Taril.8619

June 30, 2020

@Atomos.7593 said:
@Taril.8619 said:
@Atomos.7593 said:I don't get what the devs gain from making some customers pleased and other customers disappointed lol. :p
@Atomos.7593 said:person who opens it a thousand times

Now imagine there was money involved.

What could developers possibly gain from such a system?

Haha true. I was intending to add to my previous post, where I was looking for reasons other than money, with that post.

But if money was a big issue why not make it so that you have to open the box many times to get the rare item (but it is guaranteed to get the item once you open the box this many times) and then everyone would have to pay a lot to get the item, instead of using RNG where someone may get it quickly but others may not? I guess making the drops RNG would make the money issue less transparent and obvious though.

Because of several reasons:

1) You get less out of whales. Who WILL purchase thousands upon thousands of boxes to get all the 0.000001% chance items.

2) Random plebs will get put off if they see a large price point on stuck onto the item they want and not bother purchasing any boxes.

3) This system may as well just put the item for direct purchase in the store. If it is guaranteed after spending so much money on boxes. That way you aren't giving away "Free" boxes when people are dropping money for the rare item.

4) You exploit people far less. With cheap boxes that have a chance to give the rare item, people are more likely to spend a couple of dollars on a box. Then when they don't get the item... "Oh it's only a couple more dollars for another box no big deal". Then another one and another one and another one and before the person knows it, they've spent $1000 on boxes. (This is one of the primary ways Mobile games earn money, selling lots of "Cheap" stuff that people can end up buying a lot of without realizing)

June 30, 2020

@Axl.8924 said:Do you think scrapper on top of holosmith warrants a nerf? and how so?

Scrapper? Nah, it's fine. If anything, it could maybe use some buffs given it's really only notable in WvW. While in PvP/PvE it's less prevalent and useful.

Holosmith? Possibly. It's one of the PvP builds that people complain about right now. I think one of the main concerns is its capacity to stack Might on itself (Which of course, it gets double value from due to the plethora of hybrid damage skills - Photon Blitz, Refraction Cutter, Shrapnel Grenade and Poison Grenade all have good power scaling as well as providing conditions)

I'd say targetting Enhanced Capacity Storage Unit's Might would be the best course, so that other builds that run HGH don't suffer. Also, it might make Vent Exhaust and Photonic Blasting Module more competitive instead of being completely outclassed by ECSU in basically all situations.

@Axl.8924 said:And should core be touched along with this? and what exactly?

Core shouldn't be nerfed. It's not OP.

June 30, 2020

There's not really a site that will work in the way you describe.

It however, is not particularly hard to create builds that don't suck.

It's really a simple checklist of:

What is the damage type of the weapon? Power or Condi?
Copy/Paste the meta build for that damage type.

Voila, you have a non-sucky build for your off-meta weapon.

Maybe you swap out a weapon specific trait that won't benefit you. But that's about it.

There's not really a whole lot of depth in builds, the traits for a damage type are easy to figure out what is best. Then weapon choices in meta builds will just be the most effective available for that damage type on that class. There's few builds that hinge around specifically a weapon type since there's few traits that are that niche and most weapons for a class tend to share a theme (Such as Guardian creates Symbols with every one of their weapons, Mesmer has a skill that creates Clones and Phantasms on every weapon set etc)

June 30, 2020

Simple, straight to the point suggestions eh?

Alright;

1. Change Phantasms into pure animations, not untargetable NPC's. This is all they functionally are, but the vestigial mechanic of them being NPC's makes them unreliable because of stupid AI, terrible pathing and janky hitboxes (Not to mention, as a primary source of Clones to fuel the class mechanics, their awkward mechanics can cause delays to Clone generation which is a complete FeelsBadMan)2. Change how Clones function. There's way too much counterplay to them, including boss AoE's in PvE. There shouldn't be such a huge difference between standard usage and shotgunning with them. Possible solution: Clones only exist when you Shatter, which causes the (Now untargetable/invulnerable) Clone(s) to appear a set distance from your target then run in (Shattering all at the same time) before you Shatter you only hold "Clone Pips". This would make them more consistent to utilize and play against (Also, small benefit of allowing you to be able to "Hold" your clones between target swaps) as they will be consistent to dodge at all ranges and will be guaranteed to land on targets (Especially if they functioned like pure animations too instead of NPC's so they cared less about terrain or being juked)

Re-adjust Condition DPS weapons to account for the loss of Clone uptime providing damaging Conditions.4. Mirage gets unique Shatters that produce Mirage Cloak instead of it coming from Dodging (Possibly having MC on Dodge being a GM trait to replace Infinite Horizon)5. Chrono's unique Shatters now also produce AoE Quickness/Alacrity/Stability (For F1/F2/F3 respectively) allowing them to provide this boon support without relying on their trashy Wells.6. Rework Staff. Either make it more consistent for support or conditions. Make Skill 3 not utter garbage. Make Chaos Aura (Thus the Chaos Armour skill) not trash (Heck, with a 30s CD, Chaos Aura should be provided to allies in an area around you too when using Chaos Armour).

