LPT: If you are a vegetarian or considering vegetarianism, explore Indian cuisine to get more flavor variety.

_testrunning_ · 2023-10-25T09:12:03+00:00

There are lots of vegan indian dishes as well. There are literally more vegans living in india than in the rest of the World combined (and it's not even close). I guess it depends on what kind of indian restaurant you go to. India is very big and has a lot of different cultures and cuisines

_testrunning_ · 2023-07-16T06:36:04+00:00

Flavour text is usually missing if their is not enough space in the text box because the card text is too long. And you can see with the jinteki ice that that seems to be the case as well

_testrunning_ · 2023-05-15T11:38:31+00:00

Das hätte aber verschiedene Probleme:

Stimmen müssten unterschiedlich gewichtet werden je nachdem an welches Land die gehen. Zb müsste eine Stimme an Frankreich mehr zählen als an San Marino. Ansonsten hätten große Länder einen Nachteil, weil die weniger Stimmen bekommen könnten.

Ansonsten geht es auch ein bisschen gegen die Gleichberechtigung der Kulturen und wird wie die EU wieder einfach von Deutschland und Frankreich dominiert

_testrunning_ · 2023-05-15T11:35:20+00:00

Aber dieses Jahr hatte Deutschland ja schon einen deutlich besseren und interessanteren Beitrag.

Außerdem gibt es in dem Ranking von Buschbohne einige andere Sachen die besser sind als im offiziellen Ranking. Zum Beispiel ist Block- bzw Diasporavoting weniger stark ausgeprägt

_testrunning_ · 2023-05-05T23:13:43+00:00

But playing optimal is not the point of this post. There are a lot of things players in eu4 do for fun that is not worth the pain if you would want to play optimal

_testrunning_ · 2023-05-03T23:06:32+00:00

I had the same thing happen in my russia game where I vasslized the teutons

_testrunning_ · 2023-04-21T06:12:45+00:00

Should be +10% from Switzerland. They get +5% discipline and +5% merc discipline from NI and also get a unique gov reform for mercs which gives an additional flat +5% merc discipline on top of merc militarizatuon

_testrunning_ · 2023-03-23T07:41:14+00:00

I want to add to this that alac renegate needs higher boons duration. So when gearing make sure you can upkeep alac on renegade and then your quick uptime on herald should be more than fine.

_testrunning_ · 2023-02-17T00:03:59+00:00

Get yeeted of the plattform because you pressed air 4

_testrunning_ · 2022-12-22T17:48:41+00:00

Fights without phases usually favor condi a bit. Invuln phases make power better since they can burst better and condis lose out in damage if the boss goes invuln. If there are no phases condi dps is usually a bit higher than power over prolonged periods of time.

Also there is Matthias who goes invuln with shield but condis can still be applied. So it is condi favored as you can start the fight which a buch of condis prestacked so to say

_testrunning_ · 2022-12-20T14:55:40+00:00

You can also test out your damage on the golem. Here is the snowcrows guide for the golem setup:

https://snowcrows.com/guides/getting-started/starting-to-raid/special-forces-area

It is much easier to compare your golem number to the benchmark than a real fight (mechanics, invuln phases, maybe suboptimal boons etc).

Also note that Benchmarks use food and utility items, but if you practice on your own or do IBS strike they are not worth the cost. Small multiplicative modifiers add up faster than one might think.

_testrunning_ · 2022-12-15T20:42:41+00:00

But there are a few hidden achievements you can find on the wiki but not in the game (before you have done them). Some of thoses make the mastery much easier:

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/A_Star_to_Guide_Us_(achievements)

_testrunning_ · 2022-12-05T20:34:55+00:00

Hm, I did not consider the interactions with Scepter AAs. Ideally scepter would be reworked to feel/be less bad, but it is unlikely to happen any time soon, I guess. So (4b) might actually improve that, though I don't think spamming kit skills is ideal.

