Lucinellia

Lucinellia, 9 months ago

The original thumbnail plan was this

Lucinellia, 9 months ago

@that_shaman that is really neat! I keep wondering if perhaps the new zones are going to be "mirrors" of Tyria, suggesting that Fractals ate between reality planes of Tyria, of which there are many.

That would tie into some of the effects seen during the Omadd's Machine clip.

Lucinellia, 10 months ago

@bass none! This was using currency from Raids, Strikes and Fractals and getting the 25 or so weekly.

Lucinellia, 10 months ago

@bass this is great! Really nice to see the perspective!

Lucinellia, 11 months ago

@massivelyop quite looking forward to the fractal and hopefully the balance changes don't mess up alacrity Specter. I'm hopeful and nervous, especially given the current behaviour of Shadow Shroud tether...

Lucinellia, 11 months ago

@pixel I think there is a huge difference between not using portals and using portals on HT CM and this is just annoyingly exacerbated by only one profession (and really only one comfortably viable elite for the fight).

Reminds me a lot of when there wasn't very many viable HKs for Deimos (and the fight was harder) and also Q1 kiter around release.

Fun if you can specialise, but eventually people get bored, need to rely on less experienced people and failure rates jump.

Lucinellia, 11 months ago

@pixel so HT CM probably falls a bit under the "not fun" given how few people seem to want to play it!

Lucinellia, 11 months ago

@pixel perhaps, portal also has a huge barrier to entry in terms of knowing the fight and isn't as easy to pick up, or switch over to, as the other roles.

Lucinellia, 11 months ago

@pixel the fight is massively more difficult without portals though. It's a bit like trying to do raids without boons and that wasn't considered very enjoyable! 😅

Lucinellia, 11 months ago

@pixel hi! Twitter is bad, this is better!

Lucinellia, 11 months ago

@pixel in a simple person, I don't like being in a Nazi bar, even if some people want to hang around for the grift.

I understand people needing accounts for work because social media is still seen as important, but fuck having a personal account there!

Lucinellia, 11 months ago

@pixel I'm waiting to see them a bit more.

Cautiously optimistic, but depends on how much alacrity the Shroud skills give. I'll very much miss the well spam and also doing healing as alacrity DPS, but if the flip side is more flexibility or higher DPS as alacrity DPS and healing being more viable (the new Shadestep alone will allow this imo) then I'll take it.

The single target stuff remains pants on head silly.

Lucinellia, 11 months ago

@pixel I just gave up on my Twitter communities lol

I'm not hanging around a place where the owner wants people like me dead and promotes hateful conspiracies. If people stick there purely for a community and not livelihood or such then that isn't a community I want to be part of.

Tumblr being back to pretty awesome helps a lot too.

Lucinellia, 11 months ago

@pixel I think it's probably overdue to lose the role diversity within the one build. It was a little silly being a decent DPS and Alacrity and also a more than capable healer for the majority of PvE content.

It was really fun to roll up to a Dhuum CM and be like "hey kite, g2, alacrity, DPS, healer, emergency CC" but it was also very daft and despite the spec being under played I can really appreciate why the change is needed (despite loving it)

Lucinellia, 11 months ago

@pixel

On the flip side, more Deadeye builds, Specter healer being a bit more viable and more scope for either higher DPS alacrity Specter or higher utility alacrity Specter. I quite like that tbh.

For me, it really depends on how the new Shadestep alacrity works and also the allied splash boons from single target. Shadestep alacrity needs to be good and reasonably fun, allied targeting needs to suck because having to use that would be atrocious :(

Lucinellia, 11 months ago

@pixel yeah, it's going to be pretty similar to the old might share Deadeye that never took off. It was simple on paper, but pretty challenging to execute due to cantrip shuffling. I didn't think there was enough info to get a good idea of this build and I'm not convinced that a first parse will be spot on but, honestly, it is just such a relief as a thief player to go from multiple lacklustre / awkward DPS options and super niche boon Thief to variety. It's been a long time coming imo

Lucinellia, 11 months ago

@pixel I'm going to miss spamming wells for sure, but the "jack of all trades, master of none" was a problem when that build wasn't really a master of none. Rocking up to Sunqua CM and doing competitive DPS, all the healing needed, alacrity and top CC was fun but it wasn't balanced.

What we get now is potentially really exciting. Your group has a good healer? Drop bounty and play a high dps build. You need boons and some extra healing? Run Traversing Dusk, weeks and consume shadows.

Lucinellia, 11 months ago

@pixel and between those two there are then a myriad of options to use fun utilities which change what we can do considerably. Shadow Portal, Seal Area, Shadow Refuge and Smoke Screen suddenly become legitimate options for either of those DPS alacrity Specter variants without the pressure of needing to use wells.

I personally think heal specter is going to stick with wells anyway, so I'm going to still be zipping about :aurene:

Lucinellia, 11 months ago

@pixel yeah, I think that could be the frustration but the more fun and varied is definitely being aimed at not needing to take wells. For example, the new changes mean I could take shadow portal for HT CM as heal alac Specter kiter, instead of some CC and condi cleanse, and that's a big change for how much of the role is approached.

Lucinellia, 11 months ago

@hvbeg @scy it would have been great if there was the option to go through all of them in one sitting. I opted not to follow the path about Aurene since, well, she's alive, but I do want to go back to see how the scene plays out.

It's definitely not a good design for people invested in all the characters that are mentioned.

Lucinellia, 11 months ago

@scy @hvbeg it's quite interesting seeing the different opinions that people have regarding the characters they want to know more about! I really enjoyed IBS and felt that Cinder's death was quite shocking and personal so that felt a bit more important than Vlast to me.

I am hoping that this might help contextualise Vlast a bit more since PoF felt a bit muddy to me as someone that didn't play GW1.