Guild Wars 2

On the garbagesword topic:

+ numbers can change

- slow impossible to land animations and aftercasts
- clunky, weird, SIDESTEPPABLE game mechanics that cause your skills to random fail 90%

Those things seem far less likely to happen, as its a full redesign, meaning even if they increase the numbers the weapon will remain unusable trash

Hello.
For buying heart of thorns, is 50 euro card enough ?
Thank you

Ara.4569:

So is it better to go Balthazar or Ice/Svanir ?

My gut says traveler

Dear grills,
Dont just fall for some blondie or pretty blue eyes.

A grill needs a stronk and friendly person by her side,
Therefore hellseth is the obvious choice.

I wanted to complain but held my tongue. In the grouch video, it was only 1 probably not teamspeak coordinted man rezzing 1v2 – and the huuge aftercast of gravediger is way over what youd need to get 2nd hit.

The gravedigger spam, which the whole weapon is designed around, is a dream for now

Surprisingly, power necro seems to not only lose point, but also pretty close to dying

Cele signet however ive beat them reliable in reasonable time.

Isnt the thing basically burning speed?

600 ± 240 = 360 min range

And just like burning speed u can probably do camera trick to make it even shorter

A big dev on necro forums…… Check
Said working on warri but waiting for feedback…. Check
Said scepter…. Check
Said axe…. Check

Well, im happy for a week

Jekkt.6045:

pull on gs + gravedigger is also a setup

Maybe u could count how many times the skill fails in jebros hands idk but it looks as trash as our sidesteppable focus

From what i saw, Greatsword is like axe+focus.

Pvp oriented design
Bad to medium dmg
Casts and aftercasts

And best part – it all gets sidestepped who says anet cant make same mistake twice?

I personally think they should have switched land/underwater life blasts (ofc dmg modified to say same)

-in water its slower, but has a condi transfer every 1,5s
-on land its faster, so it works better with might and vuln traits and isnt blind countered by 4/8 classes, again double speed means half dmg per hit so it stays same

cz right now the underwater one is just stupid..

Agreed.
Great patch, really surprised they did it before WTS, clap clap on this one.

Good bugfixes:
-blind on shatter going through invul/evades

good nerf/shaves:
-mesmer gs#2 mirror blade back to old 3x —> 2x bounce
-Rampage

Lahmia.2193:

Yay, Chilling Darkness now makes Well of Darkness a bit less kittenty.

This one is the worst actually.

Like im always negative and post exagerated clickbait titles, but todays nerfs are worthless. tiny nerfs to stuff nobody uses so not 1/1000 change in reality (beside unholy martyr)

It is actually a great patch with
-mesmer mirror blade nerf (will hit u now 2x instead of 3x times), blind on shatter still kittens us up but at least it doesnt go through evades anymore
-rampage nerfed – get liched

The only problem is with this, they solidified their opinion on blind+chill trait, making well of darkness useless and one less potential synergie on future gs#4 skill nightfall.

Hello.
First, revenant was laughable weak before. I tried all semi viable necro builds against it, even stood still often and just tried to find a scenario where revenant would either win, or live long enough to be a worthy bunker/support.
The conclusion was maaaybe with buffs it could be a bad 2nd bunker.

But now, GREAT BUFFS, they were needed. Look forward to test again.
Some concerns:

• weapon skill were introduced with lower CD exactly because no swapping. I also trust in faster casts, so please keep them balanced, maybe with energy – We dont want another Engie rifle#4
• Shiro#7 , how spammable the stunbreak evade is?
• Condi overload , i know everything needs a weakness, it just seems that you can often pressure the revenant into his defensive legend/set , and having free damage on him for next 10s

I do have necro salt however, basicaly perma vulnerabilty for higher normal hit siphons than necro with 2x traits (yes i know the math and that you do go higher with wells signets aoes, just saying it was a “uh sigh” moment.)
And Elite Jade 3s stun being a steroid version of previewed necro elite shout (scrap the cast shout on all but elite and lower CDs significantly please, also traited could be 15%+5+5+5… reduction not 7+7+7 for more constant scaling).
Sorry for derail but this thread is probably hotter than necro subforum

staff + dagger / x non surprisingly the only real weapons poeple use.

