not sure what the complaint is. all of my builds appear to miss out entirely from the ‘buffs’ that anet throws our way. i do not count the updates to turrets as a buff as they were pathetically useless before and i’m still not convinced.
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It’s an issue. Power builds are desired for bosses, and necros do pretty high single-target damage in Power builds. However, much of the dungeon is trash mobs where cleave is necessary. Necros lack that on Power builds.
Necro condition builds, on the other hand, will destroy trash mobs, but struggle against bosses.
Got to agree. I really enjoy my power Necromancers but rarely play her because of the lack of cleave. I don’t think introducing a new weapon is needed, though. Adding a cleave to the dagger might be too much damage and lifeforce gain. But they could turn the axe AA into something like the staff AA of Guardians with a slightly shorter range. Against bosses dagger would still be the best choice while axe could be used against trash mobs.
if they did that with axe they would have to buff the damage. yay for that because i’m close to frostfang, but we need melee cleave too.
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Cleave would be really nice for trash mobs, especially if the cleave was attached to a weapon set that gave us some tankiness/utility that would allow us to fill a bunker role in PvP (which SHOULD be something we can do, according to our profession balance ideal).
If not cleave, then at least some weapon-based AoE burst to blow through trash mobs more than once every 40s.
i’m still holding out on greatsword. though we get almost no attention from feature patches.
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There is this 1 certain troll commander in Gunnars Hold, Eternal battlegrounds map who has caused lots of trouble for the past month (and still is going at it) to the entire server.
He pretty much drains entire supplies from keep or towers and wastes them on building rams at random locations which serve absolutely no purpose rather then just trolling.
As far as i know he has gained atleast hundreds of reports and absolutely no action has been made against him. If im even correct then someone has even video taped him and sent it to anet to which he got a reply saying “thats legit” or something like that in similar context.
Anet please tell me what is your policy in this subject and what are we suppose to do if this kind of behaviour is allowed?
he sounds like a brilliant commander to me.
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well when(lol if) we get a cleave weapon with a leap, many of the problems of the necromancer class will be mitigated. i haven’t played my necro in a month or so for those reasons alone.
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i’m having the time of my life farming the gold for tooth of frostfang. it’s at about 850 with buy orders as low as 491g. could i do the same thing and get it eventually? i feel like 543g(my current gold total) would still be too low for a buy offer. ideas?
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what we have here from many of the comments is a l2p issue. you have no idea how limited engineers are until you play them. going from playing warrior to playing engineer is like going from one end of a spectrum to another. one has all the weapons in the universe, one has 3.
some of us don’t like kits, myself included. i mainly use toolkit, when i do use it, for the block and pull. the prybar skill i could perform effectively without. flamethrower is a joke, elixir gun is boring, bomb kit is …weird. and in order to get full use of grenade kit you need to spec a little more glassy than i’m comfortable with.
I don’t disagree with the idea of preference but it’s weird you don’t associate a l2p issue here.
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what we have here from many of the comments is a l2p issue. you have no idea how limited engineers are until you play them. going from playing warrior to playing engineer is like going from one end of a spectrum to another. one has all the weapons in the universe, one has 3.
some of us don’t like kits, myself included. i mainly use toolkit, when i do use it, for the block and pull. the prybar skill i could perform effectively without. flamethrower is a joke, elixir gun is boring, bomb kit is …weird. and in order to get full use of grenade kit you need to spec a little more glassy than i’m comfortable with.
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shield yes, rifle no. the legendary rifle is a sniper rifle. maybe they should stop making legendary greatswords and add some more of the other types. the only legendary rifle that would fit an engineer is a shot gun legendary.
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Actually, EotM was ANET’s vision for the future of WvW. They didn’t take into account the feedback from players and wanted to show the community the right way to do it. Unfortunately, EotM did turn out to be nothing more than an unbalanced karma train.
My hope is that ANET has learned from their mistake and will take future CDI comments more seriously. Supposedly there is new WvW leadership now. If true, that would be a great move since the previous leader was a bit stubborn when it came to outside ideas.
on the other hand, other games have really suffered from listening too much to player opinions(diablo 3) i’d rather leave 90% of it up to the experts. sometimes those experts are players too, most of the time they aren’t. EOTM is an incredibly dumbed down version of wvw i’m just hoping they don’t make it any easier. sieges in wvw can take a very long time when people are defending an objective, whereas the longest i’ve seen something last in EOTM is about five minutes when under siege.
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Fearing ppl off the bridge in hills beteeen north outter and north inner gates while they are rezing downed allies.
another time i was able to knock two ppl off the cliffs by the hills vista and then followed them down, they survived and were waiting for regen, one emoted a laugh and then i landed on top of them with death from above knocking them down a second cliff, rinse repeat two more times till im standing on the ground below hills and they are dead just from falling damage and death from above knockbacks.
