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Can i not be worried about multiple things at the same time? Thats their own fault tho. The game makes it really easy (and cheap!) to swap stats. I never said it was the main issue. Im pretty much only taking about speedclearing here.

I am not assumg that changes could improve this. In fact i know that changes wont improve this. There will always be one class thats BiS on most encounters. I dont mind that. What i do mind however, is the timeframe. You dont need a dedicated quickness support for how long now? 9 Months? Thats a long time where you basically only play 2 classes on almost every encounter. Mesmer and Guardian. My problem is that the meta doesnt change fast enough. Playing basically 2 classes for 9 months becomes incredible stale and boring. "But cant you play a different class?" No, i cant. If a certain class is BiS i am required to play it.

So what you are saying is that they dont need to balance pve anymore since everything is viable anyway? Cool.

So what you are saying is that Scourge and PReaper are in a good spot because i can outdps pugs with it? I dont understand why you would ever want to balance around the majority. The majority doesnt care about balance as long as they can play their class. Turns out that you can do that atm. From a pug perspective the balance is really good atm. From a hardcore perspective its absolute garbage.

I think so, yes.You can even slot in a second healer and it would still work. You only need 3 Guardians in one group pressing FmW on cooldown. Im sure that most pugs are able to press something on cooldown. Since most people usually dont split up into too many groups for splitphases a half decent chrono will cover the rest. You really dont need to be big brain to pull this off.

TIL that im not a real raider.

Which given the open world tone of this thread would result in balance around the low skill end. That's what I disagreed with. Oh, my bad. I probably flew over that while reading the thread and didnt catch it. Sorry about that.

I mean, yeah? Why would you balance around people that dont care for BiS anyway? They will play whatever they like and thats completly fine. I agree, stacking Elementalists was stale. However, i still liked it more. At least you needed dedicated support for quickness. Its more diverse than back then, but is it better?Most played classes are Firebrand/Guardian and Chrono/Mirage. 4 Specs, 2 classes. Not much better than ele.

You dont have to return to it. Its already the case.For months we are stuck with PChrono/Firebrand/Guardian as BiS pretty much everywhere because they provide good damage and quickness. Only Matthias, Cairn, Mursaat, SH, Largos and both Qadims dont favor any of these classes.Thats 7/19 Bosses.Yes, you might play a Firebrand for quickness coverage, but you dont stack them on these encounters.On Matthias and Mursaat you play Boonthief anyway, so you dont have to provide quickness.That leaves 5/19 Bosses.Thiefes can steal Ectos on the pylons for boons on the first qadim encounter. Once again, quickness covered.That leaves you with 4/19 bosses where you dont have to play a DPS class that provides quickness.On 3 of these you play Mirage since forever and on PQadim you play Renegade. Mainly because torment is absolutely broken on this boss. If it wasnt for that it would probably be firebrand. Balance is skewed and stale since months now.

Oh yeah, i agree. You should still play the meta dps build provided for your class.

If a group fails a DPS check they have other problems than classes. There is not a single DPS check in the entire game that requires people to play Meta DPS classes.Well, except for maybe 0 Orb KC. But if you are in a group that can pull off 0 Orb KC you have the proper classes anyway.

Its only affected by Power and your level.

Maybe ive been missing something, but why does this matter here?As others have pointed out, most players will be happy with what they get for free. They dont need more builds so why pay for it? Now you have the dedicated people that actually need more slots and you charge them for that? From a business perspective this should have been free to not upset anyone. Keep in mind that your most dedicated players are also the ones advertising the game through videos and streams. Like it doesnt make any sense. Apparently the dedicated community isnt big enough to warrant proper development for their respective modes (Raids, PvP, WvW and Fractals) but are big enough to actually make a considerable amount of money that has to be worth more than the backlash over buildtemplates?

Run Diabloc Inferno when you have no other source of resistance in your group.If you have one other Condi Renegade or a Boonthief you run Manical Persistence. DO NOT turn of EtD, except if you have to deal with mechanics. The skill is just way too strong.

Im going to focus on the condi build. Everything i have to say about the self-heal one will be biased. I strongly belive that everything in this game (besides some raid bosses) can be done without a healer and without so much self healing. If thats something you want to play, thats up to you and totally fine for open world :) Okay, so the traits are mostly what i would use too.Since you are running Fierce Infusion i assume this is for a solo scenario. If thats true you really want Vindication. If its not you might have to check if you even need Fierce Infusion. Fury might be covered already. As for the Sigils and Runes:What i meant with "proc 4 on swap sigils" is that your legendswap counts as a weapon swap. Obviously you will still have the cooldowns on the sigils.Id suggest replacing Doom on your Shortbow with Geomancy.You also want to replace your Sigils of Bursting with something else. You dont have a lot of Condition Damage. Thats normal on a Renegade. However, that also means that you dont get a lot out of 5% from an already low stat. Get 2 Earth Sigils instead. You can also take 1 Earth Sigil and one Torment Sigil if you know that the enemy will move quite a lot. Thats also the reason why i dont agree with your rune though. 7% more Condition Damage from a stat thats pretty low anyway.Baelfire or Nightmare would be better, with Baelfire pulling ahead in Dungeons, Open World and Fractals.Now, both runes can be really annoying to get if you dislike dungeons.Elementalist should also be a decent choice, considering that it gives you at least some condition duration.As for the equipment:Just try to replace the stuff with Vipers over time. Vipers can be annoying to get if you dont play the game for that long. Ill just take you by your word. I really dont know what would be better for power range. Hammer or Shortbow. All i know is that both are trash for power.

I especially like this part. Sadly this will never happen.I also like the mechanics completed one. It gives groups that arent part of the like 3 hardcore guilds left a chance to participate and win something.