Beside specific utility improvemnts (aka spectral grasp stoping to fail 70%), we really need weapon skill improvements, namely a ranged power set.

You always need to write which region (NA or EU) you are.
Alos stuff like number of total ranked games played may help getting poeple interested

1v1 , you hit me i hit u aka DPS vs EHP = Rampage wins , even before patch (dmg reduction and more armor).

Reality:
Mobilty, stabilty, stomping, CC, COOLDOWN , stance vs. spectral yes/no carrying on…… im just baffled at the devs letting this slide by, while someone had enough thought to nerf lich down to 15s to prevent “too long traited duration”… no words

MidoriMarch.8067:

Flumek.9043:

Youre plain wrong, nothing else. (For pvp, that is.)

Ele is nr1-2 and in S-tier with mesmer atm.

Necro is 7th, before ranger, both a clear tier behind warri/engie.

Idk what builds you had in mind, but short story is no team wants or needs a necro, and the ones who take a great necro player need to work a lot around him for medium results.

LOL necro is 7th? lmao u make me laugh.

I do agree ele and mesmers are a bit op atm but when i played my necro i hardly lose to any other class other than memser/good ranger that kites, lol necro is at least top 3.
so u guys are expecting mobility , stability , reveal ? why dont u just ask dev to let necro have everything and be op facerolling? I see so many qq on necro forum compare to other classess.

1) thief. Why? Cz teef.
Apex predator for other zerkers, stealth and decap bot. Not op in fighting atm, could get replaced even by good mesmer. Mes/ele are actual top1-2, i just wrote thief first cz 98/100 serious pvp teams in all 3 years had thief. Why? Cz teef

2) mesmer.
Currently very OP.

3) ele.
Currently OP for 2v1 holding, with very high escape chance. Stacking 2x eles is legit comp
Burning dmg also stronk but it mostly helps necros and can be smally tweaked

4) guard
Classic bunker guard – nothing wrong with it tho. Quickness shout quite strong. Its stronger if other zerkers are strong, weaker if cele meta is king. Currently theres thief/mesmer/rampage zerkers that are worth supporting.

5) Rampage.
Previously class called warrior.

6) engie
Not op as many thought it would be. If rampage gets balanced, it should overtake its 5th spot or stay in the same tier boat with it. Not yet settled, can be higher but not lower

7) necro
Cele necro – good 1v1 , but takes 1min to win fight while it can die in 5-10s without elite. Zero team support, good dmg and boon/condi pressure, gets focused in teamfight.
Bunker necro (honorable mention cz it got reworked from trash to actually fun and almost good) – still too little team support beside being a sponge.

8) ranger
Power ranger = a mesmer who traded everything for 300 more range
Condi ranger = more dmg, more survival, but again 0 support and unique stuff compared to cele ele/engie

Ill write team roles , this should help you see that even with the exceptions of some players taking a build and making a good team comp, ask yourself if a equaly skiled player of another class would do that role (or more) better, easier, on lower cd or with less risk?

Team roles:
1) support: heal, cleanse, rezz/stomp with stability, blind or transform, CC for peels, interupts, setting up burst or keeping cc chain

2) mobility. Simply get somewhere fast. NOW

3) damage and pressure
-burst dmg (direct or condi)
-constant sustainec dmg (direct or condi)
-aoe cleave
-pressure to make enemy spend their cooldowns (example corupt boon or spite signet on power necro – it doesnt do much dmg and the cripple alone isnt a perfect setup, but it 100% forces a big cleanse or retreat from enemy)

4) specific counter to enemy
Moa elixir vs rampage example

If 1v1s in a 300 radius circle mattered, we would all be minionmancers.

The only use for lich is being the ultimate trollstomp in game.

Youre plain wrong, nothing else. (For pvp, that is.)

Ele is nr1-2 and in S-tier with mesmer atm.

Necro is 7th, before ranger, both a clear tier behind warri/engie.

Idk what builds you had in mind, but short story is no team wants or needs a necro, and the ones who take a great necro player need to work a lot around him for medium results.

