Guild Wars 2

Solution is simple. Award champ boxes at event completion. Game already keeps track of the number of kills to award bronze/silver/gold so keep track of how many champions player killed and if event is completed successfully award that many champion boxes. If event fails award the usual fail reward.

But its anet… so its not going to happen.

DusK.3849:

What you’re posting makes zero sense, Crazylegs. A player chooses to log in of his own accord. Nobody’s holding guns to players’ heads and forcing them to log in.

If a player clicks that log in button, it’s because, for whatever reason, he wants to play the game.

You’re attempting to discredit statistical information with extremely faulty analogies and personal experience. That kind of argument has a name.

People at large simply don’t play games if they don’t actually want to play them.

You buddy sure love to toss around words like statistical information and evidence. Care to give a proof… because until then what you say is exactly what you are so adamantly trying to discredit personal opinion/exprience.

Please do kindly see the irony here.

Cash flows… some guy in korea happy. Nothing else matters.

You assume they actually follow a logical pattern. Considering some updates where they ignored glaring issues that people have brought up for past year… I don’t think they actually put any thought into this at all.

No because otherwise the zerg dps mentality they had going since day 1 would be null. And since everything in this game is tailored for zerg dps… you would just end up with a whack-a-mole temporary farm.

Killface.1896:

I love living story it keep the game fresh and if you don’t like it you always have ton of other stuff to do ;P

Ton of other stuff? Like what exactly?

Worst pvp of the past decade even by “free” standards?
Actual content people finished… I dono… a year ago?

Farming? Farming isn’t fun by its own definition. Doing dailies is the same thing. Its doing the same exact task over and over again until you get blisters and come to realization that 1 year later you still haven’t done a kitten thing that was fun.

As soon as hell freezes over.

DarcShriek.5829:

Tequatl rising is part of the living story, whether you consider it to be or not. Why do you try to deny facts? It seems kind of silly to me.

Me hitting my toe on the the corner of a door and kittening about it is more “living” and has more story in it. Then whoopdeedoo they changed how fight works. And they suddenly forgot that we are using a derelict decade old engine that lags, they forgot all the complains about world bosses and lags and they made it the LAGGIEST ONE OF THEM ALL, then they also superscaled it so you can’t have ANYONE anywhere in vicinity not contributing or you just waste time.
Sounds to me like someone here either enjoys deeply kissing kitten or prolonged exposure to basement dwelling environment has had some adverse effects on your cognitive functions.

minbariguy.7504:

I think from the prevalence of threads on these forums expressing dissatisfaction with Living Story, you can safely assume that you are not the only one who feels this way.

That said, your post here has no doubt awakened the Automated ANet Defense Drones (AADD’s) who are no doubt on their way to this very thread to defend the Living Story concept against your malicious and obviously deranged attack on it’s sovereignty, and to provide you with vapor-metrics to prove to you how, in fact, Living Story is actually the best thing since the inventions of Hot Pockets and the Microwave were combined to create a glorious new Utopia.

Run, my friend! Run!

Don’t forget the giant tinfoil hat anet wears. They absolutely refuse to even make a comment on this. Forget the rabid drooling basement dwellers.
And to anyone using the whole… “whos gonna do that new path later” Umm… nobody because people will be doing another timegated pointless farm? This game is on the right track to train people for the glorious position of Senior Advanced Chinese Gold Farmer SuperStar.

At least blizzard when they were still alive and not whoring for some nameless guy in a suit. Plainly admitted that their biggest regret was introduction of arena. Don’t recall exact wording but it boiled down to… It was never meant to be e-sport and it was a mistake to try and change that only to come to a dead end where the only options left were either balance everything to this end and break what made this game great for those who were with us for years or completely scape the concept which was not fesable anymore because taking away gear would just enrage even more people.
Anet and their korean leash holders on the other hand are perfectly fine with the “if we pretend long enough it will be so” game and releasing temporary cash shop junk.
There are devs that can get away with little to no communication like Egosoft. Because they will go out of their way to hold on to their fans. They won’t spoon feed you but the changes people ask (if they have a point) almost always make it in. They will release free xpack just to hold people over until next installment. When people say they hate steams online only drm what does Egosoft do? They GIVE YOU a drm free executable. Effectively stripping protection from their own game just because their fans asked for it. I take pride that I gave probably a few dozen x-superboxes to friends. And I’m also proud that I would not spend another penny on this even if it was the last mmo ever to be made.

