after reading every class forums it seems every class is nerfed and everyone should just reroll. so if every class is useless what do you reroll to?
thanks for the replies might give it a go again. Also if anyone else played a Bonedancer in DAoC maybe they can make minions like BD pets were when the class was first released lol.
I remember trying to play as a minion mancer one the game went live as I have loved DoT based pet classes in other MMOs (EQ Necro, WoW Lock, DAoC Bonedancer). It was just a terrible experience. Pets wouldnt attack half the time, or wouldnt assist you, did horrible DPS and couldnt take hits. Also pretty sure they didnt even regen health.
Since its been around a year since I last played was wondering if minions have gotten some love and are actually worth using?
Are eles hard to play with all the elemental swapping you have to do?
My server only seems to do well if we zerg it up because you just get slaughtered otherwise if running solo or small man. I still tend to get slaughtered when trying to advance on another Zerg with my Guardian. Usually I go Braveheart and start running at them and then I realize no one else was actually coming with me and then I die in 2 seconds. Whats a good class that does great in open field ZvZ and also keep defense?
Just came back to the game after being a way for about 6 months. I want to play a cloth class but cant decide between mesmer or ele. Id like something that isnt very hard to to figure out. I only love PvP so what are the pros and cons of each in both WvW and also sPvP? I want something that has decent survivablity and also group utility. I dont care if Im not topping the damage done as long as I can help my team out.
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emergency necro buff patch?
…well I can dream right?
I just dont understand how they cant figure out how to at least make minions work right. I have played necro type classes in several games as my main. Necro in Everquest, Bonedancer in DAoC, and Lock in WoW and minions in this game are so bad its like a 6 year old with dyslexia wrote the code.
I see Mesmers and Eles all over the place but very rarely see Necros anymore. Im talking at 80 and also those still leveling. Is there any reason the other 2 cloth professions are a dime a dozen and Necros are a rare spawn?
search youtube for PoE summoner Witch. Thats the way MM should be.
I think most people run with Warhorn in sPvP cause I always have stupid birds eating my face. But in WvW all you hear is whistling noises. Im starting to see more SB Rangers running with zergs than Eles, at least on my server. But it is a decent weapon for open field. It has a snare, a disengage, and a stun. And if you rock a high crit build it can mow people down.
So it seems my pay-pal account had some money in it I forgot about from selling all my D3 gold and gear when I quit months ago. I dont trust them enough to give them my bank info to cash out so figured Id just buy some other games and also some gems for this game so I could get some easy gold. When is usually the best time to cash out for Gems to Gold. I been following the graph but I can never find a good time when the price of gems is close to the max even checking their value every hour or so.
Did WvW for 4 hours tonight. I saw more Rangers in Zergs than Eles. All I heard was a bunch of Shortbows with traps everywhere then we were all dead. Have noticed tons of Rangers lately in WvW.
Rangers. Let them feel special. Its like letting the special ed kid play in the game once you are up by 50 just so he can feel good about himself.
Might just stick to my Hammer warrior then. Hes pretty beast in WvW. Just wanted to try out something different that does just as good damage and can take hits.
Should I wait and see how the AoE nerfs are going to shake out before committing to a new class and leveling him to 80? Also I tried Necro in sPvP and damage was just Meh. Was using Staff for Marks and all 3 Wells. I was always last in kills and my damage was pathetic. How would that get me loot bags in WvW if Water Eles and AH Guardians can just outheal my Wells and Marks?
Been wanting to roll a cloth class for WvW but having a hard time choosing.
After watching:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3tmn36z3fc&list=UUoVrGP6ab9cjYAZCQVYr22Q&index=3
Eles look pretty easy to play but I have also heard people say they are also the hardest. If I just want to rack up loot bags with the least effort possible whats the best profession for that? My server seems to always be zergs vs zergs unless you log in at like 6-8 AM in the morning.
There are no bad classes just bad players.
Joining a guild while guesting is useless as you dont get guild perks when not on your real server.
As it stands at the moment all groups have to do is stack on each other.
If they do this they are just dumb. A single Warrior Hammer train group will kill them all.
Essentially Raids are 10+ player dungeons.
So how come there is such a disdain for Raids in this game while Dungeons are widely accepted?
I mean even the developers said they like they’re content to be spread throughout the world and that’s where people should be playing etc. And yet Dungeons are one of the most popular content in game.
Why are different standard applied to something that is essentially the same (just bigger)?
