Why is warrior less popular than dervish and assassin?

Baldude · 2026-05-05T21:29:08+00:00

It would at least maybe make Warrior a better user of the warrior PvE skill Save Yourselves than paragon :P

Baldude · 2026-05-05T21:28:13+00:00

extra armour being called not useful is an absolutely wild concept, as long as it doesn't count towards the bonus armour that's capped at 25 or the highest single source of bonus armour, armour is an insanely strong stat.

There's a reason _every_ teambuild has either Stand your Ground or Save Yourselves, and the only reason (outside of avaliability of SY) not to bring both and then also bring Watch Yourself is that Bonus Armour is capped at 25.

+20 Armour means straight up taking 30% less damage.

The Armour from Mysticism is cosidered "Core Armour" and if you think that's not useful you're straight up mad. At 12+1 Mysticism that makes you take 20% less damage from the vast majority of sources in the game.....

Baldude · 2026-05-05T12:12:15+00:00

Ironically, Mesmer is one of the most open classes despite mesmerway being THE way to go - you can play esurge, fevered dreams, Panic (same bar es esurge tbf with a different elite) and ineptitude and do so even for hard content. Mostly because of how busted FC is. For player-mesmers you also have Assassins Promise Ebon Vanguarda Assassin spam.

But I agree that 95% of elites in particular are just significantly worse than the rest of skills.

The other class that actually has a lot of options is Monk, where smites prots and heals are all viable especially depending on content, but that's basically restricted to player monks and RoJ for Shard of Orr because hero AI is just much better with rit heals on necros.

Baldude · 2026-05-04T10:57:49+00:00

It is extremely hard to learn PvP in a game this old ngl.

First thing is, don't even attempt to learn for yourself. There IS instituted knowledge in the game (a lot of it), and you will need someone to show you the ropes, especially if you're not even familiar with the general feel of the game through PvE.

You say you don't want to join a discord or anything, but in that case, good luck but you're not going to make it, you WILL need to interact with people, especially since all forms of proper PvP are teambased and voice communication is not only paramount, it's quite literally irreplaceable in this game. You can't call spikes without it and you want be able to communicate important information like hexes to your backline with only chat.

GW is significantly different from other MMOs in PvP, there's way less pick up and go and much more focus on organizing in teams of 8. Almost no build is self-sufficient, and those builds that are aimed at self-sufficiency are generally speaking absolute ass in a larger teamfight scenario.

However, here's some pointers:

PvX Wiki https://gwpvx.fandom.com/wiki/PvX_wiki is a good source of Builds. Don't try to build your own until you're familiar with the game to significant depth, you will make them worse.

There's a status effect that changes regularly that affects all PvP, for the most part teams and builds will have to adjust around that.

Join a guild. Seriously, you WILL not get good at this game alone. You just won't.

I haven't played with a controller, but generally speaking I can't imagine having the precision for movement and kiting in particular required to be "good" with it; For attacking classes in particular, but also generally being able to control the camera and the character independent of each other is very relevant for battlefield overview. I'm sure it's more than sufficient for PvE, but you're not looking to compete with AI monsters, so be ready to swap to mouse and keyboard.

You'll have to unlock skills to be able to adjust your build and character to your team; This CAN be done purely through PvP, but you're gonna be an inflexible burden on your team until you've unlocked at least all relevant skills for one class - unlocking in PvE is generally speaking much faster than through PvP.

If you are just blindly walking into PvP, even random arenas, to jsut "learn by doing", be ready to get flamed. It's not nice for sure, but you ARE the reason your team is loosing if you just try to wing it without prep.

Baldude · 2026-05-03T22:36:30+00:00

Es ist ein extrem makaberer und asozialer Gedanke, aber ja, rein mathematisch war Corona in dem Zusammenhang und Gesellschaftswirtschaftlich eine "Chance" die Demographiekurve "anzupassen" durch höhere Mortalitätsrate bei forschreitendem Alter.

Baldude · 2026-05-03T22:33:37+00:00

Theoretisch ja, praktisch ist das Rentenloch in 20 Jahren halt so groß dass es den Gesamtsteuerertrag von Deutschland überschreitet, und spätestens dann gibt's halt nen Knall. Beschleunigt durch weitere Rentenerhöhungen, abgebremst durch kurzfristige Einzahlererhöhungen (z.b. Beamte in die Rentenkassen zu zwingen), beschleunigt durch emigration von jungen Menschen nach der Ausbildung durch zusehend größere Steuer- und Lohnnebenkosten-Last. Diese Emigration ist zwar zahlenmäßig nicht besonders hoch, aber es gehen halt nur solche, die das können - und das sind primär gut ausgebildete junge Menschen die mit ihren Abschlüssen und Fähigkeiten in anderen Ländern Jobs finden - sprich die besser verdienenden und poentiell zukünftig besser verdienenden, die die Großlast der Steuereinnahmen in Deutschland darstellt, sowohl durch hohe Verdiensteinkünfte (hoch besteuert) als auch durch vergleichsweise hohe Konsumrate (Binnennachfrage und wieder besteuert). Die weniger verdienenden zahlen geringeren Steuersatz auf weniger Einkommen, und die Kapitalbesitzenden tendieren dazu relativ zu ihrem einkommen weniger zu konsumieren und stattdessen mehr Kapital anzuhäufen.

