Starbreaker.6507

Like a car tire on an icy road

Saw him the other night in a Dragon's End meta and he said he got a forum timeout. Still trying to fight the good fight on warrior though.

Some day CmC will drop the gem: "Banners are played by the best players and those players tend to win"

Best poll on here in quite some time

As someone who played WoW for years and thought Blizzard's balance team was the worse, I have said Anet's team make them look like Rhodes Scholars.

My ranger had a full set of Plaguedoctor's gear that I used as an all-in-one setup for OW, WvW and group play. Testing around with the changes last night, the drop in might generation on Grace of the Land pretty much killed the OW build. Even though it's primarily condi-based, the quick build-up to 25 might really helped the build cruise along and powered flame and viper traps. As far as group play, I did a few things with the PD and then tried out Celesital and overall cele just felt better. My only "loss" (if you could call it that) was slightly lower healing power, but even that was negligible and allowed me to basically reuse the same gear I had for an OW cele build. Overall it wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be, but as you said our lack of stability is a liability compared to other supports. As a side note, I'm also not really a fan of the celestial era that we seem to be in for every profession except Warrior. I don't know if the stat set is just too bloated or what, but it feels (to me at least) it's probably the best stat set for everyone's general use unless you're in hard-mode CM stuff where you need the specialized stats.

But you guys got better power coefficients on LB in WvW and PvP... ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?!?!? 😂 From top to bottom this patch has been the biggest joke since Feb '20

You could catch a zipper in the eye from the pillowcase if the person was traited for it. Of course, to fix this, they'll just give it a 300 sec CD and then forget it ever existed, or maybe even just flat out disable it like Chaotic Interruption.

I've never seen a more fitting user name for a thread such as this one.

Trying it out this week after the "changes" have been made, it's a superior plasma dispenser for thieves over core and the other elites.

Well I feel that's an issue with the game as a whole with the no "holy trinity" that you see in traditional MMOs. I think due to that has been a big reason why balance (or lack thereof) has been very tough to do in this game.

It's because people multi box with bot program and synch queue with their bots and then make their bots throw for them. They win trade with their own bots. This is officially out of control as of this 3v3 season to the point that you cannot solo queue or even duo queue without without having literal throw bots join your team, as they outnumber real player population like 3 to 1. <- That is actually happening. Don't 3v3 unless you have a 3 man premade of actual humans. Ever wonder who those people are who stand around AFK near the trade post and bank area, who never talk, who never move, who are in the same spot for days on end? Yeah give it some thought. I've even had TWO people recently say to me "Hey let's 3 man. Do you mind if a friend joins us?" and then some random kitten obvious bot joins our group that the guy is running and he proceeds to act like it isn't a bot when it is obviously a generic scourge barrier support spam bot. As much as I love the mode over normal conquest, I can see why it would be so much more attractive to botters. The reward chests may not be as much as 5s, but since the games are so much shorter they can still crank out an okay money per hour ratio.

I know botting has been an issue for some time now, but I swear to God that I have never seen more than I have during this 3v3 season. All of them seem to be Scourges too, and they all do the same thing: Run into the middle of whatever map it isCast a couple marks from staffProceed to auto-attack for the remainder of the matchIf one of your teammates goes down they'll try to run at them with the hard res, and they obviously make no attempt to try and kite or use any variance in skills.I know that PvP has been a complete dumpster fire for a few years now, but this really highlights what little ANet cares about the game and mode.

I mean, the same could be said for conquest too.

Because we wouldn't want to sully some of those sold Best of the Best titles out there with some randoms watching the games going on. Got to keep the integrity of it, right?

Yep, totally the DH's fault that people are oblivious and waddle onto a point thinking it would be a 100% clear. Too bad demanding nerfs doesn't make the remaining playerbase any smarter what the hell. how is someone supposed to anticipate an invisible trap bomb? thats ridiculous. how about traps are made visible so some monkey spamming his entire utility bar on cd can't 1 shot people from the other side of the map in both pvp and wvw? is that too much to ask?Gee, I don't know...maybe the same way they have since HoT when the spec was first introduced: Dodge roll onto pointUse an evade skill when going onto the pointIf they're a ranger, send pet on point firstI've done some combination of the above and it's worked out just fine for me.If I forgot to do it and get killed I blame myself for not realizing it when there's a DH on the other team. But by all means demand those nerfs. I'm sure it'll improve your own gameplay dramtically.

Yep, totally the DH's fault that people are oblivious and waddle onto a point thinking it would be a 100% clear. Too bad demanding nerfs doesn't make the remaining playerbase any smarter

Mine was to remove negative influences from my life, hence I moved on from this game. Now to build up the willpower to not come back to the forums despite their immense comedic value.

“Save your self” traited can give 45 boons granted 4 other allies are also close. No it can't. This is a really basic mis-understanding of how the game works.On these forums? Never seen that happen before :p

This thread is a good summation of what the playerbase in this mode has become. People try to facetank shit and then charge to the forums to whine about it. I think this thread should be stickied as a PSA on how not to play.

I get what you're trying to say, but knowing ANet they'll make it as bad as the Feb 2020 (or worse) and people will be begging for this garbage meta back =) Basically Anet as anyone knew them is pretty much gone for good its just Ncsoft holding onto a few people who they didn't fire or who didn't leave with the mass exodus in 2019. So its essentially playing gw2 is no different than playing the original game now because its just that dead now population wise and creative/development wise as well. Plus they seem more interested in trying to enforce technicalities on copyrights on the new studio they are trying to make rather than moving on with this games development. Overall though we've basically seen what was going on behind the scenes with Anet and NCsoft and the result ended up becoming PoF and then both entities exploding on each other until it all fizzled out and died. It would be great if something good was happening with this game but I highly doubt its going to continue on much further might not even be operating a year from now.Rumor has it that another expansions wasn't even something that Anet was going to do and that NCsoft forced their hand into making it. Considering in both PvP and PvE that they've ran out of ideas a while ago, I can't wait to see what a clusterf* the new xpac is going to be

I get what you're trying to say, but knowing ANet they'll make it as bad as the Feb 2020 (or worse) and people will be begging for this garbage meta back =)

What is this, 2015? I thought we established back then it was the big, bad 5-man teams that kept all the lowly solo-queue folks from hitting the legendary ranks they so richly deserved?

And guess what was before those condi changes? Exactly the same complaints. No matter how strong or weak condis actually are - the complaints are always the same. And it is and never has been a balance issue - it is an issue with player perception.There are always some outliers, but overall condi and power dmg are pretty balanced. If anything, power is and has been stronger by trend. the big difference is that after the condi update the complaints hold more merit. broken cloak is right twice a dayThe real question is...what about broken capes?

-wrong- 'in the continuation of the best builds series I introduce to you what possibly the strongest yet burn firebrand' The video has the word "PvE" in the title... Have you tried it in PvP? There is no expertise amulet in PvP, not to mention all the trait and skill splits between the gamemodes. This build does not exist in PvP, there is nothing to try. Stop citing builds from other gamemodes, they are irrelevant here.I think they means it's overpowered because they have the same game sense as AI mobs and stand in all the AoE