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> @"weaponwh.9810" said: > also any build for shorbow soulbeast when i can't flank such as sabir? i notice i do more dmg when flank, but not every boss can be flanked. Dont play shortbow when you cant flank. play d/a + a/d then. or better dont play condi slb on sabir.

> @"Cynz.9437" said: > Yeah i miss pre-HoT runs. Fractals actually were fun imo, you could run builds based on encounter and not what snowcrows posted on golem benchmark and every sheep demands from you. Did you really play during those times? It was meta or gtfo. Except for necros. It was just gtfo for them. Everyone used berserker aswell or it was a kick. There was 0 experimenting in pugs past a certain level. What you did do was running builds based on encounter but you should still do that now. Its just that hfb outheals everything currently so you dont need the builds anymore unless you play without a healer. Guards who didnt use wor were kicked back then. Most guards now dont even know what the skill does or which bosses have reflectable attacks. "When I was leveling my Engineer on my alt account and did Mai Trin in a T2 group I was cleansing conditions like a madman with Healing Turret & Elixir Gun" back then this approach just wouldnt have worked. The damage was way too high. Its currently still not a great strategy to use more than healing turret as a dps there. You are not supposed to get hit and loaded with condis in the first place. The hfb turned fractals into classic trinity facetank mode just without the tank mechanics.

> @"Lord of the Fire.6870" said: > > @"Touchme.1097" said: > > Guardian is in a decent spot but it's not doing better than other professions. If you have a look at snowcrows the benchmark is currently dominated by mesmers with 42k dps. Considering Anet is not going to nerf the current Meta builds I would rather buff those builds who are not in the Meta with a balance patch before EoD is released so the staff can focus on balancing the new elite specialisations. > > It depend if we talk about raids or fractals , Raids have mostly bosses with big hitboxes in fractal it is the other way around . We basically we said cFB is meta in cm fractal runs without serious competition if you look at your average player. > > Actually I didn't heard before that there is a 42k Chrono build this is more a proof that Arena.NET holding their hands in the air atm because they made their policy before that 40k is the limit and every build above it gets the hammer and yes there are also build which under perform like **Mirage** ,Spellbreaker, Scrapper(and core), Scourge and ELe in PvE > > On the healing side Revenants Ventri missing 10 people condi cleans, Chrono can be played is half a healer but not so really. Mirage can reach like 45k if you factor in confusion. Ele is meta in fractals.

> @"lare.5129" said: > > @"dandamanno.4136" said: > > Apple doesn't care that you want to use their machines for gaming. That is clear by their actions. > so why they produce api metal ? And why mane games already declare support .. 14800 applications already support this .. > Graphics api is used for more than gaming. How many of the 14800 applications are games? How many are mobile games?

> @"lare.5129" said: > > I'm not even sure if you are serious about android. Thats a mobile os. There is no point in supporting android with a game like this. > this is normal way to any mmo game - go to mobile, Lineage2 mobile, Path of Exile mobile .. all it already works on android, .. but let talk about macos and support Path of exile is not not an mmo. Lineage2 works completely different aswell. Heck most pcs cant keep up with crowds how should a mobile device do it? There was probably something like gw mobile planned but they had to scrap it. Maybe it just didnt work. I hate this "go mobile" approach so much. Developing for mobile means cutting features almost always. There is a reason why a smartphone wow client doesnt exist. > > Why are you complaining here instead of on apples forums. > read again: Android and MacOS is a market. If you not support that this is product problem, but not problem for Android or MacOS. > > >Not everything uses DirectX anymore. a lot of titles, especially indie titles, use vulkan or opengl. MS cant really do that afaik unless they just ban the software. Support comes with drivers. > no. you don't read and don't look video on thread? IT is already works NOW. But will be off. Have you read the anet post? Apple dropped openGl support. The client will just not work with newer macOS versions anymore unless its build around metal or vulkan which could use moltenVK then. I would like an engine rework which uses vulkan but that would require a lot more staff and time. Anet doesnt have the resources for this. It works now because openGl still works in this macOS version. It will not in the future anymore because of apple. Macs are not targeted at gamers at all. They cant compete there. Not even close. Rewriting the entire client to be compatible for 5% would be retarded when they could instead use vulkan or dx12 to increase to performance for the other 95%. The 7% marketshare you mentioned includes ipads and iphones doesnt it?

