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15 hours ago, Connla Dda.9407 said:
You must be joking, Nobody uses "We Heal as One" heal skill. Due to insuficient condition cleanses. You need to use Healing Spring or Soulbeast heal skill - bear stance to celanse conditions. otherwise you will be dead in matter of seconds.
That would be true on some builds. Even Bear stance doesn't cut it on my Carrion Poison/Bleed Soulbeast build due to not enough direct healing.
There are plenty of built in traits/utilities that can cleanse conditions especially if you are not a Soulbeast.
Using "We Heal as One" is also a great way to get Regeneration on Soulbeast when you don't have any other command skills to waste.
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1 hour ago, Micah.3789 said:
Mirage has very few benefits over the other Especs, and they're usually not very relevant to instanced PvE. Mostly, it has very good damage mitigation through regular evasion and it has pretty great mobility. Alac mirage also provides a massive amount of might, easily maintaining 25 stacks by itself, but that's pretty redundant with most healers.
Really, the only unique strength I've found in mirage is the ability to maintain support and some damage simultaneously. That makes it a pretty excellent celestial hybrid healer. Problem is, the playstyle is VERY high intensity. So high in fact, that the build is relegated to non-meta obscurity due to low accessibility. Though for me, nothing in the game performs better as a boonhealer. Healing just a bit less than good meta healers while doing about 60% of a boondps' damage is an incredible way to ensure smoother encounters, especially while you're personally evading 50% of the time. You won't find a build posted anywhere, as I might be the only one playing it lol. Hit me up if you want to try it. I could even do a separate post if people are interested.
You are slowely convincing me to play Alacrity Mirage again. I recently went back to playing Axe DPS Mirage mostly in Open World though.
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2 hours ago, MilkyTea.9042 said:
Title.
Condi virtuoso just seems so much easier to consistently push out dps as seen by Cerus CM and Chronomancer fills the support role well enough with providing alac or quickness. Is mirage ever going to get some more love for strikes/raids or is it just going to be cursed to being the open world solo build?I ask the same question myself sometimes. I guess if you practice Mirage enough you can get alot more DPS out of it especially if you plan on playing a Alacrity Support.
It ends up being an extra 5k depending on the equivalent role compared to Chronomancer.
In terms of Virtuoso and Mirage comparisons. It's so close now there is almost no reason to play Mirage. Especially since for what ever reason Virtuoso has no ramp up even if it is Condition damage. It has less ramp up than Chronomancer which is power.
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They should just make Beastmastery add the breakbar to the pet with a grandmaster along with with vitality buffs.
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4 hours ago, phokus.8934 said:
Even the standard chrono boon dps build can hit ~34k so even with less than ideal rotation, getting 28k is easy to attain in fractals/strikes/raids.
I have never get that on my Chronomancer with full DPS so I doupt I can do the rotation required on a boon DPS. I only really use Virtuoso now days for DPS.
I'm not really saying it is a skill issue more that it is very hard to pull off much like Mirage.
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11 hours ago, Micah.3789 said:
I don't want to keep derailing this post, but a <10k dps bench is no where close to being a boondps. The builds I'm suggesting all can do around 24-28k dps which is just a little shy of the typical 32-36k that meta boondps builds typically do. Plus they'll do similar healing to your build
If you're going to publicly theory craft and make build suggestions, you really should have more integrity about it. Ignorant or not, misusing build terms and making disingenuous claims muddies the water for those of us who want to have competent discussions and you may even mislead some of those less knowledgeable.
I have yet to see any boon DPS pull those numbers, maybe on a Golem or under the perfect scenario.
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32 minutes ago, Micah.3789 said:
I see. So when you know you won't need much healing, you try to bring a bit more damage. Still, in that scenario you'd be better off with a boondps bringing a bit of healing than trying to squeak out more damage on an otherwise full healer. If you're interested in boondps that can bring enough healing for low pressure content I can think of a few that might be more effective. Off the top of my head:
- Alac specter with wells and scepter. Take traversing dusk and spam scepter/pistol 3 for damage/healing. Typical scepter/dagger when healing isn't needed.
- Pwr quick untamed with maces and nature magic/spirits.
- Pwr alac willbender with hammer and glacial heart. Even better with relic of karakosa.