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I average two to three gold a day and I don’t do dungeons, boss trains, farm or play the TP. This is from going around killing things and selling their drops. What are you doing so wrong Trice?
on a bad day i average ~7g a day. and i don’t even pve at all. what are you doing wrong?
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i think people are missing the ‘offhand only’ portion of my original post. also forgetting that a sawn off shotgun has the range of a toddler throwing a baseball bat. 1200 ranged shotgun is just ridiculous.
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i don’t think an offhand sawn off is something a ‘marksman’ would use. it’s more of a rogue-ish weapon. (thief/engineer mainly) i’m not interested in being a marksman on my engineer.
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sawn off double-barrel shotguns, mostly based off of thief’s offhand pistol. quick shots, only much higher cooldowns, and based on damage, as well as being close range, IE blunderbuss and overcharged shot.
this weapon would allow for a truly effective hybrid approach to engineer, and would be offhand only.
#4: Blast(not a blast finisher)
base damage is ~500, goes up based on power, causes 2 stacks of bleeding. range 300
cooldown 25 seconds
#5: Assault
unloads both barrels of your offhand for a powerful shot. does more damage if target is bleeding. range 300
cooldown 30 seconds
i’m not sure if it’s a great idea to implement this sort of things, but it was a little disappointing playing a class based around firearms having so few fire arm options available in the game, especially to engineer. just throwing out ideas. add to them if you like.
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4 lowbies tried to nuke my engineer in EOTM today. 2 went off the cliff with my launch abilities, a la overcharged shot and ultramega pelvic thrusting(personal ram) the other 2 got destroyed by my obviously impressive critical damage.
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If you do not have a use for the account bound materials, just delete them. At this point, even if Anet makes them tradable, there are so many players with dozens of stacks of each mat that they would be virtually worthless on the open market.
funny thing is on accounts where players can’t/don’t want to use them they’re even more worthless.
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Here’s a stupid environment story that doesn’t end with anyone falling off a cliff.
I’m chasing a guardian through that river bit near the Borderlands south camp. He didn’t really fight, just bolted immediately and started using his healing/defensive stuff while I plinked at him from range. Pretty sure he was upleveled. Anyway, I down him on the river bank.
He pops his knockback bubble before I’ve even gotten close enough to initiate the stomp. This ends up aggroing three drakes.
I stand there kinda incredulously while they nibble him to death.
that’s one of my favorite ways to finish somebody. like the ice drakes near south east camp, every time i fight there, the person i’m fighting always manages to aggro them.
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So you don’t want to do what thousands of other players have already done, and want the devs to make changes to the game that will benefit you. How does this benefit other players and/or makes for a better game?
it benefits other players by them being able to purchase the required materials. did you read what i posted?
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And around 13-14 second fear avalible to Rangers. It’s spreadable via Epidemic and procs Terror also.
No, just 6 seconds. Wolf is their only access to Fear, so they can’t chain it, and their condition duration stat doesn’t affect it because it’s from their pet. The tooltips are bugged, though.
I suppose if you wanted to get into fear chaining, it would be 100% fear duration with a hypothetical 1 second stun or daze proccing both Nightmare runes and Reaper’s Protection (2 second base each, increased to 4 seconds each for 8 seconds total), followed by a sub-600 range Doom (3 seconds), then Reaper’s Mark (2 seconds) into Spectral Wall (+2 seconds). 15 seconds of continuous Fear is possible (and even more if they gain stability while Feared, but don’t stunbreak, and that gets corrupted, but this has to happen after 4 seconds have passed or the stack limit interferes).
rangers pig pets can actually find skulls and they get a fear that way.
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Thief and Ele are the two highest single-target DPS. Necro is #3 after them. I think Warrior is actually #5 after mesmer, but for AoE, they’re #2 (after Ele). Necro jumps up to #2 if he’s using Lich Form, but otherwise is down significantly lower.
While Ele has the highest DPS both on single target and AoE, they do have to swap weapons out of combat. A single target DPS build is pretty lousy at AoE and vice-versa.
oh my kitten are you serious? warrior dps vastly outshines necromancers. ele actually has some of the lowest dps, but highest potential dps. yes there’s a difference. necromancers have what, an autoattack chain? and going glass cannon build on daggers is the worst idea ever outside of pve. axe provides the best offensive support, and the best damage burst that we get, which for most necros isn’t even that much.
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I can never remember if enemies can see your custom emotes. I would honestly try running by and emoting “/e just wants map completion, do not kill, for the love of god please do not kill!”
to a person who’s inclined to help or hinder anyone in wvw, ally or foe, i might knock him off the cliff for the kitten of it. and trust me i’m not alone there.
do i get points for honesty?
