Xca.9721

Are we talking about Druid Staff in pve or pvp? In pve I don´t need it most of the time and I just camp axe/warhorn, only when more healing is required I swap to staff. In terms of healing the weapon is totally fine, autoattack and staff 2 are good heals, then you can combo staff 5 and staff 3 for area healing. Also the immobilize on staff 4 comes in handy on certain bosses.

That being said, this applies only to raids/strikes, since you have other classes doing the dps. In open world of course I wouldn´t use druid and just go soulbeast or any other dps class.

> @"noot.8641" said:

> > @"Moradorin.6217" said:

> > I admit a checkbox to exclude yellow (ambient) from the target nearest/next list would be nice, however, I think pets, teef thiefs, and mesmer clones should be in the target list because its part of the mechanical benefit/point for them.

>

> Have 1 of you ever played wow?

> In WoW this feature is not a problem at all, and WoW is way more competitive than gw2.

> In gw2 it’s just an annoyance, that needs to get fixed.

> You guys act like gw2 is some huge competitive game lol.

>

>

GW2´s combat system was made for PvP, while WoW combat is utter trash. I recommend binding a key for ´next target´so you can quickly swap between players/pets.

> @"mistsim.2748" said:

> > @"Xca.9721" said:

> > > @"mistsim.2748" said:

> > > > @"Master Ketsu.4569" said:

> > > > Every viable condi build has a low skill floor.

> > > >

> > > > Condi skills are designed with too many instant casts, too many free passive procs, and too many AoEs. They are objectively easy to play.

> > >

> > > yeah, but Malyx does a whole bunch of other things that makes it way too strong. the i-frames, the blocks, the boon rips, hard cc's. so it's fairly easy to learn and be very effective.

> >

> > mallyx has invuln frames and blocks? where?

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> on sword/shield, aka the meta Malyx/Glint build.

you could run the same with shiro instead of mallyx and have the same amount of blocks/evades from weaopons (no invuln frames, dont know where u get that from)

> @"mistsim.2748" said:

> > @"Master Ketsu.4569" said:

> > Every viable condi build has a low skill floor.

> >

> > Condi skills are designed with too many instant casts, too many free passive procs, and too many AoEs. They are objectively easy to play.

>

> yeah, but Malyx does a whole bunch of other things that makes it way too strong. the i-frames, the blocks, the boon rips, hard cc's. so it's fairly easy to learn and be very effective.

mallyx has invuln frames and blocks? where?

> @"Supreme.3164" said:

> > @"ArthurDent.9538" said:

> > > @"Supreme.3164" said:

> > > > @"Leonidrex.5649" said:

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> > > > lol

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> > >

> > > "rev is picked by the best players and best players tend to win monthly"...I just can't wrap my head around that comment, makes no sense whatsoever.....I am speechless

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> >

> > The way I would interpret it is that players who do well on Rev do well on whatever other classes they play. I'd say it's not surprising that Rev players will be on average both more experienced with the game in general and more inclined to multi-classing since it is an expansion class meaning that pretty much everyone who plays it has played other classes before it which gives a large advantage against the multitude of people who have no clue about classes other than the ones they main. You can call it bologna but CMC has some form of data to base that comment off of while us players only have speculation.

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> Is that why teams stacks revs during monthly?

Last monthly final had 1 rev each team :)

Doesn´t matter which build/class, you just need enough gold to climb the ranks

Rev:

Some energy cost increase

The random launch ups are pissing me of, also the bug after 25 % is really annoying. The chains can be ignored most of the time, just don´t stand inside the hitbox. Got gold multiple times with random pugs, the timer is fine in my opinion.

As a rev main I was so disappointed when they introduced Renegade, one of the worst specs that came with PoF. All of the utility skills have no interaction with each other, you use them once and thats it. Now that everything has been nerfed (except Renegade) it somehow became viable, but let´s be honest: Fighting a Renegade can be as annoying as pre nerf Mirage with all the vision clutter. I really hope (but highly doubt) that they will rework Renegade one day and make it a spec that is fun to play.

> @"nanomidgy.9180" said:

> If u are on a different loadout when u entered wvw, it will be like that. Switch ur loadouts seems to solve it.

Okay this must be the reason, I used to WvW on my Rev which usually has Condi Renegade for PvE and Power Herald for WvW. Made an extra toon now for WvW and I don´t have any issues anymore.

I really should have logged in to check if my Vision that I crafted on Saturday was gone rather than doing it on GW2efficiency :/

Playing the old power berserker was actually the most fun i ever had in pvp. It´s a shame they had to bury it.

> @"Woltarion.6829" said:

> > @"hologramm.5769" said:

> > https://snowcrows.com/raids/builds/mesmer/chronomancer/power/

> >

> > Do i have anything more to say? If you go for Self-Sustain just swap the Domi-Traitline for Illusion Mid-Mid-Up. Youll have perma Quickness, 25Might, Fury and even some Alac. Its one of the best Power-Classes for Raids and Open-World

> > Ah yes you can even go for Range with GS (tho ofc if you just afk on gs and dont swap weapons youll lose dps).

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> Fine for Pve and Open world, total garbage for PvP or WvW

Because this site is for PvE only maybe? ..

