Guild Wars 2

Thanks for the responses. Personally I hope Thaumanova is not Scarlet related, Seein as how ANET put it on the same scale as the fall of Abaddon. We will see in a few weeks I guess.

Fair enough :p

I’m just speculating. At this rate, I would honestly be surprised if she wasn’t. The other two fractals are related to her actions and if the Fractals will at all be incorporated into living story, it would be strange to have the Aether fractal and Molten fractal not related to the Thaumanova (again assuming fractals are pare of LS).

Also the fact that this story resolved nothing, she is obviously returning. I think Thaumanova is a pretty important event in GW2 and I don’t think they would begin delving into it without resolving Scarlet’s story, unless she was involved.

So with next update most likely being the fractal update, and Scarlet likely being behind Thaumanova, I’m wondering if Scarlet is going to be the driving force behind the events that take place in GW2 similar to how Abaddon orchestrated the events in GW1. Thoughts?

Looks like some kind of reactor… perhaps of the Thaumanova variety…

This is really the only time slot that can support new fractals this year I think, so probably.

I would wager that it is designed to last 2 weeks

Oddly I want to see Longbow the most, just because I am curious to see how they will be implementing such ranged weapons to our profession. Also I’m kind of biased because I want Kudzu on my Necromancer.

You can’t get it without dedicating yourself to the game for a lot of time.

lol

Welcome, Dushnaa!

A cool thing about this game is that you don’t have to be on the same server as your party in order to participate in the instance. As far as Necromancer in dungeons go, they are not ideal. As per the current game mechanics, DPS builds reign supreme, and Necromancer direct damage is suffering due to their lack of a cleave ability, among other questionable game mechanics that all classes suffer with.

There is a dungeon meta right now where players will stack in an area that removes line of sight from the enemy, pulling them into the stack where they are quickly DPSed to smithereens.

If I can make a suggestion, I would look into some Thief builds for dungeons, as the dungeon environment relies heavily on player utility, and what they bring to the party. Necromancer is also lacking in this department, as it is a very selfish class ( my main is Necro, but I use my thief for most dungeons). Thief has very interesting, helpful, and fun mechanics for dungeon/group play.

One place a Necromancer can really shine however is in Fractals of the Mists

Please PM me in game if you would like some more information/possibly some runs with our small group.

premature misinformation…

…sssorry this has never happened to me before…

This was the first high end exotic I made for my Necromancer and I will never regret it. Eye of Rodgort is beautiful and I’m surprised the model wasn’t reserved for a legendary.

Scarlet did it.

Frosty as much as your signature is taken out of context, I am laughing at it pretty hard. Well done sir.

More on topic: Whatever the end of Scarlet’s saga will be, it has to be epic. That would mean opening SOMETHING. DoW would be cool. I hope we get something interesting.

If you don’t do high level fractals there is really no reason to strain for ascended. And even then you can live without it, people have been doing so. It’s an illusion of progression that is conveniently a MASSIVE gold sink.

Or the distant future.

Thief just has huge risk vs huge reward. You want to play it as powerful (fragile) as possible. It’s a class that revolves around knowing your encounters more so than knowing the skills available. And Signet of Malice is one of the best heals in the game, considering the class it’s on.

Honestly these forums are generally extremely negative and any feedback you gather here is going to be incredibly biased (obviously) and bitter. The best option is to just log on and see what is going on for yourself.

This is awesome.

Don’t stack then? What’s the problem

This is the only problem with these champ trains. The events are there for people to do if and when they want. Colin mentioned this at PAX during an interview when asked about farming. He said it isn’t a problem until you run into situations where someone kills a champion “out of order” and catches a lot of flack for it.

These instances have been increasing, and I fear it’s going to lead to alterations in how Champion bags are distributed. We already got a nerf in the bag loot.

Play nice people, and realize you don’t own the zone.

No. There is a thread literally below yours that is the same thread.

The most opportunity will come from new weapon options for professions, in regards to cleave damage/ evades, imo. A 2 handed melee weapon is what we lack, and I’m hoping future updates will grant us access to either a Hammer or Greatsword which will hopefully provide something interesting for our lacking group play

Changing Epidemic will practically be removing Necro from PvE

Black Box.9312:

I’m curious; I haven’t seen any mention of them changing sundering strikes. Care to fill me in through explanation or a link detailing such a change?

