Guild Wars 2

Hello.

A while ago rev was OP.
A while later thief had both its autoatacks drastically increased, specifically, in order to comming close to dealing with the evasive marauder bunker.

No buffs were given to power melee necros, probably cz condi necro was also OP.
Even tho both proffesions daggers were similiar for years.
One had strong autoatack and no other skill worth using and other had same strong autoatack and an apex skillset on top.

Short while ago necro got #2 channels speed up, which many consider a clunk fix rather than bringing power necro out of subpar decision.

So the question is,
when is necro dagger going to get same work done as thief dagger?

Disclaimer:
New players have been ignored and sindrener stream has been enjoyable.

Make ascended zerker and buy exotic viper. The difference in zerker is bigger direct dmg stats scale better while the difference on the condi side is much smaller between exo and asc.

I made vipers first tho since i already had exotic zerker.

Stop rigging the system flow

Play 100 matches offtime and join us in hotjoin division.

Hyper Cutter.9376:

Flumek.9043:

Druid = from 40 pets theres 2 outliers… reduce damage by 50-75%

Hahaha are you kittening serious. Those two “outliers” are the only ones that are actually functional and you want to nerf them even more (after both have been nerfed repeatedly over the last year, by the way)?

Yes.
I am a fully biased necro exclusive guy, who wants to see bunkers and dps rather than 5 bruisers dealing dps with CCs.

OriOri.8724:

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And im really tired of having an unviably bad mesmer somehow still being viable cz cheesing a kill every minute is exactly enough to snowball. God save us if mesmer gets strong on itself right?

Joke aside, I dont like either of them, but the mesmer one for me gets more average value. And its more personaly annoying as its a kill rather than aoe CC. thats all

mid plat necro main.

Pros
- balance is not terrible anymore, to the point that you idealy wouldnt want to stack anything
- the visible MMR system is great

Cons
- im necro main but i always have a good support duoQ… necro is still useless
its slow so you lose rotations, enemy can outwalk you
it instadies…INSTA.. anytime randomly -there is always a chance for you to lose your team the fight in next second
sustain on everything is too much and takes too long to finish fights.
warrior healing + long , pulsing, resistance
guard = too many too long too short CD invulnerabilities + blind block = natural counter to slow casts
Thief = pulmonary impact … its same team dependent and without the interupt it wouldnt kill anything, balance needs to be that this trait doesnt exist and thief still kills
Mesmer = 60 second moa is design flaw , almost like blightersboon almost allowing team support for necro
Rev = lives and random dodges a bit much for a zerker but hey, its not alone
Druid = from 40 pets theres 2 outliers… reduce damage by 50-75%
Healbot ele = still slows down gameplay, idk about heals etc, but defiently "delete passive chill aura* and reduce projectile hate
Scrapper = small shaves, if necro exists itll die fast enough….maybe

Nec = yes the only main, so prepare for whines
Survivability – too bad no 3-5 get out of jail cards like others, be it invulns or mobility for rotations…also zero self healing, yes melee warior have adrenal health and necro never had anything that could heal more than a strawberry. Or it gets interupted and heal at all…
Damage – condi damage could be lower if other stuff gets nerfed.
Power damage has too much counterplay for eneemy, often passive.
Just do 5 things of the 100 complains you always hear and call it a 3month balance patch.

glhf

Ele has been healbot for a year.
It is a strong, no must have pick and not hard to get minimun value.

It is meta, but many simply dont enjoy it.
Im getting more and more of that feeling being a punching bag. A bottom tier punching bag.

being necro main…

FrownyClown.8402:

Unfamiliar with current meta. Why is necro not viable this season?

Everything that everybody said 100 times. Each detail stacks up.

It is viable for everyone cz of the skill difference as the majority is average enough to make enough mistakes to allow necro to not stand out.

BUt im not as much complaining that were last class or 10th build, its more the gameplay you get is not fun, youre unable to carry, relly on teammates being good and enemy being bad.

You die.
100-0.
You know you will die 10 second before.
You cant cast or move.

