This, with unique dialogue per keep lord!
If increasing the 25 stack cap is not possible, they could experiment with adjusting the scaling of the condition damage stat and the amount of stacks each player skill inflicts on an enemy.
By increasing condition damage, decreasing condition duration and amount of stacks applied, it might be possible to allow a single player to do the same damage with 7 stacks of bleed as they would with 15, giving more room in the potential stack for other players to add in their condition stacks and not be brushed off.
This idea is only based around small scale encounters however, huge world events would most likely be unaffected.
I don’t think I’ve ever been this disappointed by a spoiler before.
If this change is true, I wanna see a video of two necros on either side of an enemy cast spectral wall at the same time and bounce them between the walls for 9 seconds of terror damage.
So it would be a condition that spread itself to other enemies if they got too close to each other? Sounds great in theory, but I can see this getting nerfed like confusion and retaliation were after a while.
WvW is home to all my characters now, they’re all specced for it from creation and levelled there too, mostly.
These changes would only further unbalance WvW against an outmanned server. Seige being so easily deployable in its current state allows small teams of people to at least attempt to defend themselves and their towers. If supply cost per seige went up to those extreme levels losing servers would almost never be able to defend themselves, further increasing the score gap between winning and losing servers.
It only takes a few people to flip a camp and deny someone resources for a while and people can only carry 10-20max supply per person. With constant camp disruptions from the server with most people online, it could potentially take an hour or more to build even a single treb. When seige despawn timers are factored in, some seige in these situation might not ever be built. Infact, if a winning server had all the towers/keeps on a map, all they would need to do is zerg supply camps whenever they were contested to ensure complete and utter dominance over an outmanned server.
It’s a nice idea in a perfect world, but server population unbalances do exist and not all servers can muster night crews to defend their land. In short, your anti-zerg themed changed would only benefit those with the biggest zerg and the best coverage.
Years ago when I played Aion, they had ingame surveys every so often and these worked very well. I don’t think email surveys would be accurate at all, I’d imagine too many people who don’t play anymore not giving correct answers or whatever. It’s the playing population that should be polled.
I just crashed 4 times, shortly after joining the green Fort Ranik borderlands.
The biggest joke ever is putting Necromancer above Warrior in that list.
I’m surprised no one’s said thieves taste like cheese yet.
Wow, this thread’s been going for a long time now. Someone should make a poll on one of those poll websites and link it into this thread to get some numbers of interest. Maybe some hard statistical evidence of canthan popularity would be enough to sway someone.
Not how squishy, but they reminded me my lack of disengage requires me to be more aware of my surroundings. I was defending the central camp from waves of frenzied karka with a few randomers, we were doing alright. A wave comes in from behind before we finished the previous one and wiped us all, except a mesmer who blinked to safety.
I was thinking to myself the other day, “What really sets necromancers apart from the other classes? What do they bring to the table that is unique that no other class can?”. All I came up with was corrupt boon and surviving long drops with death shroud. Maybe epidemic, but i never really found it that useful outside very co-ordinated efforts in dungeons.
In another game I played once there was a skill called dark armour which was a buff that gave the player a pitiful amount of health back everytime they were hit. I think this as a trait would suit the current GW2 necromancer perfectly.
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Looks like alot of people with bad luck, or maybe I just had really good luck at the start of the game. One thing I noticed while reading through those links is that, like this thread, several people are complaining about only finding a few keys through drops. However, those links you provided are from the first few months of the game. A few keys in 3 months is a far better drop rate than a few keys in 8 months.
I can confirm that at the very start of GW2 the keys had a decent drop rate. It was not rare to get at least 1 a day just from normal questing within the first few weeks of playing. Infact, during headstart there was a point where I had more keys than chests.
The drop rate of keys has been fiddled with since launch, as was the drop rate of dyes.
In my experience the only difference between a hardcore and a casual gamer is that hardcore gamers discriminate, whereas casual gamers don’t care who they’re playing with.
I really hope Trahearne isn’t written out, he’s the best character in this game and by that I mean he’s the mose convincing. He’s like an adult in a playground of children, the only NPC with his head screwed on right. Most characters in this game are far too pantomime in my opinion and just dont feel fleshed out or serious enough at all. Trahearne actually has a personality, he isn’t some great hero of legend and doesn’t seek to make his mark on the world, he just seems to want to get his head down and do his job most of the time. I find his voice a refreshing change from other NPC’s shouting and spouting cliche lines with every breath, walking around in a perpetual cloud of cheese mist. I think people misunderstand the perceived ‘pessimism’ around his dialogue entering battle. To me, “This wont end well” always came across as a warning to his enemies if they came any closer, rather than a prediction of his own performance. Some may call Trahearne bland, but I call him believeable.
