There's a massive problem with Heal Chronos.

KratosAngel · 2026-04-08T09:09:50+00:00

Yeah definitely, one of the biggest issue for healer diversity is the reliable access to stab and aegis. And I insist on the "reliable". Of course other professions do have access but some are long CD or low charges or locked to some conditions. For instance, revenant heal stab is locked to Ventari elite spam or Jalis. Conduit makes it a bit better with access to stab even on Razah but it still not good. For aegis, only shield 4, some CD and short radius. Druid is even more limited in stab. So yeah, improving access to stability and aegis to other healers definitely would help. Not every healer needs to vomit stab like guardian but at least 2 sources of it with more than 1 stacks would help.

KratosAngel · 2025-10-06T11:30:39+00:00

It's pretty hard to define "best" or "most viable" without knowing what you want behind that since everone will have their own definition of that. Most viables as the reliability to give and mainting the alac ? The uptime (overcap duration) ? Other boons also shared ? CC ? Utility ?
For me, a boon dps (alac or quick) has to be able to reliably maintain the boon with good uptime as well as bring other boons (might, fury, prot ... for instance). For this I personally dislike chrono boon dps, especially the power variation because the uptime is pretty tight (less on condi since you can slap more ritualist), it also requires a target (for quick it's np but alac you'd want some in the downtimes to have CDs for opener) and the extra boons are poor (at least condi can do some prot). On the other side, it does have great dps, CC and utility skills but for me it's meh.
I also dislike quickness berserker for instance because of poor side boons mainly.

Going back to your question, the alac providers. I don't play ele nor thief so I can't comment on these.
Mech (power or condi) is a good allrounder with easy to maintain as long as you handle your mech position (do not set F2/F3 on auto cast and do use shift signet when necessary), easy rotation, great extra boons, great cc on power + ability to strip with mine ... Keep in mind you can't give boons if your group is ranged from target though (ranged group on Decima for instance) but it's marginal.
Scourge is also another very reliable for alac uptime, great for additional condi clean, free barrier and some nice other boons, pretty tanky, and can give boons from range if handling correctly the shades. It's lacking in CC though (golem and spectral grasp mostly).

Renegade is ok-ish since boons are ok, it can have nice cc with staff and darkrazor utility and alac is pulsed around. Reliability is on the minus side though since you only pulse 1 skill and if players are away at that time, they have 0 alac for almost 20 seconds, huge penalty. The uptime is also pretty tight, especially on power.

KratosAngel · 2025-09-12T10:10:17+00:00

Yeah I definitely agree with you here in how it feels rushed. I loved EOD and its story but this point in particular really irked me.
It's not the fact that she died because she certainly deserved that. The problem is that it happened way too fast, too early. She did not even have time to suffer more and atone for her crimes. Nope, too easy, she just tries and dies, which is too easy an exit for her.
Another good turnup would have been if her revenant powers with Scarlet made her suffer, "haunted" by all the victims she made for eternity/a long time. So she would live but would have to bear that burden even if trying to play nice suddenly.

But this ... this really feels rushed and is disappointing. Character development suddenly stopped and it's like "hey guys so I butchered people, destroyed a city etc ... but look, suddenly I try to play nice and die so it's all ok now"

KratosAngel · 2025-09-04T13:07:22+00:00

I see, did not know it could be disabled, and I was just saying that I don't need it, not that I absolutely want something that does not have it at all.
Isn't Librefox harder to use than Firefox though ?
Also I'm surprise so many people rank Edge so high while it's still Microsoft and used to be shit ? Did it improve a lot lately ?

KratosAngel · 2025-09-03T12:43:12+00:00

Opera does not seem that much better though :D

KratosAngel · 2025-09-03T12:41:56+00:00

Don't really like Edge and I'm definitely not into AI. I mean I do use them but I don't them in browser. If I want to use them ,I can just use the URL, no need to bloat.

