Guild Wars 2

Why can I use purging flames ( and sanctuary) underwater, but not hallowed ground ( or wall of reflect)?

Dante.1763:

Well, if they follow anything like they did with GW1 guild halls, there will be more than one to pick.

With gw1 style guild hall preview/exploration before choosing would be nice.

That art doesn’t appeal to me either..
Hopefully we can choose a GH without that particular shade of green all over the place.

conn.2097:

Yup, that’s what i meant.
Following spreadsheet somewhat confirms it with a bit imagination and knowledge about demon slaying working on fleshreavers.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SKAWQhoBOads8n61LzXniXFHDejeeL3zCM7ywz94gZY/edit?pli=1#gid=254010238

Spreadsheet info is from Atoi and Iris, so thanks to them.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Race-Gadget-and-Slaying-Potions

aha, the source I had for it not working was saying demon slaying pots didn’t work for fleshreavers.

Thanks for the clarification

Accountzeroone.7291:

Valentine.4286:

You did not read the lfg and didnt meet their requirements, I guarantee it!
In your words, you are a “moron”.

If they ask for someone exp and you are not, dont join
If they ask for higher AP than U got, dont join
If they ask for certain profesions U dont use, dont join
Of they ask for anything at all that U dont know, understand or got, dont join

Dont get why people got such a hard time with that. Instead they blame the dungeon community because they get kicked, calling it toxic. I have been kicked once because they wanted to play with their friends. Its a reason thats the only time
Read the lfg, or better yet. Just make your own!

Begging your pardon Valentine, but what do you not understand about this part of my post:

“even when I make sure the group advert is described as “Doing heart events” or “Join me!” or “Doing Orr events”

Anyway….

There’s no question about whether or not the dungeon community is atrocious, it goes without saying; everyone I talked to in the game, when on the subject of dungeons, says they avoid them because of the community… what’s more is, if they didn’t act kitten, there wouldn’t be 100 threads about it. The topic is the asinine behavior of the dungeon community, has started to leak into the open world (which, I guess was inevitable, unfortunately).

are you familiar with the concept called “taxi”?

Its where you would post and lfg, and try to get as many as possible into the zone. To do this you have to have people leave party, or kick them. This is so you can get more people join into the zone.

Dungeons, your complaint is 99% of the time coming from people who don’t know how to read the lfg description, so my sympathy for you is none.

Also calling everyone else morons is going to result in people kicking you, just because its you.

conn.2097:

May add more later

Cliffside
• outlaw slaying works against enemies (Novice, Fanatics, Chanter) verified
• outlaw slaying works against Archdiviner verified
• outlaw slaying works against bone minions verified

Uncategorized
• inquest slaying works against Raving Asura verified

Underground Facility
• dredge slaying works against dredge verified (and powersuit ?? no data yet)
• elemental slaying works against elementals and end boss verified

Volcanic
• grawl slaying works against grawl (trash, veterans and champion) verified
• elemental slaying does not work against imbued shaman (demon slaying verified)
• elemental slayings works against elemental adds verified

Solid Ocean
• elemental slaying against irukandji does not work
• elemental slaying against tentancles does not work
• elemental slaying against jade shards verified

To clarify, is this post saying demon slaying does work on the imbued shaman (volcanic)?

Been told recently that it does not work, though my experience would suggest otherwise.

CodeHavoc.7926:

Sigmoid.7082:

E3Drinking game:
Take a shot every time you hear :

• Soon
• When its ready
• Numbers aren’t final yet

You’re gonna put us all in the hospital. And Soon.™

I’d suggest taking shots of something low in alcohol, so as to survive without a hospital visit. Getting very, very drunk will still very likely happen.

Their twitch stream just fired up. Looks like the blog post may have been a little borked with its date.

I guess we’ll know 100% in around an hour.

MiniEquine.6014:

steveway.3167:

Actually the writs are the ones that can be traded at 20:1. The scrolls are being converted directly into spirit shards.

