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"Personality" gone?

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It’s sad because that feature had so much potential for immersion if they just developed it…

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Best pet for champ farming

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I usually run with two drakes. They can take it and dish it out with F2. The one with poison couples nice with your damage over time. This is general solo. Not zerg train. Zerg train… Isn’t anything viable?

There was a post a little while back discussing this, many ideas and reasons for the pets were discussed. might want to go check it out and see if you can find something that suits you:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/ranger/Which-pet-contributes-most-in-a-WvW-Zerg/first#post3834630

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Best pet for champ farming

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I still swear by drakes as my go-to for at least one of my pets for champs. Their finisher, general tankiness, and cleave (to help deal with any adds that might spawn) are pretty valuable. And since champs are pretty dumb and usually just stand still, it’s viable to land hits with the F2 on drakes that are usually problematic like salamander and reef. Don’t underestimate moas either. hey are good for a quick swap, heal, and buff but I wouldn’t leave tem in the fight too long. They can take a few hits, but not many. In champ trains however, I actually like using moas and porcines (be sure to choose the right one, each one’s forrage skill brings up different items so plan accordingly) simply for group buffing. like people said though, try them out and see which works best for you.

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Close to Death

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Anytime it says "increases damage " you can assume it only means direct damage not condition damage.

Nothing multiplies condition damage, either in a positive or negative manner.

Except this guy:

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Massive lag on new system

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I went with the 260×. I wish I had known before that I could have called the company for an upgraded card and they would have put this one in…but it never mentioned upgrades. Luckily I gave them a sob story and they agreed to upgrade to this one for me for about half the price the card usually runs so I’m happy now. I’ll try what you suggested for the cpu, because I reached my limit for entertainment spending for a while lol. I might gut my old system and start slowly building a new one over time that can is actually optimized to run this game. At least I can play other games on this system I have now really well, just wish GW2 was as cleanly optimized

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Massive lag on new system

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Buy new GPU at least R7 250 .. i recommend you R7 250X or 7790/R7 260+

Then download fix for amd CPUs on win7 – it helps a lot

I checked out the R7’s and found one I can afford so I’m prog going to go with that. My old card is running a tad better than that nvidia pile of garbage, but with the fan on it not working (it’s a problem with the card itself, it won’t send power to the fan connector) I don’t want to run it forever. I have a pci bay ehxaust fan on it right now and it’s surviving lol. Are there any ways to force the game to utilize all of my processors cores? because right now it barely uses them at all and I think that’s part of my issue. I have win 8.1 too, so don’t think I need that cpu fix you mentioned, but correct me if I’m wrong.

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My custom arena is BROKEN.

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Well ours is still technically working, but no matter what settings we mess with there is zero progression now. We’ve tried different team sizes, adjusting timer, scores, ect ect. There is no password on it and everything is set according to the wiki to allow for progression (and it was working before patch as intended too). It seems like customs got real buggy after the patch

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Balanced Necro

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That was just a reeeeally bad player on a poorly designed map. I saw at least 3 times they kept running right into that spectral wall instead of simply portaling out. Using spamhammer map to showcase anything is pointless. It’s a broken map…

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Massive lag on new system

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Well I swapped back in my old 5570 card anyway and the lag is mildly better, but considering the game won’t utilize my full processor I’m still not getting good numbers. I guess this will just be a band-aid fix for now…

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Dishonorable Problem

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uhh yeah…basically stop leaving matches or get a better network or pay for a VPN routing. Many people in places (I’m almost willing to bet money on) are in worse off than your friend and they make it work. I know a guy in egypt that pays what amounts to a sub fee monthly to play this game because he rents a vpn. Yes it sucks, yes it’s unfair, but technology limitations and your own local craptacular internet aren’t the responsibility of their company. Bottom line, if you want it bad enough, shell out the money. It says plainly on the box: " Internet connection is required, all players are responsible for all applicable internet fees"

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Thank you so much for the Feature Pack!

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I’m not happy with the new system pvp-wise anyway…not at all. it’s clumsy, confusing, expensive
PvE they did a great job though, but this was definitely not designed for pvp use. the old system was FAR more streamlined and well put together

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Wardrobe: Feedback and Questions

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wardrobe for pve= best thing ever thought of
wardrobe for pvp= big ol slap in the face…they took a perfectly good system, broke it apart into a million different pieces, then charge us to put it back together per piece used, per each time used …tell me again why I should be happy about this? Not to mention amulets costing me money to use….

