Guild Wars 2

After a year + of not spending any huge amounts of glory i had saved up 350k +, after seeing what their adding to vendors on stream i decided that i want 2 things, cultural t3 and custom arena.
I basicly begged guild so i could gather my 60 gold for t3 cultural.
What they didnt show on stream was that there is gonna be wintersday gift vendor aka glory to gold converter.
When i had spend 260k glory + 60 gold i found this gift vendor and decided to get some extra gold from my leftover glory, but then i realized how hard ive f***** up.
Lets do some first grade level math here:
1k glory = 80s-1g
Custom arena on gem shop = 1600 gem. Gem price isnt even 8 gold for 100 atm so 1600 would be ~ 130g, even if i would sell my glory at lowest i have lost here 30g.
Wont even say anything about how i would prefer just spend 120k glory on my cultural instead of begging for 60g.
Just wanted to warn people, always do research before buying anything in this game, just because devs say there will be no glory for gold exchange doesnt mean its true.

Imagine your playing this game for year and you get put in same team with some newbie, who dont know what to do?
You can join soloq at rank 1 all i care, but if your not sure about your build or ability to play then your a**hat for joining and pulling down other 4 players.
Even in my rank 20+ i didnt join soloq, cause wasnt sure about myself. If you play really good at rank 10 then people will notice and wont flame for low rank.

Just was wondering if any plans to make people want to wear town clothes. I see their removing lots of town cloth gear from gem shop, i guess it because noone buys them.
What about adding some benefit to wearing town clothes in towns? That might make people want to wear/buy them. If town clothes would incrase movement speed by 33% in all major cities then imo alot more people would buy them.
I already try to put on town clothes when doing things around city crafting/forge/tp, and imo theres no reason why everyone couldnt have swiftness inside major towns.

Edit: i dont mean that you need gem shop town clothes to get speed buff, but if everyone would wear clothes for speed buff then people would want better looking town clothes than others. And people would put on their battle gear when standing somewhere to show off, but all around city would be people in formal clothes

Taldren.7523:

Now do a time investment analysis of time it takes to get 1000 glory vs time to get 1 gold.

I can earn 2-3 gold in 15 minutes in some of the speed runs of dungeons. :p

300 + gloryand 30 silver 1 team match, for pvpers gold has been always more precious, now their around on same level, but if its true that they are removing glory then gold is still more precious.

So basicly you could just get t3 cultural for 120k glory? why i even bothered gathering the 60 gold then. Oh well can spend some extra glory now.

jmatb.6307:

Condi Necromancers’ opinions are pretty much irrelevant to any conversation of skill

Yup agree. Like scepter 1 spam or passive application of burning can be called skilled. Kitten necros.

Yup totally agree, playing power takes no skill. + 1 top threadmaker of week

Did anyone tell the necro about new diamond skin? cause he sure looks clueless.

Relentless.7023:

• To you, Condi Necro whose nonexistent direct damage will not pierce the Diamond Skin of the glorious Elementalist who will have his righteous vengeance. May you discover how to play with skill in a future that demands both direct and condition damage

We discovered the amazing skill thats required by power specs back when they introduced dhuumfire. Every necro is condi + dd for months Well i guess will have to do it the skilled way and shoot a 1.5k lifeblast at ele before i start applying my condis.

Noctis.4753:

thief is going to be the worst class in pvp now

There there my sweetheart, dont worry, im sure you will find a way how to continue killing people with no effort. Maybe try necro? We aint getting no big nerfs and you can still just randomly spam marks like everyone else.

WvW – Fun
Completeing WvW meta – Fun
Recieving Chest – Fun
Opening chest – Disappointment
If this all is for fun then give fun on all levels.
If your worried about giving good stuff to large playerbase at once, then put in stuff we cant sell, unique skin, makeover kit, black lion keys etc. But seriously what was this? 9 levels and dolyak mini was only cool things in there. And while i did most of meta just by playing i had to farm ruins, meanwhile i would`ve leveled 20 levels in place of those 9.
You could have at least placed that “Veteran of the Mists” title inside the chest so its less disappointing.

Ellisande.5218:

lordkrall.7241:

And how do you suggest they earn money if they are giving everything for free in the game?

Sell substantial content updates. But that would require putting actual work into designing well thought out content.

It’s way easier and cheaper to just make a single skin or two and then put it up for $10.00 per outfit rather than having to make an entire story with all new artwork, voicework, mapping, etc. for $10-15.

Anet is looking for maximum profit for minimal to no effort. You can see this with something so basic as needing to use dollars to buy another character slot, buy more inventory or warehouse space, etc.

If endgame was supposed to be about getting new skins and not stats, then why is it that we don’t have a vanity slot and instead need to give Anet dollars in exchange for to make one single item for another? If they were good game designers who appreciated their customers they would stop gauging us like this. No one in the Anet staff has to actually do anything when you use a transmute stone, so why do we have to pay for it? Why even make it use up a transmutation stone?

Anet only deserves money equal to the effort they put into getting that money, just like the rest of us have to do.

