Guild Wars 2

Brokensunday.4098:

Mavrip The Ripper.8623:

Brokensunday.4098:

Mavrip The Ripper.8623:

Iridi.8473:

No, you’re wrong. No emotions involved. Just pure facts. Necro was worst class in terms of self-survivability with 0 blocks, 0 invulnerabilties, 0 gap creaters, 2 gap closers, little to no stability, little to no swiftness. And now they nerfed it even more. Any “buffs” you think they did, well they’re not good buffs. Theorycrafting is just theorycrafting.

you have double health bars. you can boost your def w/ minions, you have fear as a gap creator from multiple sources if you so choose it (shroud 3, staff 5), we can chill like crazy which essentially just add icing on top of the gap closers we have. you can trait and choose your skills for swiftness or stability if that’s really what you want? We don’t have invuln or warrior dumblocks, if you spec for wells then you can grab protection on top of having that 2nd whole health bar + leaching. Necro can have crazy survivability! We are just lacking in the DPS department heavily.

Oh, also we have this dodge function for when we are paying attention which makes surviving even easier.

I prefer block evedaes invul over hp any day you can sock so much… seems you never pvp on a necro before and btw a second life bar should not degrade…..

Sure, “prefer” whatever you want. necro is still one of the tankiest classes out there for PvE because you have so many ‘oh @#$%’ options.

A second life bar should never degrade? According to what… I kinda feel like this isn’t your game, that your opinion is just that…

Seems like I never pvp on a necro? Based on what, your feelings again? learn to adapt… or you know, just complain lol..

what is a life bar??? shroud is a resource and is for offence and defense it is the only actual defense a necromancer have and when I say I prefer is personal opinion you don’t have to get all crazy about it and that btw these actual active defenses are way better by far than shroud ^.^ and just read you comment and see and read the skills or even play on top tier pvp with a necro and see for yourself what I’m saying
and I know not every one share same opinions and thought’s and I’m fine with it but is like we are talking about two whole different games, btw my necro is practically untouched for pve but on pvp is destroyed

you need to explore the class if you think shroud is the only defense on necro (or read my previous comments).

I don’t understand your first fragment about what is a life bar. For that matter, I also don’t understand why you are calling me crazy.

your unsupported pvp feelings are irrelevant, season 5 when I was active in sPvP, I was ranked <150 until the last couple weeks where I got sick of attitudes similar to yours who had to rage when a necro used anything non-“meta” (GASP) and dropped off (same reason why i have only done 30 or so matches from this past season).

And lastly, the fact you are incapable of keeping track of the games is not my problem. I’m sorry that you are having that issue, but all I can offer is condolences. I have only presented alternatives and my opinions- which according to you, you are fine with… even though you clearly have some supper salty feelings toward. :/

move on, if you don’t like the game go play runescape. complaining rather than being proactive and finding an alternative solution (for your case, play a different class b/c you clearly don’t like necro playstyle— which is FINE because this is the reason there are different classes!)

Brokensunday.4098:

Mavrip The Ripper.8623:

Iridi.8473:

No, you’re wrong. No emotions involved. Just pure facts. Necro was worst class in terms of self-survivability with 0 blocks, 0 invulnerabilties, 0 gap creaters, 2 gap closers, little to no stability, little to no swiftness. And now they nerfed it even more. Any “buffs” you think they did, well they’re not good buffs. Theorycrafting is just theorycrafting.

you have double health bars. you can boost your def w/ minions, you have fear as a gap creator from multiple sources if you so choose it (shroud 3, staff 5), we can chill like crazy which essentially just add icing on top of the gap closers we have. you can trait and choose your skills for swiftness or stability if that’s really what you want? We don’t have invuln or warrior dumblocks, if you spec for wells then you can grab protection on top of having that 2nd whole health bar + leaching. Necro can have crazy survivability! We are just lacking in the DPS department heavily.

Oh, also we have this dodge function for when we are paying attention which makes surviving even easier.

I prefer block evedaes invul over hp any day you can sock so much… seems you never pvp on a necro before and btw a second life bar should not degrade…..

Sure, “prefer” whatever you want. necro is still one of the tankiest classes out there for PvE because you have so many ‘oh @#$%’ options.