Every single time you need to heavily outplay someone and it takes too long to kill. Its not a unique feature to kill someone after the blow CDs.
If we win, were too slow to capitalize on it.
Instantly die in 1v2, great.

Theres simply too much random dodge and randomly ups im dead moments.

Its not worth playing necro and it isnt fun.

KrHome.1920:

Playing GS in sPvP. Win Rate 68% atm. Gold T3.

Did perform the same way in previous seasons.

Thanks!

edit: But yes, due to peple like you OP, I hide the weapon at the start of the match. People tend to go afk or flame when they see it.

It is justified.

you can legit do your job playing a naked thief, where all your survival is tied to dmg avoidance rather than tanking.

Still, the fact you intentionally chose a widely subpar option is same as saying “pls carry my naked thief, team, ty”

everytime someone says a non insult to GS, a balance dev gets a day off from work.

Ahaa,
well i didnt think of the 2 necro scenario. a, i was mostly looking for sensible buff on a weak component. b, 99% of balance is spvp where in tournaments you cant stack classes and c, the same bad design is already hapening so i kinda overlooked it or rather i think theres other bigger flaws with us…..

Anyway i actually dont see a reason to solve it.

Id ignore it and say its players own fault for stacking a non stacking buff.
There is plenty of effects, auras, boons etc, that you do not want to stack and that are completely wasted or even overwritten by a worse one…
l2p issue rather than having to think and balance around 5x doing x at same time.

Just think about it the easy and functional way

Lahmia.2193:

Honestly, I’d just be happy if they made Vampiric Aura a baseline Blood Magic trait (swap with Last Rites).

Some poeple value the non bleed out for allies.

It would have same effect expect im also trying to sneak a buff into the combo.

flow.6043:

Flumek.9043:

So necro alone has to be balanced FOR MAX CASE A+B
…
TLDR
A combined stronger VAMPIRIC for necro.
A VAMPIRIC AURA trait that applies the necros stronger vampiric to allies.

Even if that assumption was true, what would happen with more than one necro in your team?
Would necros be able to double that balanced value by sharing auras with each other?
Or – and this would be pretty ironic – would you deny necros yet another source of healing they should be getting from allies?

Anyway, imo the mechanic of those traits are fine, although they could both use better scaling with stats.

Dont the auras already NOT stack?

Hello.

Lifesteal is always balanced – Anet knows “Average ammount of hits or hits per second” that happen. So we have

A = necro basic lifesteal
B = trait which adds on top for necro, but only B for allies

So necro alone has to be balanced FOR MAX CASE A+B I propose:

A = combined value lifesteal for necro
B = trait which makes A —> AOE aura for allies

It makes sense logically, easier to balance 1 value than always having to dream of both, and lifesteal and any necro healing or support is pretty low.
TLDR
A combined stronger VAMPIRIC for necro.
A VAMPIRIC AURA trait that applies the necros stronger vampiric to allies.

NeXeD.3042:

its the way the designed it. There are some certain combinations of signets where i could see a serious problem combined with other traits for health regen and shroud regen.

Yea,
with magi amulet we would reach a whole third of what others have with real invulnerabitiies.

If rev can exist, theres no reason for the redlights and self punish design we get.

It doesnt really matter as it a repeatable reward track.

It also is a neglectible difference as theyre all in the 15-20x per game zone. Iproving your gameplay to win will net more shards, than wondering why you got 20+15 rather than 15+20

Another argument that may cheer you up:

A duo can only win 1 node at a time. You choose either coordinated focus vs coordinated map rotation. A trio is needed to dominate 2/3 of map.

It is a valid point.

But it is very minor and should be ignored for overall health and growth of the game.

We now have a working , ingame visible ranking system.
The esport pros have to organize skrims to compete for money.
The high mid end now has incentive to play and improve. EVERY TEAM STARTS WITH A DUO OR TRIO. The ammount of friend requests, poeple actualy grouping AND tryharding has increased enormously.