That's about it for the major points of Mesmer's issues.

Things like trashy traits are a problem that many classes share... Also some of the above suggestions would require some trait tweaks anyway.

June 30, 2020

@Atomos.7593 said:I don't get what the devs gain from making some customers pleased and other customers disappointed lol. :p
@Atomos.7593 said:person who opens it a thousand times

Now imagine there was money involved.

What could developers possibly gain from such a system?

June 29, 2020

Thief in general seems to be tailored towards PvP and PvP only.

Most utility skills for Thief suck, outside of PvP (Basically, everything that isn't a Signet... Hence the general PvE build for Thief being 2-3 Signets)

Initiative really lends itself towards burst damage rather than sustained damage which is most useful in PvP.

Many weapons have skills that are only justifiable in a PvP setting (Death Blossom's 0.5s evade, Dancing Dagger every Sword skill, Headshot... Heck even Shadow Strike/Repeater has more use for PvP than PvE due to the rapid range changes that don't interact well with the PvE style of "Stack up for AoE Boons/Heals")

Stealing is pretty awful outside of PvP where you get consistent results based on enemy classes.

Even with the E-Specs it's still more PvP favouring;Daredevil sucks as a PvE tank, because you can only dodge so much, you generally want some reliable blocking and ability to facetank some hits, but dodging in PvP is very strong because you can mitigate a lot of someone's burst allowing you time to burst them down instead.Deadeye provides strong burst, which is really good for PvP where you want to down people quickly. But its sustained damage falls off (Since PvE rotation is about chaining Stealth attacks by popping as many Utility CD's that provide stealth as you can and simply bursting repeatedly)

Then, when such a class is inevitably good in PvP because its entire design seems to be focused on PvP... It gets nerfed because it's too good in PvP :o

Meanwhile it gets forgotten about in PvE... Where it's usefulness surmounts to Daredevil being good for a single Raid Boss (Qadim) because of their CC potential, while Deadeye is considered one of the hardest builds to play optimally (With heavy DPS losses from messed up rotations as well as movement), has 0 AoE damage, barely any BB damage, no utility, heavy reliance on other players (To provide boons for Premeditation and Conditions for Expose Weakness) and not even top tier DPS potential.

To top things off, PvE Thief also suffers from incredibly boring rotations, since so many of their skills are niche, it ends up with rotations that amount to 222222222 (D/D, Staff) or 333333333 (P/P). Only Rifle DE has something more interesting (33313331... Until you run out of Stealth CD's and then have to switch to D/D and thus 2222222)

June 29, 2020

@frareanselm.1925 said:
@"Taril.8619" said:Sword/Sword are decent for Power.
Bearing in mind, that a significant portion of your damage will come from Shiro and Rene upkeep skills, which deal flat damage scaling off Power onto all your attacks (Same as Battle Scars) which is likely why Sword's auto attacks aren't hugely damaging, because they aren't the only thing that's dealing damage when you auto attack.
Which is also a reason why Hammer isn't so great, since it's all about slow singular hits, but Power Rev is balanced around proccing Shiro/Life Siphon effects repeatedly to bolster its damage output.
Also, it's why Shortbow is actually decent for Power too. With fast auto attacks and multihits on skills 2, 3 and 4 you can get some decent power scaled damage on there.

Decent isnt good enough.

Decent isn't good enough?

Looks at title of thread

"Power revenant needs a decent melee weapon!"

...

Okay?

June 29, 2020

Preparations are just bad.

I've tried running Pitfall in PvE for some BB damage, but even there bosses can move before the thing is even ready to use.

Not to mention it does pulsing damage which will break stealth making it not usable for DE... (Though, DE gets Binding Shadow which is just flat out better and Shadow Gust is also a great alternative that doubles as an additional source of Stealth)

Thousand Needles is just worse Caltrops and Caltrops is already trash.

Seal Area is ??? It's Guardian Hammer 5. With a 3s delay before it can be activated. Guardian Hammer is notoriously garbage. This skill is no better.

