If you are “dominating” Thieves in 1v1, you’re playing aganst bad thieves (or worse than you, at least). End of story, that’s all there is to it.
nope,power necro after patch kills thieves easly cause thieves got nerfed hard.
You have no idea what you’re talking about lol….thief got nothing but buffs and now they hit harder than ever. Any half decent thief that doesn’t just sit and eat your damage will spin circles around you and destroy you. Don’t be disillusioned because you play against less skilled opponents.
Bottom line was necro fell behind comparatively to other classes simply because power creep didn’t hit us as hard. We do 20-30% less damage than before with a marauder amulet compared to old zerk for a net gain of 8% extra crit and 3k hp. If you decide to go zerk ammy then good luck surviving Mesmer burst or thief backstab with that base 19k hp. You’re basically asking to get insta-bursted even if you have full DS.
Zerking… On Necro… In PvP?
Dear lord what has dungeons done to you?
We have no mobility, no vigor, no invul frames, and barely any stab and you want to play glass?
I love the stab change. I like melee-ing with Necro. My lack of stab is more or less irrelevant since you just have to tank the CC to get to the enemy blob anyways.
1v1 is meaningless and abused by stealth and tailored 1v1 builds. In Teamfights Necro should always be first target to focus down, because he has no escapes, no stability and is therefor easily shut down. You can still play successfully if you and your team knows this and you play accordingly. Downstate is also the most useless of all classes.
Please do this. While your team is wasting your time, my team will have long since wiped the group silly enough to focus down the tanky-est class in the game.
The new maps are very large. They are certainly designed for a much larger player cap than the current ones. This will kill WvW for the lower tiered servers. There is no way that anyone would design a map like this one with the intent of running it with the current server system in place. So what is it? Alliances? It has to be mostly finished and at a development point of no return, so why not tell and get some feedback before you send it out blind like the Golem week.
OH! So like guild alliances? Where the server system can just be given up?
Hmmm. ANET would somehow have to prevent being part of multiple alliances to prevent spying. Perhaps a 24 hour delay on an Alliance switch?
EDIT: Like the Alliance would have a persistent map? ANET would probably have to make a minimum people requirement before an Alliance could create a map.
People play what they play in top tier because it’s arguably the best choice. They play to win so they play what has the highest chance of winning.
Not true. Top meta strats are not always the best for the tier you are at. For examples, in League of Legends, jungling will make you lose the game until you start playing with top laners who won’t feed a duo group.
Necros are near the top at fighting. Problem with PvP is that most of it is not team death match. Mobility plays a large role in the higher team ranked meta and necro is not that dominant at fights to really make that up.
I like having 53K+ health 3.4K armor and 3000+ power (without might stacks)
It’s my go to class for new content or whenever I can’t be kitten d to “speed run”, or whenever I want to run a class that doesn’t die when “other players are noobs”.
Care to share your build? This sounds like something I would like to try.
I believe it is death 2 3 2, blood 2 3 1, Soul Reaping 1 2 2, Bloodlust plus force sigals, brawler armor runes, D/D. All Soldiers gear. I run 4 wells and lich form. Spend most of my time in death shroud.
The death line adds 480 toughness with traits and turns 14% of all toughness to power while in death shroud.
I like having 53K+ health 3.4K armor and 3000+ power (without might stacks)
It’s my go to class for new content or whenever I can’t be kitten d to “speed run”, or whenever I want to run a class that doesn’t die when “other players are noobs”.
I just noticed today, but my performance is far worse suddenly. I went from a steady 60 frame-rate to 45 standing still and 15 to 9 when turning. Anyone else having similar issues?
The oddest part for me is that switching between best and low graphics barely affects the frame-rate.
I run Carrion with Scavenger runes. I know the vit must be sacrilegious as an evil non deeps stat, but the scavenger runes turn vit into some more condi damage.
Med kit is 6K+ of self healing without healing power and clears all conditions with ridiculously short cool-downs for a heal.
It’s strong. The 1 is mildly worthless (although is a team stack heal no CD), but the 1 for all everything (other classes too) is rather bad to sit on.
