Guild Wars 2

Nah, I don’t think so. First off, this will get better with time, but your teamates have to stay in your well to get healed. I’ve watched them run out of it all the time, you need a blast finisher on top of the light field to get the full effect. And with a 45second cooldown its fine where it is imo. With WOB and MOB you can do some decent support with plague blinds

Ill say it again like I did the other thread.

And then the OP got moa morphed. And woke up.
There was a river and he went to swim and his minions couldn’t, and then he woke up
The Op went into lich or plague, and woke up.
The flesh golem didn’t care if your range or melee he just stood around and clapped at you for trying to make this work. And then the OP woke up.

I wouldn’t mind this trait if it didn’t have the bleed at all. Because you would have your minions, and a bunch of these guys running around and it would add to the MM feel, not to mention without the bleed, being able to have more than 1 of these guys would be great synergy with the toughness per minion out trait (forget what its called).

What happened to ioj? they used to have strong oceanic, the only thing they were missing was a couple eu and asian guilds, I guess the free xfer hit them hard after the pve week last week?

And then the OP got hit with a moa morph. And woke up

Jon check the mail. You guys should have some packages from the necromancer community (check out the cake is not a lie thread, just so you don’t think they are bomb packages baahaha )

Imo you have to be pretty close to use axe anyways, I’d say just use a dagger. The damage and life -force generation is a lot better.

What you should do, is level your ranger as they are going to get some changes soon where as your necro career will be filled with ignorance and l2ds bro. Don’t get me wrong we got some love for a bit, just not the love everyone was asking for. They took completely fine utilities and buffed them when everything else was bugged. Can anyone say, spectral walk much? Just goes to show even with a clear concise bug thread layed out they don’t care.

Bahahahah

A necromancer pictured cake covered in bugs. I like it!
Since not even half our class works, should the cake be at least half etible?

samkong.2719:

I honestly think we should start sending physical letters in the mail.

Mailing Address:
ArenaNet, Inc.
3180 139th Ave SE
5th Floor
Bellevue, WA 98005

I’m in full support of this. This weekend I will copy paste the bug thread and physically mail it to them. I’ll also send another one in regards to the game as a whole. November content patch says they will be adding a new content to the map, pve mode (w/e that is) etc etc. I don’t see bug fixes in that list, w3 hack and exploit fixes or bot problems. My second mail will be adressing this. All are welcome to join me in the physical mail awareness!

/signed on the snail mail idea.

lettucemode.3789:

Ithir, the mods on this forum are not the game designers and devs :P they’re just forum mods, possibly unrelated to Anet, and even if they left the threads up they can’t do anything to help. If you keep creating threads after you’ve been asked to stop it just comes off as whiny, the mods are just following the rules. The more of these threads that are created, the less likely Anet is to post here IMO. Vicious cycle etc.

The primary purpose of these forums is not communication with Anet, it is to discuss the game with other players. If Anet employees want to post, that’s great. But I don’t like it when developer interaction becomes expected, like it’s our right that they post here, rather than an occasional cool thing.

Its a viscious cycle they created with the LACK of communication. Where do we go to communicate with them then?

So put all your resources into bug fixes then. If they have different teams for each, they should be able to release content and bug fixes. The only reason I don’t believe they have seperate teams, is they put off regular bug fix patches to release halloween. If you have 2 seperate teams, and have had this halloween event pre planned, why the hold up?

Fix bugs. Adding new content and your game still isn’t working?
Fix necros. Only reason I USED to play. To me, rest of the classes are boring
Add a ladder/ranking/elo system for spvp
Match people who are a 5s team with other teams and not pugs vs teams
Fix WvWvW hax/exploits
Turn off ur god kitten free transfers and reset the rankings for wvwvwv
Get a hold of your bot situation.
Everything else means nothing until this is done except for more pve. I will agree there (not my avenue but important to some). You will lose a lot of people if you don’t do these.

I have quit, its quite obvious cash grab halloween events (yes I know they need some sort of revenue for a f2p game) but fix the game first. LoL skipped the halloween event because they are trying to make the 3v3map more competitive. They want there game even better before doing events/skin changes. Anyways as the second poster said, ill be lurking but ill be back when or if we get fixed.

Title says it all, is there or is it still comming? If there is no patch I’m completely done with this game and going back to tl2 and cs:go for my true pvp needs. I can’t play a game with so many bugs and developers scared to talk to us. On the subject of that, way to lock the Ignore mode:ON thread

“Please refrain from posting anything meaningless in these forums” or something along the lines of that. How about you guys please refrain from releasing a meaningless class, and a game that’s half finished before you tell me what to do. If I left someones furnace half installed for the winter and ignored their complaints, what do you think would.happen to my job? Disgusting.

