Guild Wars 2

PMilkos.9103:

We also have very powerful heals, unlike warriors. Once our heal is down, we can use DS. Once DS is down, our heal is back up. After that, we have Lich form/Plague form. And once that is down, our heal AND DS are back up.

Sorry, bro, but your necro is probably in another game, not in GW2.

While in DS your health doesn’t go up. You don’t have access to your heals or life stealing.

And while in Lich form, you have the same HP pool, although bigger. If your life goes down while on Lich form, you are dead. And while on Lich form, you don’t have access to your heals, too!

It’s true that the LF replenish nicely (as a matter of fact, I goes head first on DS, then HP, then DS again), but believe me: your HP doesn’t go up while on DS or Lich.

Lifeforce builds up really quick, so it will be waaay better than life stealing. To it to be suitable, the class skill that convert LF to HP should have a big cooldown or something like that.

We are trying to change DS to fix what the update broke. Instead of it, revert it to how it was. :‘( I still don’t know which was the problem with the way DS worked.

Brighteluden.2974:

well, maybe not you, but I still will be playing my necro. I enjoy him far more then any other class, it’s funny how people gravitate to a class just because they’re considered “Op” in one way or another and then get kitten and leave the class when it receives a few nerfs. I just adapt and if it’s that bad yes I move on but I still try my best to deal with the new changes instead of moving to the next FoTM class.

I will still play my necro, of course. I love it! But the nerf hurt the necro’s heart. Is not that the necro was op and now it isn’t: is just that it was fun to jump out of clifts, and to tank like a boss some bosses.

Besides, this is a nerf that wasn’t needed. It’s sad…

But what the heck? Let’s show them that we necros are still dangerous!

Hi, guys!

We are Hell Avatars (HeAv), a small casual guild with HQ on Sorrow’s Furnace server.

We play every day, at least 2-4 hours each. Most of us are from Venezuela, so we normally speak in spanish, but all of us speak english fluently.

We are currently looking for players looking for a fun and friendly guild. No particular skills or level required (we accept noobies!). No stress, no obligations, just play for fun whenever you want and can!

Saludos, chic@s.

Somos Hell Avatars (HeAv), una cofradía pequeña ubicada en el servidor Sorrow’s Furnace (Fragua del Pesar).

Jugamos todos los días, al menos de dos a cuatro horas. La mayoría de nosotros somos de Venezuela, por lo que normalmente hablamos español, pero todos podemos hablar bien en inglés.

Nos encontramos buscando miembros que deseen pertenecer a una cofradía divertida y llena de amigos. No requerimos algún nivel de habilidad o de experiencia en particular (recibimos novatos!). Sin stress, sin obligaciones, solo entra a jugar siempre que quieras y puedas!

Raf.1078:

Great Axe….can’t believe they left this out. I mean, we have a Great Hammer?

The great axe missing is really a mystery. :-s

My list:

“Hand” melee weapons
- Unarmed combat (Brass knuckles, gloves)
- Claws

One hand melee weapons
- Chain whip / Morningstar / Flail
- Tonfa
- Sickle

Two hand melee weapons
- Greataxe, Battleaxe (2h-axe, a must!)
- Halberd / Polearm / Trident
- Double Bladed Sword (a la Darth Maul)

Ranged weapons
- Crossbow
- Chakram (a la Xena)
- Cannon (heavy gun)

Defensive / Other weapons
- Buckler (really small shield)
- Net (a la roman gladiators)

“Please, no” weapons
- Book (a book isn’t a weapon! you may say “chair” or “shoe” as well!)
- Scythe (nice touch for necros, but hardly usable by other classes. Besides, the staff already looks like a scythe on a necro’s hands when casting. A sickle seems to be a better idea).

Malchior.1928:

Honestly, I think The Crossing makes a better legendary than The Bifrost ;f

imho, The Crossing is the best looking staff in game. Since I can’t get my hands on one, I am currently using my second option, Final Rest (a scythe-looking cool staff).

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Final_Rest

And, since the legendary staff doesn’t have better stats than the top staves, I believe I will keep Final Rest.

The first option is the Ranger. They have good regen, use fairly good armor, and their pet can tank and heal them. Use bows to attack from afar.

Imho, Necro goes at second place. Good toughness, good vit, lich life, and a lot of minions to tank and give them more health and toughness.

Of course, it depends on your playstyle and the builds you select.

