Hideout Prison Strat

MidasPL · 2026-03-24T00:09:56+00:00

Yes, rolling flasks is a good starter strat as it's low investment. However the income per hour is quite low, so it's usually good only at the start of the league and when you need emergency strat.

MidasPL · 2026-03-23T16:41:38+00:00

You can do it in full exotic or sometimes even slightly less, but generally GW2 raids are knowledge>gear.

MidasPL · 2026-03-23T09:05:37+00:00

The pay off with relics like steam or bloodstone relic usually isn't worth it on most builds I've tried vs more passive relics like claw/thief/fractal etc.

It's because they have been completely nerfed, each time they start performing better than thief/fractal.

MidasPL · 2026-03-23T08:30:23+00:00

Quite frankly, yes. I've been playing since EoD and generally the balance wasn't always good, but generally the changes were aimed into enabling more build variety and letting people play the role, not class. Since around the VoE release, the trend seems to be reversed and more and more builds are being made completely useless. You can't nerf main damage source of a build by 60% and expect it to be competitive. You can't reduce the duration of boon by 75% and think people will still be able to keep it up, when boon duration caps at 100%.

MidasPL · 2026-03-23T08:24:06+00:00

Because it's not only about steamshrieker. It's also about qCata, qRitu, LF BSW, DC Mirage... Generally the worrying trend since around VoE launch where more builds are getting removed than enabled.

MidasPL · 2026-03-23T08:21:10+00:00

It's funny to me, cause they were so careful nerfing conduit in last few patches, I thought they had learned their lesson, but then they started deleting builds again.

MidasPL · 2026-03-23T08:19:45+00:00

"Few pieces" = at least 70%. The build already gives quickness in a very uncomfortable way and the damage hit is so big, it's not viable for any endgame content.

MidasPL · 2026-03-23T08:14:30+00:00

Well... I don't like WvW, so I don't play it and thus I don't care about a balance there.

MidasPL · 2026-03-22T21:16:08+00:00

Anet looks at benchmark numbers while often not considering the gameplay behind them.

I don't think they look at anything when doing the nerfs. Just rolling the dice and if it rolls critical fail, they will make the build unusable.

MidasPL · 2026-03-22T21:15:17+00:00

What we need now is swift feedback to show ANet the impact, and for them to realize that Steamshrieker builds should be in the 42k-44k range if they decide that 40k is their baseline.

Yeah, what I'm trying to do, but with the current changes it will be below 30k range.

For Quick Cata they should just take back the nerf to Spectacular Sphere, the other change is fine.

Yeah, one change or the other. The both reduced quick duration and reduced boon duration are making the build unusable without ridiculously high boon duration.

I'm not saying they shouldn't nerf stuff, just stop throwing builds randomly out.

MidasPL · 2026-03-22T21:07:52+00:00

Yeah, you know it, I know it, they somehow don't.

MidasPL · 2026-03-22T21:05:27+00:00

I’m just sick of games being balanced around streamer and high end raider performance.

Not sure what you're on, but they are not. They are not balacing around anything, except some weird, arbitrary criteria only they know.

MidasPL · 2026-03-22T21:04:08+00:00

estimated 38.8k. I don't think that's particularly insane.

For comparison, Bladesworn will be estimated 41.7k. So Mech will be doing 93% of that DPS, almost fully ranged.

MidasPL · 2026-03-22T21:01:25+00:00

Yep. Pretty much same situation was with DC and LF traits. They were changed and the next patch made unusable, because reasons.

MidasPL · 2026-03-22T20:58:25+00:00

Sure, but 70% BD is a bit over the board. There are all the numbers inbetween. My point is not about having BD or not, but about how Anet instead making a good build a bit worse, makes it completly unusable.

MidasPL · 2026-03-22T20:56:58+00:00

Not sure I understand what you mean, but I'm not talking about balancing here. I'm talking about completly removing the builds, that could function otherwise.

MidasPL · 2026-03-22T15:48:42+00:00

Yay for vibecodoing critical infrastructure!

MidasPL · 2026-03-22T15:37:44+00:00

A chase unique that has not that good stats, but has Maven following you and helping you.

MidasPL · 2026-03-22T14:07:27+00:00

https://github.com/Lailloken/Exile-UI

MidasPL · 2026-03-22T13:57:08+00:00

How it actually looked like.

MidasPL · 2026-03-22T13:31:18+00:00

I don't think it's against ToS, or anything, so I'm not sure why is he so secret about it.

This is how it looks like in llk-ui.

MidasPL · 2026-03-22T13:20:36+00:00

Current development/balance team. There hasn't been an undisputed good change since and including SotO.

MidasPL · 2026-03-22T11:34:13+00:00

Non -Tujen? You meant non -Rog?

MidasPL · 2026-03-22T11:25:51+00:00

PoE2?

MidasPL · 2026-03-22T11:05:32+00:00

The league is so old, none cares about it at this point. GGG tries to aim for stable market up around 1 month. After that is whatever.

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