edit: *deep breath*
Ah OK I will mess around, I'm only 38 so it don't really matter much now anyway.
Yeah I finally got combos playing an elementalist. Usually use Fire3 or 4 and Water3 for might on tough fights.
Hehe, so yeah, on d/d you have those two fire fields and then water 3 and earth 5 for blasts.
Scepter fire 2 and 3 are both blasts, and you can cast the 2 (Dragon's Tooth) before hitting 4 to get longer time out of the field, then switch to earth and hit dagger 5. Things get ridiculous when you have the Evasive Arcana trait (dodge on earth is another blast finisher) and Arcane Wave.
For maximum silliness, you could also try out the Lightning Hammer utility, which has a blast finisher on its dang autoattack- especially if you stick with D/D because of the extra field and melee range.
Awesome class, for realsies. I actually love staff as well; as you noted it's best for group/huge zerg play, but there's a lot of fun to be had with it in solo play, especially combined with a couple of conjured weapons. The only weapon that doesn't really click with me is Focus, primarily because of how freaking disappointing Comet is.
i still dont understand where is the fun in taking advantage out of other people.
if everyone were like you, humanity would have already ascended to the stars.
Shots fired!
When's the next GAF attempt at Boss Blitz Gold? Saturday?
The pre-mission hour on Saturday, yeah. Although like Ash said, it's great to try with an impromptu group. 3 tags (one on each of the bosses that it's okay to have people run to) makes a massive difference over 0 in my experience.
Well just spend some time rebinding all my keys and i am happy to say all buttons and actions work now on the controller .
That is awesome to hear. Sorry it took so long to get you to that point. If you're anything like me you'll never look back, mouse and keyboard is downright awkward to me now
And if official gamepad support is never added to this product it'll be a bit of a travesty. It's a better match than any other MMO I've played except for TERA (which does have it).
It might come down to "people are assholes, deal with it."
Tragically, a holistic view of large group participation results in this conclusion 99% of the time. If you think about it, even
in tightly controlled guild instances where only members can enter, there's nothing stopping an individual troll from screwing it all up in some way. In other words, assholes will find a way to be assholes in any situation, so most attempts to counter that aren't mechanical (preventing the behavior) so much as eliminating the assholes entirely (kicking people from groups/instances/guilds). And as Zeroth noted, even
these systems can be theoretically abused.
Sadly, there's no fighting human nature. All you can do is mitigate the potential for individual abuse, but really, Boss Blitz doesn't do a horrible job of that. It's just those <5%, "OKAY STOP DPS," moments where they see an opportunity for fuckery where everyone else sees teamwork.
Little known fact about Pistol 5,
Black Powder. It actually does fire a projectile with 900 range if you have a person targetted, and as that projectiles comes out after the powder it usually combos with the smoke field and causes a blind. Hardly anyone uses it for that though. I wish it was more useful at range too.
The shot on Black Powder is a 100% Physical Projectile and will always cause blind (unless it combos on some other field; I've never tested for priority in this regard). Obvious that's not its primary use, but for an occasional targeted blind with P/P (used to cause a specific attack to miss) it is effective.
At range, Black Powder's use as a combo field might not make a lot of sense with P/P at all, but I promise you it is absolutely delicious with D/P.
