Guild Wars 2

Crimson Shi.5047:

dem troll posts

ikr i just play as a thief like 1 hour ago and killed easily all necros

Tanith.5264:

I’m still trying to figure out how Rytlock got Sohothin back. He barely explains the Revenant abilities and the sword not at all.

And let’s have no more of this “later, cub” nonsense, Rytlock.

i recall logan say he loot it from ascalon but rurik died at fire ring -

prince rurik, master togo, king jails iron hammer, jora , pyre fierceshot

NovaanVerdiano.6174:

But “it confuses people”

yup thats it and force you to read your traits and kills

protection + rise + damage reduction with condi that is what happend

having the same problem 3k ping is nasty

He is too busy raiding the relics at orr and killing the rest of the dragon minnions

Erukk.1408:

It’s now residing in an ultra exclusive spot in the Wizard’s Tower armory.

Nah more like at the hands of palawajoko

well of darkness add a knock down per pulse and damage and it would be ok

Well of Dhuum
- can’t be evaded
-Damage (6x): x 1,476 (3.96)
-5s slow
-Lifeforce: 2% per pulse
-knock down foes every pulse
-Number of Targets: 5
-Pulses: 1s
Duration: 6s
Radius: 240
Combo Combo Field: Ethereal
Range: 900
Unblockable

Lahmia.2193:

Soul Eater
Reduces recharge on Greatsword skills. (20%)
All attacks whilst wielding a Greatsword cause Life steal. (50 damage/40 healing)
Greatsword attack speed is increased by 15%.

Discuss.

agree but life steal is bad it only work with dagger because you can spam 1 fast but on gs it need to be more to compensate the slow hits.

my idea would be increase the attack speed by 15%( like you say) and add a damage modifier 10% more dmage

Silverthorn.8576:

lets nerf chill damage so reaper has no GM trait…

dang so true

reduce the auto attack and buff cnd and hs is all that the thief need the aut is out of hand

Salamander.2504:

PvP League Season Two Changes by Erik Waananen on February 18, 2016 :

…Some minor balance tweaks will be coming for the start of the new season….

What can we expect from this balance patch, ANet?

Every time ANet puts out a balance patch, they say they’ll keep a watchful eye on things and adjust/revert where necessary. They’ve never actually reverted anything though: as far as I can see, once a change is made, that’s it and the rest of the game is balanced around (sometimes broken) mechanics in the future.

—Thief AA buff (Jan. 26 patch) needs to be partially reverted.
—Ranger Search and Rescue buff (Jan. 26 patch) needs to be nerfed.
—Necro scepter AA buff (Jan. 26 patch) needs to be fully reverted.
—Necro chill damage buff (Nov. 4 patch) needs to be fully reverted.

Among other things. ANet balance “team” (?), are the upcoming Feb. 23 balance “tweaks” based off your experience PvPing, or community feedback? Are you able to revert things when necessary as you’ve promised in the past?

necro scepter is meh dont care if they rever that
necro chill stop whining is ok chill can’t stack
rest i agree

Tadsoul.6951:

They should make this skill be a real risk to the necromancer
For example it should apply like 20 stacks of bleed for 1 minute
I’m in a hurry so ill post reasons later.

you really know no 1 uses this skill?

just reduce the chanel ( cast time of shippon) and is all good

greatsword need cast reduction on chilling scythe to 3/4 and the horrible aftercast in grave digger (1 sec the whole thing)
also if you add something to death spiral like a teleport or a knock nown would be awsome

Lahmia.2193:

If you wanted to implement this, Thieves would need to have a second health bar.

and necros stealth and evades?

Wolfield.9812:

Steal boons on backstab.
Daze on backstab.
Interupt on backstab.
Apply conditions on backstab. (Slow, Confusion)

Stop thinking more damage for everything.

knock down on backstab would be nice atleast now that auto attack deas the same damage XD

unholyfervor ( because axe is terrible)
terrifiyingdecsent ( no words )
Banshee’s wail (effect is lack luster)
unyielding blast (even in reaper it is bad)
soul eater (plain bad)
life from death ( no 1 uses it)
quikening thirst (speed is good the recharche is pointless)

go full power and use wells

for axe to be more competitive as a power wep it need skill 1 to have more effect skill 2 to be faster and skill 3 be a blast finisher ( traits need to change also)

You cant the quickness last for half a sec if you cancel the cast

MethaneGas.8357:

I tested the same thing the other day with the runes… it makes the well a super quick cast (0.5 secs).
I think you could easily start casting the well, then cancel the cast and get some slow skill out of it (chilled to the bone, for example, or life siphon).
Or you could start casting the well, then before it finished, go into shroud and cast Soul Spiral (with the quickness) or Executioner’s Scythe (with quickness)… or even just auto attack.
I didn’t test it…but the quickness might apply with the trait that casts Well of Blood when you res someone…

I think there’s potential there but it’s a lot of micromanaging (similar to canceling auto-attacks from Mesmer GS to maximize DPS).

how about make fear knock off all boons and prevent boons from being apply while it last, but not stability

would be better if the trait apply life leach on every gs hit + reduction to all gs skills or cast times
edit: or make the life leach affect all your attacks even in ds

sign.1075:

i think health gaining effects should work in shroud they just dont want to do it cause we would be 1v1 champs.

not really

would be better for us if ds have its own utilities or even if we could use normal utilities while in ds but for us to be able to see the cooldowns would be good too

Parasitic contagion: while suffering a condition steal health when struck by a foe (can be an aura), a percentage of condition damage heals you 5% (this trait would be great with corruptions)
or make it gain life force each second per condition suffered
why can’t we have a trait like this

