The patch notes say “Signet of Vampirism: The active life-siphoning effect of this signet can no longer be applied to inanimate objects, such as WvW gates.”
However, this has broken the active part of the skill against pretty much all world bosses – or specifically ALL the dragons, the Jungle Wurms, Golem MkII, Shadow Behemoth etc.
You can’t exactly say that all these guys are “inanimate objects”.
I’m also hearing the latest “fix” to Vamp Sig is buggy and means it does no damage to bosses like the Shatterer?
This is correct. All dragons, jungle wurms, and probably shadow behemoth and Golem Mk2 are immune to the signet active since the last change. Considering those events were the only place in the entire game where the signet was useful…
Oh what the kitten.
The patch notes say “Signet of Vampirism: The active life-siphoning effect of this signet can no longer be applied to inanimate objects, such as WvW gates.”
I wouldn’t exactly say ALL of the dragons and many of the other key bosses in the game are exactly inanimate or objects.
Ok so after testing out, I have been able to EASILY reproduce this bug. Using my warrior, I have simply used and thrown down a banner. Interact with it while moving and being just on the edge of the distance that you can still interact with/pick it up. So far the only ways I have found to fix this, as others have posted, is either completely leave the map/log out to character screen, or to take fall damage (but it has to be enough fall damage so that you go splat face down).
Edit: I have also found that getting dazed/stunned/knocked back fixes the skill lock up bug as well.
This should be enough to get some action on this.
There are warrior banners kitten everywhere in PvP and PvE and this can render your character a free kill in any mode.
‘Signet of Undeath’ was already useless. I realise every class needs a rez skill (the active), but the passive is so terrible it might as well just be nothing too.
1% life force every 3 seconds? That means it takes 5 minutes to go from zero life force to full.
Considering Necros can get to 100% in about 20 seconds in any normal fight – that’s a completely and utterly useless passive.
I have an SSD so load in straight away, I dodge whatever mari does and stay unhit for the whole event, and finish the event (cut the chain) successfully, and nothing happens.
Many, many times.
All lanes.
All I’ve done over the past week is run Mari – and I still have none of these dodge achieves.
I agree that Necros have an identity crisis – but giant sweeping changes to lots of skills that would require months of work to implement isn’t the way to get things done.
Even the balance forum guidelines note:
“Be mindful of scope. It takes design, development and testing time in order to make a new feature or revise an old one. Keep scope/work/time/resources in mind when you make your suggestions.”
A better approach would be to suggest small tweaks to existing functionality. Like:
*Tweaking Death Shroud by allowing siphons and signet of vampirism to work while transformed would help the Necromancer class with attrition issues. *
Maybe it won’t make sense for it to stay after we defeat Scarlet, but could you look into implimenting minor tweaks so it’s some aether pirate wanting revenge or something?
Will signet buffs and healing ever be allowed to work with Death Shroud?
It’s currently possible to take lots of signets and spec into the blood tree (siphons), and have none of your skills or talents work at all while in DS.
It would be such a great answer to our attrition/sustain problems.
- The skill doesn’t fit with the lore – Dhuum was overthrown by Grenth. Necros use Grenth style skills like cold etc. It makes no sense for Necros to also use a Dhuum linked skill. It’s basically blasphemy!
They said it was stated for the next “balance update”.
The one today is a “Living Story” update.
They are splitting them out this year as they found that when they combined them, people focused on the wrong thing. (i.e. if the update contained awesome new content, but only minor balance changes – too many people complained about the balance changes and it distracted from the new content).
They said “next feature patch”. A feature patch is a defined term in software development, meaning it was today’s patch.
The balance changed aren’t in meaning they STRAIGHT UP LIED ON THE STREAM.
Yes I’m in software dev too, but somehow I didn’t misunderstand what they meant.
They said it was stated for the next “balance update”.
The one today is a “Living Story” update.
They are splitting them out this year as they found that when they combined them, people focused on the wrong thing. (i.e. if the update contained awesome new content, but only minor balance changes – too many people complained about the balance changes and it distracted from the new content).
Love it – it means I can enjoy GW2 and have a proper life and don’t need to worry too much if someone comes over, or I get a phone call or whatever and have to afk.
In an instanced raid – you have to be completely committed and if someone is afk everyone will fail.
Yes 2 out of the 3 Necromancer elite skills are bugged.
Lich Form – doesn’t remember auto-attack settings. This is incredibly annoying when you use every 180 seconds as part of your normal rotation. Since you need to right click to turn on autoattack with the mouse, you pretty much lose all other control of your character while you do this. Every single time.
