Guild Wars 2

I want a legendary bear, too.

Proxy, you’re a little bit behind. 4w1m was meta half a year ago. People have figured out a efficient way to play Ranger, Engi and Elementalist and even Necromancer (…well, necro is probably the weakest….). The reason ppl kick rangers is not that the class but 99% of the players who think bearbow ranger sitting afk at 1500 range is stronk play.

CoF, the former king of 4w1m has his record speedclear time with 1r2t1m1w if I remember correct.

Blix.8021:

Lol, the people who for whatever irrational reason dislike zerker speed clears have way more hate in them then the people doing the speed clears. I guess ‘play how you want’ doesn’t apply if you like to play quickly, eh? Such hypocrites.

I have nothing to add. QFT, both the first and the second statement.

Maybe we should…

Conditionbuilds loose dps the same way as zerker builds when not attacking for whatever reason.

And if your GS/axe deals not more than 4k dps, well, bad for you.

This, however, should not keep you away from S/S + LB. (NOT rifle. Why on earth would you use a rifle?) It’s fun to play.

Conditiondamage op in tafu…

TheMaskedParadigm.3629:

Whoever you are, thanks for implementing the worst possible system for flagging posts and making it boringly easy to get around your bans. Thank you for allowing the BHB casuals and reddit white knights to waste the time of path sellers.

You do realize that this site is the reason you were able to sell in the first place, right?

Create a special ingame title for this guy^^

You cannot make the game fun for everyone. Some people like tafu the way it is. Nerf it, and you nerf their fun.

What is the gimmick you are talking about? I don’t know any necessary gimmick to do tafu.

The first one is much better. But I would give 30/25/0/0/15 a try. Forcefull Greatsword (Weapons X) is really good for solo play.

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

Make it so Dragonite drops from silvers. Guaranteed fix.

I like you.

I beg to differ. There are two kinds of bad zerker player. The one side thinks about their mistakes and try to improve. The other side blames the necromancer.

And btw you find those … strange people … everywhere, not only while playing necro.

10% serious posts
90% [rT]-trolling

kokiman.2364:

spoj.9672:

Sherlock Holmes is here!

Huh? So is he some kind of class clown?

Yes. And he is a good one.

get it

No matter how you play your mesmer, if you don’t use your reflections right, you’re doing it wrong.

Know how to use Feedback and Focus – thats one big step (maybe THE big step).

You have two weaponslots, 5 seconds weaponswap recharge and much space in you inventory – use it wisely.

Usually GS + Axe/Mace, and every weapon used by a warrior in the bag.

If you play open PvE (exporing n stuff) use GS + Sword/Warhorn. GS does enough dmg and the mobility is insane.

Îf you are new to a dungeon, ppl expect, that you say that. Otherwise noone will tell you what to do and you’ll fail.
And If someone kicks you bc you are new, well, be glad you left the grp that early^^

As a guardian, well timed aegis, stability and reflection is key. You’re goingt to learn which encounter requires which skill.

Oh, you again…

Here, have a victory music: http://youtu.be/SGFaYde89mw

Now go craft a red one ^^

If your dps as a ranger sucks, you are not using him to it’s full potential.

With a dps-meter, we could finally show, how wrong the usual pug-assumption “Warriordps >>> ALL” is. This would not be the end, but the beginning.

sazberryftw.3809:

Why the kitten would we want loot removed?! Loot is the reason we play, loot is the core principle behind RPG.

Speak for yourself. I couldn’t care less about loot, gold, ap and shinies.

Edit: Aw, post is gone, what a shame…

The Mexican Cookie.3690:

I like Molch’s special snowflake build

Thief traited for +50% damage while downed. Just make sure people don’t res you!

I think I should write a guide….

My top 2 are AH-Guardian with knights gear (very relaxing to play since you cannot die)
and DS-Necromancer (looks awesome).

Trader… hate them…
But hey, if you think its fun to exploit 12-year-olds in a videogame, well, more power to you…

Why am I falling for trolls all the time… I think dub is right, I am just to nice…

1. 100b + axe > axe + firefield. If you need LB to stack might, search another group.
2. is not the only reason to use a GS as a warrior.

And:
Oh the irony, it burns…

Dub.1273:

Molch.2078:

P1 needs a waypoint at tar after the latter is dead.

Fixed.

Ah yeah, thats what I wanted to say. Thanks.

