Rodrick.1942

funny, I just made a team with 4 condi dps plus me as boon/healing herald for 4 day, the group fill much faster also it went much more smoothly than "meta comp" . Even when I want to play my main Character --"HB" , I usually take 4 any classes with me and we don't have any problems. As solo support, the only down site as herald is if you choose to use jails instead of ventari to give stab for some annoying boss fight, you gonna sacrifice alacrity output, but if you have a mirage , you can let him fill the gap. Support herald maintain permanent boons from glint facet, healing orb trait and alacrity (as long as you spam Nature harmony), also extend boons that provide by other dps class for 3 more sec, plus superior healing/condi cleanse. Stop saying it's useless just because you guys don't know how to play this spec. And last thing, you can finish fractal t4 or raid "without alacrity or quickness or both", it's really stupid to judge spec by this. it also make you tunnel vision to see this game. Most people in lfg just keep looking for "hb , alacrigate" , but that doesn't means you have to follow this path. You can play herald and be really useful when you know how it works and which class you should have to help you in the instance content. STOP BEING A kittenING USELESS 🐑

F3 has long cd which means it's a situational tome which can turn the tide if HB know when to use it and manage cd well. Also a HB can maintain literally all boons by himself without alacren's help. IF HB IS GOOD ENOUGH then the group dps will be much higher because alacren is allowed to play full dps build or you can actually use any other dps class for this spot too. My point is if you bring a harrier HB in the group that only spam aegis and quickness, you'd better just take condi qb instead... Guardian has various skill to deal with different situation, with new skills from FB you can do much more as support. Some dps class are also allowed to lash out more damage (eg : weaver) if they have a decent boon support teammate. Of course you can say i only know this way, yeah sure, but when no one know how to play HB properly in fractal, you will see more and more people stack up blue class in fractal t4/cms like we have now. Because it's not fun to play other dps spec in a tough fractal with kitten instability, and without proper support. Fun fact : before renegade's kala elite skill get nerfed, do you know that in fractal with meta HB/ren, it is renegade who keep group alive most of time ?

When you have a HB in the fractal group which : "Never give stability when there is lots of cc comes from adds/boss, and need renegade to cover it" "Rarely give other defense boons like regen/resistance/resolution/protection, instead keep spamming bow of truth" Why not just find a druid / temepst which heal much more than crap HB ? As HB, it's shame that you dont provide these defense boons which already on your hand, instead just keep spamming crappy healing and watch everyone get one shot. why does people call this meta ?

Well....It's better than nothing 🤮

I know it's so easy to replace the retaliation to resolution on all existing skills/trait, just replace the code, nothing else. BUT I thought a software team should analyze and adapt the program after big change, but instead you just replace the code and tell us that it's done ? Where is the project manager? where is the head of system designer ? and where is the QA test team ? I remember when I work in ASUS, my QA team leader will always give his opinion when his team find out big issue that missed and need to be fixed. Does this step has been skipped ? The big change of condition and resistance impact this product a lot. Let's just talk about warrior, without resolutions how can a warrior survive in a random and tough situation ? All condi cleanse skill/trait is not good enough to counter condition spam classes. In the past we had resistance to buy some time, now the last shelter is gone. I get it that you guys want to make protection as,a key boons to counter strike damage, resolution to condi, that's a really good step, but please review the change carefully. No one like the complain from customer, but it will happen a lot and affect morale if you release the product without 100% quality checks. Rev got resolution after they keep complaining, should warrior have to do the same kitten ?

Dear Anet : Can you reconsider to Reroll to previous patch and review all the details before release it again ? Many features from this patch slap your own face. Remember the reason you nerfed the base healing value across all heal skill ? because "if you want to be an efficient healer, you must invest on healing power ", why does mirage don't need to follow "no pain no gain" rule ? I don't want to type all the detail. All I want say is please follow the path you were planned before. Thanks 😇

I agreed with what you said, something must wrong in that group. With a healer (even not Hb, like auramancer ), it will not take longer than 30 min.