“•Writs of experience can only be used if you’re under level 80, and they can be traded in to Miyani for a tome of knowledge at a rate of 20 writs per tome.
•Any scrolls of knowledge that you have in your possession will automatically be converted to spirit shards, and any source that used to award scrolls of knowledge will now grant spirit shards.”

Oh…why? The Writs are already 1/20th of a level each. Is this just for consolidation? I must have misread it as the scrolls.

Also, have they said anything about what Spirit Shards can buy aside from what skill points can already buy?

it’s so writs can/will still give 1/20th of a skill point spirit shard.
Keeps them relevant once you have all chars at 80. Same reason tomes of knowledge will give spirit shards.

Sorin.4310:

I think people underestimate some condition builds. Group theoretical cond damage right now is over 11k.

http://www.dtguilds.com/forum/m/6563292/viewthread/12956045-ebola-warrior-pve-dps-condition-damage-build-for-solo-play

Build up time & overlapping conditions bring that down. But vuln changes & increased cond damage with the change might actually make condi warrior good enough to be competitive, if not the absolute best.

Aside from my thought : sinister > rabid..
the utility food.. reminded me:

Potions don’t affect condi damage.
Which is a huge thorn in the side of condi being accepted in dungeon parties.

+1.

This QoL fix made me happy today.

PS, why is this stuff not in the darn patch notes!?!?!

I bet I could make a fortune setting up a confectionary stand in these threads.

+1 for this change.

I’d expect it to be a fairly low priority, but it’d be a nice QoL improvement.

From what I remember, AN is holding back on much of the API functionality they could produce due to OAuth limitations. I vaguely remember reading a post that things like viewing/speaking in guild chat was on the todo list. I also remember reading they were waiting on the development of OAuth2 before allowing us to connect to the login-servers by means other than website/game client.

Having the aura scale with power & possibly healing power ( keep the base similar to that of the current vampiric numbers) was an idea I was toying with also. Thinking is should probably scale on the necros stats too ( like regen now does with casters hp).
Naturally the coeffs would need to be fairly low, as mentioned above, scaling to around 100-150/hit using all major stats would be nice.

After rewatching the twitch stream, it looks like it’s quite possible for the aura to be a trait applying it periodically, similar to spotter. Which means we could have a trait named “Aura of the Vampire”.
Looked like it was a minor, or master-tier trait from what was selected.

I suspect there may well be some combo changes.

Maybe some trait that gives ‘vampiric aura’ could be named aura of the vampire.

I just think it’d be cool for nostalgia purposes to be so similarly named to a gw1 skill that did something equally similar.

No idea if there has been discussion on the name of the life-steal type aura that was mentioned in the reworking of blood magic.

My opinion is ‘Aura of the Vampire’ would be a pretty sweet name for it.
Functionality sounds similar to:
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Order_of_the_Vampire

NikeEU.7690:

One thing I thought about for 10 man instanced content would be the removal of the 5 man buff limit would be needed. Only needing one warrior to fully buff everyone in a 10 man group is a lot more freeing than requiring two, or two thieves needed for stealth etc.

I would hope that the party buff limit is removed so we can get a bit more diversity than 2w, 1g, 2t, 4x ele.

Depending on the stealth skips, I’m pretty sure you could get away with one thief. You’d just need blasts from both parties in the smoke field.
- Though now I’m wondering why this isn’t done in WvW for a 14s stealth bombs. Besides the coordination usually failing miserably.

Conncept.7638:

Similified WvW so it no longer requires what? You are delusional if you think WvW has ever required any semblance of organization.

Required is the wrong word.

I think something like " results can be/are vastly improved when there is organization" would be a better fit.

gotta +1 the proposed changes.

That cost to upgrade was an irritating gold sink, and was a chore to remember to fire them off ( or waiting for supply to come in to do so).

It also increases the value of being a roamer because you have more purpose to roam a supply line and speed up those yaks.

Not to forget it could make it much more enjoyable for a small guild/group to decide to take up residence for an evening in an enemy tower/keep and see how long they could hold it.

All in all it seems like a very nice QoL change for WvW.

There is a radical alternative that I haven’t seen mentioned in a while:

Change WvW to use the PvP equipment sets ( and therefore also traits/skills).

