Guild Wars 2

Levetty.1279:

I do find it pretty funny that after all the times people said that Mesmer can’t have more damage because of Chrono’s support spec that all the new damage traits were added to base Mesmer instead of Mirage.

You lose quite abit of support of you dont take domi illusions or inspiration.

Rauderi.8706:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Spurnshadow.3678:

OK, i do recognize that the staff is supposed to be a support weapon in some regard, but there are better choices. It’s designed to be an aoe weapon limited to a cone in front of the guardian.

Here’s a quote from another post in the WvW forums. Maybe this will shed some light about just how big of a nerf this is:

“Let me put this in another way as I don’t think people understand just how much of a nerf this is. While the range has been cut in half, it’s effectiveness has been nerfed way more than that. At 600 unit range with a 170 degree ark, it covered an area of 534,000 units. Cut the range in half, it will now cover an area of 134,000 units. That translates to a 75% reduction in area! That’s insane!”

Just out of curiosity. Does that calculation of 75% reduction of area include the increase of the attack angle from 90 degrees to 110 degrees?

Just by the basic geometry math, cutting the range (radius) by half reduces the effective area to 1/4, so at least the 75% reduction is partially correct.

110/90 * .25 = ~30%.

Still a huge increase in the overall area and probably should have justified a damage boost to the auto attack, at least.

well it justified the buffs to the rest of the weapon skills lul

Safir.9203:

McKenna Berdrow.2759:

Gliding

The War Gliding Mastery is available to those who own Heart of Thorns

Yet another example of how you punish those of us who won’t buy your crappy HoT expansion.

We are playing a gamemode that does not require an expansion pack to play in any of the maps and has NEVER required an expansion pack to play in any of the maps, but you want to use vital skills and abilities in WvW? Better pony up the money and pay for HoT or you will just be weakened more and more relative to other players who pay 4 skills.

First, you lock away Shield Generator use from those of us without HoT. Sure, we can “use” the item to keep the siege refreshed, but we can’t actually use ANY of the shield gen skills (and they are very important pieces of siege in wvw).

Now, you add insult to injury by leaving us grounded while HoT-owning teammates can just glide into structures while we have to run on the ground and get zerged down like a bunch of plebs.

The more vital skills you put behind a paywall, the more the gamemode becomes P2W. This is a gamemode that is (more or less) totally divorced from the content of the expansions. But, still, you link vital skills to those expansions and screw those of us who refuse to support your choice to carve up the game into walled skill gardens that require $$$$ to access them.

Now, more than ever, I won’t pay for HoT or the new expansion because I fundamentally disagree with how you willfully kitten those of us who refuse to buy your stupid p.o.s. expansions.

More and more reasons to quit the game again. Anet as a company has NO RESPECT for those of us who just want to wvw. It’s bad enough we don’t have access to new classes/elite skills/masteries, but now no shield gen use or gliding either. Lame.

F U Anet. P2W game sucks my ….

Why should thay care about you if you dont buy their product?

OriOri.8724:

Obviously lol it has the potential to be very overpowered, especially if we can force 3 clones at once to all use ambush attacks with mirage cloak. I understand why they didn’t go with this.

Scepter torch mirage that uses ambush skill= 50 stacks of burning lmao.

Levetty.1279:

Looks like this has been added to the patch notes now.

Confusion: Base damage has been increased to match bleed’s base damage; skill-activation damage has been reduced to compensate for this. This change only applies to PvE.

Torment: Base damage has been increased to match bleed’s base damage; movement damage has been reduced to compensate for this. This change only applies to PvE.

Mirage might not be completly dead in the water, still needs burning though.

Wonder what dps you could get out of a condi shatter build currently, doubt it wll be much but I’m curious and don’t have access to the game currently to try.

Mirage has lots of bleeds it seems. Adding also burning would prob be abit overkill.

OriOri.8724:

Photoloss.4817:

OriOri.8724:

Carighan.6758:

Yeah, bit of a shame. I think overall I’d genuinely prefer Confusion to just deal damage on skill activation again, but it’d require a massive overhaul of the entire condition / skill mechanic in the game to be viable across modes.

That would never be viable in PvE, but for WvW/PvP that would probably be best for confusion in order to keep its uniqueness.

