Thinking about it, it kind of makes since that dragon trigger dose normal damage in competitive modes. If say, it averaged around 8 to 10k (scary but manageable damage) on a crit with full might stacks and fully charged, with beserker power that would be 9.6k to 12.1k. Once you add in Fierce as Fire and Vulnerability you are now doing 16k+ crits. Easily within one shot range of a lot of specs. Only way I can see dragon trigger doing good damage on its own is if isn't effected by, or has reduced gain, from beserkers power (and maybe even vulnerability) so the damage doesn't scale with other damage modifiers. I think a lot of bladesworn players would be okay with that, but also limits build diversity in the long run.
Yes. It being your "Burst Skill" and thus still needing to be 7-8s CD for pvp trait balance' BUT having it be unblockabale in any capacity is a huge problem. Once-Upon-A-Time DT3 wasn't unblockable. Thus there was Identity+Counterplay to each Bladesworn Grandmaster, and you could trade damage for utility because even at 5 bullets you did mediocre damage at best. That's why I'm more in favor of a Revert' than a straight Rework' at this point. Because the kit *was Balanced & Made Sense* on launch* except ofc [Tactical Reload]. 😂
no they don't. never balance to a target dummy. look at wingman for real world performance. christ man this is the only mmorpg community that is stupid enough to insist classes be balanced on a boss dummy parse. the wow community dropped that as a gauge for actual performance before the first guild wars ever dropped. they use sims to know if specific gear or stat changes are better than others, but this game is far less complex in general than wow. they balance based on logs. you should be making balance statements based on logs as well. logs are reality, the golem is not.
While in an ideal world I 100% agree with you, I also see where Pinkie is coming from. And ANet absolutely has a habit of "just balancing just based on SnowCrows golem numbers." So I can understand this concern. There's also no denying that practically *all* of the new spears were either mechanically or #'s-wise artificially juiced to sell the xpac. But like I said every company does that now so that's: -_-. I'm glad that Wingman exists now, it's a great idea. & Let's hope you're right and they're going on/have more testers+practical data to now balance based on actual over-performing specs in fights than just SnowCrows pages and golem stuff. 😄
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Thinking about it, it kind of makes since that dragon trigger dose normal damage in competitive modes.
If say, it averaged around 8 to 10k (scary but manageable damage) on a crit with full might stacks and fully charged, with beserker power that would be 9.6k to 12.1k.
Once you add in Fierce as Fire and Vulnerability you are now doing 16k+ crits. Easily within one shot range of a lot of specs.
Only way I can see dragon trigger doing good damage on its own is if isn't effected by, or has reduced gain, from beserkers power (and maybe even vulnerability) so the damage doesn't scale with other damage modifiers.
I think a lot of bladesworn players would be okay with that, but also limits build diversity in the long run.
Yes. It being your "Burst Skill" and thus still needing to be 7-8s CD for pvp trait balance' BUT having it be unblockabale in any capacity is a huge problem.
Once-Upon-A-Time DT3 wasn't unblockable. Thus there was Identity+Counterplay to each Bladesworn Grandmaster, and you could trade damage for utility because even at 5 bullets you did mediocre damage at best. That's why I'm more in favor of a Revert' than a straight Rework' at this point. Because the kit *was Balanced & Made Sense* on launch* except ofc [Tactical Reload]. 😂
1000% Feels cleaner in WvW now. I can actually get more than 1 skill off before a 8 Willbenders kill me 🤣
1.5 if you're clever 😂
4:30 Bro I just realized ALL the Bladesworn Grandmasters ARE redundant. Wtf lol.
I KNOW. WTF ANET' lol 😄
I'm all for nerf patches. But the 46K+ and 43K QDPS builds need to be touched too if everything else is gonna be honestly
no they don't. never balance to a target dummy. look at wingman for real world performance. christ man this is the only mmorpg community that is stupid enough to insist classes be balanced on a boss dummy parse. the wow community dropped that as a gauge for actual performance before the first guild wars ever dropped. they use sims to know if specific gear or stat changes are better than others, but this game is far less complex in general than wow. they balance based on logs. you should be making balance statements based on logs as well. logs are reality, the golem is not.
While in an ideal world I 100% agree with you, I also see where Pinkie is coming from. And ANet absolutely has a habit of "just balancing just based on SnowCrows golem numbers." So I can understand this concern. There's also no denying that practically *all* of the new spears were either mechanically or #'s-wise artificially juiced to sell the xpac. But like I said every company does that now so that's: -_-. I'm glad that Wingman exists now, it's a great idea. & Let's hope you're right and they're going on/have more testers+practical data to now balance based on actual over-performing specs in fights than just SnowCrows pages and golem stuff. 😄