Guild Wars 2

bobomb.5209:

Chill is a fairly rare condition to apply, and is therefore strong. The only exception is Elementalists but they have such a disadvantage at the moment compared to other classes that any nerf to them is unwarranted.

You don’t have a necro right? Spinal Shivers + Spectral Grasp + Dark Path + Chill of Death = 24s of chill. But still a class not even close to Thief, Mesmer and Warrior. Which btw none of them apply chill.

Immob is ok too, my previous P/D thief could stack 12s of immob, or reaply it 6 times (4 body shots + devourer venom). Now tell me how many thieves waste all their initiative doing it?

tl;dr: L2P

They don’t need any kind of nerf. The same way i die because of this conditions, i can kill enemies using them. If your main class can’t apply this conditions, it’s your fault for stick with only one character and do not give a chance for different professions.

@OP,

Go to Characters Panel, Create a thief, lvl him up to 80, equip him with exotics, go to WvW, find a Guardian/Warrior/Mesmer group, come back here and tell us how easy was that fight for you.

Right now the best group for dungeon in general is 2 warrs, 1 guard, 1 mesmer and 1 ele. You can replace ele or mesmer for thief depending of the dungeon. Too many warriors isn’t that great, you will lose too much utilities from other classes.

I like mantras, but i think they could be changed in some aspects. The cast time is so long, i know that all skills are instant, but still they could reduce to 1.75s.

Another idea would be make the cd start in background when you use the first Power. Steal works that way, you can steal from somone, and if you use the stolen skill 30s after, need to wait only 5s to steal again.

Ptolemy.5086:

I used that trait few times with GS and pistol but have no idea about blocking. Logically active weapon blocks should be considered as interrupts but probably you unlike me did check it out. Guess it was wishful thinking on my part.

It’s not interrupt because the hit land, but sword #4 Counter Blade can interrupt.

xsquared.1926:

I prefer playing other classes.

Omg i laugh so kitten the necromancer gif !

cmud.5689:

Teach me master….
Now. Please check the wiki and tell how it is even remotely possible to achieve this. Do you know the actual requirement? Do you know the price of dusk on the TP? Do you know how hard is it to grind karma post the nerf? I could go on…

Actually the only thing that makes you grind for months is the Mystic Coin and Map Completion, and you didn’t mention it.

It’s not exploit, but an effective way to use your weapons. If my weapons can hit 3-5 mobs, why would i want to kill one-by-one?

I have ~1500h, 6k AP, no lengendary, but 2 full ascended characters and 5 exotic/ascended trinks. As Paul said, most of them look that were made to 12 y/o girls. lol

I hope they make a new set of legendaries more dark. Like a staff with undead hands trying to grab you when you walk, and a black smoke trail. Or a greatsword dripping blood with splash effects when you hit the enemy.

My warrior hits 30k+ with 100b, but no loot. Necro DS hits 3k+ p/AA, still nothing. Same for other characters, clearly its bugged.
Probably the first 10 players who hit him are able to get loot, but there’s nothing to do with damage percentage.

a t s e.9614:

Rofl , vitality counters condition damage? I bet you are one of those cleric or PvT shout warriors who think they are removing condis . You only need cleansing ire and zerker stance to counter any condi spam build . If you’re in wvw then add food. Vitality is the biggest waste on a warrior . We have the highest hp with necros which is already an advantage over other classes , you don’t need more hp. We only need to survive huge damage spikes . With ~2800 armor is enough to get that 33% dmg reduction the rest full dmg .

Can’t agree more. Warrior has a lot of HPS, so what you need is mitigate the damage, not increase your pool to make HPS more time to fill it.

This is the build i’m going for WvW: http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?vIQQJASRjMdUGajHmdwJaAB9QDrCuQpYOqjkCxYAB-zQCBYfJDDMQEIQEBYUBBJ7sIaslRFRjVrETDjIqOAACwNvZ28mBO6RP6RP6R76G9mH9mHtMAMLA-e
PvE is full zerker.

Great suggestion, it could be like Bladetrail, with no target needed.

Something like:
Arcing Slice
Send out a blade of air in cone (60-90°) that strikes your foes.
Damage: ~1400 (full zerker)
Number of targets: 5
Range: 900

Stability doesn’t work, for some reason the explosions rip it off. You need to use quickness, invulnerability or teleport methods to finish her before the shield is up.

Mystic.5934:

this might be related to the no-loot-from-knights bug… like they accidentally set it so you need to deal 10% of the damage to a knight for it to count as you killed it, so you don’t get loot or credit if you only do 9%, meaning the game thought you didn’t participate and thus didn’t give you the ach.

