Its not irrelevant when you consider warriors dps compared to other classes in a group setting. They still have that ridiculous survivability. I admit fgs is over the top damage. But it only becomes a problem in dungeons. In fractals it is incredibly risky to use effectively. That said, i wouldnt be against a damage per tick nerf. But fgs should still provide huge burst.
Warrior has the most over the top self buffing alongside the best survivability. Its much harder to get a good solo with ele fgs than it is on warrior. But if you pull it off then it is considerably faster.
To be honest you shouldnt be relying on ele for might in fractals. You rely on them for fury. Although a D/F ele with strength runes actually maintains a huge amount of might even with imperfect rotations. I agree on one thing though. Its almost always better to have a phalanx warrior in fractals. But that doesnt mean you shouldnt take some eles aswell.
Yeah its true the safer option is better for most groups. You need to be really comfortable with ele to make it work. But it is still a top class. Im far more comfortable on ele than i am on warrior in all fractals except for mai. And dunno about others but i find guardian much harder to survive on than ele. Maybe thats because i play ele/mesmer almost exclusively in fractals? Or maybe its the range of lightning whip? One thing is for certain my groups fractals started going a lot smoother when me and deSade started using ele. We rarely use more than 1 though.
elementalists effective in fractals ahahahahahahahahahaha
Only bad eles are ineffective in fractals. If you actually played ele regularly in fractals you would realise they can provide everything except for stealth and portal.
No. In a group condition damage is never worth it. Everything dies too fast and you will do less damage due to ramp up time and condition stack limit. If you are soloing then yes condition is better.
And lupi is a very high armour boss which is why conditions are pretty good on him. Although he cleanses in phase 3 if you dont perfectly dodge every attack. I still wouldnt use conditions on him unless I was soloing. In a group its always power or go home.
The only thing were asking for is more sleek designs. And less completely over the top inflated designs. I like a lot of the new big weapons. But they are too big for my taste. Id absolutely love them if they were just a bit smaller or a bit thinner on the blade. Focus’s are always way too big. Greatswords often are too broad, they could cut the width in half and you would still be able to see the sword clearly from a distance. Is it so unreasonable to accept that some of us want more variety of sleek designs?
At the moment i have a choice of 4 greatswords, 3 swords, 2 focus’s and 1 dagger that i like and fit this concept. But on the big side theres a huge amount of choice and many of them have really nice designs which could easily be adapted to more slender and realistic sizes and shapes (they dont have to be completely realistic just a bit less over the top). Im just fed up with all my characters having greatswords the size of trees and focus’s that are twice the size of bowling balls.
I dont believe we will get anything remotely useful.
But if i had any optimism I would say finishers on some weapons. Siphoned power rework. Cooldown, cast time and aftercast reductions. Withering precision rework/change/move. And maybe boon on DS trait changes.
But i dont believe we will get any of these as every other major balance patch has been a major disappointment and never addressed the things we have asked for or what we sorely needed.
Bomb kit will still be superior. Bomb kit vs FT will be short cd firefield with damage + long cd high dmg blast vs low cd decent damage blast with long cd fire field. If fire fields are permanently covered and fights are extended then FT will be better. Every other situation bomb kit will be better.
First time i solo’d it i did with axe, sword and gs and just perma crippled him. But its actually better to go mace, sword + gs. It allows you to block almost every attack and counterblow does decent damage. Also gives you some cc. You still have to kite a bit, but once you get his patterns down you can stay closer pretty consistantly and maintain some damage.
Signets – huge buff, opens up more possibilities. Can still reflect burst but no longer forced to take that grandmaster to do it.
GS – minor buff, hoping this will make gs more acceptable in challenging fights.
Well i would never use death magic in the first place. If i had to choose i would use staff mastery or Shrouded removal. But thats like picking the least useless trait of a bad bunch in a bad line.
Ive witnessed it aswell a while back. Never checked the lvl but based on the fact that the unexpected chaos storm pretty much 1shot my necro i can only assume it was also lvl 84.
Yeah but the other reason is enough to discount his suggestions. Besides like you said, the extra crit chance is pretty important and bleed as a cover condition is actually really helpful in pvp.
And from the other perspective the toughness and boon duration is going to have pretty much no effect.
Curses is clearly better. Nemesis’s reasoning for death magic is his weird build philosophies which make no sense. “Never invest in something we dont use” referring to the condition damage portion of the curses line. Also he used the arguement of bleed stacking, but thats not an issue because noone goes condi anymore in PvE.
I was under the impression belka could no longer be 1200 exploited. Also, the golem suit refers to a WP immediately after the spider room which no longer spawns, until after Abom fight.
Yep. Belka can still be exploited using bone wall, and there’s a hole along side the spider room that you can jump up, but they removed the WP. Well, it won’t spawn until after the Abom.
“Yep” in this case meaning yes and no?
Dont know about the golem. But Belka now shoots you if you try to afk range.
100% agree. Theres so many nice skins in the game but most of them suffer from being oversized which makes them look odd.
I was considering getting the Ley Line focus because its the first non pink glowy focus which goes relatively well with infinite light. Unfortunately its too big so i have changed my mind. It would be perfect if it was half the size. They dont need to be huge to look nice anet!
Axe auto has like a 200 degree arc. I dont know of any situation where your group of enemies would be positioned in such a way that you would not hit 3 at a time with such a huge arc. Axe auto hitting 3 targets does more damage than axe kittenting 5 targets. So yeah….
The multi hit spin was decent when lifesteal food had no icd. You could full heal with one axe 5. But everything is limited by internal cooldowns now.
Yeah but thats something only really committed players would do. Its a lot of effort to show that stuff when its not something you can truly be proud of. The only people I can imagine doing that are experienced players that already have a good following and are asked to create some indepth teach vids. But barely anyone does teaching vids anyway.
Never really found the ice elemental a problem. It was the dredge suit I always had a problem with until i decided to wake up and dodge the auto attack. xD
But I wouldnt rate either of them especially in a group.
Fair enough. Never noticed because shes never next to me when i fight her. However you can dodge 80% of the auto attacks anyway so it shouldnt be an issue.
The calculator isnt perfect. A few things to note. It simply adds up the dps of each profession based on the spreadsheet. The spreadsheet always assumes 25 might so a comp that doesnt recieve 25 might may show higher totals on the calc than it actually would in game. Also the condi damage doesnt factor in bleed cap or burn/poison stacking. So yeah. Be careful when you use this. Its useful to get a rough idea of how much might and vuln you get though.
Also spreadsheet dps is not the only factor in speedruns. You almost always sacrifice some group dps to save time in other areas. So i doubt engi will ever have a place even with fgs nerf.
