Guild Wars 2

whiteyzz.3067:

Yep I’m so salty, as a necro that my class has become an easy mode, hur durr run minions and unholy sanctuary. And now near invulnerable to condition damage with all the condition removal.

Imagine if every class had 14 second, 6.5k heals, went full tank and could do good DPS? If someone even goes condition damage against you, don’t have to run the signet anymore your minions and shrouds remove it all for you… don’t have to run a stun break to deal with getting stunned before you could pop your death shroud it’s all automatic.

Minions should scale off our power, full tank summons shouldn’t be as a good as a zerker summons. But I mean kitten running any other elite if you can be this bulky and deal so much damage… I’m still going to run lich form with +condition damage but honestly this right now is just as good as the engi’s who chuck glueshot and throw a quabillion grenades in your face.

Also when your match has 4 necromancers running the same build it’s kinda sad…. and then run into a match where it’s 3 necros running the same build then 2 then 3 then 4. I haven’t seen a non summoner necro in quite a bit.

You’ve obviously never played as a. Ele. Further, you obviously never played as a condi ele snice patch. Go do that and then read your comment again

Sry guys this was in general but got moved instantly. Can close it since it’s in the graveyard now

This weapon is absolutely horrendous and the necro has no way to deal with a long range threat. There have been a few hundred threads about this in the necro forum but it’s never gotten any kind of feedback. Can we just please get acknowledgement that there’s … anyone that cares

No hesnright, a decent longbow ranger is simply not going to be killed by a necrk. There’s nothing you can do except hide behind a rock to force melee range.

The fix to this is increase axe range and give it a pull

flow.6043:

Azure.8670:

Cerbeius.7129:

Noo, stay on Engi-forum!

Show some hospitality..

ellesee.8297:

But the active is so good!

Wahoo! Bye frands!

With great power comes great condipullability.

I’m really jk he’s been an important member of the engi community for 3 years

Cerbeius.7129:

Noo, stay on Engi-forum!

Go for it. The only thing necro isnt really great at is dungeons and I’m confident reaper is going to change that. We are good at pvp and amazing in wvw. Easy class to roam with in pve maps like silverwaste as well. I love necro. I’m a mesmer/ele main since launch but have basically replaced my ele with necro

whiteyzz.3067:

All I can say is…

Needs more of the 100% pure skill passive called Unholy Sanctuary.

Needs to be a full tank build, cause I mean why do damage when your golem just permanently cripples people and deals 1.2K + 1.2k + 1.8k out every 1.6 seconds! AND cripples, imagine if Guardian/Warriors Crippled every attack? Seriously 6/7/8/9/10 shouldn’t let you output the dps of a full zerk class while picking a pure tank runes and necklace.

Minions need to get hit by a nerf stick and scale, I would have no problem if every necro I ran into doing this much damage was a squishy full zerker, but nope they’re full tank with two life bars and also Taste of death heals 6.5k HP on 16 second CD…? But at least guardians get a 8k heal on a 40 second CD!(and shrek PVE)

Honestly run Wyrm, put it in base and get sweet 99 KDA, as no one can kill you.

I take it you’ve been farming necros for awhile and lost recently.

Pulsicle.3192:

You guys!
You need to stop thinking with your power builds, it’s embarrassing. :/
Axe is a great utility weapon for mid range procs and pressure.
The only thing I’ll like to see is a faster attack speed on skill one, even if it means lowering the damage to allow it.
The idea of a whirl finisher on skill two would be cool, but a blast finisher on skill three? you are dreaming.

edit: spelling mistake

I’m sorry but how else would you picture axe? It’s do far from a hybrid or condi weapon. It needs to be a complimentary weapon to a power build, there’s no way it could ever be a main weapon. I don’t see your point sry

webtoehobbit.4201:

Azure.8670:

webtoehobbit.4201:

So this weeks announcement was that next week will be the WvW stress test, which means that next week there will be no new announcement cause….. stress test……

Just like with the beta week right?

