ButcherofMalakir.4067

Do you think strikes will be repeatable or once per day/week?

There are players that might play both. If there is easy and hard mode then there is no new content for players that already raid and also new player will not come since raids are "toxic".

I will try strike and i play raids. I wouldnt even try easy mode raids. If there is decent reward and completion of strike require some skill then I will gladly speedclear strike.

> @"Iris Ng.9845" said:

> > @"ButcherofMalakir.4067" said:

> > > @"Irensaga.6935" said:

> > > What do you mean by practical?

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> > > Actual armor that would actually work in real life?

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> > > That would rule out anything that bares your midriff - since that's where we keep all our vital organs.

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> > > It also rules out anything with a lot of spikes on it - like the Armageddon set. Since in real life, you'd be impaling your own head on your own shoulder spikes if your head got knocked to one side with a club. The Bladed armor set has so many places to snag your own arms and legs on, there's no way I'd want to wear it in a real fight.

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> > > Or by "practical" - do you just mean something that won't break your own sense of immersion and have you looking at your own character and constantly saying - "she looks more like a stripper than a warrior"?

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> > > Because that's totally subjective based on your preferences which I don't know.

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> > > Edit:

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> > > I just realized this is an old thread and the person asking is probably not even here anymore. Oh well. Sorry.

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> > I am here. What I ment by practical was no spikes and no stripper. It can have magical/fictional elements but it shpuldnt ne over the top. Some spikes are ok but definitly not armagedon set. What is too much is too much.

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> > Edit: i will post how my gear looks now in the morning

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> I've hit a dry spell with Norn so I can't really say I'm content with any of my own ideas. I hope they are still worth putting up as a reference. For Norn, I focus on their traditional motifs and some stoneware decorations. Per your request, I toned down the sexiness and bulk up the platings. Despite being mindful about the size of the shoulder pads, these help with balancing the proportion of shoulders to hip ratio for a tall and proud appearance. The color palette is my character's original.

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Thanks alot. They all look amazing. Can you help me with names of those skins? I have to say I dont know most of them.

I didnt have any of those skins and 2 of them are quite nice. Not sure which one to chose

For me variation on power chrono. Rune of the pack and shield instead of focus. In traits I have fury and quickness on phantasms and I get all boons back once they die. This way I have perma 25 might, fury and quickness so everything melts. Also manyblocks and evades so I can survive imeven longer fights where my burst is not enough.

> @"Glider.5792" said:

> > @"ButcherofMalakir.4067" said:

> > One of anet employes said that it is work in progress. Will add name if I find it.

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> > Edit: someone named jonah

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> When and where was it said ? Do you have a source ?

It was during ERP stream. I wasnt watching at that moment but my source did

> @"Linken.6345" said:

> > @"ButcherofMalakir.4067" said:

> > Interesting. When I want to raid, i just open lfg, join some squad and boss is dead in 15 minutes 80% of time. Not that much waiting.

> > Also if you find a guild then there will be no waiting at all

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> You a chrono or alacgade/quickbrand by any chance?

I can play everything. Obviously it gives me an edge in searching for groups.

Convince me that you cannot get to squads after this story. For 2 weeks I was raiding with pugs as herald healer. 9 diferent squads, 9 diferent commanders and only 1 said that they dont want heal herald. Both of us were polite and there were no hard fealings. Rest let me join either without problems or just giving it a shot. In around half of those runs I was either a solo healer or we had 2 healers but not a druid.

I never met any toxicity in raids. Never. And I am raiding for 2 years multiple times each week.

I feel like there are 3 problems raids have.

1) there is nothing that prepare players for jump in dificulty. Hopefuly that new gamemode will save that.

2) players dont understand builds/compositions to optimise/change based on their classes so they follow the meta to extremes

3) most players dont relise that there are other players in squad and that good behavior should go both ways. All that "toxicity" and "ridiculous requirements" comes from this. If you are nice to players they will usualy be nice back.