One of the issues that troubles me the most on WoW is, precisely, the race-based factions. If my buddies are Horde, and I want to play a Alliance-alligned race, I will be torn about what to choose.

I could accept non-race-based factions, as in “every character choose its side”, but I also think that with WvWvW we have something very close to that.

I entered the thread to shout at you “hey, pal, GW2 IS a MMO!!!”, but after reading your post, I wholeheartedly agree with you.

Is a great idea, and will add a lot to the game experience. It should, however, be “configurable”, so that people that love to zerg or speedrun will be able to still do that.

Good idea! Having a easy (shorter?), less rewarding path allow some players (the casual ones, or the ones without party) to know the dungeon experience.

And yes, it will allow to have a harder (or longer, as you wish), more rewarding path, to the hardcore gamers.

All players have different levels of skills, dedication, of time to play. Let have different game experiences to them, so that all enjoy the game.

Of course, people that play less or have less skills should not get the same reward as those more dedicated players. The easy paths should give less money, less tokens, less powerful items, or even armors of weapons with simpler looks or slightly lesser stats.

I suppose this topic had been created before, but couldn’t find the thread about it.

It would help us A LOT if we could know which dungeons paths we already did, and which need to be done. And the change is really simple, since the game already keep track of which ones you had done, to give you the achievement.

Is there any wish list to add this issue?

Do you remember if the boss was alone or with other minions?

Path 2 final boss is alone, and path 3 final boss have some minions with him…

Anchoku.8142:

Minions do not dodge. Use them in situations where they do not have to. (…) I do wish Arenanet would allow builds to be saved as favorites along with equipment, though.

The main problem with the minions is their lack of fear for their security. They don’t dodge, so any attack catch them at full power. And a boss AoE just wipe them. So don’t use them in a AoE boss fight! (the Worm is an exception!). Besides, having all your skills used on minions is a shame.

For all other cases, Minions are ok. Not great, but they got their job done: they give you extra toughness, they damage your foe (some times!), they lich life for you, and take agro and attacks. They work fine in PvE, and I had used them in WvW without problems.

I tried a Conditionmancer to try to change my build, and mobs I killed before without looking at them, now kicked my kitten , so I got back to minions. I have to try the Powermancer yet.

So… use them wisely, at moments they would be useful, and change them when they wouldn’t.

I use staff with any of my builds. It has good conds, and pierce to damage more than one target.

Other than that, I use dual daggers. I know, don’t kill me please. I just enjoy them a lot, and their dps is great.

I got my clone going TO werewolf form. It was freezed in middle-form, so it was a really huge norn.

The “easiest” profession to level up will change according to who is playing it, and which is their playstyle. So, this will be an never ending discussion.

Once said that, I had leveled a Necro (my main), a Ranger, a Thief, a Mesmer, and I am currently leveling a Warrior. The necro and the ranger had been the “easiest” as in “the ones that let me fight more high-leveled enemies, while dying the less”, but I don’t know if they are the fastests levelers out there.

So, for starters, don’t say “easiests” or “more op”, since theirs meanings changes with every player. Say fastests, more survivalist, etc.

I have a Norn Necromancer. I did almost all my personal stories at the level it asked for, and normally did them without any problem.

The only one I did need help from my pals was the one where we defend the fort against the undead dragon, after which your mentor… you know. I don’t remember the name of that quest.

Check your equipment and try not to charge against every enemy at the same time. :P

To try to clarify some issues:

• Guards: They are the NPCs of the player’s races that are always on the same server side. The ones inside the castles, or defending the places, for example, are guards.

• Mercenaries: They are the “mobs” NPCs that switch alliances from one server to another depending on the players actions. Dredge, hylek, ogres, and the like, are mercenaries.

(No skill gives you bonuses against PCs, except if you are using a ballista, cannon, etc)

• Supply capacity: It only let you carry more supplies. Don’t create supplies nor gives bonuses to anything else: you just are capable of carrying more supplies at once.

Hope this help.

I will need more space to put enough +1’s to NornBearPig’s idea!!!

SnoodBeAR.5286:

MMOs are meant to be played with friends, hence massively multiplayer

As a matter of fact, that isn’t true. You can play with your friends in any lan-based game or online game, not just MMOs.

MMOs are, as you say, “massive”. It means that you will be playing in a world full of people: friends, foes, and totally strangers. And that’s exactly what you are getting here.

