ASP.8093

Gold when it's a boring week or I have another game I really enjoy, Platinum/Diamond when it's a fun week.

"Why don't you go flip some camps instead of fighting outnumbered?" Because it's boring. Come on now.

[looking at a thing called "Gift of Battle"] Why are you making me do battles for this!? Unfair.

> @"UNOwen.7132" said: > > @"ASP.8093" said: > > > @"UNOwen.7132" said: > > > I mean, you can remove the unblockable too. It uh, basically never matters, especially since Shortbow 4 is unblockable daze for some time now. > > > > Makes a big difference when breaking Spellbreaker Bubbles, though, doesn't it? > > Ignoring that you hardly ever even see a Spellbreaker ... Id rather just wait out the bubble? Against Warriors I think Id much rather interrupt their big heal, than cancel a block prematurely. Especially the spellbreaker one. I'm talking about playing Staff Daredevil in zerg-vs-zerg: one of your few really good "special tricks" is messing up the bubble on a melee push.

> @"UNOwen.7132" said: > I mean, you can remove the unblockable too. It uh, basically never matters, especially since Shortbow 4 is unblockable daze for some time now. Makes a big difference when breaking Spellbreaker Bubbles, though, doesn't it?

Don't pick a roaming build based on camp flipping. Flipping camps solo is pretty easy. If you want to do it *really fast,* your options are a bit more constrained. But many, many builds can do it in about 30s-1min with zero practice or effort, especially once you have WvW Rank points in "Guard Killer" to give you a ton of free endurance while you're fighting the NPCs. If you really like Rev and want to get better at it, consider just playing more Rev. Sword/Sword Power Herald is very mobile, a strong duelist, and reasonably capable in 1vX once you get good. Trailblazer Herald or Trailblazer Renegade are incredibly durable and versatile. (Herald for great personal sustain in a pure melee build, Renegade for the extra flexibility of shortbow — play Mallyx/Jalis and don't bother with Kaalia spirits in a condi build, imo.) Nice thing about doing it all on one character is you can switch builds/roles even if the map you're on has a full queue. P/D Condi Thief is cancer but it's honestly more just a build check for your opponents than a real good roaming build in its own right. For thief, Power builds have much better traits and weapon support, and better play-making potential in small-scale skirmishes (imo).

> @"Delita Silverburg.8632" said: > 2. No new map to explore? Even more disappointment. There's good value in making the old maps more interesting as well. > @"Delita Silverburg.8632" said: > 5. Yet another chapter of living story released without a strike mission that prepares players for raids. I thought the goal was to give people a clear path to raiding content? That is what you claimed back at the beginning of the Icebrood Saga. There's a ton of stuff in this game to "prepare players for raids." The biggest obstacle to widespread raiding will always be in organizing a raid group itself. I'd much rather have some more interesting single-player/hot-join PvE stuff to do than yet another thing where all my playtime is gated through joining a PVE guild or staring at the LFG list.

> @"Victoria.5086" said: > Pretty much the idea I had in mind! :) Getting crafting materials and what not. I don't see how this is useful to anyone but TP barons. When I'm using the TP for crafting I don't just stand there and buy stuff, I have to look at the crafting station and expand/contract the requirements for the item I want to make to craft the intermediate components and see how many raw materials I'm missing.

I find it kinda funny that folks are still going on about "special core-only week" when the biggest flavor-of-the-month build right now is plain old Marauder Staff Guardian.

> @"KrHome.1920" said: > > @"Veprovina.4876" said: > Trailblazer is still often better, because your cover- and soft-cc-conditions have a longer duration as well, which makes it easier to overcome your targets cleansing capabilities. Since the feb25 patch trailblazer works overall better than dire to my experience, because the base duration of a lot of conditions has become pretty low. Yeah. The value of a double-duration Taunt, Slow, Chill, or Immob is *immense.* For Mez you've also got skills that apply pretty big stacks of short-duration Confusion, and making those last longer makes it a lot harder to just "wait it out" (by accident or on purpose).