One of anet employes said that it is work in progress. Will add name if I find it.

Edit: someone named jonah

Interesting. When I want to raid, i just open lfg, join some squad and boss is dead in 15 minutes 80% of time. Not that much waiting.

Also if you find a guild then there will be no waiting at all

Wing 8 was confirmed so strike will not replace raids. I very rarely see anyone kicked from raids. I never saw any experianced player take over training raid (unless that raid didnt have a commander tag).

My question: when you went to school for the first time could you multiply numbers from 1 to 20? And now is that any problem?

Yes, if you dont try raids they are hard. But if they would be easy when you try for first time then they would be so boring when you do them for 5th time. There is no special reward (outside of skins) from raids. Most raiders do them because they enjoy them. And they enjoy them because they are not easy. Changing dificulty would be vad for the gamemode.

I wasnt ever throw out of merge outside of downing so i think it is a bug

> @"Inculpatus cedo.9234" said:

> > @"ButcherofMalakir.4067" said:

> > The sad thing is that at the start anet promised to support this tournament. Not only rewards for victors but also special item that when activated would ignore downstate (for the tournament rules). About 2 months ago they said that they will not do any of that.

> > This tournament had more then 17k views at the finals, which is biggest viewcount ever in gw2 I think, but last raid tournament (erp2) was also a big succes with over 5k views at its peak. There were indications that this will be one of the biggest events yet it wasnt worth for them to support. Quite sad.

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> Not quite. Teapot decided to forego any ArenaNet support.

Yea, heared his video. Srill, I dont get why anet couldnt support tournament because of action camera.

The sad thing is that at the start anet promised to support this tournament. Not only rewards for victors but also special item that when activated would ignore downstate (for the tournament rules). About 2 months ago they said that they will not do any of that.

This tournament had more then 17k views at the finals, which is biggest viewcount ever in gw2 I think, but last raid tournament (erp2) was also a big succes with over 5k views at its peak. There were indications that this will be one of the biggest events yet it wasnt worth for them to support. Quite sad.

> @"DuckDuckBOOM.4097" said:

> > @"ButcherofMalakir.4067" said:

> > > @"DuckDuckBOOM.4097" said:

> > > > @"Shao.7236" said:

> > > > > @"Illconceived Was Na.9781" said:

> > > >https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Smoke_Assault_(soulbeast)

> > > > https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Unrelenting_Assault

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> > > You forgot to mention

> > > https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Juvenile_Smokescale

> > > Smoke assault on the pet came out at the same time rev did. I could just as easily and uselessly claim that rev copied a ranger pet.

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> > > > @"ButcherofMalakir.4067" said:

> > > > Why can chrono use rune of the firebrand? That is the same question :D

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> > > This!

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> > > Why can firebrand use minstrel stats? Why can any pof spec use rune of durability or leadership? Why can pof specs use viper or trailblazer gear?

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> > > All the best heal builds are elite specs but rune of the monk is a core dungeon rune. I demand that only core pve healers are allowed to use those runes. /s

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> > > There has been 7 years of power creep, partially through gear but also skill and trait balance and new elite specs. Most of those don't buff pets enough to keep up with that power creep. I vaguely recall a dev mentioning that updating core pets is extremely difficult due to the fact that they are also open world mobs which causes problems when they try to change pet animations. Expansion pets are how they upgrade a core mechanic to keep up with power creep without actually buffing core pets.

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> > And yet Lynx is still go to pet for some versions of condition soulbeast. Not all of those pets are useless

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> Lynx or warthog are meta. True, but I'd argue that proves my point. They are only meta for their merged abilities and not the core pet itself. You're never supposed to unmerge. In contrast, the pof iboga is also meta for condi sb and you intentionally unmerge with the iboga during your rotation for a dps increase.

I dont see any problem there. In pve you use either druid or soulbeast. That is not pets fault but core rangers problem. With soulbeast you merge. The reason why you unmerge with iboga is confusion. Any other pet will not be unmerged for longer time.