Look in the balance notes for Dec 10, they are removing the ICD

Elementalists take 5 seconds longer to use Waypoints after death.

So is the general assumption here that Evon and Abaddon are in no way actually related? That’s too bad.

^the lulz

Haha I see. Well I’ve gotten pretty good with thief after giving up on Necro because… well Necro.

Also Vicious I will add you ingame when I get home. Looking forward to getting into some more challenging things.

Thanks again everyone.

If my Necro is built as melee, is he a caster?

I do some WvW on him but I made him for PvE around launch, put him on the shelf, and now I want to play a high damage class without having to level something else. I have a Guard but after playing thief for so long it’s hard to play other, slower professions.

I will likely stick with Thief, I have high hopes for the initiative change and the change to Sundering Strikes looks fun. I’ll make a warrior just to have on hand but I’m not sure how far I’ll take it. We’ll see.

It’s crazy because going through these forums you would think that player kicks and elitism is rampant in the game, but in reality, anyone can get into any group most of the time. It’s on very rare occasion that a dungeon group is looking for such specific gear parameters, and most of the time those groups are left unfilled, or filled with people who just play what they want anyway.

I think clerics going into the dungeon forums to complain before they went into the LFG tool to actually play has created the berserker vs. the world stigma. The content isn’t even hard, it’s just that people want to run W/Mo in Shadow Form speed clears Cleric gear in groups that seek max DPS.

I was considering it, but I’m so sick of PvE and have run out of money for crafting after leveling Ele. I guess I’ll suck it up and spend a week doing it. Ugh. Thanks for the response.

Define caster before you create a thread that will turn into calling everything an exploit.

Bastien.1645:

Lanfear I honestly think a lot of people who play MMOs quite sadly and simply have no life. I know that sound really harsh but it’s true, youth unemployment is at an all time high and for a lot of people between the ages of 16-25, a game like WoW/GW/LoL is the only “goal” they have due to lack of opportunities, they create this artificial goal due to lack of career/life progression and they use getting that next “purple” as an incentive to keep living.

This isn’t derailing the topic? Sure.

a t s e, you are my new favorite. I think my gf might leave me if I take my cond Necro berserker.

Are any US guilds/groups willing to teach me Arah runs? I run full zerk/scholar and perform well in other dungeons (S/P, D/D).

I’m looking to collect tokens and become proficient at Arah.

Please message me in game. Thanks!

Bastien what are you even talking about? This is a relevant topic and there is mostly constructive discussion going on here and you’re berating MMO gamers on an MMO forum? Please stop posting before the thread gets locked.

Well now there is no dungeon team so we will be waiting forever for that word. But it been said a million times, the discrepancy between berserker builds and non berserker builds is not the players individually, it’s the groups they join. Every party has a description now, and the likely hood of finding a group that will kick you out due to gear type is pretty low unless you seek out those parties. A majority of players do play with anything they want, and that’s fine. But there’s another group of players who understand the efficiency of pure glass and can handle it, and you by no means have to play with them. The problem persists when clerics want to play with spee groups but don’t meet the criteria to perform adequately.

Someone brought up the example of GW1 speed clears and that they would let anyone in. This is untrue on a level I can’t even begin to explain. There were specific builds for those runs as there are specific builds for speed clears in GW2. You wouldn’t bring a W/Mo on an UWSC and you shouldn’t bring Clerics to a GW2 speed clear.

Also, people tend to make the mistake of thinking that players that ask for others in berserker gear do so to be in some exclusive, berserker club. The fact is, it’s just the most efficient stat distribution for players that can handle it. Other hear types literally make the run slower and more dangerous because of how little heals mean in the face of one shot, hp sponge mechanics. If a player is built around healing in PvE, they are not doing so by spamming heals. They are doing so by attacking a target and using DPS skills that have a heal built in. This should tell you how active everyone should be in a fight. You just have to make the choice of longer fights.