Sometimes I damage, other times I am throwing down blinds so the pugs don’t wipe. Other times I’m using the dam med kit on an NPC that we need to keep alive from slow walking assassins that do like no damage but add up if ignored.
What really kills build diversity is gear. Outside of sPvP, gear may just lock you into a play style (at least on your 4th or 5th alt).
These days I got kicked out from a party just because I had my two guns. I was stacked, and party leader said: “You are using ranged, bye” lol
Can we have improvement on Dungeons? Like make them impossible to stack, and actually facing it?
What can we expect from dungeons in this new Exp?
I had people kick me from a group once because the WvW bonus max health made my health seem too high (with whatever mod they were using) and they were convinced I wasn’t in full zerker.
The trashiest, most toxic parts of the community aggregate to speed dungeon pug groups.
Requesting a subforum for all political/religious/sexuality topics.
Keep the Gameplay forum for Gameplay suggestions and feedback.
Most of us would agree that the game is a mess at the moment (condi balance, world boss bugs, prepurchase confusion, etc.)
Let players flame each other for their political/religious/sexuality views in an off-topic subforum so you can focus on what we all have in common – Guild Wars 2.
Lot’s of forums I go to have an off-topic sub forum where you can talk about non-game related things.
Woohoo! The more bigots (better still, religious bigots) that quit GW2 over this stuff, the better! We will have a more tolerant, more loving and friendly community full of people who accept or just don’t care about who loves who.
As both an extremely religious and extremely queer person, it saddens me how synonymous faith and bigotry have become.
Social progress is not all it’s cracked up to be. For example, the communist revolution in Russia was seen as social progress by it’s adherents. Millions of Russian citizens were killed by their own government. How’s that for social progress?
I, too, can apply terms used for one thing to other completely unrelated things and pretend that this casts doubt on them in some way. Of course, seeing as it doesn’t, probably not worthwhile eh?
Social progress is not all it’s cracked up to be. For example, the communist revolution in Russia was seen as social progress by it’s adherents. Millions of Russian citizens were killed by their own government. How’s that for social progress?
The Soviets? The kitten’s? Hyperbole better. If you want to disparage social progress let’s look to Sweden. That country seems to be run by Tumblr.
Also, if you are against citizens being killed by their own government, does that mean you are anti death penalty?
If their point of view is just as valid as yours, why are they the intolerant one? Just wondering.
Replace gay-marriage with inter-racial marriage and see if it sounds intolerant. If ANET tweeted a picture of black person marrying a white person and someone made a thread asking ANET to not make political statements because “many” players disagree with the concept, how ridiculously intolerant would that seem to you?
As we mentioned in several posts on the forums and in various other media, we have been reading and gathering your feedback about the Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns pre-purchase.
Please see this blog post for new information on the Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns pre-purchase.
“Many people do not respond to surveys or post opinions or give any indication of their leanings. Therefore they must be thinking what I think they think”
To clarify: $50 is the price of the expansion. We included the core game as a free bonus to make it easier for new players to get into it.
“There is no such thing as a free lunch”
If the core game is really free, then you should be giving it away without requiring people to buy the expansion. But I’m guessing you won’t do that because the core game actually has value. Or is GW2 worthless now?
2 weeks ago me and my friends got interested in giving GW2 a go, and my friend bough 3 copies for all of us.
We liked the game, and we kept playing day and night. Then, the news about the expansion came along and all the “Newly bought copies get the expansion with it” as well. So now we’re all like, we could’ve waited for like 2 weeks and get the expansion with it instead of paying extra money now. The refund option is not really optimal since, we’re going to lose all that time and effort spent into the characters we made. I really wish they announced the product sooner if they were going to implement the “New players get the expansion too!” kitten .
I’ve talked a lot of friends into the game recently.
They all got screwed by this. It doesn’t help that the “wonderful” community flies in and tells everyone they are entitled little pricks.
I can’t answer for all the vets but it most certainly is for me.
I have 8 alts, none of which i have any desire to part from. That means that I will have to fork out another 10 euros to get me another slot to play the revenant, which would be content bought and payed for by getting the “expansion”. That takes the price up to 55 euros for me. I find that unfair and shady.