In which bizarro world is condi herald useful in fractals? sorry but no, condi herald is not helping anyone in instanced content. sirens reef is so hated by a lot of the fractal community because you cant really speedrun it. portals dont work with the chest and the cannon event is just annoying. The endboss isnt the problem. SA makes it incredible annoying and stab doesnt even work vs most stuff.4necros + druid was never meta. it was a brainless way to complete them half afk but considerably slower than a decent comp with quickness and actual meta strats.The meta in every mmo is dps. you only bring the support needed to survive. even in trinity games they dont take a healer if it isnt needed.@Firebeard.1746 Are you using arc? it shows way more than just dps. also healing, boons and cc. you can measure the usefulness of a build quite easy with it. there is a difference if you just complete the fractals or if you complete them in 20min. especially when some players completed them literally 1000 times. speedrun, annoyed, can't see the value of some off meta build. go back to cms then, if you don't like to try new stuff. but don't expect Anet will keep announcing the similar design content all the time because people like me still exists in gw2 .

Siren's reef is the response from dev to tell us that "you need decent support / healer or different tactics to finish this fractal ", however player rate this one is a bad fractal just because they can't use no healer comp to finish this one. Another example is the removed instability "bird", this one has an easiest solution to counter : have someone to spam resistant to ignore blind. but people just don't like it and don't want to adjust build. So the reason this game always been toward dps check is our attitude, not dev's attitude. That's interesting because I've always seen Siren's as a soft DPS check too, if those adds don't go down it's a wipe. There was once when i was carried by some crazy DPS god who's ignored them, but I've literally had to teach tons of teams to keep them down or we'll be overwhelmed because they couldn't do Hyperfocused DPS god. Though a way the devs could take emphasis off DPS is to trigger events/mechanics on certain boss health %s. Like instead of doing the adds on a timer like Siren's, do it at boss health intervals so your team could end up getting zerged. And maybe not despawn adds on boss death. You're right it's a soft dps check, however it's also a race to see who can keep their breath until last sec. FB need to spam resistant to ignore condi from adds, endless stab to counter cc, and have ren to help to heal group by using Kala elite skill or have a hybrid scourge to spam barrier/ condi spread. it's one of the fractal I like because it forces us to change the way to play fractal, some build that people never think about it before become a thing (eg : condi herald )

Siren's reef is the response from dev to tell us that "you need decent support / healer or different tactics to finish this fractal ", however player rate this one is a bad fractal just because they can't use no healer comp to finish this one. Another example is the removed instability "bird", this one has an easiest solution to counter : have someone to spam resistant to ignore blind. but people just don't like it and don't want to adjust build. So the reason this game always been toward dps check is our attitude, not dev's attitude.

Those who kept complaining about raid, they are actually afraid to make mistakes. Part of them don't like to be seen as burden. Part of these people just don't want to put too much effort on it (like open brain again to learn new stuff ) , because "we are here to rest ". Raid itself doesn't have any problem, people's attitude cause these problems.

So, no, in any sustained fight condi FB does not seem OP at all. Hint: don't confuse shortterm burst values (which burn guard is indeed good at) with longterm sustained dps. Sadly, when people are being told that "condi FB" isbetter in PVE, people will start to play it. Other condi class might have better avg dps than FB but FB can lash out tons of burning stacks in a very short period of time. So base on these condition, the only way to win dps race in fractal/raid is you play other class that have much higher burst damage than condi FB---OR you play FB too.

Another problem is no one think cc is their job these days. because everyone want to see the big big dps on Arcdps panel. I also have some bad experience with pug that an alacren camp on sword most of time..only use staff for cc once or twice.

yes, the armor set box after finish Envoy 2 will be the precursor armor; Envoy 1 also give a free armor set box too after finish it, but that armor is not precursor, it's just a free ascended set armor box.

I think you misunderstand the point of cc consumable item nerf. Anet doesn't want these item to be used during the fight, not "unintended use of the inventory "