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Same, bugged.

Despite the being the highest bench, mirage was still one of the least played specs. Now it's being toned down, and way too much. Couldn't you just nerf it by 1/2k ? This spec is one of the hardest in the game, nobody plays it, and it still gets yeeted to lower damage than way more easy to play specs ...

Is the fact that elo is globally lower than it was before in s-PvP a proof that the population in this gamemode (ranked) decreases ?

I mean I think the two first points are being adressed by this patch. Is the third still relevant now that DH does not use scholar anymore ?

Seems perfectly reasonnable, but now you really need to do something about legendary weapons being worse than ascended since you can't swap them to cast boons ... How to make precasting even more of an headache ... Now I need to unequip my leggies on one weapon set so that I can precast correctly - Kind of yikes.

Completly agreed with the OP. How can you do a beta and not give access to basic stuff such as Accuracy and Impact sigils which are used in 50% of the PvE builds ? Do you realize how hard it is to get those on ascended weapons if you didn't had them in bank ? The only way I currently found for myself (As I don't have Karka thingies in bank nor Orichalcum/Iron ingots to craft the mystic thingy with the Accuracy sigil on by default) is to recycle all the sigils of all the bêta characters and throw them into the mystic forge for the random upper sigil, which can simply take you HOURS straight just to get a normal sigil. It's just mindblowing to me that this hasn't been fixed already. They even fixed the only bug which allowed you to get those sigils easely by resetting the bank. TL;DR : All Legendary stuff + Runes and Sigils should be given on bêta tests.

Yup, login server seems to be down on EU.

You need to install arcdps to see your damage (though it's written in chat in the golem area). Then the math is just (xx/100)*benchmark number. So for 90%, 0.9*34k = 30.6k. You need to hit 30.6k to reach 90% of the benchmark. You'll be fine in pugs if you do 80% benchmark and know how to apply your rotation on the bosses. Just look at the written rotation + the video, and don't forget to queue your spells ! Takes a bit of time for the first class you do, but it's doable !

Yes, it's stackable as DPS for confusion oriented encounters (SH, Largos). Not trailblazer though, you still need a tank and a druid. I think it still outperforms axe, especially if you factor in difficulty of rotation which is non existant on staff.

I would recommand getting in touch with a training community and learning with them instead of heading in pugs. It teaches better habits without the toxicity of the pugs. I would also recommand installing arcdps and training at the golem, be it for DPS or giving boons. Necro is not the best class at the moment, but it'll do fine as DPS to start with. You can find some training communities on Snowcrows.com, just pick the one who suits you best.

Still an interesting patch, hopefully some of the suggested corrections will be implemented (BT, Exposed, Elem & Rev), but a lot of stuff in the patch still suggest that it's going in the right way in my opinion.

Exactly. If you postulate this, then there is absolutely no point in doing any changes to raids, because virtually ANY effort that has to be done will be considered too much. Then it just defeats the purpose of the raid to adapt the difficulty and people might aswell ask to transform raids into OpenWorld.It's hard to make generalities though, so changes might be impactful for some players and then it is just up to everyone to decide whether or not they consider it 'worth' doing. Sort of an endless debate.

Yeah, people are looking for a game but spend hours to farm dragonfall like mindless beasts, sure. Arguying rotations are work is absolutely ridiculous, you have stuff to learn in literally every game and MMOs are definately not an exception."Play by some rules" : Yes, welcome to the concept of "game", that's indeed the definition.I don't really mind if we don't attract people that do not actually want to play a game. P.S : If you could try to do a little bit of effort on your posts, that'd be cool, because even if you don't speak English very well or whatever reason it's actually a bit hard to read with typos and stuff ^_^Though if you're on phone it might be annoying.

The only way to give an incentive to raids is simply to make the rewards better. Right now 95+% of raiders are making less money than people farming AB or Dragonfall brainlessly. "Why would I take time learning raids if I can just farm and get more rewards". There are a bunch of people ready to help you progress, but there are not many people that wish to progress. I've raided with a dozen of training guilds, and you don't even want to know how many people actually ask for advices on rotations etc, because it is close to 0.

Short version, Condition Firebrand and even Guardian in general isn't in a very good spot at the moment in PvE. The only reason people call it 'strong', is because the class is very versatile, which's totally different from being broken. Radiance DH is okay, but it's not a meta DPS in any gamemode currently, it's actually one of the worst classes in raids and sub-meta in fractalsVirtues DH is fine but depends a lot of the group and boss, making it very hard to play correctly in pugCondition FB is fine, its bench is only slightly below top-tier condition classes for raids. For fractals, it's one of the best condition classes due to the fast ramp-up from burning. Mainly used in 100 CM for its utilities, does okay on the rest but not better than meta classes correctly played. Quick FB is currently inferior to StM chronos in many ways in raids, it's only used in fractals since chrono won't benefit from good slow uptimesHeal FB is inferior to Heal Renegade in almost any situation in both Raids and Fractals, given that Quick FB does more DPS than normal Alac while being given the possibility to retain all of its utilities. Better going with Heal Ren in almost any situation. TL;DR : The first strenght of Guardian is to be very versatile, i.e it does everything okay. The second one is that the rotations are not really complicated to execute, although there are many variations and reaching benchmark is still very hard in my opinion. Qfb/DH with FMW is still meta in high-end fractals, and Virtues DH for some raid records, but that's about it. There's no way Condition FB can be considered as OP.