Think you all cheering for LS need to go google what rpg stands for. Then try to remember wtf your “personal” story was about. And then make a simple math based conclusion based on those 2 factors. If you can’t recall what that story was about… it was probably filtered out by your brain like spam.
For me… this game isn’t rpg. It has some of the most forgettable mediocre story line I’ve seen in a long long time, even when compared for the asian “cashcowFREE2INSTALL” scheme. It has no point, no progression, no development and where there is a “goal” so to speak it never moves anywhere. Living story is just the most obvious example of what is wrong with this game and why its not an rpg in any way. Holding entire world on less then a dozen mediocre characters with utter lack of personality? Really?
Why is the enirety of story boxed in wikis instead of actual game? Why are the only things that made it in are bits and scraps?
Pretending your game is the hot kitten esport doesn’t make it one. There are flash games on my phone with more balanced and diverse pvp. And yet it all gets balanced by it… marvelous. Why use logic…
Its like anything that makes an rpg … well rpg. Was flushed down the toilet and replaced with “WE ARE DIFFERENT” which in game mechanics translates to zerg then dps or gtfo. With horrid class balance if you can even call it that. Instead of releasing pointless crap and devoting all resources to it… maybe instead of 1 guy who obviously doesn’t give a kitten… have a team do bug fixes. There are bugs that’s been here since beta.
It is suppose to be an rpg… so how about that role playing? Is my sole role in this game to be the next winner for best china farmer of 2014?

Evans.6347:

Drama much?
So you dislike two updates in a row because you get frustrated. If that makes you believe ‘the game is not for you’ then let it be and move on.

You’re getting your panties in a bunch over content that doesn’t even make up a single % of the game.

Pointless much?

If anet gave a kitten… half the population would have been banned about a year ago.

Considering every “living” story now has something that cost about the same as monthly fee that will be gone 2 weeks later… The only scary thing are people in denial.
Subscription is cheaper. And you don’t pay to win. Get off your high horse and stop sucking the kitten out of anets kitten .

Lets see none of this crap makes a kittening difference in any way/shape/form… so story wise its useless garbage.
Its temporary gem store updates.
Its temporary in every kittening imaginable way.
You finish it in 1 day….
Yet the game doesn’t even get good patches… Pvp is a rotting carcass. Wvw is same as the rest of the game zerg fest.
Now they change world bosses into something that requires some semblance of effort yet its not instanced… 20 ppl sitting afk scale the boss and everyone and their crippled grandmother lags.
Anet wouldn’t learn a lessen even if it hit em in the head repetedly over the course of a year. I mean so many people repetedly mentioned that world bosses suck because they generate LAG. On this crippled derelict engine… so what does anet do? Make even more laggy by filling it with a kittenload of stuff and require dodging… and jumping. They put kitten of aoe which you can’t see because your in kittening water and reflections don’t let you see neither the poison nor the aoe circle.

But hey… as long as cash shop feeds em they are happy. They even said so. So it won’t change. Don’t bother asking. Fan boys will cheer… forum fanboys will flame because someone dares to disagree. And the story that an rpg is suppose to tell will remain completely and utterly forgotten rotting in the depths of wiki, which is the only source of it to begin with.

Dulfy has a tendency to kitten people over… nothing new here.
Take current teq event… I’m from blackgate… our server can/did teq. Sadly because of the brilliant advise our server is now forced to guest on a different server just so we can do the kitten boss. So yeah… less mindlessly following dulfy will probably save you a lot of time later on.

I do admit the irony in that. But frankly I’m always disgusted with entitlement arguments. Don’t deserve a skin? Seriously? If it was something that was hard… as in required coordination, people, plan, preparation, patience etc… like and old vanilla wow raid then I could at least see the merit in that argument. Because it involved more then 1 person. I admit beeing guilty in that I hated how someone could just die 3 times a week in arena and have gear on par with what took me months upon months to get the only thing I had is that there were maybe 5 more people on entire server with that gear. I couldn’t go pvp in my full t3 anymore and be that guy you needed 10 people to take down.
But this is a skin for crying out loud… To hell with deserve argument. So I’m masochist enough to do this… Each map took me going in and not coming out until I was done. That’s my business… some folks don’t have reflexes or time to sit there for hours learning and memorizing pixel by pixel every jump and step you take.
Legendaries is something I personally won’t ever get… I’m not a farmer from china. I don’t do dailies, I don’t farm for anything. I do not find it worth doing in any scenario… be it fun, challenge(there is none) or time sink. But at least there is option here for people to just BUY it if they aren’t willing to invest their lives into this.
I’m kind of tired of telling people they can’t have the karka back piece I wear… because anet believes that an hour worth content every 2 weeks makes it all better… makes it “living”. All I usually hear is disappointment because they liked the skin but told they can’t have it because apparently they don’t “deserve” it.