All this positives faaaaar outweight “the overall 3% higher winrate per teammate that anet once mentioned”.
If you had to choose between incentive for poeple to group up and learn to play better together VS. you having 3% higher MMR in a pure soloq salt que…

Play 7 matches and get x100 elo points back. You basically need to play 7 games in last 3 days and you wont have any decay.

Hello.

Currently it shows your total damage, and how % wise that is from your team and enemy one.

But i didnt see the part where your total damage is split into how much was condition and how much power.
THIS IS A CRUCIAL STAT and should be absolutely visible.

Just randomly asking if theres anything more to come, or has development finished on those classes and the cureent state represents Anets vision of nirvana?

Jayces BIP + Blighter build, modified with more standard utilities
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vRAQNArYWjc0Q1N2XDe2A/NWwFs4rYXMMCd1CAHgotWH4DA-TpRHABBcIA+uMwAnAg02fggHAAAHBAA

OK, idk what it is but I had an absolute blast with this yesterday.

-You can self generate lifefore AND BOTH swap procs pre fight
-You can burst from 1200 with only 2 actions , you dont miss the chill bleed dps loss
-You win every transfer battle
-You can somewhat run/kite and sustain with a 20s consume
-Combine above with a 15s burst cooldown
-Plague, i still forget to troll with it, it really wastes 2v1 attempts
-You got enough corrupts to get resistance of from warriors
-Thiefs die to the autoproc and you till have an instant active, if you land both BIP which are 13s apart, gg

Basically it feels like it doesnt have much counterplay like the regular builds which often require a melee stillstander, this thing kills from range, from start with no ramp up, and has autoprocs.

narcx,
i think best way to describe it is procmancer is more ranged.

If youre 1v1 on point, and have enemy who allows you just a few shroud 1s, then you can easily outdmage anyone with dhuumfire. I forgot how strong it is while watching a guildie duel, a few dhuumfires and it made enemy blow soo much for just a few autos.

But if you get kited or instabursted in teamfights, you might as not focus your dps and vital persist to make u live 5s instead of 4.

If you can live without the staff cleanse,
take axe. Youll have 2 decent RANGED offensive weaponsets, both with boonrip and if something jumps you then you go melee shroud – and like name suggests the sigil and trait procs alone can make poeple back off

You could have permanent pulsing foot in the grave and youll still die to focus fire.

Were in times of post HOT powercreepocalypse, i wrote a parody of what GS#2 were if it were revenant staff#5 to a whiner – and it actually sounds normaly playable.

(Make necro greatsword #2 ,
600 range
2s evade during duration
maybe some superspeed to chase easier in the evasive shadow form
add 10x pre dmg pulses so you cant blind/block the animation
let it steal 3x stacks of stabilty
add a condi clear on another GS skill
….)

My main concern is the split philosophy that was mentioned:

They said we can expect number tweaks if we want a skill split.

This should be great clearance to allow higher DPS in PVE.
But for PVP,
we have bigger problems. A lot of skillsets are clunky and disfunctional on a game engine level, a lot of traits and effects still dont work with our proffesion mechanic, and whenever a wish idea is posted – it is 9 / 10 times a total funcionality change of a skill to simply make combos and combat flow smoother.

So TLDR
Anet wants to keep working snail pace of 3 months of internal manager meetings to make a number tweak, while the fixes we need are the most long work hour animation and even funcionality redesign ones

As for what youre asking, the thing works normaly and correctly.

Each hit will have own chance to crit.
If you go into shroud with crit trait, you can always make all hits 100% crit. Its also only way to speed up break the aftercast

Focus #4 -Reapers touch- probems are that it is not a copy mesmer GS #2.

