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skcamow.3527:

I’ve been having a ton of fun with this build:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vhAQRAse7fn0nB1fi1qBmpBEgilXj68HCijr+XP2lFNAypjA-TJRHABVs/g3lBC4JAAwJBAA

It’s Viper so you’re really squish but there is a lot of baked in sustain with the condition cleanses, blocks on both sets, mental defense and torch stealth. I find this can burst similar to normal power shatter, just obviously differently. The power damage is definitely there though since these two MH weapons really shine in that area.

I have this decked out for team play and can be tweaked as necessary for solo, etc. I’ve also tried Sinister which works, but I find Viper to burst better and the extra condition duration is fantastic.

Using balth rune works really well to provide a decent third source of burning (without needing staff). With the condition duration in the ammy + burn duration from rune, it adds a solid third condition to your torment/confusion. Geo/Doom sigils round out the rest.

Note this is before the precog change. In a team build I wouldn’t run it but maybe you would in soloq. I think I played one or two matches with stab mantra vs precog and that actually worked pretty well. I’m sure there are other good options.

You’ve just given me a good basis to work from on a condi chrono build. Gunna tweak the build a bit, Thanks!

Hi guys,

Im looking for a raiding guild, one that doesn’t mind me not necessarily repping the guild whole time, i belong to a small guild that is family to me so i spend alot of time talking and helping them with our guild hall so. thats what i’m looking for, hopefully someone out there can help. I’m based on Gandara EU.

thanks all

I’ve been wondering this too. It says that it requires either weak smiting 350 o scribe but my weapinsmithing doesn’t have a recipe and I have no mats to discover it

Hi everybody,

im looking for a new guild since my current one has all but packed up and joined other guilds. Im looking for a casual/ semi hardcore guild who doesnt mind my semi occassional bouts of inactivity due to real life.

Im on the EU servers, i mainly play mesmer. I also play about of PVP so if theres a guild who has a bit of a PVP scene then that would be awesome, but i want to be in a guild that wants to do the raid when heart of thorns comes out. hope theres a guild out there for me..

Thanks guys

Proposal Overview
No to make it over complicated, it doesn’t need to require 10 – 20 people. i have been playing Destiny alot and doing the raid in it alot, it requires 6 people. and it is challenging enough to make it very fun. I’d like to see a 5—7 man raid in GW2, instead or the traditional 10 – 20 man raids of WoW and SWTOR. it makes getting a group together easier, makes planning and running the raid a lot easier and it also means that the raid can be built to make it friendly for 5-7 people. the mechanics could have some of the mechanics that are used in the dungeons, open world bosses and other aspects of the game.

Proposal Functionality

the way my proposal works with the current gw2 design is that a 5 – 7 man raid creates it an easy amount of people to get together for casual players, so it would be accessible to every player, but should also be hard enough that the hardcore players have a reason to play it. the rewards should be in line with completing a raid, I’d suggest ascended gear and weapons, with a decent drop rate though The story would be down to you guys to figure out

Associated Risks

The usual risks of making new content; bugs, exploits and cheesing bosses, as long as you guys get on top of any issues quickly it shouldnt be a problem.

Completely agree, now that we have the same armour for both game types it makes no sense there inst a bank in HOTM now.

run staff as well and it could be a pretty good build idea, since staff gives good aoe damage plus regen on a stupidly short cooldown.

Its not just power necros, they hate ALL necro builds, i barely play my necro now since it cant compete with the other classes i play in terms of playability and fun

Are necros ever going to be able to stomp while in death shroud, seeing as Mesmer and thieves can stealth stomp

can we get a fix for pets, id like to be able to fight the player not their endless line of pets, can we have player targeting a higher priority than pet targeting

Are we going to see knights(toughness, percision, power) amulets in spvp?

I don’t want them to add more dragons until they fix the MASSIVE issues with the living story plot lines and how they tell it. Once they have worked out how to tell a story properly then I will be up for more dragons

i want it so bad >.>

It would be nice if the changed the nade kit #1 to the same style as the necro staff #1. i’d be happy with that, if they left the rest at ground targeting skills. but just have a targeted auto attack, its a sham they wont do it though, its just to time consuming and they have much bigger things to deal with, such as the bad living story lol

Singer.8740:

ChaosWithin.6214:

SCARLET and the reactor doesn’t fit, Ceara and the reactor fits, for t to make sense it would have to be before she got into the machine that turned her into scarlet. as she supposedly found the answers to everything and went bat crap crazy, so she must have ad this knowledge before hand, its a shame this is not represented.

