Guild Wars 2

No, there’s no way to turn it off because they don’t want level 80s to completely decimate the low level zones. However, if you are properly geared and active in combat (ie. dodging, using your skills intelligently, and not just Leroy Jenkinsing into a group of 25 mobs), you should have no trouble soloing things. You should also have no trouble helping out lower level characters.

Obviously, this game just might not be for your friends. But it doesn’t sound like they (and you, to an extent) really tried to adapt their playing to how the game works. I think people should actually try to play the game before just quitting without understanding how things work.

I ask myself the same question when i look at the rewards after a fractal 50 run.

Dont you have any sense of humor? Its Anets way to give us a laugh! The ridiculous new player experience was dumbed down to such a level so it can firmly express the level of lack of effort new games require to play!

Good job Anet, we (I) had a great laugh at the NPE changes. I do hope you do have a sense of humor and dont extend your jokes till theyre embarrassing to listen to.

Despite me trying to be positive these past days, this slightly depressed me:

Link to video

Stomping in DS has not the effect I would’ve liked to see… Foot in the Grave is not worth it now…

dude, nobody cares about your post either

I can prove that by a simple thought experiment:

Thesis: Necros are good.

1. People say eles are bad.
2. Anet buffs eles.
3. Ele is good now.
4. People say necros are bad.
5. Anet doesn’t buff necros.
6. Necro must be good already.

Q.E.D.

Shoutout to the Devs and especially Jon ‘5 signets’ Peters who graced us with this wonderfully balanced game.

Its not a proper record as condi is still faster. But I wanted to get a relatively smooth berserker kill before the patch (ignore me tanking a kick like a scrub). Sub 8 minutes is possible but sadly I wont have time before the patch to redo it. Enjoy.

http://youtu.be/Nk2NNMxp3t4

I will probably get round to beating the condi necro record at some point after the patch, although dont hold your breath. Condi necro bores me to death.

See you in linksville! :<

Hi.

I’m a casual player.

Events like Tequatl are completely inaccessible to a person like me.

Since the living story content seems to be following the same design principles (i.e., events that not even an entire server can hope to beat despite trying multiple times), I was wondering if there’s going to be any content that would appeal to players like me in the future, or whether this is all we have to look forward to?

Thanks.

good general ideas destroyed by zero forethought and the worst execution imaginable. poor communication (the quality, not necessarily the quantity). a whole lot of bark, very little bite. what was an extremely promising game at launch has devolved into just the typical bland MMO experience. grind grind farm grind. if you like MMO, there’s a chance you’ll like gw2. if you hate MMOs, avoid gw2 like it’s the plague. neglect of the stable playerbases in favor of throwing all resources at glorified tourism, while having no problem flat out insulting and alienating their most loyal players. a giant list of major bugs and exploits that have been around since the betas. hacks and other forms of cheating going completely unchecked, unless it means a dime less profit for them. it could have been the wave of the future, but if i was on the development team i would be humiliated by the entire past year.

amazingly good art and graphics though.

Cant really ruin necros much more in pve anyway.

nope, no one in earth’s history, you are the first and you will go down in the annals of esports history as a record older for points obtained in the super competitive hotjoin

I walked into the tower around 2 a.m. I work night shift so most days I can’t play with my friends. I slowly made my way up the tower. Mine hurt but once I learned that, 1st lvl was easy. Then lvl 2, fighting my way up still….some idiot runs and gives me 3 vets while I’m fighting one. It seems to be the pattern with this tower. You can’t do it alone. You need a group that can kill things quickly before a patrol gives you more things to fight, kill a champion event that blocks you way (group event).

You cannot solo your way up. Ive seen 5 vets in one area. How am I suppose to solo that. I have troubles doing this tower, minus instances, because its horrific. And if that isn’t enough, people only run though because that is the only way to SOLO the tower. I wanna know how they get past the champ events and the 5 vets.

I feel scorn as a solo player. I have made it to the top twice since it released. And I’m frustrated.

please please please let us have access to ascalonian armour and caudecus’s manor shoes in some other way than r50-60. just think how many ascalonian mesmers you’d make happy! (tbh even if you just send me the sets ^^ screw the other humans)

Wow, here I thought Lion’s Arch used Asuran/Charr hybrid technology to create a humanoid buoy!
I swam by you, sorry, I would have brought over some food.

Ascii.9726:

Necromancer:
For the necromancer, we felt that a few traits and skills were too powerful, while others were lacking in efficacy. We brought down some of the raw DPS conditions that necromancer enjoys, while also maintaining their pressure and sustain elements. The necromancer’s mobility will remain where it is currently, as we want the Necromancers to be focused on sustaining themselves through death shroud, siphoning health, and slowing down their opponent’s ability to act.

Hmmm…

They want us to sustain ourselves through Death Shroud and siphoning health? Really?

