There's just something hilarious about throwing flasks on yourself to give boons to others. "You see nothing but glass and blood, but you're filled with determination and inspiration."
Harbinger feels like a bardrunk that gets different power fron what they drink and with one trait you just turn them into a drunk who limes to share his drinks 😂
I play Chrono because i love the versatility. Ask what they need, A dps, Q dps, D dps.. just the click of 1 button. very similar rotations. Once you get used to the clone generations it's actually really fun! it just takes time...
I haven't been playing much lately due to real life stuff, but I really miss my Chrono for leading Convergences and Rift hunting. edit: And I usually played it as Heal + rez + boons since I was shepherding PUGs and wearing cele, but I was also learning DPS.
“Scrapper is the only one of these that has to care about the combo system” Me playing catalyst like maybe he just forgot, not knowing about the ensuing assassination that soon followed 😂
me able and knowing to play qcata : „fair, i take quick scrapper everytime i need qdps “ as long as the energy system is like at the moment nobody should play it
I think what is worth pointing out is for Specter, the dps and alac rotation is identical more or less (at least with the scepter dagger build). What is also nice about it is like you said, rot wallow venom is very strong, so stacking it before the fight or during downtime is super strong. It's worth noting that you can specify your tether target (remember, your alac pulses off your tethered target) with your F1 and as long as you stay in range of them (I think 1200), you can provide alac from across the map. I think specter is such a fun starter alac build because it is press 3 until out of initiative, go into shroud and use skills for like 15 seconds, rinse and repeat. It can also bring a decent amount of utility and CC (like a lot of CC). Portals, swapping thieves guild for basi venom for CC, wells for movement that provide boons, pistol for additional CC. It's a lot more fun to play now than when it released (bringing 3 wells sucked), though worse than when you could provide alac with vipers gear and do 40k dps lol. That's my late comments on Specter, I know there's a triple dagger build but that just sounds cursed lol.
I watched every single video in the entire series and consider them all very educational and helpful, including the classes Muk didn't like. this series helped a lot in deciding which classes to pick according to one's personal taste and abilities. the summing up conclusion was just the icing on the cake. thank you for all your hard work and dedication so we don't have to. 😗
One small thing to note for harbinger that wasn't mentioned is that blight stacks will also give you some health regen to partially compensate for the reduced max hp, when you're all stacked up it's up to 325 health per second which is a nice bit of extra sustain if you don't get caught out and splattered in one hit.
Forgot to talk about CC but other than that very insightful video :) Thank you for this comparison, it is great to see what the pro and cons of eachs specs are and it helped me to decicde to try out chrono and also what hardships and downsides i might face lerning this class
Herald legend swap is only fixed if you want to max dps. After a few sec of the fight, you will have 20+ sec of quick on the group and at that time you can stay in any of the legends for a fair bit of extra time without problems. It will cost you a bit of dps, but that's all
I guess the biggest thing this series CLEARLY demonstrates is that not all Boons are applied equally and perhaps Anet should take a look at the harder ones (Tempest, Cata, Scrapper, Mirage) and raise them up to a similar effectiveness as Bladesworn, Herald, Scourge etc.
Chrono having dual boon privilege is still funny to me. Druid AlacDPS is kinda funny, it's like you're constantly charging two very shoddy batteries, back and forth. You charge up Astral, then you plug in the battery to charge up Alacrity, then you plug in the Alacrity to recharge the Astral, etc etc back and forth forever. I imagine it's what being a waiter at a restaurant is like.
AlacDPS Renegade is a fun one to me, as you can very, very easily spec into having a lot of Protection on hand if it's necessary. Every Renegade skill can grant Prot to you and 4 buddies with a trait choice, and that makes keeping up Relics that rely on Prot or Boon Granting very easy. You can even just throw down Soulcleave's Summit for a second or two on a whim to grant it at basically no cost to yourself.
Another feather in the Herald cap (and you mentioned this in the vid specifically for it): It has a condi build for fights that favor condi, plus it has some range as well (shortbow). Only downside to it is you're basically forced into Dragon + Demon for legends; losing Demon for Dwarf on the condi build is a huge dps loss compared to swapping Shiro for Dwarf on the power build. It's super nice having that level of flexibility on a single class since I can just swap from power to condi whenever my raid team is working on bosses that favor one over another (ie no more me deleting tormenting deads on Souless Horror with arc divider :p)
Mirage can also give useful amounts of Protection instead of whatever Chaos Storm gives, which includes Aegis that can save the day. Underrated spec currently because of low dps following ANet's bizarre deletion of Confusion damage type. About which they need both a rethink and a slap.
