Guild Wars 2

I feel the problem has always been the locked heal utility and elite. On most every legend I like only maybe 1 or 2 of the 5 skills I get with that legend. Yet on every other class I get to pick from a wide range of heals utilities and elites to suit my playstyle/build.

I think it just needs several more choices of heals utilties and elites to pick from for each legend.

1) Change stab again its worse than before.
2) Remove all gimmick lever pve nonsense I call it (Airship cloaking waters Chill thingy banners etc…
3) Fix the fact that attacking a tower is way easier then defending. You basically cant stand anywhere on the walls and not be aoed to death. You cant place siege anywhere that it can attack the attackers and not be insta destroyed with aoe. DBL towers have half a dozen walls the attackers can take down compared to 1 or 2 on eb tower.
4) Bring back alpine map the new desert map simply isnt working and is so laggy with more than a handful of people on it I just stay in eb.
5) Rewards for wvw are still awful compared to every other game mode. Needs autoloot. More choices of gear for badges. Make a way to get legendaries in wvw without ever having to do pve dungeons map completion nonsense.
6) When you die you waypoint period.
7) Reset night on friday always and at 8pm est.
8) Server balancing merging whatever bottom tier servers are dead.
9) Elite spec scrolls account bound.
10) Let guilds rank up in wvw by doing wvw stuff or let wvw drop all the things needed for guild upgrades.

Stab nerf has mad it very un fun. I mean it could be ok if some classes had more ways to get it and basically everything that does give stab gave many many more stacks than it does. I find myself perma cc’ed almost constantly. Even in very small fights I down somebody I hit stand your ground dolyak singe etc for stab. I proceed to stomp. My stab is melted before I even see it show up on my buff bar and I get knocked back from my stomp.

Kinda have to agree with the op. The way I see this class now is that its almost perfect. Can do lots of dmg from afar but unlike ranger the guard is not squishy at all once u finally get in past that range and has way more options to keep up pressure and distance than ranger does. It seems to me even players that aren’t very good are still really annoying to take down if they playing dh.

I want to enjoy wvw. I actually really even like some of the recent changes. The problem is there is only a handful of people in one boarderland on my server and the other 2 servers we face every week. Most of the time the 3 desert boarderlands are 100% completely empty.

I was looking forward to hot. I was putting in many hours on the beta weekends and giving detailed feedback here on the forums. I really enjoyed and felt my reaper was pretty much exactly where it needed to be by the end of the betas.

Hot releases. I learn I need 400 hero points of which my necro has 2 hero points because i dont pve or world completion period. I log in at the mists I pvp or i join wvw. I am never even in the pve maps. I log out. I get told by guildmate I can atleast get hero points from doing my pvp and wvw dailies. I think about logging back in but I come hit the forums to futher complain about hero points only to find my reaper builds got nerfed into uselessness. I HAVE NOT ACTUALLY PLAYED ANY HOT YET AND MIGHT NOT NOW.

Loged in after hot released. Found out I needed these hero points I can only get from pve and world completion. Loged back out. Wont log back in until I can unlock my elite spec using spirt shards or something I already have tons of from doing pvp and wvw for years.

Congrats DJ. Can confirm most of the ranks are actually from real wvw and not eotm. Our server DR is pretty much the same thing as eotm. Just going around hitting empty towers and keeps. I log in and roam sometimes and DJ is always there pug commanding so props to you for that.

Its been said but all that needs changed is the projectile needs removed. It doesn’t say anywhere in the description that it has a projectile. It should just be an instant yank when the casting time is finished.

I am having more of a problem with the server pop calculations and the fact that no server is considered low. The 2 bottom servers are pretty much completely daed in wvw yet they are still medium which is the same pop as tier 5 servers. I am pretty much now confident that they made it so low population isn’t even a possibility. So its 500 gems to transfer to the medium pop (Dead Population) 2 lowest pop servers. Meaning nobody will ever transfer there period.

I dont have a problem with the short duration stealths. Don’t even mind fighting a thief or mesmer not running mass invis or shadow refuge. Problem is they are all running these 2 broken skills. Shadow refuge got a nerf atleast and they have to stay in the circle for a short time to get the full 15 second stealth on a 1 min cd. So every minute they practically have a get out of jail free card. I can be halfway across any map in 15 seconds. Same with mass invis.