The only Preparation with any redeeming features is Shadow Portal and that's only because it's Portal (Albeit worse). But given that Mesmer is non-viable in PvP/WvW it at least is useful there (Though still far worse than Portal due to the 5 player limit on Shadow Portal) as well as for some PvE stuff if you don't have a Mesmer to hand.

So yeah... The 3 second arm time and the lacklustre effects make Preparations pretty garbage in basically every game mode.

As far as Runes go, the only effect I can think of that would make sense would be: Gain 3 seconds of stealth and superspeed after detonating a preparation.I.e. Rune of the Trapper.

But even with that Rune, I'm not sure I could see Preparations being particularly useful and will basically just continue being Shadow Portal as the only thing that sees use ever (Maybe you'd see some people slot Pitfall + Rune just to plop down the PF and use it as a 25s CD stealth skill in PvP instead of Blinding Powder)

Essentially, Preparations need to be completely scrapped and remade. Keep Shadow Portal, but then give 3 new actually useful skills alongside it without tacking on any janky mechanics.

June 29, 2020

@RaidsAreEasyAF.8652 said:
@Taril.8619 said:
@Jski.6180 said:That is the problem here you having strong reg effects not working because of this healing power only letting the tricks trigger. Stacking duration OR insistently would still have the same problem.

Only in the case where you are hitting 25+ stacks of Regen.

Which, how often will that actually occur? Especially without duration stacking to put up long duration Regen effects.

Many applications of Regen only last for a few seconds, meaning you'd need a bunch of sources to apply Regen within a small timeframe AND then have build discrepancies such as some people having Healing Power while others have no Healing Power but a ton of Regeneration amp effects to even have a case where you'd lose tick efficiency.

Im pretty sure regen caps at 5 stacks, not 25.

Regen doesn't stack.

I was inferring the previous posters comment about Regen stacking to 25.

@Jski.6180 said:I mean condi dmg use to have the same problems right? You would hit a cap at some point unless you want to make reg stacking capless witch would cause a lot of problems.

Condi damage used to not stack intensity and would only stack duration. They were changed to all stack intensity so that multiple sources of conditions would work together.

Other similar things were changed too, such as Reaper's GM Trait Deathly Chill. It used to make Reaper's Chill deal damage over time, but it had sloppy interactions with other players in PvE applying longer duration Chill effects that would overwrite Reaper's many instances of low duration chills and thus invalidate the damage from this trait.

@Jski.6180 said:It may not seem like it but the game is full of reg skills and often they are balanced with reg in mind of part of the skill effect.

It is full of regen skills. Not many are used though.

Especially given how terrible Regen is without Healing Power (Similar issues exist for Guardian's Virtue of Resolve and honestly... Any heal effect that isn't an actual healing skill or Soulcleave's Summit... Including most weapon skill heals...)

Healing for ~130 health per second for 3-6 seconds is not particularly noteworthy against healthpools of 11,000-20,000.

Which is why this issue with regeneration isn't particularly prominent, since the main users of Regen, are heal builds (Such as Druid or Scrapper) which will typically be running Healing power and thus their Regen ticks will take priority over some of the other incidental regen applications.

June 28, 2020

@Senqu.8054 said:You can’t leave half the boons out of consideration if you want to compare the accessibility of them.

You can. Because 80% of boons are not the reason why certain builds are run.

Alacrigade is only run because of Alacrity. Not because it can grant Stability or Might or whatever else it doesn't provide because it's spending all of its energy on Alacrity + Damage.

Quickbrand is only run because of Quickness. Not because it can grant Stability or Aegis or Resistance. It's focus is on Quickness and Damage.

Since, these tools are also available to other builds. Such as Healbrand and Healigade. Heck, even Condi Ren/Condi Brand both can provide these things too.

Boon Chrono is only run and has only been run because of Quickness and Alacrity. Before PoF, it was the ONLY class that could not only buff other people with these things, but also achieve 100% uptime. With PoF, Firebrand and Renegade also provide builds where they can maintain 100% uptime of one of these boons.

As if the whole game would consist off only alacrity- and quickness-boon support.

I mean, that's literally the case. Support is either Healing or it's providing Alacrity and Quickness. Other boons are non-factors. Hence why Herald is completely unplayed in PvE, despite bringing very good (100%) uptimes on Might, Fury, Swiftness, Regeneration and Protection, because these boons don't matter due to how available they are.

In PvP/WvW, other boons become more notable, but then Chrono is dismissed anyway because of their reliance on Wells irregardless of how many boons they provide. They could give Might + Fury + Swiftness + Aegis + Resilience + Stability + Protection + Quickness + Regen and they'd still be unviable as a support in these game modes because Wells and specifically, Chrono's wells, are just utter garbage there.