I enjoyed the entire series tremendously and it gave me some inspiration for what to try next (Scrapper most likely, because I have a support mindset and want to be able to do utility things). But I do have to voice one point of criticism: Scourge has really, really good utility: On the default build (BiP, Serpent Siphon, Signet) you bring: - Aegis on a roughly 15 second cooldown - 1.5k-2k barrier constantly, making the healers' jobs significantly easier (seriously. It's easy to underestimate how huge this is) - Group cleanse every 4 seconds - A single target rez at range 900 (admittedly on a high cooldown and at significant HP cost) And that's before customizing the build for the individual encounter, because only BiP is really required in the utility slots (basically, any boss with adds will provide enough Lifeforce to not need Signet; same goes for a party that has Mesmer clones or Renegade legends). You can: - sacrifice about 2.5-3k DPS to take the "cleanse on barrier" trait (Abrasive Grit, Scourge first column) to easily outcleanse any healer that isn't a Healscourge (I do this in W2 for Sloth and Matthias and it made my experience on those fights so much smoother). With this trait, you (party) cleanse almost once per second - bring some of the best CC in the game: Golem and Spectral Grasp. Both of these have some hoops to jump through as opposed to - for example - Moa Signet, but their cooldown is significantly lower, so in a fight with repeated important CC phases (Samarog, Sloth, Matthias) you can have at least one of those up every time; often both. - Spectral Grasp doubles as pull (though both Mesmer and Firebrand are better at that) - Corrosive Poison Cloud is an underrated projectile block. Only about 40% uptime, so it's worse than Ventari bubble, but other than Ventari, CPC is fire and forget so you keep doing damage afterwards without worrying about your energy. - Sand Swell. Rather specific and worse than Mesmer portals but much lower cooldown which is why it's used for the hardest CMs - Well of Power: 5 pulses of party cleanse on relatively low cooldown. - Epidemic: Significantly nerfed, but still a good way to control adds. (I bring it on Gorseval or MO, for example) - Customizable amount of boon corruption (Scepter 3 is in the rotation, but you can bring more as needed) Sorry for the wall of text, I just wanted to be comprehensive. Overall, my verdict is that regarding utility, Herald and Firebrand are clearly superior to anything else, but Scourge competes with the Mesmers for the third spot. At worst, it should be placed below the two Mesmers and above Tempest.
In the "Can Swap to full DPS easily" column, I'd add Specter and Chrono (probably at the bottom). You need different gear for them, but the rotation is practically the same for both with a few minor differences. Maybe it's different from what you were intending with that column, but I figure it's worth mentioning.
Would love to see if they can do both power and condi boon dps. Many groups I've been in wanted me to have both power and condi boondps to swap between bosses. Sure you can switch characters but clicking a couple of buttons to switch equipment and build is much easier imo. Especially if you're going to change between the bosses in the same wing.
Some on top of my head that can do both condi and power boon dps: Herald, Berserker, Mechanist, Untamed, Harbinger, Chrono (the condi build brings much less utility though).
I love this whole series along with the heal one! I really hope Anet sees them and sees from someone who hasn't played most of them, to see how the pros and cons compare to each other. Then I hope they try to fix some of the pain points to really make some of the weaker ones better from a boon standpoint, not even dps standpoint. I really want them to improve ranges and how boons are applied to make them more balanced in that way, I mean more by bringing some of the weaker ones up not necessarily by nerfing the better ones. It really shouldn't be having some so simple with 1 button and massive range while others have to jump through so many hoops and have such a tiny range. Thank you for doing the series, definitely gave me some builds I want to try to play more.
I love qUntamed for open world, cause it just gives itself all the essential boons (-alac) to function the same as in a group setting and hit similar numbers, while also having a ton of inbuilt sustain and life-saving options that don't come at the cost of dps. Also tons of cleave.
