wasn’t this trait the reason they nerfed our chilling darkness and chills in general in addition to nerfing the chill on gs?
Now that I think about it, were any parts of the Reaper not nerfed from the reveal livestream?
Gonna have to agree here. I have found that when traited the shout heal has a 12 second cd when u hit 5 targets so it can actually be up like everytime i come out of shroud. Other than that. The might doesnt stick long enough on your all weaklings. Rise only summons one horror per target this is even worse than seek and destroy shout which i never thought was possible. Suffer chill is to short. Unblockable time is to short as well. Most these shouts give u time do get off all of like 1 attack in the time of the chill/unblockable/might lasts.
Last you need to trait for shouts again to get the reduced cooldowns and give up relentless pursuit which is honestly like better than the new crappy gm reaper traits.
What the hell are you doing during the 5-9 seconds of unblockability that you can only get one attack off?
It’s safe to assume that there’ll be a tab added next to the wardrobe/dyes/minis/finishers for glider skins.
I went there, it’s extremely unfinished.
What we have available right now is about a quarter of one of the three levels of one map. You’re kitten right it seems small, we only have access to one twelfth of one map.
HoT Main Story "NPC trusts?" [SPOILER]
in Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns
Posted by: Captain Unusual.9163
Given that all this stuff is already happening in the demo mission, I have high hopes for the rest of the story.
The weapons have different focuses. Staff is a utility weapon, Hammer is only damage, plus a block. Staff has aoe regen, an aoe chill and poison, an aoe condition transfer, and an aoe cc. In comparison, Hammer has a projectile shield and an aoe cc with an absurd cast time and telegraph.
If only the smokescales said something about evading while in the mist in their ability list under the health bar.
Oh wait…
Anyway, condescension aside, I don’t really expect ANet to nerf these things or make it easier on us. They’re well aware of the fact that current PvE is way too easy and unengaging, and the new stuff was designed specifically to be more difficult. For them to decide to make it easier, they’d need to, for no real reason, decide to suddenly go against their players’ wishes and their own design goals.
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The important question is why, aside from the elite shout, the cast times get longer as the actual shout gets shorter.
It functions like Target the Weak does, your chances of critting a target go up depending on the number of conditions on that target.
Nightfall is the only GS ability that isn’t bad. It really doesn’t need anything more.
And besides, your suggestion would make it less cool.
With Decimate Defenses and Deathly Perception, you can have 100%+ crit chance while wearing no precision gear. This lets us wear Valkyrie gear, for POWER/ferocity/vitality.
And oh my god does it work well in the new areas. Now that enemies are actually a bit tougher, the survivability from having 32k health helps a lot, and RS still has 100% crit chance, and about 58% crit chance outtside of RS.
It’s amazing fun.
[beta] How does mastery progression feel?
in Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns
Posted by: Captain Unusual.9163
Seems about right. Played for several hours, got a few points put into it. It’s not something that should be quick to max out, since it’s our primary form of post-80 progression. It feels satisfying to progress, but not too quick.
SIMPLE FIX:
If you move, the dash ends and you do the final explosion, skipping the animation.
Just like blurred frenzy ends if you try to move.
whuuuuu
Does this work with burning speed? I never specifically tried that, but it’s hard to believe I never did it accidentally.
The 30 seconds of bleed(x2) needs to be *8 seconds of bleed(x5)
Noooo, I love my minute long bleeds, even if they are impractical!
It’s wonderful to use it during teq, die, and run back from the waypoint before your bleeds stop ticking.
Definitely staff. It has a powerful aoe chill on its 3 skill, an aoe condition transfer that will always be useful no matter how you’re specced, and a short aoe fear. Plus a bit of life force gen on auto attacks, though I don’t think that’ll be very significant. The only other real useful option is axe/warhorn. Both warhorn skills are incredibly useful for the Reaper, and the axe is just a bit less useless for reaper than scepter, I think, due purely to it’s 3 skill.
but gaiz what if the condition’s damage doesn’t scale off condition damage?
/s
Dagger really needs to focus more on being the fast, lifestealing weapon. Its attacks come incredibly rapidly, and proc Vampiric and Vampiric Presence incredibly well, especially the 2 ability. If dagger 2 were changed to be a bit faster, and dagger 3 were changed to also give swiftness when used, it could still find use as a highly mobile, high healing lifesteal weapon, while letting Greatsword be slower, with higher dps.
The way to fix Necro in PvE is to fix PvE overall. In a different PvE landscape that didn’t involve stacking, Necromancer could potentially shine a lot more. A well designed Necro, with fixes to the things we need fixed, and a better PvE that more appropriately highlights the combat in GW2 could suit Necromancers very well, the problem right now is Necro is much more focused on preventing players from reaching full power, yet most mobs ignore this.
This is correct. The problem is that Necromancers are very good at a lot of things, but the things they’re very good at aren’t things that are needed in the current pve design.
She did! Her answer to everything HoT related is “banana scythe.” She said so in Twitch chat. “Release date? … banana scythe.”
