be allowed? Prove that it won’t affect anything or anyone. If you have anything to base this on, other than pure speculation and wishful thinking, by all means enlighten us all. I, at least can offer anecdotal evidence based on my own experience. You offer nothing but the assertion that I’m full of it. That’s an ad hominem argument and has nothing to do with the topic at hand.
3. “Do you work for ANet? How do you know the state of ANet’s server? This sounds like BS.” Your argument applies equally to you as well as to me. Once again, you speculate, but at least this time you try to offer some support. By spouting the official Anet line about the megaserver. That’s seems a little odd, given that your signature and other posts seem to indicate a dissatisfaction with Anet.
I believe that I have made it clear that I am not against dueling in general. I’ve even made suggestions for how I believe Anet could make it interesting and fun and have only positive impacts on peoples game play experience. Try making your case for why you should be allowed to go duel people in the BLTP or on top of the Mystic Forge. How about around the Accountancy WP in Rata Sum? Make your case why you deserve to have as big a public audience as possible.
2. Dueling will affect other players just the same way Gold, PvE, PvP, WvW, and 100 other features affect players. If I am worried about petty harassment or some other minor negative impact, I would go complain about removing gold, dungeons, pvp, wvw, and other toxic features.
3. I don’t work for ANet, but I can make stuff up with unsupported answers like you did.
I don’t see why not have it in the Lion’s Arch area or whatever you are worried about. But I would like to see the cities being alive or duel while I am waiting on a queue or a friend. In a high population area, I can easily find a dueling partner instead of traveling a hundred miles to find a random players to duel with me.
I see your point about the lack of variety. Not sure how to address that, without open world dueling. I can tell you that an autodecline feature does nothing to stop people from harassing you via /say, /map, or /whisper, to duel them. I ran into that problem in WoW, whenever I went into a city. By the way, at the time, cities were the only place you could access your bank, use the auction house, or get your mail. I’d like you to think about that, for just a moment. Every single time you go to check your mail, put something in the bank, or hit the auction house, somebody is whispering you, “come on, duel me. Just duel me bro. Don’t be a p—-y. Duel me!” So on and so on, until you finally get tired of being interrupted and you accept. You destroy him in 27 seconds, go back to what you were doing before, and then he starts pestering you for a rematch. You can’t ignore him, because you’ve already filled up your ignore list with goldsellers and other dueling kittens. Just to pull an example out of thin air.
Here is what I would do in Guild Wars 2. It might actually work for you. I have done this with goldsellers, beggars, and harassers and it has 100% effective rate. Report them and put them in the ignored list.
1. Dueling can indeed be a useful tool to teach pvp tactics and situational awareness.
2. Public dueling, as a result of it’s need for people to challenge will take place in locations that are heavily populated, i.e. banks, BLTP, crafting tables in major cities.
3. As a result, the increased activity and population added by dueling will tax server resources and induce lag.
4. While the majority of duelers may be polite friendly people, many are not. Anyone who has played WoW or LotRO is familiar with the obnoxious duelers who will not leave a person that doesn’t want to duel them alone.
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2. You know this because…?
3. Do you work for ANet? How do you know the state of ANet’s server? This sounds like BS.
4. True. Then remove WvW, PvP, PvE, Zerk gear, etc. because obnoxious players play those and I don’t want to be harassed.
2 & 3. Empirical observation
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4. I have talked before about logical fallacies, yet you seem to be determined to make apples to oranges and strawman arguments. So let me restate my point in a way that will make it clearer:
The goal of adding a new feature to a game is to do so in such a way as to expand enjoyment of the game, without detracting from the current ways to enjoy the game. The feature you would like to see added, judging by the feedback of players other than just myself, is one that has some pretty negative aspects to it. I, and some of the other players in this thread, have decided to focus on ways that would maximize the positive, and minimize the negative, if Anet does decide to seriously consider adding dueling.
This thread is discussing the idea. You seem determined only to belittle my arguments, without offering any counterarguments. This is neither discussion, nor is it productive, since all your arguments boil down to, “my way or the highway.”
As a result, I have nothing further to say to you. I hope that if they do add dueling, you are able to enjoy it, even if it doesn’t take the form that you want.
2 & 3. aka. you are pulling this out of your pile of poo. I can do this too: ANet has a megaserver system that puts players into another map if it gets overfilled. WoW can’t do that. Therefore, ANet won’t feel the impact of lag. In your hypothesis this means, I should be lagging a lot when I playing a MM build How do I know? Because empircal oberservation of whatever crap you are talking about.
4. So, if people gets a negative impact, then ANet should remove/not add the feature. Okay. Remove WvW, PvE, PvP, Zerk because I get negatively impacted all the time.
5. I counter your arguments by saying, “Its not even a big problem.” with “Every other aspect of the game has all these same problems.” But you chose to belittle and ignore the problem in the other aspect of the game. All your complaints comes down to “My way or the high way.”
