Guild Wars 2

I run death magic on power necro for the condi cleanse, extra power, and as a safeguard against spike damage.

I don’t run minions and don’t know any serious players that do, but some people enjoy it. Let them have their traits, even if you never see them in high performance content.

It’s fully functional as legendary armor and you can transmute it to be any skin you have unlocked. Even the infusions swap out for free.

I’ve made two pieces (one spvp, one wvw) so far, so I can’t take full advantage of them, but I’ve transmuted them to skins I like better.

Sly.9518:

You do know decay doesn’t affect who you are placed against right? It only affects your leaderboard status not the matchmaker.

Oh, I am totally misunderstanding what decay is for then. If it’s ONLY for leader boards then I guess I have no reason to care about it at all.

I thought it would match me with bronze 1 people against bronze 1 people, which was why I was reluctant to jump back in.

Thanks!

Strider Pj.2193:

Hesacon.8735:

I don’t know what kind of camps you’re flipping, but I’m always getting into fights with other players near camps.

Obviously he isn’t.

Or more likely he is just having hurt feelings over the people sitting is spam waiting for spawn camp to open…

It’s annoying as heck, but people need to get over it. It seems his first statement isn’t accurate: ‘people don’t care about others getting pips’ which is really what this post is about. It would appear that the OP wants people to only get pips the way he thinks they should.

At least a third of the time people try to stop me even in spawn camps.

I don’t know what kind of camps you’re flipping, but I’m always getting into fights with other players near camps.

The decay issue would lead to a matchmaking issue should I pick it back up.

For the record I ended last season in gold 2 after 50 matches and went 5-5 in placements this season.

A lot of the set up to LW3 took place in the raids. Without the raids informing LW3, it’s easy to get confused.

Early this season I did my qualification matches and rolled into gold 2, but stopped playing because spvp is not my main game mode. I thought I might pick it back up, but am sitting on 700 decay.

So if I want to play, I’d have to suffer through 7 games to remove the decay with teammates of frustrating quality.

Decay was intended to make people play regularly, but instead it seems to punish players who do other things.

If decay must be a feature, can it at least be capped at 300 or something reasonable to dig out of?

As it stands now, I can’t see a reason to come back to spvp this season and may as well continue to do other things.

Loosmaster.8263:

GinsuChef.3765:

When poor Princess, Mawdrey II, the Sentients, etc can’t eat enough, how about a vendor where we can trade in ascended materials like dragonite dust, bloodstone dust, and empyreal fragments for karma.

Also, there is airship oil, Auric dust, etc from HOT maps.

In a way, there items are related to karma as we get them from all our good deeds.

I have 18 mill+ Karma. I’ll trade you, lol

I used to have 6 million, then LW3 came out and I decided I liked unbound magic more and it all vanished on harvesting tools for alts on a flax patch.

I don’t love the dark path, but I use it all the time in wvw. People aren’t used to necros being able to teleport, so it can catch people off guard AND chill them. Both of which are nice. The cast time is low enough where it can be used and when it catches on a blade of grass and doesn’t work it’s not a big deal.

But if I had to pick 3 things to change about it, they might be:

• speed it up, it’s awfully slow
• maybe reduce the cast time from 3/4 seconds to 1/2
• make it more resilient to that piece of dirt blocking its path

Life blast is pretty great.

Home instance node drops 3 per day for no work other than paying for the initial cost.

Replace 3 with a leap finisher, since there’s no real way to make up ground.

Zero Solstice.9754:

Hesacon.8735:

Tzozef.9841:

Hesacon.8735:

Dawdler.8521:

Rangerdeity.5847:

Remember Anet wants necros to exist solely in WvW. In every other game mode we can kitten off. Oh hi scourge are you PvE viable? No not really? PvP viable? sorta kinda huh? Ok bro see you in WvW with the reapers and vanilla necros.

Hahahahahohohoho vanilla necros in WvW, lol… next you’re gonna tell me that power is still viable compared to a deathly chill reaper.

