Clearly the class performs well enough, as it seems about 1 in 3 people I see in fractals is playing reaper. I favor power myself, and I can affirm that it is reliable as high as scale 100. I’ve been trying to work in a chance for challenge mode on Nightmare, as I shamefully have not done that yet. (I joined a group today, but it dissolved before beginning.)
Glad to hear this. I would prefer scale 100 fractals as my endgame content because raids seem too strict for me. I love power reaper playstyle myself. There’s just something satisfying with using a big GS to mash opponents into dead matter. Sadly, I got caught with what’s considered “meta” and started collecting viper trinkets because I’m new. But it’s not bad to have both I guess.
Try Valk with a little Zerk. Better to have a fat lifeforce pool than to waste stats by regularly shooting up to 150% crit chance.
Clearly the class performs well enough, as it seems about 1 in 3 people I see in fractals is playing reaper. I favor power myself, and I can affirm that it is reliable as high as scale 100. I’ve been trying to work in a chance for challenge mode on Nightmare, as I shamefully have not done that yet. (I joined a group today, but it dissolved before beginning.)
Sorry that my idea of fun doesn’t involve an entire race taking a hot steaming crap on people who believe differently than they do and that happens to resemble/reflect the sad behaviors of keyboard warriors in the real world but hey, you do you.
Unfairly chastising someone’s beliefs from the secure position of distance and anonymity is sad. Successfully ka-sploding your enemies who were aided by a higher power while forgoing any such aid yourself is maximum brutal.
If I want to deal with that much anti-theistic edgelordiness I’ll hang out in the YouTube comments section of heavy metal videos.
Well you’re no fun.
A friggin’ god just built up potentially fatal levels of bad karma in a world featuring explosive-wielding heavy-metal death-cats, and somehow you find room to complain. Personally, I’m feeling like
While I can’t say your specific scenario is the correct one, I do have the suspicion that there is some connection between Rytlock’s mysterious Mists adventure and the sudden appearance of Balthazar. Personally, I doubt Rytlock saw this specific event coming.
In GW1, the lore of the gods definitely did “evoke feelings of awe, terror, and mystery”. GW2 has made them suffer by diminishing them a bit, as making all human history and their gods less significant was ArenaNet’s answer to making the story multi-racial rather than human centric, when what they should have done instead was adapt the other races to give them a different perspective without reducing importance.
Balthazar is one of the more awe and terror invoking gods from GW1 lore, just under Grenth, Dhuum, and Abaddon.
Well, I have read up plenty of Guild Wars story and lore, but I have never played the game. This means that I have knowledge, but also detachment. Since what I’m talking about is pure feelings, that detachment does certainly skew my perspective.
Not going to lie, the Six gods pantheon is one of my least favorite fictional pantheons out there. Gods in a story should evoke feelings of awe, terror, and mystery. Most importantly, they should have a legendary record for success, making them as a power worthy of worship. The Six fail in regard to all of these, coming across as an utterly underwhelming sack of disappointment. (Although I will usually highlight Grenth as being a bit of an exception to this, especially considering his unique origin.) Anyway, seeing as how Balthazar has now become an active agent in the story, I must say that I am feeling nothing short of elated. Because I want to kill him. I really, really, REALLY want to kill this guy. I am shaking in my seat eager to slap his kitten. This is the only thing that could be more satisfying than killing Phlunt. Of course, he just had to poof away at the end leaving me unsatisfied. Good gosh, I hope we get to kill him soon.
DOES ANYONE ELSE HAVE A RAGING CHARR kitten FOR DEICIDE RIGHT NOW???
COME BACK BALTHAZAR! I JUST WANT TO PUT MY SWORD IN YOU!!!
The TP went down for maintenance just as soon as I has started to sell an entire inventory full of items I had just crafted. This on the very day I happened to decide to level a second jeweler. What impeccable timing.
It clearly wasn’t triggering in normal, so I tried again in infantile to no effect. Though knowing that dailies don’t trigger in infantile may be useful at some later date.
I was jumping here, and my head became stuck in the wall, and I was unable to act in any way. I had to return to the hub to escape. Reentering Storm Top, I played for a few minutes before the game locked up and crashed.
I am trying to join a party Fractals, but I am being blocked. I move my cursor over the Join button and it says: “You have joined too many parties recently. Please wait a moment before trying again.” The number of parties I have joined today (or this week, really) is 1. That was for PvP. I then went to do PvE, only to be met with this. This “moment” may soon be going on a half hour.
Well, my cat definitely consumes catnip orally, so it is kind of like a snack.
Also, if it is a drug it should be noted that various military groups in history have encouraged or forced the use of psychoactive drugs in their soldiers as a way of controlling behavior. It may not be as illegal as some would initially believe. The desired effects may vary from getting troops to better cope with unbearable circumstances to taking away all sense of self preservation.
In my last 2 games of PvP, my victories were for whatever reason used to contribute to the Champion Paragon achievement. I main Necro for PvP and have never used my Guardian in a single PvP match. Ever. I noticed when I saw myself get 5 AP for the 1st tier of the achievement after another Necro victory. I know they both use greatswords now, but come on!