She worked with the inquest before she got into the isolation pod, hence she gave them the advise regarding chaos energy before then. (shame they went and duffed everything by tampering with dragon energy instead.) The scarlet you see in the fractal is actually the present day scarlet hijacking into your fractal to see what happened herself. Not the past scarlet who was Ceara at the time.

really, your really going to spout the BS theory of her hacking into the fractals, this would make the story even worse that it already is, because it would make the assumption scarlet has somehow become more of an expert on the mists and the fractals that dessa, who quite literally lives in the mists and fractals.

AysonCurrax.3254:

What if…

Scarlet wasnt actually in the reactor back at that point in time and instead just invaded the Mistlock Observatory and through that the Thaumanova Fractal with her Portal technology which she has used so many times by now?

I mean, it would be a possibility, right? That she caught wind of the Fractal being investigated and decided to use it to her advantage.

Just came to mind as a possibility since we all just seem to assume that, because she is in the fractal, that she actually was there before the reactor blew.

this probably isnt possible since from what we understand her portals use the leylines of magic around tyria, and the fractals are events from tyrias past found in the mists, which are different. and if thats the case then why would she not just invade the mistlock observatory and take control or destroy it?

GOSU.9574:

Dustfinger.9510:

GOSU.9574:

Dustfinger.9510:

GOSU.9574:

I don’t get some people.

If you like NOT having auto-cast on grenade 1 on land, you lose NOTHING by having it available and disabling it. So I fail to see any legitimate argument against it being available to those who do NOT want to press 1 repeatedly simply to hit a single target. Your arguement is no more valid than removing auto-cast from the game entirely so everyone has to spam 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1.

Please, provide a valid argument instead of “nah, I am fine spamming 1”. You are NOT effected if auto-cast is implemented…..DISABLE IT.

I think people are against it because they don’t want time wasted making more of this. Optional or not, it is a wate of time and reasources. Then when there’s bugs to fix (as if this isn’t a big enough problem already) it means more time and resources away from other problems that deserve them.

WTH? It would take zero effort. It’s already in the game, it is simply disabled.

Can we please get an intelligent, valid debate going on?

You understand making options that turn on and off take time and resources, right? Then factor in that you are asking a-net to spend that time and resources to recreate something they already know is a problem.

If you want a valid debate, address the valid points instead of pretending they don’t exist.

Valid Debate: The ability to auto-cast grenade 1 is IN THE GAME. Dive in water, target enemy, press 1.

It requires NO resources to develop. There it is, IN THE GAME.

Seriously……….waiting on a real debate, swatting flies gets tiring.

Done with this thread, waste of energy. The oblivious can’t be convinced of the obvious.

they wont do it because of balancing issues with other classes and also it has the potential for giving unfair advantages to people who decide to have to enabled in pvp/wvw. now i suppose you will say the disable it in those area, but there will be outcry then, its better to just leave it the way it is, because despite you saying its in the game it will still require code to be changed, then tested, then edited if there was a bug for it, then retested. it would take away to much away from the real bugs and issues in the game. plus its only a minority who would want it changed. reasonable enough for you?

lordkrall.7241:

ChaosWithin.6214:

SCARLET and the reactor doesn’t fit, Ceara and the reactor fits, for t to make sense it would have to be before she got into the machine that turned her into scarlet. as she supposedly found the answers to everything and went bat crap crazy, so she must have ad this knowledge before hand, its a shame this is not represented.

It is quite likely that Cera became Scarlet long before the time-line of GW2 release started.
The Reactor takes place quite shorty (seems to be a few weeks at most) before release Time-line, and thus it is very likely that she was already Scarlet back then.

It does seem, based on her dialogue in the Fractal, that she is actually using the Reactor to find answers to what she saw in the Machine.

problem is we don’t know what she “became” scarlet. it could have been before or after the reactor disaster but the reason i came to the conclusion is from the dialogue, to me it sounded like she was in control of her mind, but still didn’t now the answers that she found in the machine. we also don’t know exactly when the reactor blew up.

warllockmaster.1379:

You say, you find scarlet annoying?
That she is horribly written?

