Guild Wars 2

It could act as a summoning conduit of sorts for Mord. We know it is in the process of waking up, perhaps it has to “grow” to fully awaken?

tattoohead.3217:

I prefer power, I’ll list why but the cool part about MM is it’s flexability so it’s up to you.

Reasons for building power over conditions
1. I run 20 in blood and power effects vampiric master (albeit slightly) which increases minion DPS and (once again slightly) increases HPS

2. Minions AI responds best with single target attacks and our power weapons, Axe, &Dagger are great at this.

3. Being that you are pretty much required to take 20 points into spite and death magic (and I also recommend 20 into blood) your not left with much room in your build for buffing conditions.

4. I’m going to repeat #1 here because it’s really important… Vampiric Master is an awesome trait, the extra healing is fun but the point is the extra damage (it adds up faster than you think)

Just my 2c

thank you <3

So yeah, now that minion masters seem to be in much better shape and in a relatively good spot, I’ve decided to make a necro. But I’ve seen both power and condition builds posted and used by guild mates, is there a general consensus on what works best or does it just depend on preference?

Unrelated: I really hate the Topic Title length’s limit.

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

Celestina.2894:

Lilius.9850:

AnotherNinja.8534:

I love Lunatic Inquisition, but it seems every game I get into now people are spamming mad king says. It’s not really fair when a ghost can just sit back and spam that skill until you do the emote, get killed by the amount of times they can use it, or they catch up to you from the stun. At the moment it is way too OP, the game mode is fun, but getting killed from spam is annoying.

Thanks for reading!

You know what’s OP?

The fact ALL the villagers can get hammers and completely destroy the ghost…

Funny, when I’m a ghost and see a group like that I see free kills.

Fear —-> choose a target —-> Mad King Says —-->Repeat

Depends on how many you’re dealing with and how coordinated they are. if they trade off chaining 2, and smashing you while you’re down, game over. yes you respawn, but in the few seconds of lag between respawn and ability to respond, they can smash you down again. it’s quite fun to watch.

Oh they can, but eventually they just give me kills. It’s the worst way to go about the game if you actually want to win as a villager unless the ghost is utter crap.

Lilius.9850:

AnotherNinja.8534:

I love Lunatic Inquisition, but it seems every game I get into now people are spamming mad king says. It’s not really fair when a ghost can just sit back and spam that skill until you do the emote, get killed by the amount of times they can use it, or they catch up to you from the stun. At the moment it is way too OP, the game mode is fun, but getting killed from spam is annoying.

Thanks for reading!

You know what’s OP?

The fact ALL the villagers can get hammers and completely destroy the ghost…

Funny, when I’m a ghost and see a group like that I see free kills.

Fear —→ choose a target --→ Mad King Says —-→Repeat

Faowri.4159:

Kyrel.8942:

Report if they were harassing you. Otherwise pay no heed to the unreasonable whims of others.

Hyep.

Saw a commander in the Labyrinth today yelling for people not to activate the door events until the zerg arrived. Play the way you want to, and don’t let the farmers dictate the rules of the game. If they try to, abusively, then report and block.

That’s entirely different from this.

So, after having gotten enough gold to easily deck out my next character the way I wanted, I decided on charr warrior because I’ve been wanting an excuse to run around in that tier 3 armor for a while now.

However, I’ve have not kept up with warriors for a while, so my knowledge is about 7 months out of date. So, that leads me to the top question, for PVE and WvW, which weapons synergize the best with each other and in what ways?

My goal is something that I can take into WvW and PVE btw with little modification if possible, so for example I plan to use maybe knight armor with zerker accessories.

Solo.9027:

Celestina.2894:

DesertRose.2031:

Nikkinella.8254:

but, but…I don’t wanna be a support class. I already have a guardian for that. I’d rather be a ranged nuker that can deal massive AoE damage, ya know like how mages have been in every single game ever in the history of video games.

Expect for at least GW1 were Eles dealt horrible damage; you know, the predecessor of GW2.

However if you want to deal massive AoE damage from afar you can actually do that; try the Staff build of Guanglai Kangyi.

Caught my attention, link please?

http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/85568-lh-is-the-new-bearbow-the-real-staff-dps-build-for-manly-men/

Thank you <3

DesertRose.2031:

Nikkinella.8254:

but, but…I don’t wanna be a support class. I already have a guardian for that. I’d rather be a ranged nuker that can deal massive AoE damage, ya know like how mages have been in every single game ever in the history of video games.

Expect for at least GW1 were Eles dealt horrible damage; you know, the predecessor of GW2.

However if you want to deal massive AoE damage from afar you can actually do that; try the Staff build of Guanglai Kangyi.

