Hippocampus, that isn’t entirely true. People ask for a lower price for 2 reasons. 1)They don’t want to pay that much, even if it is currently worth it. Or 2) They are trying to make a profit by offering less because people will sell for lower, and selling higher than they bought it. It is actually a good way to make profit if you know what items to look for. I haven’t done that too much myself, but I have made about 1 gold for less than 10 mins of work. And I only had 3 gold.
Quickly ANet! I am too big to fail! Give me free gold so I can do absolutely nothing different and pretend I actually needed the gold! Quickly! Before it is too late!
If they offered head sets that didn’t make you look like a princess or middle eastern woman (As an Asura at least), then maybe I would actually like the head pieces. Right now, I am sticking with the first head mask thing they give you with the pale white face, glowy eyes, and red.
I haven’t really found a look that is perfect though. I use a variety of rare reds that I have found, and I bought celestial white.
Asura boots have a problem where their toes clip out of every single one…. so there is that problem as well…
DD is the only way to quickly deal damage. Its 4 blinds and transfers conditions (which is bugged ATM) and bounces between a few enemies, and 5 is an AOE that causes weakness and bleeding (?) I think. Also, the animation on a small Asura is really funny.
Moa… the anti-necro.
The one you were going to buy might have been bought slightly sooner than you?
Just be happy you are not a female Asura… they all wear male armor (which some do expose the nippless man chest, which makes your female look…. scary).
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So are you telling me, this is alright??? https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/races/asura/Female-Armor-Skins/first
Seriously screwy as kitten. I don’t mean to hijack this thread, but I don’t care if the Asura are scholars. I want to make them look good (not too flashy though), and it is almost impossible with male armor. But the light armor isn’t all that bad (most of the time). I just wish they would put a little more effort towards making cute armor.
The problem is an Engineer could have done better if you are going condition. Still no hope in site…
Considering I am Asura, the “butt flaps” are the only thing that looks like female clothing (Asura females wear male armor for whatever reason… lazyness? I hope so… cause that means I can get some cute armor when ANet decides to stop being lazy)
I have been trying to make a “Vampiremancer” (as I like to call it, because putting mancer at the end of stuff is fun) for some time. I am happy they finally fixed some of the bugs surrounding it, but they still have some ways to go. I love the DD combo so much, though I get downed often in WvW because I get too close to… anyone else… Maybe a little more range? But then again, they don’t want the necro to be viable in pvp at all… Still really squishy, and the toughness line is still useless. Can’t wait for next weeks patch!
And then Jon Peters tells us that the problem with our class is we are not using Death Shroud optimally.
Would you kindly shut the kitten up about this? It was amusing at first but taking this quote out of context is ruining polite discussion on these forums. The only point he made was that the metagame surrounding Necromancers will evolve as more Necromancers find different ways to employ Death Shroud. As it is a unique ability, this requires extra balancing focus. Nowhere is it implied that Necromancers were at par strength nor that Necromancer players were the primary problem instead of the class.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/pvp/I-play-a-necro-but-I-traid-a-warrior-for-one-play-session/page/2
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Yes… NO WHERE it was implied that the Necro has a high power ceiling, and that players just don’t know how to play them yet…. NO WHERE.
“Death Shroud is very powerful because it gives Necromancer access to a secondary health bar which is is much more reliably renewable than normal health is for other professions. On top of that it essentially also gives them a 3rd weapon set that they can use to circumvent the basic weapon swap cooldown to reliably bounce between powerful skills in 3 different sets. For both of these reasons, Necromancer has a high power ceiling but also an extremely high learning curve.”
So instead of reworking DS and balancing the Necro, they say DS is too strong, so the Necro is weak in every other aspect, at least, other classes do it WAY better than the necro… condition damage, condition removal, survivability, power, AOE, even Fear… in no way is the Necro even remotely as powerful as other classes, nor do we know if they are going to balance them accordingly. Hopefully, once the bug gets fixed, they realize the problems and fix them. But according to some people who have played GW1, ANet is not known for strengthening classes, but nerfing them instead (I don’t know how true this is though).
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I try and play a vampiremancer, but sucking health doesn’t work too well either because of bugs, or because they didn’t intend to make it a thing. Either way, I try.
I generally travel with a couple of friends, popping in and out of groups that seem to make progress in a certain direction. I am getting annoyed at following zergs into death since people will not stop throwing themselves at castles with 5+ arrow carts on the walls/keep hallway…
“I can always summon more”
or
“I didn’t think it would pop like that”
Is all my Asura Necro says. Not all that annoying.
However, the jagged horrors are kittening useless. I avoid the Toughness line all together because of how useless the minor traits are. This sucks so bad, cause even though I went mostly vitality, I still am sqooshy as hell. Fix the Toughness trait line to actually relate to Toughness, and fix the jagged horrors please!? Probably too much to ask from ANet, as they think Death shroud is too powerful, so they nerf us to hell.