The conditions are split anyway so what’s to stop them giving PvP confusion 10% of the PvE tick but maybe even higher skill damage?

Theoretically nothing. Realistically balance is stopping them. With such a drastic change to confusion they would have to do a complete balance of all skills/traits/runes that can apply confusion and look at the duration and number of stacks. That would be a big undertaking that might as well be accompanied by an entire overhaul to the condition system instead of just addressing confusion.

They dint split functionallity of conditions across games modes if x thing does soemthing it does it everywhere.

They could however, swap condusion and torment from pve skills amd traits with more viable condis. And have torment and confusion being a pvp wvw specific condi. And then, tune their unique aspects higher rather than their generic ones.

Leo G.4501:

zealex.9410:

I will take usefulness and viability over “flavour” any time of the week.

And what’s the likelihood that you yourself will use these new Spirit Weapons?

Depends on how finely tuned they are each to its role. The bow is already great for wvw. Hammer and shield need some buffs and maybe does the dps of the sword.

narcx.3570:

zealex.9410:

Idk if shiro/jalis could even be a good dps with minor support for the group i havent seen any benchamarks or tests ti tell you.

I don’t think this would catch on as you can’t run Natural Resonance while pulsing Impossible Odds. You’d probably still have to take Herald as none of the other traitline’s have anything that would help a power spec’s dps as much as Elder Force does. And at that point, you might as well be running Natural Resonance, since the utility for your group/opening up their gearing would out-perform the 10% damage you’re getting from IO. Now if they reduced IO’s upkeep to 8 in PvE only we might have something.

The reason you can get away with Mallyx/Jalis/No Herald Traitline is because Torment is so strong in some of the fights that Revenant can realistically replace a lot of dps classes. I don’t think Power Rev has the deeps to flat out replace a dps class without bringing anything else to the table.

what about ele on small hitbox Kappa

Zem.4139:

ive go in with a perfect team cps-ingi-chrono-necro-druid all perfectly exp.
We have first try 1st and 2nd boss easy without any fall. we go on 3rd boss , 100% to 30% under 5min. after 30% every die. how to dps anomaly on a disapear ground while get dammage by elit mesmer atk from boss while he do his dammage’s pull in same time , while red balls every where… every ppl die under 20sec… just insane.

cough cough special action key cough cough

@Cameron Isnt the anomaly time based anymore? I didnt get any anomalies during the bloom phase on cm. It kinda makes it too ez.

Azoqu.8917:

Cameron Rich.3905:

Nick.6972:

Haven’t played myself yet, but, is 100CM the same as before but without bugs now or are there other adjustments to difficulty, phases?

We made quite a few changes, but the major change to 100CM was in the ways the bloom phase functioned, as well as the blooms themselves:

• Blooms now bounce off walls instead of sticking to them
• Blooms now occur at 80%, 50%, and 30% – and no longer occur based on a timer. This means you always get to choose when you encounter the bloom phase.

We also fixed various bugs, so the encounter should be a lot smoother now.

I did 100cm last night, and I will say I love the Blooms bouncing off the walls. I didn’t notice it no longer on a timer because my group had good DPS to hit the % before the timer would have occurred anyhow. I will say though, the last bloom phase would seem to make more sense at 25% because the previous phases you’re in them for 20% before blooms while for the last phase you’re only in it for 10% before blooms. I know having it occur at 20% would be too low because you could potentially burst easily to sub 10% from the CC but at 25% you’d only be able to burst to about 15% which starts the final phase.

Not quite understand what happened withthe last phase whats the diff from before?

ArthurDent.9538:

If anything it is harder since you can’t luck out and have the floors not disappear. Also invisible enemies bug going on right now is annoying.

Well yeah but something about the 30% break bar or something like that which you can break and burst ez.

Havent gotten the chance to but i her that i really easy now. Extremely sad to hear that, your opinions.

I wouldnt say say rev got minor buffs this patch around. Wvw and pvp wise at least.

The true mvp is rev chit chat with his legends.

Why did you fix the only actually good bug of this patch in wvw? (im refering to repeatable diamont chest for those who wonder LUL)

Idj i like the mantras so far the recharge doesnt feel long enough and i have the freedom to double use mantras if i feel the need now. Im also digging the 15% crit dmg trait.

