Guild Wars 2

You do when you’re not maxed out, but once you max out you don’t and you wont have enough HP’s to get your specialization

Togo.7094:

Grind the xp out or go gather the hero points in open world. 2 alternatives right there.

Do you realise that you don’t get hero point when you lvl up?

I agree with OP, would be nice not to have to farm HP’s. With OP’s suggestion you will still have to put effort, but just in different areas of the game

This is ridiculous…

Omg, just check the response in “Bug” forum section… I really hope they’re joking about it.

I have to agree with this, even organised party barely handles it…. Btw, do we have to run trough lava field or we kill everything?

Jumping, the true endgame!

Stability does miracles

Seems like it’s random selection, didn’t signed for anything and I still got it.

Can confirm about snowblind, couldnt destroy it with engi and ele, didn’t tried other classes tho.

One more thing that isn’t in patch notes, swirler can’t be destroyed in snowblind fractal anymore. Tried with ele and engi. Can anyone confirm for other classes?

For me, it’s build templates! Oh wait…

Don’t get discouraged, try the current meta, run few dungeons with it, test the rotation. It’s all about muscle memory. Engi is pretty valuable in fractals once you get all the tricks

Im sorry, but you can’t do speedruns without complex gameplay with engi, unless your group doesn’t mind carrying.

Old content is old, thy why it’s shallow. Ofcourse people will try to find the most reliable and the most easiest way to rush through them. I personally stopped running dungeons few months ago (420 hobby dungeon explorer) and concentrated solely on fractals. Sadly, it seems that we are not getting any new dungeons in HoT based on the informations we have so far, but, imagine if we would, and they make them much harded, how big the outcry would be from all those who couldn’t beat them?

Vayne.8563:

Six.

^^

Softspoken.2410:

spoj.9672:

The dark fields thing is relevant. Necro is meta for jade maw currently. It might not be once revenant comes along.

I don’t fractal, nor do I meta that thoroughly, so I’m curious: why not just use Shadow Refuge on a thief for this? Does the tactic require 10+ seconds of dark fields or something?

People use SR there too, but sometimes you just dont have enough projectiles or you screw something up when lining IB no.2 with SR. Necro brings 3 dark fields which makes it easier and lot more spammable, thus, more room for mistakes.

Noooo, I missed it. I demand PP!!

@Drarnor. I can guarantee that they wouldn’t be the hardest mobs in fractals. As long as the same CC rules apply to them like to the other mobs they can be easily dealt with.

Mr. Doom McTroll.

Nice idea! Sadly, people with potato PC as me won’t be able to contribue.

“Challenging”

I’m in same position as OP, 9 characters waiting for sale…

To OP, necro is still in same situation as it was before. They’re selfish and bring nothing to group that other classes can’t do better. As Ara said, keep an eye on the specialization and hope for the best.

Damage, control and support. Trinity right here.

Warrior is boring class anyway 100b-ing or not… Tho I appreciate it when I’m lagging.

Ropechef.6192:

of course I am going to get it. My main gets a greatsword!

I… What am I reading here?

spoj.9672:

Removing RNG and giving suitable variable rewards would be cool.

One does not speak about rewards!

What I would like to see added are F2-F4 skills that uses % of LF in form of support skills. This would work great with power builds as they tend to generate LF rather easily, tho condi weapons would need LF generation buff.
These are some raw ideas and since its a boring day at work I had some toughts about them.

F2(Bone wall) – Create spectral bone wall that reflects projectiles. Duration 8s, instant cast, 50% LF, 35s CD(maybe less cuz it already needs LF to create one). I said spectral so it could be transperent. Imagine a huge bone wall infront of your group, you couldn’t see anything.

F3(insert name) – Create unholy fire ring that gives your group fury and ability to siphon health. Duration 5s, 1/2s cast time, 25% LF, 20s CD and it’s a fire field.

F4(insert name) – Create pulsing well that gives your group stability and protection with each pulse. Duration 5s, 3/4s cast time, 33% LF, 45 secs CD, maybe make it ligh field?

As I said, these are some raw ideas and would need balancing. I like them because it gives me more incentive to use LF and gives us necros such needed party support.

Harper.4173:

Windsagio.1340:

Moka.8432:

Windsagio.1340:

Melee zerk is not optimal for the harder Silverwastes content, just like carrion isn’t optimal for 5man dungeon content.

The ONLY foe which can be killed in LESS time than with zerker gear is the HUSK. Believe it or not.

This is the damage fixation thing again. We’re in a position where mad dammy isn’t the only concern, and where it can get chaotic enough that you can’t accurately predict all the possible things that can 1shot you.

The bosses don’t matter, the important thing is that you do follow the rules of the particular boss (so don’t 100B the Husk).

When we have a full server, it doesn’t really matter, nothing really gets out of control and your margin of error stays reasonable.

When you get into the actual hard content in the zone, saving failing forts and such, all of a sudden it does matter, and melee berzerker is one of the least optimal setups.

You do realize that people who are 100% on point exist – because they play this game for 8+ hours a day every day almost all year long yes?

So he’s not wrong. It’s just that these people are rare. But he is right.

They’re the ones who make metas, play them and usually get all the hate for being “those guys that can do stuff we can’t so let’s hate on them”.

I love those guys, no kitten :P
It’s been said million times, “zerkmeta” isnt problem, it’s old content and lack of diversity in encounter design.

spoj.9672:

Gruocs.3412:

Veydar.5017:

Everyday there’s a new thread about the meta. Is that a thing now?

You know, every time a mount thread is written a small quaggan dies, every time a “zerkmeta” thread is written… * add *

But on serious note, there is too many of these threads lately. I’m just afraid that anet might actually listen and tamper with dem stats instead making better encounters.