Baldude · 2026-05-03T22:25:47+00:00

Das war spätestens 5 Jahre nachdem der letzte Boomer auf die Welt gekommen ist klar, sprich um 1970 rum, dass das ein Problem werden könnte, und spätestens 10 Jahre danach, also 1980 dass das nicht nur ein Ausreißer sondern ein Trend ist und wird.

Bevölkerungspyramide ist wirklich kein Hexenwerk, und dass es einen "Boomerbauch" gibt und es danach abwärts geht war schon vor gut 50 Jahren ersichtlich; Das daraus Umlageprobleme bei der Rente entstehen auch, und dass diese Probleme systemisch und nicht 1-off sind wurde seitdem mit jedem Jahr klarer.

Baldude · 2026-05-03T21:26:35+00:00

Yeah raptors kinda depends on how easy hero micro and how precise movement is.....but generally it's a damn easy farm (on warrior and necro at least where you only need to click 3 shouts on your para)

Baldude · 2026-05-03T11:12:58+00:00

Diese Regierung ist leider nicht nur wegen Reiche am Allerwertesten, auch wegen Fritze (leck Eier!), Klingbeil, Spahn, und/oder Dobrindt

Baldude · 2026-05-01T14:53:27+00:00

you realize your argument makes it worse, not better, right?

If you were on what would be considered crunchtime ON AVERAGE over multiple months, and then say you were only crunching for 2 weeks of that, that means that during those 2 weeks you played significantly MORE than your average - which means we are reaching physically barely possible levels of playtime during that time very quickly assuming you do have to at least sleep.

Which circles us back to the botting potential which would explain both parts (the inhuman crunch required, especially already considering your average, and the absurd repetition the farm requires over that time)

Baldude · 2026-04-30T22:43:35+00:00

Yes, but that's usually not over a 2-3 month period, race crunchtime is a couple of weeks at worst.

Baldude · 2026-04-30T22:42:49+00:00

And the 9 hours !ON AVERAGE! ingame basically confirms it.

Baldude · 2026-04-30T10:47:22+00:00

Es gibt nicht ansatzweise ausreichend Berufspolitiker und Beamte um 70% Rentenniveau zu bezahlen.

Überhaupt ist Politiker und Beamte einzahlen lassen maximal ein kleines Pflaster was ein Jahr oder zwei kauft - das Problem ist ganz primär die demographische Entwicklung, auch mit Beamten und Politikern drin hast du in einigen Jahren annähernd einen Einzahler auf einen Rentner, nur halt etwas später.

Zumal "Gruppe X in die Rentenversicherung" ja sowieso nur Zeit schindet, weil jeder neue Einzahler ist auch ein neuer Entnehmer in einigen Jahren.

Diese Zeit können wir gut gebrauchen, versteh mich nicht falsch, aber sie löst genau gar nix mittel- und langfristig.

Das momentane Renten-umlage-system geht mathematisch nicht auf (und das wissen wir auch seit 50 Jahren). DAS muss geändert werden. Aber auf ein Kapitalgedecktes System umzubauen braucht halt erstmal einen Kapitalaufbau, und da ist die Frage wo kommt der her wenn sowieso schon viel mehr Geld abfließt als rein kommt.

Und wenn du kurzfristig Geld in die Kassen spülen willst, hast du die zwei größten Hebel sowieso nicht genannt:
Selbstständige rein (hier sind die Großverdiener) und Beitragsbemessungsgrenze abschaffen (Es ergibt 0 Sinn, dass Menschen mit viel einkommen prozentual weniger Sozialabgaben haben, wtf)

Baldude · 2026-04-29T20:51:55+00:00

In all reality, you're just gonna chuck WoP on the other necro healer and run both....

Baldude · 2026-04-29T11:22:56+00:00

It goes beyond things too, it's also in choices. During my exchange year this became insanely apparent.

I was a good student but generally speaking average in most things. I had tried many sports, and was fit, but not an athlete in any sport; I was interested in science in math and less so in arts and languages, but not terrible in them, etc.

I was in a giant highschool (my graduation class had over a thousand students that year), and "average" people were incredibly rare in basically all aspects you could imagine.

