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I think it should be restored to pre-nerf status (after the 50% buff and before the last damage nerf), and they should remove burning from the Spite tree.

12. Improving the penalty on leavers, 4v5 matches suck. they really do and they waste everyone elses time.
the devs need to set it up to where quiters are sanctioned and penilized for a first time leave.

they need to be sent into a timed penalty state that sets them into a low priority que and keeps them from gaining rewards and MMR after matches. this penalty will stack in duration form repeated offenses

13. A Report System. as easy as right clicking on a players name and reporting them for different offensive subjects. this a I common system found in most MOBA games. repeated reports for bad behavior will cause a punishment to the reported player.

-offensive language gets you a time ban from using the chat system while in matches
-throwing the game on purpose will throw you in low priority, or just a time ban from being able to que.

14. 4v5. if a match starts with not a full roster on both teams, the missing players are given a 5 minuet window of time to reconnect.
if the players do not reconnect with in that time frame the match ends with no affect to there MMR and they are automatically re-qued with hi-priority.

I originally made this post in the MLG Denial thread but recently felt that it need to be its own thread

Allie Murdock.8152:

Kline.9561, a lot of the tips/suggestions you make in your post are things that are big focuses for us. The good news is that some of that work is spread out over several different teams, so while it might take a while to develop, we have a lot of great features coming to help with barrier to entry, etc.

As for monetization, that’s a bit more difficult considering we already give a lot of the things that can be monetized away as we don’t want to have a huge barrier to entry in PvP. If you have suggestions for stuff like that, feel free to share!

okay here’s a list of things that you can monetize on for spvP.

1. Video Channels. this is a huge one, teaching players about skills classes and game modes through visual observation is a great way to teach players, all about SPVP. games like League of Legends and dota 2 have quick 5 second videos directly in there video game, straight from YouTube, these quick video showcase the abilities of every hero in their game.

so make a youtube channel completely dedicated 2 SPVP that new players can directly connect to from in game. that showcases the strength and weaknesses of each class. as well as helpful tips on how to play the game.

2. Formatting Hot Join. to prepare new players for competitive formats such as tournaments. meaning that it’s time to set hot join maps at 5 vs 5 games, so as to not confuse and frustrate new players coming into tournaments from hot joins. 16 player matches are wildly different from 10 player matches, and if the community wants 16 player matches that is what custome arena is for.

3. Setting Team Que at Higher Incentives and priorities than solo queue and hot joins. this will help form teams and a stronger community, making people coordinate together to achieve goals.

4. Templates. I personally believe that this is an option that should be sold in the cash shop. this could generate great revenue for both SPVP and PvE. attach templates to the PvP lockers to keep players from switching build mid game or before it starts.

5. Ziashen Keys. simply put make it happen.

6. Glory Boosters. when you change the reward system make glory actually worth something. there’s not enough glory dumps in the game to justify spending any of it. So make glory boosters something people want to buy on the cash shop. rather than passing them out so freely.

7. this of late is a pretty controversial topic. but try attaching a Guild verses Guild Mode into Custom Arenas to give the community more incentive to buy custom arenas.

8. Start Selling Tickets so that players can watch tournament games in game. and compendiums that support their favorite teams.

9. Another way of helping new players is to give Short Cut Scenes of how to play spvp gamemodes when they first enter SPVP. or have the living story team make a short Interactive event, that has a players entering spvp for the first time playing a match with npc’s.

10. make rewards give the player a Feeling of Satisfactory and Accomplishment. presenting a cool reward or item after a match with flashy presentation. is a good way to start. encouraging the player to achieve more rewards.

11. Streams, and replay. new players learning from top tier players, via watching streams and replays. this is an amazing tool to help every player improve their game. coming up with an in game system, that allows players to pull up old replays and save them to their computer. or watch live games. this doesn’t need to be a system tied into hot joints, it needs to be its own thing. there needs to be an NPC in the mist that pulls up all the information players need, to watch live games and replays.(give an option for players to save a replay after a match ends, so they can learn from their mistakes or the enemy team).

I will continue to add to this post when I think of new ideas or concepts
I greatly encourage the community to add to the list with there own ideas on how to make spvp a bigger priority for Anet as a company.

also I understand the current state of the game and the resentment a lot of players feel towards it.
but please do not derail or entice Arguments and refrain from Hyperbole because it does not help the devs or healthy discussion.

thank you.

I was just thinking about how the devs could improve active play within the trait system and a thought popped into my head; Why don’t we have more traits that push us towards using finishers and fields? Then I remembered Persisting flames (and to lesser extent, Cloaked in Shadow) and wonder why we don’t have more of those.