For the record, I also quite liked Tybalts character. I just wish he wasn’t part of the order of whispers, he really doesn’t fit there and his presence with them seems to be one of the main reasons people dislike the GW2 order of whispers compared to how they were portrayed in GW1.
A nice power based axe offhand or something would be nice, and a power weapon with 1200 range would be nice too, hammer perhaps?
Which is why it would have been better to make the model for lich form more of a universal model and not so obviously male and human/norn.
I always saw engineers potions as genetic engineering more than alchemy.
Engineers can do most things, just not as well as other classes.
Necros can do most things, just not as good as other classes and for twice as long! So there!
Haha, possibly. Care to elaborate?
In turn ill make make my post clearer, but keep in mind this is all my opinion based on my personal experience.
Engineers can do a few things that other classes/builds can do, albeit not as well, in a single build. In the same weapon, trait and utility set up without having to swap any of them between fights. I would rate a 4 kit engineer as more versatile than an elementalist.
Necromancers can do what other classes/builds can do but only when heavily traiting and speccing for it. And then, unlike engineers, necros are stuck like this and only excel in this one aspect and suck at everything else. Situation changes mid battle? Too bad, better run awa… nope, looks like you didnt bring Spectral Walk or Flesh Worm to this party, looks like you get to eat dirt. Anyway, ill cut this short here before I go off on a rant.
Fort trinity was already there as an unused fort or something, the pact just moved in and decorated. Most of the equipement and machinery already existed and was created before the pact formed, they’re even featured in some early storylines.
Engineers can do most things, just not as well as other classes.
The only new ‘playable’ content added after fractals was the living story, which most people completed in an hour or two.
You’re already there. If you wanna do higher level fractals then do some dailys, build up some laurels and get an acsended amulet.
I’d prefer levels to not exist and traits/skills to be awarded through challenges though out the world, challenges so difficult that they extend beyond any sliver of skill needed to solo Lupicus.
A thousand times this. No problem getting people out into far off empty maps if there were something there worth going for other than map completion and ‘the view’.
This happened to me in WvWvW too, a deer was killed and dropped a wooden chest containing a slab of red meat.
wbonetwo makes a very valid point. Fighting at 1200 range in a 1v1 situation in WvWvW is a pain. We’re only able to use marks reliably because they they’re quick to lay down. Necrotic Grasp moves so slowly it doesn’t even need to be dodged to avoid it, just a quick change in direction. Spectral Grasps fails more often than not in my experience and Dark Path has only 900 range (when it works).
If Necrotic Grasp isn’t ever going to be sped up I would at least like to see Life Blast given a 1200 range, or even a trait that increases the range on all Death Shroud abilites.
Within each single character, I find I cant really stay in one fixed set of weapons, armour, traits and skills. They change based on the situation and what I think will be most effective at that time. However, for general multipurpose use, I found it best to equip a shorter range weapon with ‘cleave’ and a long range weapon as backup to cover a wide range of enemies.
GW2 classes arnt as fixed in definitive combat roles as classes from other MMORPG games, with all GW2 classes being able to do at least a little bit of everything. So instead of each class bringing their specific use, each GW2 class comes with their own playstyle, themes, mindsets etc. Because of this, I would suggest you ask people what class they beleive best solidifies their preferred playstyle, if any. To answer this question, I would say none, I am an chronic altaholic. :p
I really like this idea, I wouldn’t mind staff having a Spacial Surge type attack.
I’d find it more believeable if the kodan were a tribe of lost norn who made some drastic lifestyle changes and became stuck in bear form.
I would like to see an improved book interface in GW2. At the moment, books use the same box as NPC dialogue which only allows for around 2 sentences per box. It was quite dissapointing when I got into the Priory library the first time expecting to be there for a long while. It’s been done in MMORPG’s before, both Aion and Rift had books scattered around the world with nice, large peices of text in them which allowed them to actually tell a short story or at least include enough information to make up a small magazine column. Infact, in Rift each player picked up a copy of the book and kept it with them at all times in its own area on the UI, which is GW2 would equate to a literature tab in the hero window.