Think about it this way, Anet first told you that the entire base GW2 game only costs $60, including multiple dungeons, many enemies, many areas, many weapon and armor skins. And now they are telling you that somehow one new armor skin costs 1/6 the price of the full game? No one is going to believe that lie.

Given the incredibly low quality of the living world updates I don’t think anyone would be sad to see it go in return for well designed and substantial content released less frequently even if that content had a cost attached to it.

Yup this pretty much sums it up imo, if they would give us alternative armor that we can earn by doing content then probobly their skin sells would drop, so they just give us no choice, if you want some armor that hasnt been around since release then buy it on gem shop.

Im totally fine if theres some armor sets in gem store, like at start there was three, it was cool cause game was just released and those were like sets from gw1, but now instead of releasing like 3 unique dungeon sets and 1 gem store set its like 3 gem store sets and 1 unique dungeon item. (im prolly again just talking here about tower)

You think you have problems? Try using orrian shoulders on asura, i havent seen any back item for years.

lordkrall.7241:

Leeto.1570:

Armor skins isnt only thing on gem shop, provide more services. Ofcourse nothing will earn them as much as selling only reward there is in this game aka looks, but still.

No, they are not the only things in the gem-store. But based on the amount of them added I would say it is a safe bet that they make up a rather large amount of the sales.

We have gotten skins in the game (with most of the updates no less) as well, but people seems to overlook that.

Thats why im asking, im using t3 + cof gear, what can you suggest me to refresh my look? Cause my current armor has been in game since release.

Armor skins isnt only thing on gem shop, provide more services. Ofcourse nothing will earn them as much as selling only reward there is in this game aka looks, but still.

Tower of Nightmare:
How it should be: You have chance to get tokens for shoulders and gloves in 3 levels from events and low drop chance from mobs. End dungeon drops tokens for weps.
Reality: Theres huge tower with almost no new rewards that noone is interested in doing after 3-4 days, and you just buy skins from gemshop.

But seriously im not PVEr so can anyone answer my question? How many new armor sets are there introduced since release that you can earn from doing PVE? On gem shop i see at least 10+ sets

No their selling gem store gear in gem store ofcourse.

Anyone else feels like this?
Im not big RP nerd and gw2 isnt known for its great immersion, but seriously selling dungeon gear on gem store is lame.
They said endgame will be not about chasing stats but chasing cool skins, its more like chasing gold to buy the skins.°
How many new armor sets have been introduced since release via content? I dont mean weapons or back items, but full armors like those in gem store.

Merlin Dyfed Avalon.5046:

Nice video, typical all necro’s run into the stomping problem constantly ^^
what gear are you using? trinklets?

I am not big theory crafter so just just playing with rampager gear and some ascended tough/vitality trinkets.

Hehe Just kidding its Leeto 4, sorry for misleading!

After some break im back with another WvW Roaming Movie, i really really hope its as entertaining to watch as it was to make. Let me know what you think. More info in youtube description.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5lgXJYeqXk

MAUS HOUS.8047:

Leeto.1570:

Its so you can drool for deluxe edition which is how you unlock it.

It’s a collectors edition only skill? Wow that is complete bullkitten. I feel like Anet is pushing things on me when I don’t want them. Respect has been lost here:/

Well digital deluxe not collectors edition, but ye if i would be more pedantic then it would really annoy me that theres grey skill that i cant unlock, which is cheap tactic for selling more deluxe editions.

Ah thank you, dind`nt read that topic cause thought its just about putrid mark. No wonder i was confused if even one dev thinks its intended and other one says its bug. =)

Its so you can drool for deluxe edition which is how you unlock it.

Whoa people are making big deal here when answer is simple.
Pros – perma swiftness, HUGE dmg (both burst and condi), reliable, 2 escape utilities, can kill anyone in 1v1 and get away in case you cant, its hybrid so you can kill anyone.
I used almost same build in my 3rd wvw roaming movie and that was before dhuumfire, now the build is so OP i cant even make 4th movie cause it will only get me flamed.

I really want to know if the full cooldown on marks when interrupting their cast time is intended? I was considering it a bug, but if noone gives a f that weapon has 4 bugged skill then it makes me wonder maybe its intended. Just want someone to clear this out cause im waiting for this bug to get fixed for like half year now, and in this interrupt warr meta its more frustrating than ever.

Its funny cause converting more than 5 boons is overpowered, but having more than 5 boons on is fine, kitten logic.

Dhuumfire is OP, but the game is balanced around stuff, every class has something over the top and everyone abuses it. Was bored so decided to play my oldi condi build 0/30/0/10/30 and it was horrible, not because its bad but just every person runs something OP and if you dont have the dmg of dhuumfire they just kill you before you can kill them.
If instead of giving out broken stuff, anet would nerf it then the balance would be better and there would be more viable specs.

Well GW2 pvp is node capping so its more about your intelligence as person and situational awareness to succeed here, skill as player or certain profession is only required at higher levels.
Ress others, dont die if you can survive, if you have to die then die on node, and just overall think what your doing, watch minimap to see where is your team etc. etc.
Plan what your doing instead of just rushing for max damage done and people will be fine with you.

