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The skill sounds amazing, and has a ton of uses. I just wish that it had a cap of 20 players instead of 10 to match mesmer portal. It’s like it is almost top tier for wvw, but not quite there

This is exactly what needed to happen for might stacking necro to be somewhat viable. Now we just need to test damage ability and see if barrier will be any good at all.

And from the other map as well:

I have completed Map Completion for both Auric Basin and Tangled Depths, but I have received no chests or rewards for doing so. I still need the cache for the elite specialization collection, and have not received the legends required to make the gift of Maguuma

Thanks Robert! These changes look amazing. Thanks for all of the transparency! If you read this, I just want to say that the Chilling Darkness trait still doesnt apply the chill to every blinded target in an aoe blind like the July 28th update says.

Thanks Raziel for reminding me about greatsword! Yeah, thats why I suggest that they remove the icd for the next beta weekend to see what happens. I dont think it will be as big of an issue as Anet thinks it will

ronpierce.2760:

That’s what I said. They should merge them, allowing either blind or fear to cause a 2 second fear, 4 sec icd per target.

I assume you mean 2 second chill?

Tim.6450:

Chilling Darkness: This trait now activates on all targets that are blinded by a single area-of-effect blinding strike before it goes on cooldown.

That being said I would prefer if this trait with shiver of dread or at least swapped places since the necromancer has inherently more fears while reaper has more blinds.

Excellent points! If they reduced the ICD by 1-2 seconds but made it so aoe blinds chilled everyone hit, it would be a LOT better. Honestly though, I like your idea of swapping the icd’s betteer. We have access to less fear, so the ICD would hurt less vs the blinds. It would really only hurt spectral wall chills, but again, thats only one skill

The problems I have with Reaper are mainly just the greatsword.

I would LOVE to have the leap from RS2 increased, but thats not my main concern. Greatsword is great for PvE right now, because enemies dont try to interupt you when you have large casts.

for PvP and WvW though, the greatsword suffers SO MUCH. I was raiding last night in WvW, and I just felt way to slow with it out. All other melee greatswords in the game have a skill to catch up to others, or a leap. GS5 is just too clunky, and it doesnt help catching up to people who are out of 600 range. With a leap you dont need a target to move, but with a pull you HAVE to have one.

Also, all of the skills have such long casts, that in the hectic mess that is WvW zerging, the damage output just doesnt feel up to par, with all of the cc getting thrown around.

As everyone here knows, chilling darkness in the curses line has received a 5 second icd. This change was most likely put in to nurf the amount of chill a reaper can put out, but how much chill does this effect? Keep in mind i’m coming from a WvW mindset

Lets go over all of the blinds that a reaper has access to:

-Dagger 4
So this attack bounces 3 times and transfers conditions once. Right now this skill is useful for duels or PvP, but off-hand dagger is just not that much of an option for WvW

-Well of Darkness
With the icd added to chilling darkness, this skill got hit the hardest. Its a base 50 second CD well that only pulses blind to 5 targets for 4 seconds. With the ICD added to this trait, it ONLY CHILLS ONE PERSON. I thought maybe it would at least chill the initial 5, but it only hits one target now.

-Shroud 2
Dark Path with shroud 2 only hits one person anyway, but RS 2 hits multiple people (which is why path of corruption is so nice on reaper). The leap is already so short, chilling all foes hit wouldnt make the skill insanely overpowered, just very strong

-Signet of Spite
Single Target, not really effected except for the amount of chill application

-Shadow Fiend
Never used, but again, single target so not really effected.

-Plague Form
When you are in plague form you trade offensive damage for nice support. I never thought that chilling darkness made plague form OP, just a really nice elite to take instead of the alternatives.

AND out of all of these, the ones people will actually see in WvW are Well of Darkness, Plague form, and shroud 2. In PvP some of the single target chills would be used, but again, this trait is not overpowered, its just strong.

Well of Darkness and Plague form are hurt the hardest by an icd, because it makes the chill only hit one person, and for Well of Darkness, it only lasts for 4 seconds anyways. Adding an ICD, especially at 5 seconds makes it not even worth picking up.

I suggest removing the ICD for the next beta weekend to see how exactly the chill effects gameplay from all aspects, and then making a decision from there. I wouldn’t mind Chilling Darkness moving up a tier in traits. It doesn’t HAVE to be an adept trait.

Well, those are my thoughts. If anyone wants to add anything that I missed, or give alternative possible solutions, please do so!

I’ve been running reaper mainly in WvW. I’ve made 2 specific builds. One is a standard Power Reaper that runs double shouts with spectral armor. You take death magic, soul reaping, and reaper. Run Rise shout with death nova. The damage is absolutely ridiculous when the minions explode. Its a good alternative to wells.

The build I made for GvG is a chill build that runs Spite, Soul Reaping, and Reaper. I would run Curses for blind on chill, but I discovered that Well of Darnkess only chills one target hit out of the initial 5.

The class I am the most worried about with this change is warriors. As a condition necromancer you can still apply bleeds and the more important skills at midrange, which is where most classes will be with the changed versions of their movement skills. Warriors running with greatsword and sword will be tough to kill (like they are already).

Spoj The Second.7680:

Condi, power, precision. Basically what rampager should be. With this you open up the possibility of 1 condi spec being included in optimized pve groups.

Even Power, prec, condi damage could work nicely.

there is a stat for power, precision, condition damage, its called Rampagers

Steelxsoldier.6512:

Freeelancer.2860:

Just to be perfectly clear, this means that if I have r95 and r5 character and 2 more r0 alts I’ll have 100 points in total for all 4 of the characters (or 25 on average), correct ?

