Guild Wars 2

No(or close) escape, no invu, no blocking, no reflect, dispel on hit … I believed necro was the class to endure pain; well, it is … until death.

I play core necro in both PvP and WvW, actually I have better result than trying hard with reaper.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vZAQNAW6an8MB9OhNOBGOBkmilxiabDLrbzbACgDY+279iH-e
Play it zerk, or with some marauder stuff if you feel safer.
Invigorating Precision + Staff + Bounding Dodger allow you to melee big pack of mobs. Otherwise, p/p spam 3 for range and big regen.
Take Unhindered combatant rather than Bounding Dodger for Swiftness and mobility.

Actually I’ve found thief is the easiest class for open world. (Or after core condi ranger)
Even Bristleback veteran you can AFK auto-attack, reflect his Spike Barrage burst and get full life

Well, half fractals or half pugs play it range, so …
But I played good compo pugs theses weeks :
1 chrono
1 druid
1 guard
and DPS like ele, an aware guard or else. Hard CC, cood sustain/heal, some buffs.

I try the “effective compo” 4 necros 1 druid, it’s barely efficient when there are some mobs, that’s worst since the patch, and that’s all. Everything could be better.

I think, in pugs and others, T4 fractal is more about utility AND DPS.
I’ve seen many groups asking for “DPS DPS DPS meta gearcheck” cause “fractal is easy” but members were running, kiting, geting ooc, not standing in AoE of mesmer or druid or reflection, etc, in final DPS was closed to zero.
Imo when 2~3 members are running a support build like a heal druid for example or in this topic a hammer guard… everybody fell safer and you can roll in melee every time = fast.
so, take every weapons for your guard and adapt. I play hammer/ss most of the time, never seen complaining.

I’m really happy to play Hammer Guard again.
And yes hammer is quite good : high dps, protection and a lil sustain with auto-attack ; easy to play and effective. For pug it’s doubtless more helpfull than GS/##.

Jerus.4350:

I’m a little confused by this back and forth. Is someone suggesting that you can’t play whatever you want in fractals? Because, you can, no skill or family of skills is required. You don’t actually need blinds, you don’t need heals or condi damage, or anything. There are plenty of ways to do fractals and that includes the new ones.

Fractals, dungeons, nor raid require particular skills/classes, other players make you feel you need.

All the old meta for dungeons and fractals, like 4 war 1 mes, 2 ele + destack thief … they were not needed, but I think we all had the frustration of a kick or ragequitting players, hours of research for a pug and stupid chat commentaries because the mass of players only wanted “meta” and you were the one class to many or an engie, a necro …
I feel the same for raid, they are few able to adapt to different compo. And again theses day I have read some funny things on fractal LFG for T4 chaos or bloom.

I didn’t say “erase all specifities” just “shouldn’t need”.
Obviously this is dps/support increase etc and good to take, but look already in raid which it’s still difficult for many of pug or experiencing guilds : you can say “It’s okai, my revenant can heal” and everybody lose their minds cause it’s not “meta” like on the video guid or the previous instance …

The come back of a meta for fractal ? Small group, giving to much significance of each slot !? And many players (good or bad) believing only in it !? This is not fun.

Barath.4305:

Zhaid Zhem.6508

I’m not talking about playing unproductive set or build, just you should not need alacrity, banner or any particular buff

but exactly that is the point my friend.

there are offensive options (banner of discipline, alacrity, quickness, gol etc), and there are defensive options (more stuns, stability, protection, all that stuff)

the better you become, the less defensive options you need, and the more offensive options you can take until you reach a point where you die. depending on how good you are that point is higher or lower

I mean you shouldn’t need in particular a chrono boons, a rev FoN or thing like that to succed, just mechanics most of classes can do, blind, might, reflection, range …

Barath.4305:

Zhaid Zhem.6508

I love fractals due to diversity of pug compo and builds, and shorts scenes

well, fractals (and dungeons) were way harder in the past. since the spec update etc. they became really easy even for bad teamcomps. i think the move towards favouring good teamcomps and players is a good thing.

Yes and no, most of players swore only by “meta”, that was effective until you found a bad thief with no smoke/blind, vulnerability, a bad guard without wall etc. But there was already “f50 5 guards hammer pug” “f50 5wars pug” “free join” or solo/duo record, and it worked as well.

I’m not talking about playing unproductive set or build, just you should not need alacrity, banner or any particular buff, or 5 condi build… to not kitten the fractal.
Chaos is sympathic, feasible, but last boss is a HP bag for nothing.
Bloomhunger is a pain for some normally viable compo.

I just hope new and future fractals won’t be a witch hunt for most of the classes, just like guard cause of retaliation is excluded 90% of the time.

I’m okai with more challenge, more gameplay, but I love fractals due to diversity of pug compo and builds, and shorts scenes. T4 is the tip top of the pugs : join and show you can adapt for 10 minutes.
Make fractals a DPS race, like raids or farm, or an all afternoon occupation, isn’t a sane idea.