:’-(

Maybe I should try FFXIV, this game has just been getting me down lately, it can’t be healthy.

That’s exactly what I did and I ended up logging into gw2 everyday anyway and only made it to lvl 34 in ff14

Oh, I log in everyday to GW2 as well, for one minute to get my daily chest, then I log out. So what do I have to lose?

My company??? I’m running on fumes here

webtoehobbit.4201:

So this weeks announcement was that next week will be the WvW stress test, which means that next week there will be no new announcement cause….. stress test……

Just like with the beta week right?

:’-(

Maybe I should try FFXIV, this game has just been getting me down lately, it can’t be healthy.

That’s exactly what I did and I ended up logging into gw2 everyday anyway and only made it to lvl 34 in ff14

Bhawb.7408:

There is no reason to have a pull on a 600 range weapon. Also Grasp is really strong, its issue has always been its unreliability and how hard it is to fit it into a build.

This and this. If we had 900 to 1200 range I’d welcome a pull. As of now it would be redundant

Bhawb.7408:

You should try playing bearbow, it’d be right up your alley.

Galen Grey.4709:

Anet might have been planning that too but in development you never know when you come across something that destroys all your plans.

Perhaps they even intended to release it close to january this year, I mean we dont know how long its been in the development but it would have been really cool if LS season 2 finished an 2 weeks later Expansion launches. Maybe that was the initial plan ony it had to be delayed because of issues. I mean with the agressive content release they had its kind off hard to imagine they planned for such a long content draught.

Ehh I so miss the Living story

I can’t believe there aren’t more posts in general saying this. I miss the living story so much

Coopziana.1802:

My latest “Game Slobs” video explains my feelings on the matter. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6YCv4Ajw-s

I’ll be sure to watch this later today my friend

Gryph.8237:

Anet does really need to take a look at necro’s axe, its dreadful. I would like to see the attack made to a cone cleave, with axe 2 being a health syphon. That would definiately make it more useful. Its terrible wading into battle (pvp and pve) with the axe being single target. Its essentially useless, because several classes spam vuln faster than we can put it on with the weakest autoattack in the game (aside from necro staff, which is even weaker).

necro’s weapon skills in general leave a lot to be desired, which is more noticeable as we have to rely on autoattacks so much.

Necro still needs help in pvp and pve, and I truly hope they will actually do something to improve it. The mesmers sure were improved drastically, and i think they could do the same thing for the necro.

Great suggestions btw. I have a thread in the necro forum called axe for help where we are gathering g data to fix axe and hopefully a dev reads it. Should throw this in there

I believe there was a thread on this. I’m unsure of the answer because I’m currently on axe strike

Vayne.8563:

I thought it might come out then too, but really, that’s my own doing. Anet didn’t say it was coming out then.

But then, we just got one of the biggest expansions we’ve seen to date. That expansion was huge. Fixes to the LS, QoL fixes, like the wallet, the whole new skill/specialization system and even a way to transform ascended armor and weapons to other stat sets.

Anet shifted gears when they went from a living world to an expansion, which fans insisted on. It’s going to take some time..because they had to switch gears.

I 1000 percent agree with you. I’m not really knocking anet so much as knocking myself and guildies. Everyone, except me that I know of anyway, hated the living story and wanted an expansion. Now that we’re actually getting it everyone literally can’t wait and it’s getting sad for my now rather small circle.
But I stand by my comment that anet is not giving enough info at all. E3 went by and I saw lots of pretty things but let’s put some words to paper so we have something to talk about. I was positive queens gauntlet and def SAB would both be back by now but nope.

HardRider.2980:

Seems like everything Anet is doing right now is for Xpac.. so unless the small team they have sorting out every issue I dont see axe being sorted and finally “fixed” untill after Xpac sadly.