Where did you find this numbers?

1,5 million :P

You must have hit that hard because of the channeling skill inside the enemy’s body, so he takes all hits.

Delilah.8239:

Seriously arenanet?! Its no fun anymore, this nearly makes me want to stop playing gw.
If i take WEEKS trying to find ONE server where the f** waypoint isnt contested is really annoying…
Im working on mapcompletition and its a pain with whole orr being constant event zone. Its no fun to explore the beautiful gw world if you constantly get slaughterd by some super strong mobs.
If you cant get skillpoints because its again like on every other day contested.
the word contested became the most annoying word ive ever read on gw by now.
Please change it….

7 months…

Orr is ok, the problem is that players think they should be able to kill risen just like the boars in QD.

Everytime i enter in a map with 1h or less remaining.

Ashley Segovia.8276:

That’s a bit odd the launcher would make your fan go a bit nuts but I’d also like for you to submit a support ticket so we can work with you one on one. You should receive a reply from us fairly quickly if you send one in now.

I submited a ticket 4 hours ago, where is the reply?

Can’t download the patch too, it stays in 0 kb/s with only one file remaining.
And btw, my steam games are updating in a ~900 kb/s rate.

It’s possible to do it with your mouse macros.
Enter LA manually at 10 min, activate the macro:

A \/
0.1 s
A /\
299.9 s (5 m)
D \/
0.1 s
D /\
299.9 s (5 m)
repeat 3 times (this is to be active)

S \/ (walk backwards toward the portal LA > Gendarran)
5 s
S /\
1170 s (1190 – ~10s x2 loadscreen) (20 m)
S \/ (walk backwards Gendarran > LA)
5 s
S /\

I don’t do that but it’s really simple, just made this up after i read your post.

NICENIKESHOE.7128:

FLiP.7680:

Why can’t they leap just like the iSwordsman? I have never seen the phantasm bug as much the clone.

I always wonder about that. I thought if someone jumps off to different ground-level iSwordsman still have to walk down before leap in? Still it would solve some silly issue where ileap just dash a short distance then stop.

Yeah, iSwordsman walks and them leaps at ~300 range. iLeap could walk really fast then jump when it’s viable, or just walk straight to the target if he’s upstairs.

You may not know, but there is a weapon swap button on the left side of your skill bar.

When the enemy gets close to you, use it, then melee him with sword, or dodge backwards and use your scepter.

When you get some distance, swap back to GS and deal some good damage.

CptAurellian.9537:

Every time I see a mesmer use GS #5 in PvE, I wish there was friendly fire in this game …

Yeah sure, mesmers… because engineer and rangers with 15s knockback are not annoying at all.

Dakota.4591:

NICENIKESHOE.7128:

They want to make other rune’s 6th slot and 2/2/2 rune combinations more viable. So its probably best to wait and see what happen before spending 60g.

I thought the whole point of the patch was they wanted to make 2/2/2 rune combinations -less- viable, ie the people who get 2 supmonk 2 supwater 2majorwater for the 40% boon duration. I thought this was something they were wanting to get rid of.

Exactly. As far as i know, they will just move the (2,4,6) effects to (4,5,6), and rework everything with % critical damage.

Why can’t they leap just like the iSwordsman? I have never seen the phantasm bug as much the clone.

ArmageddonAsh.6430:

[…]
Signet of Water, the passive is rather weak, but better than nothing. Maybe a good idea would be that it would turn the condition into the opposite type Boon every 10seconds? I mean still not amazing but would be better than it is now. Make it so it lasts the duration of the condition and then have it so that it is then increased by our Boon duration.
[…]

Too strong. Engineers need 15 points in Alchemy to get the same effect with 15s CD. But i like the active effect you proposed:

ArmageddonAsh.6430:

[…]
Signet of water: Keep the passive, change the active to a 90second cool down that turns all conditions into boons for the duration of what the condition would have been. Much better than the current active.
[…]

amiavamp.9785:

Or perhaps the RNG silliness can be thrown out the window and weakness can reduce all attacks by x% as the opposite of protection.

Agree. I suggest Weakness reduce direct damage (crit or non-crit) and condition damage by 33%.

I used wells and Life Transfer to tag as much as possible. Lvld my necro from 40 to 80 in a few days. Warhorn is great too.

They could swap Dhuumfire to Withering Precision, but reduce the CD or increase the weakness to 10s (13s because it would have +30% condi duration).