If you say that fb has better access to quickness because chrono also has alacrity you have to apply the logic also to the other ones.

Not when the only relevant comparison is the 2 boons that actually make these builds played. Which is Quickness/Alacrity. If not providing these boons these builds are not played, instead, opting for a pure damage build instead (Condi Ren, Condi Brand, Power Chrono).

Or should we start randomly comparing each classes ability to Boonrip? Oh now Firebrand sucks while Chrono dominates over Rene.

Maybe we should look at the ability to use Portals? Oh, now Chrono is super good because Guardian and Rev don't have Portal while Chrono does!

When making comparisons, you have to compare what is actually relevant, not everything you can possibly find that differs.

In the case of these 3 support builds, it's all about the 2 boons that they provide that are not readily available to a plethora of classes and builds in general, Alacrity and Quickness.

Also note, I said "Part of the reason" is Chrono getting access to both while FB/Rene only get one. With another part being powercreep. Meaning that FB/Rene's access to other boons can be attributed to the powercreep and thus not necessarily counted against Chrono's lack of other boons.

@Senqu.8054 said:What about conditions? Should we now compare the accessibility of burn, mesmer vs guard, and come to the conclusion that guard is the most op class in history of gw?

I mean, if we're talking about how a build is picked due to its capacity to provide burn, then yes I guess?

And about the Well of Precognition: To say it’s just not meta is by far exaggerated. It would imply that it is still viable to a degree.

Just want to point out, that your choice of words here have conflicting meanings. Saying "To say it's just not meta is by far exaggerated" is impling that it is infact meta. I think you meant to put "Is an understatement"

@Senqu.8054 said:Wells are not worth to take any time beside raids.

Which is generally where people actually give a damn about perma-Alacrity/Quickness support builds.

OW PvE doesn't care. Fractals don't care (Maybe in higher tier fractals where people aren't just zerging through). PvP doesn't care. WvW doesn't care.

It's all about Raids where this level of min/maxing is notably cared about.

June 28, 2020

@Jski.6180 said:That is the problem here you having strong reg effects not working because of this healing power only letting the tricks trigger. Stacking duration OR insistently would still have the same problem.

Only in the case where you are hitting 25+ stacks of Regen.

Which, how often will that actually occur? Especially without duration stacking to put up long duration Regen effects.

Many applications of Regen only last for a few seconds, meaning you'd need a bunch of sources to apply Regen within a small timeframe AND then have build discrepancies such as some people having Healing Power while others have no Healing Power but a ton of Regeneration amp effects to even have a case where you'd lose tick efficiency.

June 28, 2020

@"Jimbru.6014" said:Mordrem still in Iron Marches, Fort Salma and Fort Concordia still not rebuilt after Mordy was killed years ago in both real and game time. Update and fix the game world already.

Technically, that's intentional.

Each part of the world is in a "Time Bubble" so that everything makes sense to new players still going through the story (The only exception was the mistake that was LW1 which cannot be replayed as a result)

Core Tyria is still pre-Zhaitan's death/pre-Morty's death depending on the zone (I.e. The Pact are still fighting off Risen and trying to establish footholds in Orr and surrounding areas. While Mordremoth's influence lingers in Forts Salma/Concordia and Iron Marches)

Just like HoT is pre-Morty's death, PoF is pre-Balthazar's death, LW4 is pre-Joko's death etc

@"Jimbru.6014" said:And you know what's REALLY sad? That despite all that, GW2 is still one of the best MMOs out there, which says a lot about the "strength" of its competition and the general state of MMOs today.

Sad but true...

My rating of 38/100 for GW2 is most likely still one of, if not the highest score for MMO's on the market right now if I were to compare them...

Sigh

Western release of Blue Protocol can't come fast enough... What with already proving to be pretty good, with Devs that actively listen to their playerbase (Meanwhile that Amazon MMO that's coming out next month looks like poop)

June 28, 2020

@Senqu.8054 said:
@Taril.8619 said:
@Aeolus.3615 said:
@Kodama.6453 said:
@Aeolus.3615 said:
@Svez Poizon XD.5268 said:
@Aeolus.3615 said:Make alacrity and quickness boon provided only from chrono... remove it from renegade and firebrands, give something to those classes that fit more in their theme.

It would be awesome if they removed alacrity from renegade but added retaliation instead or something that pulses a lot. Alacrity is not fitting it.

Renegade could have something that would make it better usage with other legends :\, imagine f4 from renegade depending from wich legend is used.F4 on:Jalis - buff for reduce direct damage. and minor boon duration of retaliation.deamon- reduce condi damage, with 1-2 sec of resistanceAssassin- vampiric damage, with vampiric on vigor?!? as well?