As much as I agree with this in just want one red post. The Mesmer forum got a red post, engi gotten them… I want one here. I want acknowledgement that is all. They can say hey azure you suck. That’s fine. As long as someone in that gigantic building knows that we know the axe absolutely sucks

Im taking my white knight armor off for a few minutes. It’s rare for me to talk bad on anet or any device to be honest unless it has to do with necro axe and ranger. I’m really starting to lose interest in HoT. No matter what I’ll have it first day and play it like a mad man but the lack of information especially lately l, and no release date have killed the hype for me. I was absolutely certain the expansion would come out on the 3 year anniversary but it’s July now and we haven’t seen the specs, theres more betas coming out and the anniversary is next month. So now I’m thinking september? It won’t come in October due to Halloween I think. It’s been a sold 7 months with nothing new and almost my entire guild has quit. My former friends list, They’re all playing ff14 and don’t care about HoT anymore and it annoys me. OK I’m done venting, sorry for my crying fellas and ladies.

nekretaal.6485:

Axe is pretty bad, the worst weapon in the game.

But focus isn’t too far behind. Focus needs to keep up to power creep.

Agreed axe is the worst weapon, although I hate ranger axe as well but it’s better.

Focus I don’t think is bad, but it can’t keep up with warhorn or dagger… def needs some kinda buff.

I like a lot of the axe suggestions. I think we can all agree that axe 1 is the base change we need fixed asap. Either range speed power, any or all of the three need to be buffed. Axe 2 and 3 need a buff as well but I believe would be viable if 1 was better

Open world pve necro is amazing wtf. Drop wells and move forward everything dies

It makes your fighting style change also. When I see someone below 50 percent hp in wvw or pvp I insta f1 3 1 1. The inner kill in me demands murder

I loved it lol. Need more norn mesmer

Perplexity runes? Garbage.

I gotta get me some

How come there is a land spear and a great axe in the art for these in the physical and shout training tabs in the hero panel?

Yea it’s getting bad. There’s an influx of new players which is awesome, and a lot of old vets are coming back, but my guild went from 30 people active to about 5 on a busy evening. The lack of informatiom, new content, release date, has killed the joy for my guild. While I k ow they’ll be back it really sucks. Everytime there’s a spec announcement or stream everyone is excited and then silence. I love anet but their communication with us is awful. I know they cant, and wont, respond to every thread, but I wish they would just a little but more often . Gaile barely responds to us anymore. Necro forums have been begging for a red post. It’s just disheartening in general when you support a company as much as possible and it seems like they don’t care

I think mini s do probably runes actually. I know they did at one point but I don’t know if it was changed. I actually they it was changed awhile back now that I’m thinking about it

I like your hair. You win

Bhawb.7408:

Axe needs its 1 skill to be un-nerfed, and imo I’d much rather see it have an attack speed increase to allow for better vuln stacking, which was effectively nerfed with the condition duration changes, and obviously more damage overall, I don’t think it should match dagger but at least match other weapons of similar uses, like Guardian Scepter.

Axe 2 needs a damage increase, and it being a whirl finisher would be nice.

Axe 3 should be a blast finisher.

I don’t actually think Axe needs a range increase, the range is still a really important advantage over dagger as 600 large enough that you can’t just kite it on a point in PvP, however a range increase would be fine as 900 would make it a true ranged weapon, whereas 600 isn’t long-range.

Interesting enough I think a range increase would be vital as is stands. It almost would be worth taking if it was 900 or 1000 range as the weapon is currently imo. However I agree with everything else you’ve stated

Quarktastic.1027:

Sitting on the necromancer’s head.

Not even close

Was about to begin my quest for this today and remembered it got broken. I’m shocked there’s no response to this

It’s important that axe get some attention. I expect 99 percent of power necros to go Reaper once the expansion releases, meaning we lose death shroud 1 and our only decent ranged attack.