> @"lare.5129" said: > Android and MacOS is a market. If you not support that this is product problem, but not problem for Android or MacOS. If the market is split 95% - 5% and the 5% still does its own things when vulkan and opengl exist then its not the devs fault. I'm not even sure if you are serious about android. Thats a mobile os. There is no point in supporting android with a game like this. Genshin impact barely runs and it was developed for mobile. There is far less going on. Why are you complaining here instead of on apples forums. Lots of games wouldnt work on windows if ms would drop openGl aswell. Not everything uses DirectX anymore. a lot of titles, especially indie titles, use vulkan or opengl. MS cant really do that afaik unless they just ban the software. Support comes with drivers. Drivers are not part of windows but they are part of macOS.

> @"lare.5129" said: > there is no any arrangement. There is platform. And one of business concepts true make wide, and keep update yourself and bring to ppl. If Apple update something - the good product update himself to bring it. **I still don't understand why where is no good usable way to play as mane other game on andriod/macos..** Do you know how programming works? Android is a mobile OS. Also arm. They use their own graphics api. Well to be fair its vulkan and opengl but they are not the same versions as the desktop ones. MacOS does their own thing with metal. A bunch of open source solutions exist to make windows games run on linux. Could work on mac. And what I meant with mac hardware was that its not common to have very powerful graphic cards in imacs. Can you even get something like a 3080 or 6800xt inside one? Turns out nvidia cards arent even supported by mac. The only mac i saw that uses such a card is the imac which starts at 3.1k €. You could get a pc with the same specs for less than 1/3 of the price. Thats why gaming is so much more popular on pc.

> @"Sol.6340" said: > I've logged thousands of hours in the game and just spent over $100 in gems, and ANet is just telling me that I'm not a valuable player. **There are dozens if not more ways to allow Mac players to continue to play without having to invest in new hardware or switching to the PC world.** Especially during the time of the pandemic, this is an extremely poor decision. I'm disappointed, I'm angry, and I'm unable to comprehend why there's almost no notice on ANet's part (they've known for at least 2 years this was going to be an issue) and also just... depressed. WvW was my game mode of choice, I spent countless hours playing, defending, and making friends and in one slash you've taken that all away from me. There are no words to describe how upset I am. > > Poor choice. All the way around. > > - Persistence (Purrsi), Carissa Which ones? Name a few please. Anet will not block you out of their game. They just wont give you a native client anymore. There are still ways to run the windows client on mac. Multiple other studios already made the decision and more will make the same. Native support for mac is not worth it unless a port is simple and in anets case it wouldnt be simple at all. OpenGLsupport discontinued. Now if gw would use vulkan instead it could be possible with moltenvk but will most likely not happen. Vulkan could also help with performance problems but changing the api this late would require a lot more engine devs than they currently have.

> @"tetmikem.5608" said: > > @"Dayra.7405" said: > > If you want a computer for gaming you shouldn't buy a Mac, and if you can affort a Mac, you don't really care about a little bit more money for an additional windows gaming computer :) > > Absolutely not true, even if you are just being flippant. The first part is true though. I get if you dont like windows but you could still game on linux with some workarounds. You get a lot better hardware for the same price that way. Getting high end hardware in a mac is just incredible expensive.

> @"Sol.6340" said: > ... spend thousands of dollars on a computer only to be told, again with little or no warning, that my operating system/graphics card/whatever is no longer viable? ... You dont have to spend 1000 on a pc. Not sold by apple afterall. 600 are probably more than enough. The good thing about a pc is that you can upgrade just your graphics card if its too weak. You dont have to buy a new computer like with macs all the time.

> @"mindcircus.1506" said: > > @"Firebeard.1746" said: > > I'm kinda miffed I can't use GS effectively in raids/strikes/fractals as mirage, I like the ambush skill for GS, but the throughput is just ineffective. Almost all of the extra damage from the spec come from imaginary axes and the trait that gives additional ones on axe skill use. (To be fair, its autoattack also has ridiculously heavy condi damage as well, far and above anything the other mirage weapons could generate, either on plain auto attacks OR ambushes. ) > > > > I prefer choice, and I feel like making the elite weapon *THE* choice kills the spec sometimes and makes the elite specs feel more like pigeonholing than an actual extension of your class. I'd say good traits are ones like Chronophantasma that work well with *ALL* weapons and not just one. > > > > I'm not saying make the elite weapons bad, I'm just saying it feels bad when there's only 1 weapon choice for an elite. > > Condi Soulbeast is still going to be more powerful with a shortbow in pve. Condi soulbeast has multiple builds. The highest dps one doesnt use shortbow. All use dagger. > Wasn't the meta for Condi Berserker actually the longbow and not the offhand torch? What if i told you that you can weapon swap in combat. > Doesn't Spellbreaker do much higher damage with a greatsword instead of dagger/dagger? No. Multiple builds exist but you can still swap weapons in combat. > Isn't staff Weaver still a thing? Maybe in wvsw zergs. > Isn't the Scrapper meta for WvW pistol/shield? For support. Hammer is the best weapon power engi has. Holo with hammer would be insane. > > The main reason GS isn't as effective as axe on Mirage is because it's a power weapon and Mirage is a condi spec. Axe was designed as a condi weapon. It may not suit your personal class fantasy but it's got little to do with axe being overpowered compared to the alternatives. It's the fact that its a proper condi weapon on a class without many alternatives when using a condi spec. Traits like chronophantasma are also just bad. Thats a 25-30% power mod which results in chrono being mandatory for power mesmer builds in pve. Part of gs mirage being bad is chrono having ridiculous modifiers. You cant use power mirage in raids because the mirage line has 0 mods compared to chrono. The ambush would have to do ridiculous amounts of dmg to be worth as much as danger time + chronophantasma.

