Guild Wars 2

Anyone? Please?

Just a question, can a ranger sword/axe or sword/dagger fight a raid boss? I ask this because of the dodge problem with the sword aa. The sword aa being impossible to dodge is considered a bug or is it considered part of the sword mechanic and not going to be changed?.

The problem here is that most people look at the classes theoretical max dps and assume “oh class X can do 25k dps max, and class Y can do 14kdps max”, and dont take into account that class Y has mechanics that allow it to achieve say 12kdps much easier than class X’s mechanics for the same 12kdps.

Yesterday for example I did a fractal with a guardian zerker, my necro is a zerker too with spite/soul reaping/reaper, and while I was eating the damage thrown at me pretty easily and doing a ton of damage, the guy was downed quite a lot of times. You might say he was a noob, but that’s the thing some classes have more forgiving mechanics than others. So while one class might have a theoretical max dps much much higher than that of another one, the translation to the game is completely different due to game mechanics. This is not wow, where you can’t dodge, you have healers and tanks and don’t need to be as reactive.

Until more people start doing what Nemesis is doing, which is creating scenarios in game and getting real data vs theoretical, the theoretical data is worth nothing. I don’t understand the problem of spoj and others regarding this… scientists do it all the time, confront the theory and theoretical numbers with experimental data.

Thanks for the replies. I am running gw2 in a qosmio x300-156, so there is no graphic driver update that works here :s The only way I can “fix” the flickering temporarily is by minimizing and maximizing the game. It’s really weird, this problem only appeared after a recent update in gw2.

Today I joined a fractal lvl38, it only had one guy in it (the one who posted it in the lfg) and had the only requirements of “zerk” and “experienced”. As soon as I joined, he insta kicked me and then whispered me that he didnt want to be slowed down by horrible necros and “gl in finding another group”.

People can be really stupid. That’s all I have to say.

Since a couple of months ago, my screen in gw2 has started flickering (not always randomly it seems). I don’t know how to describe it properly, but when I move the camera, or my character, everything in the game flickers a bit.
Now with the release of HoT, everytime I go to a HoT area the game is constantly flickering, it creates something like motion sickness so it’s really hard to play in those places, while still flickering randomly in the rest of Tyria.
One solution to this is to play the game in window mode, but my game frames per second slow down a lot when I do that. Is there any other solution to this problem?

Great idea! With the addition of a ton of new permissions, so the rank system should increase to help us deal with these permissions.

I love the hand glow!

Silverkey.2078:

spoj.9672:

Im sorry are we listening to the same commentary? Nemesis is always quick to insult and spew cringe worthy ego comments. He also has a very abrasive tone in most of his videos which just irritates a lot of people. Honestly i feel his tone reminds me more of a child than many of the insults provoked against him. Maybe thats just me?

Im pretty sure he continues to do a lot of these things because it gets him exposure and views. I personally could never bring myself to say such cringe worthy things and embarrass myself like that though. Props to him for having no shame in that department.

Point is, you cant really blame people for not properly listening to him. When often times it makes you want to drink a bottle of bleach and scrape out your eardrums with a rusty needle. Also along with his sometimes valid points you get a load of contradictory bullkitten which makes no sense or is just flat out incorrect, irrelevant or just a pointless bash the meta comment thrown in. So its difficult to take him seriously. “DPS uptime” anyone?

That is my main problem with him. He wants to be the messenger for the necro community to save us from the unjustified discrimination in pugs. He makes many valid points. Sure necro is not meta, because in optimal situations (which the meta is defined on) another class will be a better choice. But for 90% or more of the dungeon runs, this does not matter because

1. in an optimal run, the time lost is not that significant
2. in a non-optimal run (especially in pugs), the situation is rarely optimal so applying blindly the meta does not make sense.

Most of these facts are points that I believe we pretty much all agree on, and if the message could spread, that would be great.

But this message is diluted in a flow of insults and abrasive tone so much that its meaning is lost and all is left is pointless fights in forums and reddit. I do not think he helps the necromancers!

Touché! That’s it! I also would prefer if he kept his earlier professional/impersonal tone, but even then he was bashed and insulted in the comments section by the same who now criticize him for his recent tone. According to what he said recently he is using this tone to set up for part 2 of his meta series, which according to different sources who are in on it, will be bombastic.

Brando.1374:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OziITkAcGfw

GW2 F50 Mossman 6:00 – Necromancer solo [with wolves]

Not bad for someone who said they only played necro a few hours.

