LeSavage.1359

Use dodge button. Dont afk in the middle of the mobs. Try to avoid red circles instead of trying to loot them.

> @"Omar Aschi Popp.7496" said:

> Stone Tomatoes did a review of leaked patch notes; holosmith is gonna get nerfed hard. Scourge will get buffs.

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> Snicker snicker

Link pls

Shield has passive dmg reduction- check shield's tooltip, it has defense stat same as armor parts

All quartz nodes in crystal oasis are character bound, not account bound.

Im happy with revenant, its my fauvorite class with renegade spec

> @Cyninja.2954 said:

> > @LeSavage.1359 said:

> > Commander weapons and set+amulet, berserker trinkets. This way its more alt friendly. Putting support runes in zerk set is a waste, in case u want to swap gear for elementalist/reaper, also u wont have to infuse 2 pair of rings

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> I respectfully disagree. Assuming the first sets made are not ascended, it's way more practical to get 2 sets of exotic berserker armor instead of making an exotic set Commanders. Then once you are ready to upgrade to ascended commander, salvage the exotic set with Black Lion Kits to retrieve the support runes (especially in case of Leadership runes). Balance builds via trinkets.

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> The main reason this setup is easier is due to:

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> A.) very easy access to berserker exotic gear

> B.) easy access to multiple different stat trinkets via Living World Season 3 maps

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> If the first set of armor is ascended, yes that can be Commander, since getting an exotic berserker 2nd set is easy.

I was tallking about full ascended, for fractals etc. You have to put support runes in ascended armors, so better to do it with suport stat type and keep berserker trinkets with infusions, so u can swap it for alts. This way u need just one set of ascended jewelry and separate zerk armors /e scholar +zerk weapons and dps sigils and commander armors /w leadership + commander weapons one with sigil of concentration. This is what i do to play with alts. I do it this way- zerk/viper sets heavy/leather/cloth, commander cloth for chrono, magi/cleric for ele healer. All ascended. This way i enjoy every spec and every build (some are not otimal but it still works fine). Ascended shield from hot collection, sword from pof, change stat in mystic forge to commander.

> @Veprovina.4876 said:

> > @Aomine.5012 said:

> > > @Veprovina.4876 said:

> > > Honestly, you're gettin an ascended weapon out of basically no work required. What do you expect? For it to be free? There has to be one expensive aspect of it. In this case it's the named exotic. Crafting a weapon would cost you a fair amount too. I do agree that they have to at least get that drop rate up a bit, it's kinda ridiculous, but they shouldn't be available everywhere.

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> > Out of no work?

> > Time is not work?

> > Mordant weapons does not cost 200 flax seeds already?

> > Ascended crafting price is cheaper than the named exotic already, how does that make sense?

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> > Also this is just ONE time availability, much like precursor crafter, so ofc it should be cheaper.

> > It's not like you can get any more than 6 ascended weapons out of it.

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> Compare getting Veilrender to Horologicus for example. I'll use this as an example because i play a mesmer so i know this because i've done it.

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> Veilrender has you doing a few events, a few errands (drop mystic coin in fountain lol) and one craft (mordant sickle). The only mastery you need for this is the Jackal, and you get it by buying it after you've done the thing.

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> Now Horologicus on the other hand needs Mystic Barricade created in the mystic forge, Chronomancer's Inscription which means you have to do Dragon's stands events and get the noxious pods, Stealth gliding (gliding mastery 4), Itzel hourglass which requires itzel mastery 2 and airship parts to get, Invisible Chronomancer's Mushroom Spore dropped by invisible shrooms (nuhoch mastery 4), Chronomancer's Auric Sharpening Stone (requires exalted mastery 5) and machined shield collection which is yet another collection you have to complete in addition to crafting the shield required for the collection that gives you the machined shield.

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> So for Veilrender (PoF ascended) you need:

> - some money

> - jackal (9 mastery points, 3 trainings)

> - few events and a bounty

> - crafted item

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> For Horologicus (HoT ascended) you need:

> - a lot of money

> - Stealth gliding (11 mastery points, 4 trainings)

> - Itzel poison lore (11 mastery points, 4 trainings)

> - Nuhoch stealth detection (11 mastery points, 4 trainings)

> - Exalted gathering (19 mastery points, 5 trainings)

> - All combined 52 mastery points and 17 trainings

> - Machined shield collection (and this, unlike tip of the spear is required)

> - mystic forge item

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> So by your own logic, time is money, which one is cheaper? :wink:

> Like i said, you're getting PoF ascended weapons with basically no work. So think before you speak next time.

I think you should listen to yourself and "So think before you speak next time". At least use some logic before you do so.

I dont know what you dont understand and compare hot to pof ascended's, but:

Masteries from HoT : u need to unlock them just one time for all characters, it means u dont have to it for alts.