Ok, here is how it works. If you remember how world xp works, it’s not just given in levels, but in actual numbers. The first few ranks DO NOT require the 5000 wxp that every level after a certain point requires, they require less. So if you had a rank 5 and 95 your total rank for all of your characters would be something like 98 NOT 100. And you would get to spend those 98 ranks on each character, it’s not split between all of them, each one gets 98 points. Hope this helps!!!’

Ok! I did the math for this!! So the wxp needed for each level is as followed: 1000 for ranks 1-3/ 2000 for rank 4/ 5000 for each level after that. So at rank 5 you would have a total of 2 ranks at the 5000 level. So if you had a rank 95 and a rank 5 unfortunately you would only get a combined rank of 97 I’m sorry but that’s the way it works out. People need to know this so they don’t rage when they don’t see 100 ranks combined.

Freeelancer.2860:

Just to be perfectly clear, this means that if I have r95 and r5 character and 2 more r0 alts I’ll have 100 points in total for all 4 of the characters (or 25 on average), correct ?

Ok, here is how it works. If you remember how world xp works, it’s not just given in levels, but in actual numbers. The first few ranks DO NOT require the 5000 wxp that every level after a certain point requires, they require less. So if you had a rank 5 and 95 your total rank for all of your characters would be something like 98 NOT 100. And you would get to spend those 98 ranks on each character, it’s not split between all of them, each one gets 98 points. Hope this helps!!!’

Haha, I was right after all! I’m glad I was optimistic and not pessimistic like a few of you in this thread. I think it’s kind of funny how golden wing listed a bunch of things they are eventually making account bound

Meh ideas overall except for parasitic contagion. My 30/30/0/10/0 build will probably just switch out dhuumfire for it. Hopefully really good sustain.

I am however interested in Path of Corruption: what does/will aegis convert to?

If you take a look at the sidebar on the April feature packs blog page showing the dates for when information is going to be released, there is a specific article dated for march 27 that is titled “Account-bound”. A guildie pointed this out to me, and we couldn’t think of anything major that would require an entire article having to do with account-bound items other than Wxp. What do you all think?

Just a clarification here:

Earlier it was stated by Roy that new players in pvp will still have all traits unlocked EXCEPT the new ones that will be added. If this is the case, then I dont see a reason to complain, unless the price for unlocking is something crazy like 1g or more. Hell, the way i see it 10 or 20 games of hotjoin will get you all of the skills you need (hopefully)

just to add another piece of visual aid to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twGlTHGVUVc shows some great mesmer spots into hills and bay from inner

i’ll talk with phro about it and ask him what he did. You’ll probably say his word doesn’t account for anything, but i really don’t think that he hacked. I understand you all are frustrated, but he wasn’t able to take your keeps. I just want to actually understand what happened. I’ll let you all know if I find anything out.

Guys, you need to understand this is all they do. They literally don’t care about sitting in a a keep for hours on end. All they want is the “epic cap”. It really wouldn’t surprise me if he was in a party with 3 thieves for that long. I’ve had raids where he starts out in a keep, and then when we end 5 hrs later, he is still in there. His dedication is pretty crazy

Josh XT.6053:

“Fear The Phro” from ebay got caught. Him and some friends glitched into BP Bay, never contested, no seige anywhere, waypointed and reinforced…

So we thought, maybe golems? Shrugged it off, sucks. Then we had a couple people in hills lords room watching just incase it was people glitching. Much to our surprise, 4 idiots show up inside hills lords room!!! No walls down, no gates down, we’ve owned it for many hours – no way anyone could have been in there at all.

We killed them before they took it, all reported Fear The Phro but couldnt get anyone elses names from the group, we requested to join party and got that name. When I confronted this person and informed them that they have been reported, they claimed we got “ninjaed” and went offline immediately.

Stay classy, ebay.

I understand where your coming from, thinking this. I just want to say I somewhat know Phro, and he is a real master at ninja-ing keeps. Its not un-common for him to sit in a keep for a few hours, waiting for a force that he can port to take it.

The only reason that I can see besides ds being considered a transformation is because of the “Foot in the Grave” trait which gives stability upon entering ds. BUT that stability is very short, and remaining in ds for a long time without being able to res/stomp doesn’t make since. The only place the hesitation comes into play is with spvp, but I highly doubt a majority of the necromancers in pvp would go 30 into SR for Foot in the Grave just for that stomp.

here is my question: can you still buy the 5 agony resist infusions from FoM? If so, can you combine those together to make a +6? Or, have they been removed from the fractal relic golem? Or are they just 5 agony resist instead of a +5 agony resist? I haven’t seen anything on this yet.

Nice! I will definitely have to check this out. Sounds like fun!

ok, just in case if I didn’t clarify enough:
This is for the Ehmry Bay server, i would of included that in the title, but it would of gone over the character limit. We dont know if we are the first, all I know is that I was the first one to post ANYTHING about this title. Also keep in mind that the new content is NOT done with, as worlds 2-6 have yet to be released. I would invite your friends who have this tag to post a picture on this forum so that we can all congratulate them.

Harnak Shadowclaw and Veln on top of the box. We believe that we are the first two to get the new title on our server: Ehmry Bay.

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Here is the next picture, and sorry for it being a day late!!!! (P.S. have you found out how to get here yet?)

Ok, this may turn into a week-to-week thing. What i’m going to do is take a picture of my friend as a hylek in different places. Enjoy