That’s really nice, and he is proving Nemesis’ point. Very nice of him

Shiki.7148:

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Blaine Tog.8304:

ZudetGambeous.9573:

So he defined his own category for a speedrun to invalidate how every other class does it faster. Does it in a new way that is much slower, and then is immediately beaten in his own necro favored run by more than 2 minutes….

not exactly a glowing review for necro.

I don’t think that this is really fair to him. As I understand it, he was challenged to get below 10 minutes and did just that. Additionally, the way he did it (with wolves) was less efficient than the way others have done it, not more. His time was then (coincidentally) beaten by a profession and build that has every advantage in this situation.

It isn’t the world record, but it doesn’t need to be to prove his point. Not everyone can solo the Mossman at Scale 50, and I’d venture a guess that most people who can couldn’t beat his time regardless of their profession. He’s (explicitly) not saying this proves that the Necromancer is the best profession, just that this particular build can do a pretty good job in this particular scenario if the player is sufficiently skilled. I really don’t see how anyone could object to that conclusion.

Nemesis certainly goes overboard with the sass to the point of rudeness in some of his videos, but this one is really just impressive.

His video doesn’t prove or show anything of interest. He took some wildly out of context rebuttals to his previous poorly done video, made up his own ideal scenario to “disprove” them, and then showed us something else without any value.

It’s fine that necro can solo mossman, and if that was his accomplishment then great, he did a good job at that! But that isn’t what his video is even about. His last video went on and on and on about how buffing wasn’t important and necros did so much damage compared to PS warriors, then proceeded to show his awesome dps always in a group with a PS warrior buffed out the wazzoo.

People told him that buffing was what was causing his dps to be so high, and that a full dps warrior could easily out dps him and his dps would be much lower without all that buffing. Also he talked a lot about sustained dps but only showed his lich form burst dps.

To top it all off his amazing super dps build wasn’t even used in this video since he needed to be much more tanky to survive.

The fact that there are less wolves which let him get a new “record” that is 2 minutes slower than the warrior record has nothing to do with dps, but everything to do with ability to kite and tank damage, which necros are known to be good at, yet have no purpose in group settings, hence why speed run damage clears are done without the wolves to show a classes damage potential not its solo tankiness.

Finally everyone says that the engineer beat his time by 2 minutes because he can attack without targeting anything…. yet 7 of nemesis’s 10 skills are ground targeted and don’t need a target to hit and made up the vast majority of his damage, so that argument is just absurd.

Edit: even the devs know that necros dps is low, hence why scepter is getting buffed tomorrow. I would actually be interested in the post buff mossman solo to see if it can get closer to the other classes times dps wise. That would actually be a more informative video if nemesis is actually interested in helping the necro community and not just generating page views.

And here we have the prime example of someone who butchers facts and only listens to a max of 30% of what was said.

Eg. : “he goes on about buffs aren’T important”. Completely wrong, he goes on about “pre-buffing is unnecessary and buffing while fighting is actually more efficient”. For example drop them firefields and blasts on the boss instead of in the middle of nowhere BEFORE engaging the boss, meaning depending on skill 6-20 seconds preparation time and buff duration lost during running up to the boss with the buffs ticking.

“Buffing made him so strong” : Sure he never denied that; however, the warrior always is also buffed during his calculations, aswell as necros being able to sustain might and vuln by themselves.

Concerning lich-formn burst: Sure, funny how the other examples are with timewarp which is ALSO an elite.

And then it is funny how you claim his DPS build wasn’t even used but he still did comparable damage to other professions.

And in case you didn’t get this either, the Warrior he compared this to was Brazil on a pretty kitten good run also buffed by his party in the same fight. Which invalidates the rest of your claims.

So please, do everyone a favour and learn to listen to all facts, not just those you wanna hear.

You are absolutely right. Also, according the Brazil, it is part of the current “meta” to include buffing in the fight rotation. Which is what Nemesis advocates If people were to stop measuring and comparing their “thingies” they would understand Nem’s point.

NeXeD.3042:

JoaoFA.8475:

ZudetGambeous.9573:

So he defined his own category for a speedrun to invalidate how every other class does it faster. Does it in a new way that is much slower, and then is immediately beaten in his own necro favored run by more than 2 minutes….

not exactly a glowing review for necro.

You didn’t see his video. You remind me of current republicans in the USA, talking like that without even seeing the video.

Lololololololol. You remind me of the Democrats in the USA, talking like that without thinking about what he said first.

It really is so boring having to feed you word by word that which should be obvious… Nemesis did that video just to show that, for example, a condi necro isnt as bad as people make it compared to meta zerker, that the difference isnt that great compared to classes that need targeting to a certain degree (the engi did it faster because it needs zero targeting to damage the boss and has ways to avoid damage better than a necro when soloing).