It’s a clue. “Banana Scythe” has 12 letters, and 2 words. This gives us a possible release date of 12/2 or 2/12. Since we know that it’s being released this year, and it’s after February now, the release date must be December 2nd.
I rerolled guard just lvl 7 but necro I’m not going to play any more tried PVP kitten so much easier and 1v1 win ratio is much higher and is much funnier to play than that cursed necro I wish I could get back my time spent on Necro
Additionally I will leave this here this is 45 min on lfg tool with necro GJ arena you made a clkittened by every one including those who play necro
Looking through all that, there’s two groups that include Necromancers, but only one that includes a Mesmer. So I guess we’re not the worst off.
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Oh my god, a Dev post in the necro forums that isn’t just clarifying that our condition damage will scale from condition damage?
I understand that you can’t say much, but I do appreciate letting us know that a few of our suggestions have been heard and implemented, and our other concerns are being noted and considered.
I really agree with pretty much all of this, except that your new Fear of Death idea is pretty op. And we don’t need to both make Life Blast fire super fast and buff Dhuumfire, one or the other would be balanced.
And Axe Training should really give some entirely different bonus than just bonus damage. It should be something that actually synergizes with the axe skills, not just “take this for extra damage”. Your Spiteful Talisman idea would actually be a perfect axe trait if it had a boon strip on its auto attack.
I´ve ran across a sad fact – I want to build a unusual build for my engineer that would require Zealot gear. However, to get the gear, I would have to spend at least 100 gold for recipes that can not be got from anywhere but Trading Post.
I do see no reason why is there such a difference in getting i.e. Knigh´s gear and Zealot gear. In my opinion this dumps the diversity of playstyles alot and I dont see a reason for this.
Is this actually intent for some gear to be “harder to get” or is it just caused by the game evolving? Would there be a chance for anything to be done about it?Its not so much the intent, as it is a side of affect how they were added. All the prefixes associated with Living Story events have all had some kind of problem with their addition. For the early ones, it was exclusivity to the event; The reason their scare is because the required sources are no longer available. Zealots got off easy because watch work picks from the gem store can give them for normal mining…… if not for that, it would had been worse.
The Season 2 additions are all account bound, and the ascended versions often gated behind Living story achievements.
To that extent, the new Prefixes are effectively fluff- with the occasional prefix (like Zealots and Sentinels) finding use in rare situations. They could fix the situation easily by reintroducing the mats and recipes through other, stable areas of the game. But so far, at best, they end up as Laural items as a way to promote the NPC itself.
When is Sentinel’s useful?
And don’t forget Sinister, which is actually better than Zerk for a couple classes.
So… im playing gw2 for almost 3 years, but i almost havent bought it cuz ritualist wasnt there but i bought it anyway.
Revenant is the closest to a ritualist(i love spirit and mists theme)
im so hyped for revenant i made a full ascended set full infused with +5 prec and +5 agony on every item.
all other classes seems boring and all im waiting for is the revenant.
You’re gonna be salty as kitten if the ascended armor and precision infusions you made aren’t the best when HoT rolls around.
So, basically, the consensus here is that new players shouldn’t have it, because you want something to hold over their heads and say “look how much better I am than you”. Got it.
Exclusivity based on skill or content completion can be a good thing. Exclusivity based on whether someone was able to play during two specific weeks is not. Having them doesn’t mean you did anything memorable or impressive. I have the wings and don’t even remember what I had to do to get them. I didn’t realize till now that they weren’t at the laurel vendors, but now that I know that it makes me sad, because I have a friend who wasn’t playing then who quite likes them. And now I need to tell him that he can never get them, for no good reason whatsoever.
Gonna lend my support towards getting rid of the wings. I’ve yet to see any look that manages to make them not look terrible.
Humans = Zhaitan
Sylvari = Mordremoth
Norn = Jormag
Charr = Primordus
Asura = Bubbles (albeit indirectly through their research)
Browhat
Each dragon did do more against one particular race, but you got all of them but Norn wrong.
Humans had their three empires separated by Bubbles, as they were only accessible by sea.
Sylvari cherish life in all its forms which is the opposite of undeath, and most of their Wyld Hunts were against Zhaitan or his minions, the player Sylvari included.
Yeah, Norn got kittened by Jormag.
Charr had Kralk wake up in the Blood Legion homeland, and then when he flew south, he turned huge swathes of their land into the Dragonbrand.
And the Asura were driven to the surface solely due to Primordus.
Mordremoth showed up later, and yes, it does target Sylvari more than the others, but at launch, Zhaitan was the Sylvari’s nemesis dragon.
I want to make it Sylvari, since I don’t have a heavy Sylvari yet and their heavy cultural armor looks great. But I also want to make it Charr, because I just love everything about Charr.
But I also already have three Sylvari, two Charr, two Norn, one Asura, and no humans, so I should probably make it a human so I can at least see their story.
I typically try to avoid making humans in fantasy games, since they’re always the most boring race to be.
" I’m tempted in investing in a ton of Exotics" and I am sure you do not already have a bunch of said exotics up for sale on the TP. Well Played.