Just a smaller lifebar : it would improve the dynamism, stop the complaining wipe/ragequit “Aaaaarrh … 20 minutes boss for QQ” and avoir all the questioning to make a perfect pug “gearcheck dpscheck 169 mastery blablablah” that we already have in raids- and yeah, may be reduce damage for some skills.
And the new anet trend : theses invulnerability aera or shield or whatever … one mistake and it kittens the fight… QQ

I agree it doesn’t promote build diversity for now, you need really strong DPS, a heal, a large support/sustain for melee, condi seems poorly effective … Chrono, war/rev, druid … (still better than “4 necro and free join”) or it takes 1 hour, but I really enjoyed this fractal, increasing challenge, diversified …

Same build, but sw/sw (Shield is great but 5 is a suicide skill most of the time) and I use my old war’s armor and pve swords : http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vlAQRAsc5nn3geNSuQvJRboHlsP0kS4I6SJ4EtrklTlRNjQKJNgEWwe93vH-T1CBQBOSJ4/2fAAPAg8oHICHEAHq+TAOBAmRZ2yUaADNDa4IAQKAYWWB-w
Sw/sw I have same DPS than some rev soldier/Durability rune… so smooth.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vRAQNArYRnc0AN2gtbCW2A0bilcBLuK2FHjUlh1wzCKA0AWBA-TlRfABVq+DXK9Mc/hSVGUoeAA0EIKAYC-w

Maybe something like that. I’ve played Spite Soulreaping and Reaper "hybrid build’ for HoT maps exploration, that was fun, but not effective otherwise

Sorry I come back on gw with my war but, what was the nerf of the “burnzerker” ?

All the other have the icon “earned” except this one, I get the reward but still 10/11.

It doesn’t mean you can’t play conditions.
It’s still effective in HoT maps but no weapon switch, mainly one legend …

May be there is no reward at all !

CITIZEN !              

Hello,

As many of you know, Ogre wars bugs permanently since the megaservers.
Sam has become an expensive and too rare item to acquire.

May be today it’s not the priority, but … One year ?
The last post of Anet on the subject dates from ~6 month “we’re working on it”, and that’s all, no more news. Did anet take the time at least ?

So now ? What about Ogre Wars ??? Anet will fix the event or Anet doesn’t give a kitten ? Can we have an answer ?

Thanks.

Still not fixed ?
Why don’t you change the chain events ? Delete the npc. Or give Sam to everybody.

There are some events that still don’t work after month, or years … like the 4 merchants in the bloodtide coast, Krewe leader Dobbs …

Hello,
I wanted to try the celestial signet in WvW, but 1) I don’t have the accessories 2) I already had the sinister armor…

How do you feel about that : gsw2skill
May be perplexity runes (but expensives ) Any idea ?

I play this with 2 or 3 friends, or alone, and it works well. This is really amazing, I see enemies changing nourishments in fight, warriors spam in once all theirs stances … they don’t know where to turn; I deal great damage and condition damage.
But in a party it’s not as good as power wells, not in all situations. And alone I have a lack of survival despites the runes & 20k pv, in comparison with my full zerk staff & dagger/. and Vampiric/Vampiric_presence; also it’s at the lack of life force.
I don’t know in comparison with full dire/rabid, I didn’t try since the patch. May be it’s better rather than try a hybrid set !?

Ty for reading.

On video you don’t place many many fire, or not at all … I’m okai with dhumfire but i think others runes like the good old rune of the Pack should be more profitable.

fractal / dungeon
Hammer mace/? support/damage
Zeal : 2-1-3
Honor :1(?)-3-2
Virtues : 1or3-2-2

More damage, or second guard and if you fear you won’t keep aegis (unscathed contender)
Zeal : 2-1-3
Honor :1(?)-3-2
Radiance : 2-2-2

I play this, and hammer has never been so strong !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvCX_ZnXBxs

You can’t farm anymore. The golden age is over !
Now when people see they’re not with SFR they don’t connect. Rounds start with “outnumbered” for the 2 other factions and 1 hour later SFR’s faction is spawncamping the 3 or 4 irreducible new players.

So where is the fun ? Where is the karma/xp ? The farm ?
And as you say you’re roaming against upscaled players… no fun here either …
Even for SFR’s faction this is boring as hell.

You sould take assassin’s armor or Knight (Precision(1st)/power/tough) accessories to boost precision

*Consume condition, still the best healing skill.

More effects and boons for the group, shorter CD/longer effects of wells, get some blast (wharhorn) or other, and that’s all.
I love necro but he’s so selfish, I understand that in fractal or “high level” dungeons no one wants necro because of poorer support.

Wow, one hour and a half to talk and farm recycled events in 1/10 new area. 2 months for that, cheer.