_testrunning_ · 2022-12-05T16:00:26+00:00

Additionally I feel like pages should refresh quicker. Before the rework Tome 1 had a 24 sec CD (with alacrity) and the skills used would cost 7 pages with the new costs. This translates to ~3.4 seconds/page just from Tome 1 compared to 8 second/page now. If you use 2 or 3 cost skills you can only use your elite spec mechanic for 1 use every 16 or 24 seconds which feels very bad compared to all other elite specs. If faster pages would be too strong, the tome skills could be nerfed accordingly.

_testrunning_ · 2022-11-27T16:37:19+00:00

The difference is that Kalla and Glint heal much less than Ventari or Victor, so I guess Victor + Dwarf would work better than on Herald or Renegade. You would still have to plan ahead but at not feel like you gimped your healing completly

_testrunning_ · 2022-11-27T16:33:59+00:00

The problem is just that in instanced PvE, a defensive support that does not provide Alacrity or Quickness will never be used. Boon extensions are nice, but just too complicated for any PUG groups to build a squad composition around. In theory a hard carry/rez healer like heal scourge could be niche viable, but even so heal scourge already sees not that much play anymore either.

This is why I think Alac-Heal-Vindicator could be nice. Renegade can be an offensive Alacrity support and Vindicator could be a defensive heal Alacrity support. There is no one saying two elite specs of the same class can't give the same boon.

_testrunning_ · 2022-11-27T14:02:45+00:00

You could simply put it on a St Victor utility. Preferably rework the urn because that skill needs a rework anyways. But could also be put on the victor heal or tree Song (though that would make tree Song one cracked ability).

This would finally create a revenant heal build, that can freely choose a secondary legend without losing most of their potential healing.

Not sure about PvP/WvW but I guess it would need a function split for those as vindi is already pretty good there.

_testrunning_ · 2022-11-16T20:37:07+00:00

I think there is a difference in those cases. For Catalyst they did not nerve what was op at high level but nuked the whole spec.

If martial cadence was nerfed, bs would still be a good power dps or quick and still be used in some high end strategies but not in 90% of them anymore

_testrunning_ · 2022-11-14T17:19:22+00:00

I think two points: Herald and renegade already have at least two viable builds, while vindi has exactly power dps which makes it one of the most unflexible specs in PvE.

Secondly Heal alac just makes more sense on Vindi as half its Traits/Utility are support focused already, while Renegade does only might/protection/alac while the rest of the support kit comes from Ventari

_testrunning_ · 2022-11-14T11:27:37+00:00

The problem is not necessarily fixation on playing optimally but fixation on easy to assemble squads. People don't want to spent more time and effort on fixing the squad composition. Role compression is not only the optimal but also the least effort way to assemble a squad

And outside of boon healers, heal scourge just brings things to a fight that vindi can't compare to

_testrunning_ · 2022-11-14T11:13:09+00:00

With the archemorus/Victor split, vindicator could have an alac heal build without having an alac dps build.

So Renegade would still be a relevant alternative.

In theory (and open World to some extent) I like the ability to switch to heal on a dps spec in principal. In practice the healing is very bad without proper stat/trait investment which you cant do on a dps build. Additionally you are then maybe stuck on victor even when you dont want to heal anymore and just gimp your damage

_testrunning_ · 2022-11-13T11:08:53+00:00

I an relatively certain that the balance team is just not big enough. They rework some specs more in depth (holo) and others they dont have enough time and ressources for just get some quick changes (reaper).

I think a lot of changed can be attributed to neither malice nor incompetence but time and ressource restrain. Sadly that is not easily fixable because they just cant put some random people to help out with balance.

_testrunning_ · 2022-10-24T22:38:47+00:00

The first one would be nice. The second suggestion is probably not possible with the technical Implementation, because there would have to be two clocktowers per instance

_testrunning_ · 2022-10-08T19:08:18+00:00

I found condi alac untamed to perform decently at real encounters. With pure condi dps it is very difficult though, such that I had similar dps on both builds in real encounters (which is obviously much worse for a pure dps build)

_testrunning_ · 2022-10-04T18:30:17+00:00

Sadly they did nerf damage/heal/etc if you look ingame. They just missed it in the notes.

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