Guild Wars 2

Azure.8670:

Cerbeius.7129:

Noo, stay on Engi-forum!

Show some hospitality..

ellesee.8297:

But the active is so good!

Wahoo! Bye frands!

With great power comes great condipullability.

http://intothemists.com/guides/5984-minion_monster

I lay no claim to this as im sure somebody somewhere is running this or something similar but its crazy the amount of sustain and the life force generation this build has.
With the trait Necromantic Corruption making Minions take Conditions and also have them deal them out. While they dont dish them out fast it can still build up on you and your minions.

So I asked myself how does one fix this? I checked out Unholy Martyr which removes Conditions from nearby allies every 3 seconds granting you 10% life force for curing it. Along with Minions keeping all conditions off you they steal quite a decent amount of Hp even from quick targets and if you lock someone down Bone Minions can chunk them good ( Along with Dealing good damage due to their high base).

I dont quite understand everything myself as I dont play Necromancer much, Infact i’ve mained Warrior for the past Two Years. With the new patch I decided it was time to start a new path and try something new and thus I have landed here. Any Feedback, Comments or Hate is welcome I’d love to hear what you all have to say.

+1
Also signet passives please.

Fear the mesmer who runs up to you with two swords in hand unless they suck. Warriors? Not so much.

That is all I can say here.

I believe it is time to scale kits to ascended level OR have the kits scale to the level of our equipped weapons. I would be very interested to hear why this is not the case already. I know the kits were upscaled at first launch of ascended weapons, then quickly brought down. To leave it like is now means a permanent disadvantage to kit using engies.

I am open to hearing why this might be OP or any other reason to keep our kits limited at exotic level stats so lets try to keep this discussion constructive. Hopefully with all the balance tweaks being done these days, a dev can comment on this issue.

I can’t help but think that many people posting about how shallow GW2 is and how amazing GW1 was, are either:

A. Playing one of the classes of GW2 that are easy (and are likely made to be so)
and/or
B. Played GW1 with either crappy builds, or are just plain wearing nostalgia goggles.

I played GW1 from release. I was in the various beta weekends, and I got a lot out of that game. But really, it was never that difficult. Many classes had -very- little variability in their builds even when you took into account their secondary. Warriors, Rangers, Necromancers, Monks etc… were all very easy to play. And the dungeons were too (heck, many may remember how many people built their character around making auto attack do everything… and how stupidly effective it was. If my warrior didnt have something that upped my swing speed, I was hurting myself a lot). The only difficulty that ever came of the dungeons in GW1 was getting a healer, and not accidentally pulling to many mobs. Not a thing more. This didn’t really change much when hard modes became a thing, aside from making it so you couldn’t just roll your face around the keyboard: had to hyper focus and, at least in my experience, use less, but hyper effective, skills.

Now, speaking on the classes of GW2: I will freely admit some of them are fairly simple in use. Notably, Warrior, Guardian, and to some extent Necromancer and Ranger. But the others, especially Elementalist and Engineer, really shine in the hands of a competent player in comparison to bad one. This is true for PvP and PvE both.

It’s also rather hypocritical to say you’re forced into one build in GW2 while in the same breath praising GW1: where over powered super builds were the name of the game from DAY ONE. Calling GW2 shallow based on hyper focused trait, sigil, and rune usage is the exact same as calling GW1 shallow based on the various fotm builds that plagued GW1 throughout it’s entire life (and really only got worse with time).

To be fair, yes, GW1 did of course have more variability in it’s builds, but it also had severely more skill overlap between classes and even -in- classes to the point where looking at the skills of GW1 is rather misleading when compared to GW2. Go ahead and take a look, see how many skills are pointless. How many pretty much do the exact same as another skill. How many were rather passive in use (ignite arrows for instance).

Does the game need more traits? Yes. More utilities? Of course. No game should ever stop improving and giving options (and the devs said this will be a focus of the game from now on). But to call the game shallow based on making it shallow, while also comparing it to another game that was just as shallow, if not more so, is hypocritical and foolish. I played a Warrior through most of my time in GW1. I cleared the games PvE content, and the most I ever needed in my build aside from a chain of weapon skills that I always mindlessly used in succession, was a tactics skill that was needed for one specific use, depending on the dungeon. Warrior in GW2, despite being no doubt the simplest of classes, is far more involved than my GW1 Warrior was. Same could be said comparing my old Ranger to my new ranger, or even my old assassin to my new thief.

