1) Sometimes special key go on cooldown without moving.
2) Boss teleports to you and push from the platform.
3) No chance for redoing if boss is killed already. Good Luck find another group.
This heart must be changed!
2) the pattern he “jumps” to is not random. look it up, i remember someone posting the exact patterns (they change based on boss hp, there are 3 total i think). if you stay in the wrong spot it’s not the boss fault.
there is a LFG section dedicated to advertising yourself
just post something along the lines of “new to raiding, looking for training run, any boss”
i guarantee you someone will group you up eventually if you do it at a populated time. then you wipe a lot and start learning.
looks like something i would expect to see in monster hunter…
considering they said at some point they took inspiration from MH for some animations i guess maybe i’m not too far off.
surprisingly spot on
you could also run zealot and help healing up with marginal dps loss, its hardly a heavy trinity system when all you need is a player with a few traits and skills swapped around to simply drop a couple of heals in green circles here and there, the tank still cares for his own hp more than anyone else.
also tanks can run zerker with a little added toughness to hold aggro.
the trinity is still very much unneded, all you need is a good player able to hold aggro and that knows where to pull the boss. (a pseudo-tank?)
look, we’re 4 pages into this thread and im still not sure exactly what is supposed to be the role for “build diverse” players wearing, say, soldier or something.
i mean, ok, you want to run soldiers.
…what would a soldier player role be anyway?
i mean, what does a “soldier player” contribute to a fight better/more than more specialised roles?
analysis of the first part:
a DH leaps on point and visibly places its traps
you walk right through them
get an invuln proc → proceed to waste a dodge during invuln time (whut?)
you get out of it alive and manage to heal up
…
? so you show us a vid where you play poorly, survive, and call nerf for it?
if they rage after a loss at you it means they actually lost their cool about being beaten,
you should just grin at it.
learn to troll, basically.
when i came into the game (about 10 months after initial launch) i got told “nah we don’t do dungeons, rewards are crap”.
then came dungeon gold and woop, people played dungeons! and they were fun!
back to pre-gold status i guess now.
but new fractal skins are SOLID GOLD now, that makes up for the gold lost i guess? they look dumb but hey, gold.
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you have less than 100 total matches played, i don’t mean to say your experience isn’t valid but maybe it’s a bit limited?
you should probably focus on learning the game more, play more classes, try out map tricks and whatnot whitout paying too much attention to the actual match result.
before you know you’ll get better mmr and better matches, uninstalling is a bit overdramatic.
Anet promotes pyromania
you know, pve has it’s “high tier” too, with professional speedrunner guilds (teams) and it’s own torunaments.
degrading pve as some unworthy activity is not buying you any credibility.
^it’s still a necro guys, just, i don’t know, play necro for a while see how OP it is to be everyone’s pinball.
honestly fractal skins at least had a little bit of value because they were hard to get and you couldnt just buy them unlike every other skin in the game up to legendaries, now theyll just be on the same level as everything else which is kind of disappointing.
and more accessible? with the recent damage increase my group is already EASILY doign fractal 50 with 3 ppl and selling the last 2 spot daily. And we aren’t even that good c’mon!
“You can not buy the fractal skins until you are at personal reward 50, if you are that far and do not have the fractal skins you want then you deserve to get them. I think the prestige is still there.”
under the old system? maybe.
under the new system? you mean i can do 50 times swamp then i’m entitled to my skin? hmmm…
anet just being anet and trying to please casuals as hard as possible over the more dedicated players: see wvw map completion removal for another example.
also the new fractal GS looks UGLY
this basically kills any prestige fractal skins had if you like the “base skins” which everyone will now have because they can just farm ONE stage per day 3 times a day and get enough pristine to buy them.
and if you go for the “tier2” fractal skins?
https://d3b4yo2b5lbfy.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/b75c9Golden-590x331.jpg
anyone else thinks this looks ugly? i mean really? a solid block of gold? it doesn’t even go with the new backpiece!