A second life bar should never degrade? According to what… I kinda feel like this isn’t your game, that your opinion is just that…

Seems like I never pvp on a necro? Based on what, your feelings again? learn to adapt… or you know, just complain lol..

Iridi.8473:

No, you’re wrong. No emotions involved. Just pure facts. Necro was worst class in terms of self-survivability with 0 blocks, 0 invulnerabilties, 0 gap creaters, 2 gap closers, little to no stability, little to no swiftness. And now they nerfed it even more. Any “buffs” you think they did, well they’re not good buffs. Theorycrafting is just theorycrafting.

you have double health bars. you can boost your def w/ minions, you have fear as a gap creator from multiple sources if you so choose it (shroud 3, staff 5), we can chill like crazy which essentially just add icing on top of the gap closers we have. you can trait and choose your skills for swiftness or stability if that’s really what you want? We don’t have invuln or warrior dumblocks, if you spec for wells then you can grab protection on top of having that 2nd whole health bar + leaching. Necro can have crazy survivability! We are just lacking in the DPS department heavily.

Oh, also we have this dodge function for when we are paying attention which makes surviving even easier.

Miguelsil gets it! Play what you want. I main reaper and its the funnest class to me. They definitely don’t put out the most dps, especially if your power… but in this game anything can be viable as long as you learn your cc’s, combos, and when to dodge.

interesting… Well, looks like it only happened 1 of 2 times for me (i got into WvW on my next try). Kinda expected though, since so many are trying to WvW today Just wanted to make sure it wasn’t a bug or anything, probably just due to stress. Thanks for the feedback!

Anybody else have their queue pop only to say the borderland was full, asking me to queue again? I clicked travel only a couple seconds after the queue popped, so I’m absolutely sure that it didn’t time out…

Hope its just a 1 time thing :/ back to the start of these crazy long queues!

YES! I don’t see the point in being able to color just the wing set because it looks wrong when you go back and forth. Would love to be able to customize as a back as well

my point is that either works. I have no idea how this is so hard for you to get… sure, encourage the one you like but for T4 fractals they both work.

Sublimatio.6981:

dude of course you can complete the content with bad classes and builds, we talk here about power necro being bad and not whether it can clear t4 fractals or not lol

title of the thread……… “Fractal T4 necro gearing”

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Sublimatio.6981:

Chris Mavriplis.6517:

Sublimatio.6981:

yes it is bad. comparing to other classes it has terrible dps

so DPS limit means a class is “bad” in fractals?

Yes

I’ll leave my last response as something that I think applies to lots of other classes in this game. If you are having issues being good at something, that’s fine- but it doesn’t make the class bad at it. The challenges that you come up against can be overcome, but you need to be willing to actually sit down and think for a few minutes on how you could improve it. obviously (others on this thread have supported power as being completely usable), the T4 fractals are easily completed by a power necro- that’s just a fact.

Now, when you start doing 100CM or certain raid bosses where overall squad/party comp plays a bigger role- its less viable ONLY because there are groups out there who sit on their thumbs and pray to metabattle rather than doing what the spec/class system was designed to do. It gives you clear possibilities to make different variances of the class which allows for different play styles.

Guild wars is built in a way that actually enables customization. They leave it up to the player to make it good.

FrostDraco.8306:

Chris Mavriplis.6517:

Sublimatio.6981:

yes it is bad. comparing to other classes it has terrible dps

so DPS limit means a class is “bad” in fractals?

I dunno if you’ve ever done fractals before, but losing the equivalent of maybe 3 seconds on a boss fight doesn’t make a class bad… FYI, fractals aren’t timed by the way! You can fairly easily be high 20’s-low 30k dps if you learn the class.

learn to have a preference rather than pretend to be factual.

Or you can actually run fractals before you open your trap?

Do you know what the word ‘bad’ means? It depends on the context. In this case we are talking about utility AND damage. Power necro lacks in both.

Also 3 seconds on off a hallucination in 100 CM can wipe your squad. And yes, it IS timed. It’s the only fight where you are required as a power necro to run soul reaping in order to pull your weight.

