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It should be fairly obvious at this point that, as painful as it may be, wvw needs to go the way of the mega server. “Stack numbers and face roll the competition” has to stop.
Unless they relink crazy fast, say every other week and impose a heavy transfer cooldown of 3-4 months, linking will never keep up with player movement and we will forever be caught in the mess we are now.
Every tourney has been a disaster. Everybody bandwagons one server and curbstomps the whole thing. It would be no different now.
I agree completely that the system sucks…the time it takes to do world completion should be the same amount of time a player must engage in pvp and wvw with no “outs” from the trading post.
Pandering to players like the OP is what waters everything down for everyone…just look at the pvp wings, great or terrible if you grind enough games you could get them.
Not to be condescending to the OP, but you must be kinda new. It’s been this way with rangers since release...not saying that it’s right/good but just saying.
Frostfang/incinerator is life for power…though non-ballers may feel differently. OH dagger has always just fit my play better. Dagger 4 is my “shroud is on cooldown poor man’s safe stomp” skill.
edit: scepter/dagger for condi
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Well, regardless of what this trait did/does/ever will do it is in the death magic tree. If it was buffed to be hell on wheels it wouldn’t matter.. Either condi or power DM is an awful pick next to spite/sr/reaper. Whatever would change would have to come with bigger changes to DM as a whole.
As is...the only thing that would make me choose DM would be if it allowed some modicum of healing through shroud, but that sounds like more of a blood magic thing.
Solid advice from gavyn. Sad reality is that focus necro first has been standard operating procedure of team fights since release.
For some inexplicable reason, Anet refuses to acknowledge or address that our “2 health bars” are inferior in virtually every way to the healing and active defenses of the other classes. I can sustain for ages with a 15k hp dh roaming in wvw, same fight as a necro I’d be dead in 20 seconds. That’s our illustrious “theme” I guess.
While informative, one thing these historical scoring number crunches are leaving out is that things may have turned out differently if this kind of scoring was in place at that time. You gotta keep in mind that since shortly after release most of us abandoned any concern for ppt since all that mattered was off hour ktraining. If folks had any inkling that they could win a match they may have put more effort into ppt, considerably changing the data we see.
Well, in keeping with our class the 2 missing elites must:
A) not be worthwhile
B) have a disproportionate cooldown in relation to the effect received
Well: pulses weakness and does 500 damage/sec on full power build, 180s cd
Signet: passive increases healing power by 180. Active is a teasing 1s protection, 1s resistance and 2k heal that scales .01 with healing power, 300s cd
I would be open to employment with Anet, just saying
The amount of boon hate required to viably counter boon share/spam does not exist. A comp built to counter boon share/spam can only focus down at best/100% efficiency 5 targets at once …and that’s only if you get lucky and take off both resistance and stability to lock them into wells/null field and somehow those aren’t instantly reapplied. During that the other 20 of them are still curb stomping and all of your side cooldowns have to come up to try again.
You could target the mesmers to stop the sharing but that does nothing to the rest of their party’s 30s+ of every boon. Some groups don’t even use mesmers but run everyone with boon duration so gl with that too.
The other thing is that a boon hate comp has big holes in it that will just get you shredded against a lot of other setups.
You’re better off at just getting better at spamming boons and managing cool downs than your enemies. Just watch a recent gvg video, it’s a mescaline salad of nonsense.
Inventions or tools would be a far better pick than explosives. Drop grenades and pick either elixir gun or tool kit…either one is solid choice depending on the comp/situation. Grenade kit just isn’t worth it compared to the utility of tool or elixir gun unless your group runs hardcore pirate ship.
For all the complaints about the wvw achives/titles, they are reasonably thought out. A super casual isn’t gonna grind out yakslapper or unhappy camper. Sure, high skill might not be involved, but at least you know someone with a wvw title has been around the block a few times. I’ve fought some comically bad players wearing the ascention in wvw.
Spvp could use something along those lines, a back piece or w/e for players that maintain X% win rate with Y games played or something.
So far I enjoy this and the other linkings. I’m on kaineng and we get bounced around the tiers a bit so I’m always getting to fight new people. Then again I’m a fights guy and 100% don’t care about winning/losing/crushing/getting crushed…it’s still as meaningless today as it was 4 years ago.
That being said, linking in terms of wvw being a competitive game mode is an absolute train wreck. Seriously, why keep hammering away at something that isn’t working?
Come on guys and gals, can’t we all just be happy that it’s 2013 and wvw population is healthy enough to necessitate 6 commander tag colors?
OP actually had fun in wvw, but low loot quantity=no play. Even if that changes, he/she isn’t in wvw for “fun”…just bags.
Like Reverence above, can’t wrap my head around that.
If someone made an online game with nothing but boxes on a screen with shiney things popping out and no other content, would you just play that and cut out the middle man of farming?
Reads: The number of maps in WvW have been reduced from 4 to 3.
Neat.
9/10
You forgot to mention how you walk out of a trap and then for reasons unknown walk back in and eat more damage or down yourself.
Step after next: Large numbers of players transfer to the smaller linked servers in T1/T2 for only 500 gems and the population train wreck continues.
Timeline: Next Saturday
Well played Anet.
I would say they don’t see the class like we do.
Since OP is kinda new to the game…FYI necro was trash tier in everything but WvW zergs for three solid years. Only HoT really changed things. So, infer from that what you will.
I never thought I’d see the day we had a meta build for pve and spvp.
Ripping 2 boons means jack kitten in the current boon-spam meta, it’s worth a minor or adept trait at best. Now if it had a special effect that prevented the 2 stolen boons from being reapplied by your opponent for X seconds, it might be worth another look.
Today i got a message in wvw during a 2 mins afk.
You are kicked by XXXXX
I didn’t accept any squad invitation nor joined any squad, why do i got kicked?
It is not affecting my game experience but i can’t remove it or unseen it, and i felt offended by it.
….and my guild has trouble finding good players to recruit, where’s this guy/gal when we needed them?
I weep for all mankind.
Paging Noble Soul…
Oh man…the myth, the legend.
I agree it’s not gvg/serious comp worthy, but if you’re as good as him/her most groups wouldn’t mind you tagging along.
4 years later I’ve finally discovered … that my main build being staff necro using marks do not hit downed players thus I do not qualify to get loot from those players.
This is the one of the greatest things I’ve ever read…like the best since “My GF left me cuz ladderbords” thing, only it isn’t a joke.
4 years of missed loot…never forget.
But even the disparity between 13 and 14 is immense. DR has coverage that HoD can’t possibly match and they beat us by 120k+ week in week out. BP has almost been a no-show for a while. The 13v14v15 match up is basically a foregone conclusion.
Close the bottom X number of servers to be pve only and have the rest open to wvw based on population data. How else could populations be evened out?
Only ever applied stability on the initial cast afaik
Right? I don’t care about winning or losing a given matchup, I’d just like to have a bit of fun along the way. I certainly don’t want HoD matched up against the bottom 2 servers either, there’s no point to log if it’s an effortless roflstomp.
< seksi from [WAR]
I rolled a new account on FA to see what it’s like to not be pooped on for a week in WvW. But, I suppose I did just what ANet wanted me to. I spent more money to have a better gaming experience and they didn’t have to fix anything. GG
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