Darknicrofia.2604

> @"Shacka Hacka.7068" said:

> So it takes them 5 years to fix a bug? it's always been that way with the traps on DH and lets face it we need all the help we can get atm.

Its a response to template loading abuse in raiding, like having DHs spam 40 traps before swapping to a condi build.

> @"Arkantos.7460" said:

> yea plz look at nerfing herald more while Kalla is STILL TRASH IN TPVP

> GG

So?

DH is just as trash as Kalla in pvp, doesn't have anything to do with FBs being strong.

Thief play in general is about doing what annoys opponents the most.

If they're focused on killing you, avoid them and go for decaps. If they're defending caps and not trying to fight you, snipe them in team fights or gank them in +1s

> @"Widmo.3186" said:

> Nerf all condi builds, fireweaver and condi teef, leave other weaver and teef builds alone, rev idc, hopefully some nerfs to holo and maybe warrior.

fighting a water weaver is basically like fighting a gimped version of HoT launch chrono bunker that deals slightly more damage though.

Its a meme build that farms players and teams that don't immediately prioritize the rifle war as the highest value target upon respawn.

Anyone that does know to immediately target the war should have no problems killing it unless they're facing a player 3 skill level tiers above them.

> @"Monkey See.1498" said:

> > @"Cal Cohen.2358" said:

> > Rev is a class that's favored more by the best players, and the best players tend to win the monthly.

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> This is patently ridiculous on its face. Rev spent close to an entirely year through Path of Fire being largely abandoned by high end players because it wasn't considered good in the face of PoF power creep.

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> Then it received a plethora of buffs to its offhand sword as well as benefiting from nerfs to the over performing specs. At which point once it became one of the best builds in the gameas balance patches rolled in and _that's_ when players looking to perform as good as possible swapped to it. The best players will flock to the highest performing specs, not the other way around.

Rev, or more specifically power herald had always been a high skill cap spec, leaving it untouched and you had situations like Toker swapping from thief to rev main and constantly winning 1v2s, but nerfing it too much to make it "balanced" at the high end leave it unviable as a spec to the average player that can't pull off the damage spike combos consistently.

So are these coming next week, the week after that or...?

LB5 use to cage enemies hit by every single pulse, not just the last one, revert it back to that, increase the auto attack speed by a bit and LB will be at least somewhat viable in sPvP again.

Those changes aren't coming to PvP (yet, or at all) according to cmc.

> @"Zephoid.4263" said:

> > @"Darknicrofia.2604" said:

> > almost no cc?

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> > what?

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> > best condi cleanse build in the game? double what?

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> > meditations self heal?

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> > ok now I know you have absolutely never played the build.

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> If you read rather than inferring, i was talking about guard, which is the better dps class by far. However, the fb still has many of the same talking points.

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> You have shield 5 and f1 3. I guess you can play axe for more cc but i find scepter and sword the better combination of primaries. Almost every class in this game has 2 stun breaks or stab, meaning your cc isn't enough to be effective.

> Who has better condi cleanse? Your F2 is straight the best condi cleanse ability in the game by an absurd margin. Depending on your utilities, you can also slot contemplation of purity vs any condi heavy team.

> fb exchange medi self heal for team support. I played mender fb for 4 seasons and got sick of being unable to carry teams in plat despite infinite heals and condi cleanses. You have less durability than bunker weaver or scrapper at the benefit of team support. Your damage is nothing to write home about and most of the fights you win are to them standing in your symbols as you f2. If they just... you know... walk out of your symbols you really have nothing. Once your F2 is done you don't have much sustain.

> I'm pretty sure if you had stats on it, menders fb is solidly average in win rate, especially after scourge got massacred.

Are you talking about bunker FB or symbol FB? or core guard? or meditrapper? don't be all over the place when you're talking about a build's strength/weakness.

your post started off talking about symbol FB then went on a tangent with traits from bunker FB and even meditrapper, which is it?

Uh, mace had nothing to trigger Glacial Heart to begin with?

almost no cc?

what?

best condi cleanse build in the game? double what?

meditations self heal?

ok now I know you have absolutely never played the build.

lol at DH "high sustain", it has F3 for 3 seconds of block, F2 to leap and heal and that's it. If you're dying to a meme 5 trap build, that's a you problem.

Yes it can do burst with traps, but that means you have nothing to sustain with, and if you use your elite slot for RF then you don't have the elite trap to burst, aka the spec is entirely too fair. DH is the epitome of blowing all cooldowns in 5 secs, after which its a free kill.

The problem with DH is the spec is too...fair.

There's no BS mechanics or OP traits that are instant i-win buttons unless your opponent just decides to play PvE mob simulator and send in your traps.

> @"Lottie.5370" said:

> I think a better change to Rampage would be to remove the stability granted whilst using it so there is some counterplay, I think nerfing the damage to that extent makes it pretty useless - maybe I'm wrong and it'll have a place in team fights.

Rampage can still hit hard, it just won't be able to hit hard while hard cc'ing at the same time.

Symbol FB isn't broken, the actual better build, Sage FB isn't even listed on metabattle yet.

Played well, Sage/Symbol can get plat 3/legend sure, but played poorly its a silver tier build in the hands of someone that don't know the class, when to pop what tomes etc.

Condi thief played well or poorly can still get someone with 1 day of experience on thief gold 3/plat 1.

> @"Ajaxx.3157" said:

> Nerfing Rampage into the ground is fine ( even if its way to much imo ), but it still going to be the ONLY elite to take.

> When is elite signet getting looked at? its SOOOO dated and worse by a long long way compared to any of the other signets that aren't elite.

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An elite signet that's outdated and useless?

Guardian mains say "hold my beer"

Oh look, all the threads that voiced criticism got merged while all the single threads about fluff topics or were positive were left intact even though all those were about the exact same topics.

This is my shocked face.

> @"phokus.8934" said:

> > @"Darknicrofia.2604" said:

> > To sell you funko pops and tshirts.

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> And whatever the hell VP of Marketing was wearing on his feet.

I thought Anet couldn't surprise me with anything in 2019 anymore but I was legitimately shocked to learn that they had a VP of Marketing.

> @"Blocki.4931" said:

> Yes, the funko pops and shirts that were part of exactly 3 minutes out of 40 are the thing to talk about.

My bad, I also learned that "sagas" aren't the same things as "living story episodes"

Anet rented out a theater and had a 36 hour count down timer to sell you funko pops and tshirts.

Seems like another season of trouting out bunker FB to bounce between Plat 1 and Plat 2

> @"Arcaedus.7290" said:

> Is the damage on mace 2 noticeable? I'd imagine with a 30% damage increase, mace would fit in with a symbolic build, not that it's meta or anything.

increase of 30% from 0 is still 0 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

> @"syszery.1592" said:

> > @"herrmartell.7109" said:

> > It didn't matter if I won all of my 1vs1 duels. It didn't matter if I made tons of damage and support and got many of the top stats every fight. I tried to the best of my ability to get back at gold, but no matter what I ALWAYS lost the last fight needed to climb up. So my win/lose looked a lot like this:

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> Just winning a 1v1 somewhere doesn't necessarily benefit your team enough to make an edge.

hell, sometimes its more beneficial to simply stall the 1v1 than win it.

Also, how does anyone on the internet not know the doge meme? Much less someone that plays an MMO?