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Massive lag on new system

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vid card- nvidia geforce gt 610 1gb (which isn’t a stellar card but it should be outperforming the old one)

Is this a typo? The GT 610 is an extremely weak card mostly meant to enable light office work and media playback on machines that lack an integrated GPU.

You’re looking at the card only and not the data transfer rate the board is capable of, my old board was a whole generation behind this new one and couldn’t touch the transfer rate of this one so it wasn’t utilizing the whole power of that card anyway. On paper though, this card should be able to play this game fine, but since I do still have my old card I’ll prob see if I can swap it out even though the fan on it is non-functional anymore :/ I still don’t think the card is the whole issue though, if it was the card would be maxed out all the time. It seems to be the poor optimizing of the game since my processor is basically napping while I play…..

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Massive lag on new system

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when only considering gw2, your new system is actually worse than your old one.

The gt610 is significantly weaker than than a 5570 and has about the same power as the integrated graphics

For single thread centric processes (like gw2) the piledriver based fx6300 could be argued to be weaker than a 10h based athlon II x4

OK as for the graphics card I’m looking at it running right now and the memory and core clocks are nearly double what my old 5570 were (and I can o/c it even higher if I wanted to) so I can’t see how that could be it, but as for GW2 only using single threads….kitten that makes a WHOLE lot more sense now. It means that it’s only utilizing at most half my processor which in a processor intensive game like this would explain a lot…… well kitten me…..

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Massive lag on new system

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35 view and not a single response? Not looking promising…guess I paid a hefty price to play on bare minimum graphics just so it doesn’t feel like a slideshow…

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Massive lag on new system

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So I just upgraded my system because I was hoping to be able to play this game higher than medium settings…but strangely enough my new system (which is much more powerful than my old one) runs the game worse .
Can anyone explain this to me?
Here’s just a rough description of the two systems (I will include a dxdiag file as well sop tech devs can review my current system too)

Old:
processor- amd athlon IIx4 processor (quad core) 3.0ghz
memory- 4gb
vid card- radeon hd 5570 1gb

New:
processor-AMD fx 6300 6 core 4.15 ghz
memory- 8gb
vid card- nvidia geforce gt 610 1gb (which isn’t a stellar card but it should be outperforming the old one)
This new mobo is much more efficient than my old one too and a much newer design. I’ve tried with and without overclocking, makes no difference. Just doesn’t make sense to me that an upgraded system would perform worse than an old outdated weaker system. And yes all drivers are up to date, I’ve run multiple stress tests and everything passes with flying colors. My processor is barely working at all while playing and occasionally my vid card will max out but it usually sits around 70%.

Just to note:
I have tried the suggested “fixes” in the stickies on the forums, as well as most fixes I could find on Google. I managed to squeeze out a minuscule 2 more fps….Something is definitely wrong here

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Question about Epidemic utility?

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traited it has 12sec cooldown..

Not sure if you were talking to me or not, but I never said anything about cooldown… the slow as casting time is my issue. If I can hardly land it, cooldown is a moot point

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Suggestion: Quickdraw Bag

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We’ve needed a quickdraw option for cons and minis for a while now. This is as good of an idea as any I’ve seen thus far. They seem to be adamant about not cluttering up UI more, so a “consumables skills slot” is out of the question, but a bag with a hotkey assigned to it that’s a craftable item seem to be a pretty clever plan to me. Gets my +1

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Recipe: Sharpening Stone Station

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This needs to be stickied at the top of the crafting page. I think it is not only ridiculous what they did to this recipe, but it’s a virtual slap in the face to us all. I can see leaving in the bloodstone, I actually like that part because it would give me a way to unload my excess…..but 30 CRYSTALLINE DUSTS?!? not to mention the deldrimor steel, but imo that’s not even as bad as requiring all that dust. This is downright insane. This isn’t even a gold sink, it’s a gold/resource black hole…

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M. perhaps not in Maguuma?

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We very clearly follows the Leyline. And it goes towards Magus Falls.

We might see more of Malyck in the future.