Why, its not even been a year.

Short answer is thief is bad in equal XvX fights, but is super good at +1 ing fights.

So 1 thief has been a no way around must for any team since forever, 2x thieves just try do same one thing and one gets stuck in equal fight or insta dies and noone can rezz or u cant hold any nodes.

It is probably the worst 2x classes stacking combo u can get, even tho stuff like necro/rangers are trash tier compared to thief.

Tom.8029:

The most annoying thing after the patch are Necromancers with Unholy Sanctuary. That trait that has them enter Death Shroud if Life Force is above 10% when they would take lethal damage is a complete pain.

Even if they are geared to do a lot of damage, I still feel like they have 3 health bars.
Some Necromancers open with Death Shroud, so you have to deal with that. After you wipe out that Death Shroud, you have their normal health. Then by the time you get their Health down really low, their Death Shroud is completely full again and they enter it automatically just as you’re about to kill them.

I really love how necros start with 0 lifeforce on match, then u can just freekill them whole game, and everytime theyre on respawn, instead of a good “here have 50% of your proffesion mechanic to make a comeback” you actualy lose -23% lifeforce cz of DS coding.

TLDR
Dont 2v1 a bunker necro unless youre both zerker. gg
Or get a broken mesmer or 3.

Hmm i have to admit i never thought about the heal into ds and a few otjer stuff you mentioned bhawb…

Are all chaneling abilities the same, or could there be a way to have intereacts only , while weapon, utilty skills would still cancel like they do now?

Meanwhile rampage midstomps whole team every 100s.

Without playing 1 sec:

NERF RAMPAGE.

Or best disable it like grenadier trait. Thank you

Ragion.2831:

I don’t actually know why blindness in the first place, of all the conditions they choose blindness.

They had not enough round midleg objects and just enough brainpower to not make it the only heal in game which would put a damaging condition on yourself.

You ga afk and write something nice map chat.

Its always been hard/semihard counter.

Mesmer OP fullgod level atm.

Nothing u can do really, yesterday even double energy perfect dodged all his stuff i could vs a bad masmer (he said he was new to it after)…… Result? A draw with both of us down at same time…..didnt nerf necro enough i guess

Dont worry , theyll get deleted just like necro.

Manimarco Devil.1790:

Thank you for such salty insight.

Theres plenty of poeple in the sugarcoat buisness , so ill take it as compliment and keep up my work in the salt industry

Joke aside,
its always demoralizing after weeks/month of feedback to get neglictible “buffs” that they will use as “were listening to you guys” examples.

+surprise chill nerf out of nowhere

BRAVO ANET , BRAVO!!

1) Chill stack nerf – something currently bad and niche, with potential mediocracy as part of the reaper hype “once train now each patch 1 less wheel”.

2) Consume troll – nothing but sand in the eye , just do the SHELTER TREATMENT.

“hey mama, can i have 100$ to join mesmer/ele/guard at the table.”
“sure, heres 25 cents , and everytime u heal , you now need to only pay me 5$ instead of 10.”

GG again,
cant wait for next one, when we nerf rangers.

Hello.

the curses GM trait “lingering curse”, doesnt increase the sceper#2 skills bleed and cripple duration (it shouble by 100% aka double it).

It shows the increase on the tooltip, but in reality it still a 8s bleed + 5s cripple instead of 16s bleed and 10s cripple.

It works (tooltip and reality) on all 3 parts of the autoattack rotation, the scepter#3 has no condi so nothing there.

Always love the “random useless build in ideal unranked scenario” argument.

It should be more in lines of “self bomb epidemic”.

And it doesnt even need to anything else, with the new brilliant design of “kitten master of corruption” trait – you will kill yourself anyway.

SchmendrickTheMagician.8247:

Necro sustain with the right traits is already unreal no need to buff it. Healing in death shroud is all the sustain they needed – with the right traits and equip a necro can out-sustain 2 players all day long.

The stuff they added was “siphons from own picked traits” now work in DS. Its the 30hp heals per hit.

