So, Inner Fire works...now what?

Bront

Bront

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Feb 2008

Honored Order of Light

W/Me

Inner Fire was fixed just before April fools. I'm curious about what it's done to the difficulty of Destroyers and from a farming and rep farming via books.

I've not had a chance to play around with them yet myself.

English Warrior

English Warrior

LEET HAXXOR!

Join Date: Feb 2007

Random Arena

N/A

i think it would make them damn hard i havent tried it yet will have to.

Bigger Redd

Bigger Redd

Academy Page

Join Date: Jan 2006

Demon Dawg Knights [DAWG]

Mo/Me

I did a few primary quests, H/H in HM, didn't notice much of a difference. At most just a few seconds more to kill them off.

biohazardlord

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Apr 2008

Im Not Old I Just Got [LAG]

Mo/

are they still possible to be farmed in the glints challenge?

Mamath

Mamath

Academy Page

Join Date: Aug 2007

Brisbane, Australia

The Gecko Liberation Army

Me/

My friend tells me his farming build doesn't work anymore as the Destroyers out-regen his damage. :/ I daresay he'll find a way around it though. Such is Guild Wars. :B

Alathaea

Alathaea

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Apr 2008

None

R/

It hasn't really been mashing up my playing that much, but that's only because i've been playing around with a direct damage build that gets past the immunity to burning that messes up degen. xD

michaelhunter81

michaelhunter81

Academy Page

Join Date: Apr 2006

House Valhaad

W/D

well from a warrior stand point, yes it is impossible to farm them now. tried 5 times and didnt kill one. hopefully the ele side of things are in better conditions.

ernestosilva

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Jan 2008

Braga, Portugal

OdHL

E/

I farm glint's with my elementalist (I don't log in to GW after the update, yet) and with sliver armor that regen don't stop killing, in the begining they die like 1 for second, maybe when you got only 3 or 2 you cannot out-damg their regen even with alkar's alchemy acid, but can only be sure by trying

RTSFirebat

RTSFirebat

The Humanoid Typhoon

Join Date: May 2005

UK

Servants of Fortuna [SoF]

R/

Farming is affected for sure. But otherwise they are still push overs as always. Inner Fire keeps them alive for a few more secs.

Nightow

Nightow

Forge Runner

Join Date: Feb 2006

Kindred Order of Souls [KOS]

It's kind of like [skill]Spirit Light Weapon[/skill] only with out casting time, energy cost or conditional. It's isn't that bad....

Richardt

Richardt

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Sep 2007

http://friendsofloa.com/forum

Leader-Legion of Avalon [LoA] Alliance-Recruiting PM for info!

VwK farming is effectively nerfed-not sure about sliver armor-haven't tried that yet.

In other locations, well, me and my alliance tore through Raven's Point last night in HM-took roughly 45 minutes-which is faster than what we normally are able to pull off. So they're still complete pushovers, and the only time I noticed any healing were with the ranger destroyers, and you can barely see some health gain when they enter their block stances-that is until our ele tore them a new one

I was a little disappointed-I thought they were going to be a challenge now.

- Tain -

- Tain -

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Apr 2006

[SMS]

R/

Don't think it's really worth it, but I hear Scourge Healing is fun.

IslandHermet

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2007

Does anyone not find it funny that it took Anet this long to fix the only heal skill on the destroyers who have no monk and are the super bad guys of GW.

Anet had no reason to fix this skill now they should have fixed it (during the beta of Gwen) but hey what can I say.

better late then never right.

- Tain -

- Tain -

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Apr 2006

[SMS]

R/

Quote:
Originally Posted by IslandHermet
Does anyone not find it funny that it took Anet this long to fix the only heal skill on the destroyers who have no monk and are the super bad guys of GW.

Anet had no reason to fix this skill now they should have fixed it (during the beta of Gwen) but hey what can I say.

better late then never right. Possibly because even without healing, people cried about them being hard... I guess people had to learn that physicals = damage eventually.

Richardt

Richardt

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Sep 2007

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The only thing you need to do is have a DPS over 30 and you're counteracting it-which is something a halfway near decent team should be able to pull off.

@IslandHermet-Now I'm not saying this is the case, but prolly the reason this took so long was that it was a problem in some obscure part of the code that took a while to track down. Debugging a program, particularly one as big and complicated as GW, is a pain. Just because there's a problem with say module A doesn't mean the problem lies in module A-could be from something that is completely unrelated that interferes with something related to A.

Katari

Katari

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2005

Upstate

Me/

It did nothing to HM book runs, unless you're bad.

Richardt

Richardt

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Sep 2007

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Katari
It did nothing to HM book runs, unless you're bad. QFT. If you can't do more than 30 points of damage per a second with a team build, you need to go back to the drawing board.

dicecube

dicecube

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Apr 2007

N/

Have destroyer cores and cloth of the brotherhood risen up in price?
I haven't been in Central post update.

lemme know cuz I have a ton in storage
TIA

Carinae

Carinae

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jun 2005

Inside

Fifteen Over Fifty [Rare]

Destroyers are indeed rather tougher to kill now that Inner Fire works. But they are far from unkillable.

I notice the buff when I have heroes flagged and they have to fight Destroyers by themselves. Previously, they could handle them with no issue, now they struggle against them. When I return to the flagged heroes, the tide turns easily.

Zebideedee

Zebideedee

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Sep 2007

55?? 57' 0" N / 3?? 12' 0" W

N/Me

To put it one way, I was slowly but surely making my way through Glints Challenge, I could make it to wave 5-6, I'm sure I could of read builds on here that would have allowed me to complete easy, but I prefered trying and testing my own strategies.

Now I can't even make it past wave 1, so now I have to resort to looking online for foolproof builds, good job, at this rate there will only be a handful of decent builds for all characters


Ps. Will older players who were allowed (easier) version of Glints be penalised, No, it's just a kick in the chops for newer players

RTSFirebat

RTSFirebat

The Humanoid Typhoon

Join Date: May 2005

UK

Servants of Fortuna [SoF]

R/

Stop QQing, Inner Fire was a broken skill, it was bugged! A.net haven't nerfed anything, they simply fixed a ingame bug.

But I do feel your pain, but there are some builds that still work, plus what about dual runs?

Richardt

Richardt

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Sep 2007

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Zebideedee
To put it one way, I was slowly but surely making my way through Glints Challenge, I could make it to wave 5-6, I'm sure I could of read builds on here that would have allowed me to complete easy, but I prefered trying and testing my own strategies.

Now I can't even make it past wave 1, so now I have to resort to looking online for foolproof builds, good job, at this rate there will only be a handful of decent builds for all characters


Ps. Will older players who were allowed (easier) version of Glints be penalised, No, it's just a kick in the chops for newer players To overcome this, all you need to do is have a DPS well in excess of 30-which is easily done. With just auto attacking a single warrior can do this.

If you need help with team builds, just post what you've been using and the fine members of this forum can lend a hand and recommend improvements.