Hm I don’t know. With my warrior I went full zerker from the beginnign and in open PvE GS2 + collect loot worked fine for me. I used Sword/Warhorn as a secondary set for more mobility.

Is your Gear up to date? Including Jewelery?

Who cares where the other wp is and if its the same and whatever.

P1 needs a waypoint at tar.

Bhawb.7408:

Scythes aren’t, to my knowledge, associated with Necromancers in any way. Its just people raised in Western culture that want to RP as Death.

Ofc they are, staff already uses a scythe-like animation.

Khal Drogo.9631:

Molch.2078:

Yes.

Btw, you can customize your Log in music, and I am sure you can download the sab-theme somewhere.
…
Actually, thats a good idea. brb

What music file I need to replace in which folder? And will the patch revert this change?

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/audio/A-guide-to-custom-playlists

Yes.

Btw, you can customize your Log in music, and I am sure you can download the sab-theme somewhere.
…
Actually, thats a good idea. brb

Bhawb.7408:

Yes. And now I’m playing a NECROMANCER. If you want dervishes go and ask for them.

And you don’t think the weapon used by the grim reaper himself would fit the necromancers style?

Btw I am not asking for a scythe as a weapon like a greatsword or something. I want a melee-based F2 deathshroud and I think this would look awesome with a scythe.

Bhawb.7408:

We already have scythes, both as standard staff skins and our own particles that are added on when using a staff. It’d be redundant to have more scythes.

Have you ever played a derwish in GW1?

GuildWars is a innovative, outstanding and unique game. GuildWars2 however, is not.

Grounder.7381:

ProxyDamage.9826:

Ascended in general is a massive kick in the genitals for anyone that enjoys build or character variety.

agreed!! with the way they would be obtained,, with mass time gates and crafting mats, i don’t think build variety would be possible!
well… zerker 4ever for me than.. =/

And I don’t even have something like a build variety – all the 12 weapons I mentioned have zerker stats. If I think of the people out there who actually like to play something different then zerker once in a while…

And I have 2-3 other characters I like to play with. Well, time to bury my Necro, Ranger and probably Thief and Ele, too….

Dualwield? You are concerned about dualwield? My warrior alone has over 12 different weapons and I use all of them frequently.
12.
Just my warrior.

Waht teh KITTEN!

I’ll just copy&paste my answers out of the old topics about /inspect.

Molch.2078:

There is a difference between
I want to play the game the way I want
and
I want you to play the game the way I want

Let’s imagine this is implemented in the game. The uberzerker CoF1 elitist can create a group and sort everyone out who doesn’t match his needs. This part of the game is happy.

The hippie can create a group, too. Go to gw2lfg and make a “lf4m cof p1 everyone welcome” – you’ll find ppl in no time. This group isn’t affected by the change at all, because noone uses gear check. They are happy, too.

The one and only victim would be the one, who enters a elitist speedrunn group wit ha crap build and expects to get carried. But remember, the stupid elitist has the same rights you have. And currently he has no way to figure out if you match his needs or not.
And you have no way to recognize him as a elitist prick. You don’t want to play with him, he doesn’t want to play with you – a kick would be a win-win situation.

Play the game the way you want is awesome, but we need tools to find other like-minded players. With out them, there are groups with two or more players, who have contradicting ways to play the game.

This would be one such tool.

And anotherone about a dps-meter:

Molch.2078:

Pros:

• More possibilities for personal and teamwide optimisation.
• A way to compare yourself to others – better and more realistic self-evaluation.
• Easy way to determine if you want to play with somebody or not – for both elitists and casuals.
• Better and easier way to spot balance-issues.

Cons:

• You would notice very fast if your guild is friendly or or a bunch of kitten.
• If you are a bad player and have no interest in getting better, you would have trouble to find a decent group/guild.

Those arguments are always the same. There are lots of pros and the only real con – more ways for idiots to flame ppl – can easily be answerd with: If somebody kicks you for low DPS [edit.: and/or a bad build], you probably didn’t want to play with that person in the first place.

LunaticRhythm.6794:

while being an alien humanoid that looks like E.T. had a love child with Gizmo!

Pic plz!

No. I want a scythe. End of discussion.

Daecollo.9578:

When you go into Death Shroud, you should get a scythe you use to cleave foes with!

