Guild Wars 2

Dungeon rewards useless
WvW has a death penalty

Yeah lets make death worst. I think we should make people lose items when they die.

Derps.7421:

Rock is OP, Paper is balanced – Scissors

except this game doesn’t have a rock,paper,scissors match up EVER.

Belryn.1456:

jpsimonetti.5786:

What you’re calling problems being experienced by the majority – I am assuming you’re referring to the XMP and RAM settings – those aren’t hardware faults. They’re settings. If you were familiar enough with computers to speak out on this issue, you’d know that, so I advise others to disregard your comments.

As we are to hair-splitting now: It is a hardware error caused by wrong hardware timings, set by some software.

jpsimonetti.5786:

Regarding modified settings, overclocking, custom profiles, etc – Any game should be able to handle them. Indeed, everyone with those problems either stated they had games that ran fine with the custom profiles. Or they said nothing of it. But they didn’t say “all my games are crashing.” 2+2=4

Well, unless the overclocking settings lead to hardware errors. And I would bet a lot of money on it, that in the most cases the users who have this corrupted files error in GW2, having random crashes in other software, too.

As I said before, most single bit errors would go by unnoticed, when they are in a non critical area. The only thing GW2 is doing different, it seems to check the files/data before it uses them.

Edit: Somehow the forum system is screwing with my attempts to post what I want, sorry for the lot of changes.

Wrong I played BWE 1,2 and 3 and NEVER crashed at all. I didn’t change my timings and didn’t change any hardware and now I crash when i enter a area my toon has never been in before. I crash using waypoints and the audio from the personal story is messed up. Spare us the BS with the behind the desk generic talk our game is jacked up and we need a fix.

running
I5 2500k @3.3Ghz
Radeon 6950
M4 Crucial SSD
8GB of Ram (Matching Pairs)

It’s clear in the post OP plays a ranger or a guardian.

Warriors need to be toned down slightly.
Rangers spam rapid shot with the beast enrage and win
thieves spam 2 or 5 and 1
guardian is fine the healing is a bit over the top tho
necros are just terrible the only use they have is to soak damage
mesmer needs to be toned down
eng i don’t know I rarely see them. to busy fighting mesmers and thieves.

The armour should seriously be the same model as the other races or very unique and all stylish. I actually made all humans toons after my eng and necro because it just looks better on humans.

Burning!…burning! – Female Asura with burning condition.

Weapons are a problem I can’t see my sceptre, Warhorn, Axe, Daggers or focus. Also the armour design for the asura is underwhelming When I see my guildies in their armour I’m like wow that is super just to look at mine and go

Cultural armor is amazing and My armor doesn’t look to bad but it looks like the level 1 gear i had just with a hood instead of a mask which I don’t understand why necros wear masque.

alcopaul.2156:

Why are there no variations in basketball? all you got is a ball and 2 rings?

Because that’s the only way to officially play basketball.

You failed with this because PvP has a ton of game modes and only 1 is being used.

I also think they said they are balancing the game through conquest.

Arathi basin map would fix zerging quick. It’s easy to zerg cap 3 points try doing it with 5 =p. Not to mention all the maps are small enough to promote zerging.

Ezekeel.2837:

Sjach Darasv.3729:

You can also weapon swap while in shroud regardless of whether your swap is on CD or not so it can be used for a combo chain 2 with a staff swap to scepter/whatever to stack more bleeds, DS fear, swap back to staff before the cd would normally be back up

Actually that is not true. I just tried it. DS does not circumvent the weapon swap CD. However it offers the benefit of having another skill bar on an independent CD.

Jadda.1753:

Yet agian the quote function have vanished.
Jadda.1753:

Ezekeel.2837:

The OP is 100% correct. The damage with the necro is just pathetic compared to other professions. DS does not give any significant damage boost, so telling people that they just need to learn to properly use DS is complete nonsense.

You are responsible for the balancing and you failed. Stop patronizing us, stop talking nonsense and do your job!

Yesterday I went up against a necro who spent 2 seconds going throu his rotation wich afterwards melted my 16k hp in a matter of seconds. I dont see how this is pathetic dmg. Yes 16k is not much, it is very low but still it melted away and he was really tanky. Necroes do good dmg in right specc. But again from what I have heard there are very few viable speccs a necro can run.

The is no way a necro can dish out 16k damage in 2sec in PvP – not even with lucky crits. That is simple math. If you do not believe me roll a necro and try yourself.

He didnt kill me in 2 seconds but he went throught his rotation in 2 seconds. Laid a kittenload of conditions on me and melted me away in like 5 seconds.