Flesh Golem – dies and goes on full cooldown if you run through a puddle.
It is a buff but its a powermancer buff because dhuumfire is a powermancer trait, and their not forcing condimancer use death shroud more their trying to force condimancers to stop using dhuumfire and go back to condition traitlines.
It’s not a powermancer buff.
Powermancers take ‘Close to Death’ as our grandmaster Spite trait 100% of the time. It gives us way more damage than Dhuumfire.
New Zealander here – I play on Sea of Sorrows (the unofficial Oceanic server) and it’s absolutely fine.
In fact I was go so far as to say having an unofficial one is better than an official one as the mix means that the world is populated 24/7.
No lag issues at all for me.
I’m sure if I played from the states with 5 times lower ping it would give me a few extra milliseconds to react, but I can win fights just fine as I am now.
I would say the entire opposite – Necros are one of the hardest professions to play well as they need a lot of micro to win (aside from Minion Master – I’m guessing that’s what you used).
Death Shroud isn’t really “an extra lifebar”. It’s more like limited period of non-invincibility where you are limited to 5 basic skills and can’t heal.
In exchange, Necros have no other blocking abilities in the entire profession, and the worst mobility.
As you mentioned, Necros have to win or die.
Other classes have actual “invincibility” skills they can sit in to heal up and/or use mobility skills to get away.
If a Necro goes into DS with 100hp, they will come out of DS with 100hp and die. The ability of other classes to be invincible and use utility skills and healing is considerably better.
Thinking about this more, you know what I really think?
Signet of Vampirism should just be a utility skill.
The passive is so ineffective (it almost can’t gain you health by design) it’s worthy of being a utility that very slightly helps with attrition, and if the initial heal was removed from the active, it might be a semi-useful support skill for groups (even though it’s a dps loss, it would give necro more group support).
Yeah it would be awesome if it was awarded automatically as it’s been four months since it was completely broken and unobtainable!
To give more detail for anyone submitting a bug to QA, we used to fire the Megalazer at Tequatl manually, which gave the achievment, but since September 17, 2013 it changed so the Megalazer now fires automatically.
This means it’s impossible to get the achievement, and it’s also impossible to finish the “Bosses” achievement category.
A quick bugfix might be to tie the achievement to the same conditions as “Burning Light” in the Tequatl achievement category as the requirements are pretty much the same.
“That Had to Burn – Fire the megalaser at Tequatl the Sunless.”
This is currently isn’t possible to achieve since the September 17, 2013 update.
Will this be fixed soon?
I’ve done every other achievement in the ‘bosses’ category except this one
It would be ideal if this was automatically awarded to anyone who has already done Teq – as I’ve run him so many times I’ve now completed all the Teq-specific achievements and have the Sunbringer title.
If you need some way of telling, it could maybe be tied to “Burning Light” or “Slaughter in the Swamp”.
The upcoming change is a really good one, with the 10 sec ICD and 10 sec ICD of DS, it gives DS a purpose for conditions other than blocking damage.
I can’t see condition Necros losing that much dps, they just need to pop in and out of DS and fire a lifeblast every time the DS cooldown is up.
Moving it into the soul tree wouldn’t be ideal. DS necros wouldn’t take it because there are much better traits to pick (and don’t take Dhumbfire anyway in spite), and condition necros wouldn’t want to spec that high in soul – while talents in spite give condition duration.
@Ghostextechnica you really should not compare the Warrior to the Necro… In any way.
My intention wasn’t to compare professions, just heal value allocation across healing skills.
Even with the new 8% reduction to healing signet, it still heals a lot more, even if the perfect vamp sig healing conditions come up (getting hit for a tiny amount, every time the ICD is up).
Why was Signet of Vampirism not even mentioned in the livestream? Are there any plans to make this skill useful? I think a lot of necromancers are getting angry that their class is being so neglected.
Angry/Sad. A lot of Necros have been waiting for the Dhuumfire change, but in the hope that once this is fixed, then we can get some small beneficial tweaks in exchange. Like fixing Vamp Sig so it’s actually useful!
I guess it depends on how bad the issues are with “logging in to the game as well as slight interruptions to chat, guilds and parties” over the four hour maintenance.
Still better than nothing – which is what I originally thought.
This is primetime on a friday night for New Zealanders and Australians.
I mean, I realize the US is the most important population to consider due to the pure numbers of people affected, but this could have been somewhat mitigated by moving it earlier in the week.
Maintenance during primetime Mon-Thurs is a million times better than Fri/Sat/Sun.
It would be great if this could be considered for future maintenance.
