Arklite.4013

See title.

F1, Full counter, F1 again = 5 boons removed. Dagger 3 is a very quick on-demand interrupt with low CD for when you see someone casting a heal or telegraphed skill and removes another boon. The double leaps help with your mobility and the slow on Dagger 2 is worthwhile as well.

It also feels a lot less clunky than axe IMO, which is nice considering how often you'll be swapping back and forth and using F1 skills.

Berserker GS core guard gang rise up

I'll be down here in G3 because I can't duel anyone with a plat brain or better

I love this stuff. Thank you for the update. :)

I've actually been doing pretty well with the typical GS/Sw+F radiance core guard. It probably isn't very good against competent players but down here in gold 2 you can just pop everything and delete somebody in your opener, better with stealth from a teammate.

Just wondering what everyone's experience in the 3v3 has been so far. I've been trying the typical SB sidenoder but if I get focused I usually just melt. Haven't tried healbreaker yet.

https://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Spellbreaker_-_Healbreaker

This build recently gained a lot of popularity after its use in the mat.

Mythic greatsword I believe.

I just want to know what's going on balance-wise. I feel like we've been in the dark and kind of neglected, and a lot of our feedback falls on deaf ears.

I'm sorry, what?

Capricorn and Djinn's Domain are actually good maps. Spirit Watch is turbo shit. I wish they'd give Skyhammer the same treatment.

> @"Loboling.5293" said:

> Shame, I tried getting into Holo, but it still feels like an insult to Engie... haha (Engie was my only character to 100% map complete). Was not a fan of Scrapper, and even less of Holo. I guess it's a good time to roll fotm. ;P

I didn't want to be the one to tell you this, but holo is fotm

https://hearthstone.gamepedia.com/File:Goody_Two-Shields(329867).png

My vote.

> @"Smoosh.2718" said:

> This was going to be the elite shout if i get this right:

> https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/%22I_Will_Avenge_You!%22

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> Tiny bit of a rework on what this shout does, and I'd say it would be an easy addon.

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This would be a cute but incredibly niche skill in its current iteration. Looks like they just wrapped it up into the battle standard and made it require fewer hoops to jump through in order to be a valuable skill. Having some sort of condition attached to the impactful part of the skill is generally outside of their game design. I wonder what they could repurpose this skill to do? The only thing I could think of is maybe what Guardian's Feel My Wrath already does, or like a rapid health regen aura for a few seconds around the caster or something.

Pretty much any class can be viable at any aspect of the game unless you're pushing really high level fractals or something. 99% of the time the answer to this question is to play what you think is the most fun.

Edit: nevermind, delete comment

Warrior isn't that bad. I pushed to plat basically camping far as SB all season. You just have to be really careful and abuse every advantage you get. The issue is more that other classes are really good and a lot more straightforward.

I vote dagger. The amount of control SB gets with dagger/shield (and FC) is really nice. Boonrip is also better now that it has ever been, and the leap on dagger 2 busting you out of immob can be helpful as well.

Soulbeast is pretty cool because you can just slurp up your pet and pretend you're playing a class with better flavor

Wondering what game you guys are playing where thief sucks. The class has bonkers mobility, can hold its own in 1v1s, and if it isn't winning, it can easily disengage and apply pressure somewhere else, or poke at you/wait for CDs, and engage again. If you play thief, you can entirely avoid other players and just stand on nodes and have a significant impact on the game because of how quickly they can rotate.

Color me interested. Please feel free to invite at @"Arklite.4013"

Hi - your guild sounds very interesting. I am an adult though I am not interested in the dating/other adult aspects. Would it still be acceptable for me to join?

I recently got back into the game around a month ago and have been catching up on PvP. I used to play Core GS/Sw+F radiance power Guardian, and it remains my favorite, but from what I have read the build has only gotten worse over the course of the year. I have been trying it with different amulets with varying levels of success but I would like to try something a little more competitive. I've seen a handful of different core and FB builds, and from what I can tell, core is more of a burning-based dps/duelist build, whereas firebrand is still focused on support? I see people running longbow DH every couple matches and it looks like the Test of Faith LB/Sw+Sh, and seems to be decent. I usually play unranked though and when I do play ranked, I'm only in G2/G3 so m perception may not be that great. I was hoping someone with a little more knowledge about the current builds available could help me parse through the options.

While this is primarily aimed at sPvP, I play WvW here and there as well, though I much prefer the smaller-scale fights of roaming to zerging.