To top it off, I brought 2 friends in the game, which are now faced with the dilemma of either losing their accounts, along with their progress and any gem purchases they did to get a refund, or buy the game again. I have problems looking ’em in the eye because of that. I feel ashamed for dragging them into a deal like this. It was supposed to work like, get the game now, and buy the expansion later. They kinda feel cheated as well.
And all this time we have the white knights telling us how entitled we are and what idiots we are, and how we act like little children. The silence on Anet’s part isn’t helping things either. It feels like they’re reading the posts and then laugh their bottoms off with the drama. Now that I think about it, I don’t much feel like a valued customer any more. My will to play is slowly sapping away…
My situation echos this, except my prices where in $s.
There is a lot of harsh words towards Anet pricing as well as veteran players bringing up this issue, while $50 is hardly surprising for the expansion price tag.
The thing is, I was not that sure myself if there is that much of a disbalance between HoT value for a new player and an existing one, so here’s the math; correct me if I’m wrong:
Roughly estimating content amount by the number of pve+pvp+wvw+instance maps, HoT expansion accounts for about 15% of it.
Value of the entire game content (HoT+core) varies from person to person, but let’s say it equals the price tag: $50; you can recalculate it if you wish, saying that the content is only a fraction of the price, but that kinda makes things worse.
What new players receive (but existing accounts don’t) is 5 character slots, bank slot, and material storage. Existing accounts can buy it in the gem store for 5400 gems, which is valued at about $65 on BLTC.
So by this math, paying $50 for Standard Edition GW2 HoT, the value received
by a new player is a full game plus digital goodies = $115
by a current player it is just HoT content = $8
It’s probably something like this math that makes vet players go bonkers, especially combined with the thought that it’s the same players who covered all the expenses of the game so far.
Well, I plan to get the expansion anyway, since it looks like HoT is pretty much mandatory if you want to keep enjoying gw2, which obviously makes it of greater value, but I do understand now why so many people voice their discontent.
If you charge two groups the same price and one group gets more, then the group that got less is slighted.
All I want is a version for the x-pac where the base game is not included. It’s up to the ANET team to figure out how to make that offer fair. $50 for x-pac and one character slot does not sound bad too me.
The price for HOT stand alone ONLY is $50, that is the price of the expansion…. Ok, still following…… Base game is included free to make it easier for new players to get into, which is a good thing.
I still dont understand why so many arent paying attention and think they are buying the original and the expansion.. HOT cost $50, thats what your paying for.
Base game + xpac is $50 unless you have the base game. In which case the x-pac cost $50.
The only way to get the base game is to pay $50.
It does not matter how “free” the bonus is. If it is part of a bundle, you are paying for it. Regardless of whether or not you actually get the bonus.
Currently in PvE, critical hits define power builds. Consequently, Bone Minions are completely useless.
Bone Minions deal low damage, and they are incredibly fragile. By design, the supposed payoff to using Bone Minions is that if they can reach a foe in the first place, you are rewarded by blowing them up for massive damage.
Currently, this is NOT the case In PvE. Their inability to deal critical damage essentially makes them broken in the PvE game mode.
Here’s my proposal: Have the crit % scale off the Necromancer’s critical chance.
I dunno… it might… Finally… Be a means of having Life Force scale as a defense. Gasp.
Good case scenario but it doesn’t match our utilities/traits, they pointed that changes would be made but that was more precise on signets. I just wonder of how they would implement it. Would it prevent DS draining it self out? If CC,damage and natural drain stack then it’s GG.
Make it an F2, maybe. I dunno, it would fit the so-called design of necro. We’d be stomping machines, and kiiiinda scary. Maybe make it where it doesn’t actually drain unless you get hit with CC. Stability on crack… Would make FiTG kinda useless, though.
A bunch of traits would be useless if utilities could works in DS it’s a dead end design they tangled themselves in, it’s a waste of traits I still can’t believe they agreed and continued with it that’s a great and permanent slap in the face to me. At least we know they possibly recognized the flaw design of DS as HP bar.
And I am over here thinking DS is one of the cooler profession powers.