Zaxares.5419:

While I do like the SAB skins, they don’t suit my character aesthetics, so I just converted the TM skins into PvP versions and stored them in the PvP locker.

That said, I’ve always been a big supporter of being able to sell anything on the TP (if Legendaries can be sold, why not anything else?), so I would support the OP’s suggestion of being able to sell TM skins.

Someone with an actual opinion. Maybe it will start snowing today.
I expected for the most part – Your post suxor. <insert more inane rambling>.
Oddly while complaining about supposedly pointless topics majority of posts will be just that… pointless without even a shred of logic or thought put into them.
Anyhoo I do agree that I should be able to sell what ever I want on TP. You can buy legendaries… ugly but “legendary” and this is just a redundant readily available skins with a different hue.

Euphemia.7240:

Medieval.1679:

Couldn’t stand it the first time, can’t stand it the second time.

If I wanted to play platform games I’d go and join the peasants and buy an X-Box or PS3. How about something else other than SAB A-Net???

I just delete my continue coins to free up bank space (along with that princess tiara and wig rubbish). It hits my backpack and it’s drag and drop out of existence.

Would love an option in the game setup that said “ignore SAB and all SAB related items”.

All you have to do is not play it. There’s really no reason to be hateful and mean about it. There were quite a few people who worked very long and very kitten SAB. You must not have grown up with the Atari/Commodore/NES/etc., so I understand your lack of nostalgia about the SAB. Like I said, you don’t have to be hateful. Just don’t play it. You’re not forced to.

This crap has nothing in common with atari/comorode/nes classics. NOTHING. Not even the hardest rage inducing titles ever used invisible/luck based 1 shot kills. Please do not pollute fond memories by comparing them to cheap/luck/redundant memorization crap fest that lasts well above half an hour for a level.
Even if I only finished contra solo once… It has never used invisible traps nor did it ever require luck.

Achieving something? What exactly? That I bothered to finish this horrid mode? To me that’s somewhere on level of daily. I haven’t done one in months. I guess its a bit better then a forced repetitive activity thats anything but fun.
If I got it I should be able to do what ever the heck I want with it. Imo pvp in this game is the worst mmo pvp I’ve seen in about 20 years I gave up on it and turning into pvp skin is same as throwing it away.
Helping someone get something they can’t on their own for what ever reason sounds like an infinitely better use of those tokens.

Please remove account bound flag. I really do not care for sab skins… I can’t bring myself to throw them away nor do I want to keep them. And I don’t see why someone who can’t do tribulation yet wants the skins should be shafted.

If your keyboard/mouse isn’t decade old… why not just driver side bind 2 keys to 1?
When I do sab I use one of my generic mouse buttons that’s for call target and set it as alt+space which is dodge and jump. Problem solved.
Also not sure if its needed anywhere I use it when it saves me time/effort.

I dont remember a single classic game thats worth mentioning where you had to grind for anything. Except gear/pets etc. Anything required for progress was given as reward for a task.

Aslo tribulation mode is a horrid way to farm anything. You can load 2-3 and theres 2 10 babuble baubles right at the kitten start. You spend more time on loading screens then getting them.

I call this…“LOOK AT MY kitten” topic.
You haven’t done anything noteworthy.
You haven’t done anything requiring skill.

To quote you… “I even had fun doing it”. Congrats… I guess you like repetitive mindless things heavily on the side of luck.

Please educate yourself by opening tech support.
Protocols… you really want to try sounding more knowledgeable then you are? I’m sorry but this is no different then super-mega hdmi cable that costs 50 bucks and cheap one for 2 bucks example. Signal is digital it doesn’t matter if one is made of pure gold and the other from barely holding together copper wire. If it was analog… that would be a different story.
Same with this game… those “intricacies” you speak of do not exist. Everything is handled by a server if server has a packet loss its not issues of anything other then server.
Its impossible to not sink a landing position(getting rubberbanding on z coordinate up and down doesn’t affect your x/y coordinates). Yes lag fest would affect actual long jumping where you can’t under jump even a tiny amount. But jumping down… on same spot and either being shot by rockets/falling thru… or none of those happening has nothing to do with syncinking. Its pathetic excuse for coding and horrible collision boxes on invisible traps.
Even if I raged like a boss when I played contra… It was hard… but it did NOT have invisible maybe traps. Nor was it affected by outside factors such as being too cheap to have your servers work properly. Yes sure anet has no bloody say in it they don’t own them since they are registered to nc hell they don’t even own the ip rights for this title… fine I admit that much but you know what… its same as don’t like it don’t play it excuse. It wears off at some point. Same as racist excuse and holocaust excuse and any other excuse you make when you can’t put a proper argument to defend your claims.

