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How about the current condi deadeye d/d meta?. Deadeye was released as a power/long range mostly elite with an emphasis on stealth attacks. And nowadays combining d/d with deadeye massive inniciative regen as given birth to a deadeye that is more daredevil than daredevil themselves since their gameplay 100% perma dodging. Literally no reason to touch daredevil at all, the elite that was supposed to be all dodges completely outshined in its main gimmick by another elite that was never supposed to be about dodges at all. Vindi was made as a part support/part power spec with emphasis on a self sustain/dodge based gameplay. And that's exactly what it does nowadays. I don't see why giving it 2 dodge bars deviate a dodge based elite from its original purpose more than what deadeye its currently doing to daredevil

instead of nerfing whats performing well why instead not buff what's underperforming to its level so people can just play the elite gameplay they enjoy most?

I been with a class Identity crisis since beta, always jumping from one class to another because i just never could seem to find a main that suit me. Being mostly a tank in pretty much every mmo I've played it's been hard to find something that has that "juggernaut" feeling of being very tanky and powerful but at the same time that wasn't extremely complicated to play. So the idea of Vindi using 3 legends swayed me away from the class for a long time. However after hearing you didn't even had to use blue at all besides for heal and cleanse and that you could camp on GS i decided to try it out. And it's been amazing. The animations and damage feel powerful, great cleave, the gameplay is engaging, its toolkit has pretty much everything; 3 heals, stun break on both legends, gap closer on both legends and weapon, nice burst on both legends (shiro/alliance). Massive survivability in the form of perma buffs, dr passives, the 3 heals and dodging being part of your rotation, your block skill being also a very powerful counter that can easily crit over 30k and a easy access to condi cleanse. you could go full berserker and put celestial geared classes survivability to shame. I'm full zerker and i can jump into a zerg of veteran and elite mobs or face off solo agaisnt SotO open world champions confident that I'll walk away alive. In fact, since i started playing the class at SotO release i think i have only seen the downed state twice. I can definitely say, after 8 years, that ive found my main.

The op was asking for a Vindi power build tho. Hizen as actually made a video with updated builds ( the one you posted is 9m old) and in the heavy armored class one you can find an updated link and showcase video on the description with his alternative power vindicator build. I was originally exceptical because he uses berserker stats instead of celestial so i decided to go the safer route and replace a few pieces with Dragon and marauder stats instead and lol. I half feel i shouldn't had because so it happens that vindi self sustaining is so good that even as full berserker you're incredibly tanky. But yeah. You can't go wrong with hizen builds for pve. He makes builds that allow you to solo stuff that isn't meant to be soloed lol

Any chance to see the Elegant Silk Scarf that was offered early in January return? It's pretty much the only scarf skin in the game that doesn't look enormous on Charr

You know how much the LS episodes cost with gems?. A single season cost about half the price of a legendary weapon in gold. The bundles should at least be much more streamlined.: Take the HoT+PoF bundle for example. The bundle doesn't include the LS related to HoT. Imagine a the new player confusion when one moment they are defeating Mordremorth, and the next one they are taking an airship to go fight the literal god of war in the desert. At the very least they should do like they did when LS1 still wasn't available that they added an npc that retelled with cinematics what happened. That way if new players want to buy the expansions, but are not ready to pay for the LS yet, atleast they have npcs telling them what happened in those LS so they don't go blind to them. Then, if they want to experience that content for themselves, they can save and buy the LS later

I was not aware of the rerun, even if i did it would not have helped them because they didn't had their gaming pc ready until early this year though and it was i who convinced then to play but they could only just start recently. Im up to date with the story I don't have problems with that, I'm just trying to help "them" stay. Hopefully they do another rerun some day as you said. Doesn't change the initial issue tho that the more the game expands, they more expensive it becomes for new players to get up to date with everyone else and there is not much consideration for these new players. Mmos that have reached this far in into their runtime usually offer some kind of permanent help for new players to catch up, like the previous mentioned mmos, GW2 offers altmost none besides the ocational festive discounts.

I invited a couple of friends to play snd they are loving the game so far and want to keep playing it they are also loving the story too much and i don't know how to explain to them that if they want to experience it all they have to cash in approximately 125$ minimun for all the expansions and LS content available. I know the game being f2p Anet has to make income somehow, but doesn't seem fair having to pay the price of 2 expansions to obtain content that was originally free when it released. People are engaged when they tell you x game is very good and f2p, but then feel betrayed and leave when realizing that more than half the game is blocked behind a paywall. Most people might start playing knowing that there have expansions. But have no idea that there is a lot more of very important story locked behind LS wich is also locked behind a not too humble paywall. Imo LS seasons should be included alongside the expansion content they are related to, not as individual paid content. Other f2p mmo offer similar deals for their in between content. Like SWTOR only asking you to pay once in order to unlock all story released to that point. Or ESO offering you just to buy the latest expansion will will then include all the previous released expansions and episodes. Not saying gw2 should gift their previous expansions, WoW and FFXIV do that but they are p2p games. But at the very least each expansion should include the whole story package that comes with it, the LS related to that expansion.

Hey Hizen, its nice to see that you are doing videos again :) i remember that condi revenant you made before you took a break from the game. Seeing as you are updating your build videos, and you seem to be having trouble with reve, you might want to check the Battle Scars trait line. it seems to be doing quite well with power builds. I been using this build for a week and it feels to me altmost as powerful and tanky as your one man army warrior build (when it came out). you might get some ideas from it for when the time to revisit revenant comes

Well i like the design of the new boss and we can agree it clearly is a ranger or an ele new spec. Or the third option: the boss is simply a cool npc and doesn't showcase any new elite spec whatsoever. That would be such a waste of development time, isn't it? To pay for the design such cool animations and effects and not to take advantage to use them in an elite spec. It doesn't make sense from a business perspective. Before HoT, Rytlock was officicially considered a warrior class, however he used sword main hand and pistol off hand. Did warriors ever got pistol off hand? nope, and after he became revenant those animations were forgotten

Item: Draconic Wings Backpack and Glider combo gem store itemlider Combo gem store itemRace: CharrGender: femaleClass: elementalist/rangerDescription: The glider it's ok, but the backpack is too disconected from the Charr back, this looks specialy bad when you unsheath your weapon.

each of the Charr legions actually could say to specialize in a different proffesion Blood: WarriorsIron: EngineersAsh: ThievesFlame: Elementalist

the problem with the meta, is that it changes... about a year ago there was a power/knight guardian build that was incredibly tanky and bursty thanks to the trait that increased crit % by 50% if had a certain buff (forgot wich one). and now that trait was nerfed. D/D Condi daredevil was pretty much unkillable when HoT came out, since then both its condition dmg and endurance regen has been nerfed. right now, trailblazer/dire weaver is incredibly tanky and does insane burn and bleed dmg. but who knows how long will that last before they get hit with the nerf hammer

It's been 4 months since these wings came out, but this bug still persist nowadays. This otherwise perfect dragon looking wings backpack/glider suffer from a visual bug where on some races, most noticable Charrs with their weapons unsheathed or Asuras when gliding, the wings are too separated from the character's back.

personally i would love gs or offhand sword thief with a laijutsu style of gameplay similar to FFXIV's samurai class where you acumulate resources, and then use the laijutsu button to release a skill that is completely different depending of the amount of class resources you had when you used it ( in ffxiv it was either a dot, a frontal cone aoe, or a very hard hitting single target spike) as much as i would love this however, considering thief allready got 2 elite specs centered about doing damage, most probably what they will get is a support spec with some weird weapon choice like focus or torch