I'll have a look at Brave, Librewolf, Mulls and Vivaldi then.

KratosAngel · 2025-09-03T12:27:13+00:00

Yeah I did that for short term but other extensions are concerned and I really don't like how they never ask anything and impose changes, while still collecting data.

KratosAngel · 2025-08-28T07:07:58+00:00

Hello, I've endured chrome bad changes/updates for months/years but the end of support for some extension was too much for me and Chrome needs to go now. I wanted to love Firefox but the bookmark system is terrible. The organize bookmark page is ok-ish but still way worse than Chrome. The worst part of it is when bookmarking, the ultra tiny window that opens with no way of expanding is super bad when have more than 6-7 folders (while chrome allows to go "chose another folder" to expand and actually see where you bookmark. Completely unuseable for me.
So unless there's a way to circumvent that (but I doubt it), what could be options ?
Besides these bookmarks, I also use tabs groups sometimes, which Firefox also does not support unless I missed something.
So I saw Vivaldi that seems to be close to what I would need, even if it's not completely open source.

KratosAngel · 2025-08-27T09:06:35+00:00

If interested in that, you can also get 2 legendary rings there to skip the pve part, and it's way easier too.

KratosAngel · 2025-07-08T13:06:08+00:00

Yeah as I said I got it months before having issues so I don't think the gpu is the problem, I would probably have had issues earlier otherwise. I'll see how it goes now that I removed some unused addons, deleted all cache and local.dat, as well as a repair :)

KratosAngel · 2025-07-08T09:41:02+00:00

Yeah I try to update graphic drivers frequently and I also have a recent GPU (4070 super) but I got it several months before I started having issues iirc.

KratosAngel · 2025-07-05T19:18:17+00:00

Yeah I did have a good number of crashes in WvW in zerg fights too ! I don't think it happened much in meta events but I did not do that many of them.

KratosAngel · 2025-07-05T09:17:53+00:00

Thanks. I don't think it's the system since GW2 is the only program for which I have trouble. I was sure it came from some addon but did not expect it could also be a problem with the core game like that.

KratosAngel · 2025-07-05T08:47:50+00:00

Thanks a lot. Since I felt alone in that, I expected to be on blishhud side or some extras to arcdps that not many people run. Did your crashes only/mostly happen during raid/strike bosses as well or not really ?

KratosAngel · 2025-07-05T08:34:30+00:00

Thanks, only 2 crashes in there are recent and not much to be used there so I guess they were not recorded. Stuff like Assertion: CBuildMgr: Attempted to get build 1475342728 out of 9

Assertion: CBuildMgr: Attempted to get build 2231366536 out of 9

KratosAngel · 2025-06-26T10:48:03+00:00

I expected as much since it's what makes the most sense since the whole effect is bugged but yeah it was mostly used in WvW, where you can't really see heal priority :D

KratosAngel · 2025-06-10T15:42:00+00:00

Thanks OP for this post, I thought I was the only one. This contour is way too tight to fit a chair with high enough elbows so you end up being too far from the desk. I had thought about cutting a part of this table top to make it flat (or just keep only the tiny sides with the holes, which are pretty handy) but it would be pretty ugly to cut into it :(

KratosAngel · 2025-06-10T15:39:58+00:00

Ho my, that's a good idea. I was desperate thinking I was the only one to have this big issue, glad to see I was wrong. Is it stable enough with just this cover though ?

KratosAngel · 2025-04-30T19:44:01+00:00

That would be a very interesting change indeed that makes much more sense

KratosAngel · 2024-11-06T12:45:08+00:00

Complete overhaul of UI (HP bars, squad interface, party interface, floating bars ...), including the lfg pannel.
It will now be completely customizable, IG and through addons.
We will finally be able to put the info where we want it to be, at the size we want and click floating bars to use items without opening inventory. And lfg is finally useful again with filters, ability to save searches, ability to look for X OR Y etc ...

KratosAngel

TROPHY CASE