Darknicrofia.2604

DOBBY IS FREE FROM TRAVELER RUNES

Been happening to me frequently the last week or so, and only on keyboard inputs. Even simple things like F or W or even tab will completely not register for 5+ secs at a time.

Meanwhile my mouse inputs have 0 lag issues.

Its extremely easy to use since the cast time is shorter than any stomp attempt

Cookie basically hard carried the EU Monthly tournament with Mercy resses in August.

> @"sephiroth.4217" said:

> > @"AngelLovesFredrik.6741" said:

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> > > > @"UfoCoffee.2084" said:

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> > > > > > > > @"Crab Fear.1624" said:

> > > > > > > > > @"sephiroth.4217" said:

> > > > > > > > > Isn't the signet on a 3 minute cool down?

> > > > > > > > > The Signet also has a long cast time too does it not?

> > > > > > > > > The Signet fails a lot aswell, doesn't always rez.

> > > > > > > > > The radius is sooooooo small that a Mesmer using 2 will port himself out of a rez.

> > > > > > > > > I've only seen one other player in game running the Signet

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> > > > > > > > > Surely this is a joke thread?

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> > > > > > > > it is 90s cd in pvp/wvw, but i don't know much else about this "issue"

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> > > > > > > Shows how little I use the Signet as only one of my guards use it lmao even then its mostly for the passive healing gain....

> > > > > > > Its too unreliable, can get disrupted, people get stomped before the cast time has gone off and thieves, ele and mesmers usually port out mid cast... ontop of that, a good team will make sure they focus me which means I can only use the signet if they practically ignore me because they have a hard on for the nec im protecting.

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> > > > > > Are you joking? Talking PvP/ WvW only here. It's one of the best skills that FB has that makes them an amazing support. Has something changed recently? I haven't been playing this season yet.

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> > > > > Im confused because every match ive ran it, Ive had nothing but flak for it.... people even quit before the game starts and forum elitists told me its worthless several times for several seasons now unless the build I posted is now starting to get used?

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> > > > > A variant of the build I originally posted can be found here https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/discussion/54887/instant-revives-should-not-exist-in-spvp#latest

> > > > > Its the burning version

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> > > > Maybe it's an EU/US thing? Whenever you had scourge and FB on a point at the start of the game people would focus the FB because even though the scourge is easier to burst down 1. Obviously the FB is healing him and giving him boons but also 2. You down the scourge and he gets ressed as generally the scourge was focused by range DPS but the FB can Res whilst blocking that.

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> > > Yea hence my comment earlier... good teams will focus the FB first and he aint going to be using the signet from death or on himself.

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> > Signet of Mercy is meta for Firebrand.

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> Thats cool aye that off meta is becoming meta... now im gunna have to drop the signet ?

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> Ahwell, if people wanna nerf the guardian for acting like a guardian then so be it.... I welcome any skill that can change the tide of battles but I wont argue with those that dislike it.

its been meta for months now.

> @"Brutaly.6257" said:

> Been playing around with staff in pvp and wvw and got to adjust some of my suggested tweaks.

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> On #5 add in a fire field and a knockback when placed.

> On #4 let us move when casting

> On #1 add a small heal on every cast.

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> I found a power/hybrid FB build that also works nice in both pvp and wvw, enjoying staff/Scepter/Shield.

Staff 5 is already a light field, adding a fire field to it makes 0 sense.

pls make it instant cast too, and make it deal 20k aoe damage.

At this point Anet might has well just say they'll give reddit upvotes as PvP rewards.

> @"Gandrogh.1530" said:

> Pvp ranked should'nt be played for rewards but for leaderboard.

PvE content shouldn't be played for loot but simply for the enjoyment of the combat mechanics.

> @"Unknown.3976" said:

> > @"Darknicrofia.2604" said:

> > Staff has been meta for WvW for basically ever and will remain meta.

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> > And the hammer skill is called Might Blow...

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> > Do you even play guard?

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> Staff was meta back then becuz folks use it to tag foes in zerg fights. That was quite a long time ago. Don't see it these days.

its literally **still ** the meta build for FB in both WvW and sPvP.

Again, do you even play guardian?

no, valk really needs all 3 of radiance/valor/virtues to work along with instant cast virtues.

if you want to yolo as a power FB, play arkenbrand harrier's.