You get masteries naturally by playing the expansion, thats not a some special work you put just to get collections, its natural order of things and doesnt require anything special, so your argument doesnt make sense. Everything can be done just by playing, and thats how it should looks like.

Machined collection- just a couple of map specific currencies, very easy to aquire.

Mystic forge item- crafted.

"a lot of money" under HoT ascended?, ill quote u again : "think before you speak next time".

Commander weapons and set+amulet, berserker trinkets. This way its more alt friendly. Putting support runes in zerk set is a waste, in case u want to swap gear for elementalist/reaper, also u wont have to infuse 2 pair of rings

That doesnt change the fact that drop rate of those exotics is ultra low plus chances of getting the one u need makes it impossible to aquire, instead u are at mercy of other lucky players and how much money they want for it. Beside that, a "collection" that literally force u to buy item from trading post instead of doing open world/crafting or somehow working towards it is plain stupid. At the moment its: /map "looking for a guy who got my sword!"

https://imgur.com/a/PdGJf

Just wow

Such Adventure, much collectible

Bullshit as fuck

1.Its extremely easy to get viper trinkets outside of raids - living story s3. Took me whole 3 days to get 5 of them.

2.if u think condi and power dmg should be equal then u have now idea how balance looks like.

Grieving is overhyped. Its worse than sinister and viper. It has ferocity, which to work need crt chance, with full ascended set u have like 34% because precision on grievers is secondary stat. Condi weapon skills have low power coefficients. Its just not effective.

Craft 2 runes of trapper and do twilight arbor to buy 4 runes of nightmare for tokens

Despite dps loss caused by bugfix, i think it was the right way. In order to max ur dps out as scourge u had to stack sand shades and also YOURSELF on the target, which from design point of view was stupid, since scepter is ranged weapon. Maybe the numbers are not wherea they are supposed to be, but at least ranged class isnt supposed to play like melee.

Other thing bothering me since stacking sand shades is unintended, then why blood as sand and sand sage traits have more power the more active sand shades are currently active? Those cause summoning all possible sand shades most profitable. Wierd.

I died once before i figured out how to kill eater of souls, took me whole 10mins maybe, and it was before the nerf. Since u said u play mmos very long time, dunno why story instances were difficult for you. The hardest part was waiting untill npcs finish conversation, other than that it was extremely easy. But yeah, dcs at end of instance are frustraiting

Chests that spawn each time event cycle is completed, the ones u open with torch, they spawn on frozen lake and have chance to contain winterberries

I farmed a complete set of ascended accesories in 3 days. Ring from bloodstone fen;back, ring, earring from bitterfrost and earring from ember bay. I have total 9 characters so i was gathering winterberries on all of them for 2 days plus chests. Amulet was from hot story achievment

too bad those bolts of light are exact copy of pistol/pistol thief skill animation

Great, now to addition to not working tp, i cannot leave map, waypoints dont work neither exiting map on foot

class that can facetank while still doing good dmg would be a warrior, thiss is the build i use: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vJAQJAnYjMdQdH23BWeAnIW6BMjAQBYph3kvydZkdwiLGA-jhBBABYt/o8DgTAQe6BC4BAcmSwKV/BA-e

385 hp/sec signet, 495 hp/sec 5stacked adrenal health, 133 hp/sec whwn u give urself might with magebane tether, 7% lifesteal from crits with dagger offhand. I just think about swapping axe mh for dagger for interrupt 3 and guaranteed 4 higher dmg. Second class with good sustain is thief with lifesteal trait. But warrior is the best.

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Forgot hammer scrapper i played in hot 1,5 year ago. That was the best class to solo with, idk how it is now, but it had a lot of self heal from superspeed/swiftness heal/sec trait, medkit after dodge, evasion and projecile reflects and crazy instant brakbar, long lasting stealth. I was able to solo almost every hot hp, ofc in zerk set. Then i would put thief

was about to change my viper ascended set with trapper and nightmare runes to sinister balthazar and sigil of burning. Im glad i held off. The nerf is too big

Agree, extremely annoying

Well, ele and guardian are classes with lowest hp pool - they are more glassy, so it make sense their dmg is higher than others. guardian The high burn dmg ticks ppl are talking about are from tome of justice active- which last for 5-8 spell cast, so those ticks last a couple of seconds then it goes on cd for 30 sec.

weaver on the other hand require some good micromanagments because of dual element switching, if weaver had dmg of a lets say- warrior, why would anybody play it, but on the other hand warrior is a lot more durable. if all classes would have similiar dps, it would be extremely boring

Hammer engi. Good damage, great cc, great sustain with perma swiftness/superspeed trait heal plus medkit after dodge, great utility-projectile reflects, self buffing, vulnerability stacking, stealth. To me it seems it will remain the safest and easiest solo class. Its was the only spec i was able to solo almost all hot skill points. Atm new pof specs are nice and fun, but hammer engi will always have place in my heart. Plus u dont use kits. The downside is its old hot spec :/