Grimjack.8130

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You've said enough, you can stop embarrassing yourself now.

First you said 30k burns in 2 seconds, then you said "Yeah I could have cleansed, but I didn't expect to die, was going to wait til it stacks before I cleanse"

There are alot of issues with this, firstly if you could've cleansed and didn't, no matter what, thats a misplay if it ended up in your death, regardless of the number of conditions on you.

Second off, with basic game knowledge you know that Burning has a higher base condition damage value than Bleeding or Torment does, so less stacks will equal more damage, giving you less time to make that decision to cleanse or not.

Thirdly, you can't wait to cleanse burns that are ticking for 15k a tick (if they were, which they were not mind you.) and they would not "reapply" as much or as fast. The only thing left over after a Weaver puts that many burns on someone, in the IDEAL scenario, is flame wall and auto attack damage/conditions.

The death recap will show you irrelevant numbers, people have died with numbers that show you've taken 100k damage, does that mean you took 100k damage right as you died? No.

You said Bull's Charge has a long CD to warrant the long CC? So does Gale and Weave Self, infact both are longer recharge than Bull's Charge is.

In order to take as much damage as you did, in 2 seconds, is close to impossible, and means you ate multiple ticks of double fire Primordial Stance, all of Glyph(or signet of fire which is 100x easier to mitigate and dodge mind you), and Pyro Vortex. So hats off to you for eating that much damage and still somehow thinking it's not your fault that you died.

Also Fire Weaver's potential to 1v2 (good players) is very low. If you 1v2 bad players, thats a completely different arguement, and every sidenoder (yes EVERY) is capable of 1v2ing bad players.

Even the best Fire Weaver will not kill anything, any class in 3 seconds.

Weaver's burning application sucks outside of Pyro Vortex(which is balanced), Pri Stance, and Glyph. Even Lava Skin isn't that strong, because of the duration being so low.

Do not touch something like fire 2, or fire 3.

Currently they are as strong without duration, as they should be in my opinion with 50%+ duration. Half their current burn durations.

> @"LolLookAtMyAP.8394" said:

> Core Power Mesmer is absolutely disgusting, the Chaos buffs (superspeed...) really made this a nuisance.

> > @"Fat Disgrace.4275" said:

> > Hmm, couldn't they always do this? I dont get why people complain at stuff that's been on/off for years

>

> Same thing happened with Fire Weaver, a build that was never really discovered until months after the Fire Aura condi cleanse trait was introduced.

No, prenerf Boonbeast would just kill it 1v1, so it wasn't viable.

Nerf prot holo more, not tools :)

It's not Anet's servers or anything, its the hubs they route through, NTT. FF14, GW2, Halo, and more I believe all had the same issue, and they all route through NTT.

@"zoopop.5630" difference between me and you is im okay with my class getting nerfed :)

Prot holo nerfs please :)

> @"Eurantien.4632" said:

> Someone explain to me how Incarnate is better than Grimjack

I guess I need to practice more :/

> @"bluri.2653" said:

> This is a made up fake list

Who are you to judge this list???

My message got reported and removed! Anyways, No Escape is bad for the game like CI was, not as bad, but still should be removed.

Ryan please don't lie on the forums though!

Riptide and Earthen Vortex are not the issue. In fact, [they are part of the solution.](https://youtu.be/HaQ2kA_QTyo?t=17 "they are part of the solution.")

> @"Ryan.9387" said:

> > @"Grimjack.8130" said:

> > Uh Ryan, No Escape is the reason why Spellbreaker can even come close to winning that matchup against Weaver. Stop lying on the forums! :)

>

> Haven't needed it to date.

I too can 1v1 bad players and say I don't need certain traits to win a matchup versus a certain class, and then talk about it on the forums!

> @"Khalisto.5780" said:

> > @"shadowpass.4236" said:

> > > @"Khalisto.5780" said:

> > > What's the best class for a f2p acc?

> > >

> > > 1.Warrior

> > > 2.Thief

> > > 3.Guardian

> > > 4.Necro

> > > 5.Ranger/mesmer

> > > 6. Rev

> > > 7. Engi

> > > 8. Ele

> >

> > warrior, thief, ranger, mesmer are all very solid on core

> > guardian, necro, rev are also solid but are harder to play effectively on core

> > don't play core engi or ele

>

> I just played a 100 matches as core fresh air, i could climb from silver 3 to gold 2, I coulndn't get past 1360, since I'm a low plat player, I guess core FA in the hands of grimjack can reach 1550+

I wouldn't touch Core Ele with a 10 foot pole, but I'd probably play D/F Lightning Rod, not core FA.

