Vancho.8750

> @"BunjiKugashira.9754" said: > While they seem dressed, their plant clothes are technically part of their bodies. Does this mean they are nude or not? Really philosophical right there. 

Here you go https://fast.farming-community.eu/wvw/reward-track . I usually just do reward tracks to fill the collections and the collections cost allot of time and gold to complete. That is also why im kinda pissy about the Saga reward tracks since they are kinda crappy compared to the ones that came before.

> @"Leonidrex.5649" said: > > @"Vancho.8750" said: > > > @"Leonidrex.5649" said: > > > > @"Vancho.8750" said: > > > > > @"Psycoprophet.8107" said: > > > > > U can really tell these forums are full of new players lmao. Post feb patch last year warrior was known to be bottom tier and soon after a healbreaker build emerged but nothing else as did similar tanks builds on other classes but core and power splbkr remained bottom tier, gods of pvp first sentence is warriors just not good in this meta. yr later newer players are qq'ing about fc lol. Their actually qqing about one of the weaker classes out the roster, forums gonna be great here on in lol. > > > > > How about we actually call nerfs on the few outlier classes that are being spammed in every match, sure isn't warrior. > > > > I just want a fighting Warrior build man, if they don't want SB then give me back my Berserker, its 4 years now since they garbage binned it. If SB is fine to be the support I just want the default option for a bruiser build, that warrior is known for in every game ever. > > > > Warrior is the first class suggested for new players since its straightforward, imagine someone starts pvp and the only working option for warrior is healer, like kitten. > > > > > > spb on sides is not as bad as people think it is > > Doesn't have any carry potential, as in can hold one point but can't make any tempo swings so if your team is losing the team fight you can't do kitten about it. > > In short , it is too simple that it does not have the big plays. All in all the other classes would generally do the same job, while also able to help the team. > > Also why always SB kitten that anti boon garbage that is just a meat stick at this point, there are 2 options that just outright don't function well. So many options in this game yet they don't have a niche. Lets stack everything on one even if its kinda trash, it is still better then the rest of the same class. > > PS: PoF specks are blight to the game. > > this is side-node in a nut-shell. None of them can really carry. Even weaver couldnt, as it move between nodes way too slowly. even if you win 1v1 by the time you get mid and try to make an impact your enemy respawned and took the node back, and if your team is losing they you will be constantly 1v2/1v3 and at best you dont die. > This is not an spellbreaker issue, this is general side-node issue. > You can offer your team a fair bit of advantage, yes but in the end that roaming thief can actually carry a game, or that DH that will land 3man maw on mid will carry harder. That is the issues, ele is in the same spot as warrior, the support build can hold side nodes long enough for help while also having impact on the skirmishes, some of the sidenoders have also high impact in skirmish at mid the condi bunker herald(which i don't get why it isn't played considering burn DH), scrappers, rangers and mesmers(even though they fall to the roamer position but can be quite effective at sidenodes). The duelist sidenode builds just don't have place in the game when the multipurpose builds can do their job. They build Warrior to be THE DUELIST but they kept chipping away from its power so it doesn't do well at the position they designed it for this would be fine if it had some space to work as a roamer or teamfighter but it doeasn't have the skills or traits to work there. My problem is that don't have much to work with on build craft with warrior even though I enjoy that basic core play design of it.

> @"Leonidrex.5649" said: > > @"Vancho.8750" said: > > > @"Psycoprophet.8107" said: > > > U can really tell these forums are full of new players lmao. Post feb patch last year warrior was known to be bottom tier and soon after a healbreaker build emerged but nothing else as did similar tanks builds on other classes but core and power splbkr remained bottom tier, gods of pvp first sentence is warriors just not good in this meta. yr later newer players are qq'ing about fc lol. Their actually qqing about one of the weaker classes out the roster, forums gonna be great here on in lol. > > > How about we actually call nerfs on the few outlier classes that are being spammed in every match, sure isn't warrior. > > I just want a fighting Warrior build man, if they don't want SB then give me back my Berserker, its 4 years now since they garbage binned it. If SB is fine to be the support I just want the default option for a bruiser build, that warrior is known for in every game ever. > > Warrior is the first class suggested for new players since its straightforward, imagine someone starts pvp and the only working option for warrior is healer, like kitten. > > spb on sides is not as bad as people think it is Doesn't have any carry potential, as in can hold one point but can't make any tempo swings so if your team is losing the team fight you can't do shit about it. In short , it is too simple that it does not have the big plays. All in all the other classes would generally do the same job, while also able to help the team. Also why always SB fuck that anti boon garbage that is just a meat stick at this point, there are 2 options that just outright don't function well. So many options in this game yet they don't have a niche. Lets stack everything on one even if its kinda trash, it is still better then the rest of the same class. PS: PoF specks are blight to the game.

