Really? Only thing that I know can hit you at 1200 is the knockdown thing which you can reflect. But thats pretty easily avoid when standing at 1200 range. :P
This has nothing to do with variety and complexity. To fix those they need to improve control and conditions in pve and develop better boss mechanics. Theres no way they can remove los because if they made it so mobs didnt come round the corner they would just sit there shooting at walls and players could abuse it even more. Only way to fix it is to make it more challenging to do. Which it already is most of the time thanks to melee being more risky. Low dps groups try stacking in pugs and wipe constantly because they dont understand what they are doing wrong. The problem is many bosses are far too easy in both melee and ranged so you may aswell just burn them down fast while stacked up against a wall.
why is it only the spider queen used as an example for these types of threads? oh wait, because they can barely think of anything else.
-Subject Alpha X3
-cof slave driver+last boss
-svanir 1st boss of p1
-Kohler
-SE 1-3
and many many Others.
- Alpha is easier ranged if you dont stack up, you can just walk out of aoes and you dont get hit by earth spikes or the burn in p1.
-Slave driver murders melee if you dont have enough dps. Effigy is completely afk faceroll at range because his attacks all have limited range. Its pretty faceroll in melee but definately a bit more involved.
- If you’re referring to the troll in hotw p1 then w/e but that guy only has melee attacks so ranged people are completely safe. If your talking about the guy on the stairs, ranging is way easier.
-Kholer murders the entire group if they dont dodge the dagger storm. Also his evade attack hurts quite a lot. Ranging you can just kite him around and just dodge the occasional pull which is alot more visible when you’re not stacked on him.
-SE p1 boss, if you dont dodge you get downed. If you stack in melee the aoe stacks up and insta downs anyone. Ranged and spread out its probably not going to kill anyone so dodge isnt really needed. SE p3 boss spams lava fonts, burning and spawns adds in melee and at times that can be painful. Also his knockdown/knockback auto attacks hurt a lot in melee. No issues ranged.
Hmm so are there any bosses that are easier in melee? doesnt seem like it.
The best bosses in the game were around at release. Lupicus, Risen Priest of Melandru, Statue of Dwayna and Tribune Burntclaw.
I will admit i quite liked the idea of debuffing Mai Trin to dps her but they ruined that encounter with the stupid timegated cannon phases. Also Final bosses of Molten facility were fairly fun. Everything else including Tequatl has been pretty dissapointing. I can kind of get behind the bosses in the Aetherpath but the rest of the dungeon is so awful I havent touched it again since it was first released. Also they removed TAFU for it and Vevina was another one of their best bosses.
It is harder but its a bad way to design harder content. Pure artificial difficulty. Cant say I mind too much aslong as the end result is it gets more difficult/less forgiving. But I would much prefer more mechanics as you go up. When you go from tier 1 to tier 2 thats the kind of change you expect. It seems they just got lazy and decided not to add any extra mechanics in the next tiers.
It is quite possible its affected by lag. I dont seem to get them anywhere near as often when my nets stable. But its still an issue that needs to be sorted. Hopefully with game optimization it will be fixed. :P
LoS is used in countless games. It doesnt need fixing. Bosses need more interesting mechanics. If you make bosses on par with lupi people wont be able to stack and dps. They will atleast have to learn to dodge the key attacks. Stacking is intended and LoS to help keep the group stacked is smart. Stacking in spots where the boss cant hit you is exploiting though and those need to be fixed.
We ran 2 necros in hotw p1 for funs last night. Me on rampager and the other on rabid. It didnt really improve the kill time of ginva tbh. Still a huge meatshield.
Yeah id like to know that aswell. Because thats how i calculated target the weak dps. Not sure if its correct though. Only makes a slight difference. Anyway 10/25/0/10/25 because its not reliant on sword. 10/30/0/10/20 kind of forces you to use sword instead of doing a rotation.
Hmm I was duoing it last night and we got some pretty annoying defend events. And then because it took too long to finish the 3rd event and do its defend. We got another defend while killing lyssa, was the champ wraith which was a pain. It became frustrating because if we left lyssa she would reset but we kind of had to split to defend the events. I guess we could of avoided it by making sure all events were completed around the same time. We had no trouble trio so we assumed we didnt need to be that careful duo. :P
Lyssa resets if you move away to go do the other events. Its possible to duo but the events are such a pain that your much better of trio’ing it. Actually fighting her solo while others deal with events isnt too hard though.
Warrior is good for pugs aswell. Taking a guard could mean you get kicked out of the group if they already have a guard. People dont mind stacking warriors though.