29:00 Just for the melee/range thing. As far as i know the deadeye can be ranged too, it used to be played Riffle only (and still is on kite content like both Qadim's fight) and it still viable nowaday. Not optimised, but doable. Also the F1 doesn't TP to the target like DD or core thief one does. so no problem w this. The rota on this is basicly use signet, spam 3, when you're not reveald use Heal skill (the blue one w a silouhette as icon, can't rember the name XD), F1, or DE elite skill to clock and do ambush. However... it's a Riffle Thief, so you have to stay crouch to pump dmg (it still work without but w way less dmg), it mean very low mobility baseline On my (Power) DE i usualy have both Staff and Riffle equiped mainly because i'm lazzy and dogshit with daggers but also allow you to just swap weapon and go from melee to ranged rotation.
Ok, time for Anet to make a bazillion balance/skill class changes so that this video becomes obsolete, stabbing you in the back. Joking, I hope that this video stays relevant for a LONG LONG time; it's perfect for players to decide what they'd like to play (as a boondps class), thanks for your effort!!
"...ahhh didn't you hear Mukluk said Catalyst is a dead class, mmm get out of my party peasant!" echoes through my mind every time i see any Ele now. Including my own 😂
Willbender is gaining more boons slowly but surely, being able to give might at a dps loss was a *very* welcome addition EDIT: also, resident boonbender truther here, willbender's alacrity has the same radius as herald's quickness. Granted, most of it's other very few boons are mainly in the blue circles it puts on the boss, but the alacrity range is huge
I guess the reason why Muk didnt put the build with Herald and Bladesworn is because its alac application is extremely unreliable. The meta power alac Willbender build runs with < 10% boon duration so there's pretty much no buffer and your alac will definitely fall off when the boss goes invul.
Firebrand Mantras do have a small radius, so if your group is good at stacking, you don't have to worry about aiming the cones. Now, the tomes, however, must be aimed, because they have no radius.
13:00 Thats why it'd be nice to CUSTOMIZE YOUR UI in this game. That way, you could move around stuff like "clones on ur mesmer", "pages on ur FB", "Heat on ur Holo" & so on...to better track those things...
Scourge can "swap" to full DPS easily as well. Keeping the ritualist armor on full dps scourge is only around 1k or less than 3% dps loss, nothing big. The alac scourge can also provide full alacrity uptime in full dps gear and even gain damage, but it requires a bit more awareness of the shades and in general we wanted to give players a bit of a padding due to to inconsistent shade targetting system. So yeah, dps scourge can be played with alac gear and vice versa. For harbinger, same thing, they have different sigils and runes if you want to be optimal, but playing both with the same gear is an incredibly minute damage loss. love the vid otherwise btw, huuuuge fan :D
One thing about Cata I realized is that its just a less good Berserker mechanically: Both gain bar points on hit. Both can use a 10 bar points costing skill to give quickness. Both have to fill their bars to 30 before they can properly give quick(Entering berserk/full jade orb) However Berserker gets utility/Ult skills to near instantly fill up their bar. Meanwhile there is a 5 second bar recharge prevention penalty on Cata whenever they use their quickness skill. So Cata is literally an objectively worse designed Berserker.
the boon "range" Of firebrand mantras has been fixed for a LONG time now. before EoD iirc. you now have a Cone of about 60 degrees at 600 range AND a circle with 450 radius. Boon prio goes as follows: Subgroup in Cone > Subgroup in Circle > Squad in Cone > Squad in Circle > anyone else in Cone > anyone else in circle. you will almost always hit your group and you can even turn away from the main group and go away a few steps to hit a straggler with the cone, and the circle will still give boons to your subgroup. TLDR: Firebrand boon radius is nothing to worry about, just pretend its 450 radius.
IME on Chrono you do eventually get to the point where you don't really need to pay attention to the clone indicator and can instead count clones in your head from each button press, even keeping track of whether phantasms are in play and whether to hold generation skills to avoid overcapping.
