Agreed. As others have pointed out, voting helps to elevate higher quality posts (even if it doesn’t always work that way), but karma takes that imperfect process to its ridiculous extreme.

Not sure if this was an argument for karma, but it sounds like an argument for avoiding contraversy and trying to fit in This is why everyone on Reddit appears to have the same opinion. I much prefer a diversity of opinions, and no penalty for speaking one’s mind (while treating each other with decency).

Karma makes sense, in theory, but in practice, it just punishes anyone who diverges from the herd.

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This is a really well-done video about what keeps drawing me back to this game, despite its short-ish content length. It’s just that cool of a world.

I mostly play 3 medium classes: Soulbeast, Scrapper, and Daredevil, so this one affects me personally.

Initial reactions:

• The change to flanking makes Hunter’s Tactics in Skirmishing a straight 15% damage increase on a minor trait. Selfishly, yay? But it feels kinda cheap, and it essentially eliminates a key skill tactic.
• The changes to Speed of Synergy and Kinetic Accelerators is a bit of a gut punch for my Scrapper. Way less application and duration for the only rare group boon (superspeed) I was bringing to the table, and the added reliance on Hammer 3 means I’ll be flinging myself off cliffs with greater regularity as the zerg kills targets before the skill procs. Also, the Function Gyro made a lot more sense when you could save it for when you need it as opposed to becoming an integral source of blast finishers in the rotation
• My bounding-power-staff Daredevil got increased damage, but only in PvE. I guess that’s okay because he’s too squishy for me to play anywhere else. I like that they completely reworked the Acrobatics trait line, as it was in a really bad place, while random stolen skills were nerfed. I’m not sure this makes it worth taking over Trickery, but I guess we’ll see.

Overall, these look to be pretty impactful to my personal gameplay. I’ll really have to actually see how it feels in-game, but I’m fairly confident that I will not be able to ignore this change.

> Assuming you mean WvW

I do. I guess you “zerg” in Drizzlewood, too.

> Also, isn’t the WvW Zerg Scrapper Meta a Minstrel Support Build with MedKit and Elixir Gun?

My build would be more of the “Good” (not Great\Meta) rating, but listed on the Meta build sites.

>Maybe those guides have not been updated

That has to be it. I’m actually a bit of a scrub player, so I was just wondering if it was awesome sauce if I didn’t suck so much.

I play a Power Grenadier Scrapper when running with zergs. Most of the meta builds for this kind of scrapper insist that Sneak Gyro is the elite skill to go with. In my own testing, its effect is difficult to time with the movements of a zerg and gone way too fast. So, why is this a popular skill for Power Scrappers?