Just because fractals generally isn’t timed doesn’t make something ‘not bad’. Or are you going to start arguing for celestial builds as well?

So the child in you gets triggered pretty easy, no?

Fyi, this thread is relevant for T4s (see the title) which in any lfg means dailies (not cm). To your point about the hallucinations- that is valid I agree! However, it’s 5 players vs 4 mobs… Do the math. Some are able to solo, and a condi can float between 2 helping them. Or do you expect the extra to fall asleep?

Gonna ignore your irrelevant celestial comment… Because, yeah not related lmao?

Ohh also, yeah I have no idea what the word bad means! Sucks right??? Smdh… some people….

Sublimatio.6981:

yes it is bad. comparing to other classes it has terrible dps

so DPS limit means a class is “bad” in fractals?

I dunno if you’ve ever done fractals before, but losing the equivalent of maybe 3 seconds on a boss fight doesn’t make a class bad… FYI, fractals aren’t timed by the way! You can fairly easily be high 20’s-low 30k dps if you learn the class.

learn to have a preference rather than pretend to be factual.

Sublimatio.6981:

power necro in fractals is bad. especially 100CM because mobs have protection and ensolyss teleports around. even if you strip protection it still has some uptime and its dramatically reducing power dps. apart from that mobs in t4 fractals have more toughness. save power necro for dungeons i’d say. but you can play whatever you want as long as people accept you in their party (they most likely wont and if they do prepare for newbie fiesta)

No, power necro in fractals is not bad… if its bad, then its the user. I have had absolutely no issues since I made my power set for necro and I run mine every day.

OP- play what you want. Both are prefectly acceptable. If you have issues surviving (hard to believe that could happen with a Necro…) then try condi. its a bit easier

OriOri.8724:

Vavume.8065:

Chris Mavriplis.6517:

did you try adjusting the camera collision sensitivity? I think there was some fix a year or so back that addressed this. I don’t recall the exact name of the setting, but check the video settings and see if you can find something like collision blah blah blah in it.

Hope that helps at all- if not then I hope it gets resolved soon! Doesn’t sound enjoyable :/

It’s not related to the collision, that’s a separate issue, I’m talking about the massive camera zoom out/in that happens at the start and end of boss fights, or in certain area’s of the game like TD ley-line confluence.

Yea I hate those zooms as well. They don’t give me motion sickness but I find them annoying that it automatically decides what zoom level I want.

Ahh, gotcha! Yeah I know what your talking about now… my mistake! you’d think it would be an option under video settings… That would be a good addition- it actually does get a little annoying for me too

did you try adjusting the camera collision sensitivity? I think there was some fix a year or so back that addressed this. I don’t recall the exact name of the setting, but check the video settings and see if you can find something like collision blah blah blah in it.

Hope that helps at all- if not then I hope it gets resolved soon! Doesn’t sound enjoyable :/

play what you are comfortable playing. I find condi is easier, but power more fun for fractals. both are viable at any level frac even through 100CM

learn to not only play the meta. GS can be very valuable. Granted, I would prefer to do a power build (and currently do run one) using GS/ Axe+f. If you open with GS 4 then 5 to grab them in, it gives you lots of options. It enables necro to be 1v1 much more easily than the typical condi build which everyone also expects these days. Also, worth noting that the combo with axe can be very bursty while youv got plenty of chill and cc’s as a necro.

I ran dagger all last season, and it just wasn’t as fun or engaging. you actually have to pay attention while running a power build for necros.

dodge duck dip dive and dodge.

I feel like every time I go up against a warrior, I feel they are super OP with all the CC’s and “jump to”, oh yeah the insane damage bursts, or the insane condi if they prefer… annnnnnd one last thing… the no damage / insane self heals.

come on… they are in no way needing a buff- just work on creating a rotation that revolves around all the insane amounts of cc’s they own. shouldn’t be hard. in my book, warrior ranks pretty much on top as far as hardest to 1v1 against (unless they have no clue whats up).

alternatively, if you want to be more mobile…. switch classes. There is nothing substantial here to justify the complaints

I have been running zerker reaper axe/dagger, gs w/ a couple wells is extremely fun! I just switched to it this past week and it performs perfectly through T4’s. Much more engaging than condi, which I had been playing for the past year or so. Try it out!