Endless Soul.5178:

ProtoGunner.4953:

Azure.8670:

All of my characters have the name Tyr in them. I got the name from Breath Of Fire 1, it was the main of the end boss at the (which was actually a girl) but years later the changed it to Maria because Tyr was just a bad translation. However ive been using the name for almost 20 years now and almost legally had a name change (yep).

Tyr XIII
Tyr X I I I (tattood on me)
Tyr V I
Tyrannus Krogan (Mass Effect is King)
Tyrzamaeus Krogan
Aelia Valtyrie
Tyrael Stormbringer (my most used name in every mmo, though its usually Tyr Stormbringer)
Tyrael Worldwalker
Czar Tyr Boudabras (Boudabras is Elven for Chaos in the Demon Wars elf language)
Tyr Almighty
Tyr Above All (name ive been using the most recently)

…

I really hope you know the origin of the name ‘Tyr’ – it’s a norse god.

It’s also where we get Tuesday from. I think it’s interesting that 4 out of the 7 days of the week are named after Norse gods.

Zerina In Aeternum – Zerina doesn’t really mean anything, I just thought it sounded nice. In Aeternum basically means “eternal” which I thought was fitting since I played Guild Wars for 10 years now.

Alastrine Aeternum – Alastrine was the name of my mesmer in Guild Wars 1, Alastrine Isolde.

Thorsimund – Named after the Visigoth King Thorismund, (there seems to be two spellings of his name but I like the way I spelled it because I think it sounds better this way).

Oh I’m well aware but as an… 8 year old I had never heard of him at the time

nekretaal.6485:

+1000 signed

I put my sigil of Generousity on my Frostfang way back when, and I think I die a little watching that thing collect dust.

this exactly. everytime I look at my axe I.. I… I feel your pain

Crypt The Immortal

My fellow Tyrians.

Today we launch a new journey. This is more dangerous than a dungeon run, will take longer than a fractal, more deadly that solo roaming in wvw. Today, we ask the devs for help. As a community of death loving, green and black wearing (a few exceptions to that) we need to come together and use our minds as one.
Our cousins, the engineer, launched a Hobosack crusade a little under 3 years ago and finally won their battle. Its time we do the same. All you need to show is put a few lines on how to make the Axe a viable weapon, and sign your name. Thats it. No more Axe threads. Every week or so an axe thread comes up and gets laughed at or swept under the rug.
No Mas.
Im tired of looking at my axe and wondering if it will ever be worth it. Im tired of my staff, a hybrid weapon, being a better power weapon than my power weapon.
No Mas.
This silly dagger animation with an axe?
No Mas!

Happy Monday and may Grenth be with you

velocity.4621:

i’m still using zerker

http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=V40;3kHFF0G4sJVJ0;9;469A;0137156147;4INl3L;1udbTudbTn-FSF6o0;2V1-60B1G2LZR42o-Gs1k;5F2C-F2-o;9;9;9;9;8E-6Y

im using the samething except force/air force/fire

All of my characters have the name Tyr in them. I got the name from Breath Of Fire 1, it was the main of the end boss at the (which was actually a girl) but years later the changed it to Maria because Tyr was just a bad translation. However ive been using the name for almost 20 years now and almost legally had a name change (yep).

Tyr XIII
Tyr X I I I (tattood on me)
Tyr V I
Tyrannus Krogan (Mass Effect is King)
Tyrzamaeus Krogan
Aelia Valtyrie
Tyrael Stormbringer (my most used name in every mmo, though its usually Tyr Stormbringer)
Tyrael Worldwalker
Czar Tyr Boudabras (Boudabras is Elven for Chaos in the Demon Wars elf language)
Tyr Almighty
Tyr Above All (name ive been using the most recently)

and my one toon with a different name is Crypt The Immortal. The reason I made this is because my in game friend, CP, or Cee Pee, died last April 13th. He mained necromancer and only played sylvari. I took the letters CP and added them to Tyr and came up with Crypt.