In 2sec you can at maximum cast 2 different spells. You want to tell me that these 2 spells caused 16k on condition damage? Sorry but that is not realistic.

I have thought about it for a while and I can see why Anet is cautious with what they do with the necro because he already has a great survivability due to DS which is pretty much independent of the build. And they probably are afraid that this good survivability combined with more damage might turn him into a PvP monster.

I think the way to go is to offer the necro player a way to sacrifice some of this survivability for greater damage output. And I think this could be best implemented as some additional skills usable while in DS which consume a certain percentage of life force for some useful effect or direct damage. For example the simplest solution to give the necro a boost in damage while forcing him to sacrifice survivability for this would be to add a skill which consumes all the current available life force to cause one high direct damage hit (dmg depends on available life force). This would give the necro the needed burst ability for PvP and the increase in DPS for PvE. One the other hand since it would kick the necro out of DS and leave him with an empty life force pool he would be extemely vulnerable thereafter.

DS doesn’t really do much of anything and I have 15 points in soul reaping. Necros were suppose to be able to wear someone down but in it’s current state about time you get someone to half hp you will have either

A. Popped DS already and you lack LF now
B. Used your heal already

Worst case is you can’t damage a guy fast enough and his deal is up every time you get him to 50% because conditions don’t hit for jack and the direct damage is crap.

He’s in the right forum. He is showing how other professions can actually do something and do it better than a necro can ever do. Mesmer can do the necro’s job and it’s job at the same time.

I rerolled and won’t be going back until they fix this profession I’m disgusted with the lack of choices we can make and GW2 is all about choices right? DS is weak the damage is weak and having a second health bar means nothing if you can’t even kill someone.

Great i have 25k hp plus DS which is anywhere from 15-25k extra but when my best attack only does 2-3k damage and it’s rare I even see a number higher than 1.6k.

Funny thing is my level 12 engineer does more damage than my level 80 necro in WvW and my necro has half exotics and half rares.

I tried axe – it’s to slow and the damage is weak
Staff – is to slow and the damage is weak and the condition damage is weak
sceptre – is slowish and has low damage and the condition damage is weak
DS – low damage slow attack and offers nothing but a weak shield.
Minions – AI is terrible and offers the enemy free sigil stacks making it worst for me.

Garadon.3189:

Ezekeel.2837:

Stop patronizing us, stop talking nonsense and do your job!

You’ve got one hell of a lot of nerve.

They promised something and didn’t deliver then tried to give everyone the middle finger saying L2P that is just an insult.

Female asura combo field

‘’Synergy is beautiful’’

looks like john peters is going to be the new ghostcrawler lol

The bottom line is it doesn’t really matter the damage sucks either way.

Don’t try to preview daggers/sceptres/focus or warhorns nothing will be there

dkabib.5143:

O don’t think it is a bug, but it happens in Large Dynamic Events as well. It’s really awful to be inside Stonemist and not able to see enemies or allies further than 600 range.

And my computer is prettykittengood. Running max everything with 60+ fps.

it runs when I waypoint and sometimes in WvW it’s rare it happens if I’m in 1 zone but don’t let me open my map to waypoint…

Fadeway.3592:

Someone mentioned that they aren’t happy with the balancing of the skill, and frankly, I disagree. I bring a scepter (and use it almost exclusively despite my lack of condition damage) purely for this skill: I run a DS build in CoF, and because most silvers have 5-10 conditions on them at any point in a fight, the 10-20% LF every 10 seconds is a blessing for me (I reenter shroud every 5 seconds and stay in it for exactly 6, so I get one cast of this per entry). It may be different outside the dungeon environment, but really, scepter + dagger/scepter + focus lets you apply four of the conditions by yourself.

I like the animation (one of the better ones we have, along with staff autoattack, axe ², and a few others), though admittedly I don’t know which mob you’re talking about. I’d love a change for the scepter chain though, it looks like I’m mauling the enemy with the weapon when I go in melee range.

Also: Why, for the love of necro, would you attack a structure with your scepter? It has by far the lowest damage of all weapons – whatever else you have in your second set will do better than it.

Doesn’t matter which weapon I use on the door I’m still doing poor damage you want 200-300 damage in 1 shot or you want it in 3 hits. Cast time plus travel time on the staff is almost the same as 3 sceptre attacks.

Gongke.8576:

Here’s your red post. Sheesh. The game hasn’t been out for three weeks yet, it’s far too early to be doing this amount of complaining. Have some patience, and enjoy what’s good.

Lets follow the trend

’’It’s only the first beta guys sheesh they are changing stuff everyday.‘’
’’ It’s only the second beta I’m sure everything will get fixed before launch.‘’
’’The game hasn’t even launched yet it’s still BETA which means things are changed or finalized yet..
‘’ The game has only been out for 1 week there are a lot of problems they are trying to address give them time’’.