Sorry, I didn’t mean that it ever did, but I am saying that I would never use it because it would tele back, or you can break it and gain vulnerability. But since the tele back doesn’t tele up cliffs, it wasn’t useful to me. Now that I can combo it with the warhorn and gain 50 secs of 33% movement speed, and it breaks stun, now makes it one of my favorite skills. If I wanted a tele back, I would just use the worm, or manually activate it if it came to that.
You kidding me? 50 seconds of +33% is a nerf? (10 sec warhorn, 30 sec spec walk, 10 sec warhorn) How so???
I kitten love the new spectral walk. Makes it actually useful, since the old one didn’t teleport back up a cliff/WvW castle wall. And the old functionality is still there, but this time you don’t get vulnerability… seriously…. how is this a nerf? And now it breaks stun, which makes it a little easier to survive in WvW… seriously… nerf??
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Ironically there are outfits that as a result – namely the gladiator-ish heavy armour, and one of the high level cloth crafted sets that don’t cover the chest area.
This reveals a rather bizarre quirk of Asuran physiology…
…male Asura have nipples, but females don’t Ó_o;
That is probably because if we saw the nipples, people would freak out thinking there was nudity in the game, so they just removed them all together. That armor looks interesting though… a little surprised they allowed the females to wear them.
I don’t know the exact reason the males and females wear the same clothing, but I can only hope it is only because they didn’t have enough time to model them, which would mean we can see some actually good armor for them in the future. But knowing ANet…. this will never happen.
I like to pretend that using my 3rd strike as a Necro with dual daggers is actually me biting the enemy (giant teeth show up, and there is a biting sound).
Ya… bugs like crazy on these forums XD. I often have problems logging in.
This isn’t just a black and white issue, as people are trying to tell you guys. It isn’t as simple as matching the exchange rate and cost of living. You have to account for taxes, the current market of other similar things, etc… Can you name an MMO that makes it completely fair for every country? It is cheaper to run things here in the US, so they can charge us less.
If you are annoyed at loosing $3, spend the time to farm the gold to then exchange gold for gems. That exchange rate is global.
This has killed me a few times, as I try and quickly switch to it in the heat of battle, but accidentally press it twice. Maybe not a 1sec cd, but instead a 0.5sec cd. That would probably fix it without hurting the play style (since popping in and doing a couple of abilities generally take longer than 0.5sec purely because of casting time)
I do find myself doing it less now that I bound the F1 key to C instead, but I still do it.
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Why…. did you post this twice??
Considering they are bots… and don’t actively try to attack him most of the time, it isn’t really as impressive as it may look. Though, I applaud him in doing it.
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As bad as the golems are, I have yet to find an elite skill that truly felt elite.
I have seen some really good elite class skills. But when it comes to racial elites, that is a different story (unless we are talking about the Charr Mesmers in WvW). ANet have said themselves that they didn’t want any of the racial elites to overshadow any other elite skills… so instead of making them as close to balanced as possible, they underpower them a bit. Though, some are still fun to use…
However, I love my Necro’s Lich Form, which is really the only thing Necros have that can actually put them head to head with other classes.
I spend sooooo much of my time in lower level areas trying to get crafting materials (hazzah for choosing to be the one who does both artifising and tailoring in my guild, and the kitteny drop rates of noncooking items… kitten), that I haven’t noticed this. But if this is the case… looks like even more of my build doesn’t work!
Of course they are violent. Look at their teeth. They scream “Eat your face off” violent.
So I am not the only one rolling on peoples bodies in WvW? =D
I apsolutally love the “You’re dumb. You’ll die, and you’ll leave a dumb corpse.” quote as well.
Oh, and I love the “May all your theories be sound” after talking to someone, sometimes. I say that when saying goodbye to my friends all the time now.
Oh, and the way my female necro says “Goodbye” is seriously the cutest thing ever.
The Asura are the best race just because of the animations and voices. They are great!
I don’t mind it either way. Though, I think it would be pretty epic to have a giant sword on such a small creature. I do agree that there are clipping problems though, but I have played enough games to realize this is unavoidable. I actually made my character as small as possible, as I think I am cute as kitten.
The reason they change the armor look? Hope you don’t mind if I be crude (but I am willing to bet is the reason). Take off all your clothes as other races females. What do you notice? They all (actually, not sure about the Charrs) have underwear. What do the Asura women have? A swim suit. Why? Because they don’t want to have any content that may be controversial in certain countries. Countries like Australia have a ban on any (even a tiny bit) sexual representation of a woman with no breasts. Why? Because they think it is depicting a child.
DJRiful, I hope that explains the problem with the armor you posted pictures about. They can’t have Asura be represented as sexual, because some people may think they are children, and GW2 would be banned in some countries. But that doesn’t stop them from making the bigger, more older looking women from having sexual armor with a lot of cleavage.