She is Brilliantly, made and here are the following reasons.
1# She distracts you each time from her real goals, by using the Alliances.
2# At her first time appearing she hacked the queens robots and used them to distract you so she could work in peace once more.
3# The Tower another distraction and an experiment to test what happens when you mix krait and sylvari magic.
4# In Scarlet’s back story she obtains some ’’mystic’’ knowledge and was Scarlet from that day on, in other words she discovered something that drove her mad.
5# She is not overconfident but clever, she fought us once and had her kitten handed to her, so she is not stupid enough to fight us again hench why she flee.
6# She is a fan of destruction and chaos, and she wish to find her purpose in the world with it.
7# none of you could write it better so quit yapping about it is badly written.

HOWEVER the only story line she has been integral to was the queens jubilee story where we fought her and where she actually made some sort of play to make her plan work, the rest of her “stories” she has been inconsequental, and the story would have played out the same way in terms of what we as players get to play without her ever being mentioned or shoe horned into the story, this is be biggest disappointment because they insist on writing bad stories for her, when if she was given more lore, that didn’t retcon current lore and a story where her presence/action were integral to the story and it felt like we as players had actually made a difference in stopping her then it could have been a good story arch, however it is now just tedious and annoying, its the same thing; a random kitten alliance that makes no sense pops up, we defeat the big baddy, scarlet pops in saying she was responsible for the alliance, and that even though we have defeated the alliance its all going according plan, despite saying the first time we defeated her that is was a set back and not according to plan, now she couldn’t have changed her plan so drastically in such a short space of time to make all these alliances with species known to not want interaction with other living beings(the Krait) and then laughs like the lunatic she is.

SCARLET and the reactor doesn’t fit, Ceara and the reactor fits, for t to make sense it would have to be before she got into the machine that turned her into scarlet. as she supposedly found the answers to everything and went bat crap crazy, so she must have ad this knowledge before hand, its a shame this is not represented.

i’d like to see them go into the lore of the krait more, and not have some kitten excuse for this being here.

I’d be excited about this kinda of content, minus the JP’s, i really hate that JP’s are so important to this game, and if JP’s were to be so important to get to the top for the content i would feel cheated because they should be optional.

i cant stand scarlet, there were so many other stories they could have gone with, which have a established lore and back story, they didn’t need to create a kitten villain with barely any story and who tbh is completely forgettable. and before anyone says i have read all available lore and stories on scarlet an the aetherblade etc. this whole story arc feels clungy and badly written imo.

let the flaming commence.

Erukk.1408:

CHIPS.6018:

You know, its very possible that Jennah was already killed by the Branded back in the noval. The current Jennah is just an illusion created by Anise to stabilize power in Kryta and prevent a civil war.

Or Jennah’s body is used by Livia to turn into an undead minion. So the Jennah we see is just a zombie controlled by Livia. Anise and Livia continue to keep this secret from everyone.

well that explains all the short comings of the living story. mystery solved.
Just like it’s very possible that a meteor came down, in-between GW1 and GW2, and wiped out all life on Tyria. What the players are experiencing now, is simply a lucid dream that Primordus is having, having grown bored now that the world have been destroyed.

He decided to add in the Sylvari, because he liked the idea of a “Dream with a Dream”, and because he was running out of ideas. He liked them so much, he even decided to roleplay as one in the world… Trahearne!

before all this talk of the elder dragons that are still destroying the word btw ANet. we need to get of pointless living story bs with some bat crap cazy plant lady and focus on the elder dragons again.

they want us to buy transmutation stones.

orichalcum isnt and issue for me i get enough of that fro champ bags and savaging its ncient wood that is impossible to get, i havent got my artificing to 500 yet becaus of the amount of money it costs to buy the ancient wood to do it

The fact that we only have one game type is my ,biggest issue with spvp. I get bored with conquest. I find it funny that Anet says they want to work of the core fundamentals of spvp before they put anything flashy In, which is why we don’t have other game types
the way i see it is that a variety of game types os a fundamental aspect of any pvp area. You don’t see one game type on halo, or call of duty, or league of legends. Different game types would open up more builds for spvp as well. Since it wouldn’t focus on capture we could build for killing instead of sustain.