> @"Fueki.4753" said: > > @"Firebeard.1746" said: > > All the raid builds for tempest I've seen use warhorn. > And all Tempest raiding build's I'm aware of are variants of Aura sharing and transmuting builds. > My Open World Tempests, however, use Dual Daggers and don't rely on anything Aura-related. > My Tempests certainly are not as optimal for DPS as raid Tempests are for support, but they still fulfil their role efficiently. > > This just shows that Warhorn is not the the best weapon for Tempests **per se** (which, in this case, would mean on any build in any situation). > Wh is far stronger than d offhand. Air 5 is the only reason why tempest has good dmg in pve. It has nothing to do with aura traits. Holo doesnt use sword in all builds because it lacks an offhand. Some weapons fill a niche like chrono shield. But elite weapons that are not best for the elite in any gamemode are just badly designed or underpowered. What place does a new weapon have when it is not better than an already existing one.

> @"Grzegorz.8916" said: > Can developers fastly change enrage on Boneskinner encounter, so it will not instantly kill players ----> end the fight? > Please. Selling guilds usually trio the boss. Duo is possible aswell. Even the only healer meme run killed it. Enrage is not the issue and should be way lower.

There is a workaround for the bug. Enough dps lets you skip the phase. The dps threshold to achieve this is very low outside of cms. 1 decent dps is enough most of the time.

> @"titje.2745" said: > thats the reason why i never raid, i want to get rewarded for my effort. Just do open world. higher reward and you dont have to look at your screen.

> @"Cyninja.2954" said: > As hfb you overstack both fury and quickness by 20-30s WITHOUT FMW with not perfect application of mantras. Unless your group is challenged at stacking or you are challenged at casting your mantras towards allies, there is 0 reason to take FMW with 100% bd in fratcals. Now don't get me wrong you can play how ever you want and obviously have to adapt to how bad a group is (aka if there is 0 stacking). Suffice to say, stability is more useful than ONLY at Skorvald IF you want to carry the group or don't want to send your renegade on dwarv. You only achieve 16% overstack with 100% bd and perfect mantra application. 30-40% overstack with stalwart speed which would be better without fmw but pugs never read their traits. Taking stalwart speed reduces aegis and might application a bit but would always go for it. The thing is that pug fbs dont have 100% bd. they run around with like 40-60% because minstrels exists. They also dont take stalwart speed and always play with mace. I have probably 10 hfbs and blocklist by now who achieved 0% outgoing fury. Thats why i even stopped pugging on reaper and dont recommend it to anyone. 0% fury uptime is just not fun. Lets be honest, most hfb players in pugs are bad. Some are even skill clickers and cant press mantras on cd. Its hard to imagine that quickness can be a problem without fmw but pugs somehow manage 50% uptime with fmw. Just watch some streams where some players ignore the mantra for like 20sec. On topic. In snowblind you kill the add as soon as it spawns. The circles are dodgeable. You cant really heal people running around and good players dont really need heal to begin with. Should probably focus on add/boss and heal where it is because thats where the dps players should stand. In 9 out of 10 times you should kick the dps players asking for more heal though. Sometimes the heal is really low and you can always carry hard as hfb but most fights are designed without a healer in mind. Players should be able to stay alive without one in most cases. Most dps players nowadays dont even know that reflects do damage :-(

