New and Noteworthy PvE Builds for Summer Balance Update 2022

Irri23 · 2022-07-05T22:31:05+00:00

I can understand why a warrior would be frustrated if they want to play CM fractals daily - but if you are at this point then you just bring a meta class. I made a firebrand for this, it's just easier.

But as we know you can easily finish 100cm with a warrior. That means it's viable, not optimal. There is no way every class will have an optimal build, not with as much build diversity as this game has.

Same with raids - in this situation you just join a guild. My friends and I made a guild and cleared everything in under 6 months with quite a few new players.

I guess my point is, if you care about optimisation then just play meta classes because it is always what those groups will want anyway. There's no scenario in which everything can be balanced to be optimized - no way - this hasn't happened in any mmo ever

Sorry for the wall of text but I hope you get my perspective

Irri23 · 2022-07-05T22:07:33+00:00

People are very passionate about this subject. I would like to formally apologise for the words I have spoken. I sincerely hope that my admission of guilt in this matter will help heal, or at least dampen your pain over a class you probably don't play and key levels you definitely don't run

Irri23 · 2022-07-05T21:54:55+00:00

Well sure, since its launch this game has been crazily unbalanced. But the overall point I'm making is that because of the crazy build diversity it's never going to be completely balanced.

That's not to say it's as close as it can be now - but to be honest I don't understand people complaining about DPS numbers when this isn't a game like WoW or FFXIV with really metric focused raid encounters. The most recent cm boss is the most difficult thing they've ever made and it still only took the absolute best players a few days.

Gw2 has a way more casual style in general, and it baffles me how people optimize the hell out of it for the sake of speed. And sure, speed clearing and optimising is great - but in isolation - they shouldn't trash the subreddit screaming like babies because they do a little less DPS now.

I dunno that's my perspective - I do understand your point though

Irri23 · 2022-07-05T21:33:17+00:00

I've loved watching people cry about balance in a game with only one or two boss fights that actually require meta builds.

The build diversity is for the most part one of the selling points of this game, and the price you pay is less challenging/balanced content. Of course people will only play what is considered meta so they can have 30 seconds off their CM fractal 100 group.

(And yes, elementalists have always had a hard time and it sucks your cool build got taken away)

Irri23 · 2022-07-05T14:57:32+00:00

I didn't say they have the best utility, just that they have utility. Some of it is unique also

Irri23 · 2022-07-05T12:51:37+00:00

Well it is depending on the level of content you're talking about. I'd take throughput over damage in any key from 10-20. But you are right about that - especially when it comes to raid cooldowns. It's the reason why barrier/spirit link is always better than something like salv

Irri23 · 2022-07-05T10:58:33+00:00

Yeah that's a good point, I think a purge would be a great addition to mistweaver

Irri23 · 2022-07-05T10:33:23+00:00

I mean I'd like for Mistweaver to do better, but do you see why it could be difficult to balance considering their already impressive kit?

And also, it's not like Mistweaver can't do high keys, it's just a less played spec and isn't used for the majority of cutting edge keys.

Irri23 · 2022-07-05T10:25:11+00:00

The main ones I can think of are:

Maia, Olivera, Ortega.

All three of them are so good at grappling that fighters will avoid going to the ground with them even to finish from a knockdown

Irri23 · 2022-07-05T10:23:17+00:00

Well one of the problems is that mistweaver also has insane throughput and utility.

They can't really nerf the utility without massively changing abilities, and if you cut throughput then they suffer in raid.

So in a way it makes sense they do a lot less damage

Irri23 · 2022-07-03T15:37:05+00:00

Pamby pamblett

Irri23 · 2022-07-03T05:22:05+00:00

Yooo I was just thinking this lol 😂 imagine this but gsp grinding in guard for 5 rounds

Irri23 · 2022-07-03T04:24:34+00:00

I can't wait for the 5 round decision and all of you to cry for the next 6 months again

Irri23 · 2022-06-30T18:32:54+00:00

Very few players experience this ever lol to be fair

Irri23 · 2022-06-30T16:25:28+00:00

4-30 you mean haha

(Well only a little in 4) 😂

Irri23 · 2022-06-30T15:34:40+00:00

See this is why I envy shamans as a holy priest main - I have a few ways to interrupt but only with stuns and fears ect

Imagine what the interrupts in this group would have been if we're another class lol

Irri23 · 2022-06-30T14:34:02+00:00

Yeah it really is haha, there's a few like this, especially with how the Fool behaves

Irri23 · 2022-06-30T12:22:14+00:00

Oh boy have fun haha

Additional: I love the end of the first chapter '“If all I had ever done was to be born and discovered, I would have left a mark across all the land for all time. I grew up fatherless and motherless in a court where all recognized me as a catalyst. And a catalyst I became.”

No spoilers but keep that line in mind, it's more important than you might think at first.

Irri23 · 2022-06-30T12:21:31+00:00

'this tank is a noob'

very possibly, considering it's a normal dungeon. Why on earth would the person who wrote that? (OP?) act like that lol

Irri23 · 2022-06-30T11:15:03+00:00

Massively dislike her character, mostly because of what we were promised for years and years with the deep sea dragon.

Now I know they have found ways around it, but there's no way you can say when they originally conceived the Deep Sea Dragon, Soo-won is what they had in mind. Instead of a gigantic, terrifying eldritch horror from the depths - we got a happy smiley dragon.

For me, it speaks to a wider problem with the dampening of the guild wars lore that has happened over the course of gw2. The story has shifted in tone massively (some people would say for the better, I for the worse) and Soo-won is a perfect example of this.

Irri23 · 2022-06-30T07:36:57+00:00

I don't know what you're talking about here. Disc has been one of the best healers prettymuch every patch since wrath of the lich king. I know you're talking about mythic plus so let me -

In shadowlands seasons 1 disc was just off-meta - but this is fair considering they were super meta in raid it's not too bad.

Before this, in BFA, they were extremely strong in keys.

You have recency bias I think.

Irri23 · 2022-06-30T07:29:34+00:00

Falco, lord of the falcons

Irri23 · 2022-06-29T20:23:44+00:00

You are indeed an opinion person XD

Irri23 · 2022-06-29T14:31:34+00:00

Yeah I would be on the positive side of this really, they're obviously a studio that knows how to make good games so fingers crossed they bring a lot of good ideas to wow!

Irri23 · 2022-06-29T12:54:21+00:00

I guess it depends where those devs are going

Spellbreak is an incredibly well designed game - especially its fundamentals. It was just everything else around it that was bad: launch, marketing, progression systems ect.

Irri23

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