I roam, havoc, and zerg on a base power necro all the time. It is still quite viable, unless you run into a warrior. If you run into a warrior 1v1 you may as well /sit.

The build will consistently beat most other classes, with varying degrees of difficulty. For example, thief is all about timing and if you screw that up you’re done, power Druid can hold you out of range if you fight in an open area, but you’ll always beat revs and most guardians.

What is your full build?

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vRUQNAndGlc0waag5NgeOOqFK5QM2BcMsHhSAOnBwMA-TVDFQBN4IAURlgA4EAkGdA6T9nkocgd7PkHNBKRJG60CIgDBgCVSQgHAAhAKPGA-w

Demolisher’s stats from spvp available in wvw would be a nice feature to have.

I generally advise against causing your Vitality to change when you swap weapons, since it will directly alter the amount of Life Force you have while in combat. On top of that, reducing your Vitality in combat will cause you to lose a proportionate amount of Health that you won’t get back by swapping your weapons again, so you can literally kill yourself by weapon swapping at too low of a life total.

TL;DR Try to make your weapons all use the same stats.

I’ve never observed that happening, but I also haven’t looked for it. I’m going to have to play around with it for sure.

Tzozef.9841:

Hesacon.8735:

Dawdler.8521:

Rangerdeity.5847:

Remember Anet wants necros to exist solely in WvW. In every other game mode we can kitten off. Oh hi scourge are you PvE viable? No not really? PvP viable? sorta kinda huh? Ok bro see you in WvW with the reapers and vanilla necros.

Hahahahahohohoho vanilla necros in WvW, lol… next you’re gonna tell me that power is still viable compared to a deathly chill reaper.

I roam, havoc, and zerg on a base power necro all the time. It is still quite viable, unless you run into a warrior. If you run into a warrior 1v1 you may as well /sit.

The build will consistently beat most other classes, with varying degrees of difficulty. For example, thief is all about timing and if you screw that up you’re done, power Druid can hold you out of range if you fight in an open area, but you’ll always beat revs and most guardians.

What is your full build?

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vRUQNAndGlc0waag5NgeOOqFK5QM2BcMsHhSAOnBwMA-TVDFQBN4IAURlgA4EAkGdA6T9nkocgd7PkHNBKRJG60CIgDBgCVSQgHAAhAKPGA-w

Demolisher’s stats from spvp available in wvw would be a nice feature to have.

Mel.3064:

I have the feeling a large percentage of people in WvW are just there to farm the rewards

No they’re not. Even with the advent of rewards tracks and skirmish tracks, if your goal is rewards, you’re better off in many other areas. For example:

• sPvP
• silverwastes
• dry top
• pick a LW3 map
• Orr
• Fractals
• dungeons
• HoT metas
• Central Tyria boss trains

If you’re serious about rewards, wvw is not the place to go. The rewards are good because the game mode is fun. The rewards aren’t good because it’s some sort of crazy profitable place to farm.

Unofficial.6173:

Hesacon.8735:

Unofficial.6173:

Thats the thing, Deihnyx… I’m not looking to do the daily. I’m looking to climb the ladder so I can start higher fractals on my own.

Has nothing to do with the daily whatsoever. And I’ve been creating groups… but not having a ton of luck… as I said earlier above.

Did you not read the thread?

The fact other people only want to do dailies can be exploited, though. So long as you’re completing fractals at or above your level, you gain a level. It is super easy to find people to do dailies or daily recommended fractals, and nearly impossible to find people to do any other fractal except a 40 farm, or 99/100 challenge mode.

Wait wait wait… so I’m misunderstanding how to level up in fractals?

Let me see if I understand, (I’m not trying to be difficult, I honestly want to understand how this works) — so even though my max level fractal is lvl8, I get into a group doing a level 20. Say we complete the level 20. Does that raise my max level to 9? or does it stay at 8 and I have to rely on others to up the number?

