Guild Wars 2

These ‘OMGWTF Anet’ posts usually leave a bad taste in my mouth and make me want to disagree immediately but in truth he has a point.

Why don’t we get blast finishers?

Blood is terrible. Broken nobody takes it/joke terrible

1. You can’t heal in shroud.

You have this healing line and it doesn’t even work with your class mechanic.

2. Healing power Affect few skills and scales poorly.

Some Abilities like transfusion don’t scale with healing power at all.

3. Necromancer weapons are really slow and siphons are really small.

This is a bad combination.

4. Food will get you as much siphoning as 30 points in Blood (so why not spend those points elsewhere

5. Necromancer low toughness and good condition removal means you typically need burst heals not sustained low heals.

6. Terrible, build specific 30 point traits. Wells or Minions.

But no necromancer builds used by actual players in wvw, sPvP or dungeons tend to use 4 wells or 4 minions. How about for 30 points you get something awesome that every build wants, like a transfusion that heals you too?

7. Low damage.

I loaded up all my life steals and tried many times to kill Liadri with siphons before she went into please 2. Liadri wasn’t a very high health boss but I typically could only get her to 40% health before failing when the timer ran out with this method.

not being able to teleport onto a ledge that you can jump onto is just dumb

Good Lord…almost a month…Mindtrick must be waterlogged….or has drowned

I’m also interested in an answer to the OPs question. I’ve hit up the galleries and the PvP locker but it’s just not coming together yet. I went with a smaller stature norn male and he looks great right now in lvl 20 blue gear. Just hoping I can find an epic set at 80. Might be going Magitech at this rate.

Deep down, Tequatl is a very shy, soft-hearted dragon who likes going on long swims to get away from those pesky embers. Teq has an intense allergy to Fire Elemental Powder.

The problem with GW2’s world, in my opinion, is the lack of consistency. DR is presented as a LoTR-style of fantasy, and then we have charr’s steampunk, and then we have asura’s cyberbunk(?), etc. But what makes it truly unbelievable, is the sharp contrast between those zones. It’s hard to believe that they are all from the same game, in the same world.

If we want to look at a “more consistent version of Tyria”, we can look at Final fantasy XII’s Ivalice. It has its own asuras (moogles), it has its own mix of cyberpunk and steampunk with medieval fantasy, but everything feels well integrated. You see the “outdated” technology in abandoned placed and prisons while the “updated” technology is taking over. You see moogle’s tech all over the world, but the technology for architecture is also mostly consistent, with very few exceptions.

When you teleport from Rabanastre to Archades, you can tell that Archades is more advanced, but they still feel like they’re from the same world. When you leave any of them and visit abandoned steampunk ruins, it still feels within the same world.

But when you teleport from Divinity’s Reach to the asura’s town, and then to charr’s deathstar, it feels like you’re going to a completely new game, with a new world.

I was going to come in here and tell you how wrong you were, and then I realized that she is the best we have. The thing is, to me that is sad. I am not a fan of scarlet at all, I think she is just Harley Quinn in Sylvari mode. My opinion of course, but ultimately I have to agree with you.

Let us compare Scarlet to the rest of the villains in the Guild Wars 2

Canach
-Awoken the Karka
-Escaped arrest and hid for a few months
-Decides to become a hero of settlers trapped by contract in Southsun Cove, by having the Karka attack innocent people.
-Arrested… Kiel blows up consortium ship holding contracts and blames it on Canach

Caudecus
-Puts on a public face to win public’s favor while his goons create upheaval
-Pays for carnivals
-Kidnaps Queen, but is almost killed when his thugs turn on him and the queen.
-Placed on time out under the Queen’s watch.

Zhaitan
-Raises Orr and a dead army
-Tehearne does his mojo and undoes Zhaitan’s mojo slooooowly
-Patiently waits as you shoot him with rail gun to kill him

Karka Queen
-Dipped in lava after one long bad day in November

Kudu
-Look at me I am so intelligent, and this “insert device” will kill you
-Runs off escapes, and Zojja gets kitten y he got away
-Decides to stay and fight in Crucible of Eternity and dies… surprise.