You have a valid point as to why development should have a bigger initiative around macs, however one reason why I personally think it shouldn’t be a huge priority would be that mac users can just dual boot into Windows to play games. Lets be honest, people don’t buy mac to play games with, its usually people who want a simpler UI / more user friendly technology interaction.

Personally, I don’t want my mother to start playing Guild Wars, so lets just keep the focus on windows :P

(jokes, I really do want her to play. eh, not really though)

I had this happen to me last night. Won a game by a significant number, 500 to 110 and I was 2nd for points on my team. The recap came up at the end and said nothing, no pips. eventually after a minute of me trying to figure out why I didn’t get one, I left the match. I checked my record from the lobby and there was no record for this game until about a half hour later, where it was backfilled and counted as a D/C… but it clearly wasn’t.

The only thing I can think of is that when the score finished and the game ended, I was in a downed state and respawned a couple seconds after end.

Hope this helps to figure out, but I can definitely confirm something similar happenned to me as well so your not alone!

shadow.6174:

If you are expecting for any instant response here then you are “barking at the wrong tree”. Don’t expect devs to respond instantly to forums. If you are facing a urgent game breaking issue you better report it through in-game report tool. You won’t get a reply but your report will give them a lot more details about the issue than what we can provide here.

Also, spamming and bumping threads is no use. In fact, you can even get in trouble or get a thread closed if you do so (bumping posts is against rules).

Another option is to contact Customer Support, but the reply can be slow as it is here.

I was requesting guidance on how we could get out of these situations if possible, and just an update as to how we could avoid this in the future. A very reasonable request… didn’t say give it to me now- just when they get a chance It would be great to see.

who is spamming/bumping threads here?

no need to just try and create drama, please just be constructive. We were all trying to figure out what was going on. without forum talk, nobody would know if others had this issue. This is why we specifically have the bugs section. to report bugs.

tell everyone in your game /m chat to log off and exit the client for a while. 15 mins or so. I think thats what ended up happening for us. Maybe it keeps an instance open for everyone in the game if one person is still active?

*Just an idea… hope it works!

I have been saved. Thanks ANET! Would love to hear a post giving us info as to what caused this and what we could do in the future to either a.)prevent it or b.)fix this on our own… maybe implement something at the login screen to reset the account to Lions arch and disband any instance?

thought for food.

just logged off for 30 minutes. still chillin in legacy of the foefire. darn it! sadness for days over here

dude. Im getting sad too hang in there

Anybody else having issues leaving an already FINISHED PvP match? theres a group of 10 of us who cant do anything with our accounts right now…

Tried switching characters, resetting client, but no dice. Ports whatever toons we log into the match which is at 0 seconds and already completed.

That would be nice for PvE/Raids/Dungeons, but if it were to come I would definitely not want this to appear in PvP. Nice idea

Since posting this, I have been paying attention a lot more in-game… I really can’t tell if the difference was intentional or not. IMO, I would appreciate all legendaries having the same length for trails… I noticed today that Kudzu went like 5 times as far back as mine when I was running next to somebody in WVW. I almost couldn’t even see my steps to be honest.

Any chance a Mod/dev could give us a quick reply if this was intentional/unintentional and if this is something they are going to consider altering?

Let me start off first by stating that I absolutely love the artwork behind the foot trails coming from the new Legendary weapons! I just got Astralaria this past week after months of hard work. Unfortunately, the trail I leave behind is only 3 footsteps at most times, and only stays for maybe a second? Would you guys mind considering extending the graphic to last as long as some of the other legendaries, for example Incinerator or Sunrise? It just leaves me wanting more when I swap from Incinerator- (in my opinion/experience) a much easier legendary for me to craft – to Astralaria, and seeing a much more discrete effect.

I noticed on Reddit there was a thread going about this dealing with some other legendaries as well, so I know I am not the only one who sees this. It looks like the steps are not evenly distributed, this applies to a random bunch of the weapons. Can we have them all the same length?

Thanks!!!

(also, I am sorry if this was already posted, but forum search bar keeps automatically searching whenever I stop typing a word and doesn’t let me finish… Made it hard to research here. possible bug?)