I really hope I don´t have to craft Vision again, not to mention finishing the collection


Happens every time I join, I have to reselect them until it works

> @"ollbirtan.2915" said:

> > @"Xca.9721" said:

> > Mirage has been overpowered pretty much since PoF release, it is good to see it not being Meta anymore. It was the most unfun spec to play against. But yes I do understand that removing a dodge is lazy balancing, just like increasing the energy cost for revenant skills.

> >

> > That being said, some things should not exist in PvP because they are just cancer and make many players avoid the gamemode. Current Renegade, pre-nerf Mirage, Condi thief, Ranger with bird..

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> I thought I would never live to see the day when ppl start complaining about Renegade in pvp...

It is not about Renegade being good, it is about the effect spam they are able to unleash which gets even worse when you have multiple Renegades

Mirage has been overpowered pretty much since PoF release, it is good to see it not being Meta anymore. It was the most unfun spec to play against. But yes I do understand that removing a dodge is lazy balancing, just like increasing the energy cost for revenant skills.

That being said, some things should not exist in PvP because they are just cancer and make many players avoid the gamemode. Current Renegade, pre-nerf Mirage, Condi thief, Ranger with bird..

> @"Remilia Scarlet.3205" said:

> > @"ZeroSkitzo.5403" said:

> >Rev “dodged” last patch but was part of the three that got nerfed during 2v2.

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> In fact the power rev has not been nerfed for a long time, even from last year on (the universal coefficient nerf should not count).

LOL dude read the february balance patch notes and then tell me more about power rev not having been nerfed in a long time

> @"Teb.6980" said:

> > @"Thornwolf.9721" said:

> > > @"Eugchriss.2046" said:

> > > Luckily enough, there is nothing specific except infuse light which carries power herald. So even if people want it to be nerfed, they don t know exactly what should be nerfed.

> >

> > If infused light gets nerfed, defiant stance better as well since they are literally the same skill just about..

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> Good point. It's rather the whole set. Does warrior have an AOE knockback every 30 seconds? Can warrior evade while attacking, like with sword 2? Do they have ~4 seconds every 15 of evade/block/knockback like with staff? On top of that, herald has a static 3-second total invuln (superior to shield stance) that regens their health too LOL

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You should probably inform yourself before typing anything here. Can warrior evade while attacking? Yes, greatsword 3. And rev has it on sword 3, not 2. Also Warding Rift (staff 3) has a blocking duration of 2 seconds and its cooldown got increased from 15 to 20 seconds in the big balance patch. Jesus, people should really try out classes / check the wiki before they start trashtalking them..

I have barely seen Condi Revs in Ranked, but quite a few in WvW. They should probably take a look at the resistance uptime and maybe the Mallyx F2

Revenant will probably get adressed soon in another patch. I just hope they make the right adjustments and not just increase the energy cost for Riposting Shadows to 50 or some bullshit =)

> @"Trevor Boyer.6524" said:

> > @"mrauls.6519" said:

> > I'm not looking for any specific buffs or nerfs. I just want to know that anet is still trying to establish balance in PvP. It's been a hot minute since we've seen anything..

>

> Pretty sure COVID-19 put a nice kink in their development scheduling.

Probably, but they should tell us if that is the case.

A couple of weeks ago I got pulled into the (intact) enemy gate on Legacy by a Spellbreaker tether lol, luckily I could port out with Shiro

> @"SpellOfIniquity.1780" said:

> > @"Ansau.7326" said:

> > Oh, how sweet all these people with all these excuses defending a broken cheesy stealth 1-shot. Don't worry, I will step up the game for you.

> > 

> >

> > I was lucky running Herald instead of Renegade...

>

> The trait needs to be completely reworked, almost no one uses it because it's extremely difficult to get any actual value out of it. Using A.E.D. is pretty much mandatory unless you're 100% certain you're going to kill your target without a fight.

>

> Overheating locks you out of your Tool Belt skills ( 5 seconds with this trait ), locks you out of Photon Forge ( 10 seconds? ), deals multiple ticks of damage to yourself, requires the target(s) to be within a radius of 240 ( the size of a Necro Well ) and likely doesn't allow much/any room for defensive skills/utilities/traits.

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> I'm defending the fact that this build is a complete joke if you're aware of it's presence. If it's getting Stealthed by allies or self-stacking Stealth then yes that's gonna be a little harder to react to, but the same can be said about a lot more things than just this, and something with so many drawbacks at that.

>

> As I said initially, I think the trait needs to be completely reworked. Not a huge reduction in power coefficient or any small tweaks like that because unless you're doing what the attacker was doing, going all in on this one gimmick, it has 0 value. It needs to be replaced with something that doesn't require you to dedicate every resource to it.

I mean i get that it´s a meme build and it was the first time that I have seen someone using it in WvW, but no skill/ability should be able to do so much damage (regardless of how much toughness u have), even if it has massive drawbacks to the user

> @"Sovereign.1093" said:

> > @"GDchiaScrub.3241" said:

> > > @"Sovereign.1093" said:

> > > What was your gear stats?

> >

> > You get those numbers when against glass players. 5k to maybe 7k in blobs given they are more beefy.

> >

> > D:

>

> So op has no toughness.

>

> Not surprising. Used to do 32k on my rifle war. Nowdamage is less.

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these are my stats, full ascended