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i honestly think that it should behave like a proper mmo auction house. 15% cut period. no listing fee, or turn it into a deposit that you get back after sale completion.
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considering that i’m saving up regular materials for a legendary weapon, ascended crafting is currently out of my reach, and even when i finish i’m not sure i want to spend the coin getting crafting disciplines up to 500, let alone spend the money making the ascended armor. so how about letting us sell things like empyereal(spelling?) fragments, dragonite ore, etc? my bag space would be very thankful as well as my wallet.
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another funny kill i got today. i intentionally charged into an enemy zerg near one of the tougher objectives in EOTM. on a bridge with no land near it, got downed, press 2, knocked at least 2 off the cliff.
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No. it goes against their core philosophy. no player should have access to something that another player cannot have access to. although if you’re in the game, clearly someone paid to be there.
all players have access to purchase content (via RL money or in-game gold converted to gems), just as they do now to purchase gem store items.
do you honestly believe they can keep the game running/make a profit by giving away all future content for free to those that “just log in”?
there are no signs of them releasing a traditional expansion anytime soon. so if they are ignoring this model (which would be equally against the “core philosophy” by your definition) then they have to sell the content incrementally.
yes. by releasing expansions. is it really that hard to comprehend?
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I understand why Anet would think red would be good for weakest server, but in practice, it’s really not.
The problems:
1) Anzalias, Speldan, and Mendon’s are all very tough to defend and upgrade. The yaks walk a LONG path. And because red is weakest, it’s likely that all three are going to flip constantly, depriving red of at least 25 PPT.
2) Anet thinks that Veloka, Pangloss, and Ogrewatch compensate for the Anzalias/Speldan/Mendon’s set up, but this isn’t true. The biggest problem is that OW should be considered an inner tower because an enemy can treb red keep inner from OW. However, because red is weakest, it’s unlikely red will hold SM. And OW can be constantly treb’d from SM. OW is the only inner tower that can be treb’d from SM. In practice, this means that the weakest server will have trouble holding Anz/Speld/Mend/OW, leaving the weakest server only Pang/Vel/OL. The costs far outweigh the benefits.
3) Overlook outer can be constantly treb’d from SM. Again, because weakest server is red, it’s unlikely that they’ll be able to hold SM for very long, if at all. On the flip side, the owner of SM can keep building trebs to treb outer wall of OL. This offers a number of disadvantages:
First, OL waypoint is constantly contested.
Second, if the wall falls, it’s much easier for the stronger server to waltz in, build 4 superior rams, and ninja the keep because they only really have to go through one set of walls/gates.
Third, red will constantly have to build counter trebs or counter AC’s to deal with the SM trebs. And usually, SM gets supply faster than red can counter treb, so the stronger server can just keep rebuilding trebs to force weakest server into a perpetually defensive position. Not only is it difficult to hold Anz/Speld/Mend/OW, but weakest server will constantly be in their corner trying to take out SM trebs, which just keep getting rebuilt. This prevents the weakest server from pushing out of their corner, even if they wanted to.
To make things worse, Anet thinks it’s a good idea to give the strongest server green corner. The only real drawback to green corner is Lowlands, but that’s pretty much a non-issue because the strongest server usually doesn’t need to worry about enemies going for their EB keep anyway. However, green conveys a lot of advantages. Both outer towers in green corner can be defended by keep trebs and mortars. This means that enemy servers pretty much have to cata Klovan and Wildcreek, allowing green to upgrade their outer towers much easier. This makes it that much harder for red to disrupt the supply flow to SM, which usually belongs to green.
tl;dr: Anz/Speld/Mend/OW very difficult to hold for weakest server. OL constantly treb’d from SM. Strongest server rebuilds trebs faster than weakest server can take them out. Forces weakest server to stay in their corner.
red in eternal battlegrounds has the best vantage point for taking SM as well, which is why it’s always treb’d. my server is absolutely crushing this week and we’re red. so i’m not sure if it’s intentional that the weakest server gets to be red. Personally i’d rather be red than any color, because when you are the weaker server(in eb anyway) you need to harass, that is your only chance.
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last night in EotM, i got the most hilarious kill of my gw2 wvw career. i saw a warrior that i knew i would not beat, so i baited him into a fight. he was a perplexity warrior with a hammer and greatsword(lol) so i knew i wouldn’t win being a slow and terribad guardian( i main necro and admit to being the worst guardian on the planet) however, clearly i had the advantage anyway(smart>not smart). i was able to bait him near a cliff, and after about 5 minutes of letting him whittle down my health , he got me to 1.1k hp. I maneuvered him near a cliff ever so perfectly, annnnd pressed 4. fight over, golf swing improved. ended my eotm run that day about 4 under par.
what’s your funniest kill?