All other heals, the 600 hps aoe regen from eles and 5-10k burst heals from others just somehow heal 0 through DS and go fully through all other distorn/mistforms/runeprocs etc.

But i guess necro is in a great 7th spot now, maybe even nerf it just for sure.

Hello.

I think the trait gives too much utilty and is totaly overpowered. Not the part where it hits through evades, but the whole thing, it puts out more blinds than a guardian and makes counter pressure against the initial 20k stealth burst even harder.

Replacement?
Maybe if it was clutch 1s blind, but i would still rather see it gone, shatters already have a lot of extra stuff with them after 3 traitlines.

Wow.

Clap clap.

And all this time we thought this was the reason for the movement skills vs chill nerfs.

Lich OP , rampage oki.

1) plague is still just a panic/stomp button every 3min. Its is a bit worse on condi builds and nobody beside an Arenanet tester should pick the Master of suicide trait.
(sadly even on power builds for a 20s heal and 2min plague its meh, pales to what u lose in blood and, why even bother with power necro? )

2) lich is now useless.
A bit cz of 15s nerf, but mostly cz power creep in defense. Blind on shatter, more blocks, blind spam ele…. its really not worth it
….
however…
….
Rampage is the new lich. As shown by radioactive, the only reason eu necros stay up late

3) Golem
Still afks 50% 0f time, i just report him. Good for the new signet 1v1 hero builds, but you still need plague cz of no mobility to live through 10s of 2v1.

4) The new shout
Not out yet, but probably the go-to elite in future. Someone made a good point, by comparing golem to the shout – and while golem is on paper clear winner , he just bugs out so 120s earthshakker it is.

I hope the skyham tester read this and says again " this has to go live"

Lich OP, rampage oki

Rampager is reserved and can only be played by the lord necseth.

PowerBottom.5796:

Flumek.9043:

Lich OP , rampage oki.

Lich has so many available counters that everyone who says it’s OP is either uninformed or underprepared….

I thought the phrase was catchy enough to not need a kappa.

Lich OP , rampage oki.

jportell.2197:

….. LOLOLOLOL. Comes from whining about mesmer being OP to whining about necro which still has the ability to completely turn a team figh.

Just lol man.

I have no idea what youre talking about
Power necro was always behind thief/medi guard or thief/mes , but ok, it was close on amateur level.
Now……… Mesmer…….sigh.

(No comment on others “completely not changing a teamfight” by just instabursting and ending it before it even started)

Anyway jp,
the lich is gone, but hey – we now have Rampage to complain about while getting stomped.

Why was weakness added to power block?

I feel like salty jelly on necro when some have almost equal uptime on a debuff, and its part of the instaburst rotation/opener,
while i need 2s of cast/aftercast/landtime/no blind to land weakness – and that is mostly after the 15k opener while i would need it also instastart.

My view, and im trying to not be whiny necro with not stabilty, is that its just too much dmg in that mind wrack trait.
Also a blind on every shatter is guardian level of blindspam.

Its just past the point, where 2x poeple, or 2x combos during teamfight will kill anything as it does more than 50% of anyones hp pool. Before u could get bursted “low” and recover

stealth.
burst without reaction
down
4v5
midfight over
gg

For pvp, blood is power is unacceptable.

Probably also the poison trait compared to the DS condi and soul marks is very very very mandatory on condi builds to generate lifeforce.

Rest is ok if youre trying Death magic.
Advice 2nd stunbreak or at least the stubreak/stiblty on DS

its a slow projectile, that doesnt home but flies in a straight line, pretty much like staff#1.

its easiest seen if a person who is pressing left right left, the projectile may just miss you. But any heptic movement or even jumping can mess up the attack.

I know lich has also problems with height, for example it cannot hit the entangle root right under it. Probably that, a few sidesteps and dodge and nerfed 15s lich is useless 3min elite gone to waste. gg

hennrick.4623:

Imho, due to the inner workings of chill, it will still stack intensity: having it deal damage is only a bonus effect, no need to change the whole condi for a specialization, no?

U mean “duration” . Also pretty sure they confirmed its duration stacking, we just dont know the dmg scaling (we only saw 200dps over 50% , 300dps under 50% ).