Guild Wars 2

A dead necro, how coincidental.

Warrior was broken as all hell before with its immunity to conditions and ridiculous sustain and that seems to remain.

Thief is pushed from pain in the kitten to big pain in the kitten .

Hoping the balance patch cleans up those unkillable builds.

I don’t like the adventures, but I got silver on most and gold on a few (some gold on the first try, some silver after a frustrating hour). Check the youtubes for guides on how to complete them.

The time gating part of making astralaria was far worse.

The Not So Secret jumping puzzle was worse than any adventure.

Do the dailies, converting 12-14 pristine fractal relics to regular ones gives 180-210 relics, plus what you get from the fractals. Rinse and repeat for 2-3 weeks.

They’re nice for necros to generate life force or druids astral force. It’s also nice aesthetically to think we’re fighting over land people live on. Why would we be fighting over a desolate place?

Slugs will give any sylvari nightmares. It explains a lot about Faolain really.

Charr have fleas.

Forgotten Legend.9281:

i personally have 3 characters that do not ever downgrade to exotic gear. every single equipment slot is occupied by ascended gear.

If Ascended/Legendary Giver’s weapons existed I could say the same. It was half the reason I made a legendary focus, only to learn that I was stuck with Viper’s or Trailblazer’s for condi duration.

Most of the money I make is from salvaging blues and greens.

Amaimon.7823:

Hesacon.8735:

Amaimon.7823:

Destiny’s Edge, and now the Dragon’s Watch is a non-profit organization. Only costs made in the war against the elder dragons can be deducted. Personal costs and quality of life costs are at the cost of the commander of the Dragon’s Watch.

I collect a second paycheck from being commander of the Pact and a third for my role in the ongoing Mists War. Between these three sources I think I can afford a modest home on the upper west side of Lion’s Arch overlooking the bay.

you’re not commander of the pact anymore, remember. You’re unemployed, working nonprofit for DW

I’m sylvari, I still haven’t fully recovered from my ordeals. I don’t know what’s real anymore.

Amaimon.7823:

Destiny’s Edge, and now the Dragon’s Watch is a non-profit organization. Only costs made in the war against the elder dragons can be deducted. Personal costs and quality of life costs are at the cost of the commander of the Dragon’s Watch.

I collect a second paycheck from being commander of the Pact and a third for my role in the ongoing Mists War. Between these three sources I think I can afford a modest home on the upper west side of Lion’s Arch overlooking the bay.

I can’t speak for anyone else, but I have built up some gold teaching Zhaitan, Mordremoth, and Primordius what for. I would like to get into the real estate market and purchase a Home (Instance) in Lion’s Arch. Is this something that could be in the cards with a future update?

I think the problem is all your stats come from either your amulet or runes, and runes are a drop in the bucket for stats. In wvw you can mix and match, so you can go marauder’s + berserker’s + soldier’s in ratios you’re comfortable with. Rarely do you see someone going all-in on one stat. But in spvp you’re forced to.

Allowing something like two half-amulets might help, with half the stats of current amulets. Berserker’s + Berserker’s would give what berserker’s gives now, but you could also mix and match say berserker’s + Valkyrie’s.

Kamara.4187:

If they were for sell I’d flip out the credit card to buy stacks of them because I’m always in need of spiritshards!!! (yes I’m crazy! I’ve blown over $1,000 in a year on pixels)…Gating kills my shopping fix…..

Wish I could sell you mine, I’m at nearly 4000 after making a couple legendaries. I just can’t spend them fast enough.

I needed krait oil to make Astralaria. Sounds to me like a conspiracy of the stars.

I’d rather convert them to almost any other currency except karma. A badge of honor, proof of heroic, dungeon currency, fractal relic, anything.

You can’t kill it, you have to let it blow itself up.

Sarahfull.4930:

The breakbar is easy as to break!! I’ve broken his bar all the time with different PuGs.

In the number of times I’ve done it since it came out (probably most dailies minus a few), I’ve found one party who was able to break it once, and they were able to break it every time.

Usually I have to burn 1-2 dodges just to get out because it doesn’t even get touched except for my cc.

I’d be satisfied with lowering the breakbar requirement for the pull attack when you get him below 50%.

I have been getting 1-3 per week, though 2-3 times per week I’ve gotten nothing but useless potions so that kind of evens out.

I found T2/T3 parties both very rare and very lacking, I remember taking an hour and 5 tries to kill molten boss once in T3. It’s much easier to find a group in T4, not to mention the quality is much higher.

I farm T4 daily fractals when the dailies aren’t really tedious (I skip Cliffside, Molten Furnace, Captain Mai Trin Boss day because ugh, 3 really tedious fractals with the crowd favorite mechanic “waiting for something to happen”).

I mostly farm it to supply my bad wvw habit. T4 fractals can reward ascended boxes at the rate of 1-3 per week depending on how the RNG gods like you. I am farming it just to get ascended gear for alts for wvw.

Drop tables are:

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Fractal_Master's_Chest

Jacion.6302:

MaLeVoLenT.8129:

P.S. MAG just lost 3 guilds. 2 to SBI. Match fix SBI to T2. lol

Called it, you heard it here first…SBI will be the next pump and dump after YB

That explains why SBI has been extra feisty this week.

Wvw has a ramp-up time, which takes between 10 and 45 minutes to max out participation depending on what’s happening on the maps.

If you’re only going to play a half hour at a time, spvp is probably faster, if you’re going to play for an hour or two, wvw is probably faster.

I used 80 wvw potions a few weeks ago to get a gift of battle starting at zero. Got me all 20k I needed.

The loot on the track itself is awful.

