I main a necro as well and run 3 builds atm – cele signet, marauder reaper and the newest one I crafted yesterday, carrion chill – is by far my favorite despite how new it is. The synergy with the amulet, chill buffs and traits are amazing. Been getting great results in soloQ. It still lacks a reliable disengage but you are sure to leave a painful impression on your opponents
Don’t have much experience running MM. I know they are tanky and I still see them around but I’m personally flawed being too much of a control freak to run that build.
Good coz I voted for you. And I asked the members of the local senior citizen bingo chapter to vote for you in exchange for giving them foot massages. And if you need a punching bag to practice on, I have an alt account full of male norns with the most annoying builds in the game.
In a game that promotes so much vanity as this, I nod my head in disbelief that the Bomb Kit animations were approved by the higher ups in the company.
My engie now refuses to be seen in public with the Bomb Kit equipped. The wooden bomb that sorta makes him look pregnant coupled with the bad posture is terribly unattractive
Howdy Mega. I won’t spam you with a wall of text. I will ask you to have a look at MF. We are an all adult gaming community wtih 10 years experience in doing exactly what you speak of.
I’m gonna get flamed for this but, burning as it stands, contributes to balancing the game. It enforces ppl to run cleanses instead of running all-dps focused builds.
I have survived 14 stacks from a guard and 11 stacks from an engie. They’re very squishy if you manage to outlive their condi burst. The only class that’s an exception is the d/d ele. They don’t apply burning stacks as fast as the guard and engie but they’re unbelievably tanky and can also do high dps from burning speed and easy might access.
Wake up people. Like Vapour said, Condi Reapers have 3 powerful counters. That in itself proves that the build is balanced.
Instead of learning how to counter, all I see are people throwing tantrums demanding to get builds nerfed.
It’s pretty disgusting to witness how lazy people are at attempting to figure things out on their own.
I actually play the 2 counter builds to Reaper, Daredevil being the exception.
And there are counter plays to the Reaper outside playing counter builds. But with the “nerf” premise of this thread, it’s a waste of time explaining anything because they already have their opinions established and won’t consider advice.
Reapers are fine. There are builds far more superior than the Reaper in every way possible. But I’m not the kind of person who complains a lot because it’s often seen as a sign of weakness of the will
Here are additional mistakes made by many inexperienced SoloQers:
x. Personal points are mostly irrelevant and usually not a measure of skill
A good example – The role of bunkers are immense in conquest mode. Since parts of the game make very little sense, bunkers often score the lowest in points.
hi Torso, your suggestions seem reasonable. What’s funny is that before Evan’s announcement, we had people defending matchmaking saying it was working as intended. Oh dear my word. Im not sure how they will resolve these bugs but I’m partially relieved that they’re aware of it.
That [Nigr] acronym was clever and the people who created it were probably being wise-guys. Their intent was more towards trying to be funny rather than hateful. Racism is so passe and uncool.
There was nothing racist about it until peoples knickers twisted and made something about it…
Just like Baa Baa Black Sheep and Fairy Penguins, nothing offensive about it until people made an issue about it for the sake of others…
I chuckled upon seeing it. But these days you gotta be careful not to offend the SJW :/
Edit: By the way, Im half white, half black, half asian and a quarter puerto rican – I found no offense from it.
I thought everyone on reddit was demanded a fancy unisex tuxedo? Now people are flip-flopping AGAIN?
geez…
huh?
my concern is for the fancy noble outfit, not a tux from a random discussion on reddit. but since you mentioned it, i’ve attached a unisex tux oozing with grace and style…just for you
Jon Peters 5signet yolo left AN some time ago. Condi rep is not really troublesome tho (i deal with em just fine with no cleanse) but condi reaper is by far the most braindead kitten ever on par with old turret engi
There are many builds that counter condi reaper. It’s also one of the least “gimmicky” builds you can play.
Keep in mind that reapers start out with no lifeforce. Even worse is they have no reliable escape/disengage so they are habitually targeted to be put down first.
And plus a lot of reapers main necromancer. I can’t say the same thing about turreteers with engies.
Another “advice” … playing thief is your right ! But changing character if u have 2 thieves in ranked is a duty. (It works for other classes too like ranger – guardian – warrior- engi – necro)
we won’t talk about revenant – mesmer – ele here .
I like how you think.
When in solo q, it’s hard to demand someone to swap. It has to come from their internal motivation. It’s 30/70, where only about 30% swap out. I always thank them when they do because at least I know that they care enough to want to improve our team’s chance of winning.
