It was always like that. I assume they just fixed it so it no longer displays a blast message when placing. And no longer double triggers when being set off. So really its just polish to fix some misunderstandings with how it worked. Because it was already crap and buggy. Now its less buggy but still crap.
And yeah it was always a crap finisher because you had to do it in combat.
Most dungeons its better to buy exotic weapons or armour and salvage for insignias or inscriptions now. So that means uncraftable stat combos (soldier, rabid etc). They sell for a decent amount. If you have a unique recipe they can also make a you a fair amount of gold out of tokens.
Unscathed benefits heavily from Retreat, which benefits from Shout cooldown reduction which you’re precluded from if you go the full 20 into Virtues. Not that it’s a terrible idea to use untraited Retreat, but it is kind of a pain.
Or just dont get hit so you dont need retreat in all situations.
Thats a wild assumption to make about me. I think you will find im much more accepting of sub par builds than most people. And i find your unwarranted hostility offensive.
You should be coordinating with your group who goes for most of the procs anyway. The icd is just to make it “fair” on braindead players. Same issue as not having selectable combo field priorities. We cant have nice things because the playerbase is too dumb.
Hmm yeah i missed that rule. That kind of solves it. I still think it would be better to have unrestricted go by the same timer rules but be completely unrestricted. Unrestricted isnt really an accurate description of how it is atm.
Im not that interested in restricted because its going to be following the boring linear paths. I was interested in unrestricted because we can use gimmicky tactics. But preparing for 30mins before starting the timer ruins it for me. And I know its the same for others.
Yeah i feel the timer start should be the same for both categories. With the timer the same for unrestricted im less enthusiastic about competing in either. :P
Yeah someone can join and click merge from either party. So either the guy who joined your party clicked merge or someone from another party clicked merge with your group which added someone into your party and destroyed the instance.
It really isnt a merge feature. Its a plain and simple grief button. Theres no other use for it.
Im curious if no energy sigil lupi solo will still be possible with this nerf. Its already relatively challenging with perma vigor but I imagine it should still be possible with flawless play. You might have to sacrifice an aegis though. :P
Those of us who made assassins ascended helm chest and legs are getting a kick in the teeth from this change. They will no longer be optimal so we essentually got screwed.
Well I would of prefered them to give necro vigor than to bring other classes down closer to us. But meh. Ill say it again. GG nubs depending on vigor!
I would recommend 20/25/0/0/25 for solo open world pve (30/25/0/0/15 also works nicely). Most mobs will be vets and trash so target the weak will work great on them even in solo settings. If you do dungeons or champs solo you might want to consider 30/15/0/0/25 which is what I use for soloing lupi.
Also if im running around I usually just take spectral walk, Well of suffering, signet of locust and plague form. Gives you mobility and you still have enough dps for most stuff in open world. The stunbreak comes in handy aswell.
No no I mean you could cast burning speed and switch to back to air imediately so that the rest of the ticks of damage recieve the 10% bonus while attuned to air.
For traits I would go:
III (II if using conjures), V, XI
VI, X, XII
II
But im not really an ele expert so dont take my suggestions as law. :P
Haha that maybe true. Nah im hoping it wont be too big a nerf. It may make rampager superior though, depending on what happens. We shall see. I will be rather kittened if rampager is the new meta for necro though. I only just finished my ascended armour the other day…
Thats why I only have the howler. Did map comp on necro as it was my first char. Cannot stomach it for a second attempt. I could make a 2nd leggie eventually if I wanted to though (yay 2 gifts per map comp!). :P
I believe thats a typo and he does actually have Arcane II. Hence the perma vigor.
I think you should look at a different build seeing as there have been quite a few trait changes. Id recommend 30/30/0/0/10 tbh. But the reason for not going for 10% in fire attunement is because you want 10% when in air and you want to be switching back to air as much as possible (fresh air) for the superior auto attack.
Is there a reason just removing critical damage from the game entirely and making base crit chance 100% instead of 50% wouldn’t work? Obviously the armor sets would need to be changed, but that’s minor and something we’ve lived through once before (and would be welcome if it means Ascended can permanently swap stats like legendaries can).
You would have to make all gear 2 stat gear. Which would be stupid. The only reasonable change they can make is make crit damage a stat similar to other stats. Eg. 76 critical damage = 5% critical damage.
Why would you need to make it 2 stat gear?
Why can’t berserker gear be changed to Power, Precision, Vitality? Why can’t Cavalier be removed because you would just turn Crit Dmg to Precision which turns it into Knights gear? etc etc?
It’s just a stat swap and removing redundancy.
Because then you have no fully dedicated direct damage gearset. Rampager has 3 offensive stats. If you make beserker power, prec, vit its basically a slightly better knights. And the biggest issue I have with this suggestion is that you make max dps gear even easier to use. I dont want defensive stats. I want to rely solely on active defense.
Is there a reason just removing critical damage from the game entirely and making base crit chance 100% instead of 50% wouldn’t work? Obviously the armor sets would need to be changed, but that’s minor and something we’ve lived through once before (and would be welcome if it means Ascended can permanently swap stats like legendaries can).
You would have to make all gear 2 stat gear. Which would be stupid. The only reasonable change they can make is make crit damage a stat similar to other stats. Eg. 76 critical damage = 5% critical damage.
Not really. The content can be completed much easier but slower with other gear. The meta is fine in the sense that going all dps is efficient and fast. Its not fine in the sense that its too easy and that condition damage is so poor in comparison.
The meta isnt killing this game. Its the people spewing these complaints about parts of the game that dont even effect them. Resulting in unwarranted nerfs which drive those minorities away from the game. If anet keep doing this they will lose more and more minorities and eventually the game will be dead.
Should just make the passive like signet of malice passive except it does less healing per hit and a slight amount of dmg. Active will either be kitten or overpowered no matter what you do so may aswell fix the passive and forget about the active.
I have plenty of people I can speedrun those paths with. Its just lately I havent had much interest in doing lots of paths, but I still want to level my engi. Yesterday I bought ac p1 on my engi for 1.25g and then just went and solo’d arah p3 on my necro and sold the remaining slots to make a nice profit.
spoj can you post a video of your output damage. Want to compare it to my hybrid.
Ty
=D
Im going to try and get a big crit video done hopefully before the crit damage changes. But I will also be going for various lupi solos on different classes first. So it may be a while before I get it done.
So as far as im concerned even a slight nerf would render my recently aquired ascended zerker gear on necro useless compared to rampager. So i expect a stat swap.
