Well that makes sense if your on bucket duty i guess. But still 2k extra damage for your group when they are hitting for 50k isnt gonna make much of a difference.
Yes thats true. And I can assure you as a beserker necro who plays full melee normally im fully aware of how much of a disadvantage that is compared to other classes. The high hp and DS does help some, but its by no means comparable to block, invuln and extra evades.
I call kittens, I found at least one super niche scenario in which the skill is more useful than other heals : when you’re doing the molten buckets in dredge fractal, it adds some damage and some healing for your party when you shouldn’t be needing much healing yourself anyway. (Wish I knew if the damage part benefits from his vulnerability, I’m going to guess ‘no’ though…)
Due to the cast time its not even worth casting in that situation. The only niche role it has is a weaker heal with slightly less of a dps loss than consume conditions. But that doesnt justify its current state.
Players who can successfully and continually speedclear and amass wealth will not need to support Anet through microtransactions since they can pretty much just trade gold for gems. Players who no longer have anything to craft and still have their speedclear incomes only have gems to buy which affects market prices and could affect real world money. The only people who will need to spend real cash on gems would end up being the people who do not have the skill to speedclear farm, aka the new players….who are more likely to just leave the game than spend on it.
There is also the issue of champ train farmers and how these groups treat new players in Queensdale but that’s not directly related to this thread.
I think you will find most speedclearers are very short on gold most of the time. The rewards really arent that great. The only way to make a reasonable profit is to sell arah. Champ farming is far more lucrative afaik.
PS: Anierna.6918 in a post on this page suggested to bring in Death Shiver from Death Magic tree to make it have a better interaction with power builds which would run with the Curse tree. What about to replace it with Banshee’s Wail?
Just nope, all of my nope. Banshee’s wail is in a really good place.
Id’ see Banshee’s Wail as Spiteful Talisman on an Adept slot, btw.
An offhand weapon shouldn’t be that high on a trait line imho.
20 trait points to get in PVE a better uptime on Locust Swarm?
In PVP nobody takes it.
Both defense and offense, remember it locks out the cooldowns.
Well then what about demolishing Chilling Darkness, putting Banshee’s Wail on Adept Tier(more accessible for both PVP and PVE) and moving Death Shiver on Master tier?
I think every PVE power build would rather then a LF boost on command through Locust Swarm than some 1% LF with a 33% chances on a crit.
Thats fine with me. Although i dont use reapers precision. Id still use enfeeble. So if we got banshees as adept and death shiver as master I would probably go 30/30/0/0/10 for the new power build.
So you didn t have permaprotection..
You didn t get ressed by warrior banner
You didn t have Aegis etc….
You didn t have warriors burst ready for grubs….
You were obviously random build with no party tactic planned before….it wasn t your usual dungeon team and you weren t on TS…..
Can you pug the same strategy?
Did you even read any of our posts or watch the video?
We didnt tailor our traits for anything lol. I simply picked lifesteal and general defensive traits that the average “support” necro would take. Shout heal warriors dont think about their traits they just take the stuff which seems like it supports. Thats exactly what we did. I had several traits which were completely useless for what we were doing.
I can only assume that they dont even know how to use their own builds. All it requires is spamming stuff to survive. Not sure how people cant manage that.
To say that the necro in the video just randomly pressed buttons whenever things came off cooldown is not being truthful. During the first phase change there was the use of the elite Plague and then Plague of Darkness. Was this random? There was no dodge used but when the necro was standing in a red circle, there was the quick switch into Deathshroud and the use of Life Transfer to refill life-force.
How is this different from dodging?
Then other things like Blinding Flash from the eles when in air attunement, the guardian with perma-prot and popping group aegis whenever there are circles, not to mention all the fields and finishers.
Whether or not this gameplay or a dodging one is anyone’s cup or tea, if a group has a certain cohesive strategy that supports each other through their traits and gear, there is no reason why it should not work.
Blind doesnt work on bosses. And i admit i used DS out of reflex but thats a hard habit to break. Besides i allowed him to hit me with the first half of the aoe before going DS. Can you honestly say a total newby would facetank an attack, see his hp drop to half and not do anything to prevent it?