As for condi have to agree its just stupid silly when I play my pu mes. You cant move or u take tons of torment dmg. You cant use any skill or you take tons of confusion dmg oh and by the way i have op burning and a few other condis on you all the time while im stealthed lol. I think this is more of a problem with mesmer though. Its really the only class that gets access to huge amounts of the hands down best condis. The other classes dont get that. Guard for example can put out a bunch of burning but not confusion torment bleed and poison in good amounts all on short cd skills. Necro seemed to me like it would get a good amount of torment. The condi fits the necro theme especially reaper of dont run away from me. Yet it has little to no access to torment yet mes can dish out 5 stacks every 8 seconds.

Lol necros been begging for just one useful blast finisher for ages now and you want one on your auto attack.

Tried it cus I really wanted this to work. It is possible yes. But it requires so much micro management and you yourself are very very vulnerable while in ventari legend that you really have to play a pure backline support tossing hammers and moving your tablet around to help your zerg. I found it to be beyond boring.

I just wanted to point out I believe the hearold trait protection on heal skill use seemed like it fit into the cleric hearold/ventri build quite well. Every time you re position your tablet it added protection. You could move your tablet every like 2 seconds.

Here are a few spvp matches I recorded.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94lkGCCdU9Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_a7rQuQuK8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOU7BBTtp54

Heads up when you make your first beta character it will copy your bank to use for the beta. So make sure you have all runes sigils etc you want to test out for the beta in your bank BEFORE you make your first beta char.

If the druid still has to use a pet its gonna suffer the same problems as normal ranger.

Anet refuses to show dr/et as low pop even though they are. Until this is fixed so people can transfer to these 2 servers for FREE nothing will change. According to anets lovely algorithms dr and et the lowest population servers somehow have the same population as tier 5 servers.

A) Anet could actually make the low pop servers show low pop so transfers there would be free.
B) You the players could stop trying to all bandwagon onto a locked server cus everybody else already bandwagoned there.

Yawn more stealth the game didn’t need. More stability on a class that can already get perma stability with juggernaught. Yay engis will be stupid annoying bunkers in spvp again man I just cant wait sarcasm off.

Im fine with the short 2-4 second stealths. Its the long duration stealths like mass invisability or shadow refuge that I think are broken. So no to any more long duration stealths.

Well no huge nerfs which I was kinda fearing due to people just not knowing the tells and stuff for the reaper yet. I’ll try shouts again next beta weekend. Hopefully Im reading it right and each shout will lifesteal from up to 5 targets similar to activating singet of the locust.

The only concern I would have is that they patch often after the hot release. As long as they continue patching and fixing balancing things will be fine. What I don’t want to see and what many games do is release something big like an expansion and take months to put out a balance/fix patch.

Id like putrid mark to blast when its laid down regardless of it hitting anything. Also throw some torment in there somewhere. They added this new condi called torment that sounds like its right up necros ally. Yet we hardly have any access to it at all. I keep telling my guildmate who wants to do condi dmg that necros just dont have access to the good condis other than burning from shroud 1 which only really works with reaper cus he can swing fast to apply it.

Grasp should just be instant after the cast time. No projectile. It should give the lifeforce regardless of the pull working or not.

Singet of undeath needs a cast time decrease as by the time u get it off the person/persons your trying to rez are spiked or dead to dmg.

Poison cloud Maybe get rid of the self inflicting condis from all the corruption utilities its the reason I wont use any of them. Ot atleast fix it so if your condi speced your not doing insane condi dmg to yourself.

Well of blood changed from light to water field

I think enough of us gave feedback. Probably deciding what they gonna do with the shouts. Other than the shouts reaper seemed pretty close to where it should be.

Its obviously not gonna be a dmg build. The argument was that shouts are bad on ranger and serve no purpose. I pointed out that you can make one of if not the best support builds using them. Now could search and rescue and sick em use some buffs sure but shouts on ranger are far from lackluster. If your not smart enough to use a shout to remove a 4k tick burning then I cant help you and all sustain builds are countered by burst think im done with this thread cus arguing with u is pointless.

Ok lets use logic and calculations. With the build editor using cleric gear its easy to get 350 hp per second regen and 175 hp per second from singet of the wild. Thats 525 healing per second to mysef. The regen can hit 5 total targets for a total of 1925 total healing per second mostly all from shouts. The heal skill alone on 16 second cd is another 482.5 healing per second in spvp. There is the calculations. Now for the logic your always gonna be have regen on yourself and singet of the wild and your gonna hit allies often with the regen. Your removing up to 5 condis every time you use a shout which some have very short cool downs.