Staff has been meta for WvW for basically ever and will remain meta.

And the hammer skill is called Might Blow...

Do you even play guard?

> @"mraulsx.8057" said:

> > @"Darknicrofia.2604" said:

> > lol no, it hits for like 3k crits, the 2nd and 3rd auto attack chain also moves progressively slower.

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> 3k AA crits? Is that bad?

only the final hit of the chain can crit for that, and it moves at the speed of old orb of light, and considering you're asking if its viable to drop hammer for it, the answer is no, its not.

lol no, it hits for like 3k crits, the 2nd and 3rd auto attack chain also moves progressively slower.

A lot of nonchanges basically as far as what is/isn't meta is concerned.

The power scaling is awful for skill 1/2.

Full radiance DPS variant in PvE only crits for about 3-5k.

The only reasoning for DH having no "direct counters" in WvW is if you start losing you can F2/RF/F2 away like a pussy vs pretty much anything.

DH is pretty much a freefarm for just about every single decent side node spec from players of equal skill.

> @"ArthurDent.9538" said:

> The whole thought process of don't spam your attacks against foes with retal is fine and dandy until you go up against something like mr. core guard who has stacked 30 seconds of retaliation.

Here is the meta core guard build:

Virtue of Justice: 3.75 secs of retal (17 sec cooldown)

Virtue of Resolve: 3.75 secs of retal (25.5 sec cooldown)

Virtue of Courage: 3.75 secs of retal (38.4 sec cooldown)

Litany of Wrath *a healing skill*: 10 secs of retal (20 sec cooldown)

Under no circumstances do you keep 30+ secs of retal and the only way you keep perma retal is by opening the engagement by activating your heal skill first, which if you're losing to core guardians that use their heal skill while at 100%, then you have some entirely different problems in pvp than just complaining about getting pricked for 256 per hit by a boon.

> @"Hot Boy.7138" said:

> > @"BlaqueFyre.5678" said:

> > Again, nothing is wrong with fetal, people need to learn to read Boons on opponentns and not spam skills.

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> > Retail only punishes those that aren’t skilled enough to not spam their skills without paying attention.

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> Do you mean be careful and wait for the retal boon to expire before using skills? because it was already established, and the initial point of the thread, is that it is being maintained with 100% uptime. There is no waiting it out. Boon rip is unreliable to target any specific boons, and the frequency of application of boons makes that pointless.

Did you also not read the thread? to maintain 100% retal, core guards have to pop all 3 virtues and even their heal skill and elite when they're not being pressured to do so.

Wait until their heal and elite expires to spike them, I can guarantee you the 256 per hit from retal on guardians isn't much of a defense when literally all their cooldowns are used to maintain retal.

gold and bronze is essentially the same thing

The only macro that could possibly give an advantage at all times is a dodge jump macro, and that's only 2 buttons in 1.

To reiterate: the correct response when you see retal on a core guard isn't to complain about how many times you're getting pricked by 256 tick counter damages, the correct response is to prepare your active defenses/blocks because you're about to get spiked for terrible terrible damage. Retal isn't a defensive boon, its literally the initiator/precursor for every single spike a core guardian performs.

complaining about retal is basically complaining that you died when you see a full heated holosmith charge up a Holographic Shockwave and your response was to run into it to face tank and auto attack it.

DH's inherent design is flawed that was only viable at HoT launch due to OP nonsense like unblockable daze traps with ToF. (so was core guard), half the traits depend on guardians never activating virtues, half the traits depend on guardians always using their virtues (only somewhat fixed by FB's loremaster trait, which unless it becomes baseline, I can guarantee the next elite spec for guardians will be a mess again).

> @"Hot Boy.7138" said:

> > @"Darknicrofia.2604" said:

> > You also have no idea how retal is used if you think guardians are using it as a passive "hit me" boon.

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> So are you saying my combat logs have been lying to me all this time?

Guardians have to pop all 3 of their class mechanics and spam their heal skill on cooldown offensively to maintain retal because its required to do 80% of the damage in the build, that's about as "active" as a boon as you can possibly get.

The fact that you don't understand that proves my point exactly: You have no idea how its even being used.

You also have no idea how retal is used if you think guardians are using it as a passive "hit me" boon.