For instance, Rangers could have a trait that removes 3 conditions from them every time they successfully perform a leap finisher in a field which would replace their Empathic Bond making the Ranger more active. Or Engineers could have a trait that causes them to blind and bleed a target when they successfully perform a blast finisher in a field(with a short cooldown of course and it could replace the kinda mediocre Shrapnel).
Or a Warrior could get a trait called “Kicking up dust” which allows them to blind targets around them every time they successfully perform a blast finisher. Or a trait called “Leaping finish” that gives them 10% extra damage every time they successfully perform a leap finisher through a field.

There are definitely quite a few things that could be done with this and the potential just gets me excited at the build possibilities. I think it will definitely kick up build diversity by a TON (given that they are not overpowered) and it would be cool to see traits along these lines replace the underused or under-performing traits.

Tell me what you guys think and share whatever cool ideas you have along these lines.

Well kitten, I wasn’t with [CORE] that night to stake this guy :\

But really, this is one of the saddest / funniest things I’ve seen for the GvG community, because either:

1) This ANet guy had no idea what GvG was, and was thinking that we were just taking turns killing each other.

2) This ANet guy knows what GvG is, and dislikes it enough to consider a GvG a violation of “his” game mode.

Either way, this guy throwing his eKitten around seems to be a loose interpretation of:

“While participating in Plaver-vs-Player (PvP) gameplay, you will not participate in any form of match manipulation. Match manipulation is defined as any action taken to fix or manipulate the outcome of a match or alter or manipulate the rankings or ratings of the ladder. This also includes disrupting other people’s game experience by not actively participating in matches in good faith, a.k.a leeching.”

-GW2 Code of Conduct

Sorry that this “name and shames”. I tried to edit but I’m woefully bad at doing so. Anyways, here is some screenshot of an ANET employee kind of being a jerk to us who were GvGing. Hopefully I don’t get infracted, but I imagine it’s coming.

Enjoy,
http://imgur.com/a/mhYp4

For anyone who calls “taken out of context”, I have a full 45 minute video to give you the entire backdrop of the situation.

Necros are not great as they are now. One singular build-type is fine, if not a little strong due to other class’ lack of cleanses, the rest are okay, but still need fine tuning to be as good.

But CC/stability isn’t the problem there. CC and focus fire in general will always be the weakness of an attrition class, but what we need is more realistic (and skill-based) ways of surviving focus fire.

PlayerX.5307:

How is that a problem? Stability doesn’t last forever and I bet at least 1 person has a boon removal. I have yet had a problem stability in team fights. Only time it’s a issue is when I want to fear while downed. But guess what? I made them pop their stability on my down. I believe stability has the shortest boon duration.

P.S. I like your signature quote. lol

Because Fear doesnt go trough stability n defiant (since it wasnt cc, but a control effect on a condition) like it used to, guess what we got longer cooldowns than other professions and you dont “make them pop stability” they use it, cc you (you SB they cc again) and you die, thats the thing, so unless you got a defensive mechanism in something that cannot be cced (e.g. weapon swap aoe chill) or you cannot be cced at all (invul) or can blink away (kinda possible but both require prep time that you more often than not dont have) the necro is free meat.
Also its ok to have a weakness (ours is actually low/weak mobility), its not ok to have a instant loss effect because the devs are too afraid to return parts of a strong old build that people didnt even bother to counter since they just patched it out post the 2 days it was used.

PlayerX.5307:

There’s not like condition removals and blinds…. if you die from a warrior CC, you are doing something wrong. The only way a warrior could 100-1 you is if you were running a berz build with 0 life force.

Personally i dont have a problem with cc warriors (or warriors in general) since i run hydro sigils and constantly keep DS2, S3 and try to keep WH5 up when the enemy aint chilled (pvp and pve), but vs any build with 2+ hard cc and a cc warrior you cannot even think of running, while every other profession has a easy get out of jail card in such a situation. Thats the problem.

RedSpectrum.1975:

Foot in the Grave, that’s all I’m saying

Only if DS become stun-breaker with this trait..

I’ve played around with Plague Signet a bit in zergs and it seems pretty worthless overall. It pulses a bit slowly and doesn’t seem to really draw enough conditions to be beneficial to the team. If anything, it seems to do more harm than good, as you need to wait a while to get enough conditions drawn before you can unload them.

I’d like to offer a suggestion to make this more useful. I’d suggest changing Plague Signet’s passive effect to something like: increase boon duration by 20%, or increases critical strike chance by 3% or the like. For the active, I’d make it draw “x” conditions per player around you, up to a total of “y” (e.g. 3 per player, up to 20 conditions). Activating the signet again within “Z” (5?) seconds transfers the conditions.