Now for necro transfusion can do a decent spike heal of like 5k to up to 5 targets. Thats 25k healing on a 34 second cd or 734.29 healing per second if and only if you hit all 5 targets. All other life stealing traits like soul eater or vampric presence are garbage and dont heal for crap. There really isnt even a comparison here.

Me using a shout build.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tj00lmH4ZHY
Hardly seems lackluster. Just watch those green numbers.
If you want to talk about bad shouts try using the necro ones. I been begging for them to just atleast give the necro shout trait something usefull like regen and swiftness from ranger.

Again if I could get your soul is mine to look like this. I would use it.

The towers actually seemed very easy to take as there was a half dozen or more walls on any of the towers u could just cata down. The towers are so huge now that it is nearly impossible to to cover all the vulnerable walls with siege.
The keeps on the other hand seemed like they always had choke points atleast at the lords room.

Personally think the shout trait just needs a boost. If the trait were 35% cd reduction all the time even if 0 targets were hit I would use this heal. If I got 10 seconds of swiftness and regen when I cast it like ranger does with its shout trait I would use it. If it converted a condi to a boon like guard shout trait I would use it etc…..

Id go a step further in that both vital persistence and soul marks are pretty much mandatory for me. The only time I have ever been able to use a build without VP is spectral mastery and atleast 2 spectral utilites.

Darn now I have to wait till tomarrow to test the wvw boarderland.

Just want to point out that the few of you who are trying to say reaper is to strong are all pointing at burning dmg with celestial amulet on top of our normal dmg. I would just like to point out myself that reaper being op because burning is op is not a reaper problem. Lets face it few will probably deny burning is op right now super op.

I love how in one very specific situation against a specific mob with all the stars aligning and hell freezing over somebody might have hit 26k once in a video or something so now that is the standard dmg I do to every warrior with my gravediggers in pvp.

Its probably going less distance cus you hit something and its not supposed to pass through stuff anymore. As for it not going where you want I guess now that u mention It I may have not gone where I wanted a couple times.

Played alot of reaper this weekend. Start with the good. Almost all of the quality of life changes since last beta were amazing. Reaper really is just fun to play. Feel like this one is almost there. So now to break some of it down.

Greatsword I feel fills its role. Its good for group combat. It isn’t a great 1v1 weapon and reaper really isn’t designed to be a 1v1 class anyways. GS auto attack seems ok now with the chill increase. Gravedigger I feel is where it should be now. Its very situational but can pull out some big dmg. Deathspiral feels much better now. Nightfall is perfect now that it doesnt stop you. Grasping Darkness is better than it was. Seems to work about as well as the other pulls now which is to say it works sometimes.

Reaper Shroud again with the fixes since last beta felt this was perfect. If I had to nitpick something. The fear would be nice if it were insta cast.

Shouts I still couldnt be bothered to use even one of these after playing with them awhile they were retired for the rest of beta just like last time. Necro is all about lifeforce. Its our class mechanic. That being said there is almost no way any of us would ever pick up nothing can save you over spectral armor. Peeps are invuln half the time anyways not blocking so i find this shout awful. Suffer is pretty much some lousy dmg and a short chill that i could have put on with an auto attack or deaths charge and not wasted a utility. Your all weaklings seems like a good idea but you might get off all of what 1 maybe 2 attacks before your might is gone. Rise I felt got worse. The minions have no health to begin with so when they start absorbing dmg they are dead almost instantly. Your soul is mine if the stars align and you hit all 5 targets with it and have traited for it instead of the 2 other much better traits then the skill is ok. Anything short of not hitting 5 targets and having shout trait and the heal aint worth it.

Possible Shout Fixes
1) 35% cd reduction standard even with 0 targets hit.
2) Shout trait buffed to level of other shout traits from other classes that all do something extra like give regen and swiftness for ranger adapt shout trait.
3) Remove all physical dmg from the shouts it was kinda lousy anyways and give more cc, stability, boons, condis, mobility anything to these shouts instead of that dmg.