> @"Astralporing.1957" said: > > @"Cyninja.2954" said: > > Perfect example of making things easier leading to players never bothering to "learn" or improve at something. Back when the timer was 30s across the board, players were faced with having to "learn" how to do this mechanic. > Which, at the time when we still had "chains" of fractals instead of individual ones, led to two groups of players. First knew how to do it, so they rerolled until they got swamp as fist. Second didn't, so they rerolled _if_ they got swamp at first. > > It's the same problem as, for example, jumping puzzle in shiverpeaks strike. I knew molten facility skip was a thing because sometimes it was faster to do 2 fractals again instead of doing the 40m clown car. It was also a giant fiesta if nobody had a thief. Never heard of the swamp skip

> @"phokus.8934" said: > > @"Dawdler.8521" said: > > > @"Kanok.3027" said: > > > Not only would it require GW2 to have it's graphics engine/api to be rewritten to DX12 (which won't happen), but then they'd have to somehow jerry-rig the engine to support DLSS, which would be a monumental task to add to a very old MMORPG. > > I'm not an engine coder but I am pretty sure the engine doesnt have to be "rewritten to DX12" in order to *technically* be DX12 since DX12 is backwards compatible with DX9 afaik and you could add DX12 features specifically (just look at the fan made DX12 wrapper running on top of the DX9 engine) but Anet hasnt said a peep about any engine upgrades so we'll probably never see it. > > > > Considering the time its taken them to fix the missing tier 3 3x3x5 meter wall on DBL - 5 years and counting now I think - if that is any indication it would take them maybe 300-350 years to implement DX12. Or less than 24h if some PvEr had figured out how to abuse a raid boss with the wall. > You’d have to rewrite quite a bit especially the rendering state really changes from 9-11/12. > > The only way I can see them doing anything with dx12 is with a brand new game but I’m not holding my breath. > WoW updated their engine from dx9 to 11 to 12. FF from 9 to 11. Poe updated from dx9 to dx11 to vulkan. Of course its possible if you dont fire or bully every engine dev out of the company. Dx9 doesnt even support low level optimisation afaik. That api is 18years old and outdated. They dont have to rewrite the entire engine to support technology from this century. It probably wont happen and it will just die soon. 15-20fps in zergs is just not fun. Upgrading hardware into the 1-2k range doesnt even add much.

> @"medivh.4725" said: > At least create some short cuts or extend the timings or something. I literally hate having to do swampland and the players kept leaving and leaving. I hated it. There are tons of shortcuts. It used to be 30sec even at level 1. Some classes can even solo it.

> @"Infusion.7149" said: > If people have done fractals hundreds if not thousands of times, why would they use condi except in a handful of fractals such as Sunqua Peak? > > The only condi build remotely decent in most fractals is condi firebrand due to the low ramp time on burning and the strong power damage output. > Actually cfb is not remotely decent, it is completely busted in normal t4s. You will outburst every power build outside of 400kp groups. Especially hfb groups with their forever lasting phases. Every class except maybe chrono has a strong fractal build. This reads like somebody got mad because the group wouldnt accept his trailblazer/celestiel scourge. Just dont play scourge, reaper is so much better. The only exception is 100.

> @"TaurusZA.5493" said: > I only have one character that I know how to play properly - a warrior / bannerslave. I was getting really good and accumulated over 100KP in fractals, well on my way to Fractal Prodigy. > > Unfortunately Sunqua Peak has ruined this completely for me, to the extent that I now no longer want to play fractals. This boss requires condi DPS, and **at best the condi berserker's DPS absolutely SUCKS**. I have tried and tried and tried, and I can't do this fractal. No matter what. So it's either learn to play some new character from scratch or quit fractals altogether. Nowadays it's impossible to find a decent group for the other fractals, since most parties start including 100CM. I just can't do this fractal. > > Thank you, A-Net, for ruining my favourite part of the game. No it doesnt. I've seen plenty of good condi warriors there. On the other hand power bs should deal almost the same dps as the other dps players in the other fractals and almost no bs does that either. Support mindset is too strong.