Feanor.2358:

zealex.9410:

Feanor.2358:

warbignime.4610:

Feanor.2358:

zealex.9410:

Feanor.2358:

zealex.9410:

Idk other than a few cases this patch was good.

Idk, other than completely ruining Tempest it could’ve been good. I really cannot know, as I stopped reading after the finishing the ele changes.

Nerfing the dmg of tempest was the only logical thing to do with weaver coming out. It also fixed the mess that tempest was (kindof)

By making it irrelevant for the upcoming weeks until release. Such a nice thing to do to your customers.

This statement is a massive exaggeration, ele is still on top in term of support and dps. At leadt do some testing in game before mouthing off.

Is it?
Ele support is irrelevant in PvE, which is what I care about. And I did test its dps, the loss is substantial. Meanwhile power mesmer does comparable (if not better) damage by spawning 3 phantasms and pressing 1 and 2 off cooldown.

LOOOOOOOOOOOLLLL on small hotbox ele is at 30k mes is at 28-29k. Tempest is a great support it doesnt need buffs all it needs is anet to see that gotl is a mystake.

Suppose your numbers are right, one you can play half asleep to get those numbers, the other you have to focus or lose like 1/3rd of it.

If you remove GotL, druid will still be by far the most popular healer in pve, because it will still have Spotter, Empower and spirits. Ele simply doesn’t have a place as a pve support. All it gives is a bunch of boons nobody cares about.

Ok? we had that for all kinds of classes. Even up there in the 40s you have condis thieves overpowering you. This is small hitbox btw large one you are prob first dps regardless.

Tfw soulbeast and cranger can take spotter spirits

Feanor.2358:

warbignime.4610:

Feanor.2358:

zealex.9410:

Feanor.2358:

zealex.9410:

Idk other than a few cases this patch was good.

Idk, other than completely ruining Tempest it could’ve been good. I really cannot know, as I stopped reading after the finishing the ele changes.

Nerfing the dmg of tempest was the only logical thing to do with weaver coming out. It also fixed the mess that tempest was (kindof)

By making it irrelevant for the upcoming weeks until release. Such a nice thing to do to your customers.

This statement is a massive exaggeration, ele is still on top in term of support and dps. At leadt do some testing in game before mouthing off.

Is it?
Ele support is irrelevant in PvE, which is what I care about. And I did test its dps, the loss is substantial. Meanwhile power mesmer does comparable (if not better) damage by spawning 3 phantasms and pressing 1 and 2 off cooldown.

LOOOOOOOOOOOLLLL on small hotbox ele is at 30k mes is at 28-29k. Tempest is a great support it doesnt need buffs all it needs is anet to see that gotl is a mystake.

Theres a trait that when you shatter you get your phantasm’s boons so idk maybe someoen can come u with a sword offhand build.

Idk if shiro/jalis could even be a good dps with minor support for the group i havent seen any benchamarks or tests ti tell you.

Feanor.2358:

zealex.9410:

Feanor.2358:

zealex.9410:

Idk other than a few cases this patch was good.

Idk, other than completely ruining Tempest it could’ve been good. I really cannot know, as I stopped reading after the finishing the ele changes.

Nerfing the dmg of tempest was the only logical thing to do with weaver coming out. It also fixed the mess that tempest was (kindof)

By making it irrelevant for the upcoming weeks until release. Such a nice thing to do to your customers.

Its a perfectly viable dps (which idk if it should be) and a great support. What would you prefer demolishing tempest’s dps mounths ago or 1 month and something extra before the expac?

Feanor.2358:

zealex.9410:

Idk other than a few cases this patch was good.

Idk, other than completely ruining Tempest it could’ve been good. I really cannot know, as I stopped reading after the finishing the ele changes.

Nerfing the dmg of tempest was the only logical thing to do with weaver coming out. It also fixed the mess that tempest was (kindof)

Maybe too big of a patch? Or they want to do more balance changes yet. Suposedly theres a reaper rework in the works.

Feanor.2358:

VaLee.5102:

Raids are not the be all and end all, stop making changes to the classes just to balance the very top end PvE scene that 90% of the player base can’t even get close to.

Just because a few players in some no lyf guilds can achieve a billion DPS that doesn’t mean you have to nerf the class for everyone, including for SPVP and WvW players.