Gaheron Baelfire
-Wants to become god of the Flame Legion
-Becomes god for 5 minutes
-Dead

Faolain
-Drama and Caithe drama drama drama drama drama
-Drama drama drama
-Still a better story that twilight (Why in the hell did I say that?)

Scarlet Briar
-Went crazy, master portals, killed her Asura teacher and told off “her mother”
-Created an alliance between Flame Legion and Dredge
-Uprooted Norn and Charr from their homes
-Persuaded The Molten alliance to build weapons
-Sent an assassin to kill Lion’s Arch council members
-Attacked Lion’s Arch to finish the job
-Disrupted a Lion’s Arch election
-Interrupted Queen’s ceremony, almost killed Queen, almost blew up Divinity’s Reach
-Invaded different parts of world with her axis of evil minions
-Held hostages, almost ate Ferran, fought players and escaped with speech and fireworks
-Sent you gift to show you there was no hard feelings

Now looking at all this, who has personality? Who is still alive? and who is the better villain?

The answer is Scarlet.
I win, check please! http://youtu.be/a9Ehhq8EbOM

Wait, Faren is going to die? They’re going to kill off one of the few likable characters in this game in an attempt to make the worst character in the game not named Trahearne more “menacing”? I use the quotations because none of us – not one – is ever going to see Scarlet as anything more than a cardboard character.

If you think it is too time consuming, don’t do it. I am semi-hardcore player (3 legendaries, world completoin 2 times, 6 max chars, most with exotic/ascended gear). I even had a break of 2 months. I usually play 1-3 hour during the week (I have a 100% job), or sometimes up to 10 hours if i have a day off or during weekends.

That said, I simply don’t do content if i don’t like it. I don’t like SAB, so i don’t do it. There is noone who tells you you have to do it. Just let it be. Achievement points have nothing to say, it’s just a stupid number (ok now, there are the rewards, but they aren’t really needed or unique aside from the pretty easily achievable skins).

There are a lot of other games (like GTA V atm) that i love to play, also i play a bit Dota 2 and then some.

Also i don’t get the complaints vs. altoholics. It is still pretty easy to get ascended gears. Just do some dailies/monthlies and you can get most trinkets pretty easily. True, weapons are a bit harder to get. But it is pretty easy to get around 10-20g a day, so i don’t see the issue.

Also, i don’t get why it should be ‘easy’ if you have alt characters. I mean of course it needs more work? Do you expect to get stuff as easy as in GW1? I never liked that, a bit of work should be fine and should be the nature of a game. It is still an MMO, and there are a lot of ppl like me who are bored, be cause we have run all dungeons, all places, all events dozens of times. So I like to work on my character and the feel of a more ore less flat item curve is OK.

I don’t like the way games generally go: the get-everyting-in-no-time-to-get-fast-rewards-cell-phone-game mentality more and more corrupts the core of gamers who played games since the 80ies or 90ies. If i play a game i want to feel an achievement of getting something, not an NPC who throws a super cool weapon at me. Just look at it this way.

Where are the clues to where you can locate the dragon teeth? I see the achievements but unless you go to dulfy is it just a case of wandering around and stumbling across them on 3 huge maps? How many people use dulfy for the achievements? I feel sorry for the people who don’t know about the site.

Why do they do things like this? Surely they can think of something interesting with this achievement where its more puzzle solving, perhaps rox could lend you frostbite to sniff out the area’s where they may be.

then you can hand the material collected back to rox, she finds a weakness and then gives you a buff to attack teq (+5% damage)

they need to create stories/quests around the achievements that actually feel like you are doing something productive, not random acts.

hah, I might actually get this one for my necro

I find it kinda funny now that the most annoying path uses the letters F and U because that’s what the player will be screaming while fighting the final boss.

lordkrall.7241:

Fantasy != Medieval.

Steampunk is still considered fantasy, even if they use robots and other somewhat “modern” weapons.

There’s a level I say ‘ok’. But the balance between magic and technology is 20-80% at best.

