Morte de Angelis.7986

There is so winning with the WoW playerbase, if Mythic is too hard people complain that fights were catered to the World First Race, too easy people complain its too easy and was over too fast. WoW has also started nerfing bosses mechanics or HP periodically if there are too many guilds that are stuck on bosses even months after the World First as concluded because they don't have passive damage increases. A large majority of the end bosses are very different to the fights the World First guilds did. The WoW playerbase also has a tendency to blame any inconvenient change on the World First Raiders. While I have yet to attempt HTCM or Febe CM as I don't have a static group to prog them with, the fact that I was able to walk into CO CM but basically no knowledge of Normal with minor instruction of "Don't get hit by the laser", "Move if you get targeted by soul feast" and "Move back if you have a target on you" in ~1.5 hrs in a majority Pug Group was a real let down. I wasn't expecting anything WoW Mythic Levels of a raid boss but it too me way longer to learn how to do Nightmare and Shattered Observatory CM when they first came out years ago but like someone else said GW2 has always positioned itself as the casual MMO that doesn't have very difficult encounters so it is a bit out of place even if I like the challenging content.

Blocking a stealth attack still applied reveal which is what made Basilisk Venom really strong when it gave two stacks,, you could make the argument for evasion based mitigation (Dodge, Distort) as the attack never actually landed. I just remember hearing about the shortbow attack at the time. Though now they're splitting skills based on game made would be nice to remove the CD in PvE at least 😞

You can blame the slow projectile on Shortbow for that because at max range you could fire a 2nd projectile before the 1st one landed and rather then speed up the projectile for the shortbow so you couldn't get two off they added a CD to all Stealth Attack skills. At least thats what I remember their reasoning was

Game Yes,Codewise? Its the same engine. So they could almost literally copy-paste.

GW1 and GW2 are on the same Engine, which is why they have so many issues trying to add something new. Just saying.

Greetings!We are a static team currently looking for members.We are a laid back static team looking primarily to have fun. We try different odd comps, we try our best to clear but most importantly we have fun doing it.Looking for people to join us on Mondays / Wednesdays / Sundays starting at 7:30pm BSTWe are looking for all sorts of players, more classes you can play and have geared the better. Allows us to play more whacky comps or standard when needed. Players experienced with Chrono or willing to learn Chrono is preferable.If you are interested shoot me a message in-game(Morte de Angelis.7986) and I can get you set-up on one of our raid nights to try us out and vice-versa. Experience is not required but it favourable.Experience can always be gained.

Greetings! We are a static team currently looking for 2 members.We are a laid back static team looking primarily to have fun. We try different odd comps, we try our best to clear but most importantly we have fun doing it. Looking for people to join us on Mondays / Wednesdays / Sundays starting at 7:30pm BST. We're in the current process of clearing Wing 7. We are looking for all sorts of players, more classes you can play and have geared the better. We are currently in need of 2 DPS players. Experience with Chrono is favourable. We generally run a 2FB / Rene comp but there are some bosses which 2 Chrono's is preferable. If you are interested shoot me a message in-game(Morte de Angelis.7986) and I can get you set-up on one of our raid nights to try us out and vice-versa.

Greetings!We are a static team currently looking for members.We are a laid back static team looking primarily to have fun. We try different odd comps, we try our best to clear but most importantly we have fun doing it.Looking for people to join us on Mondays / Wednesdays / Sundays starting at 7:30pm BST.We are looking for all sorts of players, more classes you can play and have geared the better. Allows us to play more whacky comps or standard when needed. However we are currently in need of players who have experience or willing to learn Chrono and/or Quickness/Support Firebrand.If you are interested shoot me a message in-game(Morte de Angelis.7986) and I can get you set-up on one of our raid nights to try us out and vice-versa.

We are now at 9 people in a team, looking for one more.Pref with Chrono experience or wiling to learn Chrono

Still looking for members!In need of people who are experienced / interested in learning Support/Tank Chrono.

Greetings! We are a static team currently looking for members.We are a laid back static team looking primarily to have fun. We try different odd comps, we try our best to clear but most importantly we have fun doing it. Looking for people to join us on Mondays / Wednesdays / Sundays starting at 7:30pm BST. Currently trying to push and kill Qadim as it is currently the only boss we have killed yet as a group. We are looking for all sorts of players, more classes you can play and have geared the better. Allows us to play more whacky comps or standard when needed.If you are interested shoot me a message in-game and I can get you set-up on one of our raid nights to try us out and vice-versa. Experience is not required but it favourable. Experience can always be gained.

