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Already helped half a dozen or so new players with bags and exploring HoT. Feel free to join us, we can help you get ready for PoF, HoT, or Tyria.
The issue of taking map positions when active players are trying to participate is my concern. Tangled Depths is the main offender.
If you didn’t get a chance to do the Oasis test, the few mobs and bounties I ran into were boon heavy.
Seems like barriers are being dismissed, which seems odd to me. Unlike a healer you get to preemptively mitigate damage that could otherwise result in a death. Rift had a similar mechanic in the Oracle class and it was highly wanted in raids.
I like the idea of blood being reworked it’s always seemed mediocre to me.
Providing some buffs other than might seems great. Making the barriers scale off of precision, power, or condition DMG.
Necro offers nothing that other classes can’t do or better. Let’s not have that debate.
Do you think it offers enough to maintain a regular spot in raids? If not, why? Please provide reasons, such as, dps doesn’t meet X requirement, other classes bring X, Y, Z to the raid and more dps, barriers and buffs offered by necro are provided by another class but even better…
I’d like your thoughts. I enjoy necro a lot and have always raided in MMOs, except Ultima Online. So, what are we missing to allow us access to this content?
Seems like the achievement is the gated issue, which can easily be removed or altered.
Dragons stand is neat because of how Grand the ending and boss cinematics. Length is that maps largest detractor in my eyes, it takes a solid 1.5 hours. By the time I get to Mordremoth I just want to punch him for talking so much; he’s also one of my favorites to show new players. The map itself is a little dull as it’s so centered around the event.
Tangled depths is a mixed bag, I love the art and multi tier design. I’ve solo’d so much there, but the mobs are aggravating.
A mix between LW3 mobs and HoT map design seems like the sweet spot. Combine these features with a dynamic event that scales based on map population and speed of progression through the chaining mini events.
Maybe you guys have a good idea on achievement structure for the devs?
I too hope the maps are like HoT with large dynamic map events. I repeat these zones more than any other. The LW map events are missing depth to me. I love verdant Brink and rushing from one camp or another to defend and secure our posts/access. Helping new players find hidden masteries and hero points; bring drawn into fights or seeing some lone player struggle to hold an or post and we detour. The new maps do not pull people together to succeed toward a common goal. It feels like anti social and more grind/farm oriented.
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My wife, myself, and friends play Gw2 and we use discord. I’m on gate of madness and would be happy to have you. I’m in a friendly casual guild as well if you’d like to join us. Feel free to message me and I’ll get you a discord invite.
What model is your PC? With that psu the only thing is a 1050ti. They make a single slot 1070, but that psu won’t do. A new case and catch a 550watt psu on sale would be under $100.
Are you looking for a condi mesmer or chronotank?
Chronotank first and foremost, decent support mesmer gets the second most demanded spot.
Though if you have to ask if condi or chronotank, you are shockingly out of sync with the raid meta.
Seeing how I don’t have a slot left for a Mesmer, ya. I came here to find out what classes are in demand so I bring the most utility. I have no doubt I can competently fill the role.
Are you looking for a condi mesmer or chronotank?
What class is wanted in raids and high level fractals that is often difficult to find? I like providing utility and benefit, I also enjoy each class. Thoughts?
I never had a problem soloing the story all the way except the very last mission. I’m not seeing the problem.
Would you please elaborate more on this? What is your ping, latency, computer hardware, class, armor, weapons, skill configuration?
My ping is about 400 in great days and 560 in normal days and sometimes raises to 700. on 700 Core maps are still playable but not HoT or maps stories.
I have an I3 5th gen computer with 16gb RAM and Nvidia GTS-450 graphic card which gives me about 50 FPS in most core maps and drops below 30 in all HoT maps except lake Doric (may be because of amount of faces that are visible in LoD vertically?)
I have trouble in VB map with frogs on my guardian with exotic gear, I can’t even drop those frogs HP to half before I die.
I have same trouble with my warrior again in exotic gear killing rolling thingies.
I have trouble with my ranger in full ascended to do story steps of Flash point and one path ends. but not even slight trouble solo vet mobs in VB even two or 3 of them.
I have trouble in Tangled depth on my Necro in exotic but no trouble solo holding the camps in VB.
I have trouble with pocket raptors on all my toons except engineer that has no trouble torching them down and that same engineer can’t stand hammer hit of mordemorth guardians and mesmers.
Your claim is very subjective.
So you want game design balanced around your atrocious ping and questionable fps? Be realistic. You have issues that are outside of GW2.
If I didn’t enjoy BF1 so much I’d upgrade to a newer CPU instead of GPU (3930K). Sounds like the Vega56 or 1070 are the sweet spot and I can probably justify the Ryzen bump then too.
Looking to pick up a new GPU. I currently use a R9 290 and it’s long in the tooth, especially for this resolution. I’m eyeballing a 1070, Vega 56, Vega 64, or 1080ti. I wanted to know your experience in GW2 since it is an older engine and see how it was performing.
Ryzen does like faster ram. I’d get 3200 MHz that is Ryzen compatible. If you’re not going to learn how to overclock I would go for the 1300x for the slightly higher clock speed. If you can afford it I’d get the 1400 so you get virtual threads.
Even with suffering it’s pathetic.
Even with Signet Suffering it is still 28seconds for a 3,960 heal, that’s quite sad. Having it be chance on hit would make it useful in pvp or pve. Putting the stacks on the player would also make it useful in pvp or pve. Right now the stacks may get missed due to range or simply the player gets nuked and you never get to heal with those stacks.
I agree Lahmia, with us having the blood tree it seemed intuitive. Compounded by us having abilities that damage us, it seems like a plausible way to help us mitigate this punishment.