Inb4 locknazis arrive.

I’ve noticed this too, I did nonstop supply runs to hit 80 and the supervisors always went for me. This isn’t for just condi necros, as I’m a bunker well build. I think the aggro is RNG at first but as more and more people realize how good plague actually is (found out the value of this skill at 40, but its good to see people utilizing this elite. It is my fav as we are bugged to kitten and this gives us the needed survivability the spirit trait line doesn’t.) Anyways, I don’t mind this. I’ve specced bunker just to tank. It gives me a role, and some sense of needed. Spamming blind (especially on a buffed supervisor) allowing my guild to take down an “immune” so to speak supervisor with ease is the only reason I’m still playing my necro. That and blinding a zerg of 30or more with WoD and plague blind for 10seconds and still getting out with dodgerolls and ds.

Unfortunately, this is all we have going for us. We are the tanks of gw2 in pve and wvwvw

@Calae
Healing people and “staring” at other peoples health bars is actually something i consider fun. Its not my fault you have had bad experiences with bad healers it sounds. CCing/Locking out the healer is an effective strategy, and if healing wasnt effective in a pvp game / esport, tell me how League of Legends does just fine with soraka, janna, etc etc…

@everyone else, You guys are just realizing this now? I figured this out before the three day headstart was over and quit. A game full of DPS doesnt require skill. just who can spam more and which class is currently FOTM OP

Knote.2904:

“Hey Necro’s, we know you’re not happy and still have issues to work out, we’re working on it still, some more stuff incoming soon-ish/sometime.”

All we need. =p

No, because theyve been saying that since beta for us. Im done waiting, and if they posted that they would get flammed. Hence the stone cold silence.

Edit: Also, everytime we get a couple bug fixes, a couple more appear and more people find. There is a thread currently investigating if the soul reaping trait line even gives u 30% lifeforce. From what ive read so far it doesnt…Just another day in Necroville

Guys, your starting to figure out and master deathshroud. The consequences may be severe.
On a serious note. Great job guys Time to respec again.
20/20/10/10/10 anyone? Don’t forget if you go too far into Blood you heal enemies! >.>

Also Anet
Please listen to these guys. THESE are the kind of posts that you should take into consideration above all. Actual raw numbers and Data.
Also, your DS mechanic is so broken and apparently the Soul Reaping trait line is completely worthless – your supposed OP mechanic doesn’t even work so can we get some fixes and buffs please?

If you turn a blind eye like amlin to the hundreds and hundreds of bugs then yes you will enjoy it. Imagine if your monk only had half the skills working.
If you want to enjoy this game my 3 tips to gw2 winning

1. Upon character creation – Choose Theif/Warrior/Mesmer/Guardian
2. Treat the game like skyrim with co-op, only the co-op doesn’t start untill lvl 60+ since (Even though they said the whole endgame is the game) nobody visits the starting areas anymore.
3. Pick a random server caus hey! They’re free transfers lawl

There would be step 4 which would be ignore the shallow gameplay, however since your d3ing it hard, you don’t mind shallow gameplay

LOL omfg amazing. ^

Bugfix: Glyph of KarlMclain

“We realized this glyph had no cooldown. It now has a one time use. Ever. Also, the passive was used to feed other professions thus giving necromancers some sort of role. We have removed this to compensate.”

+1.
Also, I’d like to completely agree on one point. I’m getting sick and tired of all the Theif/Mesmer/Guardian/Warrior who are rolling alt necros posting “Have you guys tried this build?” “I’m loving my necro!” Or “Wait, does X skill work?”. Idk bro read the kittenin bug thread, oh and nahhh the necro community with thousands of hours drilled into this class hasn’t tried that build yet (as they link a condition or bunker build) +rolls eyes

I hope they fix us soon, until then my necros shelved and made me quit the game (I only like necro )

Edit: random underlining I can’t get rid of? Even their forums are buggy…

Bm is bugged. As soon as your 15points in and get vampiric it heals your enemies.

We felt the base health of necromancers were too high, causing increased survivability (especially when speccing into blood). There fore we switched the base health of guardians and theives to 20k and reduced necromancers to the intended 16k. This will now properly reflect the previous change of deathshroud working as intended, but as we said we are not sure how its intended to work.