-semi long cast +huge unneeded aftercast for a melee burst skill
-UNRELIABLE ON A GAME ENGINE LEVEL
it is NOT homing, wiki is wrong
it is a HOVERING PROJECTILE, meaning it get all negative effects of projectile despite not listed + it get random obstructed by pebbles AND it CANNOT FLY OVER STAIRS TERRAIN.
-you need all bounces for mediocre value
-the boon is pretty useless
-1200 vs 600 bounce range

The mesmer mirror blade is a great example of a “pretty much unavoidable skill”.
By that i mean you cannot cheese a sidestep to make it miss, the skill WILL HIT WHEN IT SHOULD and even the spawned clone allows constant value bounces.

The only thing good about it is, it has a cool added scyhe animation like our staff1.

Gaile Gray.6029:

the changes are limited to the following areas:

• Recharge
• Damage multipliers
• Healing multipliers
• Number of conditions/boons applied
• Duration of conditions/boons applied
• Skill cost (energy and initiative)

a) Thank you
b) Hope we can also expect easier modifiers now in PVE ?

c) NECRO SPECIFIC
How likely are skill revamps?
It is probably the most allround clunky class, things that get brought up daily:
-animation speed ups
-game engine reliability (ex. hovering non-homing bouncing projectile, yes that exists)
-self punishing mechanics and traits (all the stuff which doesnt work in shroud)

Again,
thank you for communication, im asking exactly bacause the desires are almost never simple number tweaks.

Kastiel.1947:

Surge of the mists has been nerfed 3 times !!! And each time it’s by an atrocious number .. man you guys know how to ruin the mood

Make necro greatsword #2 ,
600 range
2s evade during duration
maybe some superspeed to chase easier in the evasive shadow form
add 10x pre dmg pulses so you cant blind/block the animation
let it steal 3x stacks of stabilty
add a condi clear on another GS skill
….
hmmm, i think id consider using such a sword, you think its OP ?

I am surprised the sword#2 got such a nerf but staff was epitome of stupid HOT design of big procs with no counterplay.

ProtoMarcus.7649:

• New PvP-only Rune: Rune of the Lynx: +175 power, +100 Condition Damage, +25% Movement Speed
• We’re looking to add a viable damage-oriented movement speed rune to help professions with minimal access to in-combat movement speed or swiftness. This may impact match pacing, so we’re going to keep a close eye on it.

Amazing.

Although I’d really suggest including a Power-Based movement rune and a Condi-Based movement rune while still keeping an eye on movement runesets (I do HEAVILY welcome more Movement Runesets for all gamemodes)

Suggestions:

Rune of the Tiger – Power-main Movement Bonus Runeset

• 175 Power, 100 Precision (or ferocity), +25% Movement speed

Rune of the Lynx – Condition-main Movement Bonus Runeset

• 175 Condition, 100 Expertise, +25% Movement speed

those 2 are the “one rune to rule them all” type.

Beside boon duration reliant builds there would be absolutely zero reason to consider any other of the hundred or so runes.

Just as example, a theorycrafting candidate for slow GS power necro is a swiftness on heal rune. The price for perma swiftness is 1 heal, 1 trait, probably the group of skills you picked the trait from, the rune itself has a non worth mentioning secondary effect + whatever effect or modifier youre missing from other runes.

Thats the fun in making builds

Lobstertail.1075:

I’d wait an hour for a 5v5 match, and that’s not a joke, …….. I’ll be back if I can play with my friends again. Even if I have to queue for an hour to do so.

Xebioz

Organize skrims and join some community tournaments.

Theyre mostly end up more fun that what you get from a random qpop.

Thats just adivce, youre not wrong either.
Its a trial to getting a proper soloq back, we got LAN events for the esport high end, so hopefully something like an ingame daily/weekly mini tournament system will come in future to fill the void.

Take yannirs build (maybe chill of death and swap utilities when needed, curses also works…but keep paladins amu and blighterboon)

If you can 1v1 the average rev/warrior with it, then play power and have fun

Its doable, but not faceroll 0h easy to get rewarded.

either play shouts and hope youre against bad poeple who get slahsed and you got good support near you.
or play corupt signets and hope you dont get interupted and get good RNG

take paladins, the dmg is +-10% same, you dmg more depends on how the fight goes. and axe, its good atm as most enemy builds are marader or carrion

-enemy visibly stealthing at 2000 range, just change direction for 3s….he has to either admit wasting an opener or greedily use 2-3 extra cooldowns just to reach me in time

-classic jumping or pretending youre backing off the node

-standing on edges or platforms to give meleers a hard time dodging around you

-predicting melee vs ranged paterns, so if i want to melee i first run to make him waste gap closer, then use my own.

