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Aaaah, so left unattended without pets probably means that I was luck to be facing newbies who didnt realise that I was actually playing a necro. I ran stabby stabby style after them while placing wells to help out. Anyway had a very successful run today with my stabby stabby necro … was rather fun, no more pets for me.
I play a trap ranger mostly, havnt had many problems with DH´s lately. If I see a guardian I know there are traps around, send pet in after him and follow pet … the chill trap which actually needs a boost in my oppinion is the most effective against DH´s if you know how to use them propperly.
Maybe this just happens in newbie pvp, I have no idea. I decided to have a go at the necro today with various builds, lets just say to start with that I failed miserably. The ones I did win were without pets, simple melee necro with sustainability and some survivability.
I played around 20 matches, in every single match I used pets I was like the prime target of everyone….I felt like ;- “Darn, this is open season for necro hunting”. In the ones where I didnt use pets I was targetted at a normal rate and at least managed to have some success.
Are necros a prime target in pvp or did I just experience a weird day?
Blak, try to be on the other end of the stick, there is already a thread about it. You are absolutely right, people like f.ex. me are never going to be good at the game, meta builds and whatnot are not for me, I am there to have 30 minutes fun with a build I fancy and out again.
Unranked without all the “pros” was fun until anet took ranked offline, now all I do is getting battered by people who are far better than me, especially when facing premade groups by regular ranked people.
You must understand that there are a lot of people like me, people who just panic and are too busy looking at cooldowns and getting spanked left and right to actually notice someone who is down. When all goes wrong we are just smashing a lot of buttons at the same time hoping for a miracle and now you wondering, but how can he/she have fun? Its simple really, I like to pvp even though I suck at it.
But we do agree, I want the ranked players to go back to where they belong and leave our little playground in peace.
Dont know anyone from my guild using this amulet, funny how people complain about it. Maybe its more used than I know off, tried it a couple of times but it doesnt really offer what I need for any of my builds.
I think that the best thing a noobie can learn is proper rotations around the map. Everything else is mostly secondary. Casual PvP is infinitely more lenient in terms of build creativity as well.
Oooh, and Lethal, my first advice is very true, I get targetted a lot less when small and grey than when big and red. Have had about 200 matches so far and there is a big difference in how people target you.
Yeah, I know. But my builds dont really require much skill and they bring in my experience the best utility for the group. As for higher level play, I doubt I ll ever reach that.
Here we see a troll in its natural habitat. He is trying to lure out a mate by writing shocking, or otherwise crazy rants which will attract other testrone filled males. Usually younger adolescence. If you don’t pay it any attention it will die after a few days.
If you decide to feed it however it can grow quite large.There is no trolling in my post, I am just a bad pvp player and had to resort to finding builds which dont require reflection thinking.
With my necro I dont even use the “shadowform”, I enter the frey and place all wells where enemies are, I autotarget for the second axe ability and swap weapon to cast the dmg/healing ability on the same target … and people start dying. I have that trait automatically on “downing” shifts me to shadowform where I usually just panic and press all buttons.
I am talking about builds where I can concentrate on what I am doing without much thought to what is going on screen and who is doing what, I just have to follow my team mates and help them the best way I can.
If you wish to call it trolling then fine.
I mean you could always use ranger spirits if you want to get real passive, or maybe even the good ol turret engie, minion master?
I do already, playing necro, engie and ranger …. not good enough for any of the other professions.
Here we see a troll in its natural habitat. He is trying to lure out a mate by writing shocking, or otherwise crazy rants which will attract other testrone filled males. Usually younger adolescence. If you don’t pay it any attention it will die after a few days.
If you decide to feed it however it can grow quite large.
There is no trolling in my post, I am just a bad pvp player and had to resort to finding builds which dont require reflection thinking.
With my necro I dont even use the “shadowform”, I enter the frey and place all wells where enemies are, I autotarget for the second axe ability and swap weapon to cast the dmg/healing ability on the same target … and people start dying. I have that trait automatically on “downing” shifts me to shadowform where I usually just panic and press all buttons.
