Guild Wars 2

Full Necro notes:

Corrupt Boon: This skill now properly removes aegis rather than being blocked by it.
Fetid Ground: This downed skill now has a Dark combo field. Its visual effects have been updated to show its actual radius.
Life Leech: This downed skill’s damage has been increased by 25%.
Spectral Walk: Removing this skill from a skill slot while it’s active will now remove all benefits gained from activating the ability.
Spinal Shivers: This skill now properly removes aegis rather than being blocked by it.

If that was/is seriously all of the changes I would be beyond mad, and transition into sad.

that’s it? Wow, so… they basically do not have the capacity or williingness to fix the class. yay! an event…..

no faith in this dev staff now.

Spectral walk

Yeah i hate to say it but im kinda disappointed. I mean sure the haloween thing is great and all but the games been out long enough i think its time they sat down and got to work fixing stuff cause there’s certainly no shortage of things that need fixed and while i do enjoy new content i think making sure the game isn’t bethesda level full of glitches and bugs would probably be a good idea. Side not dont get me wrong i love bethesdas games but they are notorious for bugs and such for a reason.

Mammoth.1975:

Spectral walk

Yah, a touch annoying but obviously wasn’t intended to work the way it was.

On one hand I’m glad corrupt boon is / was fixed but I feel like they could of given us a few more of the bugs fixed . Since there are supposed to be different dev teams why is ours ( professions) lacking so much =(

I can understand spectral walk being changed kitten but the fact that nothing major aside from corrupt boon and spinal shivers have changed, is severely disappointing. I was hoping for various bugs to be address and changed, rather than having 4 changes with only 2 being somewhat helpful, while all being minor and/or new bugs the necro has.

Well since another patch has been rolled out it is safe to assume all current “bugs” with the necromancer are not really bugs, they are intended.

Is anyone else offended at the blatant favoritism that warrior and guardian are receiving? Two classes that simply don’t merit any substantial buffs or fix focus? I’m fine with being patient, but the amount of resources and time they devote to buffing classes that don’t need it instead of buffing and focusing on the classes that do is getting pretty irritating.

Actually, this has gotten rather obnoxious.

Terok.7315:

Is anyone else offended at the blatant favoritism that warrior and guardian are receiving? Two classes that simply don’t merit any substantial buffs or fix focus? I’m fine with being patient, but the amount of resources and time they devote to buffing classes that don’t need it instead of buffing and focusing on the classes that do is getting pretty irritating.

Actually, this has gotten rather obnoxious.

Guardians were also nerfed, and one of their current buffs was to compensate for a harsh nerf in a previous patch.

DiogoSilva.7089:

Terok.7315:

Is anyone else offended at the blatant favoritism that warrior and guardian are receiving? Two classes that simply don’t merit any substantial buffs or fix focus? I’m fine with being patient, but the amount of resources and time they devote to buffing classes that don’t need it instead of buffing and focusing on the classes that do is getting pretty irritating.

Actually, this has gotten rather obnoxious.

Guardians were also nerfed, and one of their current buffs was to compensate for a harsh nerf in a previous patch.

The harsh nerf in the previous patch didn’t make a dent in my guardian GS/retaliation build. =/ In fact, it was really negligible.

I bet Corrupt Boon will still have that strange unreliability of doing nothing at all, other than debuffing yourself. But hey, at least we remove aegis now.

I’m still in shock that we have the LEAST changes this patch.

Holy crap…

Can you just throw us something Anet? Buff underwater skills, buff staff auto dmg a little bit. Just a few small things???

Ugh.

Spectral Walk… Sigh…..

Yeah atleast take the time to reassure us that someone is actually looking into all these bugs even if there is no eta of actual fixes would help alot to just to hear from a dev bothering to say yes we care and are working.

Eon, true. That would help considerably. However, I doubt they read the forums let alone respond. I think they check it once in a blue moon, see that we are all disappointed and leave, because no one likes to face reality. I think the necro community has suggested some outstanding fixes/changes, aside from pointing out the plethora of bugs, only to get 0 response from devs.

Sorry, I am a bit discouraged

I agree there have been many good suggestions and I try to stay positive but it really is getting a bit ridiculous how we get no responses or anything.

