Legend of Rogue.5394

Rev is so under preformed its insane, but tonnes of fun

I Blob or Zerg with Firebrand just because the Mass Aegis, Stability, removal, buff, heal. Minstrel on all armor, weapons, trinkets Rune of Drability Mace/ Shield Staff If you are running with scouts or small groups swap over to Axe/shield for CC and control Staff is staple for 4 skill and access to regen and 2 heals plus control of tight paths with your 5 skill. Scrapper is really good but I find it boring to play, and it was nerfed and it really lacks identity. The stealth gyro is loved by Discord Zergs and you will be praised as a hero for ages to come. As as someone who commands the legions with his asuran Firebrand, I can ASURAN you (that was bad) I really love scrappers.

This had me dying... I was playing in Isle of Janthir server, I call out: "Any tags or players on?" Player 1: Don't bother they are all running around as quaggans. Me: Huh? Scene: 100 PLUS Golems were at camp and dancing around them are a bunch of players...... Potioned as quaggans worshipping the siege golems. Fair to say Isle of Janthir is the worst server

Scourge is used in stripping and WVW right now, Power Necro and reaper will always be good in PVE, Harbinger honestly moves really fast, you have to be involved and cant just auto click unless in shroud but you have to manage your health and blight, its easy to pick up the rotation, start with ultimate and work down from there. I like trialblazer HArbinger still, tanky, good condi damage, fun as hell you get away with a lot, does good in strikes, fractals raids etc

I think the overall community is helpful but I sense a shift lately and it seems pretty individualistic, like you cant even ask a question without some tool going "lOoK IT UpP On ThU WIIkkKKIi It drives me insane, no kitten ive already done that I cant find my answer can someone else help me? Like the game is altering in community lately and those people drive me nuts. I have found some good players that are fun to interact with lately and they are fun to enjoy the game with

I really do not want to go back to zerker meta, I hate that its the standard...... We need variety in other gear, think of 9 years worth of gear that has never been touched

This dude explained it way better than I did.... This was an informative video

Yes I hear what you are saying the old ways of acquiring it are still the same, what if a player doesnt want to play condi or just this or that but feels obligated to? They are not going to stick around for long. You have your head on right so you know what you are doing but how did you acquire all this information? Did you look into this yourself and find this info out your self and grind it in your brain through the years or was it guided to you? The time of grinding information into our brains is not the same anymore and this game is EXTREMELY difficult to get into at this point

And this is my problem, In WOW or FFV these games are pretty freaking easy to explain, guild wars is SOOOOOO intricate, that I cannot teach a new player how to do t efficiently and that in itself is overwhelming. Players need to be in the mix fast and feel like they matter and belong, they want to see challenging aspects and they want to see populated maps, they want to be helped they want the challenge but need the guidance along the way. I know every aspect of this game but I cannot for the life of me explain the grey area.. Crafting was the best decision I made thus I have coached every player i come in contact with and have even helped them with materials because crafting is soo important now in my opinion. It is the staple of this game the rest is RNG and random "I stumbled on this" but I took one aspect of this game and mastered it and it helped. Most new players wont even KNOW where to BEGIN with in this adventure. This game is exploration friendly and challenging but a lot of the map events are dead, glitched messed up, no players thus it feels like a single player RPG.....

Well I mentioned because to join on anything else you need to have it figured out and they do not have it figured out because PVE meta is forgiving but as soon as you get to raids, strikes, WVW in some cases. This game is operating in some cases as do whatever you want and the others will carry assuming they have some clue what they are doing. That doesnt help in guilds, or actual events that require some cognitive thought.... Then they get rejected or ridiculed thus cant even get into it, and the only way is word of mouth and by guilds stepping up. I will give the veterans like us because we are actively trying to teach them. It is ok up to a point with PVE but in EOD meta and these other team metas then the overwhelming factor comes into play. Try explaining armor to a new player from Noob to experienced and it will take you HOURS, WEEKS, MONTHS. I cannot honestly say with meta and builds THIS IS THE WAY TO DO IT, nope its miles of rabbit trails and theorys, pricing, farming this route. ITS IMPOSSIBLE.

Is it any stats that are current? Also what is it for other players that do not do WVW because lets face it, not everyone will do WVW or PVP I think the majority are going to do PVE and strikes