I feel out of place in “fantasy” worlds where everyone can generate all sorts of energy and wild magic effects in a predictable manner, yet somehow no one has the basic human ingenuity to try and make any type of technology out of it. Guild Wars 2 comes off more believable than a lot of generic “medieval” type worlds where there is awesome power everywhere but everyone is apparently far more idiotic and uncreative than in real life.

Fantasy != Medieval.

Steampunk is still considered fantasy, even if they use robots and other somewhat “modern” weapons.

Well then, atleast we might be able to kill her now? Would that make you happy?

Title pretty much says it all , we want a token system for these new weapons and the new Tequatl weapons. I don’t care if it’s a ridiculous amount , i want to work towards something not sit there and hope for luck that is never coming.

Maybe this will get noticed if enough people support. Post if you support of course, thanks

Despite what most people say and what most testing reveals, mobs aggro on the best-looking person of the group.

I would recommend that you swap out your blood fiend with Consume Conditions. It’s arguably our best heal because it clears 100% of our conditions. You could also try using well of darkness instead of the signet when you encounter and area with a lot of Veterans. Also, start saving up for your other 3 elites. Because Lich Form is incredible. Plague is also my go-to underwater Elite. It’s 20 seconds of blind and poison while giving your toughness and Vitality a huge buff.

As for Deathshroud, it took me a while to figure out how to use it effectively. Try running a DS build once you hit level 60. That will really reinforce how useful it is. But, for you, I would recommend using 5 first. This adds a nice 3 stack torment on five enemies, more importantly, it will damage and immobilize all of them at the end of the duration. Follow this up with DS 4, because you don’t even have to be facing the enemy while this skill is draining them. If you get CC’d, pop into DS while on the ground and use the 3 skill. The fear can e activated anytime, even while your casting something else!

I say we take off and nuke the entire site from Rata Sum. It’s the only way to be sure.

Copying my message from an another forum:

“There are guilds out there who are specialized on beating Tq in overflows. Basically they love empty overflows because there are less AFK ppl next to turrets. So they just choose a server to guest and stay in overflow, where they can JOIN IN with their members.”

You have the option to join more guilds and represent only on Teq kills time. But moaning is always easier. It took me like 40-50 fail to beat Teq once. But i started to read the forums and joined ppl organising kills. Mostly they failed but eventually i got him beaten 3 days in row. Twice in overflow.

I’m not going to lie. What i was thinking about GW2 PvE content was far from positive.
I found everything too easy and thought every PVE content in this game was designed for an average 10 yo kid. Even a braindead group was able to beat everything. It was nothing close to the GW1 PvE experience.

Then we got the improoved Teq. First i time i faced with it, 60+ player got him to 90% and was wondering what the hell happening hell. It is an impossible kill. Nerf it! Then i realised it is finally something ppl have to work for. You must find your commander(s), you must organize, you must teach first timers, explan them how the event the works. Understand the mechanics etc. I started to enjoy the fights more and more.

This challenge finally brings together the community together. Brings you out of PvE things you get used to. Its a not a perfect event, but finally somthing different, harder then we get used to. Beating Teq was my greatest PvE experience in GW2 so far. GJ.

Dont get me wrong. PVE is still far from optimal. Or nothing close to GW1 diversity but i definitely feel this was a good step forward. Hopefully we get more things like this.

You could have quadrupled your numbers if you were all Mesmers.

Necro is a very interesting class because almost all of our attacks not only do base damage (which in a power crit build hit very hard), but almost all of them can stack condi’s. I feel necro is very strong in putting heavy pressure on the enemy team. In this current build my condis tick for around 80 so I mean its not all that much lower than a full condi build. Those condi’s on top of all the burst damage can really hit the enemy team hard. I feel this is the necro’s place, moderate to heavy damage but always heavy pressure depending on how you build your character. Rez sig is also awesome, can’t imagine doing tpvp without it.

I feel we are very weak in the mobility field, but anet has already stated that is their philosophy on the necro, to not be a mobile class.