This does not change anything but Aesthetics.

Jagged Horror
- is now a spikey green and cute little doll with a sewed open smiley face and red eyes…

Summon Bone Fiend
- is now a blue cute little doll with a tiny bow and arrow and a open smiley face with red eyes…

Summon Blood Fiend
- Is now a cute little red doll with a tiny grimoire and a delectable frown, she also has red eyes…

Summon Bone Minions
- Is now a cute green doll with scissors, part of their dress is torn up and they have longer hair then their sister dolls…

Summon Shadow Fiend
- Is now a shadowy doll with red eyes and a pair of red glowing scissors.

Summon Flesh Golem
- Is now a giant teddy bear that is ripped in several places, with a button eye missing and handing down and a giant smiley face ripped and sewn on its mouth.

Summon Flesh Wurm
- Now summons a doll house that its roof opens, revealing a mouth that spits. Inside the mouth you see flesh and bones.

Sounds
- Creepy Gigglings.
- Creepy Laughing.
- Creepy Voices: “Come play wif us…”
- Creepy Voices: “Die and join us…” + giggling.
- Go nuts!

There is only one skill we need and should have and that is Spiteful Spirit.

I guess in 200 years we forgot how to use it.

I do not support Anet adding new spells to the game until they fix the numerous bugs in the present abilities.

Anchoku.8142:

The other could be just Fear… over and over, again. (^_^)

Plague 5: Clown Plague, particle effects of spewing out balloon animals, red noses, assorted clown-related items, and causes 1s of fear every second.

Something to stop players running from us… Like, a new condition that no other class has, that hurts them more when they run.
Actually give it to Mes & Thief as well, and make sure Thief can apply more stacks. Just so it’s harder to chase down the super mobile class’s…
Oh wait…
How about more attrition by adding burning passive on crit proc…

Sarcasm aside. Some sort of ‘avoid damage’ like Block/Vigor/Invul so were not behind other class’s in 30sec+ fights, preferably something ‘active’ so it’s skill not luck to play.

I’d love them to fix our bugs, work on fixing blood magic & minion. Also with the new ‘can be 1shot thru death shroud & our life bar’ it’d be very nice to get ‘some’ heals to our life while in death shroud. Even 30% of others heals, would stop others ‘wasting’ heals on a necro.

Good day everyone,

I’ve been meaning to post this video here for a some time now, just never got around to it. I know many people have asked me for an updated version of the “terrormancer” as you call it. So without further ado…

Guild Wars 2 – World vs World guide part I: the PvP conditionmancer

Do not be alarmed by the size of the video, in the first few moments of it you will encounter a table of content/menu designed for an easy and comfortable viewing experience.
Who ever wishes to get the quick information from it can simply browse through the categories… and those who wish to understand all there is to know about the PvP conditionmancer can sit back and enjoy…

In this video i took a different approach to build creation… I’ve went way out of my way in order to create a guide in which you learn how to make your own WvW builds, based on certain principles that can be observed in the PvP and WvW environments.
Of course i also added my own version of the WvW build (the updated terrormancer) as a conclusion/result of simply satisfying all the conditions that needed to be satisfied in order for you to truly “own” in a WvW environment.

FINAL STATS:

48% Critical Strike Chance
1734 Condition Damage
50% Condition Duration / 65% Bleeding Duration
100% Fear duration
2784 Armor
19,658 Health
30%+ LifeForce Pool
————
+ the capability to fight multiple opponents at the same time
+ the ability to sustain burst-stacking bleeds in AoE
+ the ability to survive focus fire

This new way of doing things, while it is a great effort… has brought me a “burst” of positive feedback in the day since i uploaded the video… so i really hope you guys enjoy as well.
If i missed anything or if you have any questions feel free to comment here, on in the comment section on youtube.

PS: I’ve already discussed these facts with some people in the comment section, i know i have let some things out, i know i have oversimplified some aspects of WvW…
As i stated… this is more of a base to start on, a correct approach to WvW and WvW build crafting, a good starting point…
Part II of this guide is on it’s way… and part III will contain all the advance tactics aimed at those people who have already mastered the first two parts.

I hope you enjoy

Armor and Weapons:

Update: 2/9/13

I currently run for WvWvW and PvE:

Most of the armor can be bought off auction house or crafted, except the superior monk runes and ascended gear.