Bweaty.9187:

Yeh, staff bugs are near the top of my F’in FiX IT list too.

Leeto.1570> We had 1/3rd downed life, for many, many, many, many months. Actually after many many months, they finally responded and, then it was only 3 more months before it got a fix. Don’t expect to see high priority/quick fix’s on anything necro…. (Tho with there ‘fixing attrition’ by lowering or removing things that make us last longer, it might be a good thing)

It was a bit different, we were whining about 1/3rd downed life for months, then someone made forum thread with video proving that its true and some dev saw it on forums replied that they will look into it and on next day they said they got fix for it and its gonna get updated in next weeks patch, so it did.

Interrupting marks still puts them on full cooldown… and how long it has been like this? 3-4 months? If necros most used weapon is having 4/5 bugged skills for months then i don`t even wanna think how low priority would other bugs have.

I dont understand why you dont get put on random map once you que instead of 1 map per week, isnt it logical that teams/builds should be built around conquest and not one specific map?
I have no problems with skyhammer when people play their tpvp builds, but when they just build whole spec around knocking off people then it just gets out of hand.

I was just assuming that this is hidden whining behind sarcastic “outplayed” but ye if your not beeing sarcastic then excuse me. =/

Just sayin that it really looks like he tries to get this stuff, gonna go play some yoloq just to see how bad it is.

Outplayed? Looks more like you just tried to catch these situations for your vid, how can you position yourself so horribly, the engi pulls out flame thrower and dodges behind you, and you got 2 dodges but you do nothing, what you expected? barbecue?

Seems world is already pretty perfect for me =D

Man you really gotta take spectral attunement, then people manage to run into it up to 4 times.

Pandabro.8743:

Honestly don’t think it’s a high priority to fix bugs for the most cried about class in PVP currently.

Im really not one of those conspiracy theorist who think devs think diffferently bout professions, so i think weapon with 4/5 broken skills should be high priority, i just want to know why its not adressed yet, maybe they havent noticed it as obviously some necros havent.

Why theres no fix to staff for like 2-3 weeks now? Interrupt cast and it puts skill on cooldown. How you expect me to fear all these people off new skyhammer map if my reapers mark is so buggy? Get blinded and you have no choice either miss and have full CD or interrupt cast and get full CD, not even talking about when others interrupt my staff casts…
Anet you make asuras sad, please fix asap =’(

Well imo its obvious, corrupt boon CD must be halved, thief can steal 6 condis in no time where we have chance to convert 5 every 40 sec.
The funny thing is that only problem people had with this ability is that it was OP when used against someone who has every single boon so instead of limiting people ability to run around with every single ingame boon they nerf corrupt boon.
Now its more RNG than ever before, you not only pray for it to hit but also for it to convert right boons.

Well i agree with some others who said that problem is other heals and not CC, i wont even start on why BF isnt good but WoBs problem is its cooldown, its good heal on its own and very good heal if you take Ritual Protection trait but its no way so good to be on 40 sec CD, 25 sec max.

Nemesis.8593:

They will make all necromancer builds be able to obtain Life Force more easily… and squishy power builds even easier…
They always intended “but you have Death Shroud”… and now they will make it happen.

I really hope your right, death shroud is most fun thing about necro but the fun is taken away alot of times cause of annoying and unreliable LF generation.

In wvwvw? Always! Its only somewhat reliable escape utility we got. Mostly precast it cause of its long cast time, but it can be effectively used while running away to teleport in different direction than you are running to, people dont expect necro to teleport so at first they will think what happened and only then look to which direction you ported.
The cast time must be lowered or removed tho, if it would be lower then you could use it mid fight as extra dmg and not only abuse it as blink.

I will give you the advice that has been given since the start of game whenever someone had problem with some class ability: Dodge.
But seriously spectral wall is fine in most scenarios and only very good if you use it smart or combo with other fears, it becomes OP only when specific individuals try to hit the wall as many times as they can per those 5 short seconds.

Nice movie, was hoping to see solo roaming but seems i will have to test myself how powerful necromancer is in 1vX WvW scenarios now.
Enjoyed your choice of music.

Death shroud and everything about it, i remember back when i was reading necro skills on wiki before game was released i thought it will be amazing and it is imo coolest class ability there is, to break it down:

1. Shroudstomps
2. DS animation
3. Dark path.
4. Fear
5. Life Transfer

Prolly those who have seen my WvW movies already know how i look in PVE gear, but i at last can showoff my PVP orrian staff! Got it today after my millionth try =D

IMO flesh wurm is must have utility if you want to tpvp on necro, it not only gives so needed escape mechanism to necro but also gives you so required minimum life force at start of match and blast finisher for AoE buffs at start.

Stice.5204:

Well done. Entertaining clips, some nice necro tactics and not too long.

What type of items are you using?

Mix of rampager and carrion gear, my stats with no traits – http://oi43.tinypic.com/k83gw.jpg

I really really appreciate that you liked it! Was a bit worried when from all clips i chose these ones, cause their not the top play but they all have some value, so wanted to save them in movie.
And ye spectral stomp can rarely be practical but it looks bad a** and we necros are all about beeing bad a**