This is by far your best suggestion on the entire forum. But I would take a different approach. Leave the F1 as it is and add a F2 deathshoud – one melee and one range.

Either way – I love it.

General

• Anet cares about GW2 again.

The game is one big mess and all they do is to threw new temporary stuff at us.

Nemesis.8593:

Molch.2078:

I would recomend this build to new players. It has high EHP, is ranged and doesn’t loose much efficiency if you use all your skills on cooldown. Of course you can do it wrong, but it won’t hurt that much.

Othewise, if you want AoE as a necromancer, go hybrid. Have you ever heard of this Nemesis-guy? He wrote a really good hybrid guide. You should watch it.

Guide is not bad. If you want to play conditions, thats a good way to do it. (Well, I would use Dhuumfire, since nothing but guardians F1 causes burning in the average party, but anyway.)

The problem is: in PvE you need both AoE-Burst (trash) and sustained singletarget dps (boss). And this build has neither. Have I ever mentioned, that my warrior (in organized groups) deals more sustained AoE-damage with greatsword autohits than every conditionbased necromancer? Like, 20% more damage?

Emmmm… i remember you since you had a nice contribution to the glass cannon build, so i am taking you seriously.
If you saw the math calculations… when i use epidemic in a good scenario i do ~ 300.000+ damage on 6 targets over ~10 seconds.

Your auto-attacks with greatsword can hit 3 targets…
My epidemic 300.000 / 10 seconds = 30.000 DPS on 6 targets… for you to match that with only 3 targets you’ll have to do auto-attacks of 10.000+ on 3 targets, and you’ll have to have a DPS uptime of 100% for 10 seconds with melee auto-attacks… can your warrior do that ? If it does i might just switch my main haha… seriously…

I did the (rushed and inaccurate) math for 3 targets for the necro and the warrior. In that case, the warrior just needs 5k autohits and thats no problem. To surpass your damage on 6 targets (while he hits only 3), the warrior needs both his full rotation and a good team.

By the way, I won’t argue, that conditionnecro is insane strong in high level ascalon and dredge.
But thats like… 3% of the game?

I would recomend this build to new players. It has high EHP, is ranged and doesn’t loose much efficiency if you use all your skills on cooldown. Of course you can do it wrong, but it won’t hurt that much.

Othewise, if you want AoE as a necromancer, go hybrid. Have you ever heard of this Nemesis-guy? He wrote a really good hybrid guide. You should watch it.

Guide is not bad. If you want to play conditions, thats a good way to do it. (Well, I would use Dhuumfire, since nothing but guardians F1 causes burning in the average party, but anyway.)

The problem is: in PvE you need both AoE-Burst (trash) and sustained singletarget dps (boss). And this build has neither. Have I ever mentioned, that my warrior (in organized groups) deals more sustained AoE-damage with greatsword autohits than every conditionbased necromancer? Like, 20% more damage?

GS 2 + 3 is stronk aoe-burst (up to 60k in 4 seconds with low cooldown) – thats really handy to clear trash.

Empowered Allies + banner + fgj make one warrior a must have. 30-40% damage increase is no joke in a game based around damage.

We have 8 professions, 5-man partys and one of the 8 professions is a must have. Maybe we play with different people, but I don’t think warriors are that overrated.

And since Warrior is one of the better professions to solo dungeons with, I don’t know how valid your " instead the warrior needs to BE carried by his group" – argument is.

Imho, Mesmer is more overrated.

+1

I think we should judge players by the color of their armor. No purple? No right to talk…

Thats the look I want, what do you think? Worth the 100g? (Sorry for the bad quality)

Mortifer.2946:

People invite guardians into the party because of their party aegis, other boons, heals and condition removals. Try to make some build which uses some of those things to be actually helpful not just DPSer

Fun Fact: You can do all those shiny things AND do great damage. Thats the reason I love this class so much.

Another Warrior. Otherwise you’ll lose your partner fast in open PvE – warriors are incredible fast with greatsword + sword/warhorn + perma swiftness.

At this point its easier to buff this boss then to remove all the ta f/u posts, so hey, lets do it.

Some suggestions:

• Doubble the spider spawanrate
• make him immune to conditiondamage
• give him a melee attack (cleave, onehit)
• let the spiders ignore reflection and give them stability

I think that would help.

Maybe you have some Ideas, too?

Well, first I would leave your noobish guild.