Roe.3679:

I’ve run a DS power necro as my main for a few months now. So from this post I can figure out a few things:

1. This mesmer build/player must be downright awful, as most mesmers are too slippery to burst down with life blast spam alone.
2. OP did little to counter these life blasts, especially reflections, dodges, blocks, or CC of any kind which is a sime counter to this play.
3. He clearly didn’t understand that life blast can be potent if spammed directly into your face.

So this seems like a L2P issue as others have mentioned.

Also I wanted to comment that a lot of necro playstyle is spamming 111111 because – I think – necros have to be so aware of their positioning moreso than other classes with more readily available defense or escapes. So I can focus more on not getting focused down while I’m still dealing damage more because the auto attacks are still powerful. It’s just my theory, though.

DS necro spam 111111 because #2/3 do no damage, and #4/5 have an absurd 40s cooldown.

The minions from Lich Form #4 don’t do anything too.

I was playing with my Axe/Focus necro and got the Sword Master. Couldn’t print right when the achiev poped, but i had ~4970 before i start playing as necro today.

There is major bugs to be fixed, but when you have time, look at this.

gesho.9468:

just out of hotjoin. there was this necro. not condi, not petting zoo. i died to him in just few seconds (and my build is not suposed to die to necro). checked death report card – 17k damage from life blast, 6 blasts.

wow…

this guy just have to get death shroud crit traits, get to you 600units and spam #111111. ftw…

now that i know, i can think of SOME counters, but this is over the top. and they want to tag dhoomfire to it?

No DS necro would trade Close to Death for Dhuumfire. And it’s the only useful PvE build, stop crying about everything that kills you once in awhile.

We could have better options if we lose target when a clone is created. The main reason why mesmers use stealth skills is because no matter how many illusion you create, the enemy will always have you targeted. So stealth is the only way to make them have to find the real one again.

Xyonon.3987:

[…] You may ask now “why not just ranged with GS?”, that’s because you outrange the buffs from allies, so you will be missing tons of might stacks wich would make your sword in melee even more powerful.

And yea – full zerker ^^

Another point is that no one likes ranged players in dungeons, it’s kinda selfish. I mean, if all 5 players are in melee range, technically the boss would target you 20% of the time, but if there is 3 ranged players, you will be targeted 50% of the time. Or could be worst, he moves to attack the ranged ones.

Wanze.8410:

Upgrade Extractors are available in the gem store.

It is only worth if you need to get a Divinity/Traveler from a T3 armor.

Form.8741:

Working as intended if imbalance and unfairness and player frustration and opposing player gloating undeservedly are the goals.

Why do you think that you deserve to be in the same lvl as someone who spent 1000h+ playing the same mode?

Form.8741:

Please. PLEASE. I beg…remove these incredibly IMBALANCED boons that give players who have spent longer playing wvw to have a massive (and yes it is massive) unfair advantage over players who did NOT spend as long in wvw or who did not get those wvw trait lines.

They are the most imbalanced non-class-related boon in the history of wvw AFAIK.

Play more WvW and you will get it too.

I know that karma and wvw gear are not salvageable to not give players the option to convert currency into mats/gold, but we could salvage them for the sigils/runes.

I don’t need mats from it, only be able to retrieve the upgrade would be enough.

Probably the enemy removed your boon.

Put 15 points in Inpiration and have a healing totem.

I did it worst. I’m used to craft Elonian on my Huntsman crafter, then i teach the Leatherwork recipe to her. -.-

amiavamp.9785:

The incredible 30/30/30/30/30 build that still uses life force as health outside of Death Shroud.

Did i say in a single build? If you don’t have anything to contribute, just leave.

The armor is great, and they will fix the phantasms… someday.

They are in the Airship. You need to do the LA events to get the pass, or buy it on BLTP. Can you guess why they did that? :P

Same thing. My inv usualy is 10 slots per row, but now it resizes to 12 slots, and i cant let it half outside the screen.

I’m disconnecting every time i play dungeons. I can’t stay in a dungeon instance more than 5 minutes. Sometimes it happens in open world or wvw. Often lost guests because i was in another server and dced.

Fix this pls. Can’t recommend this game to anyone, because it will only make them mad.

Notice the same with my golem and shadow fiend. They stay next to the enemy, but don’t attack 50% of the fights.

Yeah, i saw that you can get Fury, Stability, Retaliation, Clear condi, and apply Bleed, Weakness, Vulnerability and heal when pop out DS.

My “twitchy finger” control is better and i’m not leaving DS so often. :P