Leman while you’re lurking here, whats your trait setup for fractals? And do you run full condi or rampager? Im still undecided on how to build my necro for those pesky dredge.
If you just walk into the corner they usually aggro without you even hitting them. And they usually get stuck on the wall when they charge and then walk over. But yeah you can cripple or cc them if they dont get stuck. In the vid they were crippled.
Also aggroing extra mobs happens more often than id like. Usually not a big deal. Kill the aboms fast and then LoS the extras inside the room.
Go ahead. Id be curious to find the results. My claim is based on the discussions ive had with a few people within those guilds. But i could be wrong.
The arguement seems to be that the personal dps loss is not worth the extra phantasm dps because of how unreliable phantasms are in most fights. Empowering mantras, compounding power and 10 in domination are pretty important for personal dps and reflects.
Think you will find most people in rT/DnT/HC/LoD will continue to use 10/30/0/20/10 in most situations. So yeah it will still be the standard build even if you disagree with it.
Mesmer isnt really worth it on TA up either tbh. Only useful thing is instagibbing malrona but you save more time by having faster classes and better dps for the rest of the dungeon.
Last living story I enjoyed was aetherblade. Because that was essentually a new dungeon. Since then its been pretty dissapointing. I still do the achieves because it takes like 2 days and im a bit of a completionist. But id much rather they slow down the LS and produce higher quality permanent content.
AC 1-3, (CM?), TA up/fw, SE 3, HotW 1-3, CoF 1-3, CoE 1-3, Arah 1-4.
Same goes for every other class. None are needed, but some are highly appreciated and mesmers usually are among those-
Maybe in pugs. In organised groups we dont take them that often. But you are right, almost every class can be replaced. Warrior is the only exception because of banners.
Going by your unofficial rule, countless things. Officially ive solo’d arah p2 a number of times, bloomhunger, golem world boss (old and new version) and a load of champions etc.
Anyway heres some threads you might be interested in if you like solo content.
Id say mesmers are pretty important in CM and its nice to have one in cof p1/ se. But they can be replaced. The problem with cm is a guards reflects on its own isnt really enough so a mesmer kind of makes it a lot easier. And theres a few portal/stealth tricks you can do with mesmer in cm.
Stealth use to reset aggro. But they changed it because people would abuse it by skipping past mobs and then using veil after they had got past just to lose aggro.
Stealth does still have its use. You can completely avoid mobs with long enough stealth. And it can also be used as a temporary safe zone to heal up and recharge your cooldowns.
Just use 30/25/0/0/15. Anything else is trash for pve. If you have trouble surviving use a few bits of knights gear until you can handle it. But remember to eventually switch to full beserker!
The engineer doesnt need major changes really. Its just an issue of pve not catering to engi’s strengths. The same issue necro has. Fortunately the devs have said they want to improve the viability of condition damage and control in high level pve. This should benefit both engi and necro.
Btw thanks for reporting me because you didnt like me calling you biased. I got a nice 1 day ban and my sig removed! Much appreciated!
With a LH ele and embers, necro can be carried buffwise pretty easily. Necro will also have near perma fury on its own. Doesnt help the rest of the team but necro self buffing is actually quite good. Its just selfish.
Woops I was thinking of cripple. Lupi is immune to cripple and the slow part of chill but atleast you can still get the dmg bonus from target the weak with chill. But yeah weakness and blind are useless against bosses. Weakness needs to be unnaffected by unshakeable imo. Also vuln duration is kittened on bosses but i dont mind that for balance reasons. Weakness is the main issue.
Well folks, perhaps there is some light at the end of this dark tunnel. Looks like they finally took notice. Now lets hope this leads to big changes.
JonPeters:
Many things that were discussed will see the light of day in some form in the future, even though the focus of these topics were about what is going to be seen for Dec 10th. Some big takeaways for the future. We want control builds and condition builds to have more of a place in high end PvE. We want all profession build diversity to continue to increase, which we will do through more trait and skill work. We want to continue to more clearly define the play styles of the professions. We want to make the combat in Guild Wars 2 better for every single person playing.
If they want to fix this issue then they really need to fix unshakeable. Having weakness and blind being pretty useless on bosses and some bosses being completely immune to cripple/chill/fear is hurting condition control. Condition builds can be fixed with slightly better scaling, which would make the optimized groups take 1 condi spec in most dungeons.
The highest single target dps build also has really good aoe burst. 30/25/0/0/15 is the meta build for dungeons atm. After the patch next week it will be 20/25/0/0/25 and I will be releasing a guide explaining everything about it.
Ps. Anicetus = Dub
I was agreeing with the post above me.