Caught my attention, link please?

So are MM necros finally truly shining then?

If so, great, now I shall start my necro!

(also what do MM ones focus on, power or crit?)

Honestly, I’ve only ever seen people ask for dueling……….four, maybe five times that I can recall since launch, and it never got a whole lot of support.

Personally I know I wouldn’t use it, and would rather the resources be put elsewhere.

Dee Jay.2460:

It varies, but in general the population is quite healthy.

However GW2 hasn’t really had an MMO come and challenge it yet, which most other MMOs couldn’t claim.

It will be another 6 months before TESO and Wildstar really put GW2’s longevity to the test.

TESO will have WvW that is 100 times larger than that of GW2 and Wildstar seems to be adopting much of GW2’s combat design choices.

So I imagine both will be taking a significant bite out of GW2’s population.

I honestly don’t see Wild Star succeeding with P2P, just looks like the same old thing and does not have an already installed franchise fanbase like FF14, Warcraft and TESO had/has.

TESO………eh, haven’t been keeping up with it so can’t comment on that.

Donari.5237:

I do like it though it seems a more year-round thing if it’s just the domino part (the porcelain look -could- just be a pale character face). It looks to me like it might have different dye channels on the left and right sides which would make for some interesting effects.

If you look closely, you can see that just before the hair line, the character’s skin color shows. So the mask covers the whole face.

Granted, it’s possible that’s due to the lighting but it looks very different to me.

I think those eyes are part of it also, as I’m not sure it’s possible to get that eye look on norn or human.

Funny, I’m still playing how I want.

Sounds like a personal problem.

It fits the mad king really, as it looks like something one would wear to a royal ball.

Mad King = King

Lunatic Court = his Nobles

Halloween = His ball

As a result, mask of night.

Plus, based on that screen shot, it appears the mask covers the entire face and gives it a porcelain doll look.

And personally, I’ve always found the dead stare of a porcelain doll creepier then kitten near everything else. Plus, creepy dolls are certainly no strangers to Halloween.

I already have a few ideas for a outfit to go with it for ranger, thief and mesmer.

My only concern is how will it fit charr……..not optimistic in that regard.

Redenaz.8631:

…Although, since the whole dungeon was based on jumping downward, wasn’t it more of a Descent to Madness? No matter!

I think that was the point

Madness, up becoming down, down becoming up etc

I don’t know what the issue with the mask is, it’s beautiful and has already given me ideas for plenty of outfits.

Join TTS, which every day downs him before and after the reset (multiple times) and has gotten so large it has had to form into four guilds and 1 oceanic guild last I checked.

The reason you don’t see us on main servers is because we prefer overflows, easier to get our people in, and thus more enjoyable teq battles.

It’s not so much that everyone stopped, so much as it is that everyone who wants to do it formed into one massive group.

Fanatic, no contest

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/File:Necromancer_Fanatic_armor_f.jpg

Simple, elegant and dyed beautifully while totally saying necromancer.

The entire point of all the festivals in year 1 were so they had returning events every year providing more time for focus on other stuff.

Lostwingman.5034:

lordkrall.7241:

Gandarel.5091:

There’s a level I say ‘ok’. But the balance between magic and technology is 20-80% at best.

So steampunk is not fantasy?

I think the appropriate term is “Sword and Sorcery”, not fantasy.

We have a winner.

So many people forget that fantasy is more then just swords and sorcery.

I’d like an invite as well please.

Valmarius.4150:

An overflow beat him today, so I saw on reddit. Nothing is impossible.

And just like that, demands to make portions of it easier become even weaker.

They’ve said Teq is essentially a test before other bosses receive major revamped. This will likely culminate in a Zhaitan revamp as they have stated many times they wish to remake the fight.

If you are native, absolutely.

If you are not, absolutely not.

Indeed, the first phase is easily the hardest. It would make sense that each shot of the laser weakens him though.

Rage Tiger.4019:

I was lucky to get in after that 5 minute patch popped up. However, it’s getting rather hard for other TC natives to get in for their chance. Had a few calling me rude asking politely for the guesters to step down. . . after the second kill was made. . . to allow other TC natives to come in.

I got my kill and planning to NOT go back there. I am not after of the achievements in there. I might go once after the daily resets, but that’s all. He is part of my boss rotation afterall.

Tbh I have always thought (and even more so now) that when the spots on a full server are taken by a guest, whenever a native to that server connects to that map it will kick off a guest per native. Quite honestly, native players have more right to those spots. Otherwise there is no point to a home world unless you are heavy into WvW.

