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GF broke again, happy days didn't last long

matthiasthehun76matthiasthehun76 Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 1,184 Arc User
edited September 2014 in The Militia Barracks
Hi my fellow GF players!

Was grinding my gear in Dwarven Valley today, still miss some parts, RNG kills me.

Beholder was up and we rushed to it, looked around and saw quiet a small group of fellow GFs, my heart always beats faster, my own kind!

Now we were fighting it and bang i was one shot by the Beholder with my GF, having 5,2k defense and the max Con of 26. Ok i thought this might be a glitch or a lag somewhere, went back again, replay, the same thing, only it took the beast now 2 shots. LOL, third time again, 1 shot, i was down.

I said to myself what the heck is going on here, i do Valindra and Malabog and other stuff, i am not a beginner, my char has 17,5k GS and with my shield up, i lie in the dirt after 1 shot. :confused:

After it i asked many of my fellow GFs, what did they see, nothing, they were also down many times, except the ones, who saw it and only thought with the mobs.
The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.
Robert E. Lee

I only believe in statistics that I doctored myself.
Winston Churchill

The human race is a herd. Here we are, unique, eternal aspects of consciousness with an infinity of potential, and we have allowed ourselves to become an unthinking, unquestioning blob of conformity and uniformity. A herd. Once we concede to the herd mentality, we can be controlled and directed by a tiny few. And we are.
David Icke

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  • mrmauveforummrmauveforum Member Posts: 127 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    Most bosses in IWD are unblockable. I know that the Bear Rider Captain (or whatever it's called) is impossible to block, and Frost Giants hit through the block most of the time. I'm unsure how long this has been happening, but it's been going on since I unlocked IWD three weeks ago.

    While we're complaining about Block not working, how about we complain about Ray of Frost in PvP, too? The frozen status is completely unblockable, and when frozen you can't block, so you get chain CC'd every time. Makes me rage when I see CW on the enemy team.

    Those are, however, the only thing's I've run into that are consistently unblockable.
  • crixus8000crixus8000 Member Posts: 1,205 Bounty Hunter
    edited September 2014
    I can survive the beholders aoe without my shield being up. Your defense is a little too high, I would trade about 1k of it for more hp since hp is the best survival stat.
    Crixus - PVP GF
    [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
  • aiulianaiulian Member Posts: 248 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    Nothing new...

    http://nw-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?737641-Trying-to-tank-Black-Ice-Beholder

    + If someone does 200k dmg 90% (that s only if they fix the guard from the preview to add up our DR to the guard DR, if not 80% is the base.) of that means 180k dmg that means that through your guard goes 20k dmg... so do some math about it and u ll see how bosses hit like !@#$%^&*()
  • gman118gman118 Member Posts: 99 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    crixus8000 wrote: »
    I can survive the beholders aoe without my shield being up. Your defense is a little too high, I would trade about 1k of it for more hp since hp is the best survival stat.
    This. though its also the fact black ice damage cant be blocked(when i last checked) Because I use Steel Defense feat and i still take damage from black ice.
  • thestaggythestaggy Member Posts: 1,102 Bounty Hunter
    edited September 2014
    crixus8000 wrote: »
    I can survive the beholders aoe without my shield being up. Your defense is a little too high, I would trade about 1k of it for more hp since hp is the best survival stat.

    Are you wearing full Black Ice gear when eating his AOE? With 41k HP and only two-piece Black Ice gear (thanks to horrible RNG and what ever bogus scoring systems they use) I cannot take it.
    PSA: You don't need to grind Spinward Rise for your Elemental artifact main hand if you have some AD lying around. You can craft it via the Tyranny of Dragon's campaign screen.
  • mrmauveforummrmauveforum Member Posts: 127 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    Well, alright, that brings up an interesting question: how much does the Bear Rider Captain (or whatever he's called xD) Normally hit for? His spears hit me for 8k damage with block up and a not-great 3.5k Defense (haven't been able to farm new armor since Mod 4 screwed up my power build), and his charge CC is unblockable. I suspect that it's not getting blocked at all (since he attacks like once every 1.5 seconds without red to dodge out of and that would mean ~ 40k damage to other classes), but if Beholder (whom I haven't gotten to fight) one-shots GFs even with 90% DR, then maybe this guy just does deal that much damage.