I know some don’t like this due to customization and wanting to out-gear enemies.

However it would also solve problems like up-levels being a rally-bot in zergs.

Maybe racials will be unlocked by default?
Once the skill slots open up that is.

Why not allow individuals to vote then?
You solve the issue of how to weight a guilds vote.

It also allows you to get a better idea of what the populace wants/thinks, rather than just a select few.

A voting system which allows 10,000 votes is no more difficult to put together than a voting system that allows 10 votes.

Also by excluding people who have not set records also makes new-comers seem unwelcome. Unless that is the idea?

You can use multiple weapons out of combat ( by swapping from inventory or hero panel) to get more blast finishers. You can also strafe around or through a mob or simply backpedal and avoid some attacks, conserving dodges for bigger, harder hitting attacks.

Also while less interesting to play ( in a perfect party*), staff builds are often easier to stay alive due to range, and tend to have higher damage.

- I say a perfect party, because a staff ele has huge amounts of utility to help out its team too, if you rotate out of fire attunement.

You could also try using lightning hammer for blast finishers during fights ( which means a lot of letting auto attack do the work, but gives you time to work on your positioning and learning the animations of enemy attacks).

It sounds like you’re doing a pretty fine job as an ele though!

PS) your english seems perfectly fine to me.

The Rush was the final hit and that’s all the hp he had left?not 100% certain, but best reason I can think of.

It did look low for the GS damage numbers. But those are the easiest thing to change in the code, so maybe they just haven’t bothered to consider balance of that too much yet.

I wonder if we could convince anet to make the shout that transfers condi to affect allies? With a suitable cd/balance of course.
Making them also affect allies would really make them shine in group fights ( let’s face it, going 1v5 in pvp is basically suicide). But also PvE..

My gut thought with it though ( balance of dps and such pending): Easy mode volcanic fractal.
Which perhaps is the kind of thing anet was aiming for. It may be a little slower- but if it makes a fractal smoother & reliable, it’ll often be more fun/relaxed.

It does look like it’s going for a mirror to the guardian though, debuffs in place of boons and such, which I find a really nice place to have the necro.

edit: vampiric aura sounded interesting. Not sure how useful it’ll be mind you.

No worries. Making it bigger won’t be a problem at all. I’d expect every submission to need to be verified, regardless.

good to hear.

As for the timestamp we use – increasing the size won’t be a problem at all.
I suspect it would help you if we could give you the exact seconds for start/finish also?

TPMN has trouble with overlays at the moment, due to a pc which is way overdue upgrade. They have tended to flicker and be generally make for unpleasant viewing.

So there is no accountability?
There is no obligation to be able to review a run between every verifier?
What you are saying – is you are not obliged as record keepers to consider every submission.

So – Prove to me a better than “all-time-record” hasn’t been achieved and ignored. Threads deleted/lost and such?

There is an element of trust for the record keeping. That trust is now broken.

spoj.9672:

Rising gave you a reason. We cant verify the time with the quality of those videos. Not to mention the other issues.

Im happy to accept a record that is submitted properly. Instead of complaining and accusing us of corruption why dont you record another run? Its not like you put any effort into that one so there should be issue surely?

So why was this not stated from the beginning?

It’s just excuses.

it’s just ad-hoc rule changes to best fit " we are better than you".

Still seems to me that this is “we cannot be bothered because you are not part of our elite core, and so are unsuitable for our elitist only records”.
You are making excuses and changing your minds between posts.
New rules are being added ad-hoc to deny people entry to your list of “records”.

All the discussion here has done is reinforce my view that, these records are entirely corrupted and therefore invalid.

It is clear the only reason they are publicly viewable, is to serve to stroke the egos of a select few.

At least this serves to highlight why there is so much anti elitism and meta-hate in gw2.

Rising Dusk.2408:

Mad Queen Malafide.7512:

Yes, they need to bring hexes back. Then we will have something we are good at. Bring back the classic Spiteful Spirit, and we’ll see a lot less zerking too.

