Guild Wars 2

Ah, on a side note: I think I remember someone stating that this “one time only” event merely marked the beginning of Act 3 – under the assumption that it might just be something like the fountain in LA finally bursting open to reveal the Mad King Thorn (finally freed after several centuries), it would kind of make sense to only have this once
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When the main argument is “making it a one time only event is unfair because some people won’t be able to make it”, well….there’s not much they can do about that. There will always be people who won’t be able to “make” a specific time. Stop whining about that.

I CAN understand whining about making it happen at a time that is hugely inconvenient to whole continents though. People always have a choice on whether or not they allow themselves to be spoiled by youtube etc., but they don’t have (much of) a choice on whether or not they need to get up early on mondays to go to work (or school).

We’ll just have to live with the way it is executed though – and at least most european players really don’t have a reason to complain oO I, for one, woul be hugely inconvenienced if the event happend at 12 CMT – 19 (or 20, as I live in Germany) GMT is perfectly fine though.

Although I am REALLY bad at this, I wouldn’t want it taken out of the game – what for? I mean, who would benefit by it no longer being there? It’s not like it counts for the Halloween achievement.
However, I agree that it would be much more fun if you could do this as a solo instance – I am having enough trouble with the camera getting stuck at certain points (if I don’t jump at exactly the right angle), hardly being able to see where I could go doesn’t make this any easier.

Arghs, if “Attend the Party!” happens at the 31st, and with the Timing they have adopted (starting late afternoon/evening in Europe), there’s no way I can do that one ~_~
Can’t we please have the Acts start at Mignight PMT – Morning CST?

Happy I won’t need to do the Clocktower though – I suck at that one ^^°

I would definitely buy a collection of halloween-spirited mini-quaggans and progeny
And I’m still waiting for any sort of Quaggan Plushy….

I believe they were mostly added to the game as a way to possibly “get” something out of the many many BLT chests people already opened I seriously wouldn’t buy boosters just to create Mad King chests…

I second the introduction of a costume maker NPC – my bank account (including the 2 tabs I bought) is constantly full as it is, being able to “store” specific costumes that way would be a great help.

Agreed – I was kinda disappointed how ‘nice’ my Asura became beginning with that point >_>
And as much as I like Trahearne…yeah, this WAS supposed to be MY story. It is still nicely told, and I’m really happy about him finally completing his wyld hunt -and hunting down Zhaitan…but I’d like to be a little more important. Even though random NPC in the world are recognizing me as a hero from time to time

I am actually quite happy that I get a chance to get rid of all those tonics and boosts cluttering up my bank account

I haven’t specced my wells to steal life, so right now, that doesn’t bother me at all – what with lifesteals being so weak, I didn’t bother going for it much…

I agree that they are pretty useless (and waste a trait slot), but hey, at least they reach my next target now most of the time…^^°

Josher.9612:

Just read the bug list thread. Like others, staying ignorant to the problems makes the game more enjoyable. I wish I never came here, since I wouldn’t have even realized how broken things actually are. Ignorance is bliss. Of course the class is playable, but when you play others, then come back, you realize just how broken it is. I can faceroll mobs in 3 hits with my Guardian. I can stand around as a Ranger and pew, pew, pew away. Barely have to think. Not so with a Necro. Before I rerolled other classes I thought WOW, this MMO is “slightly” difficult, then I realized its just the Necro. GW2 is just as easy as every other MMO is you play a “working” class.

Believe me, I know the bug list – doesn’t make the profession much less enjoyable to me. Guardian, seriously does feel OP, but I still don’t enjoy it – but then, I never much based my fun around how I was supereffective. If I can “get things done” in a way that is acceptable to me, I’m fine. Of course I’d like to see the bugs fixed (and see some of the axe power return we had in beta) – but I still just don’t get how you all fell so badly underpowered and doomed on the necro. What do I care if others can do stuff better than me if I’m not enjoying the way they are doing it?
I’m not into competitive gameplay. I do his for fun, in my limited freetime – and I have a rather positive outlook at life. If I was so angry about how specific aspects of my class don’t work..well, I just wouldn’t waste my time complaining about it to no end. I’d write abug report and move on to something more enjoyable, which is why the neverending QQing in here is driving me nuts – and why I rarely ever visit the necromancer forums.