Traits seemed better off this round. Reapers onslaught sounds much better but I honestly cant find a reaper build Im not using blighters boon. Deathly chill seemed better off but for a gm trait I feel this would probably still need to be stronger. Soul eater and decimate defenses I couldn’t find myself using on any build either.

Some video footage from the weekend playing some spvp.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_a7rQuQuK8 Minons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94lkGCCdU9Y Power
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOU7BBTtp54 Shouts

Did you guys not read the notes or something. It works exactly like warrior sword 2 Savage Leap. I Found this skill to be absolutly perfect now. It doesn’t spin past the target anymore. You can still untarget everything and use it to dash in the direction you want.

I will post some of my pvp matches from this weekend testing out reaper.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94lkGCCdU9Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOU7BBTtp54
https://youtu.be/f_a7rQuQuK8

Its not you bud. They put in a game mechanic to get energy back when you swap legends. So you are pretty much forced to swap legends whenever they are off cd don’t matter if u want to switch or not. Pretty much the only other way to get energy is to not do anything. Just run around in combat not doing anything. People keep defending this but the bottom line fact is forcing you to swap legends to get energy is a bad mechanic.

The insta cast on some of them is nice now. I said it before though and still stand by it the shout trait needs some kinda extra feature like every other shout trait in the game.
Resounding Timbre Gives regen and swiftness 10 secs on shout
Vigorus shouts heal and grand adren on shout
Pure of voice turns condis into boons on shout
Tempestous Aria gives might to allies and weakness to foes on shout
All of these give reduced cd like necros as well.
Or they just need to reduce the cd’s alot on necro shouts so when the 35% kicks in from the trait the cd is really short. Right now the heal works like this.

life force regen has always been pretty much terrible unless you were using a staff and soul marks. With blighters boon I find my lf regen decent now but of course im still using a staff and soul marks.

I really really want to like this and use a solid healing build. It still has the same problems it has had. It is way to hard to move the thing around and fight. Then when u get it moved around your now out of energy and are forced to switch to a legend u dont want to use for 10 seconds and your tablet goes poof.

Suggestion on what could fix this thing. Remove cd from moving the tablet around or have it follow us around normally but we can send it out to a location like we can now. Drastically lower energy cost on these skills cus you have to camp this legend to do your healing. Or last give us a way to get energy back like on auto attack or something. Being forced to switch legends to get energy is a terribly fail game mechanic.

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Devona’s Rest really should just be shut down or merged in with eradon terrace. DR has no wvw community. There are a couple pug commanders and a few really really small guilds. Reset night we try to make an apperance usually get steam rolled by the third server that isn’ ET then pretty much make no showing the rest of the week and ET now even beats us in score. Have to many guildmates that are not gonna pay gems to transfer so I have been offically screwed for awhile now. We are still considered a Medium population server though lol thanks anet.

I’ve been on DR a long time and recent months have gotten pretty rough with guilds transferring out. It’s getting tough even for roamers and small guilds when it’s typically 10 vs 35. IMO – The bottom 6 servers in NA should be merged and you’d still be lucky to be competitive in Silver.
Most folks are just hanging on to see what happens with the HoT expansion and influx of players.
Or as an option, make tranfers free across the board for a month to see how things shake out. Would be interesting…

unless merging those server miraculously gave them off hours coverage they would still get destroyed in silver.

Atleast at primetime we might get to play and have some fun though instead of try to solo flip waypointed keeps.

I usually use a cav amaulet for spvp. I tend to like it better than valk which seems very glassy like zerker. Only prob with cav is the no vit u really need to take some runeset with vit in it.

Or lack there of. Was trying to make some builds for a guildy and realized the condi cleanse on the new class is beyond awful. Remove 1 condi on dodge 10 sec cd. Remove 1 condi on legend swap 10 sec cd. Staff 4 remove 2 condis 15 sec cd. Thats about it unless I missed something.

Devona’s Rest really should just be shut down or merged in with eradon terrace. DR has no wvw community. There are a couple pug commanders and a few really really small guilds. Reset night we try to make an apperance usually get steam rolled by the third server that isn’ ET then pretty much make no showing the rest of the week and ET now even beats us in score. Have to many guildmates that are not gonna pay gems to transfer so I have been offically screwed for awhile now. We are still considered a Medium population server though lol thanks anet.

Here is the poi where they actually walk around and show off the guild hall. The Arena is pretty large.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yW5oUUd0s6Y