If a cleric guardian is slowing down the team by doing no damage, of course he will think his heals matter because of how log everyone has been able to fight, when in reality, you can use the same skills in an offensive build and be out of the dungeon in less time than a boss or two would take to kill in the first place

I want to believe, but I it’s obvious that condition builds are designed to be a primary form of damage dealing, and I won’t accept an argument stating conditions are designed for PVP. I played Necro for most of my time, and now I’ve switched to zerk thief just because I have to to keep up.

I’ll agree that berserker gear can be seen as a pinnacle stat distribution at the top of things like soldier and Valkyrie, but there are so many stat combos that it’s hard to believe they’re all stepping stones to berserker. Especially when they are all relatively parallel in terms of benefits. You must admit you used rather convenient examples in your original post.

The real problem, as I am glad you pointed out, is the fact that PvE content is not designed in a way that promotes their “play how you want” paradigm. It can also be argued that perhaps it is too promoted, to the point where the difference between what you bring to a dungeon is shown in time spent, not game play necessarily.

I think we can all agree that build diversity will not begin until the content itself is redesigned, and we have a reason to use other stats, rather than these round a bout, seemingly random balance changes that are done in the name of PVP in the first place.

Scarlet being behind the TR… that will be suicide.

Yes I know I was making fun of all the X NPC = Livia speculations.

inb4 Mr. E = Livia /yawn

Well that’s just too bad.

Ever since Cutthroat Politics, I have wondered about the implications of Evon taking interest in Abaddon. Even though he didn’t win, there must have been some intent from ArenaNet to explore this realm of lore, and I have a hard time believing that it would just be an “oh by the way, here’s a fractal” kind of thing. I assume that we will get some living story soon based on the Thaumanova Reactor, and that’s exciting, but the fact that it could have gone the route of exploring Abaddon’s fall, that would imply that Abaddon almost made his way into our current story (right?)

Now of course this is all based on the assumption that Kiel’s research will have some relevance to the living story beyond the addition of a fractal.

There is small speculation that the figure behind her is a Margonite. Others think it is an actual Krait prophet.

Unfortunately, it’s likely some random plant/krait mutant boss (similar to the F&F boss and Oakheart).

If it is Margonite/Abaddon however, I will have all faith restored in the future of the story.

Dream big!

The event is cool, it has added an ominous shadow over the tone of the game. I think it’s important to add events like this; events that cause anticipation and start small and (hopefully) progress into something extreme. If that was the intention (which I guess we will find out next patch) then great job!

However, the general play of Living Story has become kind of bland for me, and reading through the forums, others as well. The achievement grind is tiring, and while I do enjoy participating in the content, I find myself trudging through it just for the achievement points. I don’t care much for the reward, personally. I don’t have any suggestions as to how to change the system of achievement grind to something else, considering it probably is the best way to get players to participate.

As far as the story goes, it’s the first one that I am actually interested in seeing the progression of the plot. Blood and Madness put the players into this awesome family affair, and then slammed us into a wall of abrupt completion. This story, however, has a mysterious driving force that makes you feel like something huge is about to go down, and the player will be right in the middle of it.

Another thing that is interesting that I noticed about most living stories, but this one heavily in particular, is that the player is supposed to be central in these stories, but I feel like I’m being dragged around by the NPCs that actually matter (kind of like personal story). I guess this is a side effect of MMO story telling. I’m hoping that the future of living story brings a story that is dynamic based on player influence, rather than scripting. The Cutthroat politics was an interesting concept (though some aspects could have been handled better) and I’m anxious to see where the result leads.

In summary, in regards to ToN, I am enjoying the story but not the game play.

I just left the bug forum and saw that post by Chapman and it’s pretty crazy. For a dev that may accidentally find his way into the Necro forum:

Can we perhaps one day see this skill split for PvE/PvP? It was one of the few skills that Necromancer has in PvE that actually let me help my group.

Am I doing it right?

Sword- Sup. Fire
Pistol- Sup. Force

Pistol2- Sup. Accuracy

Dagger1- Sup. Force
Dagger2- Sup. Accuracy

Shortbow- Sup. Bloodlust

The main problem I see is with the T3 gloves (light). A dye channel was completely removed. Can this be reverted at least?

My gloves are missing a dye channel. T3 Light.