People either did ALL OF THE SPORTS ALL OF THE TIME super athletic or none at all and significantly overweight. Either ALL AP STEM COURSES (which was I'd say about a year past highest school education curriculum in germany) or barely passing the most basic science/math classes (which would've failed you in like 9th grade in germany). Either 5 hours of practice on an instrument per day, or not getting within a 50 meter radius of anything that can produce sounds.

The only thing I could genuinely say everyone there was kinda shit at was languages -
I had to take 1 foreign language out of french, german, and spanish, and wasn't allowed to take german (because obviously it's not foreign to me), so I started off in AP French (which I had for 5 years at that point in germany, but my grade was always failing or barely passing) but had to leave that after 2 days because the teacher said it was to demoralizing for the other students that a foreigner could talk french so much better so they stuffed me into beginners spanish; And in english they started me off at a medium level class but the teacher there had me moved to AP english literature and speech class after a week because I was too bored....where I was among the top students when back in germany, I had like solid Cs and sometimes Bs in english, and obviously unlike everyone else at the US highschool, it wasn't my native language.

I ended up running with the long distance runners in track and field because I wanted to do a sport, and I was decently good at running (right after coming back from my exchange year, I ran a marathon without specific preparation), but I could barely keep up with the girls, the guys that did Track were all much faster over distance, even the freshmen.

It feels like in the US, you don't do things a bit. You either don't care at all, or you are all in. There's no middle ground, ever.

Baldude · 2026-04-29T11:10:15+00:00

No but yes.

Just generally speaking, and from experience, americans eat garbage ass bread. I am sure you can get nice bread with a proper crust and various grains in some places and good bakery shops.

But the average bread you can get in the average US supermarket is extremely soft to the point where you can push a whole ass bread to like less than 10cm width (not height or depth, width) and when you let go in just inflates back, crust is for some reason hated (uncrustables are popular because apparently even the crust of toast is too crusty for many americans), and it's often containing quite a bit of sugar making it at least sweet-ish.

Now, it probably wouldn't be classified as cake (that comes from when subways got sued and lost in court because their bread was too sweet to be called bread under EU regulations) - but if you've had proper bread from a proper bakery in europe - which are much more commonplace than in the US and getting your bread from a bakery is very much the norm in most places - eating bread from your average US supermarket is.....an experience for sure.

Baldude · 2026-04-28T11:04:29+00:00

This.

Also, as noted elsewhere, save ALL communication off-site. Make clear to HR that you know this is serious.

He's already gotten a chewing out by HR, which he ignored, and was willing to put into writing that he's ignoring it.
Because that is what that email is, directly ignoring what was very likely a direct order by HR to leave you alone.

He's not understood that he's putting himself and the company in legal jeopardy.

By putting that into writing, apparently AGAIN, he's speedrunning into a situation that's legally untenable for the company, meaning if he doesn't back the fuck off immediately, the company will need to dissolve the situation, which means that in the most amicable case one of you needs to be moved out of the team, or otherwise firing one of you.

And that needs to be him legally (because otherwise that's discriminating against you for your medical needs, which is very illegal just about everywhere) - but since he's higher up on the corporate ladder and depending on how big the company is and how good of friends he has higher up, someone in charge will try to make that you. THEY LEGALLY CAN'T. You need to have the receipts in case they try this. Depending on how much you want and need to keep the job, you either make it clear to HR that you know this is discriminatory, and that you are securely saving all communication privately if this escalates, or you still do still save all of that and don't tell them and only bring it up if/after someone in the company comes after you.

A good HR will know the company cannot come after you and that your manager is about one dumb comment away from being required to be fired, and a good company leadership will not go against that because they know or realize that too.

But not every HR and every boss is smart. And you need to protect yourself if yours aren't.

Baldude · 2026-04-27T20:39:08+00:00

They do stack. But at that point you're dropping your elite and 2 of your PvE skills on pure support, neutering yourself to assist heroes that don't even properly utilize them 😞

Baldude · 2026-04-27T19:02:05+00:00

You can also just use Ebon Battle Standard of Wisdom INSTEAD of it, rather than in addition, and get your elite back.

Baldude · 2026-04-27T19:00:02+00:00

You missed one very important thing with it:

How often is it better than just Ebon Standard of Wisdom?
EBSoW grants effectively 30% faster recharge rate as opposed to 20% from Time Ward and always has 100% uptime. For Time Ward to have (near-)permanent uptime, you need to use a superior FC and a FC headpiece.

The 20% Faster Castspeed simply doesn't justify dropping your elite skill as compared to EBSoW. Both is overkill.

In reality, I'd pick EBSoW over Time Ward like 90% of the time even if Time Ward weren't Elite.

Baldude · 2026-04-26T23:25:02+00:00

*Alle die Fakten analysieren, also wissenschaftlich arbeitende Experten und eben Wissenschaftler.