-being good with timings, so you land a big long cast right after enemies block ends

-going to church every sunday so you corrupt the right boons

Crinn.7864:

The problem with procmancer is that the shroud proc corrupts occur at the necro’s location, which means to use it you have to brawl. And brawling with that glassy of a necro build is not a good idea without tempest support.

The main thing is the meh feeling of staff poeple have been having. First it was power hipsters who said at this point theyd take axe over it (thats all pre axe buff), and now im even looking at taking the axe on a carrion build.

-theres no more 5k dmg on staff#3 to abuse hide and seek style
-so we cant safely 1320 range, were forced into 900-600 anyway
- a/f gives enough lifeforce, which ties with droping soulreaping and shifting away from good but unreliable 1-spam in shroud
-staff is just slow and too much % of its kit gets eaten by random blinds or interupts
-power dmg matters currently, most builds are zero toughness you usually end up 2:1 for power dmg on carrion, even on the precision amulets its a 1:1 ratio

Im not saying you dont instadie even with 30k hp, its just the survivability is same if not best among the necro choices we get and it has lots of instant counterpressure.
The playstyle is also flexible and feels fresh having 2 “viable” weaponsets.

KrHome.1920:

Exciton.8942:

The new build on metabattle works really well for me
http://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Reaper_-_Procmancer

This one feels so much more solo friendly compared to previous meta builds.

Only in low level PvP. You will lose every 1v1 (which happen frequently in solo Q) against an opponent who knows how to dodge or block your 10 second cooldown proc burst. Between these bursts you are extremely vulnerable and super easy kiteable in shroud as it drains fast. It is a pure team fighting build.

It has easy-to-use and frequent AOE boon corruption and very good sustain as well.

This build has the lowest possible sustain necro can offer. Not one single defensive traitline.

If you think this build has good sustain you never fought competent opponents.

Ive been bored of gw2 last half year and i missed out on the pro tourny meta being full glass with bloodmagic.

But as far as ive soloqed once every two weeks, ive randomly stumbled on the exact same thing. Not curses over soul which pretty much everyone be it power or condi uses, but even adventure runes
I dont think my MMR plumited into anything is viable level as im still meeting same old names.

Basically i think it is the new meta build.
3rd utility is a flex pick, and its a very effective build for the majority as well as veterans to squeeze extra juice out of it.

ps,
i use axe tho, staff has just felt meh for a while

Ill give you something better.

Imagine being the only class ingame which gets extra punished for respawn in PVP.

Think its about 23% lifeforce that always get reduced because of how coded armor loading is.
So wanna try comeback after you died and enemy has map control? Better pay 23silver just to walk out of spawn ????

1) huge aftercast

2) Clunky and unreliable.
It doesnt home like mesmer GS#2, even tho wiki says so, it doesnt fly but it hovers and gets stuck, yet it is the exact same bouncing skill.
The medium long cast also often makes the skill fail and go full CD, because you tried to use it in intended melee but enemy moved behind your facing.

3) All bounces need to hit in order to get some worth out of it.
A single blind,block or pebble often decreases the intended value.

4) The regen boon is arguably lame

The only poeple who can play focus at all are veterans who instead of fighting enemy know how to fight game engine in order to make their own skill fail less often.
Main big skill is a boon remove – its a PVP centric weapon yet its never been used outside of PVE

Supreme.3164:

Spartacus.3192:

Hunter.4783:

Tiefsee.3647:

If necro is as broken as you day – why is it the main target in every match?

Cuz they are a free kill
Free + 5 points for your team
Free rally bot for your team?