Like someone said, sprectal walk is the new deathshroud for them. Its their baby. So sad compared to all the other bugs. Thanks for the post karl but really, spectral walk wasn’t even on the bug list. Why are you guys balancing before fixing the game…

If you guys confirm or deny this let me know, ill probably take my points out of SR line and go for something else. Just another day as a necro it seems

Don’t forget the shaman water totem quest brah. That was epic in itself, even with ghost wolf ^^ epic quests were epic.

As someone said earlier, games are too hand holding now.

Of course every game will have bugs. My point is, there’s 100 for one class alone ONE HUNDRED for ONE class, that’s rediculous. A “revolutionary” so they claim, mmo would have basic features. Yes since wow came out, I believe they set the standard for basic features. If you can’t see which basic features me or the other posters agree should be in the game well, that’s probably why your still playing andim not.. Also nobody likes dieing while questing? I do. That’s why you make pvp pve or rp servers. If you don’t like dieing while questing because a higher level char beat you up , well as they say. PVP happened on a PVP server. To all of you still playing, I’m glad you can get past the bugs but I for one am done wasting my time. Maybe one day ill be back. Probably not. Like I said before, they don’t even have dueling while waiting for ques and such. You can go online and duel
in Dark Souls kitten

To sum up both my posts: the game has great potential. Its brought a lot of new things to the mmo genre and I applaud them for it. However, the shallow combat, lack of basic features, not just riddled but infested with bugs/cheats/hax, no dueling and no hardcore pve endgame for some is the downfall. So much potential…to me, this game is still in beta, moreso than any other release I’ve come accross

I didn’t read all the posts, nor do I expect anyone to read mine. However, before its closed from the fanboys on page 1 I’d like to agree with the poster and post what is making me log on less and less everyday

- first of all, anyone saying this game is an anti-mmo then why was it labelled an mmo?
-to everyone saying this is a skill based game, I’m not sure what game your playing but I’m playing one where everyclass has 40 bugs or more. Hacks/exploits/lolservertransferring (implemented horribly btw) with 1 map mode and no laders, and tpvp of pugs vs groups IS NOT SKILL.
-to everyone saying this has no grind: how are you making money? Caus I for one can’t afford massive RL money for gold since they implemented a garbage anti-botting script. Also have you made a legendary? Caus all I hear is “I’m not GRINDING for that”
-lack of immersiveness, as already stated: waypoints kill this MORE than mounts. Why in the EFF can’t I duel people/friends in a friggen PVP game, especially on friday night waiting in lions arch for w3 que (I can’t express how much money and more time I would be playing if I could hone my skills in duels)
-WoW came out in 2004, while having bugs, it wasn’t as bad as this. The worst thing in vanilla wow was server lag due to massive WORLD pvping (aq opening gates anyone?)
-im not looking for a wow clone, but ANet could have done with adding some of wows features.
-this last point is more of an imo, I miss the holy trinity but that’s because I usually roll a tank or healer.

/rant off

For the record I’d like to point out again, Just because everyone has the same gear, doesn’t mean this game has skill based pvp. Its actually pretty bad when you take your fanboy glasses off.

What? Vanilla lock with no DR on fear was amazing…

Your not missing anything. Good ole pve/rp’rs. Lol at once a year arguement, how’s your once a year events on WoW doing for you? Oh ya nothing. Its a different game, JQ proved halloween events or any event for that matter mean nothing if your serious about defending the server.

But then again, that’s just my opinion. I love pvp, don’t have time for pve/rp crap

Add: “Entering Death Shroud summons a jon peters tutorial to show us how powerful ds is .”

Fixed: We felt due to how great DS is and Jon showing you how to use said powerful skill; this was just too strong. Now upon entering DS, Jon Peters still appears. However he is using his warrior and the rest of the dev team appears as mesmers.

Yes because when Toyota recalls cars because of brakes and power window issues what they should have said was: we know hundreds of thousands of you testing our cars everyday can’t be right. The brakes are faulty? Nonsense l2drive better. Once you master driving you won’t even need brakes, then watch out!

Haha. “Srsly guys all classes are bugged! My friend rolled an elementalist…” I stopped reading there. Probably a thief player.

This thread reminds me of vanilla wow hunter forums. Thanks guys I missed those days, however this is why I don’t play the lottery. I pick the 2 worst classes in both great mmos ugh.

This thread delivers! +1

Power build is now viable! When you almost instantly (I say almost caus l2deathshroud BRO) die, our downed state was buffed! I’m reworking my necro to die as much as possible and do more damage (50%dmg while downed) then when I’m up!

You have to dig 16 pages to find the last red post for necros, rangers don’t have 100 bugs and no we aren’t moving forward. If you played all classes you’d know after ever necro patch there’s more bugs that pop up. Downed state buffs? Ya we need that, we’re always dead.