Give GW1 another play if you feel the need. If you have friends, invite them along. Get rid of your PvE only abilities, and try your hand at the games PvE. I imagine it’s going to come out a lot easier than you remember.

Another nerf thief thread.

Moving along.

This! A thousand times, this!

Something no one could disagree with

Please ArenaNet, put this on your list

It won’t alter the balance of the game, nor disrupt anyone’s current playstyle nor the developer’s views about the ranger and the pet mechanic: let players name specific pets PERMANENTLY, so we don’t ever have to rename them unless we want to. As minor as that change may seem, it doesn’t seem to me as something particularly hard to achieve-especially considering that armor sets get to “memorize” their dye patterns, which to me seems like a more complicated programming code(though perhaps I am wrong).

IMHO, the reason most players have their pets named “Juvenile Whatever” is not that they don’t want to name them, BUT that it’s convenient to not name them at all if the name is easily deleted just by choosing another pet. I refuse to move along with “Juvenile Whatever”, though, which personally makes pet switching a chore, which is a shame (not to mention, we may forget specific names we came up for our pets, and possibly have to come up with another.)

Honestly, not just a spiteful/“whiny” complaint, but it does make the game appear lacking in polish, and I say it with all due respect for all of you who work so hard in this game’s development and mechanics. And no offense to anyone on these forums either-I just feel it would be a VERY welcome change that feels like a priority for me, especially since it wouldn’t bother those who don’t care about their pet’s name, and would also make game-life easier for everyone else who does.

Aaand that’s all from me for now. Again, please don’t turn this into a debate about whether Kits fill all needs or not – if you like the suggestions, just click +1. If you don’t, don’t. Super simple.

Feel free, though, to debate whether a particular thing fits; it’s entirely possible I’ve suggested something that wouldn’t work or is entirely ridiculous.

Disclaimer: This is a playful thread. It is intended to stimulate some lighthearted and fun discussion regarding an imaginary class previously mentioned as a joke by Colin Johnson. As such, have some fun with it!

So as I stated in the above disclaimer, this just to stimulate some fun discussion of Colin’s ‘Sandwichmancer’ class.

What are your thoughts on this imaginary profession?
What armor class would it be?
What weapons would it use?
What skills would those weapons have?
What traits/traitlines would it offer?

I’m not sure why it stuck with me, but since I couldn’t sleep the other night, I was playing with some of the options. I can see this as being a light or medium armor class, although I’m leaning more towards medium (complete with an apron as part of the armor).

As for weapons:

Bow (short/long/recurve) – two hands – shoots submarine style sandwiches (we have one that shoots rainbows, so hey why not)

Rifle – two hands – Also shoots submarine style sandwiches

Pistol – off hand – shoots little hors d’oeuvres sandwiches (like at high end parties)

Daggers – either hand – foot long submarine sandwich styled daggers

Nunchuck (new) – main hand – sandwich on each end, connected by a chain of sausage links

Shuriken (new) – either hand – throwing star shaped PB&J…you’ll never look at it the same again

That’s as far as I got before I fell asleep. What can I say? I was tired, but it was fun none the less.

So, your thoughts?

Warning: Troll Alert!

General changes

- Fixed damage inconsistency with Phantasmal Berserker. Phantasmal Berserker will no longer give damage. Inflicted cripple has been replaced with swiftness to compensate.
- Damage done by clones has been increased by 50%. Damage done by the mesmer has been reduced by 50% to compensate.

Weapon skills

Sword:
- Blurred Frenzy – this skill now apply Protection, Stability and Aegis for 1,5 sec.
- Mind Stab – this skill is fixed and now properly remove condition instead of boon.

Torch:
- The Prestige – this skill now properly apply 3 stacks of vulnerability instead of burning, cloaking last 1.5 sec now.

Greatsword:
- Mind stab now removes 2 boons, but has has half the radius and half the damage to compensate.

Staff:
- Removed exploit where iWarlock could do massive damage on targets with a lot of conditions, extra damage has been capped to 3 conditions.
- Staff skills 2 and 3 have had their cooldowns increased to 35 and 40 seconds respectively in order to bring them in line and synergize better with Staff 4 and 5.
- Fixed a bug where staff clones inflicted conditions.

Scepter:
- Ether Blast (second auto-atack shot) – increased casting speed for 2%.