I honestly dread when I have a necro on my team and rejoice when I see one on enemy team. Its funny

LOL Necro are primary target because if you leave them alone they are deadly from range. If you let them build lifeforce they will be harder to kill. So kill them early and you remove a potentially dangerous player who will be harder to kill later on.

^ This

You two are using flawed logic or maybe just missinterpeting things.

a) Lifeforce = harder to kill
If you have focused ANY other class to half hp and half cooldowns, THEN a full shroud necro enters fight ….. YOU STILL SHIFT FOCUS AND KILL THE NECRO others can randomly escape or live too long, necro is guaranteed kill in next few seconds.

Generally, you ALWAYS take a fast kill and +1 from there, not focusing the threat/build counter. Thats why you switch focus to support healbot ele in middle, and whoever blows too much defense gets ganked in next 5 seconds. Not relentlessly focus on enemy dps just cz they can do damage.

b) Danger from range
Its a lost art, there is no more range kiting in gw2.
You could kite on flat terrain with cripples, but its irrelevant now. Perma resistance, low CD ports, leaps ignoring cripple….
Its all about LOS and teleport up terrain kiting now.

c) Danger from range pt2
Its not even a ranged threat, it loses pretty muich all ranged standoffs. Sooner or later the necro requires a stillstanding dummy to go melee on. Its still a hybrid who must hover around 600 range to be effective

Mikhael.2391:

I see. so devs just ignore the fact that necros are horrible in high compettion gotcha!

Its more soloq oriented problems
- its harder to 2v1 kill or run away alive from 2v1 wihtout invuln or mobility, even enemie is bad enough to deserve getting 1v2d.
- so either teamfight and hope the enemie is stupid and doesnt focus you + your team is smart and support you
- or you as best player, get to 1v1 their best player + hopefully you win your 1v1 before your bad team loses their teamfight, cz look at first point

Bonus point making poeple even more annoyed.
- necro is only class who follows “slooow design and casts”.
Having your big skills depend on enemy stupidity of not dodging is simply unfun, it makes predictable and uncreative “combos” (a lot arent even true combos).

Mikhael.2391:

Flumek.9043:

Mikhael.2391:

Anyone here has an actual link to a video of a necro in lets say, diamond or legend match?

There are only the usual “wvw montage styles”, not much in depth u can make.
If youre an experienced player your eyes will hurt cz of how bad enemies are in the vids.
If youre a new player and just wanted some power necro footage, ill give you a tldr:

Big numbers which arent even big dps wise, very unreliable and absolutely has a dozen counters enemy could do.
Its equivalent to zerker pistol pistol thief…you can make a montage, but……no comment…

If you still want a taste sample, youtube Hollts.

Ive seen holltz videos but its not spvp and most of those players he kills specially outnumbered r just bad. its fun to watch but many times i wondered “why did the other guy do that???” was actually trying to see an spvp legend or diamong video or a necro.

Ah sorry.
There isnt anything in between him and noscoc playing 1 game of gs when he loses a bet, because simply nobody plays power necro there.

Mikhael.2391:

Anyone here has an actual link to a video of a necro in lets say, diamond or legend match?

There are only the usual “wvw montage styles”, not much in depth u can make.
If youre an experienced player your eyes will hurt cz of how bad enemies are in the vids.
If youre a new player and just wanted some power necro footage, ill give you a tldr:

Big numbers which arent even big dps wise, very unreliable and absolutely has a dozen counters enemy could do.
Its equivalent to zerker pistol pistol thief…you can make a montage, but……no comment…

If you still want a taste sample, youtube Hollts.

RedZebra.2345:

Nothing should they learn from overwatch. It are 2 different games, if you like overwatch this much you should play there instead of asking Anet to make a clone of overwatch. Reading the competitive forum from Overwatch, bah it’s seems gw2 pvp mode is not that bad at all.

