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Have you seen the numbers staff mirages put up. It is clearly op

Their own alacrity but this doesn’t benefit the group. No it is group wide alacrity https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Serene_Rejuvenation It is trash though

The first drm patch cause mirage axe clones to not apply their condis properly in some way.

I think dismounting into combat triggers the sigil and puts it on cooldown so that might be the issue

In wvw its a good build. In fractals its pretty bad, fb and ren have taken over the quickness and alac roles for that content.

Core engi is bad because holosmith is better than tools, in general for a core class to be good its third weakest traitline has to be better than an entire elite spec. Also core condi engi is pretty good its just that holosmith is slightly better than tools

Core guardian actually slaps, it's about equal to virtues dh so it's somewhat niche but it is a real build.

Yes minstrel chrono is still a thing for raid tanking as I understand it it's even a good wvw zerg build.

Raid Central also exists. They run saturdays

You have literally no way of backing up that claim. In order for that to be true the full suit of strikes would need to exist which you can't prove and you would have to show that it hasn't lead to more interest in raids which again you don't have the numbers to prove.

All that happened in terms of stepping stones is the opposite of what was intended: Many people (most prominently the KP demanders) turned raiding into a stepping stone for Boneskinner. Except you don't have the ground to actually make that claim. in fact I'd argue I have just as much ground to make the opposite claim.

In pve heal scourge uses dagger for its life force generation.

lol hammer instead of scepter. Nice meme. I don't play dps normally, idk why you're assuming I do. As @"Infusion.7149" pointed out in another thread; It's not just "use another class lol". It's way out of proportion compared to other boss CC bars. So? It's very doable so what's the problem with a boss break bar being very big? Hell the only thing that has shown is that the devs have been way to lenient in the size of some of the raid breakbars.

Also the pirate peg leg can still be used

I like this change, even though they missed a few, because theres this aspect of build craft and comp building that's just not relevant because why would I ever swap in a cc skill when I can just us a plank. Having a lot of cc was just not a strength on a build worth considering cause cc consumables.

One day nomad bearbow will be accepted and show its best :) As a hand kiter at deimos? You could do it now and it would probably work perfectly fine.Too much toughness, not even a minstrel tank could take aggro from that.

You need to buy the insignia recipe from the vendors in verdant brink

can i suggest an energy sigil instead. The ambushes are really good and it would probably higher damage as well

I pug strikes every day and I've literally never seen an lfg requesting LI. On NA if that helps. Is this a really such a widespread issue on eu?

yes use raid builds. Druid, healbrand, and healren (I've never actually seen a healren show up) are the best heal builds to bring, heal scourge is also usually used in the harder strikes but commanders usually ask for that.

the standard chrono, druid 3x condi mirage/chrono mirror comp is fine and what we use. the healers damage is so low its not even worth talking about.

Pretty sure that only happens when you steal ashes.

I mean how is that any different than playing a bs, or lets say druid? It isn't and thats the problem. think those roles should have relatively interchangeable alternatives

I (and no one here) never said that the most efficient tactics was the most used ones. Of course, a lot of pug squads (if not all) don't use M.E.T.A. squad composition and prefer safer off-meta comp (like take 2 healers instead of one) and accept a lot of off-meta builds. I never see the 7 power chronos meta on xera for example, but that doesn't mean that this peculiar setup is not the "most efficient tactic available". It still is.So, why SC has far more dps builds than that marked as meta at Xera? "Most efficient" means exactly that. If you have several setups on boss that are considered meta, and one is just a sliver better, only that one can be m.e.t.a. By definition the others are no longer "most efficient", because they fall below that one. And so, if they are still marked as meta, it measn that this "meta" evaluation is not the same as "most efficient tactic available" acronym would suggest.(and some of the "meta" marked builds are not just "a sliver" worse, btw) So, to better phrase my sentence you quoted, so the meaning will be more understandable:It is rather well known that their version of the "most efficient" tactics is quite different than what the most groups are running. But the site doesn't concentrate on what SC themselves are running, but includes all those popular setups that in SC's eyes would fall below being "most efficient". I think its important to point out that a number of builds listed as "meta" for specific bosses are "meta" because stacking that class lets you replace a support, usually stacking chronos or guardians to replace quickness, but sometimes to replace other classes. For example on cairn condi soulbeast is listed as meta because they stack them to share vulture stance for lifesteal and that removes the need to bring a healer.

. Give it time and Anet may, sadly, homogenize all of the classes ... hopefully not because I, for one, find the diversity amongst the classes one of the more engaging aspects of this great game. If it came to be that all classes had the same skills/boons, etc as each other (hence, homogenization), then this would be a boring, one dimensional game. you say that but when a full clear involves playing the same chrono build for hours in a row that feels pretty boring to me. Now we can swap to quickbrand if we want a change of pace or if we think it will be better. I think more of the roles should have that