Druid Support options used to be 5-man and the only class that could compete was Tempest, and the only reason anyone ever took Tempest was to make Matthias runs easier for pugs. Short of that, it was Druid or Kick for 99% of groups. Now there are a few healers you can choose from to get into quite a few groups with.That doesn't change my point that Chrono at least was the Uncontested King of Support. I'd much rather a Full Support FB that could compete with Chrono then a DPS / Healer Support hybrid.Right, no class can currently fill the role but hopefully this will make it easier for Anet to balance without having to make classes God tier to do soDoesn't change my pointEven after the CC nerfs it still brings a lot of CC in comparison to a lot of classesThey probably realised that to make FB / Rene good enough to compete with Chrono they have to buff them an awful lot, Chrono was setting the bar way to high, so rather then try and move the classes up that high and become god tier themselves they decided to bring the bar downThe fact that it never had any real competition is the problem with the balancing and Anet is trying to fix that

Yeah, but what until then? Play this mess of a class? No thanks, it's not fun. See you in 3 or 4 balance patches. In the meantime, enjoy waiting an eternity for Chronos joining your parties - because there are almost none left putting up with this anymore. Or having a terrible experience playing them. Or play them at a low skill level. Do what you will, the game won't die overnight. I know I take a break sometimes when I don't feel like playing :)

Chrono could Give all boons in the game,Easy access to block and block a lot of mechcanics,A lot of personal suriviability,Tons of CC and utility,and if you took Mistreals, also heal quite a lot. The only thing the Chrono couldn't do while doing all this was DPS. Chrono needed to be nerfed. It was the one-stop-shop for everything . The only way anything could of dethroned Chrono would of been able to do all that AND have decent DPS. That is just creating a monster to replace a monster and massive amounts of Power Creep. Firebrand was already dominating Support in WvW and would of needed even more buffs to even compete with Chrono in Raids. It was too good for its own good and for too long. People got too used to it. Its been like this ever since then introduction of raids and each nerf to Chrono only made it MORE mandatory to take. Ele used to be the one and only viable DPS. Now there are many.Druid used to be the one and only viable Healer. Now there are many. Chrono (until now) the uncontested King of Support, making Firebrand and Rene a straight downgrade in comparison. Now hopefully, this will pave the way for other people to do the job that Chrono has been doing for over 3 years. Quickness and Alacrity aren't going away. You still have powerful CC. You still have tons of Utility. I understand that Chrono is not a lot of fun for quite a few people right now and honestly I hope that it'll improve with future patches, much like Ele went from all time high to all time low. However Anet continued to balance and while its Prime Glory days are over it is still competitive on a lot of bosses so I also hope that they put the same effort in with Chrono. Its currently a diamond in the rough, just needs a good diamond cutter and it'll be just like new. While Chrono might never reach the peak as the one-stop-shop for every boon, I should hope that Anet will continue to change Chrono so that its balanced, not oppressing and over shadowing all and any competition and that it will be fun for the people that liked Chrono to play again. Here's to Anet fixing stuff :)

Condi Damage (Major) / Expertise(Minor) / Conc(Minor) - Would be nice for Condi Chrono / Quickness FB to keep up damage while also providing boons. Closest to this currently is Seraph - Prec (Major) / Condi Damage (Major) / Conc (Minor) / Healing Power (Minor). This would also help niche builds such as Condi Boon Thief on specific raid bosses get some much needed boon duration from Detonate Plasma. Power (Major) / Ferocity (Major) - Just the two stats, there are a few classes that can get Crit % via traits and something like this would allow those classes to utilise traits to increase damage at the sacrifice of a more rigid build Power (Major) / Prec (Minor) / Conc (Minor) - Same as above but for power classes to be able to increase boon duration at the cost of Crit Damage Condi Damage (Major) / Healing Power ( Minor) / Conc (Minor) - Condi Version of Harriers These are some Stat combinations that I feel could give certain classes a much needed boost in Raid and Fractals while also not having dead stats to get a different combination