nosleepdemon.1368

> @"Cyninja.2954" said:

> > @"nosleepdemon.1368" said:

> > > @"melandru.3876" said:

> > > > @"Shiyo.3578" said:

> > > > The issue isn't mechanics it's the sheer length. Fractals were meant to be bite sized dungeons that you do 3 a day but now the new fractal team thinks they're normal sized dungeons you have to do 3 of a day..it's draining. The reason fractals were set up in 3's was because all 3 combined were meant to be equal to one full dungeon, not THREE DUNGEONS COMBINED like the new ones. All the new fractals are far too long and they keep revamping old ones to be longer ;/ Why was molten bosses made so long...?

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> > > wait what molten boss long?

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> > > you skip the entire start, you kill that one shaman and his folks to open the bridge. you kill the efigy, you kill the next 3 following groups and you are at boss.

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> > > if this takes you aslong as a full dungeon path then i don't even want to know what party comp/builds you play

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> > It got changed I believe

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> No, that is the current Molten Boss fractal.

I did it last night, it has been lengthened / t3 is longer. It used to be a dash down a gantry and across the bridge to the two bosses but at least in t3, it's now a little bit longer with a couple of bosses beforehand. Perhaps it is different depending on the tier it is played at? If I recall level 40 was the one that got farmed endlessly.

> @"melandru.3876" said:

> > @"Shiyo.3578" said:

> > The issue isn't mechanics it's the sheer length. Fractals were meant to be bite sized dungeons that you do 3 a day but now the new fractal team thinks they're normal sized dungeons you have to do 3 of a day..it's draining. The reason fractals were set up in 3's was because all 3 combined were meant to be equal to one full dungeon, not THREE DUNGEONS COMBINED like the new ones. All the new fractals are far too long and they keep revamping old ones to be longer ;/ Why was molten bosses made so long...?

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> wait what molten boss long?

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> you skip the entire start, you kill that one shaman and his folks to open the bridge. you kill the efigy, you kill the next 3 following groups and you are at boss.

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> if this takes you aslong as a full dungeon path then i don't even want to know what party comp/builds you play

It got changed I believe

Twin pistols, because how bizarre would that be?

> @"otto.5684" said:

> > @"nosleepdemon.1368" said:

> > Lolwut? SB 2 is a staple damage skill in any condition build that uses Kalla. Watchoo smokin' OP? That so many people have voted yes is a little worrying lol.

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> I will quote myself.. _" having a skill that works against primarily stationary targets and large boxes is very bad design. Not only it hinders the weapon in PvP, but even in open world PvE it is not a good weapon. There is not logical reason whatsoever in making all 7 arrows just hit the target instead of this gimmicky reverse shotgun.."_

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> A skill design quality is not determined only by its damage output. Anet can take any poorly designed skill and make it deal substantially more damage (which is kind of what they did with this skill). Does that make it a well designed skill?

Oh sure Sevenshot is terrible, I absolutely agree there. But I thought we were discussing skill #2, and while I do agree that it's not great it's good enough. I noticed some people have looked at this from a pvp viability perspective but imo the whole shortbow itself is bad news for pvp viability - all the SB skills are bad in that mode, not just #2.

> @"narcx.3570" said:

> > @"Scoobaniec.9561" said:

> > People like you are the reason why rev is in current state honestly speaking.

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> And what's so bad about the current state of rev? It has meta/S+ tier builds in all three game modes...

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People like that guy you responded to are why people voted yes in the poll, dare I say there's an l2p issue among the Rev players? :P

Lolwut? SB 2 is a staple damage skill in any condition build that uses Kalla. Watchoo smokin' OP? That so many people have voted yes is a little worrying lol.

Wait, hold on. Hold your dragons. OP is afraid of jump puzzles, but wants a mount that is basically made for the jump puzzle minded?

Well grats on your mount, I hope it will alleviate your fear of heights and pixel perfect movement... Or it will make things much, much worse :P

My Rev is pure Viper's, or rather was, until her accessories got a stat reset recently and now I can pick them again. That got me thinking, maybe I'm done with my Viper's / Kalla / Fractal build. Maybe I want to choose a new set of stats that would possibly suit a wider selection of game modes such as wvw as well. But having not played for a while I don't want to muck this up. So:

* My weapons and armour are Viper's and ascended.

* I have a set of power swords (including Bolt) that are also ascended but the secondary weapon is exotic (staff and hammer)

* I also have a set of zerker accessories somewhere, possibly, which may also have been stat reset? Who knows.

I was thinking of switching to Diviner's to carry groups in fractals with alacrity, but I'm unclear whether that actually means pure Diviner's stats or some mix.

I play in Fractals mostly, and in WvW occasionally.

Advice from my fellow 1%'ers that also play Rev very much welcome :)

> @"Weindrasi.3805" said:

> The roller beetle is "Petey" presumably because it is male, and the Skyscale is female.

> I think Arenanet missed an opportunity with raising the Skyscale here. We got to "pick" our own egg to carry around for all the collections, but not really. I wish we truly would have been able to pick 1 of 21 slightly different sized and colored eggs. The resulting Skyscale could be 50/50 male or female, with the pronoun Gorrik chooses determining what sex we got. We could also have a different randomized base color for our baby Skyscale (which would be changeable once the mount is unlocked, but still). It would personalize OUR chosen Skyscale a little bit.