Our survivability is a little low (unless your some style of bunker necro), but this is a team game a that’s where your team comes into play (ele especially can be amazing).

What I would like to see (minion ai is obvious) is a fix to life siphon. I feel that if life siphon were to scale with healing power a build like mine would become even more viable. This fix would give us the survivability that we desire. We can only hope at this point.

Besides that I feel that necros are really in a good spot, pretty balanced imo. Just bug fixes etc now.

I’ve been getting a lot of messages in game recently asking me for my build, so I decided I would just post it here for anyone who wants a different yet more rewarding (imo) play style for necromancers.

Traits: 30(VI,X,XII) / 15(IV) / 10(II) / 0 / 15(VI)

Runes: 5/6 Eagle – 1/6 Divinity

Sigils: Air (Fire)/Bloodlust on daggers, Force on staff

Amulet: Knights (Berserker Jewel)

Utilities: Consume Conditions (a must in any build imo), Blood Is Power (Spectral Walk), Signet Of Undeath, Well Of Suffering, Lich Elite

Build Guide: http://tinyurl.com/byj5vnd

Many people ask me why go melee on a necro with so many options for range. The damage on necro daggers is insane especially when you add quickness to that (rage sigil) you can drop someone in no time at all. With the massive amounts of condi clear in this game I have always had more success with straight up damage which a power necro has a ton of.

Another issue many people have is why would I take dagger as an offhand for a power build. In my opinion dagger offhand is a must of almost any necro build in pvp. The blind with a condition transfer that also bounces can help so much. Not to mention dagger 5 gives this build more aoe and weakness. Weakness is a highly underrated condition that can change fights against rangers/engis that have high endurance regens.

To be successful with this build you must use DS as often as you can. Being power with high crit (70% with fury) makes DS really shine. You must use dark path (DS #2) as much as you can for a gap closer/chill, this combined with staff and dagger #4 condi transfers getting kited should not be an issue for you.

Most people I have seen using dagger necro in pvp usually run around just spamming dagger #1. While that is the main source of our damage you must make sure you use all the skills at the proper times. When you engage someone try this for heavy burst:

Blood Is Power -> DS(pop in and out for fury) ->Dark Pact(dagger#3) -> Well Of Suffering – >Life Siphon. If the target isn’t dead at this point just nuke down with dagger #1.

This build is very strong in 1v1’s but it is also amazing in team play with the right players aiding you. If you run with a staff guardian who might stacks and gives you stability (25 might stacks with blood is power) and an ele who can give you shocking aura when you’re getting focused and peel targets off of you some pretty amazing things can be done.

My favorite part about this build has to be the borderline OPness of Time Warp + Lich. This can literally drop a team in a matter of seconds with other players attacking them. 4k+ crits on a target every half second or so.

The point I’m really trying to make here is to give it a try if you’re interested and think outside of the box when playing a necro. I feel that the standard now for necro is a straight up condi build, which is not only boring to play imo, but also a little mindless. This will add some fun to necro (I believe power was the way necro was meant to be played, all our skills mesh much better with high power,crit).

Anyway if you need any tips on playing this build successfully in tpvp (paids) feel free to message me in game, I will be more than happy to help.

-QT Khalifa

Due to my connection not being able to handle it, this event I’ll never be able to do on GW 2. Would be nice if they did Teq Jr, for people with slower connections, so they could get the achievements too. It could need half the people to complete it or something.

Just some sort of solution would be nice.

I completely agree with the OP, FINALLY A WORTHY CHALLENGE!

I was thinking to change to another mmorpg soon, not because gw2 is bad, it has improved so many usual mmorpgs mechanics, but because (so far) it has been WAY TOO EASY!

Now ascended weapons system, super adventure box AND ESPECIALLY tequatl, brought some good challenge to the game. People finally NEED to mass coordinate, it’s not an option anymore, just to save time. YOU FINALLY NEED to be skilled or you won’t win anything. As it should always be.

Continue this way and I won’t think about quitting gw2 anymore, also I now bought my first gems with real money just to give my first (symbolical) encouragement to you developers to continue developing new HARD content.

Good job arena net