Most of the players can’t even get to half the DPS numbers in the online benchmarks, and yet you make changes just because someone posted a video of him getting a gazillion DPS on a golem on his 468th try.

/rant over

How is that balancing around raids? In a raid you rarely get even close to the golem benchmark numbers as well. At best, it’s balancing around SFTA. And it’s stupid, I agree.

Idk other than a few cases this patch was good.

zomgbuffalo.5276:

Mender’s Purity: This trait now casts Lesser Power Cleanse, which removes 1 condition from you and nearby allies. Fixed a bug that could cause this trait to put Mantra of Resolve on recharge. This trait now shows an effect to indicate its radius.

This is where I am going to get very very salty. With the current condi meta they dare to do THIS to us?

Im not sure i understand what has happened to menders purity.

I honestly saw more buffing and nerfing around every other part of the game rather than raids.

Serenity.6135:

zealex.9410:

What good is a control support weapon when you pick it only for the aa? You are going to be in their face anyways when you charge in and start aa, having even more healing and condi dmg reduction isnt half bad.

It was not used solely for the auto attack, that’s what people did in pve. In wvw guard staff actually had a purpose and was a real support weapon aside from the auto attack. Empower was great when traited with altruistic healing, orb of light for some healing, symbol of swiftness for light field/aoe damage/ and swiftness stacking, and line of warding for cc’s. The problem is the baffling nerf to the range, not the other changes.

They litterally buffed the reason you tell me here it was good and used for in wvw. And they toned down ots aa range while increasing the arc that it hits.

They made it a better support weapon. I cant see whats the issue here.

Lol condi was overperforming. Glad the toned it down.

>all the other staff skills got a buff.

What good is a control support weapon when you pick it only for the aa? You are going to be in their face anyways when you charge in and start aa, having even more healing and condi dmg reduction isnt half bad.

Meanwhile everyone completely ignores that every other skill on the stuff got a buff…

There goes the rework wp mentioned that reaper would get. Feelsterrible man.

Lmao like rev healer doesnt need to build healer to get value from ventari dont make me laugh. Tempest can bring strong support through auras aoe in a radious healing (without any real aiming) and buffed up protection. Tempest is an excelent healer spec.

And it was rightfully nerfed because its terrible design to have an entire trait line be picked because of 2 overloads. Ill tell you a good joke my self : This game’s community.

If you.manage to get cced from hammer then i dunno.

I will take usefulness and viability over “flavour” any time of the week.

They nerfed the aa range while they buffed the rest of the weapon….. Hmmm yep cant have that take back the buffs and gimme longer aa…

The flaws are also incosequential if you just ignore their existnance. Something that you can do in a non raid centric game.

im pve that trait can be good for adds like in 100cm boss 2 you focus pull interupt and aply blind really usueful to take away stress from the healer.

Thats why giving mirage torment confusion is a bad call. It should have been a bleed soec with minor confusion torment through traits.

Because spirit weapons were legit garbage maybe?

So when theres a change in meta or new stat sets are intoduced asc reforging isnt expensive and getting all the runes. mean while legendary armor provides unlimited changes for free expac fullproof.

Feanor.2358:

Yobculture.5786:

Payne.1250:

I agree with OP, all my support to you man

Fractals are slowly becoming some kittenty daily elitist meeting, i ran away from raids because of this, now the cancer is slowly spreading

Be really careful for the next fractals anet, fractals were never supposed to become what they’re becoming.

kitten raids and kitten shattered observatory

Normal 100 is pretty easy once you get used to it, what are you talking about?

I also love the notion how elitism is just now emerging in fractals. I’m not sure if it’s more sad or funny.

I also love how ppl treat “elitism” as something new.

Yes pvp and wvw legendary armors are coming tmmrow i believe

Jahroots.6791:

FrostDraco.8306:

Thats still a problem with you, NOT the AR system. Either learn to be more selective about which toons you do fractals on or suffer the consequences of someone that doesn’t.

You’ve missed my point entirely.

I was saying that I liked dungeons better because I…

Actually noooooope. Nevermind.

Sometimes I really get the sense that many of the posters in this sub-forum don’t respond intending to further the discussion, so much as to be snarky towards others who are even a little bit critical of the content.

But, back to the topic at hand. Here’s a pretty neat video that sums up everything that made dungeons great.