I’m disappointed, but at the same time this is a Halloween patch so they might have as well done no skill changes at all and shrugged it off.
Nice that they did something at least.

I think you folks hoping that there is going to be some sweeping, crazy patch in the near future that is going to cure all the Necro’s ills are just setting yourselves up to be discouraged and disappointed. It may get there, slowly. Or it may not. Who knows? As far as dev blackouts go, we’re in one that is about as dark as a CIA water-boarding cell in Istanbul.

So I can only recommend that y’all get used to playing it as it is, more or less. And if that don’t butter your bread, best you move on to something not so… broken. I mean, we’re losing sight that ArenaNet was still balancing professions years and years after the first Guild Wars was released. Hell, they even nuked an entire profession and nearly started from scratch on it. My advice is to keep expectations lean. For the record, I’m not complaining, just stating the facts. I love playing my necro. But I’ve learned to accept it for what it is.

Eon.5428:

I agree there have been many good suggestions and I try to stay positive but it really is getting a bit ridiculous how we get no responses or anything.

Same here. I was feeling better and better about my necro. I keep telling myself changes will come eventually. Been patient.

But just reading that patch, reading all the changes for each class, getting excited. Then.

Bam a couple tiny changes for necro.

I almost cried. =[

Oh come on folks, Corrupt Boon is major! There may be a long way to go but at least they’re paying attention to big, important skills that a lot of people use. Now hopefully they’ll fix Plague Signet next patch!

And Spectral Walk wasn’t a nerf, people being able to swap it out while it was active was clearly an exploit and was making quite a difference in pvp.

Re-roll if you haven’t already. I think its pretty obvious by now that Anet don’t know how to fix the necro bugs or how to give us some viable competitive builds other than the 1-2 obvious ones we have.

Geekanerd I agree with you that expecting a huge patch soon that will just fix everything is unreasonable but still there are so many things and it had been 2 weeks since last patch and this was all the bug fixes that happened.

huge buff, there is a scythe type staff in black lion chests, didn’t we all wanted this?

CB: Cool, always thought aegis would of blocked it since it was a targeted skill, where are the well isn’t and removes aegis

FG: Yay, another field to add to our list. still waiting on the finshers

LL: more damage to add to my 50% increase already. im ok with this…

SW: bug fixing, personally I’ve just kept it on my bar normally anyway… Its a good DS gain for condimancer

SS: As with CB, thought it was fine… but cool

Still waiting for the rest of the patch notes to be published… there must be more than that

Archmagel you might be on to something with the place the bugs there individually lol

Calling Anet out will just get threads closed, so not worth it.

@Eon Oh no! Let’s not actually do it! I kid, I kid! XD I would hate for them to see those and think “We will show them bugs…”! (PS I know you were joking as well…or at least I will assume so, lol)

Yeah i was joking though a little necro attention would be nice.

Yeah, the necro fixes were kinda slim and disappointing… but the total list of things they applied to this patch is massive. And yeah, Halloween is a nice little event for all of us. I hope at least, since I haven’t really played today yet. Anyways, I am sure Arena will get to patching as soon as possible. Right now, necros are not the most important thing. They will get us fixed eventually, I’m positive.

Keep your heads up high, fellows. We will be strong…. someday. :p

at this rate, the necro will be completly fixed by…2034

Ezekeel.2837:

Next patch we probably get a utility skill to kill ourself which will give us a new tPvP viable ‘downed build’..

You made me laugh m8.

Konrad Curze.5130:

at this rate, the necro will be completly fixed by…2034

Oh, don’t forget about ‘end of the world’ this december.

I know a bug that boosts me, but I’m not stupid enough to publish it. It would be nerfed tomorrow. It’s not exploit, just some 10-15% buff.
On the other hand, if a bug corrupt something that should work and is not in player’s favor they took their time.
Posting bugs in general section and asking for reply will get you nothing. Did it, was deleted (not closed) in 30 min.

Edit:
When our profession will get boosts and fixes in comparison to e.g. ele, witch is already polished but still got 8 boosts and 1 fix I will publish that bug. So I think I’m good for at least a year.