Hello Mukluk, I'm sorry I'm late to the party - great video loved it all, really sorry to hear you couldn't make Quick Cata work so I thought I'd give you a hand here as a elementalist enjoyer. I'll start with obvious CONs and things that sadly make this class/spec generaly bad with quickness uptime: 1. some encounters don't even refill your energy when you get in combat, so you have to fill it up out of instance first - this also means when you have to gg and then start encounter again you will run into same issue. 2. when you downstate and get picked up, your energy starts at 0 no matter how full it was before - again huge issue with that outnof the way, let's get to the point of what you pribably ran into.. nowdays meta for catalyst is with sword and warhorn, however the usage of spheres is very different from what it used to be on hammer rotation, which means you use less spheres and thus generate less quickness - this is especially true if you tried to do SnowCrows rotation - so for quickness catalyst I recommend hammer + firework runes (25% boon duration) because even in a static fight like Mursaat Overseer, with 0 boon duration, you will very likely run into uptime issues unless you literally execute the rotation perfectly. with that said, if you ever want to give it a valid try, I recommend hammer as weapon of choice, attunements order as follows: Fire, Air, Water, Earth opener: fire sphere, air sphere, water sphere, then recharge energy on earth and loop spheres like this: earth sphere fire sphere, recharge with air tornado + autoattacks and then air sohere, water sphere and recharge on earth and so on. Unfortunate truth is, while the rotation is not even that difficult to learn, the fact it needs to be executed fast is where people struggle the most - especially when having to move around at the same time in real fights as oppose to static golem. I hope this will shed some light on the build and help you understand maybe why didn't it work to begin with. Have a good day sir
Renegade also gives about 63% uptime on fury (could be increased to 100% with relic of the midnightking) and can give a lot of might with his F2 and his fire fields in his rotation
@@Alphenis but with the cool down it is going between 10 and 20. Also as I mentioned you have firefields and on mace even blast finishers. Of course F2 cost energy but is doable.
The issue with the berserker is that it needs to do INSANE dmg imo to justify not having anything else other than boon+dps to bring to the table. So, what I'm aiming at is that it should do WAYYY more dps than thief (whichever spec it was) to justify its place in a party. Sadly, that's on the Anet's part and not on the players' part, as I still love my berserker and hate that I feel bad playing it in group content (as support dps) since I'm aware how very little uses and perks it actually has for the group...
Quick Deadeye and Power Daredevil use same gear, only difference is the relic, but the difference isnt huge if you use thief for both of them. Power Daredevil says you need axe/pistol but thats only for the opener which means all you need is the staff for both builds.
Willbender has Holy Reckoning (it's taken almost always) that maintains a lot of might, can get to 25 stacks most of the time. The signet is a "flex" slot and it allows you to bring any utility of Guard's toolbox. The elite is a complete flex slot. Much like Herald and Bladesworn, it has 600 boon range (except for symbols of course). As a Willy enjoyer these are my two cents here. Nonetheless, very entertaining video, fun to watch as always
On mesmer shatter clone count you actually know when you'll have 3 clones because when you press a skill you'll get 1 or 2 clones base on skill. Staff for example: skill 2 spawn 1, skill 4 spawn 2 so you'll get 3 clones after your 2 plantom become clone which is around 5s that what you have to "feel" it when it happen. Bladesworn charge system also the same.
28:37 It's not the weapon. Renegade can be played full shortbow at a very, very small DPS loss (about -2k, you pick the staff for bonking CC bar instead). But you still need to go in melee half the time because the Demon farts are around you. 33:33 isn't shouts tempest only ? (meaning Cata doesn't have it)
Renegades Legend abilities on Kala also have a range of 780 and mace 3 applies his conditions on a range of 1200 and axe 5 is 900 range (Mace 2 is 480 range, a bit short and axe 4 is also 900 range but you will teleport to the enemy if it hits). So even if you are on Kala and mace/axe, you still have options to do a little bit of ranged dmg
PowerBoon and PureDps Chrono have very very similar rotations, it's more a difference in priority of skills etc. 10/10 recommended if you are looking for a swissarmy class to learn
Yes, berserker requires a lot of button mashing, but the way you play it is quite mindless. Stick to axe and switch for utility only. I use a staff as secondary and only switch for movement skills or #4 if we absolutely need a little bit more CC. As for axe: F1, #2, #4, plus auto attacks are enough. #5 only during Berserk downtime (it kills boon uptime if you're playing qdps since you need to spam F1). #3 only for range, don't use it even at low health. Since #2 and #4 are basically double strikes, plus you get double adrenaline on crit they will keep your adrenaline up easily for F1 spam. Your utility skills are also in lazy mode. Wild Blow should def. be there. You get adrenaline, berserk extension, fury, and CC all in one.