But yeah, if people wanted alacrity or/and quickness they should have a chrono it could also be seted for that and damage at the same time, could be played more like a time wizard rather than a gimmick >_> this would make its wells more enjoiable to play rather than confuse the players that ty to use them?.

If Anet focus on classes more on their themes, classes will have better roles and wont confict with each other.

Ideally, yeah, if every elite spec had something unique for them based on their theme, that would be great.

But how exactly do you imagine this to work, especially since you are already giving multiple things to chrono (alacrity, quickness,

and

slow?).We have 18 different elite specs already and will most likely get 9 more with the next expansion. What should every single one of them have that is unique to them and resonates with their theme?

It wouldn't really be fair that chrono is the only one with unique buffs/effects, right?

Their gameplay and its effefcts, also isnt fair other class do better what is in theme with chrono, i play renegade for the 100% alacrity upkeep with one button for 10 players arround with just 70%ish of boon duration, even FB does better with quickness xD than chrono.

Anything related to recover cd's time, slow cd's, and quickness should be main chrono.

Well, part of that reason, is because Chrono does both, while FB and Rev only do 1 each. It makes sense that the classes that focus on only 1 boon has an easier to maintain uptime than the class that does multiple boons.

Though, I suspect that another part of this is simply powercreep given that Renegade and Firebrand are PoF E-Specs while Chrono is from HoT so it may be that Ren/FB simply have the benefit of ANet deciding that perma-Quickness/Alacrity isn't so bad and thus implementing it in an easier way for the newest round of E-Specs.

That said, I still think Renegade and Firebrand are backwards. They each benefit more from the opposite boon than the one they have...

Renegade gets more out of Quickness because the Energy mechanic limits their ability to spam skills so they do more auto attacks than a typical class which works better with Quickness.

Meanwhile Firebrand gets more out of Alacrity because their Tomes aren't about spamming auto attacks and get more benefit from Alacrity lowering the cooldowns of their stronger skills to spend their pages on.

Yeah and what about might? Fury? Stability? Resistance? Aegis? (Regeneration?) Do we ignore them now while we compare chrono, fb and renegade? Does the acces to alacrity and quickness together eliminate the „permission“ to be able to do anything else?

Might and Fury are a non-factor for balance due to how plentiful they are from a number of sources meaning that their uptime isn't dependent on a specific boonbot class (If it was, then you'd see Heralds in PvE...)

Regeneration is a non-factor due to it not stacking, so any Regeneration effects that aren't from the Healer are literally worthless as they'll just be overwritten by the Healer's Regeneration effect.

Resistance? Rev only provides Resistance for themselves. Which is thus not applicable for balance.

Firebrand applying Stab/Resistance? Comes at the cost of their damage though I guess it is more accessible than a Chrono using Well of Precognition or Mantra of Concentration (Since Signet of Inspiration is often used to reduce the amount of Concentration required for 100% uptime of Alacrity/Quickness)

Aegis? Isn't that big of a deal, most relevant damage will go through it.

Chrono could be given more access to other things (Well, it already can get Aegis and Stab from Well of Precog it's just not meta to use it)

But in the comparison between the 3 Boonbot builds, it's really only Quickness and Alacrity that is relevant (Ideal Alacrigade rotations don't use Heroic Command or Darkrazor's Daring and ideal Quickbrand rotations don't use Tome of Courage just like ideal Chrono rotations don't include Well of Precog/Mantra of Conc)

June 28, 2020

@Trise.2865 said:
@Taril.8619 said:
@"battledrone.8315" said:FF story is awful

FFXIV story is great. Not sure what you're smoking.

The only reason the game even exists to this day is because it's carried by its story.

Ah yes, "I twisted my ankle on a boat and passed out, had a dream about Darth Vader, and then God said I was cool. Nobody gives a kitten or brings it up again."Premium story telling there.

And Lord of the Rings is "A midget's journey to drop a piece of jewellery into a volcano"

If you simplify and butcher the entirety of the story, anything sounds bad.

P.s. "Nobody gives a kitten or brings it up again" - You mean apart from literally EVERYONE talking about it CONSTANTLY throughout THE ENTIRE STORY? As it's not only the reason why you are even relevant to the story, but also why you and only you are capable of participating in all the important fights?

June 28, 2020

@Aeolus.3615 said:
@Kodama.6453 said:
@Aeolus.3615 said:
@Svez Poizon XD.5268 said:
@Aeolus.3615 said:Make alacrity and quickness boon provided only from chrono... remove it from renegade and firebrands, give something to those classes that fit more in their theme.