- Pwr alac mechanist with med kit for emergencies.
- Pwr quick scapper with relic of karakosa. Med kit for emergencies.
There are possibly more, but in all these cases the build makes very minor sacrifices compared to typical boondps to gain significant healing and support functions. They're also all on the higher end for might generation which is important if you don't take a typical healer.
I mean essentially it is Boon DPS with a little healing.
I don't have Legendary Light Armor since I have so many left over sets from before Legendary got introduced (like 10).
My Boon DPS Chrono is Assassins/Berserkers while my Healer Boon DPS is mostly Marauders. You really don't need much boon duration or even healing power especially for Rifle; food or Sigils/Relics should be enough.
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The Ambush is already kind of a ranged attack so I don't know what you are asking for here since 2 and 3 skills are melee.
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1 hour ago, Vetra.1047 said:
Probably gonna get a lot of biased based opinions but i would like to see where when the target of mesmer clones die or leave combat, that you don't lose your clone charges. But instead similar to virtuoso turning into a damage ammunition for your shatter skills. (Also im not saying to take clones out completely, just when there's downtime)
I know what you all will probably say, it'll make mesmer broken, or allow some quirky reactions. But i don't believe it will, it works just fine for virtuoso and they get 5 stacks vs 3 stacks, the damage wont come off of clones AND you, they will only come off of you I.E., instead of 3 stacks from you and 1 per clone, its just 3 stacks because of the 3 clone charges. It will make starting a fresh fight just after another easier to pull off in pvp, and in pve if you load into a map and you get 3 charges, makes it easier for supports to start providing boons and so forth.
Just a thought to make mesmer a little more user friendly and less janky since most of your damage comes from mostly traits that rely on clones.Maybe with Chronomancer but Mirage needs those clones to be alive forever.
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1 hour ago, Micah.3789 said:
I'm all for breaking away from the meta, but that approach would do less than 1/3rd the healing and damage of the respective meta chrono builds. Plus, it would have much less reliable boons than the heal build. I'm not trying to play build police here, but you'd be intentionally choosing a playstyle that significantly lacks potency.
For perspective, I calculated the maximum possible healing your build could do assuming no over-healing and perfectly utilized CDs: ~1,750 hps per person. That may seem decent without a basis for comparison, but I did the same calculation for my celestial hybrid mirage and got ~3700 hps per person. To be clear, this is purely theoretical max healing which isn't realistic, but it does give us an objective statistic to gauge relative potency. At less than half the healing of even a hybrid healer, your build will often be liability to your party unless others compensate and sacrifice their own potential.
Ok, but maybe the damage gained could justify the sacrifices. Again for perspective, my build has a 15k dps bench while full healing, and technically does a bit more in real combat with confusion. Your build wouldn't get much over 10k dps even if you sacrificed even more boons/support by taking a dps trait line.
I can see how you might have some success in low pressure encounters, but it's disingenuous to suggest this a reasonably effective build option. If you don't believe me, test it out on the golem with at least moderate damage turned on. Better yet, take it into a boneskinner pug and come back with a log of how it went.
I keep this build only on the back burner for easy content that I am expected to heal like recommended fractals or certain easier ones.
You are right about the damage, but the rotation is alot simpler and it is power so not much ramp up.
I even use an Inspiration Virtuoso for most Strikes with double feedback due to many one shot mechanics.
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Just pointing it out but regular Rifle Chronomancer can go hybrid with full power gear and either both Chaos/Inspiration or just one depending on your other weapon.
The number of phantasms and shatter you can produce should give you full boon uptime with the help of some food or even Sigils. Then the Rifle alone can push out about 2k HPS along with some burst.
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It is an odd mix. I guess it is more a PvE thing. You could run Axe Mace then Mace Axe/Warhorn or maybe throw Dagger/Torch in somewhere.
If they buff the force of nature stacks beyond 30 seconds then you could just use the off-hand Mace to maintain it. Right now if the boss goes immune you cannot.
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8 hours ago, Kazze.8405 said:
you can teach that good 1 vs. 1
You play it like Deadeye chain 3 for repositioning and use either the mobility pets on Soulbeast or Super speed on Untamed.
Honestly reading more of your posts you should just play Guardian since they have more access to stab and have a Longbow. Ranger does not inherently mean ranged any more.
