Guild Wars 2

Yareon.2835:

ViperWire.4261:

You are implying that my party can fall to their death. This is not the case. They will incur repair costs.

…if only they could at least remove their armor….. oh, wait…

Yes, don’t fix this issue Anet: there’s a workaround of everyone stopping, filling their inventory with armor and suiciding.

Hire this man Anet, he clearly understands your design philosophies.

Villious.8530:

IMO, the whole game never left beta.

This, you don’t add new modes 2 months in/new tiers of gear 2 months in/have hundreds of gamebreaking bugs in a finished game.

I haven’t tried it but agree. Would have been a nice alternative to the current exotic MF gear.

“So where’s skill #5 in our Deathshroud weapon set?”

I thought it was actually very brave and considerate of Anet to give the refer-a-friend people a chance to see what the game is actually like.

Ratphink.4751:

I’m looking directly at the people who complained about exploiting the ‘Spectral Walk’ bug that allowed you to reap all the benefits with it not even in your Utility Bar.

And now we’re the only class who loses swiftness when we enter the water.

Fix the bug and screw balance.

It’s got a 90 second cool down now.
SKILL FIXED

Cempa.3645:

It was always working, people just assumed it was supposed to work in a particular way while it worked in a different way.

How it works: On your screen you must be facing your target and not moving, then it works.

No it was not always working. It in no way used to remove any conditions. It also broke stun when you weren’t facing a target/had no target.

A stun breaker that requires you to face a target is pretty useless.

drifter.8453:

maybe the class nerfs are a need to Lost Shores or other content they might have in mind later down the road.

Because you should be shaping professions around content?

1 condition per 3 seconds yes. It also now needs a target to break stun.

0, either:
friends I had stopped playing GW2
friends I had have no interest in it

I don’t blame either group.

They stealth fixed/nerfed it a while back.

Yeah, the game is buggy. Who knew?

No, same thing happened at Halloween.

But there’s guesting… oh wait.

Anet’s really busy trying to figure out spectral walk. I doubt they have time for this.

Because legendaries DON’T HAVE HIGHER STATS.

Anet has said they’re going to continue to release infusions. I don’t see what the assumption is there when they say it.

I feel like a jerk telling all the friends who quit playing that this patch would be a MAJOR update for the classes.

Oh, minor bugfixes. I’m a liar now Anet.

Yes, engineer turrets and necro minions count too.

(WORKS AS INTENDED)

It’s 20%. I believe you see the combo effect every time even if it doesn’t happen.

They’re “working on it”.

Would they lie to us?

Eleazyair.5716:

So someone promised significant changes to a profession in the latest patch and didn’t deliver.

Yes

Eleazyair.5716:

Well, at least there are changes in the pipes right?

You’re basing that on the failed promise? I usually don’t believe people who start lying.

No, that’s definitely not power creep.

Yes, please keep trusting Anet’s words over their actions.

Seems like many of the issues that were going to be patched didn’t make it into the “5 pages of patch notes” today.

So, patch tomorrow too or…

Not a balance patch at all, was a handful of bugfixes. (And not even a substantial amount)

Ratphink.4751:

Arvid.3829:

From what I’ve read so far, I like it. I don’t see how you could QQ about this, but then I have faith some people will find a way… (Ah, there are still some certainties in life.)

People are QQing because they wanted all the Profession notes to be for the Necromancer.

Also note the amount of people calling out obvious bug fixing as ‘nerfs’ because they were bugs that worked in our favour. A bug is a bug. It’s not a nerf if it wasn’t working as intended in the first place.

I don’t see how our dodge roll being the only reliable blast finisher necro had was an obvious bug.
Unless having a reliable skill was the indication of a bug. You sir are too cynical.

Ratphink.4751:

Dibrom.6408:

Silly me, I was expecting some balance changes. Oh well, closer to having half of our launch bugs fixed.

So you want them to tweak balance before they fix broken skills and traits? That’s absolutely backwards because they’d have to rebalance everything after they fix it.

Yes? They’re doing oh so great of a job fixing our broken skills ad traits that I thought changing them would be easier. Do you want to spend until the next “expansion” waiting for fixes?

Sylvari
Grasping Vines: This skill now immobilizes enemies when the vines connect with the enemy.

HUGE BUFF FOR NECROS!
( hope you’re a slyvari like me :p )

Silly me, I was expecting some balance changes. Oh well, closer to having half of our launch bugs fixed.

It’s fun so clearly unintended.

Kellie.3687:

Honor of the waves token gear is Condition/Toughness/Precision..

I wasn’t aware, but HoTW gear is armor and weapons, I explicitly meant accessories (and back).

Then we’re in agreement- new ascended accessories should be made with all stat combos (currently available)?

AnemoneMeer.7182:

Ah, but the Foefire Greatsword, and Triforge Pendant both do not have their stats on -any- other gear in the game. That’s a biiig part of the argument. If you don’t have those stats available to you at all, in any form, but they’re available on a lower tier piece of gear, isn’t that just kinda silly?

You can get Condition/Toughness/Precision accessories only up to green (masterwork) not rare or exotic. This ‘not being available’ isn’t something new to this game.