Chrono is the only spec in the game that can fill ANY in a standard group. Power/Condi Dps, Power/Condi Alacrity or Quickness Dps, and Also Heal Alacrity or Quickness. It can tank aswell
I'd like to argue that Herald has a DPS variant as well. Switchingnone trait makes it so that their upkeep skills will boost the damage they deal. I've hit 30k with this build variant once, might see higher if I ever decide to stop being QDPS
i feel like another section could have been CC Also i feel like specter's barrier and heal also are a good thing to take into account. You might not know but scepter/pistol 3 first cast heals even downed people so you can ress from range while moving towards them (really good in q2 pugs in my experience).
for cata you also can't make it work much during downtime because you need energy and you get that from hitting... if you are lucky and have full bar of energy you can drop 3 fields max with 100% boon duration that's 12 seconds of quickness absolute max max max after that you need to hit stuff to get energy back 33:38 correct, shouts are tempest specific
yeah i think tempest deserves to be way higher in the easy category, maybe its just the juxtaposition to its other spec but i feel like its easy to execute once you like just understand their abilities
I feel like Harbinger satisfies the "Blood Mage" archtype where you hurt yourself to do more damage really well. It would probably be better suited to an Elementalist elite spec where blood is your 5th element or something but Harb also gets the job done.
I played only reaper for about 4 months and I love it but it was going stale being the same class so I made a scrapper and willbender. I’m enjoying playing diff classes every day. However now that I have all specs maxed on necro, guardian, and engineer I want to try a support class. For my 7th months of guild wars well over a thousand hours I havmt tried a support class yet but that is something I want to try. Not sure if I should go scourge, firebrand or whatever as support
Firebrand is good, but other supports are better. Scourge is like, the best second healer (you don't want 2x Heal scourge, but a heal scourge + druid/chrono is incredibly strong)
I really like boondps zerker. It’s a but limited, yea, but you can swap out signets of fury for another utility (like banners) if you change another piece of gear to have a bit more precision. (Or swap out might signet at a larger loss) I think part of why I like it so much though is that it feels so good on action cam. My burst is on a mouse button so doing it constantly doesn’t bother me either
i miss scourge from a pre SoO. the "rotation" was a lot calmer. its no more complicated now, its just my every waking moment is consumed with simon says or bot-it.
Hi, you got Mirage wrong, it can generate alacrity from 1st second. You just dodge and press 1. Also as everyone is saying I dont understand why you dont just equip some concentration gear and have easier time playing the classes. Otherwise thanks for content and thoughts.
Firebrand needs its boon application to become at least a 360radius and then it will become a blast to play. I might even finally migrate to guardian after playing revenant for so long. Just for some fresh air. But let me tell you, coming to FB after maining Herald is like pushing the self hurt button and enable masochism mode. Holy shit.
I was thinking of levelling a Firebrand because I thought Guardian looked more fun than Revenant but now i'm second guessing because I see some people say it's easy and others say it's way too hard. I just don't like playing classes if they're flavor of the month and they're probably going to get nerfed soon because they're too good. What's the chances of Firebrand getting buffs before the next expansion do you think?
@@aWildMoke pff getting buffs is anyones guess but FB is indeed kinda at the middle of the road at the moment. Meaning it could get buffed as well as getting no changes if Anet wishes to nerf the overperforming builds down to FB level. If you like the theme of a Guardian do make a FB though, you will be very welcome everywhere basically. It still performs good if played well. Playing it well basically means to have a group that can stack at least somewhat decent and you know to position yourself behind them so your cones hits. Everything else about the class is pretty easy to learn with sufficient skill cap headroom to improve as you learn it more. FB really has a tool for everything minus a clunky res skill but then there's only really necro and ranger that can res good, maybe warrior too but that banner is on a long CD. The rest of us just have to manage ressing the old school way :)
I played Deadeye for 2000 hours. As DPS, the builds and videos given on the sites regarding this subject are unreal.The max dps I can reach is 30,000, and even though I've been playing for over a year, I haven't been allowed into a raid yet, even though I'm probably one of the best deadeye players.The 45k dps given on the sites is requested by the raiding players in order for me to participate. When I examine the videos in detail, they do this by giving antibuff to the test golem and using 2 difrent food worth between 15-20 gold.In short, as someone who has played with Deadye for over 2000 hours, if I give Golem all the anti buffs available in the game, take all the buffs available in the game and use food buffs worth 30-40 gold on top of that, I can reach this value, but I wouldn't spend that much gold for testing or entering a raid. .As someone who hasn't been taken to raids because I haven't made a 45k dps yet, I want you to make a video about these door kepers=Raid Sellers. You are a RU-vidr and this is your responsibility..Watch the videos on the sites about this subject in detail. These DPS can never be reached while playing a raid. No player can do this. Everyone knows that money is required to enter the raids.Website owners and raid sellers same peoples.
