Faaris.8013

Well, we've seen examples here of using different builds to prebuff before zerg fights. And I'm pretty sure the serious guilds will soon figure out the new meta that includes more than one build in the setup. It sure makes for more diverse and interesting game play. It will become important if your Revenant in the team can quickly switch from Herald to Alacrity Renegade or not. And it will make your zerg better than the enemy zerg if they don't follow that meta. There will be rotations on the known websites for zerg builds that include proper build/gear switching. There will soon be no doubt about the competitive advantage of using several template slots, I'm not worried about it being a secret. That's fine actually. The issue here is only that additional slots cost money. The zerg with more slots = possibilities to quickly switch around to create meta teams has a competitive advantage. There are only 2 base, free equipment slots. That's not enough to stay competitive with someone who has 6. You are barking at the wrong tree, I almost never post here or elsewhere, pro or contra Anet. I found this important enough to log in and make my thoughts public, and invite to a discussion. It is indeed possible that I'm wrong, hense the title. From what I read here so far, I'm more and more convinced that these templates have been implemented without WvW in mind.

Is this a joke? Have you ever been attacked with this in PvP or WvW?

Can you name a single item on the gem store that gives you a competitive advantage over other players other than the template slots? I'm fine with an infinite number of slots, as long as everybody who participates is treated equally. Anet even made the game so you don't have a competitive advantage using legendary weapons. Not everybody can spend 2500 gold on a legendary weapon, but you get the same stats with cheap or even free ascended ones. And not everybody can spend a few thousand gold to max out the templatre slots either. Also, imagine everybody just traded gold for gems. It wouldn't work, someone needs to buy the gems at some point. Anet is profitting from providing a competitive advantage to players who are able and willing to pay.

If the argument here is that you can always trade gems for gold, then I disagree with the conclusion. If that argument were valid, there could be no P2W anywhere in the game. They could make boosters for WvW that are solely sold in the gem store and your argument would make that OK.

Thanks, you have more fantasy than I have so far. I'm pretty sure when more people get used to templates they will figure out even more ways to get the maximum benefit out of them and an advantage over other fighters. I would even insta-swap from Bound to Unhindered Combatant depending on the fight.

I'm sorry, but did you actually use the build templates or is this assessment just theoretical? You can switch build, skills and gear with a keyboard shortcut. Either before engaging or, if you died and realize, let's say, you need more health for the group at your home camp, you can quickly change everything with a single click on your way back to the fight. You will never be able to do that without build templates in time. Even if you have like 7 armor sets in your inventory and are a fast clicker, there will be no fight anymore when you are done. If it was equal, nobody would ever have invented build templates...

I never bothered with the ArcDPS build templates, so they are new to me in practice. I like the idea and already have some different builds I would like to use in WvW. I would switch depending on the situation and the enemy's class and even rough build. I play mainly thief, and like with other classes, there are different builds that work better in fights against specific classes. My all purpose build used to be staff/PP Daredevil full berserker. There is almost no necro that can beat this, so this would be my preferred setup when I approach a camp and I'm about to fight a sitting duck necro. Now, if I see a Guardian taking that camp, my build is much less useful with all those defensive capabilities Guardian has. If we are similarily skilled players, I'll certainly lose. The idea is to quickly switch to a more proper build before engaging. That makes two build template slots occupied already, I guess you already see where I'm going here. Fighting a Ranger also requires another setup, same with a couple of other classes. Not to mention players want at least a roaming and a zerg build, right? The best duelling build is also not the best build to quickly cap camps. What about Revenants and Guardians, even more templates needed to stay competitive. The point is that you have to expect other people buying all template slots possible and always be ready to have the best counter-build at hand to fight you. If you do not buy more slots, you are restricted to having the same power for only 2 other classes you fight, besides your all-purpose build. In a competitive setting like WvW, it will soon be a significant disadvantage to not have the maximum number of slots. The game was always promoted under the premise that gem store items do not provide a competitive advantages but are mere cosmetics. In the case of build templates, at least in WvW, I don't see how the build templates are merely cosmetics. The more you have, the greater the competitive advantage.