This skill is a love hate for me. The heal itself is weak, very long charge, and mobs the mobs die to easily in open world to make use of the charges. The passive simply rewards me with life steal after taking dmg, this seems counter productive since the game focuses on players avoiding mechanics.
Suggestions:
Lower CD
Stacks reside on the player and heals ally members with each swing.
Change passive to chance on hit or a passive continual generation based on percentage of damage going out. Similar to parasitic contagion. Maybe base it off melee attacks in order to provide synergy with power builds or reward players for being in closer quarters.
Wouldn’t it be better to pick up Dhuumfire? Death Perception + Decimate Defenses is bound to overlap max crit. I question the dmg of Signet Suffering vs Close Death. I love the idea of being able to use our signets; their CDs are crazy long.
I currently have a full zerker exotic set. I’m used to the survivability of a necro. What can I do to give myself an easier experience while roaming around?
You’d be best off to replace the CPU, even with a used one AMD processors before Ryzen are quite bad for single threaded applications. A Ryzen 1600, cheap motherboard, and some ddr4 clocked around 3200 will yield good economical improvements. You could snag a used 7970, 280, or 290 and play 1080p and should be able to max most games out.
Having a buddy to tag along with or answer some general questions can really brighten the game. I’d like to offer my help in doing this. Dungeons, world bosses, fractals, hero point train, HoTs survival, or just a friend…I’m pretty down for whatever. If you’re on a free account contact me in discord so I can add you to my friends list and we can chat and explore.
I have a level 80 for all tunes. Mesmer and Engineer are my weakest classes, but I can still help.
Here is a link to my discord, it will expire in 24 hours. If people like the idea I’ll set up a permanent link: https://discord.gg/QHY5w6
Cheers!
most that have commented on this post fully missed my points but that is ok .and their should be minimum specs for games . as them are all fine and good
what is not good is the fact their is no high end specs at all for this game . as well as the fact you can not run 3 or 2 even GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1080 DirectX 12 GV-N1080D5X-8GD 8GB 256-Bit GDDR5X PCI Express 3.0 x16 ATX Video Cards at the same time for this game
or use full 8 or 10 core at all . but not only that if me and my friends can take a $400.00 computer and tweak it using used $100.00 parts and make the game run better with a few well known tricks and so forth . like in this video case in point .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fg-R8iZ-Bnsand play grand theft auto or even wow on a $400.00 used parts computer well then it says a lot about cheep computers and get the same 70fps frame rates as well as high end computers .
just goes to show how this game really needs to upgrade and over hall the high end system specs and I know I am not the only one that would love to play this game in 4K with 100 fps and more
but with no support for said hardware software for us high end users .. it just does not make that new shiny pack worth it. even more
so when I can take my $400.00 used parts computer and get the same out of it and save my high end computer for games like world of war craft and grand theft auto and over watch and got to say for $400.00 used parts the game looks as good as it does on my high end computers
What you are asking is for an engine upgrade, not a game systems upgrade. Game systems can be done by simply updating those same systems to include new features. These can include character progression systems, models and textures, etc. in a way it’s a patch really.
An engine upgrade is a whole different beast. It is usually a huge undertaking for any developer to do any sort of changes to their game engine. What you are asking is for ANet to change the architecture on which their engine is built upon. Nevermind the fact that there are no games currently that go above 4 cores, and very few that go over 2. And the fact you can’t SLI a 1080 (we don’t need the full name of the card, please don’t…) is irrelevant. Such a card is already overkill on its own, SLI is redundant.
So basically, you are complaining about something you have either never experienced, or have no need for. And we don’t need to see your chassis, this isn’t an kitten contest.
Stick to asking for 4k support, which as far as I know is actually a reasonable request. (And even that, I have seen Eyefinity setups running this game fine)
Ryzen and Threadripper are barely out of the gate, so waiting for support for them is unrealistic at best.
So what are you complaining about again? That you can’t fit your 10cm plug into a 5cm socket? Well no sh-.
How about you complain about engine optimizations eh? I remember this game during closed beta and performance wise it is a far cry from now.
You’re quite mistaken on games not using more than 4 cores. Several engines modern engines use 8+ now. They also run well on older machines, which is probably a lot of GW2’s target demographic. The game needs better optimization. Large raids. world bosses, and pvp suffer dramatically on any machine and that is due to this engine.
It’s an AOE though due to talents right? Bleeds are stronger from this too. I understand the damage is less. I was just looking at situations when it’s not safe to be in range for Geo.
I’m probably missing something, but why not use the chill sigil to get 3 stacks when we chill instead of geomancy?
Let me preface this with I’m still getting the hang of combos in general. This seems like it would pair great with Chillblains poison field if it was reliable. It seems like that or changing/making our blast finisher Putrid mark cause a bleed with enfeeble via the weapon or from the curses talent weakening shroud.
Any thoughts? Just seems like two neglected skills that could really improve the QoL for necro.
CPUs hit a limitation, so instead of becoming more powerful, they’re adding more cores. Today’s 8+ core CPUs are actually weaker than CPUs from 5+ years ago. They’re only better at multitasking and only a few games are actually optimized to use that many cores.
This is utterly wrong. First off you’re not specifying which processors, but in general it’s wrong.
To the topic at hand. My question is could the game be moved to a newer engine while retaining all the items. I’m not sure of the complications of this, but that seems like a big hurdle in order to keep player retention up.
This is what I’ve personally been using for open world. I tend to adjust a little based on what I am trying to achieve, but this seems to give me good mobility, dmg, and durability. I wish I could ditch locust, but that movement is so clutch :<
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vRAQFARnM0AN2gdbCW2As3glcBjqMsGaWxXxu4YEKA0AWBA
This is based on power valk btw. I’d love to see some condi builds.