Guild Wars 2

Oh fantastic, haven’t been able to play the last couple days, log in today expecting to be able to do the epilogue and was quite irritated that it had aapparently ended early.

Gonna link a video for you of a small group wiping 2 zergs from 2 different servers one after the other from the perspective of a Necro.

Fun fact: This guy used to play an Elementalist for the group, then he swapped to Necro.

loseridoit.2756:

B) Errr it very easy to congest a waypoint. WP are already punished for the expensive supply requirement, time invested and the fact that it contested easy

If you think the zerg had anything involvement in building those waypoints outside of moaning that they weren’t done yet in map chat, you need to lay off the smarties.

DevonCarver.5370:

I’m already feeling the Wuv. I’ll try and reply to some individual questions, but I’m not going to respond to all of them.

Lovely.

If WEXP and World Ranks are supposed to be a representation of how much you have done to contribute to your server’s war effort, why is it awarded for killing the Veteran Ice Wurm, Harpy, Warg, Champion Spider, and I presume the Eternal Battlegrounds bosses, none of which actually aid your server in any way?

Similarly, why do vital logistical tasks such as upgrading, repairing, and escorting dolyaks go unrewarded?

I’ve spent some time recently doing a bit of WvW with a minion build. I haven’t run into any problems with their AI outside of Flesh Golem and Bone Minions. Though it’s quite frustrating when it does happen.

They perform exceptionally well in 1v1s and small group (4~7ish) fights, which is usually what I run into going about my tasks in wuvwuv.

The issue is that the second the scale tips even slightly past that… your utilities are near worthless. Flesh Wurm may be relatively safe, Flesh Golem may get one suicidal charge through the ranks, Bone Minions will die before they get in range, and Bone Fiend will get run over.

As fun as it is to play with them (and minions are the reason I’d play a Necro class) I can’t justify bringing them outside of silly messing around occasionally.

PinCushion.7390:

And that’s why I’ve been considering getting the spear or trident legendary. Kraitkin looks so awesome!

Already got the spear precursor and a few bits and pieces myself. Still have a ways to go but I love spear enough to grind it out (500 powerful blood oh god why.)

That aside, I honestly feel so much stronger when I’m underwater, even though I lose access to my (traited) wells, it’s bizarre.

Zen.8497:

Matt Witter.6982:

The tool tip for the second tier of the Cannon Mastery and Ballista Mastery abilities shows the wrong percent increase. The tool tip for both of these should say that it increases damage by 25%

Honestly it doesn’t make no sense by comparison with the defensive stats against siege weapons increase (25% vs 5%) unless those are wrong as well. They should balance each other out offense and defense.

5% reduced damage from all types of siege – Rams, Catapults, Trebuchets, Ballistae, Arrow Carts, Golems, Burning Oil, Cannons, Mortars.
vs.
25% increased damage from ballistae or cannons.

Seems fine to me.

Yams.6082:

25% damage increase? Where does it max out at? Seems disproportionate to the seige damage reduction amounts. Maybe I’m missing something.

Only one of the points in those lines gives the damage increase, the other points give things like new skills or increased range.

How do you unbalance a balanced tier?

So glad I started putting points into Ballista Mastery already.

If it’s the ones I’m thinking of, they’re Veteran Charr in Dredge armour with Fused rifles, they shoot fiery tornados out of their rifles that split into multiple, smaller tornados and knock you down, if you close in on them and start meleeing, they’ll use jump shot to knock you down and retreat to a distance.

I’ve also seen Dredge with scorched skin and fiery hands using fire magic.

Taggund.8936:

I knew it was bad when people actually stopped to fight the veteran wurm, and then seeing it actually gave WXP. I’m hoping this madness settles down.

Wait, so the bloody veteran wurm gives wexp, but doing things that actually help like running yaks, upgrading and repairing don’t? Oh dear lord.

Pestilence.3184:

Faux Sheaux.6179:

Thanks for the Bay BP

your welcome we cant match the numbers being thrown at us….. and seeing as its 2 vs 1 from you and AR pretty much all the time its a big MEH to most of us now

kinda pathetic its taking both servers to actually keep us down

You do of course realize that the only reason AR hit your map was because you queued our BL and took our Bay, right?

airstu.2579:

Because if it did, it will get exploited just like before.

How can spending anywhere between 5 silver and 1 gold 50 silver for an upgrade for what would probably be a paltry amount of wexp be “exploited”?

How can spending anywhere between 3 to 5 minutes running a Dolyak for what would probably be a paltry amount of wexp be “exploited”?

Glenn.3417:

Aeolus.3615:

That was the best update for today but they ruined it ! lawl!

•Necromancer trait: Now allows life-stealing on walls in World vs. World.

another one bites the dust :>

So necro life stealing now works on walls, yet they disable the effect of sigil of leeching?
Logic anyone?