I know it’s a small nitpick but it’s one I feel would really improve the way developers could scatter lore around the world. Those notes and journals and scraps of paper left lying around places of ruin or at the end of crypts etc. could have multiple entries and really flesh out the area.
Go to the character select screen, that should cheer you up.
I want this in the game, and would be willing to throw money at my screen until it happens. Don’t you want my money Anet?
There’s a heart quest in Metrica Province where you communicate with the female asura via her golem, kinda like a big walking phonebox.
I mostly WvWvW on my Necromancer these days so I never really had much use for minions, however, I have found myself using the Flesh Wurm an awful lot recently. If our zerg runs into an enemy zerg I normally place it at the back of our zerg and use it to escape if things go badly for us. Another use I found for it that I dont see anyone else doing is casting it on top of walls. While it might not last long it does attack people caught by your staff marks and can continue to damage them when they run out of view. From this position you can also use Necrotic Traversal to poison anyone around it on top of the wall.
What’s the point of the stealth nerf if taking damage doesn’t de-cloak you? This is the only online game I’ve played with a stealth mechanic where people can take hits and still be invisible.
Name one game where stealth targets gets revealed when they take damage? Just from top of my head Dota/Dota 2 – works like GW2, Planetside 2 – works like GW2, Mass Effect – works like GW2, seriously i cant think of one game where invisible targets gets revealed after taking damage. The way how is it in GW2 is pretty standart mechanic imo…
As people have already said: Aion, TF2. Also Rift and a F2P game called Requiem that I doubt anyone has ever heard of.
Edit: To add to this, if you were cloaked in these games you moved at a reduced movement speed unless traited or using a higher level stealth skill. Some classes in Aion had stealth detection skills. In all of these games it was impossible to stealth while in combat bar the use of high cooldown skills that could be used once per fight at max. And in these games people still managed to wreck with stealth classes, yet thieves in GW2 cry about how about how nerfed and unplayable they are despite them having, by far, the easiest and most abusable stealth mechanic in any online game I’ve come across.
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What’s the point of the stealth nerf if taking damage doesn’t de-cloak you? This is the only online game I’ve played with a stealth mechanic where people can take hits and still be invisible.
Grab a staff, grab the greater marks trait, stick with your servers zerg and plant marks all over any walls your zerg happens to be attacking. Stay near the back of the zerg and be one of the first people to run when things go bad, otherwise you probably won’t escape. Use staff marks wisely and dont blow them all at once. Bathe in a torrent of loot bags from tagging so many enemies.
I always end up playing either healer classes or dark/denial/debuff/support magic users in MMORPG’s, and since GW2 has no healer class I started out as a mesmer. I got my mesmer to level 80 and came to the conclusion that they were not what I was looking for. So I tried the necromancer and have been playing him since. I’ve dabbled with every other class except ranger and I keep coming back to the necromancer.
As a Necromancer, I’d rather swap my elite for the ability to equip a third weapon set.
I miss the days when people played games for the entertainment of playing a game. When the only carrot was getting better and doing better than before.
I can’t help but agree. This method of content updates just doesnt have the same substance as previous games. The very idea of something happening or changing in the world whether you’re there or not is not going to grow fond memories for any kind of casual audience or players who miss out on such events due to other real life responsabilities. Southsun cove is a good example, any new players joining the game around now will probably have no idea of the relevence behind the karka and will probably wonder why there is an empty level 80 zone in the middle of the sea.
This method also greatly reduces the amount of time people will be playing the game. Older games with expansions of new areas etc. still have those areas open to new people joining the game late. At this stage in GW2 there is just the personal story and the living story. With the living story constantly progressing and removing the old living story content to make way for new content, a new player will only ever have the personal story and the current living story available to them. Older players will have had the entire living story up until that point, with the experience and the memories of what happened in them. New players get shafted, feel hard done to and decide their time is better spent elsewhere. I know it sound ridiculous but in my experience, this is what happens over the course of the life of such MMORPG games.
I think its somewhere in Snowden Drifts, although I haven’t found it yet.
Maybe he’s incredibly old and the ‘last jotun king’ he’s related to was born and died in his lifetime.
It… tells you why in the dialogue. It’s pretty much the first thing Braham explains to you when you talk to him. Do you people just skip all the text to get back to bashing skulls or something?
Some progress in the story, finally, is enough for me. Even if it did take 7 months.