Armor/Accessories

• Full knights (Power, precision, toughness) armor
• Knights accessories with valkyrie jewels (Power, precision, toughness + critical damage, vitality, power)
• Knights daggers (Power, toughness, precision)
• Karka Shell (http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Ancient_Karka_Shell)
• Ascended Triforge (http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Triforge_Pendant_
• Ascended Solaria/Lunaria (http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Solaria,_Circle_of_the_Sun)
• Ascended power,toughness, crit dmg (http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Rurik%27s_Royal_Signet_Ring)
• Ascended Back
  http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Symon%27s_History_of_Ascalon

Weapons:
-Daggers:

• 2 Knights Daggers (power, precision, toughness)
• 1x Superior rune of battle (3stacks of might/attunement swap — attunement swap=weapon swap), 1x superior rune bloodlust (+10 power per kill)
• Optional 3rd knights dagger when you have 25 stacks of bloodlust
• 1x superior rune of force (5% damage)
  • Alternate daggers used can be PVT, clerics, and berserker stats

-Staff/Trident

• 1 Staff (power, precision, critical damage)
• 1x superior rune of battle
• 1 Trident (power, precision, critical damage)
• 1x superior rune of battle
  • Alternate staff/ trident stats : PVT, clerics, knights

-Scepter/Focus

• Use the same stats as above with D/D and rune setup

Boon duration runes:

• 2x Superior rune of water, 2x Superior rune of monk (from AC dungeon), 2x Major rune of water

Alternatives if you don’t have ascended gear:

• Knights accessories (power, precision toughness) w/ valkyrie jewels (power, vitality, crit damage)
• Clerics accessories (power, toughness, healing power) w/ valkyrie jewels (power, vitality, crit damage)

Alternate armor sets for different conditions:

• Berserker armor (power, precision, critical damage) w/ ruby jewels (2% critical damage, 20 power, 14 precision)
  -> Use this set against heavily armor specced enemies, and combine it with arcane wave, arcane blast, and mistform utility skills. Also works great for staff elementalist too

• PVT armor (power, vitality, toughness)
  Obtained from Ascalonian Catacombs dungeon (AC). Very useful for users starting off with D/D, since you don’t need to spend money on auction house to get it. Plus it comes with the superior monk runes you need, and you can find them by killing mobs as well. The extra vitality is very useful for high level fractals and WvWvW

• Clerics Armor (Power, healing power, toughness)
  Bought off auction house. Works great for harder situations where you need to constantly heal yourself often. This can be in dungeons, various difficult areas in PvE, etc.

Skill setup
For most PvE situations I use:

• Heal: Ether Renewal
• Utility 1: Lightning flash
• Utility 2: Cleansing fire
• Utility 3: Mistform
• Elite: Fiery Great Sword / Glyph of Elementals
  (Also I change the water trait 11 to water trait 12 so I can provide auras to allies)
  • I also use glyph of storms under earth attunement for constant blinds, Arcane shield for rezzing in harder zones, conjure icebow (for any structures). Arcane blast (for any water fields with staff). I usually always take mistform

For WvWvW I use:

• Heal: Ether Renewal / Signet of Restoration
• Utility 1: Lightning flash
• Utility 2: Cleansing fire / armor of earth
• Utility 3: Mistform
• Elite: Tornado, Racial elite skill, Fiery Great Sword
  • Other good choices: Conjure shield (for its 4th ability to yank people off tower walls. Conjure icebow (4th ability to destroy siege weapons). Conjure hammer (3rd ability to knock people off from wall cliffs).

For sPvP/tPvP I use:

• Heal: Ether renewal / Glyph of elemental harmony
• Utility 1: Lightning flash
• Utility 2: Conjure Weapon (all except lava axe)
• Utility 3: Armor of earth
• Elite: Usually tornado, sometimes glyph of elementals (depends on team setup)
  • Mistform / Lightning flash is usually always taken as well. Arcane wave+Arcane blast are good choices as well, to do burst damage. Also note that arcane blast (20second CD spell) is one of the only ways to counter the “blow out” condition from updraft / similar skills.

For all underwater combat

• Heal: Glyph of elemental harmony (b/c its 1/2 second cast underwater)
• Utility 1: Signet of air (25% MS passive)
• Utility 2: Arcane wave (Stack it with Earth5 for cloak)
• Utility 3: Mist form
• Elite: default whirlpool

Added the bug thread.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Necro-bug-list/first#post2799269

Please +1, add your own comments/bugs I missed/frustrations.

Let’s keep the ‘pressure on’ till we get our loved necro up to par with the other class’s. :-)

Going to start hitting up the Dev Bugs forum soon.
Sick & Lame in the brain at the best of times, so please add what I missed!