I am sorry but it seems like you are trying to join random pugs for raiding (using LFG) These ppl usually want some kind of kill proof + very high dps to minimize the chance of failing (since it is with randoms) If you want to get into raiding I’d highly recommend guilds offering raid training!
@@MySeyyid KP.I have many legenderys and auras.Everyone saw me knows ı am experienced old player.People dont need to ask me ı have good items,high dps etc.They ask KP with addons whic is 3 th party programs.Whic is I never use.My old guild whic is I quit years ago.Took me 1 time to raids whiic is everyone died several times but we finished.They never took me raids again and told me improve my dps.I can see them sometimes in wvw and kiling eazy l 1vs 3.They dont have leggys like me too.My dps maybe best now.My new guild tested my dps when ı randomly join with open map build not dps and I gat higest 3 th dps.We played 50 player.Players asking KP and gate holding in strikes,fractals and raids.I can solo boneskinner and ı did before.I killed bone skinner like 300 time but players contunue to kick me fromm partys.Becouse I dont use addons for show KP or give my API key in discord.Dont tell me what to do or how to play..Probaply ı am best thief in game.İf I am not best I am in first 5.Look lf system you will see raid and strike sellers.I know game beter than you.
ive played all classes and builds in pve, by far Untamed is the strongest, most versatil, best self sustained and able to carry it's own weight of every build and classes. I always try to make all classes work and this is the one that actually felt like perfect for everything.
As a revenant main with over 1000 hours, mostly playing Herald, I agree with you, I also think that the class has too many tools and it is way too easy.
I find real easy to go power dps tempest auramancer, easily keep up 25 might, prot, alac, fury, regen, vigor, swiftness, and some aegis too, if earth shout is well used 10/10
I salute your dedication..... *but* I'm concerned for your remaining thin shreds of sanity... LOL :D Cata is rough.. I play cata, I like cata... but I wouldn't go anywhere near quickness cata cause it's hard enough *as is* without trying to keep track of boon up-time and were it not for my Razer Tartarus V2 *AND* Corsair Scimitar I couldn't play Cata at all.
Why does this 12:26 sound as if it could be played to Song of Storms from Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time? And for some reason that feels fitting for Ele. XD
Mukluk has not heard about Rebinding Keys /jk I was promized a Fight 50:30 First why the heck is Harbinger the easiest dps Mukluk? Harbinger has some rotation rules as well 18+3 skills you need to press and weapon swap! (auto-attack x3) Specter has less rotation rules as well 8+3 skills you need to press and weapon swap! (auto-attack x2 + elite skill depends) pMech has 7 skills you press off-cooldown. How come 7 skills off-cooldown is harder than 18+3 skills with weapon swap? Tempest's Overload boon range should be overall 360 or 600 as currently the might range is 180 and protection is 240 which feels horrible :< plz buff boon range! Also Tempest feels boring because Overload is sooo long and you can't do anything while you Overload. Personally I like it. You should have included between Melee and Range a Hybrid, those classes that either has mix of range and melee skilsls or can choose full meleee or range. Mechanist and Specter both have choice which effect if they are mostly Melee or Range! On same note if Rifle Mechanist is good then Longbow Untamed is good because both are 4k dps drop 😏 Scrapper swaps 1 trait between Boon DPS and DPS! ... I hope Mukluk explains how Harbinger is much simpler than braindead faceroll Mechanist 🤣
Bladesworn needs love both as an a.dps and regular dps Why do we have a spec that barely works half of the time and doesnt even get rewarded for the fights it plays well? (inb4 "actually it has a 43k bench on w/ all buffs on a training dummy" as if that's actually indicative of a pve environment)
boondps Firebrand is in a weird place right now. It's **fine**, but it requires pretty high APM per damage compared to everything except weaver, as well as good positioning for boon uptime. It feels like they're unsure how they can buff it without returning it to its hyperdominant state in other roles. Not that I mind Firebrand taking a step back after being meta-defining for several years pre-EoD, but as someone who enjoys the gameplay, it feels somewhat unrewarding to play, especially in pugs, doubly so considering some of the other options.