AnemoneMeer.7182:

Dibrom.6408:

Nope, a new recipe for a new ascended triforge should be added. It’s a gear treadmill after all.

They already mentioned sending out some ascended gear in the dev diary. As I said. simply hoping that for the gear (Foefire greatsword was brought to my attention by a guardian friend) with unique, non-standard stat spreads, gets it’s place among the Ascended gear.

Why?
It’s an exotic piece of gear. Ascended > exotic. Yes you spent money on it, I don’t see why that should factor into anything.

Legendary is the top tier of gear so yes legendaries should be buffed.

ArikaStack.9684:

I personally don’t see anything wrong with upgrading the triforge to ascended quality. This isn’t World of Warcraft, and something that takes perspective months to farm shouldn’t be rendered obsolete when the game is hardly 2 and a half months old.

That’s just stupid.

But everything else is ok being obsoleted 2 months in? What’s the cut off price range for something that shouldn’t be affected by gear treadmill?

enmitee.7539:

While it IS fun, that path with the under water boss is just On auto-attack and alt tab.

Yep, since my auto attack is 1200 range and ignores LoS, I literally place my guy in a corner and AFK until I notice the award screen.

Skill.

Nope, a new recipe for a new ascended triforge should be added. It’s a gear treadmill after all.

Drarnor Kunoram.5180:

You do realize that would make us the only profession capable of causing every condition, right?

More to the point, however, is that Burning just doesn’t fit thematically with necros.

We can’t do and wouldn’t be able to do confusion.
Mesmers can already do every condition in the game expect fear.
Engineers can already do every condition in the game except fear.
Rangers can already do every condition in the game except confusion.

For necro (who’s precision on crit abilities are easily the worst in the game- a 1 second bleed) the appeal is sigil of earth.

Darnis.4056:

Necromancer’s condition Removal
Gathering Plague 30 Draw conditions from nearby allies to yourself, and inflict weakness on yourself.
Putrid Mark Mark ¾ 25 Inscribe a mark that transfers conditions from allies to foes when they trigger it.
Deathly Swarm ¼ 18 Unleash an insect swarm, blinding multiple foes. Transfer three conditions to your target on a successful attack.
Consume Conditions 1 1¼ 25 Feast on your conditions, gaining health for each one consumed.
Corrupt Boon Corruption 3 40 Poison yourself. Transform all boons on your foe into negative conditions.
Plague Signet Signet 3 60 Passive: Transfers conditions from nearby allies to yourself.
Active: Send your conditions to a foe.
Well of Corruption Well 3 ¼ 45 Target area pulses, converting boons on foes into conditions
Well of Power Well 3 ¼ 60 Target area pulses, converting conditions on allies into boons.
Grim Specter 30 Send out a claw that explodes on impact, ripping boons off of foes and curing conditions on allies.

Not to mention Epidemic.

Epidemic removes conditions/boons now?

You shouldn’t preface a sentence with “You don’t have any idea about what you’re talking about do you?…” if you can’t be bothered to look up what skills actually do.

ScorpionX.6938:

2) you can use it in WvW but it will prob put you at a disadvantage (you give up that upgrade slot so while “base ascended” > “base exotic” then “ascended infused” < “exotic with rune/upgrade”). plus, infusions will do nothing for you in WvW.
3) it replaces the upgrade slot so no runes, gems, etc. meaning you are giving up something to get something

I suggest you reread.
You’re not giving up anything, the new ascended items are RINGS and BACK. The new ascended pieces have gems already in their stats + EXTRA stats.

You give up nothing. Ascended items are better for WvW/PvE outside of the dungeon.

Antitheist.5306:

Why does everyone seem so quick to assume that ANet wants to piss of their players? Has anyone considered that this addition may help alleviate the massive zergs in Orr by giving max-level characters something else to do?

No? Why would it take players away from Orr. Players are farming Orr for money/karma.

No it won’t.
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yes they are wrong
same as exotics

hackks.3687:

20s Fear bug? hmmm… might be time for necro’s to make their presence felt in tournies with an exploit of their own… <evil cackle>

With an exploit where you fear yourself for 20 seconds?

To everyone saying “CLAM DOWN”, it’d be a lot more effective if Anet said it don’t ya think?

Appearently Anet agrees:
https://twitter.com/mkerstein/status/268043782774218755

Why this is posted on a private twitter account, well… thread title I guess.

Transmutation stones <-

Rez’ing a person will give you contribution.

I have to get over 1000 tokens. No I don’t want to waste time fighting Kholer.

Since necro’s #3 ability starts with a 20second cooldown, I don’t see how the ability to strip a boon would help them. An instant suicide button with no cooldown would be better then being on the ground for 20+ seconds.

Mods this is not a thread about the new armor it’s about communication.

There is confusion among the community regarding the new armors and what they do/don’t do. Multiple topics about it breaking out even as I write this. A post from Anet could help the situation a bit.
I know, time is valuable, Anet is listening but doesn’t have time to post. You know you could hire a community liaison. (I’m pretty sure you have some actually, who is in charge of your twitter?)