So when this game first came out the path in crafting and exotic armor in MY opinion was relatively easy. Just go Berserker on every class and everyone would love you in Dungeons and Fractals. You used Fractal Relics and Laurels to get your basic ascended trinkets AKA Berserker rings or Celestial Rings and life was good. There was Karma Exotic armor, Crafting/TP , Dungeon armor and we had about 3-5 ways to get them. Pretty easily set up. Baically with HOT, POF, and EOD for a new player it is extremely depressing trying to learn this system except by word of mouth. We need all armor or majority armor to be stat selected or some type of way to make it easier. IF you want Viper gear you play original HOT maps and grind airship parts. YOU can grind the chests but that is really the only way because it is rare I ever find players playing the meta events, its pretty much HP trains. Auric, Dragon has a healthy base it seems.. The way players get armor is extremely difficult and very hard to learn. We need to get from Noob to raids, strikes, WVW and from talking to a few they all feel overwhelmed, they get constantly rejected in strikes, raids, groups etc because they have some exotic, some rare, some ascended armor unless they boost to 80 but they still feel like they are not able to learn. The only stat selectable armor in the game is rare and few in between. If you want viper you have to grind maps that are not used and getting exotic armor for these stats is almost impossible for a new player with out actually knowing how to navigate wiki, chat, guilds etc. Like where do they go from there? POF didn't solve this and EOD absolutely made it worse. Talking ascended, I find few players actually have ascended and are still rocking exotic with high tier runes. How do we get ascended? Well Berserker and basic stats from Beginning are the easiest but Anet keeps putting more of it in, we do not want Berserker meta again that was completely miserable to play with and how do we get it? Welp crafting to 500 (which few know about how to do and are really not learning how to find crafting guides etc nor do they have the money or resources to get there) Raids are the only way to do it but no group will take you without ascended armor to begin with. You can do tracks, which take forever and are not very self explanatory, but still manageable, you can do WvW and pray to RNG gods, you can do grandmaster but that takes like what? A MONTH plus to get one piece and your only reliance is RNG.... Strikes do not offer it unless you exchange the currency for stat selected and those ARE LIMITED???!! Why are strike stat armor stat selects limited? That makes no sense, once again more berserker celestial and meta NO ONE actually runs... I find it frustrating that EOD released 11 or 12 new back pieces none of which are stat selectable, they are pushing yet again Berserker tracks... Berserker armor stats and thats it.... No OR FAR stat selected options. This might not seem like a problem for us players that have weathered this and know how to learn this way but we are 9 years into it thus its required, it was forced on us, but these new players are going to come in or are coming and are quitting after lvl 60? Or get a level boost and quit shortly after. All I think should happen is more stat select armor available on exotic weapons that allows ALL stat options and is easily explained to players or is easier to obtain so we can get them into raids, strikes, wvw, pvp, mount, exploration etc where they do not feel overwhelmed because they cannot get their stats right Ascended armor, weapons, availability attainability needs to be narrowed down and easier to obtain where we do not need to go to dead maps and hope there is groups running the events. I understand the difficulty required and needed to make it a challenge but to rely on this map for this insignia, or this map for this rune and this armor from this quest and this weapon from this spec and complete these mastery points to unlock this which gives you this.. It literally makes the game and communicating to new players impossibly challenging. With the Steam launch approaching if this is not fixed it will drive new players away thus we will need commanders, guilds advertising like hell and working with them so we can get them up to speed, or it will be a complete fail. Just throwing out some fears and ideas for ANET to address so we can make stats easier to obtain, armor is no longer the game thus I feel it should be easier to explain and easier to get at the same time still challenging to acquire, just better communication

I only care about WVW with Firebrand, if I play PVE I am playing my harbinger in Trailblazers with Torment runes on. I am tanky as hell, I dish out my damage and he is my strike/ Raid/ PVE main. I am really enjoying support Firebrand atm in WVW, especially commanding. I like your take on it.

Getting the steam update will be pretty sweet. I am excited to see more action in WvW and to the smaller maps, having a flow of people in the areas would be fun

I was leading a squad of about 50 yesterday (as a commander) and we did really good, I played minstrel FB and I noticed I can actually tank extremely well and get in and out without coming close to dying, all the Aegis and heals are to good, and I can assist, clear conditions etc, as long as I had a couple scourges to strip we did really well, we pretty much server wiped constantly

I do that as well, I might just need to get a bigger monitor, maybe a 4k or 1440P 32 inch screen perhaps that would solve it

I realistically do not enjoy PvE anymore.... Like I really am bored with it. Not having fun anymore so I go to WvW and just farm blobs.

Is it possible to squad lead as a Minstrel FB?

Marauder for Tank, Celestial for overall.... Berserker is ok but obviously you are squishy as hell. WB is still in a really wonky spot as other dualist classe just do that much better and more

Eh Ive seen celestial do ok and Berserker roaming for these. I really do not know, I have yet to come across one that can do much of anything.....

I dont do raids because I am 30 years old and cant sacrifice 3 consistent hours on killing a boss. I wish I could but I got family, work life gym, sports athletics etc, I get my hour here and there every day and thats it, Strikes are a way better option for people like me and or WvW

I personally want to be able to farm houses or land like a legendary, each map, zone world has their own look and you will gather the resources, gold, material etc and you can put your own crafting, forge and every part in your own instance. This is basically a guild hall I know but a more persnalized option would be sweet. Maybe a different rendition of guild hall since I know nothing about them.

Do you do WvW and in need of commanders? If so HMU Can message me on this name or my IG is "Sheldon L Cooper" spaces needed. Def interested

I 100% agree with this, the worst is HP trains and everyone and their dog is riding skyscale and griffon, you CANNOOTTTT see the screen to save your life

That makes sense, it shows a lack of interest from the devs perspective, they will create new things and nerf old but wont fix the core essence of outdated skills, IE guardian Weapons dead God when was the last time you ever saw a holy weapon out outside of a lvl 10 player?