Guild Wars 2

I normally run a MM in my necro build to make up for conditions and add survivability. New Orr zone basically destroys the entire trait line. Every active zone ability wipes your minions including gliding. Then add to this a story event that every time the fire trap triggers it wipes all your minions even if it doesn’t hit you. And they still are focusing on add bosses, pretty much destroys the fun.

I was looking forward to a good story not some Illuminati secret society garbage mixed with a cluster kitten of annoying mobs that are way over the top on damage and health. Magma Elementals kill a minion with every lava pool, not to mention they got the fireball from the White Mantel Elementalist that drops a lava pool and the health of a Elder Rock Elemental in Draconis Mons.

Who thought this would be fun? I’ve seen groups of players run off by the Magma Elemental. If this is any sign of what’s to come I won’t be buying the expansion. HoT wasn’t cohesive to solo play and again it looks like that’s where they want to go. Even on story mode Anet can’t stick with solo play cohesion.

Of all the LW stories this is by far the worst I’ve played, even LD wasn’t this frustrating with a boss that they had retune.

Ur kidding right? I did this stuff on zerk tempest and it was pretty smooth. Perhaps u should lay off the necro for a bit, shroud and minion tanking creates but habbits.

Did it with my staff condi necro with no real issues. So far it’s actually been the easiest prof I’ve done it with. Just go heavy AoE, found the best luck with that.

If minionmastering isn’t working for you there, possibly try a different build? I know I started enjoying necro a lot more when I got out of the mindset of always running minions and branched out into other builds.

The Magma Elementals are nasty, but thus far I’ve found them soloable as long as you don’t get too many adds. The lava hitting over a wider area than the lava graphic is more of a pain to me, to be completely honest.

If you ran a condi build with Parasitic Contagion, you’d have no issues at all staying alive. I managed to solo all the story content just fine with a Meditrapper DH. If you’re having issues, you probably need to address your build/play style.

I dumped MM for Blood, not the best option but made up for the lack of minions. It just really annoys me that for many professions I play changing traits means needing new gear. Luckily for the necro it wasn’t super detrimental too bad that wasn’t case for other professions. Despise the projectile hate of Doric. After the last few and way too much spent on regearing I have only one of each class and elite.

Yeah, I have to say that was one of the things that really disappoints me about GW2’s stat system. Having the stats affixed to gear (rather than something on your character that can be freely switched around) makes changing builds harder than it really should be in a franchise that has generally been designed around adjusting your build according to what you expect to face. Granted, GW1 often had some gear-swapping when you changed builds, but it wasn’t so important to do so, and you could often achieve significant changes by changing one piece.

Did it on minionless power reaper (in valkyrie gear though, guilty as charged). Died only at Lazarus because I didn’t recognize his spam mechanic. Gonna agree with poster #2 – necros create a lot of bad habits, and minion master doubly so.

Managed it without too much trouble on Ranger, but yeah, that boss fight with the burning squares basically took away my pet for all intents and purpose. Basically a vast amount of my DPS went out the window.