Unless that “secret” Scarlet said Caithe had was that Caithe took him out back and killed him once she realized what was really going on with Sylvari. She couldn’t risk letting him get back and report on what he found and possibly setting off an evil Sylvari invasion from the Other Tree

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My experimental MM build

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Eh the thing about roaming is you don’t always get time to set up the fight in your favor (which is what flesh wurm requires to be effective) So yeah you could, but then you’d be losing out on protection, fear (terror if traited), and that combo field. It’s really up to you though, if you prefer flesh sock to fear wall, go for it. He does good damage anyway and it has the stun break you need, so imo it would be a fair tradeoff. I’ve just found him to be really clunky in roaming.

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Jagged Horrors

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This minor is already getting merged with death nova so it can stop bothering non-mm builds.
Now, if they spawned upon minion death and also triggered death novas, that would actually make me interested in a MM build.

This! kitten for all that is unholy….THIS

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Question about Epidemic utility?

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My problem when I try to use it in zergs is the baddies die so fast by the time I pop it off they’re already dead. Even if I try to condi bomb a downed player they usually get stomped or plowed over mid-cast so t save myself a lot of frustration of failing at what would be the most godsawful epic condi-bomb ever, I usually don’t take it. If the cast time was lowered i would take it every time

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My experimental MM build

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http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vQEQNArYWjM00bbTNe1webCQ6R0QP9kivBPSxxBD-zUCBoOCi0Cgk0A0BQZSFRjtaqIas6GYKWER1eEFRrmQAKmDA-w

This is what I recommend, and the reason I chose this setup is for 3 main reasons:

  • You actually want them to kill the minions to proc the death nova, so increased hp isn’t going to help (I was under the impression this was a roaming build, so if not correct me),
  • also shadow fiend is pretty slow and useless on players. It’s ok for capping camps, but he spends more time chasing people than attacking usually so I swapped him out for spectral wall.
  • you have no stun break at all, and as a roamer this is not good. Reaper’s protection is a half decent stun “defense” because it is passive and they might not throw up stability before they stun you, in which case your terror will also proc.

These also have an added bonus by taking spectral wall: you now have a way to make confusion via the combo field and your staff/bone fiend and putrid explosion as well as giving protection to your minions and yourself as you kite them through it. Bone fiend can stack up confusion relatively quickly which on a full condi spec like this can eat up people pretty fast. This isn’t too far off from what I use on my wvw roamer condi MM and I can say firsthand that it works pretty good. It’s not perfect by any means but if you get comfortable enough with it you can really wreck some baddies.

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Ranger Balance [Post CDI]

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Longbow

  • Should by default have an effect on the auto attack so that if you hold the button down you gain increased damage and distance. In other words, you can do a regular auto at normal damage and fire rates, but if you hold down the key, you can “charge up” the shot (at a slow rate, and it would root you in place) for increased damage if it hits (would have to be a significant amount to warrant rooting yourself and essentially losing all dps for that period of time) and it would also increase the range (of the auto attack only and only for that one attack). This would give the longbow the ability to dps spike when needed, but also provide the enemy with very easy counterplay because it’s along animation, it roots the ranger, and as we know longbow is notoriously inaccurate so it’s easily dodged-but on the flipside the ranger could potentially deliver a fatal shot (providing the damage was scaled properly to provide an appropriate tradeoff).

I stand by my statement that this should be incorporated into the longbow itself, not slapped on as another trait. Longbow needs some more functionality to warrant being such a long range weapon with such low accuracy and mediocre damage with little burst ability.

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Bug? Flesh Golem Not Attacking!

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It’s not just FG it’s all the melee minions. It’s a pathing issue. If you watch them real close, they actually aren’t “ignoring” the combat…they are wiggling back and forth trying to move, but their pathing is broken and they can’t. It’s more noticeable on FG because he’s larger but they all do it.

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Can a Necro Axe hit a mesmer/thief?

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Oh, and 2 minutes of swiftness on a necro, not something I’m gonna complain about. Stack up a few thousand coyotes and enjoy.

No idea why this made me laugh but I almost spit out my coffee lol.

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Signet of Undeath

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There is one small use for it. Temporarily put it in your bar and take a little bit of falling damage. Wa-la! you begin building LF. Before the fight, remove the signet. It’s honestly the only use I have ever found for it.

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When will defending become viable?