Not only that but everytime he does a video criticizing the misconceptions in lfg mentality, people dare him to show solo runs as in “My d**k is bigger than yours”, which is ridiculous and has nothing to do with the lfg problems.

If this is still too hard for you to understand then listen… the problem is not in speedrunning or speedrunning mentality, but in people going to lfg, where you get random people and wanting the same standards that pro, organized, groups have when they try to break records. That’s it.

For example, waiting in lfg for the perfect team class composition 15 mins, when you could have accepted lets say a necro and a ranger, and already completed the fractal or dungeon. Or waiting for those classes and getting bad players. Usually in lfg, even if you dont use the speedrunning class composition, and assuming people are experienced, you only gain what? 1 minute or 2? If you even gain that time…

ZudetGambeous.9573:

So he defined his own category for a speedrun to invalidate how every other class does it faster. Does it in a new way that is much slower, and then is immediately beaten in his own necro favored run by more than 2 minutes….

not exactly a glowing review for necro.

You didn’t see his video. You remind me of current republicans in the USA, talking like that without even seeing the video.

It’s funny to see people in the topic saying they don’t care about Nemesis’ video, saying that it’s not worth it to reply to him, while replying, insulting him, etc. They really have nothing else to do with their time, poor sad fellows Let’s all have a minute of silence for them.

They could change the collar model, like they changed the models for some armor a way back. This problem in the outfit is pretty bad.

Whenever I have characters with hair by the neck I get a collision problem with the new outfit, Harbinger of Mordremoth. It looks really bad, is it possible to “fix” it so the outfit neck part shows instead of the hair?

Roll a mesmer during the BWs, do some pvp and wvw and then you can talk about mesmers being “op”. Ah, also try to do damage in pve with your “op” mesmer…. seriously.

I like it as it is too.

There is a person who posted this in relation to his post, which I think sums up pretty well his video. He was answering to people saying the video was about necro vs warrior, or zerker being bad.

Tobias.8632:

That wasn’t the point of the video, it’s about how this meta of 3 classes designed to carry ice bows to a boss and four ice bows to kill the boss in 5 seconds renders any dps measurement pointless since the ice bows do so much more damage then any player could hope to achieve.

I agree that tone with which Nemesis presents his videos could be more friendly. Another thing that is true is that the skill is the most important thing, many times I’ve done dungeons with the “right” classes and “right” specs and failed miserably because they didnt know how to listen and got downed and downed again. But again a good team with any classes will do extremely well. It is not really nice to click in the LFG and only see there “LF METAZERK” or “ele/warriors”. A lot of assumptions are made on illusions, remove the icebow damage and a lot of things change for example. The class strengths only show themselves if there is enough time in the encounter, so if you zomgburst down a boss in 10 seconds with insane burst, you will only need a niche, because the rest doesnt matter. Does this happen in most lfg groups? No. So what is the point on kicking certain classes in pugs?

I apologise for being rude, but the thing is that I read a lot of stuff saying “oh nemesis is wrong… blablabla”, but I never see actual video footage and then it’s data. I only see comments based on theorycrafting and on what other people said. That’s not honest, and comes out as prejudiced.
When I see a guy, doing videos, showing them and then doing the very simple math with live data, that guy has my respect.

Kordash.2197:

JoaoFA.8475:

Kordash.2197:

Still waiting this guy to prove his ‘numbers’ by beating any Warrior solo of Miku/Sesshi/Goku with his so called ‘superior necro dps’.

But he won’t

You didn’t see his video… He compared in a linear fight where you can get ~ max dps, Brazil’s warrior damage over the fight, and his own. With icebow, without icebow, with early tw, with <50% hp. Gee, I really don’t understand you people, it’s as if you leave your brains in your pocket when you discuss some subjects.

I did watch it. But the comparaison don’t even stand. Since in the current meta, the warrior should NOT pick the ice bow, and the warrior build is reducing is personnal DPS for the sake of buffing the overall group DPS. The current meta build is PS, and is NOT the maximum DPS build for a warrior.

So if you really wanna compare the warrior to the necro DPS, do it properly. And try achieve the same kill times on the same encounters.

Please don’t assume we’ve let our brains on the side. That’s rude and makes you a jerk.

Record some videos, for each add up the damage and divide it by time, for different classes. Then you will be ready to talk with nemesis.

Kordash.2197:

Still waiting this guy to prove his ‘numbers’ by beating any Warrior solo of Miku/Sesshi/Goku with his so called ‘superior necro dps’.

But he won’t

You didn’t see his video… He compared in a linear fight where you can get ~ max dps, Brazil’s warrior damage over the fight, and his own. With icebow, without icebow, with early tw, with <50% hp. Gee, I really don’t understand you people, it’s as if you leave your brains in your pocket when you discuss some subjects.