You miss the point though. People are saying zerker is too easy and passive defence isnt good enough. Surely that video shows otherwise? People assume any noob can equip zerker and faceroll content. Thats not true at all. But any noob can equip tanky gear and faceroll content because you dont need to know when to avoid attacks (huge safety net).
Anyone who tries to claim that just anyone can go in with a random build and setup and merely slap on tanky gear is obviously trying to cover up that fact.
Funnily enough our preparation was literally the following:
-Dub asks in gchat if anyone is up for the epic challenge of play how you want no dodge arah.
-Several of us volunteer.
-We equip random tanky gear and retrait to something defensive.
-We didnt ask for specific stuff or classes from each other, we didnt discuss what we took.
-Enter dungeon, disable dodge key and proceed.
Only communication was in party chat and that didnt involve any strategies. We reset lupi 5 times by running away because it was impossible to wipe. Everything was faceroll and required no active defense other than spamming skills. Only challenging part was skipping the deadeyes with no dodges. And as haviz said we are unfamiliar with defensive builds. Im used to dodging things but that wasnt possible with it disabled.
Id just like to say that in that video I was playing the necro (has no blocks, invulns or evade skills) and it was so unbelievably faceroll that I was falling asleep. I didnt think about a single skill used. I just pressed buttons when they came off cd at random intervals. The game is not easier in zerker gear. Its easier in tanky gear. I didnt even go full tank, i had zerker weapons and trinkets and I was able to facetank alphard and lupis 1hit attacks.
You guys are deluded if you think dps groups bypass all boss mechanics. It can happen on some fights but if someone messes up then you have to be ready for those attacks anyway. Ir requires knowledge and skill to zerk many encounters in the game. And that includes the times where bosses melt in under a minute. Its not like bosses take a minute to start attacking.
So your against it being buffed to a level where it works in more than 0.1% of situations because it works ok for your build in a very specific situation?
Im not trying to sound rude. Im just trying to understand why you would defend such an awful and underpowered trait especially when its a 25pt minor. Like you said the concept is alright but its far too weak in all aspects to be worth the investment.
I cant exactly see how running away from lupi and avoiding most of his attacks in p1 and p2 is more fun than meleeing. Also when it takes that long how can you not die of boredom?
It takes longer and if you the attacks why would you kitten yourself by going ranged. Also obviously you cant afk range solo lupi seeing as he will always try to catch up to you.
A zerker warrior is surprisingly durable. Especially when using healing signet. You have an extra evade on gs and you can take an offhand sword for a block aswell.
If you do still feel uncomfortable with full zerk then i recommend a knights zerker mix. If you go pvt zerker you lack a lot of crit chance which will really effect your dps.
I cant really comment on wvw builds. But i believe there are a few glass/semi glass which work ok.
Yeah ive helped countless people in pugs and never once kicked for build or inexperience unless i specified in the lfg that i wanted certain requirements.
And no nemesis we arent against build diversity. We are against the removal of active defence because thats the only real measure of skill we have.
Its worse when you dont even dc and you get no rewards. I solo’d dwayna pre events and pretty much solo’d dwayna aswell. Ended up getting no boss chest or event medal. Definately didnt do it on that char before that on that day aswell.
Its not really something you can show. But when calculating dps it was slightly higher than warrior. In real settings warriors will probably do more most of the time. Because the necro needs to be carried by other classes for those buffs.
Are people, like, not aware that you can just made another set of gear if Anet actually does nerf zerk? It’s not like you’re limited to one set of gear per character or anything like that.
After spending 1000g on ascended gear I dont think ill be too pleased about that.
Nike recommends assassins helm chest and legs. I did that and kind of regret it because they are useless on world bosses, nightmare tree and so on. The difference is minor for regular stuff but its a larger difference on non crit stuff.
They arent really splits but i think they are pretty cool strats when 1 person runs ahead on coe and ta. The TA one isnt an exploit though, its just a portal skip. Jumping over the doors in coe makes it a bit more intesesting. But i can see why people would be against it.