Well he, she, or undefined by rare chance which gives you an extra skill that launches hell-fire missiles and makes helicopter noises.

You can run a Diviner's Revenant that mixes support and damage. The idea is apparently to keep alacrity up at all times for your party. I'm considering switching to that build after my accessories got that free stat reset but I am going to need to do more research. Check the metabattle site for builds if you are interested.

With respect to Power Rev, the damage it deals is perfectly acceptable even in T4 fractals, but it's not "the best" that's for sure. As others have said, it's a little dull as well (so I'm not sure how much better Diviner's would be).

I really like the Revenant and have mained it since it was released, but even I don't currently use swords. IMO for Rev, Viper condition is more exciting for PvE damage because the rotation is absolutely mental, plus you have a ton of cool party buffs from your summons. SO, I would go Chrono if you are set on swords, it sounds more exciting.

> @"XYLO.7031" said:

> I trust Gorrik as an Asuran researcher took the time to learn how to communicate with Skyscales so that he could ask what our story mount skyscale identifies as.

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> Either that or he checked to see if the skyscale had a dongle or not.

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> If the skyscale had a double dongle, we can safely assume the skyscale is an Apple iPhone.

In which case it has dongle privelege.

> @"Funky.4861" said:

> > @"nosleepdemon.1368" said:

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> > OP apparently castrated male horses are easiest to control, while female race horses are more difficult but perform better. Maybe the Skyscale is female to reflect its fiercely independent nature?

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> Maybe it's to reflect the massive nest-building, resource-heavy, timegated investment the player has to make to get her, as well as her being difficult and only needed for a few things?

Oof, rude but funny ;)

I think though that you have wilfully misinterpreted the OP, they are wondering about the lore surrounding the Skyscale, but English is perhaps not their first language.

> @"Witch of Doom.5739" said:

> > @"derd.6413" said:

> > > @"Sonja Teh Trapper.7012" said:

> > > now i remind myself why is gorrik reffering to the skyscale as she? is she a reflection of aurene in different form? i am just curious on the anymore info from gorrik ? like the beetle was named pete as gorrik told us!

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> > because she's a girl

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> Yep, it's just that simple. Funny how in games when mounts etc. are referred to as "he" no one says anything, but when it's a "she" it's suddenly worthy of comment.

Uh oh, just 4 posts in and somebody has already taken offence! I wonder, would you similarly be offended if somebody questioned why another mount was a he? Video games folks: They are Sherious Business!

OP apparently castrated male horses are easiest to control, while female race horses are more difficult but perform better. Maybe the Skyscale is female to reflect its fiercely independent nature?

Wait wait wait. Hold on. You mean to say you lot have actually paid attention to the shlock they called a story in this game ever since Destiny's Edge and their High-School angst were introduced? Welcome to reality I suppose, the story is not the reason I play this game - the map design on the other hand is superb.

Possibly Thief?

I tried playing the latest wow expac with friends a few months ago, it was God awful. Even with friends it's just no fun at all in every respect. I just kept thinking, I wanted them to play GW2 and see what a good, fun MMO is like. Alas I'm the only person I know IRL that plays GW2, but that's fine, WoW is just so bad.

Surprised Taimi is so highly favoured, I'd love to see her die. Horribly. Feet first.

Canach is the obvious choice though, he actually has some wit and isn't just another diversity check box ticked >.>

I also rather like Caithe - she's rather unpredictable and also seems to have a genuine motive and reason for existing.

> @"kjlynn.1957" said:

> Trib mode takes a very long time and there is no way to save progress. This makes it completely inaccessible for someone that does not have several hours in a row to sink into a game. Like...people with jobs, second jobs, school, homework, extracurriculars, etc. It also means that if anyone experiences even one short DC, they could lose hours of progress. Expecting everyone to have internet connections that literally never drop is unrealistic at best (let alone if you're trying to do it in a party - that leaves multiple points of failure...)

Tribulation mode isn't for everyone, it is brutally difficult if you don't know what you are doing. With practice it is perfectly possible to do world 2 zone 2 (the most difficult trib level) in about 15 minutes. The other zones come in at 3-12 or so minutes, again assuming you have figured out the route.

How are you doing a year on, OP? :P

Wow that's very cool OP, that's a lot of effort you put in there. I don't know your employment situation but that kind of effort is portfolio worthy.

> @"Dadnir.5038" said:

> > @"nosleepdemon.1368" said:

> > I play Rev because I am a better and more interesting person than all of you. Changemymind.

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> Ain't you just Jarod in _The pretender_ if you playe revenant?

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> https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115320/

Hahah well played

I play Rev because I am a better and more interesting person than all of you. Changemymind.

Yes I think I may even have the spare TA tokens to buy the last two runes. I did CoF gold farm back in the day as part of my Bolt grind, so setting foot in that brown and orange shitehole would trigger me.

> @"Exalted Quality.8534" said:

> Either go full nightmare or full elementalist. Nightmare is supposed to be better for longer fights, but I think baelfire is best in most situations.

Thank-you kindly!