I am talking about builds where I can concentrate on what I am doing without much thought to what is going on screen and who is doing what, I just have to follow my team mates and help them the best way I can.
If you wish to call it trolling then fine.
I suck at pvp but I am doing well, I wont give any tips on builds since I keep those to myself, but I can share a few hints if you are new.
1. Pick Asura and go with a boring grey.
2. Try and use skills which dont have any specific targets, as many as possible as fast as possible. Up to you to figure out builds for this, you mainly want to focus on condition builds for the various professions.
3. Toughness is your friend and healing isnt actually bad either if you have 3 or 4 sources to rotate from.
4. Whatever you do, keep moving and learn to dodge, passive skills which improve endurance are nice for this.
5. Much of the newbie firepower will come from groundtargetting, learn how to groundtarget while you move. Practice with a necromancer, probably the best profession for that.
6. Focus on passives which help you with stuns and other croud control abilities, if you are like me, you dont have the ability to manage these properly actively. Of course take any passive which reduces recharging your weapon´s timer.
7. Stick to other players, many of your abilites will help them in various ways and winning the map is the goal, not to get as many points as possible, be a good newbie as a team player <—— IMPORTANT.
8. While signets etc provide passive bonuses and may seem more appropriate for the newbie, you will come short, their main assets are in the activation. A necromancer´s “wells” placed where an enemy is, is far more valuable. Yes, its imperative, even for us newbies to learn shortcuts …
9. You tried with your mouse, it didnt work. You need to learn those shortcuts, your eyes need to be glued to the screen … yes, its hard work for a newbie, but your newbie status may even be revoked once you learn those hotkeys. I am still a newbie, thats because I just suck.
10. Warriors actually require skill to play, everybody told me to play one … I suck at them, there are other much easier professions. In the end, when all else fails you can always play a pew pew pew ranger .. thats how I started.
Same here, wont be fixed untill “morning” .. whenever that is.
I got unstuck but cant queue for any matches, it says there is a match in progress.
Stuck in pvp …. spirit watch …. help.
I usually only have 20-40 minutes to play, real life calls me far too often to raid or do anything that requires commitment. I recently upgraded from a free account since I wanted to have multiple characters available but only my ranger has crafted something worthwhile, something I wasnt getting in pve … a lvl 35 bandit bow which is epic (I think). Other than that I seem to be getting everything I need from drops and/or heart merchants.
From pvp I already have 3 pieces of epic lvl 80 stuff for my ranger, a bow and some armor … is it at all worthwhile to keep leveling my crafting?
I am asking because I actually used precious time today running through kessex hills farming logs, I would rather have spent that time playing the game.
I found what I was looking for, there is a natural level transition from Snowdens Drift to Lornars Pass … now I am happy and can continue my leveling.
There are multiple entrances to Gendarren Fields. There are lower level mobs there, they’re just not near the entrance from Lion’s Arch.
oooh, thanks, thats the only entrance I found.
Well, I solved my problem, I happened to stumble upon a zone not mentioned anywhere called Diessa Plateau and I havnt done that yet, so here I come. It just seems to be empty of people but I can live with that.
I guess I got too used with WoWs and Everquests leveling system where everything seems to have a natural order of progression.
So, I finished Brisban Wildlands with one character and Kessex Hills with another, I thought it was time to move on with one of them before committing to further alts. The game then points me in the direction of a lowbie zone, while I know that I eventually have to visit the place to gather hero points and eventual completion I find it odd that the progression halts at 26 and I am recommended to redo a zone.
I had to visit wiki since the game did not point me anywhere I wanted to go, I eventually found Gendarran hills which is supposed to be 25-35 but every mob I saw was level 30, its like the natural evolution in leveling stops at 26. To me the most important part of an mmo is the social aspect and leveling, I couldn´t care less about raids and endgame, I know a lot of people love doing what I do as well.
I am wondering why a game so well designed and so fantastic in its early levels simply stops its natural progression in leveling, I was definitely expecting other portals in Brisban or Kessex to lvl 25-40 zones.