Reaper’s shroud may lack the range of it’s counterpart, but with higher dps, cleaving, better cc, and pulsing stability, I honestly find it to be an upgrade. Great sword has longer windups and is more difficult to use than the necro’s other weapons, especially in PvP. However, you will find that in spite of the higher skill threshold the weapon is enormously rewarding to use if used well, able to seize players and bring them from ~45% health to 0 in one to two blows from gravedigger. (Be prepared to get juked though.) Reaper opens the way for builds that can spray out vulnerability like water from a fire hose. This coupled with the Decimate Defenses trait allows for 30-50% crit chances for builds that build little to no precision at all. In PvE, this allows you to cut though mobs at or near zerker rate while running a build that still includes passive defenses. (Remember, Shroud size scales up with vitality, not just Lv and one Soul Reaping trait. Vitality also helps out a little with sharpening stones.) As Elite skills go, Lich and Plague both deny you a healing skill, while Lich is now considered Spectral and needs to be traited for to reach full potential, and Plague is useless if you are running all Power and no Condition Damage. Flesh Golem is under-powered if not part of a minion build. The new Reaper elite is quite generally useful, offering an AOE stun on half the cool down of the transforms that has been quite the lifesaver for me in PvP. The trouble with it is that since it is a one-shot deal, it can be juked completely. This means that you have to be very considerate in your timing when using it if you don’t want to waste it.
Altogether, those are the reasons I am playing Reaper for both PvP and PvE. I still need to take it to WvW.
It’s a minimap issue. When they lowered the hero point req for elite specs down to 250, they made a lot of points easier to get, and also switched the location of that point and the one west of Faren’s waypoint, but did not update the location on the minimap. So that means you need to get that point, which unluckily is a rather hard champion, so bring friends.
Thanks for clearing that up. Now I don’t have to start my own thread.
I can’t deny that the Mordrem Snipers fill me with the undying rage of a thousand screen-punching suns, but there is nothing about them that particularly screams bad design to me or demands any serious change. They just punch harder than their contemporaries, that’s all.
To contribute a serious post to this discussion, I have occasionally thought about how I would make GW2 different if its reimagining were left entirely up to me. I would give the game strong elements of Lovecraftian cosmic horror. I would replace the elder dragons with a more untouchable, incomprehensible, alien force. The game would feature themes of terror, cults, mental illness, and of course suicide. At this point though, it would no longer be GW2, but a different game entirely. That being the problem of including such themes in a more lighthearted game such as this.
For that matter, does anyone know of an MMO that fully captures the overwhelming terror of our ignorance, our meaninglessness, and the overpowering inevitability of the end times?
That moment when you are a necro in sPvP and your teammate who is also a necro is in downed state surrounded by three enemy players getting ready to stomp him. You swoop in to successfully revive him at the last possible moment, and then the two of you engage the enemies who are a Warrior, a Thief, and a Mesmer for a 2v3 fight and wipe them all. Then you’re all like, “Hell yeah, necros. Hell yeah.”
Edit: (A piece of advice: try not standing in Well of Suffering.)
I always figured that there was nothing especially remarkable about the shouts. When a Ranger uses a shout, it is just a vocal command to his pet. (Look for “Roll Over!” and “Bring My Slippers!” in the forbidden vault of GW2 skills that were shot down immediately after being proposed and never brought up again.) When a Warrior says “Fear Me!” it is not any kind of mind control. The affected just look at this threatening dude and say “2spooky4me” and skedaddle. When he says “Shake it Off!” his allies hear that as "Get moving or I’ll show you “crippled”." The Guardian seems to be more mixed with “Receive the Light!” being an apparent spell while “Stand your Ground!” and “Hold the Line!” are likely just inspiring words that encourage his allies to perform better. The Reaper never gave me the impression that the words have anything to do with the spell itself. The Reaper has been explained as having a theme or horror and intimidation, so I always got the idea that this elite spec just likes to psychologically and verbally abuse its victims while it casts nasty AOE magic. The Tempest I explain away as a really bad case of anime-move syndrome.
I think there are relatively strong correlations where a regular player starting the game for the first time tries to pick a race and class that they most associate with or is the “easiest” to comprehend. This would usually be a human as a warrior-type class. It’s almost unavoidable, unless you literally don’t have humans or the warrior archetype in your game; the first is relatively easy (though uncommon) and the second is near impossible.
And there I was rolling Charr necromancer for my first character. I must be some sort of freak.
I would never play a Charr. I remember them from GW all too well.
I dislike the magic snowflake wand that made them somehow the Industrial Power. In GW they didn’t even have trebs or any evidence of industry past forging of armor and weapons. Primitive, shamanistic Barbarians.
Every time I hear some filthy beast yell “Remember Ascalon” all I can say is, yes. I do.
And I want to gut them.
I still don’t understand why would anyone pay to dungeon when you can find a party for free
Due to the difficulty of assembling a group that wants to do Arah explorable, I ultimately resorted to buying the paths. Otherwise, I would simply want to do them myself.
The closest thing is running them through the mystic forge. Aside from that, you can always just sell them for coppers. Doing this a ways out from town is not always convenient, but it is possible through the merchant express and a mystic forge conduit.
Struggling with getting the combat right is perfectly normal. After my first day of playing I was talking to the guy who introduced me to the game. He asked my how it was, and I responded with “The Blood Fiend has a better grasp of GW2’s tactics than I do and dies only half as often.” If only that was hyperbole.
Seriously, the first time I saw a Flame Legion charr in Ashford I mistook it for another player and tried to go say “hi” to it. Of course it immediately attacked me, chasing me around and I was all like “I THOUGHT GW2’S PVE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE CO-OP!?!”
Just saying, you can’t always expect everything to be your individual idea of intuitive. Getting into any game for the first time can be a confusing experience that may not be what you wanted or expected.
The animation and effects are practically nonexistent. It looks very much like a well that is missing a few graphics, to the point that it is hard to see except for the combo-field ring. The whole thing seems low tech and placeholder-like. They would be better off just recycling the particle effect from the marsh drakes.
I’d call it a coincidence, but I 100% agree with your sentiment of resemblance. We will know it was deliberate if this character starts taking sylvari prisoners and stitching them together while spouting righteous sounding quasi-religious nonsense about unity. Gotta love those white-magic villains.