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Hmmm, I think you need to actually defend it instead of complaining. SBI was in FA’s BL for over 3 hours, with a queue, trying to take FA’s t3 bay. We came so close, so many times, but they could just waypoint in a whole map queue and no matter how many we dropped, they kept coming every time the waypoint openend. They would banner the lord to by time. They would sacrifice themselves in the circle. And they eventually kept it (since we had to go to bed).

We drained their supply from bay, hills (IoJ was attacking there) and garrison (we kept sending a havok squad there). But, they were able to hold on, because they do DEFEND their stuff. They will even upgrade keeps in other BL’s and defend them just as hard. It is truly viable, you just need to actually defend it.

Now, we eneded up not succeeding because people were going to bed, but we did leave a havok their, and then switched to EB and took their t3 SM from them.

TLDR; Quit complaining about defending and actually do it. FA does, and SBI sometimes does. You just have to get the server to actually commit to the concept of defending. You can farm a crap load of bags, and for me, fighting over a keep that is being defended (or even defending a keep from a zerg) is the most fun that I have in WvW. Much better than open field figthing.

Read the bold of what you wrote…then re-read what I wrote. Pay closer attention next time.

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When will defending become viable?

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It is already viable.
With 5 arrowcart, you can kick 60+ kitten easily.

But I agree, it takes too many time to get upgrade that will be destroy in 3 min at 7am.

If 60 people stand there and get blasted away by arrow carts, every single one of them deserved it for being stupid.

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Obsidian Sanctum JP Etiquette

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nevilledevil,
appreciate what you’re trying to do here,

but two other whole servers are dedicated to stopping you from doing what you want to do in this zone.

you will get spawncamped by thieves.
you will get killed in the JP,
you will have a bad time if you are only coming to do one thing and get the achievements because none of the WvW players will want to help you to do that, because they’re trying to WIN the tournament, not just get the meta completed.

You don’t win anything by camping the JP. You don’t earn your server anything by camping the JP. WvW players don’t go to the JP, they are too busy WvWing.

Exactly, dedicated wvw’ers are out contributing to their servers, not trolling pve players in a jumping puzzle. It needs to just be renamed what it really is:
Sanctum for Trolls that Can’t Hack Real PvP

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When will defending become viable?

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Right now, sinking time, money, and painstaking effort in upgrading and defending anything is completely pointless. You spend hours upgrading a keep, only for it to fall in less than 3 mins (well, sometimes it can take hour or more, but THAT part of the fight is usually done in the lord’s room and has nothing to do with actual upgrades). Where’s the return for all that time wasted? What incentive do I have to spend all that time and money, when I could just as easily go farm them for bags while they flip the keep, then retake it 5 mins later? Defense event “rewards” are pretty non-existent, yet offense rewards are much much higher. When is the last time you got a loot chest from defending?

IMHO attacking a properly fortified structure should always be harder than defending it. it should require tactics and planning. Not just blobbing up, throwing 2 pieces of siege down, and mowing over the point. While I’m sure the uppity “leet” players will counter-argue this (mainly because they like easy caps, which only proves my point) saying some fights can last well over an hour to cap something, but consider which parts of that fight are you spending that time in? Most always the lord’s room and all that is, is which blob is biggest and who has the most banners to throw down. There’s just no feel of skilled play in wvw anymore and I think the defense-vs-offense issue is one of the things at the heart of it.

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Which pet contributes most* in a WvW Zerg?

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In a zerg, I find that the boon pets are the best. A good mighty roar.
I also find that group CC is quite helpful making hound and wolf popular.

Depending on your spec, the Fern Hound can be extremely helpful.

One set that is often forgotten is porcine. If your pet isn’t going to be rushing in fighting, it might as well create items that can be very situationally powerful. Lots of AE fields, stealth, heals etc.

Those are what I run, when on walls I run fern hound and porcine (each pig has different forrage skills, so use them accordingly….took me a while to realize that) and in fights wolf and porcine. Those pigs are pretty resilient and occasionally you’ll get lucky when you unleash them and they will open with their charge/kd skill. None of the pets are really appropriate if you’re running in the meleetrain though maybe if you run sig of stone and a reeeaally tanky pet like a bear or something you might get one to survive a push.