I’ve always thought eotm should have a once a day world event where you had to kill a giant dragon of some sort and the three sides had to work together

Toxsa.2701:

imsoenthused.1634:

I actually like Tera, and wish Guild Wars 2’s combat was more like it, but the amount of horrific pedophile chat that goes on in that game as a result of the Elin race is disgusting, and has to be experienced for you to understand how bad it can get. So I say no, a thousand times no, no children characters. Between the perverts, and the trolls pretending to be perverts just to gross people out, it’s not ever going to have enough positives to counter all the negatives.

Gonna repeat my post because you Western people is really kinda double standard and knows really little about what leads to crime.

“People are complaining about the “ethical issue” of the game, but guess what, the US and some European countries have much higher adolescence crime rates/prostitution than Korean and Japanese! This speaks volumes about some “western standard” being misleading propaganda and shows an essence of arrogance and ignorance.”

Clearly it’s not those chit-chat of your so called “disgusting comments” that lead to crime. In fact maybe it is those video games that “prevents” crime at the first place because it satisfies some people’s needs virtually. People who swing that way don’t need a video game to turn them into what they are. They use video game to do that because they swing that way before that and wish to satisfy what they want by just playing virtual games that hurts no-one.

This I’d an extremely foolish comment in so many ways I actually don’t think you even notice it. Can we please lock this thread

Natto.5819:

In the Never Ending Story, the hero was a child. And the empress was a child. There’s nothing wrong with fantasy characters being young heros.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_NeverEnding_Story_

It’s a huge problem when people can see them die and role play.

However I wish I could Make my character look older.

Knighthonor.4061:

This my theory,
Again just a theory of mine,
But it seem like the Elite Specs are modeled after Diablo 1-3 classes?

This not a far fetched theory, since Arena Net originated from the staff that created Diablo 2 and Early World of Warcraft(pre 2004)..

So there is a legit connection there. They fans of their own work I would assume.

So makes the most sense for this theory.

*Thief Staff = Diablo Monk
———————-
*Guardian Longbow = Demon Hunter
————————
*Ranger staff = Druid
———————-
*Warrior (assume torch) = Barbarian
———————
*Elementalist Warhorn = Wizard
———————
*Necromancer Greatsword = Necromancer
———————
*Engineer Hammer = Warrior
———————-
*Revenant Shield = Witch Doctor
————————
*Mesmer Shield = I say this comes from GW1 utopia instead

But what’s your thoughts on this theory?

This makes absolutely no sense in any language ever written

I’ve been using force and accuracy together…

Xyonon.3987:

Assassin’s / Eagle is assassin armor + zerker weapon and trinkets.

I probably won’t do condi since it seems lackluster compared to power atm. I will first go for engineer since it’s my other main, maybe after that

Actually so far support that rampager and sinister beat out zerk and assassin. We need more accurate numbers though, Plz consider doing this for condi

I’m with you, but I don’t think this is anything new. I’ve been ranting and raving to everyone on this board for years about how ranger is the forgotten class in this game. Ive been calling the ranger a druid forever because the pet is so awful and we just have spirits and a bow, bow there’s a druid spec so I don’t even know what to call it anymore. The ranger works, but is clunky and strange. It’d basically the same as it was after launch, warrior lite. Until the pet is unique and great enough that people pick the class because of how awesome the pet is, ranger will always be warrior lite. This is the only game/mmo where ranger isnt my main or atleast top three.

Thank you kind sir

InsidiousWaffle.7086:

Yeah, this whole thing is ludicrous seeing as Woodwnpotatoes Incineration Elementalist can burn for 18k per tick and be immune to condis

Is there a video of this? I can’t get any condi’s to stack anywhere near that

I simply cannot get my guard to do high burning damage that I see other people are claiming to get. Can someone make or direct me to a video where I can see high burns

Actually that pic is really really old

Hmmmmm. Might be into something. A kit I would believe