If you started at level 1 and did them all in order, you’d be at level 100. Alternatively, if you started at 1 and did fractal 100 99 times, you’d also be at level 100.

All that matters is you’re doing fractals at or above your personal level. Doing that raises your personal level by 1. That’s why the methods I mentioned earlier work. You could also find a group of T4 friends, get enough AR, and just do dailies with them. In a few days you too would be T4.

In your example, even though someone else opened fractal 20, you would raise in personal level to 9 by virtue of completing it. You could go your entire GW2 career and never do fractal 8, but have a personal level of 100.

Sunshine.5014:

Lahmia.2193:

Sunshine.5014:

I’d love to see Celestial get true all stats.

Would you mind if they reduced the other stats to make room for concentration and expertise?

Definitely. Reduce the number and make sure it has true all stats.

Why not leave celestial alone and add a separate “9” stat type including concentration and expertise. That way those that don’t care about boons or condi duration aren’t spread thinner.

Menders stats from spvp would be nice.

Leo Schrodingers Cat.2497:

When you get to the Jungle… what ever you do… do NOT FEED THE MOTHA KITTEN POCKET RAPTORS

Seriously, they’re like the pigeons of the heart of Maguuma.

Unofficial.6173:

Thats the thing, Deihnyx… I’m not looking to do the daily. I’m looking to climb the ladder so I can start higher fractals on my own.

Has nothing to do with the daily whatsoever. And I’ve been creating groups… but not having a ton of luck… as I said earlier above.

Did you not read the thread?

The fact other people only want to do dailies can be exploited, though. So long as you’re completing fractals at or above your level, you gain a level. It is super easy to find people to do dailies or daily recommended fractals, and nearly impossible to find people to do any other fractal except a 40 farm, or 99/100 challenge mode.

Unofficial.6173:

Hesacon.8735:

Do the daily T1 fractals until you have a high enough personal level to LFG for T2 fractals. Repeat this until you are at T4. Learn the mechanics in T1, they’re the same at higher tiers.

You will always find the daily fractals on LFG. You will not find groups for non dailies.

I could do this, but that doesn’t help when I go to start the fractal and I can only make a level 8… rather than a 40 or 50 or whatever…

It seems as though people think you dont need to climb the ladder and I’m curious why

So long as someone in your party is at a certain level, that level can be set. Someone in the LFG party will be able to open fractal 18 even if you are only able to open fractal 8.

The reason more people aren’t climbing the ladder is because they already have. T4 parties fill up quickly.

Daily recommended fractals can only be done on T1, T2, and T3. This was intentional by anet to get T4 players to mix with other tiers. You can make a group at T1 for daily recs and someone will open the higher fractals even if you can’t.

Getting to T4 will take you a few weeks with this method.

Do the daily T1 fractals until you have a high enough personal level to LFG for T2 fractals. Repeat this until you are at T4. Learn the mechanics in T1, they’re the same at higher tiers.

You will always find the daily fractals on LFG. You will not find groups for non dailies.

I want the demolisher’s stats like exist in spvp. It’s Maurader’s with vitality swapped to toughness.

Dawdler.8521:

Rangerdeity.5847:

Remember Anet wants necros to exist solely in WvW. In every other game mode we can kitten off. Oh hi scourge are you PvE viable? No not really? PvP viable? sorta kinda huh? Ok bro see you in WvW with the reapers and vanilla necros.

Hahahahahohohoho vanilla necros in WvW, lol… next you’re gonna tell me that power is still viable compared to a deathly chill reaper.

I roam, havoc, and zerg on a base power necro all the time. It is still quite viable, unless you run into a warrior. If you run into a warrior 1v1 you may as well /sit.

The build will consistently beat most other classes, with varying degrees of difficulty. For example, thief is all about timing and if you screw that up you’re done, power Druid can hold you out of range if you fight in an open area, but you’ll always beat revs and most guardians.

Fenom.9457:

but WHY did aurene show up?

One of the Lw3 story missions was likely active.

It’s possible to climb to the top of the guilded hollow and jump to the ground level. This might hit harder.