Curses
Adept:
Terrifying decent: merged with putrid defense ( make a new trait for this minor spot)
Plague signet: this is a good trait should stay the same
Chilling Darkness: cd reduced to 2 second
Masters:
Master of corruptions: all self-applied conditions are also applied to the target, including the additional ones like bhawb say
Terror: Fear last 1 second longer and kd at end of fear or if removed, damage increased by 50%
Path of corruption stays the same
Grandmasters:
Weakening shroud: stays the same
Parasitic contagion: while suffering a condition steal health when struck by a foe (can be an aura), a percentage of condition damage heals you 5% (this trait would be great with corruptions)
Lingering curse: apply to any weapon and make it 250

fear last 1 sec lol

this trait works 50% only vuln is apply the pierce is for ds 1 ( it should be baseline )

twilight
Jinx isle event bugged npc get stuck at ceiling
overlord’s defeat also bugged it wont give reward

Robert Gee.9246:

To provide some context on this change:

We felt that Blighter’s Boon was providing too much survivability, especially with the amount of boon output that Heralds and Tempests can provide. (This is especially true in WvW and large PvE Zergs). I did like the interaction this trait had with your allies, but boon application from allies is too broad of a category for us to reasonably balance in all modes of the game.

We considered a lot of other possibilities for this skill including adding an ICD, limiting the procs to specific boons, limiting the number of procs from allies, but the majority of these types of fixes ended up taking agency and control away from the reaper which we felt wasn’t optimal.

Ultimately we felt this change helped to make the trait more specific to some builds rather than the best trait in all situations.

EDIT: It seems like there is some confusion about the reasons behind the change. Even though I use PvE and WvW as an example, we think it’s providing too much in all areas of the game, PvP included.

all I see was the other class have too much boon spam, this trait was good only in zergs like you mention. reaper have to be on mele range to do damage also we don’t have heal in shroud signets in shroud invulnerability stealth evades the list goes on and on. Necromancers are the worst team fighter in the game with almost 0 ways to support the team this trait was not over power yes good but not over power
Like bhawb.7408 say nerfing a trait because it is good in zerg sustain is an awful balance point. and everything is balanced around 1v1 for necro but not so the case for everyone else and finally when we had a way to really benefit from outside support it is taken away from us.

game crash every 5-10 minutes

inscrease the scaling like every one say is ok, and also i would like to suggest make a trait like every 4 hit steal 1000 life from the target enemy or make it aoe

that 1000 wont scale with anything to not make it op

Bhawb.7408:

If it channeled faster it’d be less of a DPS loss.

yes and how about we make it apply weakness after all you are stealing the life of the other person =]

thats a good idea but they won’t make it. They would have too change plenty of stuff to make that work.
How about make well of darkness knock down people inside it every pulse

Bhawb.7408:

All it needs is to have its channel speed increased to 2-2.5s

yup that’s it

give the team a npc to cover the spot like a boss or something, or give 150 stats bonus to the team that would help
note: if the person return the npc or stats buff is reverted

OlliX.1705:

I’d just love to see a whirl finisher on Axe 2.

and 10% dmage buff

Greatsword
• Skill combo 1 need a little more lf last hit is too slow for what it does
• Grave digger could be just 1 sec rest of the skill is ok
• Death spiral is ok
• Nightfall is ok
• Grasping darkness is ok ( cool down reduction to 25 would be also good)
Shouts
• You are all weaklings: is ok
• Suffer: need to transfer at least two conditions per foe
• Nothing can save you: unlockable should last longer or make it party wide or add quickness for 4 sec
• Rise : is ok
• Chilled to the bone: reduced cast to 1 sec rest is ok
Reaper shroud skills
• Skill 1 is ok
• Death charge: is ok
• Infusing terror : should pulse out of shroud
• Soul spiral: is ok
• Executioners scythe: need a little more damage and cast reduced to 1 sec
Traits
• Augury of death: Life siphon could be a little higher rest is ok
• Chilling nova: is ok
• Relentless pursuit : add regeneration like warrior one

• Soul eater: Siphon is way too low make it apply to all great swords skills
• Chilling victory: could use 1% more lf but is good
• Decimate defenses: is ok

• Blighter’s boon: need more healing and 1% more life force
• Deathly chill: is ok
• Reapers onslaught: attack faster is nice but the rest of the skill feels lacking

Note: reaper shroud drains too fast, it depends too much of vital persistence this should be base, If this is made baseline we should get a trait that gives life force while in combat 1% every 2 sec something like signet of undead.

Bhawb.7408:

Reaper shroud definitely doesn’t decay faster, its just that you are melee and take more incidental damage. I’ve had entire fights where I barely ever leave shroud, in fact its possible to gain LF while in Shroud simply from AAing.

true but still it degen too fast =[

lower the degen and make vp stop the degen compleately

Karma.3064:

Last time it happened it was fixed pretty fast i think. However, people reported it earlier in the day, so dev’s were actually on. Keep this thread on the front page and it should be fixed by the morning. Though, i’m just guessing.

Yup hope they fix it soon whole spvp server is down i heard

Karma.3064:

I just got back in. Not sure exactly how long i stayed logged out, been watching the latest season of the Walking Dead. However, it was probably about 25 minutes. Got a message stating that i was unable to login to the server due to a firewall issue or something but i’m actually logged in and roaming around the map. However, i’m not able to get into a pvp match at this time. Currently it says i’m stuck in que while i’m not in a que.

Did you just log out or close the game? if you only log out it wont work

for all that are stuck just log out for 15 mins and you will be out of the match, you will get a log in error and can’t play pvp only pve hope this help

i try changing characters, exit on the pvp menu and go to wvw but it after 1 sec it’s reload me to pvp
edit: even if it kicks you for not moving it reload you back to the pvp match

is more than 1 match

tevoro.1587:

Really hope there’s a dev still awake! There’s several of us stuck here…

im also stuck on the match ….