24 hours with full hero parties... how's it going?

Mindblades are not that hard, Panic mesmer did a good job keeping them busy. I used sabway heroes, 2 spirits pammers, panic gwen and earthshaker. I cleared all(including quests) in: vale,mountains, labyrinth, and plains. I got bored at plains and started 4H quest even that I knew i'm gonna fail it.

we're close to gw2, anet doesn't care if GW is difficult or not, she just wants us to keep playing for HoM


I'm loving 7heroes party, I've finally be able to run my orders/scythe abuse build, and vanquishing has been made fun

the game is awesome now imo, just don't hope for improved AI for more difficult, too much of an effort since GW2 is coming back and GW will be a wasteland

This update just made me realize how hard DoA is with no consets ( even in NM ) and how easy it is with consets ( even in HM).. They should be forbidden tbh , it makes the area not challenging at all.....

Apart of that , i kinda complete all easily with 3 earth eles aoe spam + 2 MM/rit healer + me warrior + 1 paragon

I kinda use similar hero builds for my war. I run earthshaker. Although i always ran some modified version of sabway (i never used ss hexer, but n/mo melee support) i decided to go discord. Before nerf i used scythe constantly but since i'm not impressed with current dmg, i run ES war just as aggro control not as primary dmg. Beside those i run panic, ineptitude, SoS/splinter and ER E/Mo healer or another support heal rit (depends). I'm not very impressed with E/Mos

3 necro,2 rit,2 mes steam rolling... HM is easy mode now

For everyone who said no to 7 hero parties..This one's for you <3
Now can we reopen the "A discussion on 7 heros" thread.

I havent found a need for the mercinaries yet, this update is Epic.
I will most likely wait a few months in the hopes of a half off sale..then cash my chips in.

Finally got Eternal Grove HM masters with 7 heroes. And there was nothing difficult about it.

I love the 7 heros! Also I bought the 8 merc. pack. I don't have enough gold at this time to outfit them all (mercs) on all my chars., but just having them on my main is very cool! I finished vanquishing Factions yesterday with them

I find posts like this kind of sad.

HM was ALWAYS easy... if you played with other people.
Just one friend or guild-mate was enough.
But apparently GW is a single-player game now :-P

And yeah, I'm as guilty as anyone - hardly any guildies or friends still playing, I don't want a new guild (old guild will be revived for GW2)... and I just CBA with PuGs these days. It's just sad, when you think back to the glory days...

Since 2003, and regarding 6-7 MMOs I have played, I have read this same "ah... the glory days" so many times I can't count. Sometimes I typed it myself.

The "glory days" are usually nothing more than everyone being relatively new, relatively the same level and progress, and concentrated in a single original game TBH. Rose colored glasses of nostalgia generally paint it as better than it was.

Planes of Power/CU/Desert of Flames/Burning Crusade/Mines of Moria etc etc all "destroyed and ruined" their respective games, and yet, they still all chug along somehow.. EQ will be 12years soon I think.

Not dissing you.. just making an observation.

Finally have builds to a comfortable point, though Razah has a problem using Spirit Siphon. Other than that my biggest complaint was fixing up a dervish that would actually use skills. I had to dumb it down a bit for the bad AI so that leaves some to be desired.

Early testing looks ok and it uses no extreme gimmicks. It doesn't use monks, hybrid necros, spirit armies SY! or dedicated healing, either. I'm sure it would fail in really hard places but I'm hoping it can at least vanquish.

Once I get bored I'm considering an adrenaline-junkie team using Infuriating Heat.

Pretty neat, finally doing stuff with a competent team at MY leisure.

Do a part of an area.
Alt+tab, eat, watch a show, go back to gw, do other part, alt+tab, laugh at sony failing miserably at suing EVERYONE, back to gw, finish the area.

I'm trying to justify it by running balanced. Balanced works very well too.

I'm thrilled to freakin' death, TBH. I've got a family, so teaming up with humans is always dicey - never know when I have to run downstairs and apply a band-aid or give moral support to my sig-other. On top of that, there are simply too many jerks playing this game for me to bother with pugs. There are plenty of good folks, too, but one bad encounter turns me off of humans for a pretty good while.

So, I'm always H/H'ing this game, and henchmen stink (stank?). This from a person who henched T'head keep back when there were no heros, and used a couple under-powered henchmen a just couple weeks ago in WiK. I can use them if I have to, but I won't miss them one little bit now that I don't.

Think I'm going to finally see if I can get a Rotwing Bow.

My reaction on the new build was to use Embark to find a pug for the new Z vanquish.
THen I realised i had the option of earning survivor title on top of the load I already have.
So now im soloing wurms to get that. Not the fastest but quite safe.

Of course Il will try to see if i can beat fow or something with 7 bheroes. But I never asked for 7 heroes, its like 10th place on my priority list. These new changes are for sure great, but we didnt get my #1 desire: A auction house or some other way to improve trading. All this stuff worth less 20k, I get it all the time. I merch it all the time.
Cant be bothered. Its clogging up my storage.
Using 7 heroes would just give me more of this crap. (moving and killing faster and then split wityh heroes compared to true solo)

So 7 heroes is nice but not what i desired.

To me the need for 7 heroes is realy a failure of the devs. They just couldn't create a decent build. It's been more that 5 years and Alesia still tries to touch heal and gets herself killed. None of my hero monks use any sort of healing touch.

There wasn't a need, there was a want.

It was never hard really, all you need is a stance remover and skills that make him damage himself like empathy and spiteful spirit.

It was an improvement on gameplay for people that like to play on their own for whatever reason.

Funny. I just did a vanquish of The Scar in prophcies. Got to the highest point where the last group of griphons were waiting for me. After killing them I looked around and remembered that I had been here once before. 5 years ago in fact. At that time I was with a friend, just the two of us and hench cleared the entire map searching for clues to the mysterious Hall of Hero's...

How things have changed and yet how much they are still the same. I rarely every did full live teams and cleared most every mission with at least one hench, often our only monk(s).

I did a Zaishen mission with a guildie today then vanquished with heroes, not much really has changed in my game play in over 70 months of playing.