> @"Psycoprophet.8107" said: > U can really tell these forums are full of new players lmao. Post feb patch last year warrior was known to be bottom tier and soon after a healbreaker build emerged but nothing else as did similar tanks builds on other classes but core and power splbkr remained bottom tier, gods of pvp first sentence is warriors just not good in this meta. yr later newer players are qq'ing about fc lol. Their actually qqing about one of the weaker classes out the roster, forums gonna be great here on in lol. > How about we actually call nerfs on the few outlier classes that are being spammed in every match, sure isn't warrior. I just want a fighting Warrior build man, if they don't want SB then give me back my Berserker, its 4 years now since they garbage binned it. If SB is fine to be the support I just want the default option for a bruiser build, that warrior is known for in every game ever. Warrior is the first class suggested for new players since its straightforward, imagine someone starts pvp and the only working option for warrior is healer, like WTF.

> @"losalamos.5123" said: > Just remove daze from Full Counter altogether and have it do Eviscerate damage. At the start it was like that but people kept killing themselves on it and they changed it to full counter with daze instead of damage, you can see the original in PVE with the 2x power coefficient and the 1/2 second daze.

HP of the roots should be reduced by 33% (any summoned clutter actually needs the nerf bat) and the reapplication needs some work since cleansing and being rooted again by the same skill is dumb. Also yes I play this monkey ass build for the lolz, it is not busted as burn DH but I can cause someone permanent annoyance if I so choose.

> @"Kodama.6453" said: > > @"Shroud.2307" said: > > @ those discussing Full Counter- > > It's an evade, grants Stability, is unblockable, Dazes, is on a very low cooldown, and deals damage in an area around the Spellbreaker. With traits it has various other effects, but just looking at the baseline it's still pretty frigging strong. Honestly, it should lose the Daze all together as it is already an extremely strong effect. Giving it a little damage back in compensation would be fine. > > > > Personally I don't have much of a problem with Full Counter. I know how to deal with it, and on Necro even how to make it work against them with Corrupt. But objectively speaking, it is a very low risk/high reward skill that even if in its substantially reduced in strength state, is still very strong. > > Removing the Daze entirely wouldn't destroy the skill assuming it isn't accompanied by any other nerfs. The way I see it, removing the Daze would level it out, adding a little damage back would still be at a good balance. Anything further and it would start to become bad. > > > > Spellbreaker as a whole, and Warrior in general tbh, are a whole other story. It isn't in great shape and could use buffs here and there, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have things that aren't overtuned either. A class/spec can still have overperforming aspects even if much of the class/spec is the opposite. > > They surely won't remove the daze. > > Spellbreaker is a bruiser spec and an integral part of their playstyle is a focus on CC. Just like daredevil has alot more hard CC than core thief or how scrapper can utilise CC for other effects like additional barrier and vulnerability/weakness application. > > And removing the daze would be a mechanical change which carries over to PvE, too. Anet is just adjusting numbers for PvP, but the mechanics of the skills are supposed to be the same across all game modes. Removing daze from full counter in PvP would result to the CC being removed for all game modes. Yep the whole point of the skill is to punish, the whole idea the speck revolves around is that it can push and pull a fight by timing a punishing skill named FULL COUNTER. At first it had big damage and low daze, it fulfilled its purpose but people died to easily to it, then they started nerfing the damage and at some point it was like 100 damage with half a second daze and didn't really do its job as FULL COUNTER, so they gave it 2 seconds of daze with no damage and by doing that they kept the identity of the skill, but now they nerfed that too so its glorified dodge or semi invuln skill, and this is supposed to be the bread and butter for the SB. The argument that it does too much is also stupid since it just one skill warrior doesn't have much skills to work with does it. But if they don't like how it works they should rework it mechanically at this point, to suit their RP idea about it. I don't understand how they can't fucking manage their simplest concepts that is the warrior, telegraphed attacks that do damage or cc. Berserker is garbage, spellbreaker is relegated to a support role. They should fucking leave the idea that the community should decide how something works and balance around it, ffs just give the specks strong identity and roll with it and balance around that idea.

