Guild Wars 2

That’s a bit more comforting, thanks guys. I’ll work on moving into zerker gear and give Spoj’s spec a try – but in the mean time at least I won’t feel as bad utilizing my current gear in the mean time and I do LOVE conditionmancer for open world PvE so keeping this gear rolling while I work on the second set to switch between sounds perfect. Thanks again.

Hey everyone,

First note – I’m not a necro main, but I severely enjoy the playstyle. I’ve just come back from a 3 month break and focusing my gold and time mostly on my thief and understanding the changes since I’ve gotten back. With that said…

Before I left off, conditionmancer was pretty heavy so my necro still has full TA condition gear. Considering I’m not trying to be the best of the best, nor am I in anything competitive with this lil’ guy – I’m just doing PvE and dungeons for fun – but I would like to at least be somewhat useful and adequate and not be carried by the group. Is this gear set and/or build salvagable or viable?

Thanks in advance. ^.^

So over the last couple of days I’ve incorporated the suggestions provided here and with the inclusion of utilizing the recommended build and weapons sets, patience and timing popping in and out of stealth, dismissing summoned clones with the s/b and maintaining a clone-free-environment with upkeep on blinds, I’ve progressed a LOT vs. Mesmer. Granted they are still, and with talented players will always remain to be, a challenge; I no longer feel the rage of “OMG MESMERS ARE GODS QQ”.

I especially appreciate FinalPatriot’s perspective and contribution, as well as Scribbles experiences and thought process. Good on you, sirs!

This is a fine community and I appreciate the constructive criticism and ideas, I am quite impressed with you fine folk. Cheers!

Scribbles.3974:

nope DB isnt great in the fact that you 1 waste initiative to try and spam bleeds, and 2 it doesent cripple the clones to keep them bleeding long enough, caltrops works wonders, and with your build, if you have SoM on, the trops will heal you when they hit the clones for every tick they apply bleeding and cripple.

I see, that makes perfect sense. I’ll swap out Inf. Signet for Caltrops and try the S/B out when I’m able to work in a few games tonight, along with the considerations provided by you fine gents.

Maugetarr.6823:

With D/P, keep him constantly blind. A phantasm is an attack, and if they are blind, they don’t summon because the attack misses.
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Didn’t even consider that. O.O

Solid advice – I had assumed the death blossom would cover enough aoe – i considered it at least on par with sword for this build with the lack of power and increase in bleed dmg, even regarding swords lack of need for energy to fuel aoe – and it seemed to work well enough in dispensing but the clones don’t stop popping! I’ll play around swapping with s/b and sword and see if either of those fit right. But excellent insight regarding the distinction and approach, very much appreciated!

Haha. Cheers!

GTFO has been pretty much my line of action recently and I’ve been trying a few things since being away for a couple months. I’ve settled into enjoying http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=-c333R;0Zw-1-J5R-Fd0;9;49;0TT2;617A46C5wW0U;1G3G3G3G39BD and I have no complaints thus far save vs those godkitten phantoms.

For the most part I stack a bit of might, p/d #3 to the target, #5, stealth/bs, poke around a bit, weapon swap, dance around a few death blossoms to get my health up, blind, steatlth away out of any aoe and rinse/repeat depending on the dynamics of the situation. and I’m able to handle even up to two at a time if they’re not very skilled or coordinated (and I do pretty kitten good dmg for the most part). but those kittening phantoms seem to be unlimited and even click-targeting as soon as I get a hit or two in the kitten will decoy and pop – there he goes again amongst the crowd of relentless and ceaseless copies. lol.

QQ

kitten . Every target I kill is a phantom and I’m not even glass cannon, yet they burn through me like godkitten butter. Granted I’m no pro, I’m not terribly inadequate either and I have all but lost any desire to thief spvp with mesmers present – god forbid if there’s two running around together – it’s a kittening army. I will happily accept “you suck”, as I wouldn’t deny it – but I would love some helpful insight.

I absolutely love this set – I wish it was medium armor for my thief – the Viper armor is just atrocious.

ZilentNight.5089:

This must be the 50th thread about Scarlet….

lol. all I was trying to do was compliment the voice actress… /shrug.

I know little of Scarlet beyond this event. I’m not invested enough in the story to research and read the lore because frankly I haven’t been able to bear sitting through any of the character progression stories. The voice overs and still shots are just so bland and sleep-inducing. My comment was in reference to the quality of production, more specifically to the voice acting of Tara Strong, as Mad Queen pointed out (ty).

I think the voice acting and cinematic production of this game is flat, and that her addition did a lot to liven that up. And also I’ll agree with Farzo – I completely forgot about The Mad King, as I had literally just started playing around Halloween of last year.

I would just like to see more dynamics put into delivering the story because I’m sure its amazing, however the telling of it thus far has yet to capture my attention save for a few highlights.

Is by far my favorite NPC in GW2 thus far. I think this game is strongly lacking in story development, execution and mostly voice over during character and living story modes.