Druid takes best utility or best cc pets. I think if you play condi druid then you take either iboga or lynx. Many expansion ones are also usless. Yee, most meta pets are from expansions but not all of them. Some small reworks would be nice but in my opinion not that needed.

Ok. I tried mace. Blasting is ok. I manage to grt at leasz one blast per 2 uses of mace #3. But you lose many critical strikes so less strenght sigil procs. Also I tried 3rd subsquad for herald but I was without akacrity and almost none quickness whoke time so that is probably not worth it.

> @"ollbirtan.2915" said:

> > @"ButcherofMalakir.4067" said:

> > > @"ollbirtan.2915" said:

> > > > @"ButcherofMalakir.4067" said:

> > > > > @"Doto.6357" said:

> > > > > I wonder if using mace 2+3 on cd would be enough to push herald to perma 25 night without soi?

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> > > > I am not sure if blasting is for 10 or only 5 players. But yes, this would provide more then enogh might

> > > > Edit: blast is only for 5 players so that wouldnt help you.

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> > > I think it would technically help a bit - you will def get much higher might up time for your subgroup, and also some accidental "spill overs" through shared empowerment. But in a nutshell - not very reliable, especially since there are too many fields already during boss encounters, and it's easy to blast the wrong field.

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> > What if you placed herald in separate subsquad? Would work better with lacrity renegade instead of 2 chronos but you dont lose as much might generation as druid with no alacrity and quickness

> > Edit: It would also improve dps since Assasins presenece would go to more players

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> That might work. My static doesn't run double chrono anyway, and we run 1 druid 1 fb heal or sometimes even just 1 fb heal or 1 druid heal. (I main FB). I actually played Heal Herald a couple of patches ago, as well as heal rene, but tbh now FB offers more value as a 2nd healer/booner, or solo healer on some bosses, or even tank/healer/booner on bosses like Desmina or Twins. Might utime hasn't been a big issue from my casual static experience, but keeping your squad alive could be difficult without Aegis spam and defensive tome boons from FB. Herald also has inferior condi cleanse compared to other support classes....I might try tinkering with my hearlad and see how he fares as a tank/healer/booner first.

Fb healer is supperior healer but herald should be supperior boonbot. Dont look at herald as second healer but replacement for druid. I ran herald multiple times now and it was enough healing to soloheal wing 1 and 3 and 4 without deimos with pugs. If you need another "heal healer" then obviously there are better healers then herald.

> @"ollbirtan.2915" said:

> > @"ButcherofMalakir.4067" said:

> > I am not very experianced druid but 50 percent boon duration is enough to keep boons solo in doublechrono comp. Dont know about fury in hybrid compositions.

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> If you are running hybrid comp, then you most likely have at least one FB (condi or power) or FB healer. In any case with FB in a squad fury is the least of your worries because of Axe symbol and FMW.

But in pugs you cannot be sure if FB has axe and not scepter

I am not very experianced druid but 50 percent boon duration is enough to keep boons solo in doublechrono comp. Dont know about fury in hybrid compositions.

> @"ollbirtan.2915" said:

> > @"ButcherofMalakir.4067" said:

> > > @"Doto.6357" said:

> > > I wonder if using mace 2+3 on cd would be enough to push herald to perma 25 night without soi?

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> > I am not sure if blasting is for 10 or only 5 players. But yes, this would provide more then enogh might

> > Edit: blast is only for 5 players so that wouldnt help you.

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> I think it would technically help a bit - you will def get much higher might up time for your subgroup, and also some accidental "spill overs" through shared empowerment. But in a nutshell - not very reliable, especially since there are too many fields already during boss encounters, and it's easy to blast the wrong field.