> @"Majy.6792" said: > They nerfed maw teleport at least... meh, DH is only abusive at low MMR, so whatever. Yeah that is great idea chase away all new players from the game, cause the mode isn't bleeding people or anything /s.

> @"Shao.7236" said: > Full Counter daze duration added way too much sustain over time for how freely accessed the skill is. > > It already counts as a nearly unstoppable evade, having the extra 2 seconds was like making it 250% more effective than a regular one. They could give distortion to SB at this point, FC has a laundry list of stuff so it can pretend it is an invuln but no really, it doesn't do damage or much CC. I wonder if it is worth the one less adrenaline bar and level 2 and 3 bursts .

> @"LolLookAtMyAP.8394" said: > I remember playing Conquest religiously >1-2 years ago and trapper DH was seen as a big fat meme. What happened? Why is it suddenly "meta"? Can someone explain lol, I feel like it's ez countered. Currently nothing can burst harder then Burn DH, not even power builds and it does it while it can go invisible and in AOE with generally defensive amulet, it came about from PVE buffs to mechanical burn application to core traits so FB can do dps. So since its guardian and not necro it can't be easily focused cause it burns your ass off if you dont have condition cleansing support and you know guard blocks and stuff. So yeah PoF changes suck.

> @"Trevor Boyer.6524" said: > I'll bet it was a hell of a dart game when the notes were sorted around for this one. > >  > Feels more like Tournament balancing with all the secret discord people and all that, and not addressing the degen low tier builds. I get that those are monke builds but at least on monke should not have rocket launcher while the other a stick.

Strikes and DRMs are a fine concept of reusing story encounters as repayable content, witch is really lacking in the game for some reason. They really need to focus on how to bring content to the game in a way that is not one and done like the old story progression. Having the normal story and then encounter shared between solo story mode, raids, dungeons, strikes,fractals, drms or whatever will be a fine way to save dev time. I still don't understand why they separated everything in its own little universe instead of delivering packed experience for everyone instead of people getting group content once in 2 years.

Most probably it will be used as a selling point for the new expansion.

My personal gripe with the Matchmaker is that it gives me shitty unenjoyable games, for some reason it threats me like im the king monkey and i am equal to 4 monkeys, so i get at least 2 to 3 monkeys in my team, just because I played the game for a long time . The game expects me to solo the match and win alone, all the while the game is clearly made to not be able to do so.

The starting missions should probably be reworked as tutorials, dodge, jump, fight, breakebars, combo fields , stats, weapons ,skills all that and then it should plop you into the world is on fire mission. They should probably remove the story per level thing and let you fail when you get too high, also it should bump up the difficulty. They did themselves disservice by trying to pander to the inept people , people will not learn if they do not fail. Also I know they like to leave people to do their own thing but the people get bored and the thing they like to do is leave so Arenanet should try to force people to do some stuff . They are in a sore need of new new player experience since the old new player experience is 6 years old and it is also garbage for todays standards . They have to make Really good first impression, the first mission is cinematic but gameplay wise is boring, this is not TV series the gameplay should entertain the people from the start.

> @"Bazsi.2734" said: > > @"Fearless.3569" said: > > You didn't cry when the nerfs came for my class. Now I'm no longer here to cry when the nerfs came to your class. Poetic Justice at it finest! > > > > Damage Dealer Tempest buffs ANet, or I don't return! > > Tempest is a support spec. Well DH was power build but it does condi now, spellbreaker was supposed to duels, but heals now, druid was supposed to be healer but it is sidenoder. We live in a clown world. Anet gives off really mixed messages for a long time was the highest potential dps in PVE but it is support speck by design. Someone really should have sat down and made elite specks do one thing good and stick to that, you want to heal with ele tempest, you want to be a fighter weaver. Variety by restriction, not do everything and anything.

