Shards of war plains of ashford full#

Fire particle effects just make me happy. I have the most luck sticking to classes and builds that let me play with fire, be it City of Heroes, Path of Exile or GW2. My readers should know my pyromaniac obsession by now. I enjoy condition damage, it’s strategically different from straight up direct damage, there’s having to pay attention to layering on stacks and yet being able to pause and dodge and deal with other mechanics for a breath while still pulsing damage.Īlso it is FIRE. Adding on burns on a boss ups the dps of the necromancer-reapers, who get a serious amount of burns to epidemic bounce. It even gives fury and added condition damage. I fulfill a support role by buffing might and providing banners. I’d previously found a very happy place in raids as a condi PS berzerker-warrior. Some classes have cheaper builds or less specific role responsibility to tax one’s concentration and reflexes. Some classes are easier to play without having to manage a concerto on the keyboard.

Some classes aesthetically appeal to different personalities more. Of course, doable does not mean easy, cheap or enjoyable.

Shards of war plains of ashford full#

My raid group is full of people who can multiclass, so chances are fairly good that eventually the team will sort itself out into a new configuration that can cope – even if we might have to wait for the new strategies to be developed and then faithfully ape in cookie-cutter fashion. I know that I can -eventually- adapt to whatever’s needed. So even as one class gets hit with the nerf bat, another class will naturally be in ascendance, and if I have to equip and change to that class, SO BE IT. I am also quite confident in being able to equip each class with whatever the hell is defined as “good” in the next meta, even if it will cost time and money to do so. The fact is that it is possible to own one of every class, if not more. I have an underlying foundation of stability throughout whatever the hell excuse for “balance” occurs in GW2. The reason why I’m blogging about it though is mostly a need to work out a bunch of conflicting emotions, and having no other outlet but to lay it all out here. Where ArenaNet’s somewhat overzealous nerf of the standard chronomancer and necromancer raid meta builds promises ripple effects that will shake up the meta, in as yet unknown ways.ĭoom and gloom has a way of spreading across Reddit and the forums though, and the knee-jerk reactions of others are not doing wonders for -my- mood either. Your next build is waiting to be leveled or improved incrementally.” “You know what? This is too much thinking about trying to write about nothing. You certainly don’t find a dire need to wax eloquently on a blog about brushing your teeth, bathing, cleaning the house, picking up groceries, paying the bills, doing GW2 dailies, doing PoE dailies, -every- day and -every- post. You do it, mark it off the to-do list for the day or week, and proceed not to think about it any longer. It’s not super-tedious, but it’s nothing to get excited over either. Not happy happy. But not depressed or sad either. Most of last month was me questioning myself, “What are you feeling when you play the games you’re playing? Do you have anything to write or blog about?”Īnd the reply, as always, was “ehh… nothing very much. The silver lining, of course, is that I finally got frustrated enough to break through into coherence on this blog again. However, I am not sure this is a terribly positive change. I suppose this is a change from the past month, where the operating phrase was “cruise control.”