Best thing I’ve found to do for meleetraining is drakes, prefferably marsh or river because their f2’s land more reliably and faster. Just f2 them before going in, and let them die. Leave them dead until you finish your push or two, then swap or just leave them dead. Unless you need a buff from the other pet, swapping it in is pointless. You could maybe throw in a moa like the blue, use the f2 for a quick prot, then send it in to attack. Sometimes you get lucky and it does the healing screech right away. After that it has lived it’s usefulness and you can let it die. Repeat. Honestly though, I just can’t enjoy a melee train as a ranger. That’s what snorefest warriors and guardians are for. I’ll go grab one of those if I wanna smash around in melee blobs.

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Pristine Toxic Spore Sample?

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There’s probably enough excess supply floating around to get us through the year, but after that…it’s going to get pretty rough for anyone wanting to make anything requiring these

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Pristine Toxic Spore Sample?

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So what will become of things requiring pristine toxic spore samples now that the Scarlet mess is gone? I see there are still a hand full of events scattered around but that only yields about 3 max spores per event and it takes soooo long to do those solo since you’re stuck waiting on NPC’s to kill stuff most of the time. Is there no alternative means to get these like a home node? I know they can still be bought on the TP, but how long will that last I wonder……..

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More tracks added to zones recently?

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Maybe it’s just me, but it seems like recently more tracks have been added to each zone. It’s refreshing to hear different ones come through, but I was just wondering if it was simply me paying closer attention, or if anyone else noticed it too?

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lets make Signet of Vampirism useful.

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Yes, actually I do..

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Signet of Undeath

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So here is a question: Does SoU generate LF when on CD? When someone goes down, is the choice whether to res someone or keep the signet from going on CD? The problem is no build goal favors the signet for both LF and res’ing over another utility, not even the non-existant signet build.

No, because like any signet, it has 2 parts: a passive and an active. Once the active is activated, the passive ceases to work until the cooldown is up. That is the tradeoff for signets

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Feedback Thread: Say goodbye to Armor Repairs?

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like I said in the other post about armor repairs:

Honestly I would like to see the old GW1 death penalty system return. I thought it was fairly well implemented. It would have to be adjusted a bit for this game so it would be a tad easier to clear the dp, but I think it would promote skilled play overall. Not to mention it would make an incentive to actually kill trash mobs in dungeons (to clear some DP)
^ all of that rather than removing armor repair fees

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Have you ever broken ALL of your armor?

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Honestly I would like to see the old GW1 death penalty system return. I thought it was fairly well implemented. It would have to be adjusted a bit for this game so it would be a tad easier to clear the dp, but I think it would promote skilled play overall. Not to mention it would make an incentive to actually kill trash mobs in dungeons (to clear some DP)

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Explotion of Sentinel's armor

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…..you might want to look into salvaging sentinel inscriptions and insignias from dropped loot.

Yeah…about that….out of the roughly 10 pieces I’ve tried to salvage (using a BL kit no less) I never got a single inscription out of them. If they’re going to make this crap so difficult to get….at least make it a guaranteed salvage…. Absolutely ridiculous

Are you sure that you salvaged non-crafted sentinel gear (something with a rune or sigil on it)?
In the last month i salvaged 240 exotic sentinel gear with BLSK (57% dropped insignias/inscriptions) and 1250 with master salvage kit (42% droprate).

I’m 100% sure….

Then i guess your sample size of roughly 10 pieces wasnt big enough to give RNG a beating.

I can see having bad luck with such a small sample size…but I would expect at least ONE especially using a max kit…It’s not like I was flushing things down the mystic toilet…I was salvaging gear. Might as well not even had the option to salvage it at all if they were gonna weigh it so heavily with rng that it wasn’t worth wasting the salvages on. And btw salvaging rng isn’t the same thing as mystic toilet rng. Salvage rates are controlled and set so they could very well have adjusted this better (mystic flusher is controlled too, but not as rigidly as salvaging)

I guess my whole complaint is just how poorly they handled this whole stat combo. Limited release of the recipes, limited (and imo expensive means) of obtaining the insignias, and pointless salvaging gimmicks on seldom dropped gear. I just don’t understand why they keep doing stuff like this. Ranks up there with the celestial fiasco

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Explotion of Sentinel's armor

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Where did you drop sentinel equipment?
Sentinel is craftable and thus shouldn tdrop insignias at all..

Or are you referring to soldier?