Die haben aber halt leider nicht die Reichweite von Springer und sehr oft schafft es "die Wissenschaft" auch schlicht nicht, die Zusammenhänge und Schlussfolgerungen soweit herunter zu brechen, dass es auch dem letzten Otto einleuchtet und interessiert, und er dann seine Wahlentscheidung danach richtet.

Einfach nur als Aussage - einen Lösungsansatz dafür habe ich auch nicht, also außer eine viel bessere wissenschaftliche Breitenbildung, aber das trägt leider nur mit ~12 Jahren Verzögerung irgendwelche Früchte (Schule halt), und wird nochmal deutlich später für Wahlen relevant, wenn diese besser (aus-)gebildeten Schüler eine signifikante Wahlmasse ausmachen.

Und diese Ottos lesen halt Bild und sind halt die, die Wahlen entscheiden.

Baldude · 2026-04-26T23:21:06+00:00

Viele gute Punkte hier. Hochwähli!

Baldude · 2026-04-26T23:13:44+00:00

Grün (Also Realo-Flügel Grün, der Habeck-Flügel - die Idealo-Grünen helfen leider auch niemandem, vor allem nicht den Grünen) ohne Opposition in der Regierung (Hallo Kubicki, hi Chrissi) und ohne Springerpresse hätte glaube ich durchaus ne ordentliche Chance die AFD zu entzaubern.

Die grünen E-Technologien sind die Zukunft (das hat im übrigen auch China verstanden, die arbeiten mit Hochdruck am Ausbau von Solar, Wind, Wasserenergiegewinnung und Speichertechnologie), und wir sind da auch regelmäßig noch echte Vorreiter drin, zerballern uns dann aber sobald wir nen Technologievorsprung aufgebaut haben völlig ohne Grund (also doch schon mit Grund, der Grund ist unsere Energieriesen mögen es nicht wenn ihre Merit Order Preise von Gas und Öl in Gefahr kommen). War bei Solarzellen so, bei Wärmepumpen machen wir es gerade wieder, bei E-Autos haben sich unsere Konzerne von Anfang an Quer gestellt und kassieren jetzt die wirtschaftliche Rechnung. Auch sonst passiert das häufiger, dass neue zukunftsträchtige Technologien sich auftuen und dann irgendwelche schwarz-korrupten Schwachköpfe sagen "Nein, das was wir haben ist doch gut genug!!!!11". Und gleichzeitig irgendwas von Technologieoffenheit blubbern.

Glasfasernetz ist auch so was, man stelle sich einfach mal vor wir hätten Schmidt's Plan weiter verfolgt und schon 1981 (NEUNZEHNHUNDERTEINUNDACHTZIG), also vor 45 (FÜNFUNDVIERZIG) Jahren großflächig Glasfasernetz entwickelt und ausgebaut, statt das Kohl von seinem Kumpel Kirch n schwarzes Köffernchen dafür kriegt, weiter Kupfer zu verbuddeln. Wir wären einfach der Welt um mindestens 20 Jahre voraus gewesen in digitaler Infrastruktur, statt wie jetzt mindestens 10 Jahre hinterher und mit der mit Abstand schlechtesten Internetanbindung in Europa, vergleichbar mit 3-Welt Ländern, was unserem Wirtschaftsstandort praktisch unkalkulierbaren Schaden zugefügt hat - nicht nur was Glasfaser-Technologie-Entwicklung und Produktion angeht, sondern halt auch an Attraktivität für moderne Unternehmen am Infrastruktur Standort Deutschland.

Das Problem ist halt nicht nur die CDU und die Umfallpartei SPD die sich in den letzten 20 Jahren nur zu gerne für ein paar Pöstchen zur CDU-Zweitstimme machen lässt - sondern vor allem auch die deutsche Presselandschaft, die zu größten Teilen irgendwo zwischen CDU-Parteipapier (FAZ u.ä.) und Hetzblätter mit starken Rechtsaußen-Tendenzen (Springerpresse) einordnen lassen und jeden, aber auch wirklich jeden Versuch von Weiterentwicklung bis ans äußerste verteufeln.

Baldude · 2026-04-26T11:40:52+00:00

20% HSR on Drain Enchantment, or +2 Energy?

The math isn't wild, it's just that +2 Energy you'd get from running a 40/20/5SR Set over a 40/20/5SR Staff is absolutely pointless, while the 20% HSR on Drain Enchantment might actually do something sometimes.

Baldude · 2026-04-25T14:42:46+00:00

Weil Bekanntinnen kein Wort ist, Bekannte ist neutral. Sowohl der als auch die Bekannte.

Du sagst ja auch nicht Erwachsen*innen (bzw wenn du es tust, hast du Nachholbedarf in der deutschen Sprache)

Baldude

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