Shikaru.7618

Shouldn't 1 druid be more then enough to cap the might? What was that frost for 1 dps about tho seems a weird comment? My guess is maybe having it in a condi based fight like sh or twins. So calling out theres only 1 power dps?

I get where you're going with this post but unfortunately in the overall game, people dont even have zerker gear to reach these baselines. Not only that, but I've seen players who struggle with targeting and end up shooting their longbow arrows into the ground because they don't have anything targeted. I'd be curious to see what these numbers are using soldiers gear with no buffs look like as that would be the true dps floor.

Nobody as far as I know has gone this route yet, or offered this suggestion: ban all third party add-ons, eliminate the kick function and vote to kick function, prevent people from leaving an instance other than shutting down the game(and then build in a 60 minute wait period before the executable will run again)...then make sure on the loading screen in BIG BOLD LETTERS it states: PLAYERS CAN PLAY WHAT EVER BUILD THEY WANT IN ANY TYPE OF CONTENT THIS GAME OFFERS!Extreme, maybe, but that is how this game is supposed to be played, play what ever build you want with what ever character you want in what ever content you want...if people don't like it, go play another game. Except you can already play with any build you want without all of these insane restrictions. Players with trash builds can go into fractals and raids and play with other players with equally trash builds and they can have a grand old time. Yet for some reason trash build players want to play with non trash build players. Why do they insist on doing this? Why join a group of players you know you're not going to be welcome in?

Condi/expertise/healing/concentration This stat combo would likely make certain classes insanely busted in raids.

Thats why we need to remove kick and leave mechanic Yeah I've started to think about what kind of systems could be implemented to help resolve these issues. You probably think I'm embellishing this and I am not: "I have had more inconveniences with random kicking and unnecessary party reformation within the last 2 months, than I have had in the last 6 years combined. I am not yet sure what exactly is influencing this new behavior, but people in fractals are starting to get weird. And this time I wouldn't even call it elitism.. it's just random favoritism of one class or player over another. I remember old dungeon runs or even just 2 years ago in fractals, if the party was solid and getting things done, no one would vote kick anyone, they'd just finish. Even if the DPS felt slightly lower than normal or if there was one guy who needed to be picked up off the ground a few times, if it was doable people just finished. Nowadays they kick each other over nitpicky reasons, any nitpicky reason. Maybe this is a good idea:Remove vote kicking while in a fractal.Keep party vote to return to fractal organizational lobby.Allow party to directly vote kick while standing in organizational lobby, before actually going into a fractal.This way, if a party is mid fractal run and really wants to vote kick a player, they would have to return to the organizational lobby to do it, which would mean that the progress of that fractal would reset for all 5 players and not just the 1 player who is vote kicked. This would encourage any party, for the purpose of saving time for everyone, to just finish the fractal "if it is doable" and vote kick the guy out afterwards, before starting a new fractal. If the party deems the fractal is not "doable" with the person they need to vote kick, then they will return to the lobby to more carefully select a player to enter the fractal with. This would eliminate almost all unfair vote kicks mid-fractal, saving a lot of people a lot of wasted time. This also plainly encourages all party members to get along while in the fractal and to actually help and teach each other for the purpose of completing the fractal at hand. The more I think about it, this is probably the way it should have worked from the beginning.And of course if a player straight up leaves the party mid fractal, the party can still bring another player in directly from LFG without needing to return to lobby. ^ I certainly hope Arenanet reads that, because it would immediately solve most of the problems players experience with LFG abuse in fractals. As far as other gamemodes are concerned, I think the current system works just fine.This system would be horrendous. Now you're incentivizing even stricter requirements pre join because you can't risk someone being bad. You punish parties that have a DC to redo content. You incentivize people to actively bully someone to leave the party by spouting toxicity because no one wants to redo encounters to get back to the last boss again. You allow a single troll to hold instances hostage ie. Give me 5g or I only auto attack at arkk and there's nothing you can do about it. Don't like it? Sorry you should have developed mind reading skills to know I would do that. Honestly anet needs a show of force and publicly ban any lfg abusers who kick on last boss for their guildy friends.

A few clarification points. In order to add 25 vulnerability (not weakness as was stated above) it is a setting in the golem summoning panel. As for rotations, the meta condi holo build does a decent amount of swapping and isn't the most friendly build to play. If you love playing it, more power to you but there's a sword variant that does competitive power damage but much much easier to execute. If you want to reach some higher numbers you should check out kitless holo.

I completely agree with you, Iam quite new player (about 330hours in), playing mirage and I am still learning new things. I recently went to Jahai and started closing those rift where there are hordes of creatures and a boss, I found out that with my build I am able to deal all by myself without dieing (actualy without a problem, just requires sashing buttons for a while) yet I think I would get kicked from raids too because people are like you need to play meta or you are useless. If there's a raid encounter that requires one to solo a bunch of mobs and a boss you'll be the first one I call. The current raid environment does not require that. If I'm taking a mirage they need to be dealing 15k+ dps in a raid setting. If your open world mirage can do that you're more than welcome to join. Don't actually care what build you run as long as it produces results.

I need to nail these 2 planks together but my no matter how hard I smash my kitchen sink on the nails I just can't seem to do the job. Something must be wrong with the nails.

Honestly, that differential is almost made up entirely by a barrier of knowledge and not mechanical prowess. (with a few exceptions like engi and sword weaver). Deadeye DPS is literally 3 buttons. It's just that most players don't care enough to seek out that knowledge and then make excuses when their toughness vitality gear gets them stuck in a boss fight 10x longer than intended. If more people actually had a growth mindset and realize that maybe there's something they don't know/understand we wouldn't have such a huge gap. If players enjoy being a meaty tank and not knowing what their traits do, then they are opting into a terrible experience completely of their own volition.

Whats preventing you from bringing stability?

Also another thing I forgot to mention. With Minstrel/zerker mesmer this achievement was pretty easy. The thing about rifts is that they can convert multiple mortalitys if you focus pull them in. This means you can turn 4 adds surrounding you into a huge advantage because you can now spawn 4 orbs in a single spot. You can also safely throw all 4 orbs with a 3 clone shatter distort. This gives you a ton of time to whittle her down with phantasms.

A few maybe obvious but easily missed points about liadri. You can rally off the cosmic rifts. Use this to your advantage.Remember middle school geometry. The further away you are from the center, the further you have to travel to move out of the quarter circle slices. Stay as close to the center as combat will permit to shorten the distance you need to travel.When evading out of the quarter circle slices, make sure to stay as close to the edge of the orange aoe as possible because once that aoe hits, thats going to be your next safe zone. I see a lot of people who fail liadri over dodge way too much and end up in the center of the non aoe zone only to get caught with no dodges because now the dead center of the safe zone is now orange aoe covered. Again, minimize the distance you need to travel to get to your NEXT safe zone.Cc works on liadri during phase 2.

They're also a pretty reliable drop from fractal CMs. Doing all t4s and cms I usually walk away on average with 3 coins a day, two of which go towards the 2 clovers you can buy from fractals which guarantees you 77 clovers over 39 days using only 77 coins instead of having to roll for them in the mystic toilet and having to expend on average a full stack of coins.

Depends on your the definition of neccessary which changes from person to person. Much like how a shovel isn't "neccessary" for getting snow out of your driveway, if the option is available, people certainly prefer it. I don't think anyone in this thread is under the delusion that fractals is literally impossible without a meta comp but it is still their perogative to spend 5 minutes less on content by being selective.