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Breaking his bar is counter productive anyway because that's the easy damage phase, he doesn't move and easy to avoid damage, breaking his bar will only get him chasing you again with bigger damage faster.

This drm/boss CM is just annoying. The projectiles that freeze you during the elite boss are just lame, and the elite damage is to much imo, they deal more damag than the actual boss ...

And seems like i'm getting alot of laggspikes when i'm at this boss, even more then average, kills me more than anything.

Laggspikes all over the place here also. (Eu-Belgium) I'm not getting disconnects but it's impossible to enjoy any (challenging) content. Ping is perfectly fine until at a certain momtent it can get up to 4-5seconds of nothing reacting. Seems like it happens once per minute or 2-3. In battle my skills just glow and do nothing and i'm getting damage when i shouldn't. In some races or challenges the checkpoints simply don't trigger and i have to stand in them for 10 seconds to work. Also, this seems to occur alot more frequent since/in the DRM's. Game is barely playable like this.

Don't know if it is in every game mode but there are just to many moments with extreme skill lagg/ping in these DRM to even try this solo, to many times i see Ryland just sliding all over the place, while i'm getting hit when outside of aoe and during dodges. Still, i'd rather play them with a party. These DRM with CM should be doable with a little set up from lfg group, the others i find perfect dificulty and timing (FoR), unless the breakbarr fix will help alot this needs a bit more time on the clock. BB not fixed in the last small update either.

So the real problem with this map remains. This isn't why people don't play or like the meta, it's the length (and the fact that it's a zerg/laggfest). I'm already bored by the thought alone. And then there is the problem of disconnecting, gl trying to get back in a map.

I couldn't disagree more, this is the worst meta in gw2 because of the pure length (and seems extremely laggy). During my first north meta now, disconnect after 2 hours, ofcourse i couldn't get back in, ffs when will anet do something about dcing in maps like this ...

Used chrono for fractals only but:

I liked playing support chrono, it was nice to feel helpfull and needed with a fun gameplay imo. I get the idea behind the change but this will be a change that all classes can feel, especially in a pug. I don't know enough about other builds of mesmer but there are still alot of nice utility's mesmer has, maybe mesmer can go more dps and still be a little support, if soi isn't affected by boon duraction? Time will tell.

I gess people will now want a druid in their party instead? I'm not going to gear a druid, because it's just a matter of time before they tackle that too.

My biggest problem is jumping over checkpoint bubbles and that doesn' count. Would be perfect if you were allowed to go over them and it still counted, you followed the intended path.

Living story: place some retry motes if you make hard achievements like stand your ground, always having to redo is just frustrating

And another thing this patch introduced is visual clutter bosses everywhere (personal story, fotm, new map) Too much is too much.

I wonder if it really is intentional for the cannon fire to keep going during Trin phases? There are just to much things/aoe at once that makes the entire screen full of red circles and aoe + all the marks on characters. This can't be the intention can it?

Also imo trin should not return until the mobs are cleared and also not that many adds should spawn at once. If you pick a pug and ain't got enough dps to kill the adds fast, they are all over the place making it very hard just because dps isn't high enough.

Also, that new avenger is really brutal. It seems these changes did not make fractals more fun nor challenging.

edit: augments seem kind of pointless since most people got 150ar already, unless you want 10 characters for fractals. And is there another fractal relic sink beside those?

I don't get why some players still defend this... Ok, it wasn't intended, i get that. That is no reason to give us alot less dps then other classes have. People like that are a huge part of problems like this imo. I can imagine anet: "Some ppl are ok with it so we did great!" Test it for yourself. Anyway, since we won't get back the way it was for weeks, i gess it's either a break or back to reaper. To conclude i can now say i'm "happy" i didn't buy the pof ultimate edition :( .

Imo this is the worst/most stupid thing they have ever done in gw2. They completely destroyed their new spec after barely 3 weeks. It's unbelievable, i had so much fun with pof till now, this is a gigantic letdown that proves they just do whatever they gess is right without any serious thought.

It's ridiculous, idk how hard other professions got hit but this is a huge dps loss. Typical anet, nerf while dps is comparable to other classes, this is why balance is a joke in gw. I can barely kill a veteran now wtf! Why do you hate necros?

And of course, barrier is still decaying ridiculously fast, thanks again for, typical anet necro hating. Placing 3 shades in 1 spot was risky dps because if the targets run out, your dps sinks. Now we got no damage at all, what in the world did necros do to you guys?

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All round build for solo pve exploring and story etc. Great survivability with all the life steals and barriers + nice damage. (even if going condi, i like siphoning health more then a %CD healed) Downside is no spite trait line with has some nice might buffs, but F5 does so much damage that the cooldown on it feels better. (to bad F1 count up isn't faster ...)

Offhand weapon can be anything you like, torch/focus/horn seems best.

Must say that Vipers set would give more damage though and allow for scepter instead of axe as ranged weapon during group events or for certain mobs. I think i'll wait to get armor because i expect some changes in time from anet, it's a new spec after all.

I don't realy know what the best sigils/runes might be for all this, imo hard to chose.

It's the same with raw damage, you do alot more damage with 3 shade+yourself close.

Sand savant seems like the first trait you really have to avoid for dps in pve. Lower recharge and big range ok, but because it's only one shade it's a huge dps loss because F5 is the biggest burst. But 3 shade in 1 place is a risk so imo the damage reward should be nice. But it's not that fun to always spamcast 3 shade all the time, that's why i thought i would use the trait. But for my power spec, big dps loss. Let it cast 3x or count as 3 for raw damage (no CD) and i would take it.

I agree that it should be consistent with other traits but to just nerf it? Maybe the conditions OK, but for me it would hurt/kill the build i like playing now, while CD already has higher dps.

I love the concept of it but it is indeed too quickly decaying. This could be what makes us at least a bit helpful in partys and squads but the way it is now, to little. For scepter builds the life force gain is slow and not enough barriers if you pick the Sadistic Searing for damage. I love the trait Blighter's Boon for reaper and kind of mis that for Scourge.

Maybe i'm didn't use a great built for CD but even now, I'm playing zerker dagger main hand, which has enough life force but because it decays so fast it's just a spamfest to keep up a small amount of barrier = not so much fun as it could be to play. Because i really like scourge otherwise.