My guild built a staircase to the top. Whisper me in game if you want to try it.

XenesisII.1540:

FogLeg.9354:

Ascended trinkets drop pretty much every day in WvW.

How many ascended trinkets have dropped for you the past 30 days?

Personally I get one every other month.

They’re freely tradable in the trading post and you can buy and salvage rings using laurels if you enjoy wasting laurels.

Fractals, like wvw, take place in the mists. So spiritually they’re next door neighbors.

The current raid story exists and it is useful for understanding why LW3 episodes 1, 4, and 6 happened.

Sea of Sorrows.

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Chrome.5362:

I’ve been away for 2 years. In the past I’d always been more of a defensive player in WvW. I enjoyed building up the defenses on a tower, keeping an eye on the nearby guards and camps, chasing off roamers who came into my area, etc. What I’ve seen over the past week is 0 roamers trying to cap camps or guards – only zergs would attempt it after they took a nearby keep. And nobody trying to kill yaks at all except for the day that was one of the dailies.

So I’d sit in my keep for a little while, but there’s nothing to repair so my Participation Level would be crap. And building defensive siege doesn’t count for anything, so there’s no points for that. Eventually I’d get bored and go join a mini-zerg to capture a tower and get my PL up, at which point the other team would naturally cap my now undefended tower, trashing all of the siege I just built.

It all seemed like a pointless exercise. Nobody even seems to care about defending objectives anymore. And I couldn’t help but feel like a big part of it was b/c you didn’t get any rewards for it. Am I missing something?

Some commanders will share squad participation with those that defend certain strategic objectives. What happens is if the commander’s group caps a camp, the scout gets participation; if they slay a zerg, participation. Usually you will have to ask for it.

AncientYs.8613:

Hesacon.8735:

They recently made all stat types selectable on glorious and triumphant armors from pvp and wvw. You would have to complete the rewards tracks 6 times for a full set, but you can select any stat type in the game.

ohh.. oh no.. :< PvP T__T .. this sounds enticing that as a reward i get a full set with selectable stats but i’m no good at WvW i’m a casual PvE’r. Thanks for pointing this out for me but it’s not an option.

Edit: i found out that those PvP sets mantioned don’t include HoT stats. I went on Wiki and it only shows core tyria stats.

Found it, it’s buried but ctrl + F the set name.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/updates/Game-Update-Notes-August-8-2017-3

AncientYs.8613:

Hesacon.8735:

They recently made all stat types selectable on glorious and triumphant armors from pvp and wvw. You would have to complete the rewards tracks 6 times for a full set, but you can select any stat type in the game.

ohh.. oh no.. :< PvP T__T .. this sounds enticing that as a reward i get a full set with selectable stats but i’m no good at WvW i’m a casual PvE’r. Thanks for pointing this out for me but it’s not an option.

Edit: i found out that those PvP sets mantioned don’t include HoT stats. I went on Wiki and it only shows core tyria stats.

The wiki may be outdated, it should be in the patch notes in the last two months.

They recently made all stat types selectable on glorious and triumphant armors from pvp and wvw. You would have to complete the rewards tracks 6 times for a full set, but you can select any stat type in the game.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Hesacon.8735:

One of the options for the loyalty chest as it is today is 7 mystic clovers. These would normally take ~21 mystic coins to make, but mystic coins have other uses. Would we be able to get another option of 21 mystic coins from the chest?

That seems unlikely, since it would make it by far & away the most valuable option. Even laurels have never been worth much more than 20g total. (The first month or two, adding 20+ m-coins to the chest would probably reduce market value of coins, but that would change quickly as people who are making legendaries realize that’s not enough to offset their requirements quickly enough).

I think asking for ~10 m-coins is more likely to get attention, assuming that folks at ANet agree that there ought to be more faucets for coins.

In the meantime, if you want more m-coins, choose the laurel option, then use those to buy medium crafting bags (or heavy — you can check various websites for the most profitable option), sell the contents, and use your funds to buy mystic coins. You’ll get about 14-15 coins at today’s prices.