Kal Spiro.9745:

HiSaZuL.2843:

Pfft great job on failing to read. And also good job on making some bizzare classification theory based on name?
I’m sorry but going by that you flaunting your characters in your every post is a much bigger indication of self importance.
I have not failed any jumps. I made exact same jump to exact same spot with diviation in no more then a few dozen pixels in 4 cases I died in 2 I did not. If you can’t grasp the point of that statement what does that say about your so called “skills”.
And on that topic this game has never required skills. Of any kind. The only people that talk about “skills” are those who need attention or to reaffirm their self imposed importance. I hate to break it to you but just because you think you have “skill” doesn’t actually make it so… imaginary concept or otherwise.

Well I certainly lack skill where interpreting your posts is concerned because I have no idea what you’re talking about, pretty much from beginning to end. I don’t understand what you mean by “flaunting” my characters. I’m unclear on your concept of making pixel perfect jumps. It sounds like you just missed 4 times and lagged a 5th. I’m mostly unable to interpret your point, short of you don’t like it and you’re not Chinese.

You are absolutely correct you do lack reading skill. Please elaborate how does one land in same spot die to rockets/lava or survive by not making a jump. Or hell at least elaborate how in your vocabulary landing equals not making a jump. I really want to hear that one.

Also… when ip of a last server that is registered to nc has a 92% packet loss… elaborate how that is a problem on my end. I also would like to hear that. I get no packet loss anywhere else on 25 servers before that one.
Hell I’m streaming movie… uploading a 2 gig photoshop render and none of those activities meet “lag”. Please do share your infinite tech knowledge so I may bask in its glory and fix “my end”.

Pfft great job on failing to read. And also good job on making some bizzare classification theory based on name?
I’m sorry but going by that you flaunting your characters in your every post is a much bigger indication of self importance.
I have not failed any jumps. I made exact same jump to exact same spot with diviation in no more then a few dozen pixels in 4 cases I died in 2 I did not. If you can’t grasp the point of that statement what does that say about your so called “skills”.
And on that topic this game has never required skills. Of any kind. The only people that talk about “skills” are those who need attention or to reaffirm their self imposed importance. I hate to break it to you but just because you think you have “skill” doesn’t actually make it so… imaginary concept or otherwise.

Kal Spiro.9745:

Groonz.7825:

I just don’t find tribulation mode concept to be fun at all. It’s a maze with a single route that you need to follow.

May have sounded cool and interesting on paper, but in practice it was a flop for me.

Then it wasn’t designed for you, which is ok. It was designed for me, who finds that sort of thing incredibly entertaining and worth doing over and over.

Mmos aren’t designed for you alone. Cupcake.

Heres a fun fact about “frustration and spend $$$ mode” I pixel compared specifically jumping into exact same spot 6 times. 1 continue basically. First 4 times I died… then i got rubberbanded and died and ONLY ONCE did I not simply not die at my 0th life I was able to walk all around that spot w/o falling into lava/rockets/anything else.

No its not challenging. Its a good business strategy to force perfectionists/achivement whores/really bored/in need of attention/etc to buy stuff from cash shop. But nothing past that.
Kind of like being forced into dailies if you want acended weapon. Why?
Do I look chinese to you people? Do you think my sole joy in life is mindlessly repeating the same thing thousands of times until I get blisters? Do you think I live in a closet and my mom has a no limit credit card? No actually my free time is limited… I actually have a job.

Godless.1857:

Kraag Deadsoul.2789:

[snip]…

If it’s the case that you want Chill of Death to process when the enemy is at or below 25% health and must be hit by the necro at that point, then an alternative description may have read:

“When an enemy is at or below 25% health, Cast Spinal Shivers on them with your next attack. This effect can trigger only once every 20 seconds.”

I agree, I think this is what the skill actually does. Unfortunately it makes it slightly less useful, especially if you are trying to catch someone fleeing the fight because they are low on health.