Who could forget this zinger from the July 23rd, 2013 patch:

• Damage taken while in death shroud will now overflow to the necromancer’s health pool if the damage taken is greater than the remaining life force. (nope, haven’t forgotten; nope, not gonna let it go)

Or these gems from the October 15th, 2013 patch

• Bloodthirst: This trait now grants 20% bonus siphoning, down from 50% more effectiveness (which results in no change when combined with the change to other siphoning traits). <== Their words, not mine.

• Vampiric, Vampiric Precision, Vampiric Rituals, and other life siphon skills: Increased the base siphoning by 20%. (which resulted in a net increase of a whopping two – yes, you read that right – two additional points of life siphoning when combined with the nerfed Bloodthirst)

And now – just for kittens and giggles – the upcoming December 10th patch:

• Soul Reaping II. Vital Persistence: Increased reduction of life force drain from 25% to 50%. (A little tip: our sustain issues have nothing to do with how fast or how slow Life Force degens while in Death Shroud; nada, zero, zilch, zip.)

But to be fair, they didn’t say, “…we want the Necromancers to sustain themselves through death shroud, siphoning health…”.

What they actually said was, “…we want the Necromancers to be focused on sustaining themselves through death shroud, siphoning health…”

Ok, fair enough. I’m focusing. I’m focusing real, reaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaal hard.

Hmmm…

My sustain doesn’t seem to be any better than what it was before.

Here’s a crazy idea:

Maybe it’s not the necro community that needs to do the focusing. Perhaps the focus needs to come from somebody else and directed at listening to what the community is telling you, rather than balancing off of a database of metrics or around the least played game mode (sPvP/tPvP).

And for the love of Grenth, could we PLEAAAAAAAAAAASE get someone on the balance team who actually plays necro as a main and knows the class.

Mark of Blood. Removed 1 bleed in PvP only. – i think its realy good change

Signet of Spite: Removed one bleed. – i think its ok but i am not sure if that was the problem of this utility
Spite 15 – Death into Life. Increased conversion from 5% to 7% – small buff to our sustain :P

Spite X – Chill of Death. Increased trigger threshold from 25% to 50%. – realy nice change that will give us more sustain vs mele

Curses IV – Weakening Shroud. Increase recharge from 15 to 25. – that is huge nerf for necro , that trait was the best defensive trait and u should think about it more

Curses VIII – Banshee’s Wail. Increase cooldown reduction from 15% to 20%. – its ok

Death 5 – Reanimator. Decreased cooldown from 30s to 15s. – that might be funny , but still this trait is usless

Death VIII – Reaper’s Protection. Decreased the cooldown from 90s to 60s. – i love this trait so i am glad to see that buff

Death 25 – Deadly Strength. Increased conversion from 5% to 10%. – power necro hmm i hope some day…

Blood Magic 25 – Blood to Power. Decreased health threshold from 90% to 75%. Increase Power from 90 to 120. – power necro hmm i hope some day…

Soul Reaping II. Vital Persistence. Increased reduction of life force drain from 25% to 50%. – that might be nice change we gonna see

Spite X – Chill of Death. Increased trigger threshold from 25% to 50% – AWESOME change, but i hope that its actual 50, not 20% like right now despite tooltip saying 25%

Curses VIII – Banshee’s Wail. Increase cooldown reduction from 15% to 20%. – Very much needed.

Death 5 – Reanimator. Decreased cooldown from 30s to 15s. – Please just fuse it with Protection of the Horde and make it at Major Trait, no matter how much you improve it its still blocking the entry into DM line for a lot of players that dont want to have sodding rats running around with them, still ok change/direction, but a better would have been, can proc up to 3 times within 30 seconds, no cooldown between procs, thus allowing for a spike of minions for MM builds on fights with adds.

Soul Reaping II. Vital Persistence. Increased reduction of life force drain from 25% to 50% – Making it kinda efficient, but its still not a good trait plain because of how the 3 main necro setups use DS, Power builds got enough LF generation that sticking in DS isnt a problem (and dagger is a stronger dps tool either way), for conditions its a one off and defensive tool thus only needing 10-30% LF and kinda only being able to generate that much and minion masters in best case use it as a heal for minions.
The degeneration isnt a problem its the difference in how easy, fast and reliably different setups can generate life force (from the fast D/WH, the burst A/F or the reliable n safe Staff with soul marks or worthless/almost non existent on S/D since Scepter 3 isnt a appealing skill to condis).

Things that really need change/fix is Putrid mark (being a 3 cleanse and not cleansing teammates), staff weapon swap/interrupt mark cd, buggy nature of Trident 1 (doesnt hit stuff right infront of you underwater but still can go trough some walls).

Personal wishes are a 1 second boost to Foot in the grave (or making it the SR GM minor) and changes to spite 10 major traits (especially Spiteful Spirit trait not worth it for the slot, but a lot of builds dont have a better option and it kinda is a major blasphemy of the once dear Elite).

Ok, i am sorry but i was just curious what previous experience this “top necro” has? I am all for helping the forums and tutorial videos being posted, but after watching a few feel like they should be questioned? I am not trying to come off as a troll/kitten either. Just curious

-Zombify