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you can do the weekly in like 15min farming subjekt 7 in the gauntlet.

I would like to have a clarification on this inconsistency: https://imgur.com/a/VQCQP5N Which version is going to go live?

The light phase takes like 3 min total with phasetimes under 40s and a comet phase where you just run around in a circle waiting until the boss comes back taking 25s and a teather phase where you chill in mid, also waiting until the boss comes back, taking 50s. If you lower the hp you wait more until the boss comes back then you spent time fighting the boss. The dark phase is even faster taking like 2 min or less on a good pull. I dont think that 5 min + downtime is too much for the entire fractal to clear.

2 heal mech 2 qfb 2 specter 4 scourge. One or 2 scourge can run blood for rezzing and the 2 healmechs should run pinpoint. Edit: Also you can prestack poisons for last phase if you are organized and all in discord. The 1. dps phase in the last phase is the burstphase with the highest dps potential, so wait before going up to the last phase until you have your skills rdy and then wait again between the last 2 aoes before going towards ankka, use all poisons from the specters there, prebuff and run towards ankka after a few seconds, do not hit her and immediately hit her when she comes down again.

It's a well known bug that didn't get fixed in ages and is annoying me every day when the instab is in 99 or 98 and I want to play power on any class.

I have 11k hours on my thief and i can tell you thief is fine. It has good openworldbuilds, power daredevil is decent at some of the raidbosses, rifle deadeye has a niche role in raid, condi daredevil is decent aswell and specter is imo kinda op in spvp and very good in most of the endgame pve content, since it has one of the highest dps outputs in the game and also provides grp barrier with decent cc, vuln and burst potential all of that while not locked in melee range on condi, with an easy rotation and can also boonstrip with a negligible dps loss. Also you are decent at skipping and you even could play boonsupport. So no imo thief and in particular specter is one of the best picks for most of the endgame group content and should probably even get nerfed. The only downside is that you can only play with one specter per per subgrp since you overwrite poisons if you dont coordinate them, also the aoe dps is kinda bad.

I like the bossfight and its mechanics, the cone attack from Mai trin could have a charge up animation though, like the Shockwave from scarlet does, to make it more clear when to dodge. Every single player has to know the fight and can randomly get key mechanics that can cause a wipe if failed, also if you don't dodge certain attacks you get punished by taking more dps, I like both of these aspects of the fight. In the end you have to keep track of several mechanics at once, but they are all executable at the same time so even though it's not easy it's fair and fitting for a CM. The timer is reasonable and the difficulty is imo harder than some of the raidbosses, if not most of them. I have however one big issue and that is the rewards of it. The rewards are so bad it gives you no incentive for replayability, once you have the archivements, I think it will end up like Dhuum CM, most people will do it once for the archivement and then never again, and that's a pity.

ok, if no one is in there, practice npcs could spawn, bonus points for increasing difficulty. Btw if you are EU we can duel in there or in the guild arena. Just whisper me.

There are 2 major issues with this arena that have to be addressed: 1. The NPCs need to stop spawning, they are disturbing 1v1s. 2. It is called an Activity, it should act like one in a way that people are grouped together from diffrent arborstone map instances like all other adventures work aswell (keg brawl, crab toss, etc.). Otherwise you can only play against people from your current map instance and are not going to find enough participants, because the arena will seem empty even though 10 diffrent people sit in 10 diffrent map instances waiting for someone to join.

I never wrote about skipping the first ano, it's about phasing the boss before the bomb goes off so you don't lose dps when one player has to do the bomb mechanic. And yes I agree 20/20 would have been better and its a good thing that the condi modifier got nerfed.

Yes I am well aware of that and didn't disagree with the fact that the damage bonus of exposed is getting nerfed. The first phase on Arkk has no breakbar however, and you phase the boss even In a decent pug group before the bomb goes off, then you do the bloom mechanic and after that you get a breakbar for the remaining 10% to the next phase where the 2. Ano doesn't even spawn unless you are slow. So no, the exposed change isn't even close to forcing groups to kill that ano.

no, not even close

Is there an ascended back item anywhere in eod?

No thats not how it works. First of all you dont want to have a healer in your party to begin with if you play a power comp because you want to have fast phasetimes so you need to cover all of the offensive boons while losing the least amount of damage and still bringing enough cc and aegis / stability to have a high dps uptime. If you have npng in its current form it just straight up favors a condi comp because you have to bother to strip it in a power comp and you have to strip it fast because the bulk of the damage is dealt within the first seconds, condi on the other hand needs time to ramp up so even if npng would include resolution it would still favor condi. Secondly changing exposed would not make other condi classes unviable, cslb cdeadeye and cdaredevil are very good and in an organized condi group better than scourge, that would not change and even cmirage would still be very good on some bosses. The fact that you have a disparity in the performance between some condi builds is a balance issue however and needs to be addressed seperately it does not justify to leave exposed how it is.

hi, i ran with you and marchen yesterday if im online feel free to whisper me, i would be happy to play with you again. I also think that by reverting the exposed change more people would play power and the pug diversity would be bigger. It would probably lead to what you said would be ok (80% scg fb ren or other condi comps rest power).