> @"Swagg.9236" said: > > @"FrownyClown.8402" said: > > Sounds like someone is mad that they blew all their cd's and had nothing left to defend vs thief. Honestly, if you knew how to use terrain thief wouldnt be an issue. Try learning the game before complaining about something within your control > > Learning map quirks and sightlines is among the lowest skill ceiling upon which to base game mastery, and it also doesn't encourage player creativity since the "correct" play is to stand more or less still on top of esoteric terrain assets which just so happen to bug out teleport pathing. It's not difficult at all to do, but it also smothers anyone's ability to participate freely in combat. Moreover, "blowing CDs" is an inevitability in any GW2 PvP encounter. Every class inflicts burst damage, and generally, the easiest way to survive is to mitigate it through cooldown usage. Good luck capturing anything or contributing to any big team fight without using cooldowns, just so you can wait to use them when a Thief presses F1 while you're in transit somewhere. That and the no port spots/no path available feels more like bug abusing then actual game mechanic, but they let it fly cause they are not willing to fix that or the ports. And it is not like they can't make fair teleport skills, line of sight+ telegraph https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Frigid_Blitz but who will pick that if they can teleport through walls.

> @"Kuma.1503" said: > How did you know about my alt account!? > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > > Oh, I should mention on the topic of burn guards. You can make some small adjustments to the meta scrapper build, take purity of purpose instead of HGH, run purge gyro instead of Elixir R. Enjoy your permanent aegis. > > Really great way to make burn guards want to alt+f4 I just wish I could do as much burns as guardian with Flamethrower, but somehow someone wacking you with a sword applies more burns then someone blasting you with fire.

> @"felix.2386" said: > thief is fine, > > the problem right now is the meta builds, who have high mobility and have high aoe uptime that kills off any melee build that dares to approche, like power warrior, will get destroyed. > > it's not thief not playable, it's melee not playable, meta builds are anti melee with high mobility, so anti-ganking. kills any melee dps builds. > aoe spamming with mobility is strong in this one. > > as long as meta become less anti melee and anti gank, thief will be back in no time as the best gank. > Well I kinda predicted that meta would go more bunker lite if there wasn't anything to universally contest the role of thief, it took more time then I thought but here we are. Since nothing can actually kill thief if played correctly and it can move faster then anything so what is the counter to that, well you have to coordinate heavily with some kind of voice software (HA) or the easier option to bunker up, but you are still susceptible to ganks , sprinkle some AoE to butter up the gankers and wait for your gank. I believe people didn't shift to this meta for a long time, cause they didn't like the idea but at the end bended since we do not get much changes to cover and hide what is broken. No one wanted to play the tune of one class, but in the end people cracked and everyone is dancing the jig, but now the class is hard countered by full teams.

> @"Hans Yulian.6510" said: > > @"Pacificterror.7805" said: > > I'm in Australia and play just fine on the NA/US servers....and Australia is basically due south of SE Asia. I'd imagine SE Asia would have an enjoyable experience on the EU servers thus having no need for ones specifically located in Asia? > > hi neighbor! unfortunately if i test using speedtest connection and connect to the near EU AWS, latency is still around 250, which doesn't much different from US (if you see map, they just almost the same distance to the left and the right > > > @"firedragon.8953" said: > > I play from Japan with about 250 ping if things are good. I really do wish this could be under 100, but thankfully it doesn't really affect most aspects of the game, except maybe sPvP. I do like the idea of making map instances that are hosted in Asia though. No need to make a whole new region, just have an overflow map that connects Asia IP addresses within the NA server mega server to a map hosted on physical servers in like Singapore or something. Sure it won't result in consistently lower ping, but it would be nice once and a while when the megaserver system is able to calculate such a move. Also adding an option for a selectable Asia PvP region may make some people happier. > > > > But I think it is mainly a cost thing. I'm just glad ArenaNet allows Asian IPs to connect to their servers. > > Finally someone who understand what i am talking about. And yes my ping is also around there (300ish 200ish at best). It's kinda fine for PVE content which the mechanics are kinda predictable. By the way it definitely will be much lower ping, from our location to singapore we can expect 50ish. Just expect some experience like if we play overwatch and CSGO, the 300ms latency is definitely unplayable for latency sensitive game. > > For less latency sensitive game such as MMORPG, the impact isn't too much, but still kinda punishing. For example if there is a PVE mechanics that have 3 seconds casting time, US and SEA wont bother too much, but if the mechanic is at 500ms casting time, you know that everyone have to react instantly no matter what. Consider that the player response time 100ms, we can calculate that for US player they have spare time of: > 500ms (casting time) - 50ms (from server to client) - 100ms (player's reaction time) - 50ms (from client to server) = 300ms > which is still plenty of time. Now try to put your latency into equation: > 500ms (casting time) - 250ms (from server to client) - 100ms (player's reaction time) - 250ms (from client to server) = - 100ms > which means no matter what you will get hit by the mechanic. > > At least so far i never see any mechanics with less than 1 second warning, but still that is the difference of US have spare 800ms and you have spare 400ms, we can still see a kinda big number here. > > PVP really doesn't work for me, just imagine you play CSGO from asia, the server you take is the one in US region, everyone will just blinking and you die out of nowhere. > > It's mainly cost of a bit development, sysops, and server. They have to develop a user-friendly mechanic to switch map server, sysops have to setup the SEA AWS cluster, and they have to pay additionally for AWS node. But i still wish they want to do this for the player's gaming experience I believe it is not about the server and the costs of it, I think it is more of a NCSOFT thing. NCSOFT "produces" MMOs, most of their games are marketed towards Eastern audiences and they probably decided that GW2 would cannibalize some part of their other games, since it does some things better ( Blade and soul launched about the same time as GW2, guess which IP NCSOFT likes more, one of them has anime). I don't think it matters anymore since they get most of their cash from mobile and their games are not the spry chicken they once were (this could also be the reason on why they won't do it ). They could just pop a datacenter for Asia but it would have to come with big marketing push so it is worth keeping it up. If there isn't one new Datacenter when the new Expansion comes there wouldn't be any.