What if you placed herald in separate subsquad? Would work better with lacrity renegade instead of 2 chronos but you dont lose as much might generation as druid with no alacrity and quickness

Edit: It would also improve dps since Assasins presenece would go to more players

> @"DuckDuckBOOM.4097" said:

> > @"Shao.7236" said:

> > > @"Illconceived Was Na.9781" said:

> >https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Smoke_Assault_(soulbeast)

> > https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Unrelenting_Assault

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> You forgot to mention

> https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Juvenile_Smokescale

> Smoke assault on the pet came out at the same time rev did. I could just as easily and uselessly claim that rev copied a ranger pet.

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> > @"ButcherofMalakir.4067" said:

> > Why can chrono use rune of the firebrand? That is the same question :D

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> This!

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> Why can firebrand use minstrel stats? Why can any pof spec use rune of durability or leadership? Why can pof specs use viper or trailblazer gear?

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> All the best heal builds are elite specs but rune of the monk is a core dungeon rune. I demand that only core pve healers are allowed to use those runes. /s

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> There has been 7 years of power creep, partially through gear but also skill and trait balance and new elite specs. Most of those don't buff pets enough to keep up with that power creep. I vaguely recall a dev mentioning that updating core pets is extremely difficult due to the fact that they are also open world mobs which causes problems when they try to change pet animations. Expansion pets are how they upgrade a core mechanic to keep up with power creep without actually buffing core pets.

And yet Lynx is still go to pet for some versions of condition soulbeast. Not all of those pets are useless

Short answer: none.

Long answer. It is a strong healer (healing per second/burst healing) but will never be meta because it doesnt have any offensive buffs

> @"Doto.6357" said:

> I wonder if using mace 2+3 on cd would be enough to push herald to perma 25 night without soi?

I am not sure if blasting is for 10 or only 5 players. But yes, this would provide more then enogh might

Edit: blast is only for 5 players so that wouldnt help you.

And some runs with casual but organised guild:

https://dps.report/SNPR-20190812-204411_vg

https://dps.report/bv82-20190812-210654_gors

https://dps.report/Gj8s-20190812-212808_sab

https://dps.report/flMI-20190812-222429_kc

edint: I was pushing on KC and kiting on sabetha. Also some strategies are developed for druid and are much harder to do with herald :D

> @"Madara.7435" said:

> hi

> this looks promising. dont let your curiosity be tainted by all that meta nonsense.

> I dont have much experience on heal herald, but alot on heal renegade. 2 things i would like to add to the discussion.

> 1. if you are healing and not tanking at the same time, i found that taking assassin's annihilation over swift termination results in a good selfheal for free, so that you keep yourself above 75% without loosing much dmg if at all. especially with alot of healing power you get a lot of passive healing. together with regen this should be pretty ridiculous.

> 2. healing orbs. now on heal renegade i personally prefer to use the orbs, because heal renegade is just unbelievably strong when it comes to heal output and i trade a small amount of that healing for having another boon on my squad permanently (vigor). which means taking vital blessing over tranquil balance and generous abundance over selfless amplification both in salvation. while it would add one more boon to the list, in case of heal herald as described above i have some doubts. because you dont camp staff (which produces orbs with aclick) and you dont swap legends regularly (most orbs come from tablet spam rly). if you camp herald most of the time + use sw/sh over staff, effectiveness will decrease greatly. still i wanted to add the experience i made with this.

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> thanks again for the build. i will try this soon-ish. i always was thinking about heal herald, but since alac rene / alac heal rene is so preferred right now i wasnt able to try. BUT if granting 25might to 10 people really works reliably, then this find is HUGE.

> EDIT: some wording

You dont provide 25 might but with one signet of inspiration it is perma 25 might. All other boons are more then perma. Might would be better witho mystical infusion but I think it wouldnt be reliable to produce 25 might alone even with them.

Here is example of pug soloheal gorseval. 250 li group I think. It was my second boss with this build so it could be better. I have logs from much more bosses but either they were with druid or with organised (but beginer) squad.

https://dps.report/IcHm-20190811-224104_gors