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On 3/28/2024 at 10:59 PM, Kazze.8405 said:
No, we don't want to use a sword, mace, hammer, we like archers but in this game they don't work, confirmed, it doesn't have enough survival or sufficient attack with bow. There are classes that are god and it can't be like that.
You can't have tried an Arrow Cart Soulbeast with two mobility pets or Untamed with double boon strip ambushes. It can devastate most small Zergs and can do pull off some good 1v1 in WvW.
In terms of sPvP longbow and Shortbow can be built around.
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3 hours ago, Connla Dda.9407 said:
Why i can not have permanent protection buff as a ranger?
Like (unkillable abomination 1 vs 1 celestial) harbringers and elementelists have?
As i ranger, no matter the specialisation i do not feel comfortable in competitive modes like WvW and PvP.
Ranger have to always choose to go full aggressive with utility or sacrifice it to defensive play and loose competitiveness.
Give us, rangers, tools to stop being punching bags to all other classes.
Perma protection for starters at least on celestial gear!
If we are searching for buffs I would prefer more access to Stability. Right now my favourite thing to do is spam the skills we have to instant get 6 or more stability for big clashes (mostly WvW).
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10 hours ago, anduriell.6280 said:
Such a disappointment to hear the balance team still apply the pvp small scale hp numbers to the pets in a grand scale pvp mode with much higher damage. A shame as at least the chak seemed like a visually clean and maybe a fun pet to have.
Maces do not look like any fun and very spammy with those muddy animations , hammer is a world of clunky.
It seems there is nothing in this expansion for me but thank you for the input.I mean it's not all bad they both provide something new to Ranger but currently we don't have many ways to improve pet durability in PvP. I believe the Chak when testing it kept running into melee for one of its skills so turtle was almost always better.
It kind of depends on what you are after. For me I want CC and defence on my pets. The extra damage or utility like stealth isn't really my playstyle.
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The Chak is just squishy so unless you plan on merging with it for a power Soulbeast then I don't think it is worth it.
I don't use the shark so I don't know how good it is.
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1 hour ago, Linken.6345 said:
sure we get it more frequent but it worse quality and quantity
If they do plan on eventually turning GW2 into GW3 then it makes sense they don't want to spend to much effort on the older engine
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3 hours ago, hellsmachine.4085 said:
I really hope that GW3 is just GW2 upgraded with a new engine, like Overwatch 2 or Counterstrike 2. Same game but with more. A lot of players will quit GW2 and be very reluctant to spend money on it if it all their purchases will be nullified with the next game.
I think that most likely, a GW2 remaster. Why announce 2 more expansions if you plan on moving on.
Maybe what happens is GW3 will redo core Tyria but leave the living world and expansion alone, making them something like a vision of the past.
I also don't see them abandoned all the cosmetics they have created, an unreal GW3 could run on phones too.
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On 3/27/2024 at 9:49 PM, Iustitian.9176 said:
Yeah, but axe condition damage builds are still the strongest with infinite horizon cause the illusions condition damage hits much harder.
True but only if you're clones are alive and didn't disappear due to an enemy dying.
They can't be cleaved but they can still die by standing in aoe too.
It is also a very easy trait to swap so if you want extra damage instead of essentially another dodge on shatter then change them
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1 hour ago, Geronmy.3298 said:
Elaborate, there was no changes to axe nor any trait related to it last patch.
Dune clock, gain Mirage clock when shattering and Sand through glass both made Mirage much faster to play.
You can burst alot harder with three active clones and then shattering them periodically before spamming Axe 2.
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Axe Mirage in my opinion did get alot stronger with the latest parch
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Honestly it opens up many build options especially with full Celestial (or runes in sPvP).
I changed my entire playstyle due to now being able to survive alot more. I can focus more on not being chain CCed.
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12 hours ago, Sansar.1302 said:
Hmm , been having alot of sucsess on druid and untamed latetly.
Same but I do cheesy things to win like chain Longbow Ambushes to one shot people a bit like a Deadeye.
Would this work as an LI heal chrono?
in Mesmer
Posted · Edited by Mell.4873
Continuum Split in general is a bit of liability in most fights. You are better off just using it to reset either your ultimate or your heal skill while spamming all your shatters.