Thats what im afraid of aswell. They did it for spider queen and they changed ferocity and nerfed other things because of whining.

They also made malrona unblockable. Is she more fun now? Nope. It was only changed because people complained about using smart use of mechanics to 1 shot her. Most people cant even pull that off anyway. It only stopped a small minority.

And we all saw the pug state and whine after those nerfs to ferocity and buff to the spider queen by those same people that asked for it, but nevermind, it didnt affected me nor you, or you lookalike. We addapted and pressed on, really a tiny obstacle.

Malrona is also “fun” after the change. Sometimes I do join a pug without any requirements just to see how atleast 50% of those groups struggle or even wipe just to wp back and run in before she regens. In organized group you just soak the posion attack and burst with coordiantion with icebow or two. The famous spam 1, right?

P.S you argument for the OP on the other thread about Malrona tickled me, nice one

Veydar.5017:

Everyday there’s a new thread about the meta. Is that a thing now?

You know, every time a mount thread is written a small quaggan dies, every time a “zerkmeta” thread is written… * add *

But on serious note, there is too many of these threads lately. I’m just afraid that anet might actually listen and tamper with dem stats instead making better encounters.

IndigoSundown.5419:

dlonie.6547:

Neat how most of the complaints on this subject can be solved with a simple “Make your own group.”

How does this manage to escape so many players? O.o

It isn’t escaping them. They have different motivations than they’re saying.

• Some people want to join any PuG they want whenever they want, with whatever setup they want. They don’t want to form their own “anything goes group” and they don’t want to wait for someone else to do so.
• Some of them would prefer a trinity setup so they could stand out because of their taunts and defensive gear or their uber healing skills, rather than standing out by knowing how to vary their traits and skills and by their active play.
• Some of them would prefer more engaging encounters and for some strange reason believe that gear is the reason encounters are boring, when the real reason is lack of new, challenging group content.

Pure lazyness… And then they complain

My stand from the start of the game that the gear shoud only be cosmetic, statless. But than, we would be having topics like “Time to fix #endlessblinkinglfg(input whatever you want) meta build”. People will always be complaining.
This is active combat game so I’m all against passive tanking. What I really want is fix to the conditions and different approach when making encounters. Few of the guys here were so kind and patient with argumenting why zerk is the meta and why would be bad to change it.
Make your own LFG and play with people with the same mindset, I’m lucky that I have friends that like to do speedclears and we enjoy them. Tho more and more of them are quiting because of the stale content.

Sad to see fellow necro leaving us. Gl ingame!

Embrace The Bold.7619:

Purple Miku.7032:

On the topic of strange AI, I’d really like to know why out of the four path NPCs, Varra Skylark is literally the only one that will immediately start attacking everything the moment they glance at you.

But that’s another problem of its own. ._.

Have you seen Braham? HE LITERALLY DOES SHIELD 5 FIRST EVEN IF THERE ARE ONLY MELEE MOBS. I swear he screws my icebow 5 over WAY TOO MUCH! I hate braham rox is da best though <3

Oh man, I feel your pain…
What we do when we are on this encounter is simply checking whos BrOham following and then that guy stands abit behind the stacking point. This way Braham doesnt have time to cast his shield before icebow 5 and Berserker wont tp out of the stack.
Hope this helps o/

spoj.9672:

Ropechef.6192:

Taku.6352:

Ropechef.6192:

Tom Yzf.5872:

Where do we go for casuals anonymous? I’m a super casual who loves pugging as a necro <3

0.o

((hides his 3 Necromancers from the DuNgeeooonLeeetists))))

I really wish necros would have a decent role in PvE. By far my favorite light armor class but there’s just no point using it outside of casual lvl 20 fractal fun runs.

I know right.

I have a full ascended Zojja/Scholar Necromancer with 70 Ar… waiting…. for???

((sobs))

2 Necros. 2 ascended sets for necros (berserker & assassin). All weapons ascended. Kraitkin and howler for necro. And I will be making ascended sinister armour and weapons when that becomes available. Yes I really want necro to become good. :<

Oh boi, you are even worse than I am.
Full berserker ascended, half of the assassins(transfered to mesmer) and all wpns. Incinerator and howler are also there. Necro 4life!

Edit: Got also rabid set of ascended wpns. Forgive me…

Shattering phatasms and clones with your F1 (Mind wrack) skill works too. Sadly I dont have any video evidence since noone of my dngn/frac friend nor do I record stuff.

Raina.8642:

No kidding Don. Theres nothing more fun then being on TS with a couple of mates, prestacking might at Kohler in AC as one of them pulls… and I blow myself into the water…

100% someone goes “Bye Calach”… and thats that. Hilarious though!

Ehehe, funny stuff
I usualy just rub my back against the wall so I prevent that same thing, or when bad connection kicks in.
Also, dont you ppl like giving mini heartattacks to your grp members in grawl fractals at last boss while using acid bomb in the last moment when he dives? Thats gold to me!

J Eberle.9312:

All I can gather from the amount of noise in this thread is that pugging must suck.

I’m glad to be in my evil zerker meta guild.

You filthy elitist, you should feel bad… Why do I feel bad…?

I think boosts on Gobbler are way too random. For instance, I spent a stack of CC on it, gave me over 9 h of WvW xp boost, but only 15 mins of MF. It shouldnt rlly be like this…

EDIT: Okay, I spent another stack of candy corn and it seems that gobbler prioritize wvw xp booster. Can we get and clarification on this maybe? And also, its abit annoying when transform occurs for 5-6 times in a row

Wow, this makes me sad…