Necro stealing on walls has worked for a while, I took one of Overlook’s walls down 15% with autoattacks and wells once before I got caught.

Is there any particular reason for this? I honestly can’t think of one.

One is a money/karma sink and the other is a time sink, both need to be done as a part of a server’s wvw effort.

Dietzen.6127:

Zogyark.4597:

Can someone post a video of the new DS interface and the new scythe effect on a weapon like gargoyle scythe/scythe skin, and the new life siphon updated tooltips. Thank you.
kitten dark path would’ve been better if it was instant rather than unblockable but oh well, so close..

I second this, or just if someone could upload a photo of the new DS UI, would be cool! I’m very anxious to see how it looks now!

Patch still isn’t live yet.

Essence Snow.3194:

Astonished ya’ll are still allowing Cof p1 to remain in it’s current state. Ya’ll changed the world bosses because of the economy, yet ignore what this allows/creates.

“Reduced quickness from 100% attack speed to 50%.”
“Weapons sold by vendors are no longer salvageable.”

These hit the CoF farmers pretty bad.

“Necromancer trait: Now allows life-stealing on walls in World vs. World.”

This is either a typo and should read “no longer”, or they’re legitimizing me running around contesting a server’s entire section of EB by tagging walls with my dagger.

“•Death Shroud skill: No longer uses a custom skill bar interface, thereby allowing players using Death Shroud to see buffs, health, and endurance. The screen and sound effects are unchanged.”

THANK GOD.

Good luck Brolis Rockers, wish I could help out but I’m out of commission for most if not all of this week.

Vena.8436:

Zergs do not get full exp… but don’t let pre-established game mechanics get in the way of q.q zergs.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/Blog-post-on-new-rank-system/first#post1635429

Raap.9065:

I always earn gold in WvW… maybe die less?

I don’t, but then again that’s because I spend most of my time doing kitten like pumping my money into towers, camps and keeps to get them upgraded. Then running the yaks while attempting to hold off thieves, mesmers, eles or large groups that can just driveby them like they’re nothing.

You know, the logistics stuff no one wants to do because there’s no incentive to do so, and after this patch it seems there will be even less reason to do them because hey, wvw progression? Best way to do that is zerg zerg zerg and tag as much as you can.

I’m not even mad that I’ll still get mediocre/no rewards for doing what I do, it’s a job that needs to be done and I’m happy to do it.

I’m just mad that there’s going to be even fewer people willing to lend a hand when it’s needed because it’ll cut into their shiny new realm rank grinding.

I recall a friend of mine who doesn’t know too much about Necros asking me if my Jagged Horrors were giving their health to me and if that was why they kept dying about a week ago.

Thought I’d throw that in here, I laughed at the time but now that I think about it having a portion of it’s health transfered to you every time it bleeds could be neat.

My little Charr can’t be this cute.

J heazy.7214:

You would certianly see groups/guilds telling people to go away because they are cutting into thier rewards.

I don’t think so, the larger groups have the ability to and should be focusing on taking major objectives such as keeps, which will also be worth realm exp.

There’s also something to be said for risk/reward, a 1v1 is a much higher risk than 40v1, why is each member of the 40 rewarded equally to the 1?

I’ve taken a liking to my vampiric power build underwater as of late. With spear’s Wicked Spiral and Deadly Feast you can suck up a lot of health in situations where you’ve got multiple targets to hit. It kind of makes me wish we had a cleaving vampiric focused weapon on land.

Then there’s Frozen Abyss on the trident. Dear lord that thing hits like a truck, it’s one of my favourite Necro skills by far.

Heylo.4938:

Also, if your gift needs Ori, which I’m fairly sure it does, make sure to be doing daily ori runs. If you get all the nodes, 2 in frostgorge, 2 in southsun, 5 in CS, and 5 in ML, you can get 42 ori ore a day, at least.

Between guesting and http://gw2nodes.com/ , any ori/ancient wood needed goes pretty fast.

I’d guess what you’re seeing is AOEs that don’t require line of sight to cast.

The Elementalist’s Dragon’s Tooth is a particularly annoying example.

Ezeriel.9574:

DS is for jumping off cliffs, running from zergs, or maybe long range dps for Axe users….

If I see a person pop DS for any other reason, I actually take the time to whisper them, and explain just how stupid I think they are.

I’m guessing you just forgot gap closing/chill stacking and quick interrupts with doom?

Oglaf.1074:

You also get two times the Combo Projectile if you stand in a Combo Field.

This is extremely fun when you’ve traited for increased range&100% finishers and you have a mesmer friend with time warp.

“Necromancers are a bit slower as a profession, they need to move into that kill radius in order to get somebody locked down, but once they start pounding on somebody it should be that that person should have to run away or die.”

This statement is what interested me the most, how accurate does everyone feel it is?

So I’ll bring this up again – What if CC broke stealth?