“Look at this guy, mentioning one of the most widely discussed things in the game. I bet he’s trying to manipulate the market with that comment!”
And here’s the armor pieces/dyes used
Also, the whole Primeval set looks phenomenal on Charr, for some reason.
If you had it until today, it’s not showing up due to a bug. Don’t worry. It’s still there, the visuals are just messed up.
Our lack of group buffing is mostly in exchange for extremely powerful self buffs; it’s very easy to reach and maintain max might stacks on ourselves with no real effort. I wonder, perhaps, if the might cap went the way of the bleed cap, if we’d become more useful and desired in pve, since we’d actually have high enough dps to make up for our lack of party support, and our own might stacking wouldn’t be overwritten by the groupwide buffs.
The writers did know about Mordremoth at the time, but he certainly wasn’t relevant to that. Zhaitan, moreso than any other dragon, turns allies against each other. The reason it was so deadly when Mordremoth did it is because it was unexpected.
Daydreamer’s Finery.
ITT: a bunch of people don’t know the difference between design and balance.
The design of the class is very solid. The class, as a whole, has well defined strengths and weaknesses, with all of its tools (aside from axe) being fairly useful no matter how you build or play, even moreso now that conditions got fixed and vuln works on conditions. The class has a very strong theme (slow, durable, better at keeping someone in a fight than escaping from one, powerful but selfish buffs) and that central theme is a heavy part of every single skill and weapon.
The balance isn’t too great, because the pve meta is so broken that it rewards burst damage, fire fields and blast finishers, aoe might, reflects, and literally nothing else. None of those things are things that the necromancer (or ranger) are meant to be good at. And that’s fine. The problem lies with the horrendous encounter design, not the necromancer’s design. Hopefully, since HoT is planned to alleviate the uselessness of both durability and non-might-stacking support, the necromancer’s strengths will actually be able to shine.
Get every character a permanent bank access.
most of the corruption skills are to weak to use them anyway. BiP is a much worse version of already weak Empower of guardian…
can
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imagine
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You’re aware that Empower has a 2.5 second cast time, can’t be used while moving, and is attached to a weapon that has nearly no damage, right?
Uh, can you give an example?
Can you try to reword that in a way that makes sense? I want to help but I have no idea what you’re asking.
Widely asked for changes that are clearly mentioned in patch notes are my favorite kind of stealth nerf.
well, that’s how they milk out money…..making junk and dressing it up with more crap, it’s the lipstick on a pig all over again…
Those kittens, making money by releasing entertaining things that people want to buy. How unethical of them!
Reflection wouldn’t help us close the range, as a reflected knockback would knock them back.
Does reflecting Dark Path still teleport the reflector to us? I haven’t seen it happen in a long time, but haven’t really been looking.
Protection is really good, but it is not as good as Devs seem to think it is. (Look at guardian shield 4, which is probably the only bad weapon skill they have).
Anyways the fear wasn’t there at launch and that’s the main reason to use the skill, even if it is trivial to avoid in a fight (except in WvW AOE soup). Sometimes I take it just for the field. (Cast it on the Svanir shaman and watch him spike up to 30 stacks of confusion after).
Spectral Wall will never be a pvp or dungeon useable skill.
It’s actually not terrible in pvp, I’ve found. It’s useful for defending points against very mobile classes, like thieves or elementalists.
Great question, especially since we already have so many other sources of protection compared to stability.
Here is another question, why is spectral wall a line and not a ring? it is supposed to be a combo field, so since when was a combo “field” a straight line in the ground. I never really used it much so it never really occurred to me. Now it has, it is quite irritating to think about.
Why is Line of Warding a line and not a ring?? Why is Temporal Curtain a line and not a ring? Why is Flamewall a line and not a ring? Since when is a fire field a line of fire? That doesn’t make any sense!
Over the past month we got many of threads from conditionmancers “I can’t take path of corruption, terror & lingering curse,” anymore. That nobody ever suggests to replace the 2 boon conversion of path of corruption with the one AoE corruption of Spiteful Spirit is very telling.
We have people on this forum complaining that getting ranged wells baseline is a nerf, this community is really bad at generating reasonable complaints.
Depends on the condition type.
http://imgur.com/a/tpSUf
That album show a graph for each condition type, where the lines intersect is the break even point.Also, check this topic: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/ranger/Math-Condition-Damage-Old-vs-New
It’s important to note that this graph has the wrong formula for bleed and torment, so those charts are wrong. The formula given in the preview, which this graph uses, was not what made it into the actual game, as shown by the patch notes and testing. Bleed’s break-even point is 2050 condi damage. But is around 600 or so with max vulnerability stacks.
That’s significantly more precursors than most people will ever see over three years. Count yourself lucky.
Lord knows why Burning doesn’t work.
After all these dragon attacks, not to mention the Flame Legion ravaging the world, the Tyrian Building Code mandates that all structures be specially treated with a mild fire kittenant, preventing them from catching fire. The Code only requires a relatively cheap treatment, so powerful bursts of flame can still cause damage to many structures, but they will not combust except in extreme circumstances.