I can’t understand why they are tampering with NON BUGGED skills. Why the kitten are you working on balance when we aren’t even bug free!!!?

This is a feel good congratulatory thread.
No not to Anet
Nor NCSoft and their cashshoppage
but yes, to YOU my fellow Necromancer.

TO THE HUNDREDS OF YOU STILL PLAYING NECRO, I SALUTE YOU!!
The class is almost finally working as intended.

Healing Enemies you say? OF COURSE! we are dark arts, NOBODY likes us!
Minion ai is garbage!? OF COURSE! You think the people from The Walking Dead would still be alive if dead reanimated corpses were smart!?!? come on guys!

Ok I cant even joke anymore, ill be on my Guardian.

We should get Jon Peters to develop our class around this now!!!
…
Can you just delete the class already and start over?

Thanks for the updates (however all they make me want to do is obtain random sickness and go home early) Anyways, ioj should be picking up again. I’m quite impressed on how we faired during the day today. We may be 4k points behind but compared to a couple weeks ago that’s kitten good. You can bet us jantharians will be bringing the heat tonight sbi/jq ;D

Ya, thanks for the imput guys! My guild stacks on themselves in big wvwvw fights so the combofields shouldn’t be a problem (all you hear on vent/ts is blast finish kitten blast finishers now! :p). I’m more looking for the biggest green numbers I can find ^^ my main preference would be ele but I heard the guardian staff got buffed a bit so I’m torn. The guild is calling for support guardys so… Hmmm.

How about the bug where my vampiric traits heal enemies LOL. You haven’t heard of the necro bugs? Go to the subclass forum I don’t want to derail this thread. My point was they are taking their sweet kitten time because nothing else is comming out that’s half decent sadly. (As someone mentioned). I get a lot of games are going to have bugs but this is borderline excessive FOR 2012!

The fact is, gw2 is still in beta testing that went live I hate to say. Free server transfers still? Realms are “full” untill offpeak hours when they are “medium”? No when a servers full, it should be full. They should have made free xfers available to SELECT realms, they acknowledge orb hacks and such and its still there. Like one other said, that’s all fine it WIll get fixed, but WHEN. My necro STILL has 80+bugs with more surfacing all the time. Current state – game should have been free in general. I got my 60bucks worth – barely. Good thing we got halloween eventz gueyz LolOl -

Ioj for the most part was clogged from fri-sun. Sun morning till around 2pm est there were no ques. I wasn’t on sunday night so not sure after 3pm est how the ques were

Hey all, not sure which forum to post this in as its a general question (but doesn’t really fit in the general forums imo). Anyways, since my necromancer has 90 bugs and as more get fixed the more becomes broken. For instance, since the last patch our vampiric traits steal health from enemies and heal us (sure) but now they steal health, and they actually heal the enemies (tested and confirmed). This is confirmed with wells as well. Anyways I’m just fed up with the class, I can’t go minionmaster (ai is garbage) power builds are slightly lacking and not my playstyle same goes for conditions,(while good not my kind of play) and now the healthstealing bunker style that I was enjoying heals my enemies wohoo…
My question -
Which prof, in your opinion, does the best support. Water ele, engi, or gaurdian. I play mostly WVWVW.

Thanks all!
Necrohnomicon – 64 necro: SHELVED.

To think, I thought my vanilla WoW hunter had it bad in 2004. Necros worse in 2012, this made me lol off my chair at work, anyone know which is a superior support; waterele, Engi or guardian?

Iojs worst time is around now I believe, thanks for the update!

Its 9am est. Score update anyone?

My guild wants me to go Support Necro ( we have 1 necro and he doesn’t want to throw down WoB in wvwvw)

Note: this pertains to w3 only

So my question is, is there a good, viable, support w3 necro build out there? Is it worth going into healing power gear? Or should I just reroll staff/mace sheild guardian?
Also, I was thinking using plague form so when my guild stacks for aoe heals I could head out to the front line and aoe blind everyone and push them back. Builds/links/vids all helpful

Thanks guys

SrgtSarcasm you did exactly what he asked not to. You posted a build with random numbers claiming to hold your own with no vids/ss/build link rofl. Sometimes I worry about the world and all its inhabitants

Edit: not saying your lying or wrong but you didn’t PROVE IT. Hence the kitten title

The FACT is, Most of our “blast finishers” need to be activated by someone stepping on it where all other classes it just blast finishes. I’m also saddened that our wells, while a nice chunk of damage require bads to stand in them and the cd is massive. They’d be good for zoning if I wasn’t waiting 45seconds >.>