Whats the first POF elite you want to unlock?
I was set on Scourge until they nerfed the sand devil things. But now I might try holosmith instead.
What's your plan, Reddit?
Posted Sep 22, 2017, 1:07 PM UTC
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Renegade.
Already have a torment renegade which has been an amazing amount of fun to play these last couple of months. Renegade gives me a proper ranged condi weapon and also more ways to add to torment with some gorgeous skill effects.
Easy choice.
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Power rev for life \o/
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Power rev got BUFFED! I love recent in general, and I'm excited for both play styles.
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NumarkVolume, is Renegade this good? my first character was Rev but he's now used for mat collect lol, and I wish to play him. So Let say I can be great with Mace/Axe + showbow with Ren? please advice
Thank you
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Really depends on which game-mode you aim to play. I for one will have a hard time dropping only good "Oh shit buttons" supplied by Herald and Staff for the Renegade and the Short Bow.
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i am tired of melee Rev the only way to make damage LOL serious, it's so damn high dps but even it's heavy armor but soft like tofu! My mesmer does way better in defense and crazily good damage in range
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I'm so pumped. Condi Rev has been a blast to play and actually has solid dps. Now I get a ranged weapon (Fuck Firestorm on the Molten Boss Fractal), a legend that isn't a filler like Jalis, AND I get some utility so people might actually want to run with us for once.
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Mirage, as I will be playing my Mesmer on my first time through.
I won't actually use it unless someone comes up with some crazy PvE build. After 25 or 30 hours playing with it I think it's godawful.
But in my mind, the pact commander is my Sylvari Mesmer, and it would feel weird to do anything else.
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Ditto. Plus I just made Astralaria, so...
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So I was just randomly strolling through reddit and saw someone say they just made astralaria and I'm like that's a funny coincidence, Wes just made it what's this guy's username... Oh... Hi Wes XP
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haha hello! don't judge my reddit history
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Oh god, I didn't even think to look but now..
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Same, finished mine on Tuesday. Just in time. :D
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That last bit is why I'm gonna run through it on my necro even though my hypse for Scourge is dead.
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Yeah, I feel you. I also always think my Sylvari Mesmer is just right for Pact Commander. You get to experience Trahearne before Claw Island so you don't think he gets shoved onto you. Sylvari were immune to being Risen by Zhaitan because they're walking salads. A lot of great, unique interaction in HoT, especially with Canach and Mordremoth. And, I feel like British femShep because the voice actor's pretty rock solid, too.
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sigil of stamina and other endurance runes/food/etc should make mirage good for open world
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Still scourge since Necro is my main and all..
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I'm probably going to unlock it with my spare 359 hero points on release and then never slot it. Pre-release nerfs aside, I don't like how it plays at all. Way too stationary and not worth the loss of shroud IMO, not to mention how trash barrier is.
Guess I'll condi reaper my way through PoF.
But if they gut Deathly Chill... I might go condi core necro... ugh. On second thought I might just uninstall the game if that happens.
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As necro my main I am playing PoF with reaper as well. Feeling sad looking at players enjoying their new specialization but reaper actually doing good with first skill of raptor. I clear enemies really fast :D
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I've been really enjoying using the raptor's engage and then dumping a bunch of wells on a group of enemies. PoF enemies hit harder than I trust Scourge to be able to survive.
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Want Scourge but will do renegade instead. Because... you all know why.
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Pony portal?
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As long as you need less than 360 hero points to unlock it fully I will unlock all 9 as soon as I log in.
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Didn't someone say that the currency to unlock the HPs will be different than the current Proof of Heroics?
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Hero points are hero points are hero points.
Pretty sure it was people had thousands of proof of heroics and expected to be able to get POF items (like you can purchase HOT items)
However POF will use a different currency all together
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Oh, so you can bank up on Hero Points? Just not Proof of Heroics? Ok that makes sense.
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What?
Of course you can, after you've fully unlocked your HoT elite you literally cannot spend any of the hero points after that.
I've seen people doing HP trains on their alts to bank extra points, not just through proofs.
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I mean you can bank up Proofs too. It's just that you can't buy any POF things with them.