It still doesnt nake it harder to get 150 for like 3 4 alts. Ar is rather cheap and from dailies tou get around 1 stack.

I really dont know what to tell you its the sae with nightmare cm just more “unfair i suppose”. 1 fix would be to remove alot of the mechanics of the fight. but that would devalue the title and the fractal.

RabbitUp.8294:

Me Games Ma.8426:

With dodge jumps you travel more distance because dodging is faster that walking.
It’s like jumping with swiftness or superspeed. It will get you further than jumping normally.

Exactly, which is why dodge jumping doesn’t make a difference if you do have swiftness. And mirage gets superspeed when dodging.

Isnt dodge supposed to root you for the dur?

morrolan.9608:

zealex.9410:

Firebaall.5127:

zealex.9410:

Around 2 months ye. Around 4 hours per week in a semi decent group.

And that’s why Raid armor is easy mode legendary……….

Unlike the wvw armor the pve one require the basic iq check to obtain.

Except you know when you pay to be carried through a raid.

zealex.9410:

Yeah but dedication doesnt mean skill required.

Raiding doesn’t require a high amount of skill. It just requires knowing your rotation and the bosses mechanics.

Thats as high as it gets in this game sadly.

ListenToMe.5130:

zealex.9410:

Gullig.8796:

Talindra.4958:

Gulling.. don’t let this break you. Do other stuff and play other thing in the game .. or maybe come back again later when most ppl master it better.. we used to do 100cm for holo dancer and the core where I can sell for gold. But later stop doing it.. don’t hv the patience for it. And the effort.
Oh btw Dessa is Arkk’s mom?? ol

Ty for cheering me up! I will not be broken that easily, I come from a land where we have -40 Celsius in the winter. Though I love fractals so much and I don´t know what else I should do in the game. Kind of like loosing a very dear friend.

Ps) Arkks dad is that eye from Lord of the rings. He is scared of his son.

IndigoSundown.5419:

@ Gullig

While English may not be your native tongue, I found your narrative to be compelling and interesting. There were strong indications that despite the frustration, you are trying (and succeeding, unless I miss my guess) to make lemonade out of the Arkk lemon. Were you to want advice, I’d suggest focusing on the tongue in cheek rather than the frustration. Regardless, if you do decide to move on, I hope you find other challenges and fun wherever you go. If you decide to stay, there is no problem with foregoing something you don’t enjoy in favor of doing the paths you do enjoy.

P. S. I hope your arm gets better soon.

You might just be…spot on
I have almost returned to normal state now, though I can only play games that fit my patience when it comes to wiping (Candy Crush, Super Mario Bros 1). Also on the positive note – I now know who will be my mental opponent on future boxing-classes.

Arm is much better, ty so much for asking. I bet you are the kind of player that can cheer up any pug in no time on a rainy day!

zealex.9410:

@Gullig Man ill tell you what i did after the first day i tried it (wiped on arkk for like 3 hours) i decided ti leave the boss and w8 for ppl to learn the fight better. In the mean time i watched some kills on youtube and ask for advise from the ppl that aploaded them. A week or 2 after i went in and was better at it than even ppl who had the title.

Ty for the tip. I watched the Youtube-fights a few times before trying 100cm for the first time, but Arkk just kept on killing us anyway. For days. It´s them one shot abilities that I remember so well from my time in Wow. They will always kill pug-players, someone will always rage, a keyboard or two breaks on a regular basis. Everyone like me and their cats have a horrible time on those conditions. I´m very happy for you, and all the rest who got the title though! I hope this fractal is for you and that it gives you the same pleasure as Chaos, aka “DISCO FLOOR FOREVER!”, fractal gave me.

I wouldnt call ot the chaos fractal 2.0 as its not as cancerous as chaos is. And tbh f they fix the anomaly spawn the the disapearing floor is ok imo

I highly doubt anomaly plus floors is unintended. You need to focus anomaly faster. That’s what makes it fun. More RNG. Less scripted. Glorious. If you don’t like it play a lower level fractal, no?

The anomaly isnt rng it has a timer to spawn so you.kinda know when it will spawn. The dissapearing floor ia abit of a cluster kitten and it should somwhow be adressed.

Everything other than mirage as it looks like to be the most underwhelming of the nine.