I wouldn’t know, not playing any sPvP and never going beyond lvl 15 on any Mesmer, but…I feel extremely non-squishy on my necro in PvE oO

They do appear to live longer at higher levels though – maybe they just get more HP so it isn’t eaten away before they have taken 3 steps.

Andele.1306:

Thy build is healing enemies, https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/necromancer/My-Wells-and-Life-Stealing-are-HEALING-the-enemies

It still kills them faster than it heals them
But then, I’m not using well of blood as my heal.

“Haha. “Srsly guys all classes are bugged! My friend rolled an elementalist…” I stopped reading there. Probably a thief player.”

Yeah, sure…don’t you love stereotypes >_> No, she doesn’t play a thief, she brought an elementalist to 80 and then started a necro, whom she is enjoying immensely.
And yes, ALL professions ARE bugged and their players are whining about it, and it is not just the necromancer who apparently has only 1 or 2 viable builds – heck, the lacking build variety in rangers was just confirmed by a dev. So stop playing “oh dear me everyone hates us etc.” rollseyes

By the way – yes, I did play Minion master until about level 60. Even despite the buggy minion AI, it was laughably easy. And I still feel that there are classes which make PvE way more difficult to solo than necro. And before we start arguing which profession has the most bugs…well, I want some statistic with that.

With the amount of QQing going on, you’d think the necromancer was unplayble at the moment – which it simply isn’t.

Link isn’t really working for me, sorry :/
Why would you use 2 staffs, though? I mean, just not switching should have pretty much the same effect…If you are going for power/precision/crit, something which hits a bit faster might be feasible, you might (!) try axe as a second weapon if you want some range, although it isn’t as powerful as it could be right now.

I personally love running into a group of hostiles, dropping 2 AoEs on my mainhand (usually scepter/dagger), then dropping my wells, then going into deathshroud hitting 4 – and watch them die

Staff can be used quite nicely for support and AoE dmg in events and dungeons, as well as for cc. Actually, staff skill 1 also has quite high direct damage, if it just wasn’t quite so slow…

Seriously now, didn’t Lich Form already destroy Minions before thsi patch and they just added the information to the tooltip?

Also, if you were going for a minion master build, you wouldn’t use Lich or Plague form as your elites, would you?

Jeeesh, the amount of whining about a class that pretty much lets you faceroll through PvE…>_> ALL professions are bugged and ALL players are whing about their poor bugged professions which don’t allow for any decent gameplay. One of my friends, who started with an ele as her main, is now whining even more about that main being far too fragile since she started a necro alt…

I must admit that I found running around with 3-4 minions made leveling as a necromancer incredibly easy – up to around lvl 60 or so, when I was traited/specced well enough to make conditions and wells more interesting (I just don’t feel comfortable with blood is power though)
And yes, even with the Minion AI being as crappy as it is – I hardly ever died, definitely less than with my alts.

Oh, I also played around with axe quite a bit in the beginning, but it didn’t feel nice enough after having experienced the great damage output it had in the first Beta Weekends…

We now get rares with a unique skin, and can choose exactly which one we get? Fine with me. Was pretty much the same in GW1, and oh wonders, no one complained
Seriously though, the difference between rares and exotics isn’t all that overwhelming.

To be fair, you can get a fair amount of Ori’s just from finishing the lvl 70+ areas – at least I did, and I have run across a fair share of nodes too…but yeah, alltogether, that’s just too many too expensive materials. There’s a reason I have no interest in going for legendaries, but I’d really really like to get at least one birthday skin ^^° (yes, I was born on the 31st)

But…I kind of want them while Halloween is still on ^^° Unfortunately I really badly need to work on my masterthesis, therefore can only spend a couple of hours in the evening to play…

Galen Grey.4709:

You dont need to finish it in 5 days, you need to get the halloween specific items in 5 days. The rest you can get at your pace through the year.

While this is certainly true, the nature of these items makes people want to actually make and have them during the holiday, not months later
And they really are VERY expensive. I mean, come on – we already have legendaries, do we really need to make fun festival items this costly?

For once I agree – remembering fondly the way event items were handled in GW1, this just seems outrageous.