The Ultimate Citizens Rescue bag dropped exotic sentinel armor and weapons that had sigils/runes on them and so were salvageable for insginias/inscriptions. They were quite cheap on the tp too, starting at 1-1.5g during the event.
Those drops were responsible for the sentinel insignia/inscription to tank in price by over 30%.

^ that

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[Necro]Why Unholy Sanctuary seems so weak

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I’m not sure what kind of damage they expect us to “turtle” into DS and tank through, but when it comes to focus fire while in DS, anything more robust than clone damage eats it up. Having such painfully low healing won’t even matter because we won’t be in DS long enough to notice how little it heals anyway. Most necromancers will tell you thatregeneration on a necro is by large, pointless. Our hp pool is just too high for it to make a noticeable difference. The reason it works so well for warriors is because they have so much other means of regen outside of the boon (adrenaline trait, heal Sig, and immunities to stop damage from mitigating that regen). Now if our siphons were healing any decent amount and also worked in DS then we would have no issues making regen and this trait work properly

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Explotion of Sentinel's armor

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…..you might want to look into salvaging sentinel inscriptions and insignias from dropped loot.

Yeah…about that….out of the roughly 10 pieces I’ve tried to salvage (using a BL kit no less) I never got a single inscription out of them. If they’re going to make this crap so difficult to get….at least make it a guaranteed salvage…. Absolutely ridiculous

Are you sure that you salvaged non-crafted sentinel gear (something with a rune or sigil on it)?
In the last month i salvaged 240 exotic sentinel gear with BLSK (57% dropped insignias/inscriptions) and 1250 with master salvage kit (42% droprate).

I’m 100% sure….

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Explotion of Sentinel's armor

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…..you might want to look into salvaging sentinel inscriptions and insignias from dropped loot.

Yeah…about that….out of the roughly 10 pieces I’ve tried to salvage (using a BL kit no less) I never got a single inscription out of them. If they’re going to make this crap so difficult to get….at least make it a guaranteed salvage…. Absolutely ridiculous

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In mourning

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I feel that way whenever I’m in Ascalon.

Yeah me too, I mean I’ve found several spots for prime real estate to build my fancy new Charrhome, but those pesky spooks just won’t stay dissipated…. <sigh> One day those silly shades will be gone and I can finally be a proud owner of my rightful homeland.

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Wizard's Tower in Kessex Hills

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So it’s still there…floating ominously just waiting for a rich story to involve it….please don’t forget about this little hidden gem. Surely it was not meant solely as an easter egg holdover from GW1….. Few things in the lore captivate me more than this tower. It has since GW1.

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Aquatic Benevolence - new grandmaster trait

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In case you guys can’t be bothered to actually read what was written:
“The elementalist is getting a variety of traits , ranging from damage and utility to survivability and support . …..”

This isn’t the only thing eles are getting, just the one they previewed. So stop boohooing over it already.

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New trait, thoughts?

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Yeah I think the swapping of builds on the fly will be a huge game changer for us, more so than many other classes because we’ve never really had a “one size fits all” build like some classes do. We have to adapt on the fly and up until now it has meant clumsily swapping out a few utilities, and, if you’re lucky enough to have done your build in such a way, a few major traits. But now we can totally retrait between fights as needed. Oh you’re running an epidemic build but suddenly we need a well/blind build? no prob, got it covered, ect ect. Being able to showcase all of our talents at once might make us not so reviled in dungeons anymore. I doubt hardcore speedclear teams will ever develop patience for trait swapping mid-dungeon but then again I doubt those teams will ever fully accept necro as viable anymore after we got our DS cahones chopped. .

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New trait, thoughts?

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Can’t believe no one has posted about the upcoming grandmaster trait yet. Thoughts? I for one am on the fence about it. I honestly think this feature should be a norm for DS, not some grandmaster trait and siphons should work in DS….but it’s still an improvement, however small, to what we have now.

Necromancer: Unholy Sanctuary
In addition to a bit of a trait line rework, the necromancer’s Death Magic will be gaining the ability to heal your health pool while Death Shroud is active. Unholy Sanctuary allows you to turtle in your Death Shroud and slowly heal yourself, granting you additional survivability in situations that might otherwise spell certain death. The healing rate of Unholy Sanctuary is the same as the regeneration boon and will be affected by healing power.

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