Guild Wars 2

Is it true that this is still one of the highest dps builds? I honestly love the idea of Warrior longbow, and want to see it remain meta.

Elementalist

- Why did you nerf Water Scepter #2? You increased its cooldown, meaning it can’t be spammed as much. Considering it doesn’t do much damage in the first place, this hurts a lot.

- What about the Scepter autoattack buff?

Ranger

- Sword autoattack still makes it difficult to dodge.

- Why does the grandmaster trait Honed Axes give us a Ferocity buff for main-hand axe? Axe is a condition-based weapon. I do not see any viable uses of this trait, and don’t quite understand the logic behind increasing the ferocity. Is there some secret axe build we are unaware about?

- Shortbow is still in dire need of adjustments. Is it a Power or Condition weapon?

- Druid: Why is Natural Convergence (Celestial #5) so weak in PvE, compared to the PvP version? Is this intended, or a bug?

I just want more polearm skins in general.

Good. I want bosses to have super rare loot. This game needs more of that.

So is it a dps incrase to use axe5 yet?

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Where do you find minions useful?
PvE.

Minions can tank bosses, while dealing great collective damage, and mitigating damage to the user. In any situation where boss position is not essential, they are an amazing contribution to the team.

During the Dragon’s Stand meta, I use Minions to tank Axemaster Hareth while everyone else ranges the boss.

I also use it during dungeon bosses where stacking is not crucial, such as Mai Trin.

Where do you find minions not useful?

Situations where positioning and stacking are important.

Would you use a full set of minions without minion traits

Not a full set, but I would use “Rise!” and Flesh Golem.

would you use one minion with minion traits

No.

would you use one minion without minion traits

Flesh Golem <3

which gear sets would you use minions with?

Berserker’s.

I want more reasons to run dungeons, but I don’t think a liquid gold train should be the answer. I want more rare drops from the end chest, and more uses of dungeon tokens

Why not just buff Whirl Finishers to pulse an area?

I play PvE to relax. Why the heck do I need to be ranked with other people?

Can anyone confirm if attuned gives more?

Let’s show some love to the new music.

Auric Wilds by Lena Chapelle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x41Pes8Z2so

Reminds me of Kourna music from Nightfall. I love it. I NEED this in a Guild Hall!

Is Gliding actually a concern? It might be more trivial than we think. Since it uses a downward momentum, it probably wont let us reach anywhere we otherwise couldn’t simply using Ride the Lightning.

It will make some vistas easier in Orr though.

Currently the music selector for Guild Halls only gives us tracks composed by Jeremy Soule. Which is cool and all, but a lot of people really love Maclaine Diemer’s work more. Lena Chapelle too, especially for her Auric Basin tracks.

Could ANET show some more love to our favorite composers, and please add their music as options to our guild halls, so we can appreciate their awesome tunes while we do our banking and scribing stuff?

But seriously, some of us really like the music by Maclaine Diemer and Lena Chapelle. Anyone else want it to play in Guild Hall?

I still want to see Burnzerker be viable, but it should be within 5% of other builds.

The simplest fix I can think of is simply making it one big aoe similar to the elementalist skill “Wildfire”, instead of hitting a boss with multiple aoes.

There is a rumor I hear a lot ingame that salvaging an (Infused) ring yields more Stabilizing Matrixes. Is this true? What about Attuned (Infused) rings?

I believe anet balances primarily with PvP in mind, so the PvP version is likely the intended one.

I’m pretty sure this guild is dead. I’ve talked to people who applied.

In that case, we need to keep this issue at attention until we get some sort of response whether or not this is intended.

Still bugged after newest patch.

In Guild Halls, the option for Music of Barren Heights does not work. It doesn’t “save” the option for music of the Barren Heights.

Not much else needs to be explained. Any dev can go in game and just test it out at the Guild Sound Technician.

Hope to see it soon! I want to hear Maclaine Diemer’s awesome music in my hall instead of ugly old whatshisface’s music.

Don’t give them bad ideas to nerf. Ranger needs buffs, not nerfs.

Other pets need to be brought in line with Bristleback.

I am testing in PvP, but only getting about 4k bleed damage on average. Is this really worth using over Power in PvE?

Other pets need to be brought in line with Cats, Smokescale, and Bristleback, not the other way around.

Since the site is down, does anyone mind posting the full build here?

Rifle Autoattack “Hipshot” clips with most armor in the game on a charr.

Axe/Axe would look appealing from an aesthetic point of view. If they made Axe a melee power weapon, and sword a condi weapon, that would look really cool.

Why does our Grandmaster trait for goodness sake, give us Ferocity on a Condi-melee weapon?

What is Shortbow even supposed to do? It sucks at Condition damage, it’s not a Power Ranged weapon (Longbow is vastly superior in every way), it’s not for CC, it’s not aoe…. I don’t get it.

I think I found a culinary use for Bloodstone Dust.

Use while under the Regeneration boon and Signet of the Wild.

Celestial #5, Natural Convergence, is STILL bugged in PvE. Nearly 3 months after launch.