Unfortunately very few creatures actually attack fast enough for SS to be relevant, or the confusion condition if we’re talking strictly GW2 current mechanics.

Which again could change if the hot content is well designed..

Hexes, or at least debuffs are where necro should shine. Offensive version of a guardian.
Which it sounds like is what anet is trying to do with reaper.

Plenty of blinds/chills/vuln/slow would make reaper quite desirable. It might be a little lower on dps – but could make “challenging content” significantly easier.

Again, hinges on content that is challenging.

well thats just confusing.

I guess it’s consistently inconsistent though!

runeblade.7514:

Artemis Thuras.8795:

So I might get arah p4, ta aetherpath, and volcanic fractal in one run?

I think I’ll pass. Even if you were offering 100g, I’d hardly ever have enough time to be able to say " I can complete this today".

You would get a small part of Arah p4. a small part of TA aetherpath and Volcanic Fractal in one run.

breaking them up sounds like a lot of work for anet..

Wethospu.6437:

Unfortunately most of the stuff has already been tested. But it will be good to be able to verify everything, especially if we get stuff like Graveling slaying some day.

I thought they were ghosts for the potions/sigils?

Sounds to me like people are offended because their 12+ hours of practicing ( lol, you kitten serious?) isn’t going to mean they get some eternal hall of fame place.

10g to post a record ey??
Well that means only glory hounding snobs will even bother..

All this just screams elitist exclusive club. For all I know a time beating the all time records has been ignored, simply because it wasn’t set by a preferred speedrunning group.

The corruption this thread has highlighted renders the records kept completely moot in my view.

Have fun rubbing each others egos though. ( 12+ hours.. rofl..)

IllegalChocolate.6938:

Necromancers could have been the condition variant of amplification I feel. You have empower allies with warrior, Necromancers could have gotten the condition variant with amplification of condition durations, potency(outside of might, there are sigils that directly amplify condition potency by a flat percentage, it was possible to do this with traits), etc.

With conditions becoming more of a thing in HoT I feel like it was a missed opportunity for them.

I think it’s a little early to say reaper definitely won’t have that as a trait option.

Nyx.7342:

Ah makes sense, my group is pretty dam shaky :p

I have only heard of it being used in scepter builds, but i kinda hate those cuz either no need to use lh or lh gets left behind ;_;

anyways thanks i guess ill stick with blasting staff and stone splinters

I’m guessing you’re running 64202?

Keep an eye on the vuln, cause you may want to run 66002 for weak spot and tempest if you’re getting good stun uptime. Quick glyphs can also be a real helper for storms or elements(elite). Personal dps difference is minimal, but the vuln makes up for it & is party wide.

So many ifs/buts/maybes in build crafting ;-)

Rising Dusk.2408:

I think Ranger would be much closer to meta if their melee weapon of choice didn’t bounce them off of cliffs like a rabbit in heat. And for what it’s worth, party buffs and being able to contribute to Might/Fury/Vuln would certainly help the Necromancer’s case.

Would love to see that ranger sword rework! ( I’m imagining lemmings with bunny ears atm).

Depends how HoT content turns out too. The reapers debuffing may actually be quite valuable. I suspect it may well have its place. Traits/skill effects and damage dependant.

Piercing shards has two requirements:
- vulnerability,
- IN water attunement.

Generally Taking this take over blasting staff is a bad idea. I guess something like AC where in a very high dps team a single ice storm can kill most bosses it has its niche on a staff ele.
But that is a pretty kittenumption about the strength of the rest of your party – one which is rarely going to occur in practice.

Blasting staff gives you: more hits with MS; easier to keep foe in lava font; bigger area to blast; larger water fields when things go wrong etc..

I personally love taking an SF/LH ele using 54050 due to being able to auto on the LH in water attunement, and getting a lot of extra support out of it over say 66200 SF/LH ( which has slightly higher dps afaik).

doddbox.8153:

Don’t really understand what you’re getting at since nobody bothers following record run tactics in daily runs because they take far more coordination and brain cells along with the risk of wiping continuously.