> @"Shikaru.7618" said: > > @"yann.1946" said: > > > @"Astralporing.1957" said: > > > > @"Ayrilana.1396" said: > > > > > As i see it, there's nothing wrong about the _idea_ of rotations, but there's indeed quite a lot of problems with how this got implemented in GW2. > > > > > > > > > > > > > You need to understand what a rotation is. Practically any way that a player commonly uses their skills is a rotation. Mashing their skills is a rotation. Removing rotations is practically impossible. > > > Then we understand the term differently. For me, random mashing buttons is not a rotation. It is random mashing buttons. Rotation for me is having a certain sequence of skills you need to follow in the right order. The alternative would be a dynamic system, where you use skills according to the current situation and certain priorities, and have no set rotation to follow. > > > > > This is actually a super interesting point to me, > > Doesn't a dynamic system eventually lead to rotations? > > And gw2 system is also pretty dynamic (most things are priority based and the rotation is just the optimum of those priorities) > > > > > > Think dark souls style gameplay where the emphasis is on dodging boss attacks to get an occasional poke in and then retreat. You can technically have a rotation in that game but the windows are generally not large enough for it to matter. Gw2 could technically design a boss encounter that had 20 different attack patterns that you have to react to with very small windows but it would fundamentally change how people play the game for that encounter. Could be interesting but would require a ton of work to make that style of combat feel satisfying in gw2. You would stack cfbs and block your way through it. you would still have optimal rotations. good players would also just dodge while doing their rotations. What you describe is basically like a dungeon/fractal solo in glass where you need to avoid attacks.

> @"LordMorgul.9845" said: > 1 - no time If anything the timers should be way shorter > 2 - fix damage system to avoid rotations WoW and FF do have rotations and are quite successful with it. How would you change it? Everything except aa is a dps loss? Why are you even playing an action combat game if you want afk arena gameplay. > 3 - TIERS We have easy and normal currently. Nobody does normal though because its a 1 time reward. > 5 - Make Anet Guides by Dev to how to do a raid, (wiki is not helpfull and is ilarius how the game got tons of specs but is closed to 3-4 setups and all guides are for elitis and speedrun not common playerbase) There are tons of guides for your average playerbase. > 6 - Make legy weapon and armor more powerfull or make stat encreased on mastery base like 1% = 1 mastery This would make them more toxic and its one of the only mmos where skill matters more than time invested.

> @"Black Storm.6974" said: > If someone don’t have any problem completing Sunqua Peak T1 (in a group of similarly experienced players), then could easily go straight to try most T3 Fractals (AR requirement excluded). No. The damage in t3 is a lot higher. stuff will down you. deepstone endboss in t3 is a nightmare with t3 pugs. > Could be nice having to care about what happens in a fight, but almost no other Fractal forces players to do that, especially not in T1. The only mechanic that boss has in t1 is "dont stay in aoe". > Also, Most players doing T1 Fractal could be inexperienced players which have yet to learn the basics of the combat system (which the game totally fail at teaching), and that often feel overwhelmed by all the things they have to learn and pay attention to. It is the last level of t1 in a lvl 80 dungeon. All the basics they have to know are that they can move during attacks and that aoe fields are bad. > > Imagine a group of inexperienced players that try Sunqua Peak T1, suffering for hours at the last boss (something common), failing or barely completing it. Most of them would barely learn anything, also they could not want to try it ever again. Maybe they could start working on their build instead of running core ranger MM necro or hammer herald. I've encountered such players even in t3 or t4. Wiping for hours on last boss is definitely not common. > > We are talking about the lowest Fractal tier and Fractal is the main instanced repeatable content still supported by ArenaNet and available to any player since level 80. I see no reason to give such an unpleasant experience to new players. Sure, they could just avoid that Fractal and many of them will do that. It is braindead easy in t1. Every dungeon in ff has deadlier mechanics and they are casual content there. I helped in t1 a few times now and there is just no pressure at all. most open world bosses are deadlier.

> @"Klowde.9876" said: > CMs have a PUG "meta" of who is doing what, who is expected to bring what, and part of learning CMs is learning what those metas are. An Alacren is not going to realize that they are responsible for almost all breakbars if they're doing it with a static where other people are being responsible with CC, or that they are responsible for killing Anomaly on 99CM Ark (**which is stupid when a holosmith can just hit the anomaly with two autoattacks** while the alacren needs to do a full rotation, which pulls them off the stack for a longer amount of time and makes them less able to distribute alacrity). > > Also, Alacren is supposed to camp sword most of the time, they should be pulling out staff for cc breaks, and if they're waiting for weapon swap while already in staff, they can use the block. Alacren burst rotation doesn't include staff at all. The 2 aa of that holo could be used on the boss to phase it faster. usually holo even has laser disk going when anom spawns so going out of melee range would be really bad. Ren needs one icerazor or sword 4 + 2 to kill anom. doesnt take long at all. in a static you burst through the phases so fast that usually everyone helps the ren after boss is phased but cant expect pugs to burst. Alaren burst opener does include staff on a lot of bosses. would be impossible to break most bars without it unless you gimp every elses dps.