    Except, wait, I almost forgot that he can also, for some reason, damage me when I'm invulnerable for 5 seconds after using a Daily (a bug I've never run into before IWD).

    Maybe, and here's my thinking: maybe IWD enemies deal a different sort of damage (Black Ice damage, I guess) which is only reduced by the Black Ice Resistance stat. The devs just forgot to give block 80% Black Ice Resistance, too, and that's why us unfortunate people stuck without full Black Ice armor are having such a bad time of it. That just seems like the most reasonable explanation to me, because 40k damage spears just doesn't sound right, I'd be seeing everyone dropping left and right if that were so.
  • osterdracheosterdrache Member Posts: 480 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    Wait! Because you got one shotted by the most dmg attack in this game your creating a thread about GF and their usefullness? Lol wut?

    Whats up with GFs these days? They recieve more buffs than the other classes combined and still they fall into old habbits of beeing a cry baby.

    Ur not a GF master, OP, are you?
  • clericalistclericalist Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 595 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    Wait! Because you got one shotted by the most dmg attack in this game your creating a thread about GF and their usefullness? Lol wut?

    Whats up with GFs these days? They recieve more buffs than the other classes combined and still they fall into old habbits of beeing a cry baby.

    Ur not a GF master, OP, are you?

    I am no GF, but the concerns are valid, being a guardian that can get one shot killed, regardless of how high a gs they have, does not conform to what a tank should in general be able to do.
  • ripyourlipsoffripyourlipsoff Member Posts: 1,552 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    crixus8000 wrote: »
    I can survive the beholders aoe without my shield being up. Your defense is a little too high, I would trade about 1k of it for more hp since hp is the best survival stat.


    I disagree, many GFs I see HP stacking and they die faster then I do. High HP is necessary but 2k-5k extra hp against players is 1 hit, against mobs is 1/2 a hit! I say Deflection is key the higher it is the more effective block is and mitigating damage.
    Shieldbash 60 GF ~ Iron Vanguard 19.0k
    Overpowered 60 CW ~ Thaumaturge 14.5k
    ==========================================


    ~ GF Buffs were great we are much better, please fix the bugs now... Thank you!
  • ladysylvialadysylvia Member Posts: 946 Bounty Hunter
    edited September 2014
    Wait! Because you got one shotted by the most dmg attack in this game your creating a thread about GF and their usefullness? Lol wut?

    Whats up with GFs these days? They recieve more buffs than the other classes combined and still they fall into old habbits of beeing a cry baby.

    Ur not a GF master, OP, are you?

    If you think, that the OP failed, then you just suck.
    The black ice damage was a huge fail from the start. Do you think the weak/OS classes like CW/TR/SW get penalized with it? NO!

    Assuming 20k BID:
    No ressistance against it:
    20k to EVERY class. So a tank get 20k like a nondefense having TR/CW/SW?!
    20% BID ressistance:
    Again a joke!
    16k to the wearer. As this matter for a tank... A tank have 50%+! DR and he take 80% of this fufu?
    Please enlighten me why this damage type, which create/abuse 3 bugs, was introduced to this game? As I intercepted a 40k+ from the boss in Spellplague Caverns, that was a high value(with 56%+ DR!).
    This fufu damage only bring tanks effecience down and force to use new, most useless, gear to have a little bit protection. Yeah...

    But Block blocked at PTS correct 80% of BID(have screenshots from it). But as I said: Useless feature ever.

    @below: Imagine for GWF it's impossible to go into unstoppable from each CC.(that's like we are most of the time - especially against CW)
  • ripyourlipsoffripyourlipsoff Member Posts: 1,552 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    Wait! Because you got one shotted by the most dmg attack in this game your creating a thread about GF and their usefullness? Lol wut?

    Whats up with GFs these days? They recieve more buffs than the other classes combined and still they fall into old habbits of beeing a cry baby.