I agree with you on the overall philosophy. I do remember, however, that it was fairly easy for anyone to get holiday weapons that last in GW1 – i’ll see how I feel about getting permanent halloween skins/weapons in GW2 once I get home and have time to actually play

Ahh yes, Tybalt … ;_; Really liked Sieran, too.
Although I noticed that every NPC I take a liking to just so happens to meet an untimely end cries

On a side note, managing to get your crafting to lvl 400 does not mean you can immediately craft whatever exotic gear you want – it’s only the beginning either a substantial amout of gold “lost” to the trading post or a substantial amount of time spent farming. (I still haven’t figured out a reliable way to get ectos)

I’ll just hold off doing Arah story mode a little longer I guess, since it would really be nice to get a suitable reward for killing Zhaitan.

NoizeMaker.8367:

If more people demand the game from advertisements they see. The Shops will start stocking more of the game on their walls. Get where im going? K good. Now. If you buy the game it comes with a neat little instruction manual that I can tell you I know half of the purchasers will read because its more user friendly then any other manual out there. Isnt the point of getting a new game to figure it out and have fun playing it?

Word of mouth only goes so far. And I think people are missing that.

You are thinking short term – I’m not If you go at this strategically, there are hell of a lot more factors to take into account. Also, these classic marketing channels you ask for are extremely expensive; what with the propensity of uninformed customers to complain and leave (heck, maybe even demand a refund because their expectations were not met), you’d have to seriously look at the cost-benefit ratio and the customer lifetime value of the players thus gained.

Btw: I agree that a short manual with a few nice pictures included in the game box would be neat. However, I don’t have any statistics on the cost-benefit ratio on that either, what with the availability of this manual in .pdf form.

It’s a different kind of strategy. Of course, more shiny TV and magazine ads would create greater awareness – but then, don’t we have enough people jumping into the game without first reading up on what it is about, then open thread after thread after thread with same complaints, which could easily have been avoided had they just accessed the existing information before spending money?
(No, I’m not annoyed at all, it just seems that way…I want a “USE THE KITTEN SEARCH FUNCTION BEFORE OPENING A NEW TOPIC” hammer. Now.)

…also, using mostly word of mouth generates much more suitable customers who are likely to generate more profit (and more positive word of mouth) in the long run – while saving advertising costs. Brilliant, don’t you think?
Also, it’s not as if GW2 hadn’t already sold 2 Mio. copies

As for the placement of GW2 copies in stores, this is not merely dependent on advertising, but often has something to do with the bargaining power of the game’s publisher (or whatever) over the store.

XXVI Red.5718:

kinda shocked… ArenaNet Necromancer portrayal…

Not one mention of DeathEater….

They look exactly like DeathEaters from Harry Potter…. that kinda sounds really sad when I put that out there, but I liked the movies so it doesnt really bother me. Almost identical when you use plague form or go deathshroud…. just think of the scenes when they are all flying around fighting, all the DeathEaters are shrouded in black smoke and mist… On my asura I can really see the whole wand play aspect when he is flailing around that scepter back and forth.

But yeah, when I look at the screen I dont really think Necromancer… but I think that’s more asthetically then what the class actually does. They do have summons and the whole locusts thing really gives off that whole “death and decay” mantra, so technically it is there. But im more of a curse guy then summons… so I primarily see DS, Plague Form, and scepter spam.

Ironically, I really hated the portrayal of the Dementors (Death Eaters are merely the followers of Voldemort), because the looked too generic and non-disgusting to me. Also, I never thought of the GW2 necro as a dementor oO
I like the portraial of the class. It is close enough to the GW1 necro, but functioning within the boundaries of the GW2 system. Also, the only defining criterion of necromancers which seems to be agreed upon in Literature is the “power over death and the dead” part – and it’s not like we lack that.

While I have no real trouble with the waypoint fees, I believe they should not merely scale according to level, but also be bound to some extent to the area in which you are traveling – If I go back to the low-level zones at lvl 80, It becomes quite tedious to re-earn the money I spend using waypoints…

Not having a pure healer-profession was a basic design decision of GW2 – so it is unlikely that you’ll get one
Personally, I really like it that way – people have to look out for themselves.
You can still play a support heavy build (and, yes, there are some professions that lend themselves to healing support more than others) which hepls to keep your team alive – just not with direct healing

Seconded. Although I am fairly happy with mine, the variety of hairstyles (especially those which look neither “cuddly cute” nor plain silly (afro…) is severly lacking.