The Bugs
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Putrid Mark – Removes ‘some’ condi, and not off allies.

Foot in the Grave – Only works ‘sometimes’. (Example: Twisted Invasions, Can press Breaks Stun + DS & still be chain CC’ed 5 times in a row)

Litch Form – Auto-Attack Auto-Turns-Off.

Leaving a Transform – no heals/until buttons for 1sec + lag.

Poison – Doesn’t reduce heals.

Fear – Doesn’t interrupt.

Not simple bug’s, but frustrating/want fixed.
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Can’t Res/Stomp/etc while Transformed (DS/Litch/etc) Can we at least get it in PvE.

Vigor or some sort of extra dodge now we can’t ‘block’ with DS in long dungy boss fights.

Projectiles that can hit our feet/brake us out of roots. That can hit objects in WvW.

Combo finisher on weap that isn’t a staff.

A underwater elite skill, that’s not condi.

Minions that don’t die to splash damage/when wet.

Vamp that isn’t ~0.01% our max life per hit… (And pointless in DS)

Meele Cleave.

Mammoth.1975:

Well, I think you’ve proved my point satisfactorily now. Have fun whining.

Your obvious lack of self respect and opinion that deviates from the mob mentality that feeds this… “game” is the only fun thing around here.
Have fun playing in a game where anything and everything happens on a whim of a mob. With utter lack of any kind of logical progression or thought out plan.
- WE WANT TO DIVERSIFY!
- HERE IS FIRE.
- NOW WE NERF ANYTHING THAT IS NOT FIRE. SO YOU ARE REQUIRED BY LAW OF GOD OF THE UNIVERSE TO SPEC INTO THIS kitten NOBODY ASKED FOR.
If this is anets idea of being logical and objective. Then have fun continuing to support this shoddy product. I hope their kitten tastes good for the amount of kissing you seem to provide is mind boggling.

Karl McLain.5604:

[snip]…

As for the question regarding Chill of Death, the trait triggers if you strike a target that’s at 25% or less. Meaning if you strike a target that’s at 26% health and bring it below 25%, you’ll need to attack it again in order to get the trait to trigger.

Cheers,
-Karl

First of all, thank you very much for responding. Dev posts in the necro forum are always welcome.

Setting aside the possibility that Chill of Death is not bugged and working as intended (which I’m still not convinced is the case), then – at a minimum – the trait’s text description and your explanation of how it’s expected to function are not in sync with one another.

You state:

“…the trait triggers if you strike a target that’s at 25% or less.”

This implies the target must:

1) Be at 25% health or less.

2) Must be struck by the necro when condition #1 has been satisified.

When those two conditions are met, Chill of Death processes.

However, the trait’s description reads:

“Cast Spinal Shivers on an enemy when they hit 25% health. This effect can trigger only once every 20 seconds.”

It’s implied the target must have been hit at some point by the necro since they are “…an enemy…”. However, there’s nothing in that text description as written that makes Chill of Death’s processing dependent on being hit by the necro when the enemy is at 25% health or less.

The only dependency is that the enemy’s health hit 25%; it says nothing about having to be hit by the necro at that point. In other words, taken at face value, this trait should process any time an enemy who has been tagged by the necro at some point during the current battle is reduced to 25% health regardless of how they got there (and subject to the trait’s internal cool down of 20 seconds, of course).

Some examples:

Necro A applies some DoT conditions to an enemy. That enemy’s health degens until it reaches 25%. BOOM! Chill of Death processes; even if the necro doesn’t hit the enemy with an attack at that point.

Necro B slashes away at an enemy with a dagger. The enemy’s health reaches 25%. BOOM! Chill of Death processes immediately; it doesn’t wait for the necro to hit with yet another attack after the enemy’s health has reached 25%.

Perhaps this isn’t how you intend the trait to work. Maybe this is due to an intentional design decision or maybe it’s a technical limitation (e.g. the code requires the necro to land an attack to trigger a trait). If this is the case, then the trait’s text description and how it actually functions are not aligned with one another.

I understand the various reasons for keeping trait descriptions brief. However, in this effort to abbreviate, it has led to the descriptions failing to capture how the traits actually function.

If it’s the case that you want Chill of Death to process when the enemy is at or below 25% health and must be hit by the necro at that point, then an alternative description may have read:

“When an enemy is at or below 25% health, Cast Spinal Shivers on them with your next attack. This effect can trigger only once every 20 seconds.”

Hey everyone.
Just got back from playing at PAX/GW2 bash and i can’t begin to tell you how amazing it was. With that being said, i finally gave in and got a twitter and i am in the process of setting my stream up now. Come check me out and support me

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