Guild Wars 2

It’s very likely that there would be more than one specialisation per class. I mean lets be honest here, if there was only one, you wouldn’t exactly be specialising and therefore it wouldn’t be called a specialisation.

Two or three seems like a sensible guess, I don’t see them doing too many, as they’d run the risk of allowing too many weapons on the class’s. (Although I’m not assuming that a specialisation will always include a new weapon)

Unfortunately, conditions do nowhere near the sustained DPS berserkers do. As you said at the end of your post, you haven’t crunched numbers, please do, and you’ll see some frankly remarkable differences. Granted, zerkers don’t often get apply this DPS due to either keeling over themselves, or flattening the opponent, either one in a few seconds.

As a I main a necro, I whole understand your argument about ramapagers being tankyish – more so than the average zerker anyway, but then again they also do way less damage, and the tank is usually an inherent point of the class or the trait points. Additionally, rampagers gear is quite squishy in the grand scheme of things, they perhaps feel harder to kill because they apply damage from range and, usually if they can kite you all day long with cripple applied, they will.

With the way things currently stand, if conditions get nerfed, all you’ll see are direct damage builds, at which point everyone will run zerker and it’ll become a boring game of who can spike the most damage out in WvW and PvP, just as the meta currently is in PvE. Which is a depressing prospect at best…

So there’s a lot of hate here on the forums regarding Agony and Agony resistance, but I don’t understand why?

Agony resistance drop can only go in ascended items anyway
Versatile infusions cost 75 fractal relics. 75! That means if you did fractals 1-10 where there is no agony, you’ll have 15 AR, enough to run 10-20 easily. By the time you hit 20 you’ll have enough relics for 30 AR, which will see you through the 20s with that enough AR, I hope you can see where this is going.

Perhaps it’s the mechanics people don’t like? You want to jump in level 50 fractal with you’re zerk gear and just wave your overcompensatingly large swords around at everything, waiting for it to fall over?
Even if you did have the AR, fractals tend to be more difficult than the dungeons of Tyria, sorry. On top of that, the point of Agony is to appease the people who enjoy the type of gameplay that involves the kinda of gear progression that AR give them. I mean would you rather these people had some sort of super ascended gear instead of running around with tons of AR?

I imagine people are probably think I’m flaming, I’m not, I do however think that all this agony hate is a case of “mountains out of molehills”, it’s easy to get around but requires you to actually play rather than buy your way through the tiers.
(mostly, the new system actually does allow you to buy at least some of the way)

I’m not an elitist level 80 fractal runner/farmer, I’m at 18 on my main, and 3 on my second character, and honestly have no problem with Agony, so what is all the AR hate about? (honest question)

In all honesty AR is quite easy to obtain at a stead rate, more than that you need usually, just by starting at level 1 and progressing.

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Which you can get from food, traits, and so on. Rule of thumb is that strictly speaking you only “need” about 30% crit in order to reliably proc VP and EM just from autoattacking. Add in symbols and other AOEs, cleaving, and so forth, and 30% is way more than enough.

Soooo your saying going tanky is good? and that that extra toughness will allow me to tank that champion icebrood wolf?

Yeah, you stack them by crafting them together e.g:
2 x (+1 infusion) = (+2 infusion)
or
2 x (+5 infusion) = (+6 infusion)

You have to CRAFT them, not just shove them on top of each other :p

I main necro and guardian, a light and heavy armour class, a condition and direction damage class. And l do play conditions in PvE (mostly) because I enjoy the play style, call me casual w/e…
But I can tell you now, when looking at numbers my guardian is superior in every way imaginable, better dps (DD > condi, heck even the necro’s DD on axe/dag is inferior), better survivability, better team support.
I rolled a guardian a several months a go because I was tired of swaths of necro nerfs happening in PvE because this game is balanced based on PvP. And, from experience I can say this topic title is correct. Play a warrior or guardian if you want an easy time, playing any other class will make it more difficult for you, arguably however it will make the PvE content more interesting, but that’s for another thread

As a PvE necro player (Because I’ve been a bit of a fan-boy since prophecies), you force us to go condition build just to keep up with the other classes in DPS, then nerf the blood tree while telling us it’s a buff (Sorry, but it pretty much was). Then, you nerf conditions builds.

Thanks Anet, thanks…
/vent (I’m in the process of levelling up my new guardian as we speak)

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Alesh.4196:

i totally feel you and i am sorry for you putting up with us.. That’s main reason why most of my guild (WvW orientated) took a PvE week and we dont go into WvW (for example instead of WvW event we took balthazar today etc.) I respect you guys, because you are really fighting hard and doing your best. I hope they will finally do something about it…..

I think TaG takes the week off because you still haven’t recovered from getting wiped by 6 people on 4 ACs after that fail portalbomb at dawns the first night
Seriously though, I can totally understand that some RoF guilds see no point in doing WvW this week. I have been taking camps in RoF bl all morning and I got the feeling that you guys even LET us take the camps so you can take them back because I was obviously making a circle and you could’ve easily caught me at the next camp.

Well, we have been allowing that the whole week (post day 1) just for something to do If I’m honest, I’ve gone into WvW a few time this week, when FoW took their fort in their own BL is but one example, and I even enjoyed attacking you guys because we didnt have a huge zerg, and you guys fielded a lot of players That said, most of the time i go on WvW is to get my daily, and do the JP :/