HiSaZuL.2843:

Mammoth.1975:

Well, I think you’ve proved my point satisfactorily now. Have fun whining.

Your obvious lack of self respect and opinion that deviates from the mob mentality that feeds this… “game” is the only fun thing around here.
Have fun playing in a game where anything and everything happens on a whim of a mob. With utter lack of any kind of logical progression or thought out plan.
- WE WANT TO DIVERSIFY!
- HERE IS FIRE.
- NOW WE NERF ANYTHING THAT IS NOT FIRE. SO YOU ARE REQUIRED BY LAW OF GOD OF THE UNIVERSE TO SPEC INTO THIS kitten NOBODY ASKED FOR.
If this is anets idea of being logical and objective. Then have fun continuing to support this shoddy product. I hope their kitten tastes good for the amount of kissing you seem to provide is mind boggling.

Yawn…. disappointing. I give it 3/10.

Oh wait, you aren’t trolling? really?

Ok, well, I suggest a few people here follow the Anakin Rule. Read your post back before posting, if it sounds like it’s being read by Anakin Skywalker from Episodes 2 and 3 then you are being entitled and whiny. If you include insults about bodily functions, then you are frankly childish.

Good job on being a tool. You obviously lack ability to read or comprehend whats written and towards what/who it was directed.
So again. Congratulations on being a forum tool.

Mammoth.1975:

Well, I think you’ve proved my point satisfactorily now. Have fun whining.

Your obvious lack of self respect and opinion that deviates from the mob mentality that feeds this… “game” is the only fun thing around here.
Have fun playing in a game where anything and everything happens on a whim of a mob. With utter lack of any kind of logical progression or thought out plan.
- WE WANT TO DIVERSIFY!
- HERE IS FIRE.
- NOW WE NERF ANYTHING THAT IS NOT FIRE. SO YOU ARE REQUIRED BY LAW OF GOD OF THE UNIVERSE TO SPEC INTO THIS kitten NOBODY ASKED FOR.
If this is anets idea of being logical and objective. Then have fun continuing to support this shoddy product. I hope their kitten tastes good for the amount of kissing you seem to provide is mind boggling.

TheMightyAltroll.3485:

Cloudysheep.8319:

Hey guys, So my guild just got into guild wars 2 about a week ago and i just hit 80. I am now looking for some kind of build for a healing build, again i just hit 80 so i have no lvl 80 gear and gems etc.

This is the rough build i have right now: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fQAQNBmWDbESrSPZzTjePBIp46nneQ+4iHpYYiB

Any help is appreciated guys. later.

There is no decent support Necro build. No such build exists, because Necro cannot support as well as Warrior, Guardian, or Elementalist.

Or mesmer… or engineer. Or spirit ranger :P

Not sure why you want one but here goes.
Take transfusion instead of blood well on revive. More healing from it and its moving aoe.
Possibly ditch 20 in curses unless u want to get chilling darkness and use wod.
Take protection on wells since you are stuck with them. You don’t need unbreakable marks.
If u do take transfusion and ditch 20 in curses go for reduced cooldown in DS.
10 more points in SR will give u SA at 50% hp and life force on marks to help generate it since ur with staff.

Other then that… some healing runes… maybe like dwana or if this is for pvp lysa.
If you go for chilling darkness… flock if it still works with chilling darkness.

For weapon runes… dono. Blood/on kill healing?… aoe heal on swap? Up to you… if you go for chilling darkness there are chilling duration increase available.

Like Nay said pretty much. If you don’t have crit… you are borked on sigils heavily due to anets “dps or gtfo” mentality, majority of sigils are crit dependant. Only good ones left are on kill like bloodlust, energy or swap sigils. But if you going for tankish build energy for more dodges is good so is bloodlust to beef up dmg.

Frankly sigils are highly debatable. I run full mm with full zerker gear so the only good thing for me is blood to get as much hp return as possible to mitigate my squishiness. One off-hand is bloodlust and my roaming off-hand… I by this day can’t decide there is really nothing I want… If demon summoning worked more then once… I’d use that just for the hell of it.
Anyway… you could always go for flat damage increase.

Blaine Tog.8304:

oZii.2864:

HiSaZuL.2843:

Oh god… more nerfs incoming.

where did he hint at nerfs? I didn’t watch all of the video just skimmed through it did I miss that part?

HiSaZuL always expects nerfs. Always.

This man speaks the truth.