    Ur not a GF master, OP, are you?


    We did receive a lot of buffs, however some of them were reverted before live, and many are bugged still! Yes we have much better utility then before which speaks volumes about how bad we were...

    Our block is all we have, thats it we cannot dodge, or run away, of stealth or teleport, we can't even unstoppable! All we have is armor that means almost nothing, and a shield atm is only useful 70% of the time! So yeah we are complaining a little, I bet if your class mechanic was broken 30% of the time you would be upset too?
    Shieldbash 60 GF ~ Iron Vanguard 19.0k
    Overpowered 60 CW ~ Thaumaturge 14.5k
    ==========================================


    ~ GF Buffs were great we are much better, please fix the bugs now... Thank you!
  • charononuscharononus Member Posts: 5,715 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    I bet if your class mechanic was broken 30% of the time you would be upset too?

    You mean how wicked strike rubberbands you 100% of the time making sprint and running way impossible? I'll take your 30%.
  • osterdracheosterdrache Member Posts: 480 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    We did receive a lot of buffs, however some of them were reverted before live, and many are bugged still! Yes we have much better utility then before which speaks volumes about how bad we were...

    Our block is all we have, thats it we cannot dodge, or run away, of stealth or teleport, we can't even unstoppable! All we have is armor that means almost nothing, and a shield atm is only useful 70% of the time! So yeah we are complaining a little, I bet if your class mechanic was broken 30% of the time you would be upset too?

    I played my GF in endgame pve/pvp along time. Sometimes even as a tank you have to run out of situations. Tank doesnt mean u can just stand dumb in red zones holding one key, sorry. Actually knowing how to use mobility was and will always be the key to be a good tank.

    Also tanks were great before mod4 but only few people knew that because 1. many players are class and dps <font color="orange">HAMSTER</font> and 2. many GF lack the understanding what the role of the GF is. Even now in mod4.

    The OP just shows this attitude of unreasonable whining with his post and assumption that the GF days are over just because he got one shotted by a black ice beholder, instead he could have moved his as.s out of the red.
  • ripyourlipsoffripyourlipsoff Member Posts: 1,552 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    I played my GF in endgame pve/pvp along time. Sometimes even as a tank you have to run out of situations. Tank doesnt mean u can just stand dumb in red zones holding one key, sorry. Actually knowing how to use mobility was and will always be the key to be a good tank.

    Also tanks were great before mod4 but only few people knew that because 1. many players are class and dps <font color="orange">HAMSTER</font> and 2. many GF lack the understanding what the role of the GF is. Even now in mod4.

    The OP just shows this attitude of unreasonable whining with his post and assumption that the GF days are over just because he got one shotted by a black ice beholder, instead he could have moved his as.s out of the red.

    That is true but doesn't negate what I said as facts. Our block is bugged, and no matter how great of a GF you may be will not change it.
    Shieldbash 60 GF ~ Iron Vanguard 19.0k
    Overpowered 60 CW ~ Thaumaturge 14.5k
    ==========================================


    ~ GF Buffs were great we are much better, please fix the bugs now... Thank you!
  • thestaggythestaggy Member Posts: 1,102 Bounty Hunter
    edited September 2014
    As a GF I don't mind that a Beholder can hurt us. If you play smart you can escape it. The last time I fought the Beholder I was the only melee, so I just turned that sucker around so he had his back to the HRs/CWs/SWs/DC and tanked his ***. I had to be revived once because I got cocky but for the most part I was able to deal with him.

    We should have limits to the damage we can take and an occasional AOE blast from a pretty tough ''boss'' is fine by me.
    PSA: You don't need to grind Spinward Rise for your Elemental artifact main hand if you have some AD lying around. You can craft it via the Tyranny of Dragon's campaign screen.
  • ripyourlipsoffripyourlipsoff Member Posts: 1,552 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    thestaggy wrote: »
    As a GF I don't mind that a Beholder can hurt us. If you play smart you can escape it. The last time I fought the Beholder I was the only melee, so I just turned that sucker around so he had his back to the HRs/CWs/SWs/DC and tanked his ***. I had to be revived once because I got cocky but for the most part I was able to deal with him.