Warrior, Thief, and Necro are easily above the rest, with Ranger, Guardian, Mes, and Rev not too far below those. Do yourself a favor and don't even think about playing Core Engi or Ele though.

> @"Linken.6345" said:

> > @"Grimjack.8130" said:

> > a l r e a d y e x i s t s

>

> What pve discord do we have were the developers are talking to us?

> And OP how are the wvw leaders elected and can the same process be done in pve?

> I mean I see no leaders in either wvw or pve just commanders.

Anet has multiple discords with players they often take feedback and fix bugs from. Previously SC had some Devs in their more private discord, not sure about anymore, same with sPvP and WvW.

a l r e a d y e x i s t s

> @"Vegeta.2563" said:

> > @"Cal Cohen.2358" said:

> > * Sand Savant: This trait no longer increases the target cap of shade skills in WvW only

> > * Devouring Darkness (from Lingering Curse): Reduced the number of boons corrupted from 2 to 1 in WvW only

> >

> > Remember that these changes are not locked down and we still have time to iterate. We look forward to your thoughts and feedback.

> >

> > -The Systems Team

> >

>

> * Sand Savant: Besides a radius increase there is no reason to run this trait anymore and is now useless. Maybe for at least a compensation remove the shade recast increase?

>

> * Devouring Darkness: Might as well use Axe as that has 2 corrupts and is AoE (while the range is shorter, it's still better than this).

Pros and Cons, more range, less boons. Less range, more boons. This is good balancing, stop raging about it.

The only reason Staff Thief isn't and wasn't widely known as being meta and still isn't is because we didn't have any major tournaments until very recently. The more real games that happen, the more you'll see it and understand.

People saying staff thief isn't meta, yikes. Double Staff Thief is meta, and it has been since the changes.

We're in a pretty good spot in the meta, there are only a couple of major outliers.

Condi Daredevil outshines its brother S/D Core by alot right now, they should be brought in line with the latter.

Staff Daredevil breaks conquest entirely right now, to the point where most comps will run 1 or even 2, resembles the meta shifting power Power Chrono had a while back.

Fire Weaver is very spammy right now with Glyph of Elemental Power being ran, it'd be in a much better spot nerfing that skill.

Tactics Core War's insane modifier should either be slightly toned down, or changed to where the 50% extra damage is only put on the actual barrier, rather than normal HP as well. Bull's Charge could stand to be changed.

For ranked Tools Holosmith is still as dominant as always.

Condi Mirage is in a pretty good spot, I think it should be left as is (i understand its not fun to fight against, but its not OP right now)

I think slight buffs to Soulbeast should be done, the Axe/Axe Sword/WH build got hit really hard, and Ranger is easily the worst class in all of sPvP right now.

They should delete Glyph, its the epitome of unskillful gameplay.

Condi Thief is only "strong" if you don't understand how conditions work. Conditions work in the last in first out method, last condition you got, first condition to get cleansed *ALWAYS*

Just because a Condi Thief gives you 10 poison, cripple, torment, and bleeding doesn't mean its buried under those other "cover condis" if they hit you with an auto with Spider Venom up, or with anything with Deadly Ambition's new rework coming soon, they will apply another stack of poison, now meaning it is the first condition to be removed *ALWAYS*. That 11 poison you now have will be removed over those 3 or more other cover condis. It is very easy to take advantage of this feature in the game versus many things, esp vs Condi Thief.

You're trying to change WvW gameplay with the Shades, but this change will only lead to stronger Scourges, the AOE around the Scourge didn't do too much in WvW, however this will completely delete Scourge from PvP no questions asked.

You did nothing you intended to with these Scourge changes, do not release these changes with how they are now.

Weakness seems like it's an issue mainly because of how powercrept the game is; Holo (and other classes) have permanent Vigor enabling a ton of its self sustain but with Weakness, Vigor doesn't do anything.

Glancing blows are probably designed pretty poorly, but it's fine.

> @"Flandre.2870" said:

> Chaotic Interruption sound WAY TOO STRONG, make it 3 seconds or so or even less. That's still massive if u consider the rupt chain from diversion + mantra + pistol

Just stow. :) That trait doesn't seem too strong if you play around it? It's rupts, not dazes/stuns.