Because I have four actual friends (not just names on my contact list) that I can play with to complete dungeons. I don’t have 10+ people that I consider actual friends even playing this game, let alone being up for running a raid.
I have been playing MMOs since UO back in ’97 and have been doing cutting edge raiding since EQ went live and then when I moved to WoW. I have never had a single friend ever play MMOs. I dont see why you need RL friends to raid with. During the last 3 WoW expansions I was never even guilded and still cleared hardmode content. I dont see where people get this misconception that you need a guild or friends to do raids.
Id like to have one profession that I only use for making gold. In every MMO I have played I always had one class that made all of the gold used to support my other characters and thats all they were used for. When I needed gold I logged on them. Whats the best class to fit this role and whats the best way to go about farming? Would a Warrior be better than everyone else? They seem to be wanted in all dungeon speed runs which seem like good gold as well as being able to just roam around soloing stuff without coming close to dying.
Our only condition damage is burning yet we have no chance to cause burning on crit where other classes have chance to cause bleeds on crit or chance to cause burning on crit. Why do we have a trait that grants 15% chance to crit with a one handed weapon in our condition damage and precision line ( Right-Hand Strength) yet nothing that grants burning on crit?
Im just going to lump all on crit things into stuff cause Guardians just for some reason have by far less than any other class. This post would be forever long if I listed out each trait that adds a bonuses for critting for all other classes. Either it debuffs or adds a condition to your target. Guardians have hardly any of those compared to every other profession. Radiance is our Precion or Crit chance trait and also offers Condition Damage and there isnt a single thing that gives anything for landing a crit. Every single other class has Bleeds or Burns or Weakness or Vulnerability on Crit except Guardians. Whats the point of even having a condition/crit chance oriented trait like Radiance if by putting points into it theres nothing that lets you proc anything on crits?
A true face palm? As in a total unbelief at what’s going on?
I’m say when i wind up chasing an elementist all around the map,just barely.
With the lightning form, regen,protection,swiftness,stability and water regen – he’d wind up with more up then what we started the fight with.Just face palm at that design.
No lie I was in a hotjoin this afternoon and the other team had a D/D ele. I watched 6 people on my team get kited around the entire map until we lost by this one ele. At first I was trying to actually take stuff but kept wondering where everyone else was. I just happened to see them all chasing a single Ele and just had to watch. Every now and then he would stop just to troll us. They would DPS him down to like 25% just to watch him ride out, go water, and regen to full. It was just hilarious watching so many bads. If you can 6v1 someone and win just quit already.
Its almost as funny as going 30 Valor and 30 Honor on my Guardian with Mace/Focus and watching people try and kill me. But I think Eles are the ultimate sPvP trolls.
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I had a hotjoin match that somehow was literally all Mesmers. Yup 8 of them. Please tell me how a 40 vs 8 match is fair?
What are your biggest /facepalm moments in PvP? I charged into a group of 4 players who were trying to finish capping a point. I had 3 others behind me so figured 4 on 4 would be a good fight. I was playing a full glass cannon Dual Axe Warrior just cause its fun sometimes to get away from the GS or Hammer builds. I immediately hit axe 5 cause they didnt seem to see us coming and they were grouped up. I figured I would do as much damage to the group as possible and then we would start picking them off one by one. I was insta gibbed. When they stomped me every single point of damage I received was from retaliation.
Been thinking about rolling a Mesmer for a while now. Been toying with one in sPvP and its quite fun since I was playing with S/P. The only thing that bothers me is when I run character builders I see the lack of the following when compared to other classes: No runspeed signet or decent duration swiftness buffs, and no self healing. Isnt it going to be pretty much impossible to level without those two things? I have enough gold to PL myself to 30-40 if necessary to skip the crappy levels or would that not let me learn my class? Oh well if they dont get most of their toys until 40 I probably wont learn much along the way to 40 anyways. And I still have another 40 levels to L2P.
Also what do Mesmers do in WvW? I dont see them as an AoE class which is all zergs do these days is stack Eles and whoever has the most seems to win.
Isnt the AoE nerf going to make zerging even more mandatory? Its going to hurt rather than help.
Why doesnt WvW have any rewards for owning the most stuff? Where is our Darkness Falls?
Yea just tried this as a Guardian it didnt work so great. Dead last in sPvP points every time but when I do it on warrior near the top.
Sounds like a L2P issue.
Kinda hard to L2play when with the same build and stats my warrior has 22k health and my Guardian only has 13k. Its obviously a class issue if I can easily do it with one and not the other.