Anyway… every time anet thinks something is good… and it involves necros it ended up badly for necros. So yeah I do think something will get nerfed.

Off topic… so far majority of my “it’s gonna get nerfed” came true >_> just saying.

Oh god… more nerfs incoming.

ArtemusHunter.9521:

Silver.4798:

The thing with the bleed caps is I’m still not sure how it works. Say I (a necro) have 1500 condition damage and a ranger has 1200 and a thief has 1400, and the three of us capped bleeds at 25, I’m responsible for 12, ranger 8 and thief 5.

It makes the most sense that my 12 ticks does my condi damage and the thief’s 5 gets his condi and ranger his, but there’s no real way of knowing how many ticks each person is responsible for.

Also if I’m on my zerk warrior or thief and doing 3-4k damage per autoattack, I don’t really care if the guy next to me is doing 1k damage or 7k, it doesn’t affect my damage output at all. If I’m with another condi necro now its like “hey do you have more condi damage than I do? You do? Well kitten , I guess I’ll try to get out of your way then…”

There needs to be a better solution to bleeds. Perhaps leave the cap at 25 but make it 25 per person so each person gets their own bleed ticks and they feel less useless

WoW does something similar to that personal bleed cap. For warlocks, they can use their dots on an enemy boss but instead of capping the dots out to one debuff, they have multiple instances of the same dots on the enemy.

Say I’m using the warlock corruption spell and another warlock comes up and uses it. His corruption will not increase the duration of mine, but will rather be set right next to mine on the debuff location, both with individual countdown timers and damage.

There is a problem with this set up that rises then. If we all had our own personal bleed cap of 25, think of how many people are applying bleeding to that boss. Five people could run a bleed build, get to 25 stacks each, thus making the boss bleed 125 times a second. If everyone, and most likely they will be, was running with exotic condi-gear, we’re looking at a large, REALLY large number of bleeding damage being done. and thats just 5 people.

Zergs tend to be 40+ people. Even with the compensation events do to scale enemies up for multiple people, 125 bleeding a second from 5 fully decked out guys is a lot and would probably wreck most legendary bosses. I know my condition damage can do anywhere from 130-170 depending on the location buffs, so if say we had 5 people doing 125 bleed a second at ~150 a tick per stack.. You’re looking at 18,750 damage a second. From 5 people. let that sink in.

It’s not just server load that would have an issue, its the mechanics of the game. It needs to be capped out like it currently is otherwise we would see bosses with like 500 million health or 5 billion health like in WoW. Do you honestly want to sit there fighting a Destroyer legendary or a Risen legendary with 5 billion health? That would make me wonder how much an elder dragon would have if we actually fought one.

Then you would have elitists who would require you to be able to hit 25 stacks mandatory if you wanted to group/speed run with them.

Honestly, I wouldn’t mind if they increased the cap to 50. 25 is very easily reached in zergs and sometimes in just a full party. Hell, 30 or 40 would be cool too, but thats just something I’d like to see, not necessarily required for my personal enjoyment of the game.

So much text…
Now tell me would 5 warriors do more or less damage per second then your precious magic bleed numbers?

striker.3704:

MM is NOT a DPS build. PVT is strictly the best for a MM build IMO. Minions do not scale off of any of your stats at all, so if you build for damage your stats are wasted, where as if your utilities did scale with your damage stats (like well of suffering) then it would be a different story.

With this in mind, you want to build survivability. Since healing power is completely wasted on a minion master (in your case the only thing scaling off of healing power and mattering would be dagger 2) PVT gear gives you the most possible with 2 of the 3 survivability stats on it.

If you wanna build a DPS setup you shouldn’t spec minions at all. Not to say minions don’t deal quite a lot of damage on their own, but there simply isn’t any reason to spec into stats that your utilities don’t benefit from.

That is not correct.
Example…
I run ocasinally fractals 26/28 just for the hell of it. I would not go there with soldiers gear simply because its equivalent to dragging things out when you do not need to do so. In dungeons you either dodge or you die. Pvt gear won’t save you. In pvp its a different story for spvp especially but for pve just no.
Why do you need survivability in pve? There are no thiefs that can backstab you for 15k in your pvt gear.
And like I said an actual MM not some hybrid generates some of the highest personal healing around. As long as your minions are alive you need to take either massive damage or loose minions.
Yes I do mean something like with my MM I could go to subject 7 with frailty/exastion/fire/hamstrung and come out with 100% hp while face tanking everything and never bothering with adds.

