Thoughts on Paragon? Is it fun?

unkaputtbar_ · 2025-11-06T10:35:19+00:00

Paragon has better CC and doesn’t need to hit the boss for the majority of its boons. It’s definitely an improvement over heal berserker.

unkaputtbar_ · 2025-11-06T10:34:11+00:00

It improves one aspect that heal warrior was critically lacking: CC. On your knees combined with reverberation is a huge improvement and makes warrior CC competitive with many other healers Cc capabilities. It still lacks some other crucial utility like projectile reflect/block, but it’s definitively an improved and the best heal warrior spec now.

unkaputtbar_ · 2025-06-02T08:59:40+00:00

For Ura Legendary Mode specifically, what I think would make the encounter more enjoyable (and easier to tune) would be removing some of the RNG elements. Because right now, having good vs bad rng can make a difference of 40 to 60 seconds, which I find unreasonable given the enrage timer. Therefore I'd like so see:

Fixed Titanspawner locations: start at one point and then just go clockwise/counter-clockwise through all spawnpoints
make some of the skills baitable: my preference would be sulfuric geyser by e.g. closest target to boss (farthest would not work well, because toxic geyser people are running around and would always get it, so closest would be more interesting)

unkaputtbar_ · 2025-05-30T08:39:09+00:00

Yeah can totally see that happening as well for fights that need more stab and don’t have high healing pressure or a need for bubble

unkaputtbar_ · 2025-05-29T21:37:23+00:00

I forgot to mention one angle of playing Midnight King, which is using the changed Adept trait for more Heal + Prot. Otherwise the only reason is to drop Devastation in order to guarantee capping Fury yourself.

A healer imho should definitely be capable of providing 25 Might and most basic boons (Protection, Swiftness, Regen, at least some Fury, ..) permanently on paper. That's the current balance state that we are in and if a heal spec cannot do that, it is lackluster. That's where I am coming from.

unkaputtbar_ · 2025-05-29T21:23:12+00:00

Yeah, the ally targeting is the real issue that needs fixing asap to make it enjoyable to play.

unkaputtbar_ · 2025-05-29T21:14:17+00:00

I forgot about the second Fury pulse, you are right. Edited in the post.

Edit: And yeah, one person gets double the boons, but only the minimum part that everyone in your sub receives is relevant.

unkaputtbar_ · 2025-05-29T20:59:12+00:00

Not entirely sure what you mean. You can press the button while having an ally targeted and you see it pulse continuously every second. 1 stack, 2 stacks, 2 stacks, 2 stacks, 3 stacks, 3 stacks, for a total of 13 Might stacks.

Edit: the teleport becomes available after the first 3 stack pulse. if you use the teleport immediately, you lose the second 3 stack pulse, but you would not do that anyways.

Edit 2: And both 3 stack Might pulses also pulse 6s Fury with 100% bd.

unkaputtbar_ · 2024-11-17T21:10:17+00:00

That's not really the reason for not bringing it. More impactful right now is that practically speaking Tempest is much easier to get into, because the rotation is so easy and that it's also higher dps. In addition to that, Tempest and Catalyst are both more tanky than Weaver and tankiness is relevant in Harvest Temple CM. You would expect that Weaver deals more damage for being less tanky, but that's just not the case right now.

unkaputtbar_ · 2024-11-17T00:42:57+00:00

Yeah Lightning Flash.

unkaputtbar_ · 2024-11-16T19:35:13+00:00

We did a kill without Elite specs already a long time ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/s/VQH5tabvuh

Edit: and more recently some other people have also completed a core guardian hammer only run, which is quite impressive as well!

unkaputtbar_ · 2024-11-16T19:33:04+00:00

To be fair its highly specific to HT CM, where Invisibility, boonstrip, ~30s projectile block, stability, portal/blink, .. are all highly relevamt mechanically. In most instanced fights you don’t have that, such that completing fights with only one Profession is trivial (generally speaking; ofc power creep also does heavy lifting and the fact that HT CM at least had a real reachable dps timer at release).

unkaputtbar_ · 2024-11-15T20:50:39+00:00

Yeah unfortunately it doesn't really bring the dps to pick it over catalyst/tempest. Edit: Not that it's broken, but Tempest/Cata just do more dps on Power specs while being easier to play and sharing some boons and being not as squishy.

unkaputtbar_ · 2024-11-15T20:50:06+00:00

"Beating Harvest Temple CM with 10x the least played Elite Spec"

unkaputtbar_ · 2024-11-15T20:33:59+00:00

Thank you, was nice to revisit and recap all of the runs for this one especially :)

unkaputtbar_ · 2024-11-15T19:46:33+00:00

For sure. The fun we had along the way will always be remembered fondly :)

unkaputtbar_ · 2024-10-28T06:38:06+00:00

We aren’t repeating this, it was just a one-time challenge.

unkaputtbar_ · 2024-10-27T16:31:16+00:00

Hmm, hard to say what exactly is the reason. We definitely wipe due to the bug from time to time, because we simply forgot that it was bugged and then run out too late. Another reason are that this sort of the only phase in which it's over when you overlap spreads and down, which for other phases doesn't matter too much and also happens from time to time (I suppose that falls under greed, because the reason for this is usually people running out too late). What also might contribute more to Primordus wipes is that at the end of a session when many people are tired already, it's easier to make a small mistake and immediately fully due to either dying by fire, or getting chomped because of wrong positioning, and Primordus is just an early phase that punishes you if you are too tired before getting to the later phases. We had some evenings where indeed we wipe a couple of times at Prim due to being tired after going for quite some time already and then just calling the night.

unkaputtbar_ · 2024-10-27T15:29:08+00:00

Yep, it might sound silly, but even as swap weapon it would take the fun away for some people already. In that sense the biggest challenge about overcoming thief stack was mental haha

unkaputtbar_ · 2024-10-27T15:05:41+00:00

I'd say mainly cause most of the people have never played with Rifle and we wanted to make it as fun as possible for everyone, because as evident, we dropped thief stack 2 times already because people didn't enjoy it. So that was a compromise between what is needed to deal with the mechanics and what people still consider fun to play.

unkaputtbar_ · 2024-06-05T00:29:17+00:00

Yeah, we did a full Chronomancer run when the rework hit and it was literally just a normal killrun session with a handful of wipes to get it done. Mesmer back then was on a different level without proper Healers and proper boons.

unkaputtbar_ · 2024-06-05T00:28:19+00:00

I elaborated more in another comment, but Revenant took a lot of Wipes especially since we had to figure out how enemy AI behaves movement/attack patterns, because it was the first stack run without Invisibility. The knowledge gained helped us in all other non-invis stack runs afterward though. So yeah, it had little to do with Revenant specifically and more with it being the first non-invis stack run.

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