I have a feeling I will go home after work and my roommate will be sitting at his computer with a huge smile because he found a perma item. That kitten has some crazy kitten luck. His first dye was abyssal…
stop this qq please, is ridicolous . Necro class isnt broken
in Necromancer
Posted by: DoctorWhy.3847
Let me say this first… I am not usually the one complaining about the necro being underpowered, but the amount of bugs for the necro… That said:
Uhh…. have you compared yourself to other classes?
Ok… go Conditionmancer and you can do some decent condition damage. But the engineer is better with condition damage. Try a power build? Yay! you can kill things in 10 seconds… nearly all the other classes can kill them in 5. Fear based build? Nope… all the other fears/stuns in the game are WAY better.
My point is: The necro is playable and fun. And as people said, it lacks viable build diversity. The problem with the necro is that we have a good unique skill: Death Shroud. But, ANet thinks DS is too powerful in the right hands, AND HAVE SAID THEMSELVES, that is why the necro is not as strong.
So yes, the necro, compared to all the other classes, are very lacking. However, I will ask for bug fixes ASAP, so we can see where the necro actually lacks in.
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Here’s a picture of my Asura. I think she’s pretty cute.
Holy kitten kitten… I was going to post a picture of mine, but I think you have me beat…
That chart doesn’t at all look like the chart they had during the beta weekend… most people did jewel making stuff (literally 60k+ apparently, compared to very low numbers in the rest). I figured this as Jewelry is used by every profession. But this chart just feels…. off…
Minionmancer sounds cooler IMO, so screw sticking to crappy names. We are Minionmancer, conditionmacer, buggedmancer, somethingmancer.
I love the daggers. They attack quickly, and are the only weapons the necro have that feel like they have a little bit of power.
I do agree that we are squishy as hell though.
23k is a lot. I wounder how that necro speced.
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DS is always going to screw up necro balance in its current state
in Necromancer
Posted by: DoctorWhy.3847
And I have a feeling that it will take a year of complaining before they change their thinking, if they ever do.
I do agree that something needs to change if they ever hope to balance the necro well (without underpowering it in order to make up for the 1 strength). However, none of the classes are really structured all the same, so I don’t think they should make DS too similar to adrenaline. Here is what I mean (I could be wrong with some of these, considering I only really know the thief and necro):
1. Necro – Death shroud
2. Thief – Initiative instead of cooldowns
3. Warriors – adrenaline
4. Guardian – Virtues
5. Engineer – Turret thingys
6. Mesmer – Illusions
7. Ranger – Pets (I guess)
8. Elementalists – Attunements
If they have the ability to balance all of these different skills, why do they not have the ability to make death shroud work as well? Why are they thinking “Well DS is strong, so we will make necros weak?” I don’t know why they think like this. Your proposed change doesn’t really work, but I see what you are getting at and agree that something needs to change.
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Well… at least the mod sees it? Lol. (And if you do see this, mod, please create a sticky “Complain here” thread to help unclutter the forum)
DS is always going to screw up necro balance in its current state
in Necromancer
Posted by: DoctorWhy.3847
Just so people know where you are coming from. The dev states exactly that DS is powerful and is hard to use, so they are not going to buff them.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/pvp/I-play-a-necro-but-I-traid-a-warrior-for-one-play-session/page/2
See statement in this thread, page 2:
the tl;dr version is they arn’t gonna buff necros any time soon because they think DS is so powerful the class has to remain bad otherwise.
Oh, so that is why you started that other thread. Makes sense now.
Game devs actually communicating directly with the players? What game do you think this is? Minecraft?
In all seriousness, please let us know what your plans are <3
Hopefully Jon will come through then (sooner rather than later. Cause if (some of) these get fixed sometime in the next week, then that is at least enough proof that they are trying) if not, then … I am just seriously wondering if devs are paying any attention to the havoc these bugs are causing in this forum, and the severe unbalancing caused by them.
Is that a bug or intended? Wouldn’t that make the +healing useless besides with the main healing skill? And if it is intended, they need to say so, because that is the build I am trying to do (though bugs prevent me)
These made me laugh… and waste more of my time at work. Thank you <3
My skin is white, so I made my dye match my skin, and there you go! I have white 3 toed boots =P
That still doesn’t excuse the lack of updates for the class with the most bugs. I understand they are working on a lot of other bugs, but come on! Half of me doesn’t even work =/ . Also, my statement is still true. They do not read these complaints. I wasn’t complaining about that… I was just stating that all these threads about the necro are not going to be read
Just curious Forice, do you usually play with these forums in the background? You REALLY update these forums with just about everything you do. Not that its a bad thing for people to voice their concerns…its just…alot. =)
http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/04/alot-is-better-than-you-at-everything.html
I understand your pain, but you are preaching to the choir here. All the threads you started to complain about the state of the necro could all be put in one.
Also… ANet devs are not going to listen to us, as they seem to hate the necro as is proved by the amount of updates for them (zero). And they will not read all these complaints.
And if GTA has anything to say, it will heal more as well XD
Jokes on you, they(I) don’t have girlfriends =P