As for DPS:DH, Firebrand, PChrono, Mirage -> Everything else.If you dont provide quickness you simply arent relevant in the current Meta. Mirage is pretty much the only exception. That being said, other classes like Ele will do the Job. If you dont join a group that aims for the best DPS you are fine playing whatever DPS you want. Most of them are pretty close anyway. So you are fine for every PUG group and most statics if you choose to join one.

60 is a lot. Remember that the Skill doesnt have an ICD. Staff isnt that much worse on a Heal Renegade. You lose about 300DPS. If your group is good enough to play with a Condi Druid, your group wont need you as a second healer either. At that point you might as well go alacrigade or take a second condi renegade and play with RR. Because you dont even get 20% more Torment Damage/Duration from the trait in Corruption.You dont have Mallyx and quite frankly, EtD is super strong. You really dont wanna miss out on this when you play a condi build.Basically you are lacking everything that makes CRenegade strong and want it to work on a Condi/Heal build.

It is tracked. It adds about 1.3k DPS for a guardian. Alacrigade actually is crit capped. Heal Renegade is not. The thing is, your Soulcleave Summit adds 365 Damage with 1k Power and 421 as a proper Alacrigade. You are loosing so much. You wont be able to make up for it by just using shortbow.Why do you use Fierce Infusion? You Fury is almost at 100% from Invokers Rage. Add Fury from the Firebrand or the chrono extension and you are fine.Next problem is, that you wont do anything if you have to swap to staff. Staff doesnt have any damaging conditions. Honestly, i really dont see your build being better. Especially considering that you do not provide porper Soulcleave Damage and youre lacking AP.Probably best to go and Bench it. I got 9.6k as a first number. All boons and all buffs, small hitbox 4Million HP Golem. Thats the normal Harrier build btw.I can do a "benchmark" with proper boons if you want. https://i.imgur.com/e6fm9AJ.png

Because you will never ever be the main healer in these groups. That will still be a druid and tbh. if a group needs a second healer you should probably play a proper one. That being said, ill look at it when im home in a few hours, but i dont have a lot of hope for this.

In all honesty, i think your build is a mess. Its really hard to give you proper ideas because the goal isnt clear."PvE Stuff" doesnt really help either. Okay, so where to start?Right now you are having a condi based weapon (Shortbow). If you wanna stick with condi, go Mace/Axe and get gear that supports conditions properly.If you choose to stay Condi, go Mallyx. Mallyx is a must for every Condition build. Second Legend can be either Kalla or Shiro. If you go power, you want Sword/Sword. No second weapon set needed. That means that you can choose whatever you want. For example Hammer as a ranged option or Staff for the utility. As for Legends, Shiro and Kalla. No debate. As for traits:In Corruption i dont see the small Heal from Replenishing Despair ever saving you. What you can do instead is either take Venom Enhancement for more DPS or Demonic Defiance to at least trigger Maniacal Persistence every once in while.Maniacal Persistence is the next problem with your build. Right now you dont have a source of Resistance to trigger it. Depending on what you do, you might have another source of resistance but thats not always a given. "But what about the Mallyx skill that grants resistance"Well yeah, you are correct. It grants Resistance. However, the Mallyx Elite is just too good. The Resistance you get from that and the Damage from Maniacal Persistance will NEVER make up for the lost energy to keep up Embrace the Darkness. Its better to just go Diabolic Inferno if you dont have a proper source of Resistance. In the Renegade line you may or may not want to run Vindication for the might Uptime. Once again, it depends on your group. If you already have a proper source of might you obviously wont need it. There is a point to be made about the extra missles you get from your F3, but thats also very situational. Nothing to be said about Devestation. The line isnt bad. You have however an alternative in Invocation.Invocation gives you fury when you swap a legend.The first 3 traits are all really good, depending on the situation. You got a lot of flexibility.Third line also really good. You get more might, you have a potential heal and you can grand boons to others.For the last trait you can take Charged Mists. It basically gives you 25 more energy.You also get a Stun Break with Invocation. Like i said, Devestation isnt bad or anything. I personally just like Invocation more. Btw. what might be Intersting for you is, that renegade can basically proc 4 on swap sigils. Swapping a Legend counts as a weapon swap.

So? What if i dont want account wide storage? Do i have to wait another 7 years? I admit, its nice that anets templates can swap pets and legends. However thats not that big of a deal.Did you even read further than that? I wrote that swapping armor isnt that much of an issue unless you have something legendary. Ascended Trinkets are another issue though. The raid trinkets look exactly the same but can have different stats. Thats already super annoying to swap.

I like that you call me out on relying on 3rd party information when you obviously dont know how things work as well. You are able to load equipment and traits separately in arc. Build Templates also arent the Problem. I have 3 buildtemplates and can get 3 more for free for a limited time. Build templates arent the issue tho. You can easily copy them into a txt file and load them that way.The problem are the equipment templates. You only have 2 per character, none for free and you cant share them with a link.So what do you do as a Ranger? Druid, Power Soulbeast and Condi Soulbeast.Or Revenant? Heal, Alacrigade and Condi.Thats already 3 different equipment templates needed. That might not be that much of an issue if you dont have legendary gear. You can just keep the stuff in your inventory and swap it rather quickly.If you do however have legendary gear, its takes ages because the UI is garbage.

If the game needs money so badly, that they have to monetize a feature that should have been part of the game since launch, it shouldnt be supported anyway. At least in my opinion.I think the game is running quite good with the current gemstore. Sales are consistent according to NCSoft. People used a third party program because anet was either incapable or didnt want to provide templates.

They are taking away my option (arc) and give me something thats not only inferior, but also something i have to pay for if i want to use it properly.You dont get enough free storage for one build on every class, let alone the Elite specialization.The system just screams: "Gib moneys"