Guild Wars 2

Hay Osi,
Made another video based on your game style but with a small change :P
gear is berserker all the way, rune of the eagle and the rest is in the video guide.

The “Franz Mesmer” build:

Dual swords and sword torch builds.
traits and gear are in the video:

if you want pure glass canon you can check out my video to get some more ideas for you game play.
the build is almost the same as Osicat but with full berserker gear and some staff buffs.

hay sol, nice post about the ranger.
i have a good friend playing a ranger and i would like to give him the traits details you use (0/20/30/5/15 is a bit general for a noob, non ranger player like me ).
Thanks.

Elmentcius Koronel.6234:

Staff 1 should be a scythe horizontal swing with cleave.

Or give us a voodoo doll. Who doesn’t like voodoo dolls?

no no no no no… A CHICKEN HEAD!!!!!

check your stat’s like power or con’ damage and then say it’s better… till you are not fully geared and have lvl 80 with full traits dont just trash this class.

Lauren Hotson.5068:

Hello everyone, I hope you’re enjoying your time in game!

If you come across any sort of bug that fits in the following categories, please post them in this thread:

-Stuck in the terrain or a prop
-Textural/graphical issues with the environment or world props
-Terrain or world props disappearing/flickering
-Armor/clothing art issues (textures, placement, clipping…)
-Weapon art issues (textures, placement, effects, clipping…)
-Anything that you feel fits into the art-side of bugs

The more descriptive you can be of the issue, the better! So here’s what you can do to help us out:

If you come across an issue with the map/terrain, please be sure to:
-Take a screenshot with your mouse hovering over the minimap while it’s zoomed all the way in so we can see the sector name. Make sure your screenshot has a clear view of the issue too!
-If you got stuck, please describe to us what you were doing before hand, along with a screenshot (this includes listing any skill you may have used upon being pushed inside the terrain).
-If you can, open up the screenshot in a picture editor (like MS Paint) and circle or point to the issue.
-If the world or large areas of land appear to “pop” in and out or “flicker,” please be sure that you are facing the appropriate direction in your screenshot and follow the screenshot directions.

If you come across an issue with your armor/clothing or weapons:
-Take a screenshot of the issue
-Take a screenshot of your equipment on the Hero Panel (H)
-List your Race, Sex and Class
-List the names of every piece of armor/clothing/weapon equipped (this includes the level requirement) when you encountered the issue
-If you can, list where you acquired the item (which NPC, what map location, which dungeon, etc…)

Any other art issues:
-Be as descriptive as possible
-Take a screenshot
-List any applicable item names
-List your Race, Sex and Class (for armor or weapon issues)
-Please note: Hair clipping through armor/weapons along with minor clipping of weapons into armor (some of the weapon is hidden) are sometimes unavoidable and we are only looking for severe clipping issues [please see the note at the end].

Please attach the screenshots to your forum post rather than hosting it elsewhere.
If you have a video of the issue, please upload those to YouTube (unlisted) and link that along with your other bug information here.

For more Bugging Best Practices, see this thread.

We appreciate everyone’s help with issues like these and we want to solve them as soon as possible. Thank you so much!

NOTE: While we understand the desire to have all clipping issues resolved, the way our items are designed sometimes causes some small issues that cannot be fixed easily. We’re looking for severe clipping (like your shield is impaling you or your daggers are completely hidden by your coat.) Things like hair clipping or minor clipping of weapons into armor are sometimes unavoidable (don’t worry, we’re looking into the beard and mask clipping issue!). We appreciate your patience and cooperation with all of these bugs and rest assured that they are being seen and addressed appropriately.

UPDATE – OCTOBER 2nd 2012: I just wanted to take a moment to let you all know that this thread is still being monitored and I apologize for not being able to respond to every issue. Each post has been looked over and bugs are being forwarded on to the appropriate teams. We appreciate your patience as we try to roll out the fixes for a lot of these issues, and we definitely appreciate the thoughtful reports and responses.

