2012-09-08, 07:49 PM
raizoo Wrote:It's harder to compare release builds with BWE builds. Boons and conditions are much better in release. Engineers were poopy in BWE1~2. Ranger pets were much worse in BWE. Thieves got powered up in release. When you take everything into account, it really is not that much of a difference. It's about how you execute the dungeon, knowing what your character can do, and being able to adapt. If there's an environmental weapon, there's a good chance that it'll be useful. Even in I think it's a lvl 60 dungeon, the boulders you could throw at the enemy would do 10k damage. :B
And it doesn't matter that you had 3 elementalists since they can spec into just about anything. The dev team did the dungeon with all engineers before they got revamped and did fine as well.
AC is very fun, don't get me wrong. It's a great way to introduce you to dungeons. I'm not trying to belittle anyone's efforts. It's just a very straight-forward dungeon with a few simple puzzles.
imho the only annoying thing in AC ***Hidden content cannot be quoted.***You can get gear via karma and badges in WvW. You get a lot of karma in WvW.... Unless it's changed, never really paid attention.
There's some balancing issues with WvW for sure. You don't make much money in it, but people who play a lot of PvE will have money to buy blueprints and whatnot since the WvW jumping puzzle is pretty intimidating if you haven't done it before. And repair bills from all the dying....
My major issue with AC as a whole was the amount of traps, and how often you were stuck in small areas unable to fight openly. At least the bosses didn't really have this issue, but on the entire path towards the bosses there were a lot of small corridors with pimento archers that liked to use traps, or just traps that were part of the map that made life miserable for your entire group. But then again that's the point of a dungeon. It's not supposed to be easy.
Having three Elementalists is both good and bad. Bad because we're so squishy in some situations. Good because of the versatility of Elementalist Combat. My entire group died on Nette, except for me, and using Staff with Water Attunement with the 5 point trait skill that gives you Regeneration Over Time, I was able to survive by myself for about 4 minutes while I waited for my team to get back. It was amazing, especially because Nette was almost dead when everyone else died, so I basically saved us another boss fight. On the reverse of that, when we were fighting the King (His name escapes me, I never liked him), the FoeFire Firestorm knockoff did so much damage that if any of us got caught in the middle for some reason it meant death in two hits. Though I'm not sure if it's just that powerful or squishyness being our enemy there. I do know that I couldn't go Dual Daggers in the dungeon at all, which sucked for me because it's my favorite moveset for Elementalist.
As for Money/Karma in WvW: I played it for three hours and I can note that: 1) You get enough money to make up for repair costs, as long as your server can hold something, since it generates events that then give you EXP, Money, and Karma. 2) The Karma is pretty low. They might have nerfed this. When I did it, I was getting like 500/20/50 EXP/Karma/Gold. It might also be my level though, I was only like 37 or 38 at the time. I will probably only do WvW monthly for the achievements, but as I said that's mostly because I'm not a big fan of PvP in the first place.