IMO the personality and voice over experienced through Scarlet has been my favorite so far and, again – my opnion, the most well-polished. I absolutely love her character; playful and malevolent… lots of personality and she doesn’t seem flat and bland.

Anyway, just wanted to give some praise to her development, as I’d like to see more with her level of character.

I’d also like to give general praise to all of the recent changes, developments and growth this game has seen with the last couple of patches. I feel like a lot of the horrible RNG is being made up for and these last couple of patches have felt like the balance of chance and acquisition has been strengthened and I just wanted to say thank you for that as well. I’ve had the most fun in a while during these last few weeks in this game.

I think that dev is full of kitten. “Just play every kittening day at the same time and you’ll get it eventually”. Okay, well some of us work for a living.

And honestly you would think that a checklist of the maps would have come with the achievement by default, just as many others have in similar fashion. Looking over the list of 13 provided above I know that I have done 12 of those. There is only one that I have missed and it would very appreciated to see which of these did not count, as I am not fond of the idea of doing 13 more hours to finish and see which of the previous 12 did not grant me the credit.

TempestMoon.5403:

Still need Gendarran. I’ve checked pretty much every hour for the last 2 days and the ones that keep popping up over and over again are Iron Marches and Timberline Falls. It’s getting a little frustrating.

Agreed, I keep hitting the same ones during my available time of day and for 25 fekkin points, I’m not too keen on missing such a lengthy achievement with 11 hours already invested…

Though I will take this moment to say along with my complaint that I haven’t had this much fun in GW2 since I began playing my first toon. They have really outdone themselves with this latest string of events around the Queen. TY so much guys… now… can we get a little love with this achievement progression?

I sincerely concur.

Name: Senke The Wraith

Server: Sorrow’s Furnace

Prof: Thief (also Necro & Mes, but focusing mailny on the thief)

Gear: Exotic Zerker/Valk w/ 2 Zerker Ascended items

Exp: Story, Path 1

Time: Morning – Afternoon – Usually between 8am – 2pm Central Time

Why: Because of my odd playing hours I haven’t been able to find a guild that’s active during my time and I have SEVERELY been wanting to experience Arah. I’m used to raiding – have done it for years – TS/Vent installed, no mic but I listen well and I’m always friendly.

Scorci.3250:

i have some bad news, you might be bad at the game

this isn’t the OP – the OP, I believe, deleted his post.

Yes, Uther Deathhand was correct – I was referring to the skins previously found for a short time in the Black Lion Chests.

And I was agitated because not only were the Dragonball achievements not registering (as they said later that they would not), I had 11 total at the time and the couple available achievements from the story quest line that they said would count, were obviously not counting.

I honestly have thoroughly enjoyed this content patch – my frustration lies in the lack of communication and severe bugging of this patch. And I don’t get a lot of time to play but have grinding quite a bit through the coffers and have easily blown through well over 500-600 by now.

Its just slightly upsetting because I play this game for the combat and for the aesthetics – and we’ve now gone through 3 different sets of released weapon skins that I’ve never had a chance of getting other than some one-in-a-million random chance. For a game I very much enjoy its saddening to see those just pass on by. Random chance of aquiring? Fine – but for the love of all that is customization at least allow them to be bought with real money at some point. I’m tired of being teased and let down. I understand I can’t grind things out as much as other players do and therefore I am fine paying real money for something I want.

I’m really tired of this. First I spend HOURS grinding out the Dragonball Ach’s. only to find that they don’t count. Now you’re telling me that I only need 8 achievements to receive the wings but that’s not true because I have every single available achievement aside from the preposterous Moa Racing ach. which I refuse to complete after already wasting 4g. I have, in fact, 11 achievements yet only 9 are registered toward ‘The Dragon Bash Experience’.

And I’ve also blown through literally over 200 coffers to find not a single weapon skin – which after spending $20 real money on the black lion keys to try and get one of the skins while they were out, I’m absolutely livid.

What on earth is ANETS obsession with gambling? And why 50 effing silver per bet? Why do they actually desire to lesson our gaming experience by blowing through in game currency that already takes great lengths to acquire?

Yes, I know I’m complaining and I apologize for venting here – but where else? I’m quickly finding more and more reasons to not play this game and I don’t believe that’s what ANET desires and since there is no way to put in an actual help request or contact through game mail – I’m posting my frustrations here…
Thank you, drive through.

Izzuan.3704:

Archaeos.3420:

So wait, are the Molten skins no longer in the Boxes? Did I just waste all my money trying for them?

Yup. I know there was an announcement somewhere that the molten weaps no longer dropped outta chests…

Aaaaahhh… missed that. That’s unfortuante… then yeah, seriously… why the sale? Though, I do agree with Ryuujin and now wish I would have just bought and saved.

So wait, are the Molten skins no longer in the Boxes? Did I just waste all my money trying for them?