Also on top of not being that good for MM in general outside spvp. Its best for DS builds that can circumvent lack of crit chance. Tank builds… of any kind(tho as far as I’m concerned necro tanking is a sad joke).

Regenerator.7326:

@Sheobix: just to clarify, by PPC i meant power precision critical (if i remebered those stats correctly) . my playstyle generally include a chain of stun/debuff mixed with heavy dagger damage/putrid explosion and death nova, which allows me to quickly cut most trashmob and a large portion of wvw player down. and from what you’re saying, using gear without vitality and toughness tend to make your character very weak, so I guess ill go with your advice and use Power/ Toughness/Vitality gear. thank you!

and about the rabid and carrion gear…people in wvw dont usually expect a twin dagger necro, and seem to have no idea how to deal with me. more over, Im not personally into ranged weapons, and I only use staff when i have to, because everything seem to die ten times quicker with twin daggers, which makes up about 50% of my total damage (the other 50% being minions). In this context, power, even though it does not affect my minions, increases my dagger damage, and therefore theoretically effectively increase my overall dps? please let me know if I sound like I have no idea what I’m talking about

When you said PPC most people assumed power precision condition. If you are running zerker gear… its totally fine as far as MM in pve is concerned your survivability comes from high health generation. Not as high as water ele with staff or shout guardian… but its consistent 2k+ at least in 2 seconds. The other two have high group healing while yours is fully personal and doesn’t include long cooldowns.
And you won’t really be able to increase your personal damage much by going condition with MM simply because you do not have traits to support it properly nor utility slots. If you are running full mm zerker is probably as good as it gets as far as damage is concerned.
Dagger is slightly more towards heavier survivability while axe will yield better over all dps. Vulnerability from axe + focus allows for a fairly low cooldown burst of 12 vuln stacks from focus and a constant 10 stacks from axe auto attacks. And you have boon strip from axe paired with permanent retaliation if you are aoe farming. Dagger is better if you take a lot of damage and need even more health regen.
In wvw… its rubbish tho. If you are solo… then 99.9% its against thiefs and you will get massacred simply because they can reset it indefinitely if they are terrible its not really worth discussion(in t1 bracket solo roaming is suicide unless you are guardian or thief). In zergs… aoe will mow down your minions more often then not. And if you want dual daggers in zerg… well… its suicide because as soon as minions are dead you have no defensive capabilities at all. No health regens no body blocks… no utilities. Small scale group fights… where you have assist it is doable and more or less okaish.

Also on side note… going for soldiers gear with power/toughness/vitality wont really make you more durable if you are running MM… solo it will be even more disasterous because you don’t do any damage. In zergs you will do even less damage. In small groups… its probably better then zerker gear tho. I dono… preferences.

Its simply boils down that with zerker gear you get most personal damage because you have no traits that improve your personal damage.

Yep pick that meat and kill dog first. Aside from that MM and body blocks works wonders there.

I love seeing new forum messiahs. You will go away soon enough. The amount of necros thats been here since day 1… is rather low at this point and most of them don’t go spewing this level of …. meh.

Poplolita.2638:

This fight was so amazing! I want every boss to be as hard as liadri! Omg! I love it! After 26 tries, I finally killed liadri on my necromancer. I didn’t need any vigor/aegis/invunerability to be able to do it. Every necromancers in this thread who was able to complete the achievment should be proud of him

I should be proud of spending a decades worth supply of luck?
No.

AnthonyOrdon.3926:

Sorry about the titles. This was kind of an oversight. I am nearly certain that the Gauntlet will return. Possibly as part of the activity rotation someday. Ideally we’ll extend it with more tiers of bosses, gambits, and achievements (and titles). I’m not sure if its possibly to retro-actively associate a new title with an old achievement but I will investigate. If so perhaps we can add some titles when the Gauntlet returns.

Who the heck will do this obnoxious activity if you people dislike someones favorite classes? Having only necro, personally I’d never step back in there even I got payed to so irl. I may be masochist for even playing necro but I don’t hate myself to subject myself to that kind of self indignation.
And having utterly worthless rewards doesn’t help either. Pfft its still cof farming. Which I never will do. I will never touch cof just for the sake of maintaining some self respect.

Anet and fun? Whohahaha you have much to learn young padawan.

Morbridae.8607:

Is there any posibility that Necro isn’t the best in anything, but is a good second place overall?