Archaon – It’s irrelevant if TCG is the strongest/not strongest in EU. Despite having an outdated comp, they did very well. You can’t admit that RIP had amazing coordination and strategy but at the same time you harshly criticize TCG.
Both teams have tremendous talent.
I’m impressed with the modesty and humility displayed by NA
- post june 23 dd ele – you could still kill it but it probably killed you first
- chronobunker – you’ve wasted all your CDs on it and still has full hp and node capped. no worries it prolly cant kill you but it has CCs and boons that will help his teammates kill you real fast
Although the ele was more powerful, chronobunker had greater influence and control in conquest. I think they are still good but just not as godly.
Likewise. I’d rather soloQ and have guys like hackks.3687 (on his engie or necro) and vapour (on his engie or necro) in my team than be in an average/typical guild team
AFAIK, mesmers and rangers were the apex predators of 1v1 combat from 2012 – June 22, 2015. Not certain what dominates in 1v1 today. I’m guessing maybe ele and mesmer
sPvP should definitely have a map with no secondary mechanics or gimmicks…3 years in, it’s almost impossible to believe that such a map has not been added, but very easy to believe when you consider the new map they HAVE added, Stronghold, and what they did to the BLs and WvW.
The degree to which ANet does certain things well is amazing, but it is neutralized by the incredible extent to which they fail in other areas. Even worse, it’s not rocket science. Very puzzling and extremely disappointing.
There was a time when I enjoyed WvW almost as much as I do spvp. It’s hurts me seeing them destroy what once brought joy to many of us. WvW used to be a fun playground and the feature set gw2 apart from other MMOs.
Same for pve. Not only is it boring but you could no longer explore on your own without being in a zerg led by a commander. And those servers are always full!!!
About thread topic, I’ve always been a power necro guy. I thought cele signet was kinda slow but I liked it because it helped put necros back on the map. I’d hate to say this on the pvp forum but I love having necro teammates. In soloQ gameplay, necros have been stacking well these days. When I saw my team had 3 necros, I swapped from engie.
Do you guys have luck with stacked necros when you soloQ?
Yo I love having necro teammates in SoloQ. Here’s a recent 4 necro team on my main necro currently on carrion. What power build are you running? My two alt necros run power and cele sig.
A burn guardian applied 14 stacks on me but I managed to survive long enough to beat him. I may have gotten lucky but builds that could stack high burns are squishier. The only somewhat problematic burn skill is elementalist ring of fire. Balancing should be done on a per class/build basis.
I would wait longer than 3 days and at least until after we enable decay before making a judgement on how the team leaderboard will settle out. It is not our intention that a single team of players has the time to possibly keep that many entries at the top of the leaderboard.
Why make a judgement now when you can wait 3 more days for the system to magically repair itself. I’m sure the teams that made it to the top got there by accident.
Post June 23 burning is a new damage resource that coax ppl to consider cleansing instead of going over the top with maximizing their dps or overinvesting sustainability from physical damage.
You have access to trait cleanses, utility cleanses, condi clear sigils, condi clear runes, dodges/evades. I have survived 14 burn stacks from a guard on both my engie and ranger. Those were close fights but on my warrior, I usually come out unscathed. And my necro simply issues the burn givers a prompt refund. Builds that apply the highest burn stacks can be countered.
I will admit the d/d eles are a pain and are not on the same league as all the other condi classes/builds. They are beatable so long as they don’t run away but your margin for errors are slimmer
I still prefer the game mechanics Pre June 23 over HoT. Choosing to put points in all 5 trait lines gave me more diversity.
It was a special time when things actually felt more balanced. Mesmers owned eles, thieves owned mesmers. And Shoutbow warriors running the most unselfish build in the game where teammates benefited from the all of the warrior’s utility and elite skils. Fresh air eles would then own the warriors and leave unscathed…sigh. I miss those days.
But people are different, I know a lot of folks in-game prefer the insanity of what we have now.
OMG you guys, this is the COOLEST thing ever. I had no idea this even existed!!!
Here’s a screenie of the results page after you plug in the API Key. Awesome tool for solo queuers like me.
Please reset everyone’s MMR next season. My participation is unlikely but for the sake of the entire pvp community – new and veteran, solo and team, resetting MMR is the least you could do if you continue allowing premades feed off pugs.
Your experiment of not resetting MMR and relying on 4 weeks of inactivity failed.
PvPers expressed concern about your poor decision. And it looks like they were right all along. This community is not as stupid as you may think.
