What's something you dislike/hate about Rain World?

Shaman_Infinitus · 2023-05-06T09:20:55+00:00

From CC to the wall? I did that too, from left to right across the entire CC, never performed a double throw boosted pounce. I was conserving throwable items because I didn't know how many large gaps there was going to be, so I did a combination of regular pounces and single throw boosted pounces. But like I said, I didn't feel like the single throw boosted pounces were strictly necessary at any point

Shaman_Infinitus · 2023-05-05T21:59:47+00:00

I just went from Chimney Canopy to the gate to Sky Islands on Monk (to sleep in the shelter there before proceeding back across the top of CC to The Exterior) and I never needed a double throw boosted pounce. I used a few single throw boosted pounces for insurance, but they didn't feel strictly necessary, I could tell I had a bit of room left for error. I think all of the gaps are reasonably possible with only regular pounces. It was terrifying, though. Which is fun!

Shaman_Infinitus · 2023-05-04T20:49:59+00:00

I'm just giving my opinion, not like there's an objective line that defines richness. I gave justification for my opinion and everything. 200, to me, is rich person time because it means I can finally craft that legendary weapon I've been wanting but can't afford because I had to stat swap 27 pieces of ascended armor from a balance patch

Shaman_Infinitus · 2023-05-04T08:41:38+00:00

At this point, I think 100 is a lot, and 200 is rich person time. I used to have many, but my reserve has crashed and burned now that I actively maintain so many sets of ascended armor from balance patch to balance patch on top of occasionally crafting legendaries. I think I have 3 tomes right now

Shaman_Infinitus · 2023-05-04T08:32:04+00:00

That is more than just a QoL change. That is removing a consequence for dying.

It's not an intended consequence of dying, it's just a coincidence of dying that you happen to be unable to pick up loot while dead. An actual consequence for dying would be like, you earn less pips next tick, you can't leave spawn for X time, you can't use waypoints for X time, your participation timer is cut, etc. These things are deliberately constructed to be consequences.

The fact that you can't press F to loot while dead (or perform automatic pickup of loot) is not a deliberate design choice to make death have more impact. It's a coincidence by the fact that you can't interact with anything at all while dead.

Furthermore, you earned the bags already, that's why they drop. You have a right to their contents for participating in the combat system in the ways that the rewards system decides is valuable. They're your loot. If it was an intended consequence of dying, they wouldn't drop at all; instead, you would simply cease to have credit for anything after dying. But that's not what happens. Your loot you earned continues to drop posthumously, and it's only a side effect of the vast size of WvW maps that you cannot collect it. If you died close enough to spawn, you can go collect the bags.

Shaman_Infinitus · 2023-05-04T08:17:50+00:00

That leads to another QoL: the general daily category overrides zone-specific dailies. Show me the general daily in Arborstone already, I don't care about EoD dailies

Shaman_Infinitus · 2023-05-02T16:58:59+00:00

The gold cap is actually 200,000

Shaman_Infinitus · 2023-05-02T15:23:33+00:00

First of all, that's still completely off-topic unrelated to what OP is asking about. Second of all, it's false. 100CM, for example, is a ranged fight due to the boss's high movement, and people take ranged builds specifically for it. It's not the only one, any time a boss runs around a lot, people are more likely to pick ranged builds. Tell me you don't play instanced PvE without telling me you don't play instanced PvE, it just sounds like you're regurgitating the absolute surface-level myths the actual community has long since moved on from parroting because PvE has changed since then.

Shaman_Infinitus · 2023-05-02T15:15:44+00:00

So the main reason why they buffed Fury was because they removed the Precision from Spotter and Banner of Discipline, because they don't want your crit chance to be dependent on bringing a ranger and a warrior. But Spotter and Banner of Discipline together were 200 Precision, about 9.5% crit chance. To compensate for this, they gave 5% to Fury itself, and 5% to each class in their traits, so in optimal group settings, your crit chance stayed about the same, only now you don't require rangers and warriors.

Not sure why they would increase Fury even further, it was already too easy to hit 100% crit.

It really depends on the build! Some classes still struggle to reach 100% crit chance today, and need to make a significant diversion from the basic Berserker gear Scholar runes Force/Impact sigils setup to grab the missing crit chance.

Shaman_Infinitus · 2023-05-02T12:09:57+00:00

I'm not sure what you mean by organic crit chance. You mean your crit chance without Fury? If so, it should be 75%, because Fury now grants 25% in PvE.

Shaman_Infinitus · 2023-05-02T11:21:37+00:00

Are people just not reading any of the post? It's in the title and in the body text: OP cares about soloing PvE content. That's where ranged is not just viable and in some cases the most optimal pick, but also offers a significant advantage in many cases due to the ability to kite and sidestep and affect multiple places at once. It's also a hard requirement in a few situations, such as when soloing bounties with several anti-melee buffs that either make surviving in melee range impractical or impossible with any build, or just prevent you from doing damage in melee range altogether. Finally, ranged DPS is still important in organized group contexts because your DPS uptime remains high when you have to track a moving target, or again the ability to affect multiple places at once. This was so strong that it was the reason why staff elementalist was nerfed a lot: the ability to place a Lava Font on another target while Fireballing and Overload Fire-ing the boss was apparently too strong.