palawa joko rules the elonian states, kralkatoik could also be in the crystal desert/elona, or further south than that, all we know is that at the end of edge of destiny he flew south in toward the crystal desert. i hope we can go there soon though, AD IT ISNT TEMPORARY CONTENT!!!!

djunior.4187:

Hi. Can my app be added to the list?
It’s a Windows Phone 8 app called GW2 Events.
Here is the link:
http://www.windowsphone.com/s?appid=0260759e-2b1c-4e0b-8247-befa683c439e

just downloaded your app, will give it a test now

i’d love to know which kittentard had the bright idea of putting a pve goal in the PVP, yes PVP map? it makes no sense and allows camper to gain kills easily.

Biggest thing they are missing for them to fit in with anets idea if what they should be is a root skill. And a name change. Should be called warlocks, not necromancers

Sweet cheers for the quick reply

Hey guys I was just wondering if when you activate a signet, does it have a chance of critting, or is it the set damage displayed on the fact box? The reason I ask is because I have never felt the need to use signers but with the recent changes to the necro I might start using signer damage in conjunction with the sput signet trait. Cheers guys

Its a shame they still haven’t fixed the reanimator minor skill, despite us begging for it to be changed. But oh weill

Honestly as long as my build remains as viable as it is, or becomes more viable ill be happy with these updates, but we will see, it will probably end up that I have to rework my whole build, get new armor and new ascended pieces because the build I run is kitten. But pm me a week after for a response folks! :P

run the necro as if it were a warlock, not a necro, imo it plays fine when you understand that it isnt the necro from gw1. commence the flame no doubt. but thats my personal opinion, i like my necro, i have fun on my necro, the only thing i feel should be changed it a couple of the trait lines, death magic in particular, they need to take the first minor trait out, its useless and causes nothing but problems in dungeons.

i never said ti was gospal, or his word was gospal, all i said was i like the idea that it could be like that, im not saying it is, im not saying it isnt, i just like the idea. thats all.

I like the idea that the sylvari are the jungle dragon minions and the pale tree is its champion, but it got “corrupted” by the surroundings it grew in around Ronan and voltari(spelling?) making them good instead of evil and the nightmare court is right in their desires. Please remember this is just a theory that I like the thought of lol. If your wondering what I’m on about watch this vid

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RyMN90RpBT0&feature=plpp

what they need to do is take the jagged horror minor trait out and replace it with either the major trait that increases the radius of wells and marks or something new, because so many times in dungeons the summoned jagged horror has pulled mobs we dont want for me, and to be fair if your going into the death magic tree you should be taking the greater marks major trait.

staff #1 hit’s multiple targets in a line. just saying. but yes the thing that has put me off the power build is the lack of aoes in it.

Ramiah.5648:

I think it comes down to why you play the game. I don’t really PvP that much and prefer to play a well-rounded profession, so the necromancer fits my needs (traveling speed, support build, AOE for events). There are some very glaring holes for my playing the game in the Mesmer profession that aren’t easily remedied. I see necromancer as more solidly built.
I totally understand why so many of you guys complain (my necromancer was only level 20 and even with only 2 pets sometimes one of them didn’t attack, Wells are generally less powerful and versatile than others’ support, etc.), but the core profession mechanics are there, they just need tweaking. Necromancer, in my opinion, does not need any major reworking, just a few number changes and it’s good to go. Other professions need some serious changes to how their abilities work for me to really be happy with them.
In a perfect game, all classes would be viable for any wants the players had. Unfortunately, that’s pretty much impossible and for my primarily PvE playing, and needing movement speed and AOE tagging, necromancer is just better.

I love playing my necro. but you saying that it’s only a few number changes is wrong. there is a whole trait tree that needs reworking and the minions need to be sorted out and frankly necros need a second 2handed weapon to use. one that doesn’t rely on ground targeting skill and delivers good burst and/or condition damage.

It we were to have geatswords, or another 2 handes, it owuld have to balane out in the same way out 1 handers to, seeing as staves are moe condition and CC based the greatsword would have to be burst amage based, not that im complaining, would be pic as hell running into mobs with a greatsword on my back xD