That’s assuming today’s prices are intended. Coins would adjust in price to meet parity with laurels or ascended crafting items. It would effectively tie a price ceiling of coins to other loyalty chest items, whether it’s 10 coins or 20.

One of the options for the loyalty chest as it is today is 7 mystic clovers. These would normally take ~21 mystic coins to make, but mystic coins have other uses. Would we be able to get another option of 21 mystic coins from the chest?

The only reason I could tolerate the LW2 achievements to get the luminescent skins was that reset motes existed for when I screwed up for the umpteenth time.

Yargesh.4965:

Ashantara.8731:

Kumion.7580:

They have said a guild may only have one GH. There’s nothing preventing you from having an alternate guild and getting some folks to help you take a new GH, though.

But the amount of time and resources to get it to max level as well! Ouch. I don’t think anyone will be crazy enough to undertake that venture for the mere cosmetics.

Several posts from various people who have done exactly that.

Best start flax farming.

Rising Dusk.2408:

Astralporing.1957:

And i hope for the exact opposite, since it caused my interest in fractals to go way down.

If i wanted to raid, i’d be raiding.

The neat thing about challenge motes is that you don’t have to activate them.

This is a great feature to have. Older fractals could be modified to run challenge modes as well with their current state untouched.

I hate how it kills the losing team, since that prevents entering the much less laggy guild hall between matches.

The block button is a fantastic function.

FogLeg.9354:

Hesacon.8735:

Boons could be offset by changes in base stats. Pulse 10 stacks of might every 10 seconds, but reduce power and condition damage by 300. The effective stats would be the same, but stripping the boons would have a very real effect.

What is with people trying to ruin the game everyone else enjoys? Does it actually makes you feel bad when other are having fun?

There is no need to make open world PvE more difficult because it is not suppose to be. If you just want to challenge yourself, go crazy with fractals or raids or whatever those things are I never bother with. Or go solo champs in the HoT region, the expansion that was made for those who find core Tyria too easy already.

Just leave the other parts of the game alone.

How does giving mobs exactly the same stats make the game harder?

Going celestial is committing to never killing anything.

Boons could be offset by changes in base stats. Pulse 10 stacks of might every 10 seconds, but reduce power and condition damage by 300. The effective stats would be the same, but stripping the boons would have a very real effect.

I am fine with there being a cap, otherwise I’d feel obligated to keep going and get burned out.

Cost of items, now that’s another story. Rank requirement being above 1000, I could do without that too.

Can we make it so wvw players don’t have to do the far more tedious world completion?

Terrahero.9358:

I don’t get why they didn’t let the new Elite specs be played everywhere. Let people do dungeons, fractals, raids, and world bosses. Partake in events and whatnot.

Now you just get people playing specs they are unfamiliar with in a gamemode they rarely play, which just results in their “mains” new elite spec getting steamrolled and them crying on the forums its broken and needs massive buffs.
Point in case. Every profession forum people are saying their new elite spec needs to be buffed. In my experience every single new elite specs needs to be nerfed.

I disagree. Giving spvp and wvw exposure can only help the game modes. They are easy to overlook and for two days they’re part of a demo.

Some fraction of those who were only playing the modes for the demo might decide to stick with it and keep playing.

This is a good thing. Often players complain about how little attention wvw gets, and for two days it gets focused attention. Events like this grow the player base for the game mode.

23 characters is a lot and it sounds like you have the resources to solve your problem. Your priorities seem to say you need to let a ball drop, either the deluxe edition or skins.

Pancake.3092:

Hesacon.8735:

I’ve got friends trying to get into SoS and it’s like, permaclosed for some reason.

You must be NA. SoS is t h i c c during off hours.

I am. I know we have a strong SEA crew, but it would be nice to have NA friends be able to get in.

They’re available for gems if you feel like changing skins at a faster rate than you gain charges. You can exchange gold for gems.