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No. it goes against their core philosophy. no player should have access to something that another player cannot have access to. although if you’re in the game, clearly someone paid to be there.
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What level of Fractals are you doing? Levels 1-9 are a joke, yes. Perhaps try some of the higher levels?
it’s still the same content at higher levels, so it still feels like you’ve done it before. every time i do a fractal i wish i didn’t because it just takes so long that i want it to be over after the second major boss. sure they’re rewarding as far as gold and drops but there are much quicker ways.
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I think its more due to the fact that you aren’t really doing anything. Just like Mesmer and Phantasms. They are just summon and forget. Sure you have the special attack but other than that its just let them run wild.
Yeah I can see that argument, isn’t the basic idea to just overwhelm your enemy with AI minions and conditions?
Less so with conditions (most MM conditions come from the minions themselves), and really, minions don’t overwhelm. They just provide a steady stream of damage until their target buckles. The fact that the Necro getting CC’d doesn’t stop the minions at all also helps in that regard, but what kills you in a minion build is that you can’t simply out-tank all of the minions and the necro. None of them have heavy hits to dodge (save Charge), but just keep up a steady stream of damage.
Now, if you don’t try to out-tank the minions, you find MM’s rather easy to fight. The only fight I’ve lost to a MM in PvP was one where I was going for the trebuchet on Khylo instead of the MM manning it. Surprisingly, my Flesh Golem kept whacking at the treb while I kept the other necro (and minions) back. I could not get that to happen again if I tried, I’m sure.
as another necro, i find fighting them incredibly easy. most of them play like the majority of rangers. let pet tank , get nuked by my dagger hits.
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Well after tossing countless weapons, etc. into the Mystic toilet I did finally get a pre-cursor from a WvW drop, the Tooth of Frostfang, from of all things a camp scout while I was soloing an undefended camp.
wellp, i’m really jealous because that’s what i need.
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weapons in mmo(rpgs) go as follows usually:
dagger—>sword—→greatsword
axe—→battle axe
mace—→hammer
the problem with engineer getting more weapons is that the powers that be are stuck in having kits be a weapon type. necromancer and engineer need more big time, and guardian to an extent.
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i’m going to disagree…slightly. fighting well supports ppt. it’s quite possible to balance both. most guilds i’ve been in have outstanding wvw players that not only are able to support the overall effort, but turn some enemy zergs inside out.
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Are you kidding me? Around of 40% of precursors drop registereds are from WxW drop (Lv up chets, and player kill drops). Also, wxw is well know as one of the best ways to get t6 mats (All of’em, due to heavy loot bags). And for last, KARMA and SP are really strong in wxw.
What a wxw player is missing?
Wheres your source on that 40%, if you would please?
Either way most of us could give two kittens about legionaries.
Most of us would be happy if there was a dedicated WvW team year round addressing issues with the game mode as their major focus, bottom line. T
their own opinion is the source. i can tell you from experience(90+% of my time spent in game) from playing wvw since launch, that we have been looked over so many times that it could depress an optimist. the drops i get are absolute kitten. i’ve got over 100% magic find and i’m just not seeing it.(maybe because i play power necromancer main, easiest thing to kill on it’s own when it’s out of a zerg) i get a ton of kills, from keep/tower champs to playerkills. never get anything good from countless champion bags/loot bags, save for the bloodstone dust which i can’t even use yet. (lol legendary farming) getting a precursor from wvw would be my dream it would mean i would never have to do pve at all ever, however, the game is designed in such a way that it economically punishes those who do not like to pve. not to mention my achievement points were sub-4000 before the WvW tournaments were introduced, and they stagnate after the tournament is over.
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i’ll see your ‘useless’ and raise you ‘wow i’m totally annoyed at this enemy mesmer now. he just wasted 3 of my guildies holy kitten and i don’t even know where he is all i can find are his clones’
sigh. pve isn’t the only content that exists…
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-Increases balance in WvW.
(Since F&N isn’t a requirement not every body uses it. For example, you come across a player who is using F&N while you aren’t. Your defeat usually is quick and painless.)
If you’re losing 1v1 to a player using food and you’re not, it’s not because of the food. That player obviously cares about maximizing his performance while you obviously don’t, which probably carries over to other aspects of your gameplay.
i guess an increased crit damage percentage vs someone who doesn’t have food buffs has nothing to do with it. I don’t use it for combat advantages in wvw for personal reasons. i feel that it is a handicap. just like i feel ‘guard stacks’ are a handicap. some builds are built yes, built around this. it’s kind of insulting really. maybe this is must my pride speaking.
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