So the new hero is...

Flashy rewards aren't really an issue either. Most players could care less about the Oppressor weapons that were handed out at the end of WiK.

Truth be told, there's simply not much the live team, with it's limited resources could do that will be particularly impressive to alot of the population. The game doesn't need new heroes, particularly when the majority of the existing ones don't see the light of day. It doesn't need flashy content either, there are enough weapon skins to choose from.

What the game does need is beyond the scope of this thread, but if what's his name was a necromancer, I think most people would have been pretty satisfied.

What would have been more fun is Gwen getting fed up by being called a mouse by Pyre, then Gwen killing Pyre, so that Thackery could be the 3e Ranger hero

Pyre is actually cool though... Why kill off a Charr hero(the only charr hero mind you) and replace it with another silly human?

Maybe when the 7hero update comes out there'll be a use for a para hero...

Pyre is the best ranger hero, for the simple fact that as a charr, he does not spread disease to non-charr.

The first ranger hero you have should always be Pyre. He is mechanically superior to all other ranger heroes.

With proper condition removing in yer party that shoudnt be an isseu.

Sadly, imo sofar, Ranger is the worst H/H class to use.
I can get more damage out of other classes (for Heroes at least) and for interrupting i use interrupt Mesmer.

Except he's a giant, ugly, smelly charr. This is precisely the reason it's nice to have a third paragon to choose from, because not everyone likes certain heroes. Morgahn is the enemy for a long time until he defects and Hayda is a very minor character that we never develop an attachment to.

I was speaking from a purely mechanical perspective. In practice, what you like is usually more important than what is mechanically the best option. It's why I still play my dervish.

I disagree with this especially when the ability to use 7 heroes becomes available. I will be making and trying out all kinds of groupings. 3 Paragons is going to be a blast.

Fortunately everyone doesn't play Maximize gaming. Many of us are RPG players and tend to want to make all kinds of groupings to see how they will fair in an episode of the game. Normal mode is easy enough just about any grouping with some healing will do well. Hard mode is for the maximizers of course but still will be fun for RPG players and those that just want to have fun.

There's no RIGHT way to play this game determined by ANYONE, wiki or joeblow makes no difference. The RIGHT way to play this game is the INDIVIDUALS way and nothing else matters. I have the same stuff as everyone else has, maybe not as many but still the same quality and values per item. I play my way and have a great time doing so. Nobody else matters especially the maximizers.

That's right there are many ways of playing, that is why unlike most players, I don't stick to particular builds like sabway, discordway or spiritway for ALL my characters. I borrow ideas from others and form my own builds to experiment on, and decided that having different hero team builds, each customized to my character's own profession and build gives better results.

customized builds > cookie cutter builds!

agree 100% myway is the bestway