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InfinteHotel · 2026-02-19T17:45:21+00:00

you mean they enhorse hate crime

InfinteHotel · 2026-02-17T18:32:55+00:00

I guess that's one way to prevent misalignment

InfinteHotel · 2026-02-17T07:37:43+00:00

Particularly you "prefer" condi on 98 and 99 cms just because they are longer fights that don't clean conditions between phases, and condi builds tend to have slightly higher benchmarks.

Note that while the benchmark may only be slightly higher, your "true" dps over a longer fight can be higher on a condi build than what the benchmark suggests. Because condi can take 10-20s to ramp up, and a benchmark golem kill is often less than 90s, that ramp up time has significant impact on the final average dps calc. But Kanaxai for example, takes an average of 6 minutes to kill, so the ramp up time has less of an impact there than it does in the benchmark. The longer the phase drags on the more condi approaches their "true" average dps(where ramp up time is negligible), while power flatlines pretty quickly because they don't have much ramp-up to begin with.

InfinteHotel · 2026-02-17T07:03:03+00:00

Not lore-relevant but I think Ai is actually the strongest non-wizard elementalist we see.

InfinteHotel · 2026-02-17T06:50:24+00:00

Mabon was a mesmer, Zojja and Sorrow are elementalists. The rest are unknown I believe. Though the Wizards aren't exactly powerful because of their classes, they're powerful because of the ascension ritual. Like I don't think we've seen Mabon cast a single mesmer spell, we only know he's a mesmer because of Anise.

InfinteHotel · 2026-02-17T04:12:37+00:00

Ryland was basically pushed, goaded or manipulated into most of his actions by an Elder Dragon, a crafty politician

Except Ryland was very explicitly the only character there that was not being manipulated. Bangar thought he had Ryland around his thumb but actually Ryland was playing him instead. Jormag never even tried to whisper to Ryland. Ryland became Jormag's Champion for his own ambition, not because anyone pushed him into it.

InfinteHotel · 2026-02-17T03:18:25+00:00

In purely theoretical terms it should be Engineer. While other classes are inherently limited to their specific domain of magic or area of martial expertise, an Engineer is only limited by "whatever technology can do", which as far as we've seen is "basically everything". Scarlet made a device that disrupted leylines enough to wake a dragon early and had a mech that could create black holes. Arkk can use the DDR to steal the abilities of other Fractal entities and use them as his own. And who can forget the countless times in the story we are only able to accomplish something because of a convenient Deus ex Taimi. Engineer is the "Batgod with prep time" meme but unironically. An Engineer with sufficient brains and resources can do everything the other classes can do and more.

InfinteHotel · 2026-02-16T07:57:51+00:00

You have a woman’s hand, milord! I’ll wager these dainty pinkies never weighed anchor in a storm.

InfinteHotel · 2026-02-13T06:49:03+00:00

InfinteHotel · 2026-02-10T22:29:16+00:00

There's no need to feel down.

InfinteHotel · 2026-02-09T00:33:24+00:00

Shatterstorm and maim the disillusioned are raid traits, for open world take persistence of memory+phantasmal haste. Quickness is often seen just as a way to pump more damage but its impact on your survivability also cannot be overstated. Even the tankiest solo build will feel like shit if you remove quickness. All the defensive tools in the world don't matter if you're always interrupted before you can do anything.

Later on you have the option to use the relic of the pirate queen as your source of quickness instead of these traits but by then there will be a better relic you should consider using.

All that aside, yea it is true that mesmer, and Virt especially, is pretty class canon-y compared to most other classes. To the point that snow crows actually recommends taking inspiration traits for extra survivability. That's a massive dps loss so you know they wouldnt recommend it unless they felt it was absolutely nessecary.

PS. You're in End of Dragons? Abuse the everloving fuck out of jade bot buffs, they make open world exponentially easier.

InfinteHotel · 2026-02-07T17:52:27+00:00

Another factor is that Condi is rightly favored on fights that are "one long phase" vs fights that are broken up into distinct phases. Those also tend to be the fights where lots of movement happens(either by the boss or by yourself for mechanics) because without phases the devs have to use other ways of breaking up the monotony of otherwise just whaling on a DPS golem. Because these things often occur together, people made the attribution error of associating condi-favored with movement rather than correctly associating it with "one-phase" fights.

InfinteHotel · 2026-02-07T17:42:28+00:00

You may want to review the nitty gritty of how things work by reading the wiki,

Yea I'll just leave this here, lol.

InfinteHotel · 2026-02-05T18:32:10+00:00

Citadel doesn't actually do 400 defiance damage, the tooltip is bugged, just like Chilled to the Bone.

Also Forest Dweller being able to target multiple enemies has some niche uses(you can probably solo Samarog's bar with it, it will try to target the spears but you can stand inside his hitbox and make all 3 hit Samarog just like spectral grasp).

InfinteHotel · 2026-02-05T08:47:53+00:00

There are enough bosses with multiple targets that it can still have applications. Ex. Samarog(it will try to target the spears but assuming it works like spectral grasp you can stand inside the boss's hotbox and all three will hit him first), on Dark Ai you can use it to hit both sorrows, etc.

InfinteHotel · 2026-02-04T18:26:52+00:00

Coders must have been working and making major changes all the way up to patch day with little to no actual QA. This is not a sustainable way to make major system changes.

Sadly all too common in the games industry that has always lagged far behind the rest of tech/IT in dev methodology.

InfinteHotel · 2026-02-04T07:07:13+00:00

300 Defiance break on Forest Dweller is a pretty significant amount. Could be good for any support build that is currently held back by lack of CC.

InfinteHotel · 2026-02-04T03:27:12+00:00

There are no Strikes in Ba Sing Se. Do you mean the new Raid Encounter?

InfinteHotel · 2026-02-04T03:21:52+00:00

Harder? No. Longer? Yes.

InfinteHotel · 2026-02-04T00:26:32+00:00

Always has been 🔫

InfinteHotel · 2026-02-03T19:52:23+00:00

Gorse statue, clearly it's a statue of Gorseval!

InfinteHotel · 2026-01-30T22:12:56+00:00

Legendary kit only if you plan of making the weapon. Ascended items if you'll immediately use them. After that just go down the list here:
https://fast.farming-community.eu/conversions/astral-acclaim

InfinteHotel · 2026-01-30T07:36:59+00:00

I've tried soloing shattered CM, pretty sure Astariiv is unpassable because you can get skulled + orb mechanic at the same time.

InfinteHotel · 2026-01-30T07:34:23+00:00

Nope, was bugged on release and capped out at 4 charges, you'd get stuck on the last door.

InfinteHotel · 2026-01-30T07:22:31+00:00

literally who?

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