“…But thats no different to how people go for the quick dungeons like SE p1.” and that’s exactly why this sucks, we have enough SE p1 in the game, and only had 1 fractal.
necro strenghts are such that they are easily used even by bad players (easy-to-use highly damaging skills, high hp)
their weaknesses as well are not noticed by bad players (no active defense at all)… especially opposing ones who maybe never played one before and are not capable of putting out serious cc chains and burst.
the higher the skill in the match goes the worse necro becomes, even the best necro player will be dead weight (no pun intended) in many high tier matches unless his team puts out SERIOUS peeling.
i suggest you this OP: play necro and see it for yourself.
you know, on an unrelated note…
it’s totally pointless to argue who “invented” shoutbow. The same build with very minimal variations had been the standard wvw warrior frontline MUCH before it became popular in pvp, only big difference is that it used hammer on swap because bow only works for conquest and wasn’t using celestial because that too had much better stats there.
at some point someone just figured out it would work well in spvp too with some adjustments, it can’t really be called an “invention” by players from that mode.
honestly the warbanner is a really iconic part of wvw, i would be sad if it turned into a shout. what would commanders shout if not “banner!banner!banner!”
that said it’s shameful that they nerfed it by removing the 20% recharge trait. as if THAT was an issue.
i understand how it works ty, it doesnt make it any less unfair to one specific class
it’s not like i even care about minions i havent played that in maybe 2 years, it’s still a pretty stupid interaction between skills when it only applies to one opponent.
just as they finally managed to push longbow out of the meta (by nerfing it’s burn damage immensely)
the elite spec better be awesome or i’m likely going to learn some FOTM build instead personally.
that’s just being salty you know, is there any good reason why the “it should work on everyone or on no one” approach is invalid when it comes to necro?
it wouldnt be a nerf, it would be a fix. its not an intented functionality of the skill or it should do so to every other minion spec in the game.
well, the same has been said about necros and lich for a long time now except rampage is actually good.
so in your opinion having a long cooldown justifies the fact that a skill which is only supposed to transform you for a few moments suddendly also completely destroys another class utilities?
it’s like, hey, plague has a long cooldown so it’s fine if when you use it thieves lose all initiative, or mesmer gets all shatters on cd or whatever other silly thing you can come up with?
you can dislike minion spec and that’s fine but there’s literally 0 reason this should happen.
For whatever reason A-net has been trying to get to this point for almost 1 year now.
Rampage has been repeatedly buffed while at the same time the other elite has been progressively nerfed (remember the signet boons duration got cut -for no reason- just as rampage got buffed, clearly to try and make people move away form it in favor of the transform).
Lately warbanner even got a quiet nerf by removing the cd reduction trait… which i cant imagine was done to nerf banners uptime in pve…
In short: Anet really wanted us to use rampage for some reason, they finally succeded.
“shoutbow” was never wvw meta, it’s hammer/swordhorn
medi guards are warriors hardest counter from my own experience, you really cant do much about it but play much better than your friend.
medi guard is honestly one of the best zerker in spvp, stop complaining really.
go play a zerker warrior/necro then come back asking and try asking for medi buffs with a strait face. medi guard is the current counter to every single other zerker out there 1v1. not to mention a medi guard with cooldowns ready can straight 1v1 a lich and humiliate it with blinds and blocks galore.
when i saw how much love they are getting with the new trait shuffle (the 3 medi traits rolled in 1? scepter now applies protection? you now get an additional smite condition for free on heal?) i literally couldn’t stop laughing.
imho the only actual -counter- to medi guards are full condi engis, some other classes give it a headache (cele DD, shoutbows, smart condi rangers for example) but they are more of a tossup.
i mean, i had thieves die of retaliation while i was doing absolutely nothing on point.