Just posted an issue fix for GTX 5XX users here: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/gtx-570-bug-fix-arenanet-heads-up-here-plis/first#post513897

I don’t know if anyone got this bug but… the new driver for gtx 570 made some weird transparency issues if you where moving the camera around and it was hard to see things in dungeons because of the whole room been bugged…
So what you need to do is get in the nvidia card settings> “Set PhysX Configuration” and chose on the PhysX processor the gtx 570.
After i did it no more issues. i was testing it for the next few days and new patch included and it works.
Tell me if it worked for you too

i like the COF gear with con>vita’>power and using the rune of the undead for extra Toughness and ofc the 6 set bonus – 5% Toughness as condition damage.
it’s not that hard to get as a lot of ppl want to do COF so… no cost there…
if you get hit a lot and your build is glass condition you can get the TA gear for Toughness and get more HP with runes but for that you need to see how it goes for you

For some reason it looks like all the characters who can use great sword got it all…
you have 3 legendary great swords that no one can miss if you have it…
staff is nice but… common… death rainbow?
scepter looks like your weapon have cancer and the only one that looks good is the dagger but it’s small and have no animation on the floor or something epic like the great sword and the staff.

it’s nice that we dont have swords

I’m using naga first edition, i contacted razer support and they are checking the issue.
In one mail i got from them they ask if i know of more ppl with the same problem and i sent them a link to this forum but it doesn’t seem to be enough.
If it’s possible, anyone how has this problem, send a ticket to razer support: www.razersupport.com/email
The more tickets the better

some food for your mind:
DS is a tool for survivability with good AOE and base DMG, can give you might (stack), can give vulnerability.
Conditions can be burst with 16 stacks of might (blood is power with plague signet, Signet of Spite) and ofc… you can add some more with DS…
scepter with haste on it can apply bleed so fast even if it’s for 3 sec’ and without it can maintain you bleed.
As condition necro you can get 15% LF from scepter 3 if you use signet of spite before and when bugs are fixed you can add 5% more from Gluttony in soul reaping trait…

Don’t say “useless” before you think of all your options… it’s not that bad… not much of variety in our game style and traits… and weapons… but we can handle with it till arenanet will hear our call.

I think you should read the bugs report before making another flaming thread…
and if you have something to add then do it

if you use auto attack you will get all 5 stacks as DMG (130X5 flat witout condition buff)
with only 1 skill used on you…
that doesn’t look harder to stack and dmg is high

i think you using to many pets as for doing bleeds with scepter 1 only and no condition management like plague signet or blood is power or any other boost to condition. as for the pets, bone minion are used for rally when player is down and if you go in the water you loss them all… try swapping the bone minions for bleed or converting boons on foes or any other boost to you bleed/power.
i would swap blood fiend too for consume conditions for extra condition management …but that’s just me

imo pistols are less for a death, grim reaper kinda dude…
swords sounds good, torches also but burn conditions are not necro’s style as it seem..
swords sound best cuz it goes well with bleeds and it can be used in a different way like mesmer do… throw a big range cleave or summoning zombies or other dead thingies….

if you try and hit hovering objects at 0 range the skill 3 will miss most of the times…

Just wanted to know if there is a reason bleeds are so low next to other conditions if it’s the main condition for necros (poison too ofc…)
i just had a look at this: Guild Wars Wiki
i did some thinking and i was wondering how much dmg can mesmer do with some condition dmg on him and by using skill 3 alone with scepter (5 stacks of confusion)
the number doesn’t look good next to 4 stacks of bleeding by using blood is power and plague signet for 4 stacks…

anyone (arenanet included..) can spread some positive thinking about this?

trait secondary stats are pretty much the same for all classes… BUT, the traits option are very bad… almost every tree shouts hybrid spec or you just have useless things in them that makes your choice very small…

if i put bugs aside…
the thing i REALLY DON’T like is that we have no mobility on weapon skills only on util’ (and it’s baaaaad… or has a long CD on it…).
i.e. ele with D/D can move so fast and almost “dodge” DMG cuz he can just leave a fire trail or teleport away and many more(and low CD on it or can use other elements that has mobility) and it’s with weapon skills only. warrior can leap at you, CC you all of that is with weapon skill too… and the list just goes on and on…

what needs to be done you ask?
give us more weapons we can use or give us different weapon skills without damaging our DMG. it is possible to even add things to DS so we can have teleport or something else but dont make me take a bone worm for teleporting or spectral walk and burn my utility slot for something more useful to do some burst or more conditions.

as for now, i have to use 1 utility to escape and it’s not that good cuz of a long CD or lowering your DMG (condition spec the most…) and you will get stomp when you try to get some distance.

traits are also have some silly stuff like applying chill for 1 sec at 25% (why should i take it if i can use a burst ability to just finish of the dude…) and many more weird things that make no sense and it looks like it’s a filler…

more options/renew in traits, more weapons or weapons skills. we need more options for game play as other classes have.

i just wish this thread will be sticky….

