Korbin.7134

Thanks for posting this, it really annoyed me yesterday. I'm a casual player that likes to use the free birthday cake on all my characters and refresh it frequently before events. The fact I have to wait for it to expire, then wait for malnourished to expire to reapply it is just bad design. I understand the argument for not wanting to overwrite ascended food, but is this really a thing that people are struggling with? I've NEVER accidentally lost ascended food buff by eating a cake and I'm doing metas with people all the time.

Sorry this: "For this update we've brought down the alacrity duration to require these builds to invest more in boon duration." is a joke. Halving the alacrity on mirage staff ambush attack after already nerfing it earlier by linking might/alacrity gain to clone count? My boon duration is +85% and I could barely keep up alacrity even in those rare circumstances something was strong enough in PvE to survive for a few seconds while I had 3 clones out. That's with dodging pretty much nonstop and cleaving trash mobs to proc sigil of stamina. Also, I hate that you've pigeon-holed staff mirages into needing multiple clones out for ambush attacks to be effective. It forces you into IH and clone-generating skills.

Attempt #7 and I just beat it. Had to be there an hour before the meta started to get a group. The commander spent the entire time explaining mechanics and required members to provide group buffs like alacrity and quickness then sorted us into groups. Sub-commanders called out mechanics constantly. Our dps was great, we always broke defiance bars, wisps all finished quickly, we weren't too unlucky with rng, and most of us avoided the killing mechanics well. We finished with 30 seconds remaining. 30 seconds. I got my turtle, and definitely will not be coming back to this meta until the thing is balanced more appropriately toward an open world event, because right now, it's stupid. It doesn't respect the players' time and it's way too frustrating to rely on every other player in the map efficiently working toward the same goal. If I didn't have a commander organizing a raid, we would have failed. At this point, it's not fun. Even when we won, all I felt was relief that I don't have to do it again, not any sense of satisfaction.