Celestial #5 for the Druid deals half damage in PvE than it does its intended damage in PvP. (Tested wearing full zerker gear)

It’d be like if Hundred Blades was bugged in PvE to deal half its damage.

I’ve submitted 3 bug reports in game, posted in the Bugs forum, posted a thread in the Ranger subforum, posted in the Ranger Bugs thread. Still no fixes, and any acknowledgement that this bug even exists.

Is there anything else I could possibly do to bring this to attention? I just want to make sure people are aware this exists, even if for some reason a bug fix takes more than 3 months.

Agemnon.4608:

The entire point is to avoid breaking his bar. It’s intended by design.

No it’s not. Stop exploiting.

Git Gud.

I understand ANET doesn’t want to divide the playerbase, but please consider adding a TP to the guild hall.

Scribing is a Guild Hall-only crafting profession. Unfortunately, this leads to a LOT of frustration and loading screens as I must continuously warp in and out of my guild hall.

Adding a TP would fix some of that frustration!

Let’s see some more support for our favorite machine gun! o/

Yeah, Chak Garent needs fixing. Stop allowing people to cheese it with the no CC strat. Maybe just a 5% hp nerf.

Other than that…

Git Gud.

Please stop complaining about the Bristleback HP nerf. They might cave in to demands, and increase HP, but then severely nerf its damage.

Some people like the ranged machine gun on F2, and it’s amazing that for once we finally have a pet that does good damage.

Please, please, PLEASE stop demanding that they increase its HP. That will just nerf it into uselessness. Be careful what you wish for, especially when it’s things you don’t need.

If you want a ranged tank, use devourer or spider, plz. Not Bristleback.

I’d rather Bristleback be a fragile glass cannon.

Agreed. I want a GW1-style outpost. Perhaps with a merchant, tp, and bank, since we didn’t get any cities in the expansion.

They should really bring back the Skill Points on level up option. Maybe a new mastery?

People are irrational to think precursor crafting was ever meant to be cheap precursors.

You do know you can get a Plate from the magus falls pvp track, right?

But seriously, why was this even in LS2 if it had no role in the plot? There are so many things never touched upon at all in the expansion.

The meta objectives are easy. People complete them all the time.

The problem is that the timer at the end is too short. It only gives us 3 minutes to kill the boss in the final phase, in which it usually has 5% HP remaining at the end.

So during the whole climax of the Living Story Season 2, we did the rite of ascension and obtained a Divine Fire that would let us enter a secret Forgotten (Exalted?) cave, as well as repel Mordrem.

During the final event, Mordrem were afraid of the fire. It not only repelled them, but dealt huge damage to the Shadow of the Dragon.

My question is what happened?

If Mordremoth has a weakness, this is what I assume to be it, as demonstrated by his minions and champion.

(On that subject, what happened to the Shadow of the Dragons, plural? Did Mordremoth only make one?)

I’m not sure why people keep saying this

Astral Force nerf. Natural Convergence is bugged in PvE. Staff is trash.

Necromancer is in a good spot now. Not top tier, but fairly high.

For solo and small-scale Open World, Necromancers bring a naturally high bulk alongside very large damage. The ability to life steal also further increases your survivability, and makes you very efficient at taking down large groups of foes that would otherwise decimate another class. Minions are also in a good spot now, being able to even the odds with foes greater numbers than you, and tank damage. Early expansion-release, it was not unusual to see a Necromancer soloing Hero Challenges. A Necromancer’s usefulness only increases as they take Reaper, gaining a Reaper Shroud that replenishes itself, ability to spam blind, and the ability to spam Graveiggers that 2KO most enemies in the game.

For large-scale PvE and zerg content like Chak Gerant and Tequatl, Reaper suddenly spikes to top tier. Again, their high bulk is important for these events, but the ability to spam Gravedigger puts Necromancer miles ahead of most classes in the game.

For Dungeons, Reapers can blindspam and deal huge damage on bosses with Gravedigger. Nightfall is great for stacking situations.

For general situations, Blood Magic’s Last Rites and Vampiric Aura is very useful for all content.

For high-level fractals and possibly raids, Epidemic is useful in a condition team, if not the future of the meta.

Overall, Necromancers are finally in a great place right now, and it brings me great joy to say that. It only took 3 kitten years of waiting, but now we have great team support through Blood Magic and projectile blocks like Corrosive Poison Cloud, we are amazing at breaking BreakBars without losing damage, Nightfall is crazy good for trash stacking, minion are finally useful, Epidemic-spam will be useful in the future, and dat Gravedigger spam is sooooo good on boss fights!

We went from the absolute bottom-tier to the high-mid tier. Be proud, Necromancers! \o/

(If you’re curious, now the title of bottom-tier belongs to Rangers.)

The worst part about this patch is that they STILL haven’t fixed Celestial #5 in PvE. Yet they nerfed something we were genuinely happy with.

sigh I was having so much fun playing Ranger. Guess I’ll have to shelf it for awhile.

ANET, I hope you’re proud.

With normal parties, we’re able to tag foes easier, and get more loot.

Do squads work the same?

What is the reward anyway?