Quarktastic.1027:

I’m pretty sure Condi is still better in high tier fractals, as it doesn’t suffer much DPS loss when forced to attack from range. Power builds against lots of melee hate have to fall back on axe, or drop reaper altogether.

Life blast is underrated, especially in areas where reflects are rare.

The builds that work in wvw and the builds that work in raids don’t really overlap.

Then the question becomes how do you want to build for wvw: zergs, small ops, or roaming? Do you want one build for each or one build that mostly works for all 3?

If you don’t go condi, raids won’t even talk to you. In wvw you can choose between condi and power and not be wrong despite enthusiastic complaints power worse than the worst thing the worst people ever put together.

Metabattle is a good site to get an idea of what you want to do. I tend to find the concepts mostly work, even if the builds are lacking in some ways that are valuable to me.

http://metabattle.com/wiki/Necromancer

Also don’t be afraid of experimenting between base necro and reaper, as they both have different advantages and disadvantages. Most people take reaper thinking they need it, when really it may not actually help them in certain builds.

If you can get necros to spam well of corruption into them, the zerg becomes vulnerable to everyone else’s crowd control, so long as you can strip stability.

My worry is that if Dragonbrand ends the linking in T4, history shows us the last two linkings for T4 made 3 server linkings.

DB is barely not competitive in T3, and the addition of two servers will have them cleaning up every T4/T3 map. There is currently a 100 point glicko difference between T2 and T3, and the way glicko works with NSP moving up to T3 SBI and SoS will be unable to accumulate much glicko to break it.

That’s not a problem now, but DB will be stuck next linking in T3 much like YB was this linking and had to be adjusted out. People screamed bloody murder about it, but a few weeks later and they’re going to win T1. Next linking DB will be T1-caliber with two linked servers and nobody in T2, T3, or T4 will want to face them.

So I appreciate the attempts at glicko adjustment, but it can’t be more than a stop-gap measure for a change in the matchmaking. Glicko still works fine at generating a leader board, but it can’t handle the matchmaking on its own.

The thing with spvp is that rewards tracks are the only source of loot. In wvw you also get loot for killing guards, flipping objectives, killing other players, or material nodes. The wvw rewards tracks were intended to supplement that, to bring it more in-line with available loot from pve sources.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glicko_rating_system#Step_2:_Determine_New_Rating

A formula guaranteed to give non-mathematician and non-engineers nightmares.

Ayrilana.1396:

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Plus you can take a bathroom break during wvw and not be penalized, so long as you can take care of business and get back into action within 10 minutes.

Jeknar.6184:

I wonder why it’s 195 tho and not let’s say 250, since the rewards are awarded every 500 points. At any case, I feel the current frequency is good enough.

When the timer was rewards every 15 minutes instead of every 5 (the best change ever was making it 5), it rewarded 550 as the max every 15 minutes. Since they were making it more frequent they divided that number by 3 (~183) and rounded it up to 195.

So we’re getting more rewards than when the system was in beta because we get more points and they accrue more frequently and you can stop playing on the 5-minute mark rather than waiting the extra couple minutes for the more precious 15-minute mark.

Reaper’s underwhelming traits are the worst part about Reaper.

I miss the old deathly chills in spvp, I ran a condi build with an axe because chill ticked 700 and all I had to was land it with sigil of ice and axe #2, then go shroud and Dhuumfire. People fell down a lot.

Boon stripping should always strip Resistance first. After that it can be random for all I care.

Icethorn.6570:

Those people who said “horde them in your bank” while I said sell them. Now I’m enjoying all the gold I have received from them (literally hundreds) while they are worried at the stock price plummeting and their items being useless.

I hedged my bets and sold half of them and stashed the other half in my bank so I came out ahead regardless of what happened.

I also bought one of those 250-ecto gamble boxes only to realize the achievement required me to buy 100 of them. I turned 250 ectos into 50 ectos and 50 gold, which after the trading post tax turned out to be current market price.

A solution to the ecto glut exists:

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Tarrktun_Personal_Delivery_Portal

Fun matches. Every game last season ended winning or losing by 200 points so I stopped playing spvp.

/m still works, /t was totally redundant before.

This saves the requirement of moving to another map to call in reinforcements when you can’t afford to send any bodies even for the 15 seconds.

[EB] for EBG, [ R] for red, etc. would be the most succinct.

9 wins in 17 games, couldn’t be bothered to keep playing when every game ended in a 200+ point blowout one way or the other.

Really disappointed, was hoping for class balance today.

Many of the features from it could be rolled into fractals.

Cecilia.5179:

Krysard.1364:

Kinda why its not used in wvw

It literally autowins fights vs condi burst sometimes, so it has purpose in WvW.

I’ve killed those cancer warriors with Staff #4 before under the same premise.

Ayrilana.1396:

Just salvage the petrified wood if you don’t need them.

I’ll just avoid the map, it’s easier. Clicking 4 times per petrified wood is a little much to make it go away.

Fade to Black.7042:

I like the idea of meta events from HoT maps much more than doing repeatable hearts.

Hearts in general are a turn-off for me. When they reset daily I just can’t be bothered. I did them twice, once because I didn’t know they reset and a second time because when they reset, they stop counting towards map competition.

The fact that there’s yet another inventory clogging trophy (petrified wood) also kills any incentive to spend time on the map.

How dare they have variety in the game and allow players to choose where they would like to play.

How about we wait for the patch before trying to figure out what happens.

Trying to do this jumping puzzle for Mawdry and I got stuck in a gate.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Daily-Heart-of-Maguuma-Forager-bugged/first#post6349273

http://www.gw2shinies.com/item/19721

The supply numbers seem to indicate prices are still artificially high and people won’t accept lower prices. Prices should really be much lower than they currently are.