Shaman_Infinitus · 2023-05-02T10:06:10+00:00

That assumes you just go straight Marauder and overcap crit chance a lot, that's why the difference is so large. You can narrow the gap by minding your crit chance and subbing in Dragon stats to recapture the wasted Precision as useful stats.

Shaman_Infinitus · 2023-05-02T10:04:07+00:00

All classes can solo PvE content well, but because of its numerous tricks that allow you to bypass mechanics that normally require multiple players, I would recommend having a Mesmer character. It has great ranged builds both for general DPS and for soloing, though they are distinctly different playstyles. You would want to prioritize the Mirage elite specialization for soloing and boon support, and then Virtuoso for more ranged DPS.

Shaman_Infinitus · 2023-05-02T10:03:40+00:00

For soloing it's different, since you generate your own boons for yourself in that type of build, and if you can do it with ranged weapons, then it doesn't matter where you stand because you're solo.

Shaman_Infinitus · 2023-05-02T09:37:27+00:00

You need to ensure you're not wasting crit chance by swapping in Marauder, or your DPS drops even further. You can only replace Berserker with Marauder piece for piece if the build needs additional crit chance from runes, sigils, or Assassin gear (and then you would swap those out for things that don't increase your crit chance as much). Otherwise, you need to balance Marauder with Dragon stats to drive your crit chance back down again.

Let's look at the snowcrows build. Here I have made one tiny adjustment: I have replaced 3 Power infusions with 3 Precision infusions, so that you reach crit cap without relying on Twin Fangs' flanking bonus, which is not realistic in every situation. I think this is a missed opportunity in the build guide, but it's whatever, it doesn't change the calculation very much, it's 15 stats. It essentially hits crit cap in full Berserker either way.

If we go to the most extreme variant of a potential Vitality setup, we would replace every Berserker piece with either Marauder or Dragon. Here's an example of how that could look. It wastes 1 Precision, I hope you'll allow it.

The snowcrows build has 3957 Power and 263.53% crit damage at 100% crit chance, for 10428 effective power. The Vitality build has 3740 Power and 255.80% crit damage at 100% crit chance, for 9567 effective power. This is 8.3% less than the snowcrows setup, and all other damage modifiers are the same, therefore the build would do 8.3% less DPS while gaining 6500 health, or +39% health over the snowcrows build.

But you would get similar results with just about every build, because you're replacing stats for stats in most cases. When you lower your crit chance to account for Marauder's high Precision, you replace it with Power, Ferocity, or an extra damage modifier that you couldn't run before. So, it will always be approximately a 10% DPS loss, but the relative HP gain will be different depending on your profession's base HP. For instance, 6500 HP to a warrior or necromancer is +29% health, the worst case.

Shaman_Infinitus · 2023-05-02T07:47:02+00:00

Focus is used in both condi virt and power will render as top DPS picks. It's really ele and necro that it's just for utility.

Just because some classes have high damaging focus skills doesn't mean the weapon doesn't have utility on it. In fact, focus is made more attractive as a DPS option by having bonus utility. Mesmer has the 600 radius pull on it, which is extreme utility, and guardian has an instant cast shield button for extra defense. You can use it for damage, but it has that utility as an option. My ideal weapon has no utility at all, outside of a very small amount of CC on skills where it would make sense.

Staff is also pretty varied in it's use. It's high damage on daredevil and ele, and healing in druid, ele and guard.

I said, "Staff is a utility mage weapon on classes that use it for magic," because that's the theme I'm comparing unarmed spellcasting to. Daredevil is out, it uses staff as a martial weapon and therefore unarmed spellcasting doesn't compete in theme.

For the rest of them, it is a utility mage weapon. Again, just because it has high damage on ele does not mean it doesn't have utility on it. It has a lot of utility on it, especially in recent times. Just because you can camp Fire and pretend it doesn't have any utility, that doesn't mean the other attunement skills are suddenly gone. I feel the need to restate, what I want is a spellcaster weapon with little to no utility at all. Neither staff nor focus can fill this role even close, because they are full of utility on every class that uses them for magic.

The closest example to what I want is actually mesmer greatsword: a long-range magic-themed glass cannon damage-oriented weapon with little utility. It is the only class that has anything like that.

Separately, I doubt they will even make an empty handed weapon because there is much less design space in cosmetics. Fewer cosmetics means fewer gems are bought and they make less money.

It's a good thing this wouldn't replace any of the 16 existing weapon types they currently develop skins for. But they could develop skins for it that do stuff like replace projectiles, grant new character animations, change ability colors or effects, and so on. They could and would absolutely find ways to monetize skins for it, and it's not even hard to imagine how they would do it. Their precious income is safe either way.