The reason why it’s annoying when people run away from you is because they can then go out of combat, full heal, and return to you and start another fight while all of your cooldowns are still up. It happens with warriors and thieves all the time and it’s incredibly obnoxious.
oh hey cool, medi guards don’t even need to go out of combat to do that, impressive huh?
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add a jumping puzzle to it too, i’m tired of jumping back and forth the columns and stairs while waiting.
honestly i don’t really see the problem, i like to play around with the trait from time to time, generally if i am getting that low i’m already on my way out.
i mean, you know when it’s about to proc: just use it as an extra buffer, it’s very rarely a window to actually retaliate.
it’s not the best trait around, but the cooldown is reasonable and it does what it’s intended to do?
Far Shiverpeaks goes by the convention:
Blue: open/pug raid
Yellow: guild raid, likely closed
Red: scout tag
Purple: whatever might require a diff color at the moment
occasionally guild might use more than one tag to keep track of their own sub-groups during a fight, most ocmmon is having the sniper party leader tagged red/purple.
given, all this is probably going to change a lot as soon as the expansion rolls around
guard has a higher dps potential than a warrior and definitely much higher than a phalanx warrior.
for pve a phalanx war + a good guardian can carry any PUG group through any of the game content if they know what they are doing, mesmer can also do that to a lesser extent.
pvp is a totally different can of worms and there will never be a true answer, i’d say play whatever you want to learn to play in pvp
just don’t choose necro as your main and you’ll be fine
celestial has absolutely terrible damage, so no, it’s not particualrly decent in dungeons.
btw, by definition a necromancer minion is “non living” too -> can be crit/condied
spirit weapons? no biology to speak of -> can bleed etc
this is just two examples but the list could go on and applies to most of the game’s npcs (like, asuras golem can bleed etc, are those different than turrets?)
if anything engineer turrets were the special snowflake…
(and dredge, why do dredge have blind immunity, which makes sense, but then you can blind stuff that doesn’t even have eyes like oozes?)
my options are just the super-lazy easy to code ones, i’m sure any anet dev could do that in 15 minutes top. yours might be more refined but “effort”.
choose one:
a) make turrets have no cast time
b) make turrets root you during casting time
c) interrupt turret cast if you jump while it is in progress
problem solved.
today something that didn’t happen in weeks happened… i played a match with no turrets in it. had fun.
i said almost nothing, and turret is receiving well deserved nerf.
plus medi guard is among the few with some chanche to 1v1 a turret so i’m not sure what the point is. is that supposed to disprove the fact that medi guard is one of the best zerk spec in current pvp?
only thing i know is: medi guard is one of the top dogs in pvp, just a step below the celestial triforce and it’s getting a big buff (again) so yeah.
i play almost every class in pvp and medi guard is so faceroll it’s amazing, 1v1 almost nothing can keep up.
they are very different in all game modes, the one where they may feel the closest is possibly wvw because they both need to stick to the commander the same way but the similarity ends about there.
everyone saying turrets are balanced likely plays turret (or maybe one of the few decent counters like condi rangers but let’s exclude those)…
you should do a simple test: choose a different spec, even one considered by you or by the community equally “easy” and tell us if you’re winning more/less after a few days of testing and if it really is just as easy, especially when you face a turreteer.
it doesn’t interrupt heals, resses or stomps which is the most important part of cc
i for one think it’s great change, let the rookies have the passive AI build they want, just don’t make it so it can carry them way above their mmr.
those 2 builds are classic and really strong, if a necro beats any of those it’s the warrior’s fault really.
does there need to be a reason if a group of people is minding their own business and don’t want others to join in?
if you see a group of friends chilling somewhere and you don’t even know any of them do you just barge in expecting they’ll take you in whatever they were doing?
there’s many legitimate reasons a guild might want to have a closed raid but the truth is they don’t need to give you any, it’s just courtesy to let people that are effectively stranger to you go do their own stuff.
if you want to follow them ask politely and respect whatever answer you’re given (also it’s a lot more likely they’ll let you tag along if you’re form a wvw guild yourself)