Yea just tried this as a Guardian it didnt work so great. Dead last in sPvP points every time but when I do it on warrior near the top.
Great the only thing I am finding really fun will probably fail in WvW and thats a full glass cannon Warrior with dual axes. 80% crit chance with “For Great Justice” up and 60% crit damage. Been tearing it up in sPvP but Im pretty sure I will never even get close enough to anyone in a Zerg fight to even cause a single point of damage. Which is sad. What ever happened to playing the build you liked and not just whats OP/FoTM?
What are the best professions for running around and farming events? I assume having perma swiftness and strong AoE is mandatory? So I guess that leaves Mesmers out right away.
Everyone is useful in WvW cause all you do is follow the Zerg around.
Wow (but I don’t want to speak about it) has a strong community, full server with a constant population (not that in few days a server go from FULL to MEDIUM like in GW2) and you do not have to transfer around server to find a good guild or a server where people are on at night or at a particular time that you like to play!
Pay for a transfer shall be fine if it’s 1 to 5 $….1800 gems is almost the price of the whole game…B2P my AXX!!!
Enoy your 5 button game gillius!
How delusional are you about WoW server populations? 90% of WoW players play on about 30% of the servers. I think there are 246 NA servers. Out of those 150 or more would be considered “dead” with no choice in raiding guilds and very little hardmode raiding progression especially in 25 man raids. Also PvP in WoW is clustered so even if you are on a dead server it doesnt matter you will always find PvP even at 4-5AM. Im on a dead server and I cant do WvW cause when I go there I never see anyone especially in early morning hours. Thats a problem and needs fixing.
Warriors are fine, both in tournaments and in hotjoin.
Thats why you play ranger and ele …
What makes rangers so good? they keep owning me no matter what class I try.
OK Im trying to understand that pic. Does that mean we can? Or does it mean we cant cause Obama has done nothing but lie?
I have been using the Mists and sPvP to test out level 80 characters to see what I want my next alt to be. I dont do any tournaments and I usually only do around 25-30 matches on a single class to figure out if I like it or hate it. Im not there to rank up Im just there to find out if I enjoy a class I have never tried. All I read is Warriors are horrible at PvP…bugged charge and other utilities, no escape, no real swiftness without blowing elite signet, yadda yadda yadda
Yet Hammer warriors just global me no matter what class I have tried. Now Im sure most of that is a L2Play issue on my part as Im not really sticking with a single class long enough to really master them. I usually try 3-4 builds per class and If I keep getting owned I will move on to another class. But so far the only class I really stand a chance with is a Mesmer and only if get up all my clones and phantasms ASAP and then hope he sucks. I have noticed some Warriors just going around destroying everyone but when matches are over I can see they were mostly low ranked people like myself so again its probably a L2play issue on our parts as we havent done enough to understand our classes fully and also understand how to use each map to our advantages.
TLDR: If not doing tournaments and just going up against PuGs filled mostly with other people like myself who are probably in there just testing out new classes or builds are Warriors fine?
Came across this Hammer Warrior video and couldnt help notice how he just destroys people. Obviously he probably only shows fights where this happens but hes seriously 3 shotting people. What build do I need for a Guardian to do this?
This is one thing thats bothered me. I have had an alchemist in Every single MMO I have played:
My UO alchemist was my biggest gold maker selling cure, healing, poison, and exploding potions and later potion kegs
My DAoC alchemist was again my #1 money maker. For people who didnt want to spend money for a second account potions were a must have for buffs
Everquest again made lots of plat with him. People bought SoW (runspeed) and Damage shield potions all day long. Also the potions that transformed you into another race were always popular especially the gnome ones.
So why no alchemy skill?
How are you like 3 shotting everyone? Is it just a bunch of lowbies or something?
OK been playing with a Mesmer for the last 2 hours doing non stop spvp to get a feel for the class. They are horrible. Even classes that everyone says are terrible in PvP like Warriors and Rangers owned me. Same thing happened when I tried Elementalist. Guess I will have to try another class until I find one thats good at pvp.
or just go to the Mists, instant level 80, see if you like class.
I dont really see how a mesmer or support guardian will see lots of numbers pop up on my screen, which is what I want.
I wonder if anyone has wasted their time and gold on a trident or spear or harpoon gun rofl.
I swear if a thief walks near me I die. So I figured Id try one out but never played one before. What specs are most people using to just 3 shot people?
Huh? I need to buy gems in order to transfer thats why I need gold.