IMO it’s a huge burst buff! using it with plague signet for more bleeds and add 3 more might stacks and numbers are poping like hell. as for spvp, nice dmg for hybrid condition and power and LF is no issue.

so to make things short… all i see here is changes that makes the game more time consumable then before? and if ppl will goo 3 of each class and rendom2 then it’s almost a fail run?
what if i want to enjoy gear that looks really good and cant stay 3-4 hours a day on explorer runs only?
this is kinda making the not “high end gamer with pro guild members” to stay out of the game and not be able or have the motivation to even do dungeons explorer at all.
even now i see many of my friends that where playing 6-10 hours a day (and not speed farming) not getting near the explorer mode because they can get 1 or 2 paths next to doing 3 dungeons in explorer mode with all paths.
dont get me wrong, i like challenge and i think i know very well how to play my class and i can kitt the hell out of bosses and bla bla bla… but doing path 2 in 2 hours…. ok… trying to do path 1 and stay 3 more hours on the last boss and not getting anything coz the guild group got rage quit? naaa… that’s not fun… some ppl just cant afford those hours to play 1 dungeon only.

Sifian.7925:

Asura power!

Jungle themed dyes are so neat.

lol!!! looks cool! like small devil that can bite yourkitten off :P

deriver.5381:

If you see a lot of people using CC to render your DS useless, try to think smart and start doing the same with them….

Start entering DS to make them waste their CC on you… This can be done both ways. Think of it as the GW2 version of the WoW’s fake casting

agree with that, DS is a tool that most ppl use and think it’s for keep them selves a live but it’s not.. you can use it to get stacks of might, add bleeds, CC with fear or even just interrupt a cast, add weakness…
i’m sure there are more uses i didnt mention…

+1 for the build mate.
and i dont use it either, i took lower signet CD instead.
but for “tanking” spec it’s still nice that you can have it on the second HP bar to lower as much as possible (sure, it’s not much but..)

DS DMG based build are possible and if you don’t like conditions so much you can gain might from reapers might by spamming 1, add to that vital persistent for more stacks.
number 4 can give you extra time to stay in DS when needed and can do high dmg with the stacks.
IMO, i dont like the use of DS as DMG cuz it’s boaring me but it can help the weapon DMG a lot

HappyCerberus.3178:

I still don’t understand what so good about retaliation (yeah, if it would reflect some percentage of the incoming dmg, it would be awesome).

I’m actually using the sPvP pressure build I posted in the build thread.

checking it out now

HappyCerberus.3178:

I’m not really arguing.

it’s a good talk
didn’t think it’s flaming or something. i actually enjoying talking it over with you cuz i can be wrong ofc or even get new things so… it’s all good

true that but my spec isn’t DS based but pure dmg and condition master and it works well for me with DS and i can build life force really quick with blood is power and get the retaliation for 3 sec. check it out, it’s nice to bleed the hell out of ppl and when needed to have good life force at most times to get in twice in a combat.
one more thing… spite tree gives you longer condition and it gives nice numbers and better way to stack more bleeds even with the scepter 1 or 2. that way you can go hard condition spec and gain power for using daggers or axe for more DMG with your bleeds.

it’s not a paladin bubble ability from WOW….
giving it to much power will be unfair…
look at this game play and you can see some good uses of DS and that it’s not the only way to keep ourselves alive
http://youtu.be/UxlC-zB2BHY

Happy, everything you say is true and very situation dependent… that’s why i posted to try and not using DS at all so after that you will have better us of it when you really need it. TBH, ppl know that when we are in DS they cant do kitten and will target you and stun you and burst us out of it.
with that being sad, i rather use plague first when i’m in melee range to get my HP higher and blind/cripple melee’s. it also looks like your in DS and can cause ppl burn CD’s on you but you HP is a lot higher.

