Theignson wrote: »

PvP has been really empty (PC NA greymoor) and the forums have been slow too.

I know the elite PvPers are out farming something they want from this new chapter. What is it? Is it the speed ring? Or are you guys just getting the perfected Masters/vMA gear etc?

I don't think it can be the 25% damage ring because no one would give up crit damage in pvp, right?

Eh depends. In PVE it's pretty cut in dry that you pretty much don't want to give up crit rating and crit damage unless you have to. In PVP it's not as cut and dry. A lot of builds get their burst from crits, but not all builds have to rely on it. The truth is, when facing someone who stacked crit resistance to the soft cap, chances are that you aint critting *** against them.

So in those cases, if your crits are going to hit the same as white damage anyways because they hit the 50% reduction cap, might as well pump your white damage by another 25% instead.

The question is how often will you be running into people with enough crit resistance to nullify your crit damage modifiers? Well it's still week one of launch, so it's up in the air. I imagine that eventually there will be some sort of balance made where that ring is a soft counter to crit resist stackers, so people will have to then pick whether they stack crit resists, or put those resources to countering other things.

Remember, the ring is only useless if your target has no crit resistances, because at that point you lost out on a ton of potential damage against them. Also, you can still critically heal with the ring on, you just can't do critical damage. The meta for this patch probably won't be sort of set for another few weeks, after everyone tried out their theory crafted builds and decided what actually works and what doesn't.

I would definitely want to try that band out on a WW build myself.

A new game.