Just saw the video! It is amazing! I was thinking of posting it too here… lol This video is not grey theorycrafting, he (and I think with the help of Brazil) did fights in fractals, etc, in different scenarios and divided the damage by the duration of the fight. Any class with frost bow does more dps, and by a lot more I mean 2-4k more dps than any class not using the ice bow. The metazerk is a lie. IceBow is op.

My main will be the revenant.

Will this weekend be BWE2?

I’m having the same problem since yesterday. Whenever I move my character, move the camera, open an inventory the game flickers a lot

TheGuy.3568 speak for yourself. YOU liked it more. I prefer the new system to the old one, 10x better in my opinion.

So let me check…
Direct damage is reduced by armor and depends directly on Power, Precision, Critical Damage.
Conditions is raw damage, since it isnt reduced by armor and depends directly only on Condition Damage.

Yes, nerf power. Logic.

Will this be better than zerker for pve? does condition dmg compensate for lack of crit damage

So, just to confirm after this trait update, mesmer “meta” for pve in hot will be (gear and trait wise)?

Oh! The traits are changing?? That’s really nice news!

Considering the changes to condition damage, and considering that zerker mesmers traits include bleeding from crits, etc, will it be better to user zerker gear or sinister gear come hot? Also, is there any trait build already suggested for hot pve?

Spoj, is the staff good for dps in a gs+staff setup?

Also Brasil and Nemesis said that crit wont matter anymore with the reaper, so I don’t have a clue what kind of gear I will use, some people have talked about sinister, what do you think?

oh, at the moment I have it as a powermancer with strength runes. I was asking because the synergy will change a bit no, with the chill thingy going on.

Hey guys! For Reaper dps spec GS what build, gear, 2nd set of weapons, and utility skills do you guys suggest?

Well, said Tigi. Though I have enjoyed my time in gw2 (I pre-ordered and played since a few days before official release), I have uninstalled it and downloaded wow again to try mop and wod. So far I am having fun again. I used to play in Piken Square. With the mega server thingy I stopped seeing most of the roleplayers I used to see and interact with. Not only that, but I was really fed up of being forced to spec to “zerker” in order to be able to clear dungeons in a timely manner, without having to be afraid of being kicked. Where are the emotes and motions for roleplaying, and even interactable chairs? Why, after two years, is condition still really bad in pve? Why, after 2 years, are some weapons still terrible in pve? Why, after two years, do we have only one extra path in a dungeon? I love LS, but each time it is released you can complete it in less than 2hs. These are just some complaints in a plethora of them. The game is still beautiful though and its huge potential , that has been there since day 1, can still be realized. When I see that happening, I will consider a return.

I’m for more options. So obviously I’m pro-torment.

My nice mesmer

This is really good! Very nice suggestions!!!

What I find strange is the lack of communication. Not a word has been said by the Devs. We paid for this game, we invested time into it, and most of us spend money on gems. If the devs have any sense of pride on their work, they should address these concerns with the community as soon as possible.

My Mesmer harnessing the dark power of Tyria.

That commander is truly epic!

That doesnt solve the problem :s

Can you please make transmutations bellow level 80 free please? Before the update I would transmute my full armor each 10 levels, and at level 80 I would buy the transmutes from the gem store to transmute that final armor. Now since the update I have so few transmutation charges that I can’t afford to spend them before level 80, hence looking horrible. I don’t think its fair that we have to spend lots of real money or tons of gold if we want to look decent before level 80.

Don’t forget it is 4kdps under very very optimal situations, like full burning upkeep, 25 stacks of bleed, etc.

Maha, a condition focused class is focused of doing damage, but instead of relying on raw damage output via critical damage, they rely on “dot”. In your post you say that the “ultimate evolution” of people who want to do damage is full berserker, so that doesnt make sense. Picture a necromancer that can’t provide support and focuses on condition damage, what is your thought on this?

Dear Maha, why can’t you have meta builds in zerker, condition and support that are equal in effectiveness? At the moment you only have one specialization where you can have meta builds, which is the zerker, for the other specializations the “meta” is crap compared to the worst zerker meta. Bear in mind I used the word effectiveness, not raw damage.

Thank you for participating in this debate Pyroathiest, I agree completely with what you say, though I just gave that example because I posted this in the mesmer section, about my own experience The condition and support problem applies to all classes.
I really had the hope arenanet was going to address this in the super update they made, but unfortunately they only came up with a nerf to zerker, which in no way fixes the extremely dire conception problems inherent to the other specializations.