I mean, it may not do as much dps as a warrior, but does more than other classes? And may not have as much defense as a guardian, but have more than other classes? Something like this… (1: best, 3: worse, and please remember that this table is only provided as a quick example: the numbers probably are wrong)

Warrior: DPS: 1; Defense: 2; Conditions: 3; Buffs: 3 = Overall: 2.25
Guardian: DPS: 3; Defense: 1; Conditions: 3; Buffs: 2 = Overall: 2.25
Mesmer: DPS: 3; Defense: 3; Conditions: 2; Buffs: 1 = Overall: 2.25
Necro: DPS: 2; Defense: 2; Conditions: 2; Buffs: 3 = Overall: 2.25

Maybe we are wishing/fighting for the necro to be the best at something, when it really is a good second place (something like the Bard class in D&D), something that doesn’t shines in anything, but can help in most places, unlike some others more especialized classes… What do you think?

You are correct those numbers are way off. Its always a matter of situation and whats needed/given. Guardian can stack might just as well as any other. In pvp it provides the most important buff out of them all. And so on and so forth. Same as warrior that can pop that liadri boss in 5 seconds. Lol. You can’t be second to that if you can’t come anywhere even remotely close. Its more like warrior has 1st+2nd+3rd place at once. Trolling class in general but you get the idea.

One thing that is not subject to situation is necro defense. What… there is none. Don’t confuse people. And don’t even try to bring some stupid nonsense like plague form into this. That belong in pve and no where else. I pick out necros that use those elites myself too… simply because out of the flood they are the easiest targets to demolish. Strip stability and then its just a pinata. And how many classes out there that are popular for pvp that can’t strip 1 misrable boon? Yeah… And while you sit perma stunned in that idiotic transformation you just removed your own access to everything else. Pfft ridiculous. Its about as useful as willingly being moa polymorphed.

Avigrus.2871:

ROFL, that is a classic…. the keep door melted.

Half expecting anet to use this as a justifiable reason to nerf minions lol.

I wanna go to maguma now… somewhat.

Ascii.9726:

Dead-eye is still an easy gauntlet to do with 4 gambits just get the weakness on him and pay attention to the killshot, I’ve gone down acouple times since starting and the fear + condition damage ticking away is enough to finish him off.

Seen as its only a matter of time before they nurf this dude too, heres the build i use;

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fQAQNArYWjMap7FbWb87JEoH9CuAiRPOmgJZoKAPA-j0CBINgYNBiwIQEBgpQFRjtEUjtKSISdDTHjIq2cbY1mcJSKAIWDA-w

I dislike conditions period. I already hated it enough when I had to switch for liari. If it wasn’t a gimmicy mechanic to begin with… would be one thing. But constantly respecing and switching gear just so I can do something is idiotic at best. Doing pavilion as condition is insulting. In a span of 1 boss fight doing MAAAAAAAYBE 30k dmg is pitiful. And it all comes from specter 3, autoattacks and some staff marks.

Doing 4x gambit on 7 as mm was the best thing ever. But like I told everyone in guild today early morning… it was going to get nerfed.

Deadeye as mm… screw that. And screw anet.

With these clowns would fix the kittening bugs instead of nerfing and nerfing and nerfing AND MORE NERFING. I decided to stop and go see balloons and champions… yeah… as if infinite ques/left over mobs… and bazillion other bugs in gauntlet wast enough, first thing happen 1 balloon chest doesnt work. Champion is stuck… ……….. ……… again screw anet.

Fungalfoot.7213:

HiSaZuL.2843:

I did this and I’ll also be first to say this has nothing to do with any imaginary skill. Its luck pure and simple. Did it for a friend on his guardian in 1 go… watched a warrior go in and stay full freaking hp and leave with ~25 seconds of swiftness left… really?

No this is an insult and nothing else. A spit on this class that lacks any utility that helps every other class do this. I don’t care if your a ranger you still have leaps and a galore of swiftness and stability.

There’s a video of a warrior doing it before phase two even starts activating properly. Yeah, it’s broken. Unfortunately that goes for the vast majority of the content in this game and they just don’t seem to care.

I was hoping that the gauntlet would showcase their growth and renew my hope when it comes to PvE. Needless to say those hopes were thoroughly crushed.

Pax tournament that less then probably 1% of playerbase cares about > LIVING story.

I’m still by this day confused whats so living about their 2 week temporary content that has no more then 2-3 hours worth of actual gameplay involved. Two weeks later the only thing their “living story” changed is that it added a few skins.

And yet we are fed this level of bottom of the barrel content.