    We should have limits to the damage we can take and an occasional AOE blast from a pretty tough ''boss'' is fine by me.

    I think GF in PVE should be Crit immune!
    Shieldbash 60 GF ~ Iron Vanguard 19.0k
    Overpowered 60 CW ~ Thaumaturge 14.5k
    ==========================================


    ~ GF Buffs were great we are much better, please fix the bugs now... Thank you!
  • charononuscharononus Member Posts: 5,715 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    I think GF in PVE should be Crit immune!

    I'm kind of surprised they didn't put this in either epic GF sets as heavy fortification or somewhere in the protection path. Many mmo's use this as a way to differentiate tanks from melee dps, and give boss mobs high crit on their auto attacks so that if you aren't a tank you go splat.
  • xd108xxd108x Member Posts: 142 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    Having high HP and relying on HP enchants is quite pointless if you have low defense so you are getting for high damage each time. Imo its better to focus on defense and/or deflect to a point then HP enchants etc is up to you.

    With bosses/encounters in IWD it's partly down to them doin insane damage with their red/strong attacks and that a lot of them do this damage as black ice damage, which is only reduced by black ice resistance.

    My opinion on bosses in this game is that the majority rely too much on dodgeable red attacks, which is why you get people who arent a GF or even a GWF claiming they can tank them. I expect if like charon said that bosses and other enemies relied more on stronger, faster standard melee attacks that arent so dodgeable then these ppl would learn fast not to try and do our job :)
  • calvin1tagcalvin1tag Member Posts: 322 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    I sometimes wonder if I'm playing the same game as people on the forum... since the new module I just stay in the red and put my shield up for just about every fight including the Beholder - he has only killed me once when I was too slow to get it up / lag spike or whatever the reason was. I am not using any Black Ice gear just the Timeless set with around 17k GS (Fighting the dragons I don't even move for breath weapons just stand in front with my shield up and I can take them all just fine haven't had my GF downed by a dragon yet)
  • aiulianaiulian Member Posts: 248 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    I think GF in PVE should be Crit immune!

    I couldn't agree more. but I think then we will be CC toys (like we are in PK, SP, LoL, every dungeon that has CC stacked in it) and we ll die cause we can t do anything... I think they should add in game for every class in PVE only you cannot be CC when u are already in a CC... like the traps in the new dungeon (LoL) that CC you like hell and the guard is just there for the fun of having a guard...
  • matthiasthehun76matthiasthehun76 Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 1,184 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    I played my GF in endgame pve/pvp along time. Sometimes even as a tank you have to run out of situations. Tank doesnt mean u can just stand dumb in red zones holding one key, sorry. Actually knowing how to use mobility was and will always be the key to be a good tank.

    Also tanks were great before mod4 but only few people knew that because 1. many players are class and dps <font color="orange">HAMSTER</font> and 2. many GF lack the understanding what the role of the GF is. Even now in mod4.

    The OP just shows this attitude of unreasonable whining with his post and assumption that the GF days are over just because he got one shotted by a black ice beholder, instead he could have moved his as.s out of the red.

    How i love polite people! LOL How dare you talk negatively about players, calling them dumb, you don't even know or have seen in action, get yourself decent manners! I chose this title for the thread, because i got taught at my schools to use big words like this LOL, if i have written for instance: "GF bug", nobody would have responded, this is called PR knowledge.;)

    Secondly, i did move, but not always i admit it, was trying to test it, since i didn't do much Icewind since Mod4, as my GF completed it way back, just wanted to grind the gear further and since it, this was my first time against the Beholder and before Mod 4 i could avoid being one shot!
    The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.
    Robert E. Lee

    I only believe in statistics that I doctored myself.
    Winston Churchill

    The human race is a herd. Here we are, unique, eternal aspects of consciousness with an infinity of potential, and we have allowed ourselves to become an unthinking, unquestioning blob of conformity and uniformity. A herd. Once we concede to the herd mentality, we can be controlled and directed by a tiny few. And we are.
    David Icke

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