The funny thing is, FB in its old state wouldn't even be hyperdominant against other modern classes with their buffed support options. FB was just the best we had back then, so we didn't know any better! LOL That said, I think the tome rework was a good change. The mantra revert was and is horrible, and mostly only serves to increase the APM for builds with the ONLY 2 mantras that need to use the final charge to be viable (Potence and Flame). Increasing the mantras' radius and getting rid of their clunky, APM inducing ammo charges would go a long way to fixing FB and making it more fun to play again. Nothing else is really needed here.
cata is the only ele spec I can get on with, I find it quite easy and fluid to play, so i find it really strange Muk did not get it to work, mind you those guides are awful he was using, you NEED a 4 sphere rotation and you probably need some boon duration in a real fight (not on a static golem).
Muk: Don't use this guide to say I pick favorites. All these classes are equal in the hands of a skilled player. [Later that video] Muk: I don't care for Tempest
HAHA yeah, Tempest main for like 8 years and that is the funniest description of my class..."12331233" 😂😂 once you memorize each elemental skill before rotating each element, it rolls out into combo's flawlessly like playing the piano...
One thing what i will never understand is the way anet handles giving support option to all classes ... on one hand they want each of the class to be kinda on the same level, so everyone could enjoy playing with their class and do usefull boons time with it ... but at the same time they refuse to give classes the mechanics/abilities for that for the sake of "keeping the theme of a class" ... yes we got alacrity and quickness option for everyone, but for example why would i pick some other class if the best ones are herald, and hfb or chrono which give plenty of other useful boons like stability, reflection bubble and so on .. which arent any minor skills, they mitigate or negate plenty of boss mechanics in the game.. yet other classes wont get such skills, or if they have them they are in much weaker form (e.g. ranger turtle reflective bubble - you cant position turtle that well, the bubble is stationary, ... im sure there are plenty of other examples). So which is it anet ? ... are we giving everyone the ability to be a good support or are we staying true the theme of the class and we wont give them other mechanics ? I dont rly care for either of those options but not both at the same time, it doesnt make sense. sorry for my rant and thanks for coming to my Ted Talk
ANET fucked up with EOD. Willbender is too OP in wvw. And anet does nothing Harbinger is OP everywhere and ANET does nothing. Catalyst is total garbage that needs to be redesigned from the ground and anet does nothing. Instead they release pistol on ele. A weapon that is useless wherever there are reflects that adds ANOTHER stupid, unneeded and not asked for mechanic on top of all the other stupid unnecessary mechanics. I am so fed up tbh.
BASIcally anet made Engineer so much unfun to play even scrapper with these stupid combois, the mech was so fun in the beginning but had to make it play like shit with the rifle. There are so many bs boons and META that is healing healing healing healing healing healing healing healing healing healing healing healing and then CC CC CC CC CC CC CC CC CC CC CC CC wtf is this PVP , WVW became so boring cuz ANET UPDATES ! OPEN WORLD actually doesn't matter if you do 10k dmg or 30k everything is so easy and nerfed. RAIDS tried them few times only hard try hard sweats like they are competeiing for para special game olympics ! WEhen atards start putting all booons to all clases all broke loose to smithereens now can't balance jack shit of any game mode. I think i am done with this game rarely even get pvp pve or wvw dailies anymore. WVW restructuring killed the whole server now is empty as hell, then to wait a whole month to move to another guild F that man. Basically the next Exp will be even wrose than soto and EOD combined, they just milk what they can until they have some user base. Also LW s4 mabs FULLLL OF BOTS ! The perma stealth meta is annoying, the light armor class has more strehnt vitality and armor than heavey class armor wtf.. Also last month in pvp immmortal players, ports from one side of the map to another. etc etc This game became jsut in 1 year so broken and frustrating that it hurts.
As a main Elementalist, I tried Catalyst and can do 100% Quickness in the testing room, but in a real situation I can make it only 70% or lower. lol. If I just miss or delay a single button or get disrupted just once every f*** up, no energy, no buff, no DPS. It's all or nothing. I think Catalyst really need a rework. Even Catalyst DPS has the same problem; jade sphere pair isn't that fun class mechanic.