HappyCerberus.3178:

Plus retaliation would only hit for cca. 300 dmg.

it’s still something… and it can go higher based on power…. so i’m not sure about the numbers but it helps…
btw… in some cases ppl did CC on me (DS was on) just to get closer to me and after i was out and in melee-ish range they polled the big guns on me so fear can help sometimes

HappyCerberus.3178:

no, you cant. that’s why i wrote to you to try and get the spite first tier for that

Unless I’m completely missing something, Retaliation isn’t Stability (which is the one that would help).

if you get CC’d when in DS it’s not that bad.. but if your LF is geting lower after you get CC it’s bad… and you just burned you LF for nothing and ofc… you’ll die cuz the melee range…
what i was trying to say is that after the stun you will get kittenload of DMG on you and if you have Retaliation for 3 sec it will help you get out of this cases and renter the combat after you opponent got his CC and burst (warriors… ofc…) DMG on you.

HappyCerberus.3178:

you use DS after the stun is over

So which is it? Can I exit DS while stunned or not?

no, you cant. that’s why i wrote to you to try and get the spite first tier for that

My problem is getting stunned while inside DS.

try going for the 3 sec ret in spite tree. it helps a lot

you use DS after the stun is over…. yes, DS LF will go down fast if you have a warrior on you but if you have a bit LF you can still pop the fear and get away and use skills like blood is power to gain 20% life force back or any other LF gaining skills.
with all that… you can get 3 sec of retaliation when entering DS so you will not loss that much LF.
dont count on your DS so much cuz it’s not your main life saver

6 set bonus is 5% to cause fear http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Rune_of_the_Nightmare

f you get CC’d in DS try using fear, get out of DS, use stun breaker, slow down the opponent with any weapon skills you use and gain the distance again. this way your opponent wil have CD on his CC and you can use DS again after 10 sec. look at my build… i’m not all the way in DS trait and i dont miss it either cuz you will get genked a lot if you go against more then 2 players.
try this thing:
try to not use your DS at all for 20 matches at list and build yourself a DMG spec only. try to kitt, run away and everthing you need to do in order not to die. after that start using your DS and you will see it will be much better.
btw, i’m no pro and i’m more of PvE player but i did some matches and it was really good once i got the hang of it

it can be from Rune of the Nightmare….

DS is ok… you need to use it smart… i us it a lot in pvp and i’m glass cannon build AND still it saves my life and gives me the extra edge to not die in 1vs2 or even 3. you have more then 1 ay to break CC’s and you have low CD on the DS so us it well.
i use this build: http://en.gw2codex.com/build/18635-necro-glass-cannon

it can be that one patch change graphics to be less or more CPU wise.. some ppl say the graphics are better since the beta’s. i noticed improvement on my side with the new CPU (i5 3570K ivy) up from amd 6 cores T1100.
but still… 10 frames max

Brem.6792:

You guys are just looking at the 2ghz bit and thinking to slow, reamber it is a laptop i7 2ghz is just the normal idle speed when gming guessing it is a 2630m? depending on how many cores beign used it will turbo up to about 2.6/2.9ghz.

Trust me these sandy/ivybridge I5/i7 CPU’s are still pretty dam fast.

with that being sad… not sure anet will back me up on this but you can try this app for removing CPU parking. what it does is to make all the cores active and maybe it will help a bit http://www.coderbag.com/Programming-C/Disable-CPU-Core-Parking-Utility

a friend of mine is running the game on gt9800 GPU and e8500 Intel CPU… he doesn’t get lower then 40-30fps. i think you should try repairing the game, check different drivers for the GPU or to the rest of the laptop.
just please dont flame posts as it will only make the post ban or not answered

p.s. this game like most other mmo’s are cpu based so try small OC (and be careful..) to see you have slight improvements

+1 for the naga ppl

Idolicious.6091:

gosu.8153:

Idolicious.6091:

Those with gaming mice should turn up the USB polling rate (you can actually do this for a standard mouse too, if you know how) to see if that alleviates the issue.

That isn’t a fix really, but may help until A.Net can figure out what’s going on with some peoples mice.

Default Windows USB polling rate: 125hz

Ya’ll should try: 250hz, 333hz, 500hz, and 1000hz.

Stop wasting your time.
The problem isn’t with mice. It’s the game.
If you haven’t experienced the problem, it’s due to the class/profession you play or your playstyle.

I never experienced this while leveling.
It only happens when I am trying to do like 20 things at the same time in PVP.

I realize that it probably isn’t all these guys’ mice acting up, however increasing the polling rate forces the system to capture USB data at 2-8x the normal rate, and might alleviate (not fix) the issue while they wait for a real fix.

running on 1000 and still the same.
normal 5$~ mouse doesn’t have the problem

Srsly dude…