Inb4
‘’ The game is only a month old there are important bugs and class balances they are addressing give them time geez’’

Because in second you still lose and you will match p vs them again and lose because you settle for second.

The way I see it is this. The score chart shows ET down to 4th or 5th but when we face SBI or JQ without HoD they lose by a decent margin when AA comes out to play. I’m not sure why you people say AA/TL when TL is inside AA making it just AA.

When HoD comes out and play JQ,SBI both become seemingly more aggressive on the in game score chart for some odd reason

I don’t mind being 4th or 5th just know when we stomp we stomp hard and we don’t have a problem making it to the top tier level of matches.

Ugh when I WvW and I’m attacking a door with my sceptre I look around and see everyone throwing out all types of special stuff and mines is…..not there.

Koen.8703:

I really really dont get why all of you guy’s say the class is broken.
It needs some tweaks sure, but its certainly not broken.

Incase you wonder, only played necro from BWE1.

For the record, how can you even say that the paradigm guy know what he’s talking about. (not to flame but I saw some streams of them and saw some awful clicking on utility tree spells) Game is only out for a few weeks, and like he said I played every class so not one class fulltime.
At this point there are only opinions, but there are certainly no pro’s yet, so don’t all claim that he is right.

playing a necro from BWE1 to now it in reality is broken. The outlast the opponent thing never happens because our condition damage can’t kill.

coffeemancer.2450:

“Try play some WvW and you will see how fast your money will drop (repair bills)”

… dying in WvW breaks your armor?

Yes it does.

Karther.7481:

The animations are a good point. I love the Staff’s 1 cast, but yes in general we’re very lacking.

I have to say I like the minions, fleshy creations instead of zombies was a welcome tough unseen to most necromancers in games – a shame Jagged Horrors are just shrunk Bone Minions, very lazy.

In regards to Feast of Corruption, it sounds like that NPC’s animation used what our daggers 1 combo uses. Give it a try. I think I’ve experienced the same.

True about the minions but the dagger 1 does a slash—>slash—>Bite kind of thing and it’s funny the npcs do use a sceptre it looks like to use the Bite—>Bite—>Bite attack but there’s appear to be channelled.

I wished they were only place holders the minions look terrible

I have a SSD and it still happens

Asum.4960:

The skill needs to be changed anyway, since atm using it is a lost of DPS (and the skill does only dmg besides giving some life force), since autoattacking does more damage than casting FoC.

So why not change the animation with it.

I don’t get it anyway, why even Necro mobs have better spell effects than the playable profession itself.

Pretty much what I was thinking, The mobs necro spells like so much better than ours. Not even going to mention my necro doesn’t even look intimidating.

here is mine

15 chars

Shelledfade.6435:

Here’s my broken necromancer. Sigh.. such a shame, so much effort wasted on a borked class….

where is this armour from?

The word exploit like it’s a bad thing in reality it’s not.
Exploit:
1. Make full use of and derive benefit from (a resource)
2. Use (a situation or person) in an unfair or selfish way
3. Benefit unfairly from the work of (someone), typically by overworking or underpaying them
The people who do that are exploiting the ability to max their pet out and afk kill stuff. I’m sure it’s intended because they have aggressive/passive and defensive stances for the pet.

I’m really disappointed the risen in cursed shore has a channelled feast of corruption kind of attack and it looks awesome. It’s like crunch —>Crunch-->Crunch, They also have a corrupted well spring kind of attack similar to the Elementalist healing geyser but a green dirty kind of colour.

I’m wondering if maybe it can swap or they can update the FOC animation maybe not even to a channelled attack but just the animation.

Feels like the Asura got the short end of the stick (Lol). But the same with light armor models they look great on humans ect but all the armor looks the same with the asura I went 1-79 looking the same and had to shell out 5g and 84k karma just to look different.

Just crashed from it actually and Anet replied to my thread and left me to dry.. I played beta fine since BWE1 then at launch I get an insane amount of errors it’s not hardware based because I didn’t change any of my hardware.

Still an ongoing problem

52c for an idle computer is not to good. Clean the vents and make sure your not suffocating the air vents.

Also I can’t receive in game mail. About 3-4 guildies tried sending me silver/food and dye it just never gets to my mailbox.

this also is what you want?

not sure what you are asking her this is the only log file

I keep crashing and it keeps telling me to run the repair tool. I ran the repair tool at least 20 times since launch maybe more and did a reinstall.

I use i5 2500k
Radeon 6950