I'm about to say some DIRTY WORDS . GUILD WARS 1 MOBILE PORT. I know, I know its terrible word this 'mobile' but GW 1 would fit right in there and I think my phone is already passing the recommended specks for PC CPU SPEED: 2 GHz RAM: 1 GB. There is actually allot of old PC games that are cool that made it to the android store Neverwinter nights, Baldur's gate , GTA. Also for some reason these instanced pseudo MMORPGs seem to be really hip and pop these days. Arenanet wanted to be on the mobile market and for some reason they didnt port their already proven game there, shooting fish in a barrel basically.

> @"Strider.7849" said: > Problem with separating the skill is that if the block stays active the combination of mace 2 + shield 5 gives too long of a blocking duration for both PvP and WvW. That would only lead to further nerfs down the line. If you meant that it will only block once then the other skill pops for activation then it should be alright Short block for a second equal to basically a dodge skill on other classes would not be that bad it would end up in 4 seconds of block. Warrior lacks a defensive main hand weapon that would allow the use of off hands other then shield, not single main hand has a dodge on it and only the mace has some kind of terrible counter attack. Mace is really lacking and it is not fulfilling it purpose of reliable defensive main hand option. Why does warrior have so many options that don't do anything ?

> @"Smoosh.2718" said: > Sadly the rise in cheaters isnt exclusive to just Gw2. Realworld punishments should be put into the terms and conditions for the act of cheating tbh. This and only this will stop people from cheating. Make it financial. Get caught, get fined. > > All game companies go under the basis that you get caught, you get banned. The banned user creates a new account and cheats again. Nothing stops the cheater with this method. Yeah allot of games suffer from hacks and bots currently, it got a big surge with the pandemic and all. Even the richest MMO producer Blizzard can't handle them, and they do have the mulla. It is kinda funny seeing the conga line of star chickens farming. This doesn't give me much hope that Arenanet would be able to manage the situation.

> @"Leonidrex.5649" said: > > @"Vancho.8750" said: > > What about a doppelganger speck where you get large hp pool , no clones or summons just one exact copy of the character, either permanent mirror image which shares the HP pool or something like Necro life force mechanic where you gather HP to summon the second you. The F skills will let you port to it or it to you, have a shield wall kind of mechanic where they defend each other and a tandem attack skill that repeats the main characters skills something like the doppelganger from DMC > > > > > > sounds cool, wont work. > I cant see current dev team being able to pull something like this off, and if they do we will face several years of bugs the like of which we never seen before. > to top it off spec would be gutted into the ground from the start, since switching a place is too confusing for 95% of population. > Well yeah, you are right they can't seem manage something basic like warrior, and im proposing something that switches bodies , but one can dream right.