There are some very skilled groups that can take on these bosses with smaller numbers or with random builds, but finding these players in LFG is basically impossible, and should never be something you expect of your pug players. This means that now, if you want to play your class, you have a pretty strict role you have to take on if you want to complete the content on almost all levels. Something like a longbow only ranger standing at 1500 range safely taking pot shots at the boss would be unthinkable here, simply not providing the damage or group support and buffs that is required to complete the content. When you are seconds away from meeting your DPS checks and timers, one person with suboptimal gear or traits can take away your chance for success. In raids it is even worse, as many groups struggle to clear this content even with a perfect composition.
So I can see why, when a group has been slugging through for 30 minutes on one instance, and they know that their fifth member is making it more difficult with a bad build, that they would want to replace them and just get through their level.
A couple of years back, playing with the same person, we would breeze through even the highest levels of fractals, and sprint through dungeons, without even a second thought about it. The difference is staggering between having 5 people doing the right builds and playing the right way than to having 4, and the strain on the other 4 of us is considerably bigger when we know we have to be squeezing out an extra person’s worth of damage. He is pretty unfamiliar with fractals, and likes to play whatever he feels like, even though we know it isn’t going to be that helpful. But groups are sometimes justified in this approach, as they have no way of knowing you on a personal level or as a player, or how much you are contributing, with no DPS meter in the game or even desired by the developers and no other easy to see way of knowing what a party member is doing for the group.įor an example I’ve experienced on a number of occasions in fractals, I play with a friend who likes to bring their partner to the game. This can be frustrating for players who are running off meta but still feel they are contributing, and takes away from the spirit of the game as it was at launch. Even the high level fractal groups are getting picky, with the content supposed to be fairly easy-going and accessible to everyone, high tier groups now more than ever kick players who they see are running something they don’t consider meta. Players who don’t want to be a part of the meta comp will find it is completely impossible to take part in raids, unless they can fill the group with friends willing to make up for whatever your niche doesn’t contribute and would be expected from the meta build. This meant that every class had healing, support, tanking or damage dealing possibilities they could choose to use if they desired without dragging down a group in the way it can today.ĭue to the elite specialisations and also the difficulty of content ramping up, players are now more than ever expected to ignore their niche creations and go down the meta path for highest damage compositions and builds/classes.
#GUILD WARS 2 DMG METER FULL#
Almost all of the content has been possible without full damage gear in the past, albeit somewhat slower, but sometimes even easier than when playing as a glass cannon. Unlike most MMOs however, the ‘trinity’ of a healer, tank and DPS was never strictly implemented or even desired in the game before raids last year, with the most desired builds being full damage and everyone looking after themselves with personal heal skills and on demand dodges. To look at the big one, WoW, you know from the get go that you won’t be healing as a warrior, or tanking as a priest, and it’s all pretty clearly laid out what the possible roles of your class can be. This build uses the Chronomancer specialization, which is only available to players who own the Heart of Thorns expansion.Being forced in to a build is something that a lot of MMO players will be absolutely familiar with, with certain classes already having designated roles from selection.
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