You dislike Gremlin-like Asura? Shame on you!
(I just love how my pitch-black eyes sparkle with mischief, showing rows of pointy little shark’s teeth whenever I open my mouth)

Edit: I play a necro and think it suits the race just fine Especially with the combat comments (“I should have given that one brains”) XD

The asura believe that in time, all will serve them because they are clearly THE superior race – and the other races will understand this in time.
They are, however, all way too busy fostering their individual accomplishments, indulging in their genius, etc. … it’s not like they would even consider ganging up to conquer the world.
It’s more of a parody, Geeesh.

Edited by moderator: Edited, since the historical references have been taken out

Well, we do have to keep in mind that the Asura are a VERY individualistic society (surpassed in this only by the Norn, I believe), who has a somewhat screwed risk-gain metric…
(As in: If it didn’t blow up, you didn’t innovate. And if you didn’t innovate, well, why bother at all?)
So of course we have to take matters into our own hands – do you seriously expect the council to get you your stuff back in time? Before the Inquest can claim your genious invention as theirs and create all kind of mischief by tinkering with it?

Also, we see are WAY superior to all other species (at least concerning our intellect), making them somewhat…expendable.

…do I need to add that this is exactly what makes the Asura my favourite species?

I must admit that I haven’t really used any of them (aside from the suit for lols, and that was underwhelming), seeing how much fun I have becoming a giant green-glowing undead…

Mastermind.3169:

So true, one days work by one person normally moderating this forum would totally annihilate the botters. 2 weeks work would make them think twice about purchasing another gw2 copy. A few handpicked days per month after that would keep it very very low.

…yes, definitely, just one day and one person would totally be able to annihilate all the bots rollseyes.
Let alone that it is not the community managers’ job to ferret out bugs and botters.

You do realize we have quite a handful of worlds, each of whom houses a massive map with way more than a dozen “popular botting spots” (at least according to this article) ?

And believe it or not, but most of those botters you see have likely NOT bought a copy of this game. What did you think they hack accounts for?

Yes Otherwise, many other people would haveto ake time. You could also start later of course.

Ideally, the servers would at least reset in different times in the US and Europe (as those are the only two server bases I believe). Frankly, I have no idea when they reset in Europe, but I always get to do my daylies in time…

I finished off all three Orr maps (if you count Straits of Deastation) – and while it was quite difficult in the beginning, I was having a blast yesterday doing a big event chain. Yes, it was definitely created around group play – this is, after all, not a single player game You can solo Orr, it’s just a good deal more difficult.
Also it does have quite a few interesting ideas and, as always, nice details built into the world…If you want to have abreather while doing lvl 70-80 content, go to that Norn area where you can happen upon Jormag’s claw

Btw: The only way I (as a necro) got myself killed a couple of times was by trying to get somewhere, choosing the wrong way, and trying to just run past waves and waves of undead…until I ran into a wall. Was quite funny though XD

Ah, yes: The reward for completing the zones was quite nice. The last one even gave me orange gear which I could use! With runes which fit my build! I only ever got Orichalcum though, when I really would have preferred gossamer…oh well, off to farm we go…

I agree though that the respawn rates were quite high at times…in the time it took me and a couple of other guys to take down a champion, I think we had to fight off his respawning minions 3-5 times…

Actually, I would really like this, too.
For some reason, I am no longer completely satisfied with how my Sylvari turned out – and there are soooo many option to color them alone…

Indeed, I would really wish for weapons or armor that I can actually USE myself as a reward for completing MY personal story – you know, being the hero and all that
Guesss I’ll wait a little longer to do Arah
(Bad enough that I hardly ever get anythig I can use for completing areas…)

Because It is fun!