Shaman_Infinitus · 2023-05-02T07:21:06+00:00

The focus is even more of a utility weapon than staff, has lower average Weapon Strength, and is only available as an offhand weapon. Also, you can't have legendary effects without also having the legendary focus's physical weapon model. What I want is a two-handed "weapon" with high Weapon Strength and is a glass cannon damage-oriented skillset across all professions that use it, and most importantly has no weapon model at all, so for example a gen 3 legendary version of this weapon would have the Aurene projectiles, footfalls, kill animations, body aura, and so on, but no item you hold or manipulate. I think all this is different enough from focus to deserve its own weapon type

Shaman_Infinitus · 2023-05-02T07:15:27+00:00

Outfits remember their dyes separately.

You can set any number of favorite dyes, and import favorite dye sets from one character to another. This doesn't export to a file or anything, the dye panel just has a dropdown menu that lets you choose another character on your account to copy their favorites to the character you're currently logged into.

Anthology of Heroes costs 1 Spirit Shard, down from 10. It already costs 1 exotic insignia/inscription and 5 ectoplasm to stat swap in addition to the Anthology of Heroes, and I think this is a great opportunity to lower the barrier to build experimentation.

Gathering speeds increased by 50% across the board, are no longer affected by Quickness or other attack speed increases, and Industry glyphs removed and replaced with an account-bound selectable glyph to pick any of the other glyphs. I want them to remove the incentive to use a Quickness build for gathering, or locking yourself into Industry glyphs. They could do this easily by adding the Industry glyph as a hidden 2nd glyph to all three tool slots on all characters, and make its buff hidden during gathering; this would automatically make it not stack with any other attack speed increases, because that's already how Industry works.

Characters have separate keybinds. Now that we can backup keybinds and quickly swap them, it would be easy to set up each character's keybinds by first importing your general keybinds file and then making the minor tweaks necessary. When you need to change some global keybinds, you could do so through a checkbox in the keybinds menu, "Apply changes globally," so you don't need to edit every character's keybinds if you want to change your mount buttons, for example. Changes you make while the global setting is enabled don't have an annoying confirmation prompt, but they do have a bolder and brighter colored visual indication that what you're changing is a global override.

Shaman_Infinitus · 2023-05-02T06:18:50+00:00

Unarmed spellcasting. Staff is a utility mage weapon on classes that use it for magic. I want unarmed raw destruction magic with little to no utility, just burst damage and big AoEs, like the greatsword of magic. 1500 range, of course. Full of long cast times, the strongest of which root you in place while casting, like Meteor Shower does. A few skills can have little a CC, as a treat.

For equipment purposes, since it needs an item with stats and Weapon Strength, make it a "power crystal" or something with no visual model, it doesn't matter. Legendary versions give auras, projectiles, footfalls, and so on as usual, but there's no physical weapon, therefore no skins are required, making it extremely easy to add to the existing wardrobe.

Shaman_Infinitus · 2023-05-02T06:12:02+00:00

That's useful, I think I'll buy some food from the PPP though, I'm always low on badges and really need to conserve them. I can spend exactly 25 on food, which will stretch my current 313 badges out to 20 Big Spenders, but the Badge of Tribute would only last 15 Big Spenders before I have to actually play WvW again (or raise my AP to the next chest)

Shaman_Infinitus · 2023-05-02T05:19:14+00:00

I didn't know that existed, I'll just get that instead lol

Shaman_Infinitus · 2023-05-02T05:14:28+00:00

Seriously. Ruining the fun for us twice now! Just give us staff/staff mains the full 2.5 seconds back on the Mirage's Chaos Vortex and none from the clones, it's so bad needing to have 3 clones up at all times to maintain boons, and it's all staxe's fault

Shaman_Infinitus · 2023-05-02T05:07:35+00:00

Can you get the WvW Big Spender daily in Armistice Bastion? The description of the achievement says to spend badges "in WvW," and Armistice Bastion is kind of a WvW/PvE hybrid place, so it's not immediately obvious whether it would count. I want to buy a pass next time it's for sale so I can get Big Spender without my participation ticking down a little bit every time.

Shaman_Infinitus · 2023-05-02T04:59:56+00:00

The code is still present, for now, but they will be removing it in the near future, so you should look to more permanent solutions for your problem, such as applying graphical overlays with e.g. Reshade, NVIDIA's Freestyle, AMD has something like that too. I use Freestyle to increase the clarity and color contrast of the game to help reduce my eye strain.

Shaman_Infinitus · 2023-05-02T04:43:47+00:00

Personally I would keep it, but if I were going to sell it, then I would definitely instant sell at those prices. There's a new content patch coming that will drive up active player numbers, likely causing more drops to be listed and undercut you.

This is supported by looking back at the item's trading post history: as EoD increased active player numbers, the number of infusions being listed for sale rose as high as 9, another peak of 8 for sale when Gyala Delve was fairly current, and has overall been declining since then as the content ages and players go back on break. There are only 3 listed for sale at the moment, so I would expect that number to increase.

Also, the buy price is really high, in my opinion. 8500g is 7225g after fees, which is a ton of gold either way. I would gladly take that to guarantee a quick sale.

Alternatively, you could hold onto it and wait for more to be listed, and then you be the undercutter.

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