I love you

Criminal.5627:

and we got it again!
so glade they added that 1hr grace period after a patch

Proof

HOO RAH

Don’t need no stinkin nerf

Proteus.6320:

The Gates Assassin.9827:

If RPers can do this, so can you.

(Tarnished Coast)

1. Not all on TC are RPere considering its a top 5 NA wvwvw server.
2. Possibly half the people on the map were guests, like every time I try to go to FGS or any other event where guests force players off their own kitten homes.

Nice job on bein a condescending priq to RPers though.

As a TC player……pretty sure the RP jab is a light hearted joke and I suggest you get your knickers untwisted post-haste.

fellyn.5083:

The beautiful thing about over tuning it right from the start is that they can adjust it downwards and everyone will be THANKFUL for it.

It would be impossible for them to make him to easy from the start and then have to buff (nerf) him later. People would kitten far more if they took this rout than the other.

I’m honestly shocked more people have yet to realize this.

Hydra.9573:

So there is going to be a dragon mini? Where did you guys hear about this?

Was confirmed by the devs back when this was announced originally.

This entire update appears to be perm

Mufflarn.2137:

Nightarch.2943:

Five gods* Kormer doesn’t count because she took what wasn’t hers.

So you mean Grenth doesn’t count aswell since he took his powers from Dhuum?

Well played

Vick.6805:

Yet another troll thread complaining about content that hasn’t even been implemented yet.

Give it a chance, and THEN complain if it is warranted.

Troll thread? No

Typical idiotic drivel which has become common from the OP and many others? Very much yes.

My friend named her drake Panty Sniffer

…….are you refering to the supposedly leaked patch notes? Because if so there are a number of changes……….including minions (necro and ranger pets) getting a massive health buff.

RyuDragnier.9476:

Link to the leaked patch notes, please~

http://pastebin.com/sXHq6fZt

Jordo.5913:

nothing? i guess they don’t want to say for sure huh?

Or they expect their player base to have some common sense……….

Barabbas.8715:

Xenon.4537:

The Analogue Kid.3896:

They made it hard to make people buy the infi-coin end off. Disgraceful P2W mechanics which just pushes people like myself, a long time player away from the game.

Tin foil hats are in style once again!

If you came home one day and found your family stabbed to death and some crazy looking guy covered in blood and holding a bloody knife would you need a tinfoil hat to figure out what was going on?

………….What in the hell are you trying to argue there?

I’m am honestly not sure if you are trying to be sarcastic, witty, against world 2, for world 2 or what o_O

Hmm…..wonder if this would be worth dropping my soldier runes for….

Delvoire.8930:

Wait.. Can someone explain to me what this is??

My mind is too dirty for this…

The box contains nudes and pictures her “rough” play with Faren

Trust me…….

I’m starting to think people should be legally required to play a game like Perfect World and try to do serious PVP with spending anything on the cash shop before they call something P2W

Revamping Teq (or any of the dragons) first instead of Zhaitan actually makes perfect sense for one reason.

More people will experience the new Teq at one time then Zhaitan. This can lead to faster and better feed back which can then be applied to every other mega boss and eventually Zhaitan + the future elder dragons.

If games removed anything that anyone had trouble with for whatever reason, video games would not exist. People need to realize games are NOT designed to cater to one person.

Appearance is subjective.

For example, I won’t be rushing for ascended weapons based on the live stream, simply because they are not ice themed.

Delvoire.8930:

It will also help keep Exotic weapons relevant. Where Ascended will be more locked into a stat combo, you’ll be able to diversify more with Exotic weapons but just lose a fraction of stat max.

This is what I’m expecting also tbh, it’s pretty clear Anet doesn’t want Ascended to be a requirement outside of fractals (and even then I’ve done up to 26 with zero Agony Resist, I could probably do higher but I just don’t run them much). This is further enforced by the fact that in the future of GW2 blog, they said new skills will take the place of progression.

Elbegast.6970:

mtpelion.4562:

Elbegast.6970:

The post-introduction release of Scarlet’s short story also leads me to believe that ArenaNet is scrambling to retcon Scarlet Briar into a more interesting villain due, in part, to the forum backlash.

Or, you know, because her reveal was supposed to have the air of surprise and publishing her backstory before the reveal would have been silly.

But yeah, your thing is probably the right one since it couldn’t possibly be the other thing and the most likely answer is usually the one that involved a conspiracy. I believe we call this Occam’s Foil Hat.

The short story was released three days after the patch. If it weren’t a retcon, why did they not release it on patch day?

I’m…..not sure you know what a retcon is, no offense. Or at least not what it is in practice.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DarkIsNotEvil

I feel this link is fitting for this topic.