No matter how “weak” it may feel compared to other professions, I still love the feel of the necromancer. Also, I still haven’t gotten around to getting 100% world completion, and I will get it on this character It’s not as if there’s any need to rush though. Most of my guild are still not lvl 80, and we are very slow in doing dungeons, so I’m playing different alts every now and then when I have reached my daily goal (! not the achievements, I don’t care about those) on my main.
I don’t care much about the variety in build, I guess – I always planned to go for conditions, seeing as I loved them since GW1 (putting stuff on the enemy, then just watching, waiting for it to die as it pretty much kills itself…good times.)

Personally, I found the Mesmer much more breakable than the necromancer, who is more forgiving if you’re kind of bad at keyboard movement and miss a dodge or two.
I hardly played any necromancer during beta (because I wanted to savour that one for release) and played quite a lot of mesmer, elementalist, ranger and thief (in PvE – PvP just isn’t my kind of gameplay) – while the necro definitely did have a higher dps output during beta (axe was just…wow), I still have most fun on this class when comparing my experiences on the different classes. I still want to lovve the ranger more than I actually do, the mesmer simply didn’t feel right to me, and neither did the ele (glass cannon >_>) . Thief was fun, but hadn’t figured out how to deal with larger numbers of enemies.

I agree that the necromancer is in dire need of bug fixes and a buff or two, and I can understand it if many of you say that you won’t play it until it has been fixed – but I simply can’t agree when you say “it’s just not worth the trouble”. After all, this is still a question of play-style preferences; no matter how efficient other classes are, if I have no fun playing them/ don’t like the feel of them, well, then those may also not be worth the trouble.

The Necromancer in GW2, while different, is still based on the Necromancer in GW1 – whose mechanics were built around life-steal, minions, and conditions.

Also, wells are awesome

And, much against most people in these forums, I adore the design of our minions.

Btw, I noticed that I get some life force from everything that dies around me – apparently, even if I didn’t kill it myself (and had no part in killing it). I love that Just like I loved Soulreaping in GW1 ^^

The low number of jewelmakers compared to the beta seems feasible to me. During beta, we knew we couldn’t possibly get anything to max lvl – and jewelery was comparably hard to get, and was something everyone could use. Now, crafting is something that is meant to carry us even through endgame – and people probably care more about what stat boni their weapons and armor have. Hence, more people crafting weapons and armor and less crafting jewelery…

I must agree though that I would like to finally see our bugged traits corrected :/

When using “back” from a topic (currently in the bug forum, but have seen this in other parts of the forum as well), I am taken to what appears to be the same forum in French – however, my browser still has the English URL, and non of the topics in the forum can be reached (clicking the titles brings me back to the english front page, telling me the link does not exist).

If it helps: I myself am situated in Germany.

Indeed, there is this one event on the Cursed Shore basically in front of Grenths cathedral where some sort of cannon is supposed to be built – which simply doesn’t happen. However, the monster hordes just keen coming, which is why there is always a bunch of player there for farming. Is this considered an exploit? (You have to be quick dealing out damage, or else you get hardly anything out of it.)

Is the access to Arah bound to an event chain? This might explain why I still haven’t figured out how to get there…

Ah yes: I’m on Gandara, too. Where, by the way, the event around the Claw of Jormag has also been bugged for days.

I find it perfectly fine to criticise GW2 – it does have failings, although I find many of those to be highly subjective.

However, to criticise a game for including (or lacking) features whose existence (or lack thereof) in the game has long been advertised…well. That indeed IS the criticisers’ problem. No one forces you to read up on the features of any given product before buying – but if you are careful about what you spend your money on, it appears sensible to make informed purchases. If not, well, you probably wouldn’t get so angry if a product didn’t meet your expectations

Concerning invested money, GW2 can be treated much like any offline game – either you like it, good, continue playing; or you don’t like it. In that case, well, put it away and play something else. Maybe try to re-sell it, although I believe that can be quite difficult with online games. Or give it to a friend – maybe he/she will enjoy it more than you did.

Edited to add: I must admit, when I first encountered the famous DEs, I was a little disappointed, too. If broken down to the basics, they use exactly the same mechanics we have known for years – and there is basically just a rotation of probably 5 mechanics at most. However, I have since come to appreciate the underlying mechanic: Wherever you go, there is always something going on. And it won’t always be the same, or end the same way!
Of course, if you keep “farming” the same areas over and over again, this is bound to get old. This, however, is a player decision, as the world really is quite big.