Focus:
- Temporal Curtain – increased damage of this skill for 50%.
- Phantasmal warden now spins in the opposite direction as intended.

Utility skills

- Arcane Thievery – this skill now fixed, range is set to 130
- Changed Feedback to only work if attacking from outside the dome.
- Illusion of Life now also kills downed enemies.

Traits:

- Illusionary Persona now kills you upon shatter, so as to more accurately mimic your clones.
- Master of Misdirection – this trait now grants 100% duration increase of all fear you inflict.
- Critical Infusion is now Dueling XI, and Empowering Mantras is now Dueling V.

- Phantasmal warden now spins in the opposite direction as intended.
This one killed me, amazing post!

Why would you think you could wear two AMULETS after 50+ hours of gameplay?

Er.. you only have one neck (and therefore one amulet slot), why would you be able to equip 2 of them.

SadieDeAtreia.8912:

The RNG gods smiled upon you. What do you want from us? A “well done bro”?

Man, you must be the life of the party. Tell me, do you also wait around playgrounds, then walk up to children and deflate their balloons with a needle?

7. Blinding Befuddlement-This put the nail in the coffin on confusion builds in general… Anet seemed to overlook how many builds relied on this… not everyone that took this trait was a glam nuker… Some ran scepter torch and signet of midnight so they could try to stack up the blinds/confusion super fast hoping the players would nuke themselves…. But no… they put an ICD on it cutting a confusion mesmers DPS in half also severely hampering their defense… This nerf needs reverted now… The 50% damage reduc in wvw was enough.

8. Signets… When ANET said they were going to improve the passive stats on signets they only did it for one of ours… Signet of Dom… Which people usually take for the active… What about Signet of inspiration (Double the amount of time said boons are applied?) Midnight (This is an actual stat Boon duration it is in our traits… but signet of midnight is still only 10%… why not 20%?)

9. Mantras-Even with the 1/2 second decrease on cast time for mantras they still have no place in tournaments every mantra a Mesmer charges is about 3s they are not in the fight… and that is 3s too long… Cast time needs greatly decreased and the bonuses from activation need looked at… As well as the GM traits… They are still… not worth taking

EDIT: #10 Deceptive evasion- In a previous patch ANET said that clones/pets/summons will no longer aggro on targets that have not agrroed on the master… This is not true for deceptive evasion for mesmers… And is very annoying for us.

That is what I can think of for now my fellow mesmers… I ask you to post more if you can think of it… As for a dev response… I am sure this like many other posts we have made regarding how much damage they are doing to this class are going to fall upon deaf ears.

Thank you for giving 7 other classes to play while necro is being fixed.

Thank you for jagged horror, funny thing which keeps me in combat stance if I somehow manage to kill something and dies before next fight.

Thank you for marks which keep me in combat stance, especially if I dodge to avoid some random trash mob.

Thank you for all the traits which still do not work.

Thank you for fear, the awesome cc which has too short durations to be really useful

Thank you for nerfing all little stability boons we had

Thank you for having gap closers which do not work 90% of time.

Thank you for having DS with not many useful skills at all.

Thank you for nerfing axe

Thank you for nerfing DS

Thank you for nerfing stability, yes I want to say it twice.

Thank you for having tons of AoE with AoE limit of 5 targets

Thank you for having this awesome class with useless conditions. It is very fun to play if you go full power/toughness/vitality with no minions.

Thank you for having complicated self healing which doesn’t scale well if at all with healing power.

Thank you thank you.

Yeah thank you Anet, you made me quit your game and now I can play other games I never did before =)

There have been some dev’ activity recently but I can’t say “thanks” before I see the next balance uptade.. because even with zero expectation they still manage to disappoint me every month.

It reminds me of the MUD that I put thousands of hours into when I was a teenager…and which is still going actually. It gives me the same feeling that MUD did. Interesting that it took 10+ years for graphical online games to reach the functionality of the better text based games.

Gojak.8395:

Do you really want ANet to take time and resources to develop content for the SAB instead of more traditional game content?

yes

Any one think this would be a good idea? I mean we can use it for off hand why not main hand? I think it would look pretty good shooting illusionary bullets. :P And more ranged options wouldn’t be a bad thing right? seeing as how Greatsword is the only good option (Aside from maybe staff)

I guess it’s just I hate how greatswords look on my character so I just want an option for a not sucky alternative.