The forums and general feel are ultra worse because gw2 is 5v5 conques, where you can carry to some extent. OW is more a push-pull type where you can lose the whole match in one instant.
Also the meta roles are more fixed, in gw2 everything from 4bruiser 1dps to 5dps can work….in OW you can have someone being literally useless if he misses his job, and dies in 2 seconds, in gw2 a braindead bunker will make a 2v1 already almost impossible to do consistently.

But that is how the game works, were talking about how devs do BALANCE.

a) Blizzard is normal fast and Anet is deadsnail slooooooow.
Hotfixes in 7 days max, and about once a month you get decent changes which are as impactfull as Anet 3month patches.

b) OW is being balanced for TOP TIER.
Any autoplay AI or bastion turrets are regarded as L2P. example the AI hero got greatly buffed recently, despite him being dominant on low tiers and console peasants.

At Anet we bow to the new player experience.
Thats lore > gameplay , ex. necro must feel slow even tho everything else that is clunky gets fixed.

Drarnor Kunoram.5180:

Uhh… Are you talking about Shiro heal? Because that has always had a 1 second ICD between daggers.

yea but it lasts longer and has fever bigger stacks. The new dodge counterplay aside, theres no way a player wouldnt land 6x hits in 15s to get full 5k heal and 5k dmg out of it.

Drarnor Kunoram.5180:

The issue with removing the ICD on the active is not the spike healing, but the spike damage. For example, that adds 3,375 armor-and-protection ignoring damage to Life Siphon with 10 Might, Hoelbrak runes, and a Demolisher’s or Paladin’s amulet. 4,500 to Soul Spiral.

It seems on same level as rev.

Ive personally always despised brokenant, but it looks like were stuck with the power creep and it is slowly calming down.
So i wouldnt mind the abilities, the necro one without CD is better, but it has a shorter timeframe, and requires a uninterupted necro for 4 seconds, compared to unavoidable evasion brilliance that is rev sword3.
And if in some parallel universe leak the signets start to actually work in shroud, you maybe wouldnt instantly spam it at full hp for the corupt+damage.

Flow is the truth.

He predicted blood magic a year ahead.
He used axe before it was cool.
His flesh golem actually listens to him.
His charr looks rivaled mine.

Remember kids, nobody escapes the flow of time.

But like promised ill post some stuff i and probably others liked

-a red post about pvp
- necro on top
- a dev using a real build, no roleplay but the actual real build real power necro hipsters use
- he got to legend with it

It would be great to see some more following this example.
It could lead to a meanigfull discussion on which percentiles the divisions should be placed or where certain builds reach their limit.

P.S.
Gl Cohen and keep the chilling nova, all the power nec weaponsets need its extra dmg imo

Cal Cohen.3527:

5 sets up 2.

Hello.
Ive been reading reading this thread for a while and definetly enjoyed the red posts, was about to tell others to go easy on him as hes very friendly here.

But here i got triggered.

A) gs is bad
B) gs is unreliable trash
C) ….pasta all common rants
…

D) THE MAIN BREAD AND BUTTER SKILL DOESNT EVEN COMBO WITH ITS OWN PULL.

it simply doesnt. Anyone under 200ms ping CAN DODGE the slow incomming gs2.
The stun vs cast animation simply dont add up.

That to me is the biggest design fail in the weapon.

Ill stop here as this is not a bash, i rather wanted to point out some probably overlooked info.

P.S.
(The 5 skill is also a fiasco like it was made by Apple.
Reinvented guardian gs5 most reliable pull in 360 degrees.
Necro pull is 30 degrees of 80% failure, but with cool looks, specifically mentioned cool new tech in beta. Wasting such manhours deserves an apple sticker imo)

Maybe i wrote it too blunt and realistic.

You can and SHOULD still play match, if youre having fun. If youre testing a build you especially want experience.

But if youre strictly grinding pips – then i just explained you wont get it. And if youre feeling tortured by the teammates on top, youre morally free to end the torture sooner.

Its more perception problem than numbers. The 1v5premade happened less than 1% of matches, and you didnt even lose 100% of those 1% cases cz they were often bad pves on guild missions – yet poeple still viewed this as an impossible hurdle.