I know a lot of people are tier-list naysayers but I feel they provide a valuable, though inexact, glimpse at the current viability of builds.

After googling and searching the forums, I haven't been able to find one that seems reliable, so I was wondering if anyone had one. I've heard metabattle is unreliable.

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> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I tried it the other day. Spamming 4000+> @"Axl.8924" said:

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> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Lich auto attack needs a reduction in damage by at least 50%.

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> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > That in essence would prob delete lich. 50% is too big a nerf, especially for the cd it already has. You also run the risk of deleting core nec from SPVP completely.

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> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 50% would allow you to constantly spam 2000+ crits instead of 4000-5000+.

> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Why would core suffer much from a grossly OP elite ability being adjusted? If you depend on something that is obviously broken, you're in for a lot of disappointment.

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> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > The lich has 5 skills. Nerf the broken one and buff the others.

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> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > You can't avoid the slowest-moving character in the game for literally 10 seconds once every three minutes, assuming they are only focusing on you? Says a lot about your skills, bro.

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> > > > > > > > > > > > > > Sure I can, but giving someone a nuke and others a feather to fight with is bad balancing.

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> > > > > > > > > > > > > A nuke with a dozen options to avoid? On a class where any group with a cleanse/heal prof can just eliminate most of your non-lich damage? Cool story, bro.

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> > > > > > > > > > > > > PVP isn't only balanced around elite skills. But it is based on players with higher skill levels than you or I.

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> > > > > > > > > > > > Reviving this ancient discussion just to tell you that this is a grossly facetious defense of an obviously broken skill (especially now that zerker reaper is meta)

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> > > > > > > > > > > A skill you might get to use twice a match? Sorry you can't figure out how to not be the only person in the match to die during the 15-30 seconds a match they pop lich. Got a gofundme page for that?

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> > > > > > > > > > Rampage had an atrocious cooldown and it was still busted. The infrequency doesn't matter if it's a huge problem when it is used.

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> > > > > > > > > Strongly disagree. If you try to facetank a necro in lich, that's 100% on you.

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> > > > > > > > You don't have to "try to facetank a necro in lich" for lich form to be a problem. That's short-sighted.

> > > > > > > > Also, you still haven't addressed the issue of reapers popping lich form out of shroud and firing off 2-3 attacks with quickness that are basically impossible to react to in time.

> > > > > > > > And before you give the necro forum-mandated answer of "just pressure reaper lol", the issue isn't that you didn't pressure the reaper enough that they weren't able to get on top of you, it's that even with the pressure, the spec has the tools to safely reach you and unload 12k of lich bolts before you're able to answer it.

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> > > > > > > So you personally can't solo a reaper twice a match because of lich? That's your complaint?

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> > > > > > What? I'm talking about teamfighting.

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> > > > > Then ez stomp for ez win. What's the problem? Lich gets melted FAST.

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> > > > I'm not sure if you're inexperienced playing against good players or what, but you're consistently ignoring the actual points of my argument.

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> > > No, you just keep trying to get me to agree that lich is OP because it's useful under very particular circumstances twice a match. The problem isn't that I don't understand or am not experienced. I'm not the one complaining about getting ez'd by a noob spec. It's that I don't have these huge problems with reapers/lich you seem to. And I'm running a kitten scourge petting zoo. What's your excuse?

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> > I'm not interested in your agreement, but you're refuting that a skilled necro will find opportunities to utilize lich even against coordinated pressure by saying 'git gud'. You seem to not understand that the issue with lich isn't avoiding it for 10 seconds, it's the 1.5 seconds after they press the button and fire off 20k damage before you can react.

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> You mean you and your team have a total lack of situational awareness, miss the whole flashy long cast, then stand there eating damage for another 1.5 seconds before reacting? I mean, if that's the case then yeah: git gud. Boiled down to its essence, your statement is that there are THREE seconds per match where a skilled player can dump out some heavy unanswered damage? Am I understanding that correctly? Because if that's your gripe, we're done here and I'm just gonna nose-chortle.

If I reply again, you'll just oversimplify the conversation until it fits your perspective and dodge the actual issues that have been mentioned by myself and many others in the thread by beating around the bush. It has become clear that you didn’t actually make this thread with the intention of discussing the issues with lich form, but to make a joke about the skill being a l2p issue and be rallied behind by other necro players who rely on the skill.

Have fun.