That way if a thief/mesmer waltzed into a reaper’s mark, or failed to dodge an earthshaker or a pull or a knockdown or don’t slot stun breakers they’re as wide open as anyone else is.

Would also make that one trait rangers have a bit more interesting.

Bump, this is kitten me off to no end, I don’t understand why this was done if it is intentional.

Here’s a thought, what if CC broke stealth?

With regards to lack of escape mechanisms for roaming, cliffs and water are your friends. Necros can survive any fall, no matter how utterly ridiculous it may be, and people can’t follow you, and we have a dash and swiftness underwater.

Regardless, I don’t do exceptionally well when I try roaming, though admittedly I run a tanky build so it’s not optimal for that sort of fun.

Counter-roaming on the other hand, that’s always hilarious.

Krait spawn rates have always been silly at centre island.

The changes they made to the Krait are what’s killing you, sure they used to hurl you around like a ragdoll with their knockdowns and knockbacks and pulls, but you deal with it.

Now they all give eachother 5~10 stacks of might, fury, and quickness, and beat the kitten out of you while ccing you to high heaven

I know my Necro can’t just meander onto the island, AOE everything and take it any more, you’ll need to take out small groups of the Krait at a time and work with the Quaggans, especially the veteran shaman.

Plok.6145:

MrHaze.3690:

Plok.6145:

MrHaze.3690:

Had a great time at Badgetoberfest in BP’s Bay tonight, you should host these things more often.

How many of you there? 70+

I didn’t take an exact count but it was around 20~22 ALS with 10 or so members of assorted other guilds.

THAT IS A BUNCH OF CRAP! kitten should took SS after being run over.

What reason do I have to lie about that exactly, Plok?

Plok.6145:

MrHaze.3690:

Had a great time at Badgetoberfest in BP’s Bay tonight, you should host these things more often.

How many of you there? 70+

I didn’t take an exact count but it was around 20~22 ALS with 10 or so members of assorted other guilds.

Had a great time at Badgetoberfest in BP’s Bay tonight, you should host these things more often.

Toble.2968:

When asked if I could borrow 5 gold and 50 silver for an Omega golem and a Superior catapult, Twogallants took it seriously and said he was sorry and it’s best not to ask a commander, he is poor enough as is.Poor, Poor AR.

I call bullkitten.

Walabone.6713:

MrHaze.3690:

Walabone.6713:

Small video of Snacks and I fighting off a bunch of AR by ourselves at Lowlands camp in AR Borderlands.

http://youtu.be/DKIm3lUXNow

That video pains my brain deeply.

Sorry I hurt your brain

If it makes you feel better we fought off a PAXA group in the same fashion prior to that fight at lowlands, I just wasn’t recording at the time

No no, it wasn’t you who hurt my brain, it was the people at 17 seconds who just let you casually stroll up to them and HB/WW them.

Walabone.6713:

Small video of Snacks and I fighting off a bunch of AR by ourselves at Lowlands camp in AR Borderlands.

http://youtu.be/DKIm3lUXNow

That video pains my brain deeply.

ekleenex.1654:

MrHaze.3690:

GrandmaFunk.3052:

So…. is AR taking a break this week?

I can’t speak for the whole server, obviously, but a large portion of ALS is taking it easy this week.

It’s given me a chance to be a fashionista and level up an alt a bit, so I won’t complain.

I can’t bring myself to believe ALS is the reason AR is taking a hit, no way their carrying anyone.

Never claimed that we were.

GrandmaFunk.3052:

So…. is AR taking a break this week?

I can’t speak for the whole server, obviously, but a large portion of ALS is taking it easy this week.

It’s given me a chance to be a fashionista and level up an alt a bit, so I won’t complain.

Corrosive Poison Cloud? That’s an interesting choice.

That aside, fun video, quite the show.

Walabone.6713:

Well maybe I’ve been misinformed then. Who’s the ALS Norn warrior with the commander Tag I always see at the head of zergs?

That being said, have never seen any Rangers in ALS worth mentioning…

Yeah that’s Twogallants.

As for the second half of that comment, I can say there are probably 2 rangers who I would never want to fight. The first is Dovgan, the second is iBankai, ALS’s guild leader, but he sadly doesn’t seem to play much lately.

I haven’t seen too many good rangers though.

shifty.6504:

i sec that all it does is make everyone that has in to stupid mindless zombies.

Not quite…

subcrazy.1098:

MrHaze.3690:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/Update-No-WvW-Rating-Reset

Well then, looks like we’ll all be here for a while.

I’ll put the kettle on.

I would like a green tea pls and thanks.

Hm, I do have some Jasmine, will that do?

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/Update-No-WvW-Rating-Reset

Well then, looks like we’ll all be here for a while.

I’ll put the kettle on.

I would like to take a moment to salute the brave NSP players who repeatedly manned/tried to defend that catapult just north of NSP Hills about 10 minutes ago.

I don’t think I’ve ever feared that many people off of a cliff in such a short space of time before.