You can only have like 364 hero points "extra" right now or whatever. We'll find out in 2 hours if elite specs cost 250 like HOT, or cost more. We dunno!
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A proof of heroics is a WvW item that when consumed completes a HP challenge somewhere in centrap Tyria of a HoT map. If you want a proof of heroics that completes a random PoF map HP, those are gonna be new.
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Want to? Scourge.
Will? Firebrand. Having a lot of fun with DH currently, so that's what I'm bringing to the desert.
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Weaver > Firebrand > Spellbreaker the three I'm going for first.
I'm too excited for weaver
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Holosmith, but mostly because my main is an engineer. Otherwise I would've gone Firebrand if I had actually prepared my guardian for PoF. Love the design of it and thematically it's the one I'm the most interested it.
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Mirage of course
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Mirage, definitely! Probably Deadeye as a second.
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Soulbeast.
I have enough points to unlock it immediately (unless they set the amount higher than what it currently is for HoT elites), and my ranger is the one I use to play all stories.
Plus I didn't really like druid and can't wait to try soulbeast in real settings.
Then it'll probably be renegade (330 HP available), then holosmith, weaver, firebrand, deadeye and scourge (in this order)
for spellbreaker and mirage, I'll see later.
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I'm still doubtful about main hand dagger, but I really liked the combos you can get for switching between merged and unmerged. Don't make the same mistake others do by staying merged all the time.
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Oh I won't. I plan to test a lot of things, and I'm one of those who really like the way the pet can be used. I'll probably switch quite often
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Yeah, I found a good mix is to merge, get close, use pet skills, unmerge. Put distance while the pet taunts and you fight normally.
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In order:
Soulbeast
Deadeye
Weaver
Firebrand
Holosmith
Spellbreaker
Renegade
Mirage
Scourge
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This dude plans.
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I've spent time getting to at least 100hp on all my alts, so I'm going to unlock several in pretty short order as I explore. But my first will be mirage. Second probably soulbeast because ranger will make map exploration easier.
Wish I was more impressed with the changes to deadeye, because that was going to be something I was ready to start running pretty often.
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Deadeye on the mark. I use my thief mainly for WvW, being able to snipe out targets is going to be fun.
Weaver second, as I use my ele for basically all PvE
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Mirage. I was a mesmer on Day 1 of the game's release. I was a mesmer all through LS1. I was a mesmer through the dark days before the buffs...the days all mesmers try to forget. Chrono was my first unlocked specialization in HoT. I'll be damned if my mesmer won't be the first of my characters setting foot on those scorching Elonian sands.
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The first I want to unlock is probably Holosmith. The first I will unlock is Deadeye, because 350 hero points saved up.
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All of them. I have 250+ HPs banked on all 9 of my characters
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I am pretty much only interested in the necro and the guardian one, but I think I'll start PoF with the warrior: I just have a massive desire to ride around Elona on that guy.
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Weaver. I just crafted Bolt and Incinerator within the last couple weeks so starting off as a sword/dagger ele will be fun :)
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Nice! And here I was proud about my crafted/Caladbolg quest ascended sword/dagger setup. I'll be playing my guardian through first, though, but I have plans to try Weaver after.
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I'm currently working on Astralaria, so I'm saving guardian until I finish that, but I'm also looking forward to that one!
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Weaver all the way. Mained an ele since the very first betas I was in, and am excited for my new wishwoosh.
Honestly I have no idea what I'm pressing with weaver. Might as well play with a Dance Dance Revolution matte at this point.
Played weaver for 10 hours today, got a pure power build and tried out Sword/dagger. Loads of fun! But... The DPS feels a little low for how difficult the class is... It's squishy and you need to stay close to the mobs. One slip up and dead. You have no health (barriers are meh). And the 3 skills are so hard to land... I just wish either the skill is easier to land or does more damage.
Hopefully a buff might give a fresh air weaver build a chance.
I actually agree - it seems a very difficult thing to play for the output it's giving. Also we are ridiculously squishy so I agree barriers need some love. It's really fun though and quite the change from how I regularly play so I'm quite pleased with it so far. I'm not sure if it will become the meta (I feel like Tempest remains stronger) but we will see ^^