The idea of unrestricted records is to break the agreed record running rules (such as using terrain skips/ special consumables) to achieve better times.

This is considered “record run tactics”?
This how our daily tours go. We even had a pug who’s never ran with us before in that particular run.

Risk of wipes? What risk of wipes? No higher than any pug I’ve seen. Lower if anything.
Something like might stacking or blasting smoke fields for stealth is considered high coordination/high brain function now? (except I’ve also been in pugs which do this..)
Or maybe “drop wall on this boss, then hallowed ground” is this considered hard to do now?
So unrestricted records == must use exploits? That seems dumb.

I’m pretty confused by your post to be honest.

Anchoku.8142:

Brush Hog

Cursing Cleaver

Twirl O’Mancer

Dragon Chopper

Weed Whipper

Spiteful Sit ’n Spinner

Mordrem Smoothier

The Terror That Turns in the Night

Cursing Great Sword

Death Shouter

Town Crier

Dragon Wailer

Dark Paladin

Dragon Speaker

Dragon Spooker

Damage Sponge Bobbie

Injustice Juicer

Minion Spanker

Tanks for Revenant

Tanks for Death

Tanks for Everything

Tanks for All the Fish?

RabbitUp.8294:

They didn’t say whether we will be able to choose 2 or more elite specs at the same in the future (like Dueling/Chronomancer/Disco Diva), though, and it’s too early to discuss that.

no, they did.
You saw in the streams that one of the specialization slots has a gold trim?
Only that one slot can take an elite spec.

J Eberle.9312:

Beldin.5498:

Quickfoot Katana.8642:

Beldin.5498:

Bad enough i maybe have to do them for those new legendarys.

PHIW has began to flood this thread. God forbid for you to work on all parts of the game to get a legendary.

God forbid dungeons get dungeon-specific loot thats actually cool rather than kittenty crafting recipes for kittenty amulets!

Seriously. Go back to enjoying your Silverwastes challenging chestfarm/events will ye?

Whatever PHIW is .. God forbid people play dungeon because the LIKE to play them.

No what if you were forced to loot 10.000 chests in SW for you Legendary ? Or that
all the “cool” loot is just in SW chests .. because everybody should be forced to play
the stuff he dislikes the most just to get something good ?

No go back to glitch through your walls and stack in corners.

Just wanted to point out that when I pug arah I see PHIW’s edging lupi into a wall for the one shot with WoR because they lack the knowledge to do the other parts of the fight or are possibly really lazy. Also strangely enough, I have seen PHIW’ers stacking in corners that are no longer the best idea since FGS got the nerf. I don’t quite understand it but I guess it’s just people stuck in a mould, even PHIW’s are susceptible to that.

Btw I’m happy to map even though I hate mapping to get my legendary. Why? Because it’s supposed to appeal to multiple aspects of the game.. To show that you put in effort. Also there’s SW only loot isnt there? like that beta portal and the bee thing that gives the cool aura. I’d like those but I don’t like doing SW.. I don’t really mind though.

Funny story:

We have very few who can do that fight properly yet, so walled as usual. Had good eles and burnt through phase 2 before I could drop the wall of reflect. Had to do it normal way anyway. Was an awesome day.

signet of courage
So if it retains the huge 180s cooldown, and the 4s+ cast time, make it also affect downed allies? Reduced cast time to say 2-3s would also be nice to make it a bit more usable though.

I didn’t think there was.
Seems like it could do with a buff along with being made base – sword should be at least competitive with mace dps.

Is this trait becoming baseline?

Even with that as baseline, It seems odd to me that sword will have potentially lower dps than mace due to the symbol damage trait in zeal.

With the trait changes, Those are the only effects I would use from the tomes anyway so.. Definitely +1 for this change.

Please make this happen asap.

TheRandomGuy.7246:

It could be nice after skill/trait rework IF writs will work with mastery system.

& no hideous DR on the gathering of exp..
Dungeons don’t need even more DR on them..

link to said preview post?
nvm, i found it ( I honestly thought this name was a troll to begin with):

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/meet-the-dragonhunter-guardians-elite-specialization/