Pretty sure Mike O'Brien stated it was his decision to leave. That is corporate talk when a leader gets sacked. They never officially do, they always "look for new exciting opportunities" or get some other role without executive power but decent payment, until they leave.

Sorry you got sacked Mike, I wish you success in your future endevours.

I wonder if it's the daily reset that breaks the reward track. The reward track appears under the "Complete" section on the WvW tab for me, but I never received the final chest. I haven't monitored the progress bar, but since it started fresh today and the track shows up in "Complete", it's possible that it finished but gave no Grand Icebrood Saga Cache. I didn't finish it with potions either. I should have gained enough reward track xp yesterday to do the whole reward track. Anyway, I switched to some other track now, it's no fun to waste xp with no good rewards. I noticed because I was missing the Mystic Clovers in my mat storage, which I do monitor.

Well, I wasn't really interested in any of the weapon skins, and on Tuesday/Wednesday the Djinn clusters were selling for about 3g each on the TP, so I converted all my essences into clusters and made about 6g per boss kill. Maybe I would have got an infusion had I opened one, possibly, but I'm happy with the easy hundred gold or so I made. I learned from the Halloween event that it is often (though not always) more profitable to sell the bag vs. opening it. My post was from the other event before the one that gives skins, but it applies indeed to the current event as well. The difference is that we now have the possibility to sell boxes. In the former event, that wasn't the case. If you open the clusters, you will just get luck and dust and maybe an essence in 99% of all cases. And if you don't want those skins, the essences are just as worthless as the luck and dust. The price for the clusters dropped significantly since the start of the event though. There will always be players who get everything the devs throw at them as fast as possible, and they bought the clusters to be the first ones to show off the infusion. After a few days the demand for these things decreases because the show off effect vanishes.

If that would be so, then answer me why there was so much hate towards rangers (SB) even before mount release? Thank you, nice discuss, we should have another one in the future.Have a good day. And there is no hate at all for double pistol Thieves. I dismount people all the time with Unload. The difference is the range, I only have 900... P/P doesn't regularly get hate because it's a meme build for competitive modes that stops being effective the second your enemy knows the #3 spam is incoming.You can call everything a meme build I guess, so that doesn't really has meaning, especially not to explain why there's no hate for it in the community. Isn't Ranger lb a meme build too, and how is that still effective when the enemy knows the Rapid Fire spam starts coming? I wouldn't call 2 x Unload spam either, because that's all you get after dismounting steals 3 Initiative for nothing in return. I can still dismount people though, so that's not the reason people complain about Ranger. If Ranger could simply dismount you, everybody would think that makes sense. If they dismount and down you from 1800 range at the same time though, that's when people start to ask questions. They made that impossible for Deadeye because he has less range and damage and has to kneel and you get a clear sign above your head that tells you what's going on, even if you don't face the enemy or he hides. My guess is that they didn't want to see Deadeyes just sniping people, which is exactly what Ranger does. I can hardly remember ever having been defeated by a Deadeye with a rifle, it's a useless build.

You have mathematically proven that my opinion about the power of Rangers is wrong? How did you do that, and where? Is there an official Anet-approved benchmark that states how much damage per second are considered ok, and the (unedited) numbers in my screenshot are within that range? It's about opinions, feelings, you cannot prove these wrong. If you get shot while mounted from 1800 range and you get downed immediately and are dead within less than 2 seconds, you can find that ok and I can find that overkill. We have seen in the past that Anet adjusted these kind of things, despite some players claiming it's all about "getting gud and dodging". I can imagine that the devs never intended anyone to get right into downed state after getting hit while mounted. The short stun after getting dismounted is the punishment. And I highly recommend dropping those accusations that other people here on the forums are liars. You certainly won't convince me to look at things from your point of view with this attitude.

Do you have anything else to add to the discussion other then "there is no problem, just get gud!"?

Ranger range and damage are overpowered because he can dismount + down you from 1800 range.