Don’t get me wrong: I also enjoy playing with my friends, and rarelly party with strangers, basically because my friends are normally online at the same time I do. But playing with them isn’t really necesary in ALL the play modes.

I can do dungeons with them, go WvW with them, do personal story with them, roam the PvE with them, do JPs with them, and so on. And normally, yes, do living story with them.

That some parts of some events can’t be done in party isn’t really a concern. As someone said before, for the sake of the history, it is ok that only one hero should walk around acting as a detective.

Playing alone some times gives us the chance to fully know our character, and to know his limitations without a party backing him up. And really, guys, how much is the must-solo content in the game? 1%? 5% tops? Get over it.

colesy.8490:

Why do you want a title for?

Believe it or not, some of us want more than more and more items. The title is a way of saying “yup, I was there!”.

But sylvari do changes color.

+1 on the idea.

A +10 / 1% on something isn’t really going to break the game. Even then, a purely cosmetic change will be nice to have.

Ray.6149:

charleon freeze.6573:

7/Well free is maybe too much,(not actually sure how much it cost right now tho) maybe cheaper then? I think that Arenanet has it as a goldwell right now.

(…) Also I don’t believe this is the main money sink mechanic in game so… it’s better to set it to zero cost.

Keep the fee, but (a) make it possible to change it anywhere, and (b) don’t start it from scratch: just remove some points here, to add them there…

C’mon, guys. We are playing a fantasy game here, full of magic and power, aren’t we?

A simple spell or cursed item in any role playing system can change your gender, race, and basically anything about you. So, why should you cry over it?

So I made a Charr and then want to change to a Norn? Well, let’s pay some gems, and then do a simple quest or something like that, in which my char changes its race, but its “memories” (the low level quests) are still there. “Yes, I am a Norn, but it wasn’t always like this. I remember when I was a kitty…”.

This is a game, and the idea is to enjoy it. So, let’s make it enjoyable.

P.S. Besides, ANet, you can get some extra bucks with us buying those gems!

Really, to be a game called “Guild Wars”, is only logical that the guilds should be able to fight between themselves…

When discoverinng new recipes (the anvil on each crafting station), the mats appear “disordered” (I believe they appear in the same order they are on our inventory / bank / collections, and change its order accordingly).

A easy change may be ordering them by level, so that the highest and “newest” mats appear always at the start of the list, or that the mats that we still can’t use (the “red” ones) appear always at the bottom of the list.

Another option should be to order them alphabetically. Ii isn’t really meaningful, but at least they will be in a consistent order.

Or you can provide us with a drop-down combo to select between No Order, Level Order, and Alphabetical Order.

DreamOfACure.4382:

Suggested a zillion times.

But still a good idea.

This forum is the way we have to let GW2 team what their players want. I understand that we shouldn’t repeat over and over the same question or wish, but imho is ok to say it again every other time, just to make noise.

Switch armor and traits, with the right limitations, is a nice addition to the game, and will make our experience more enjoyable, without disbalancing or breaking the game.

+1

+1 to this.

One button as with the armors, to change between one armor set and another. As usual, is ok armors can’t be switched in the middle of combat.

Not so much a bug as some questions. Excuse me if this isn’t the right forum for this thread.

Is there any way to follow the life of our own answers or questions?

Other forums let me follow my posted messages more easily, tracking them and warning me that someone had answered me, or quoted me, or wrote on a thread I already wrote. One forum even let me see the threads created since my last visit.

I know that you can get to all your posted messages from your profile, but then you need to check them one by one to see if anybody answered you, and that is non-sense. I also tried the Subscribe button, but I had got no warning of new messages. And I don’t know if we are subscribed by default on threads we created.

Can anybody help me? I am forgetting something?

Same problem here. Because of my country language, the forum always defaults to spanish. I want to configure it so that the english forum is the one I get redirected to.

While in Orr, the second part of the Fia and Jasper quest consists on killing a Risen Gorilla. The mob description on quest tab says it is a Champion, but the mob’s name (and its difficulty) says that it is a Veteran.

My character is a Norn Necromancer. Currently I am using Scepter + Dagger, and the scepter is the “Carrion Krait Wand”.

When I make my attacks, no “ray”, “energy” or any other thing can be seen. I had used other weapons, like a staff, and the attack can be seen. I also had other scepter-using characters, and the attacks can be seen all right.

The scepter attacks with the necro are otherwise ok: the damage is dealt coorrectly, and the effects are applied. But the attack being invisible is a nuisance. Is there anything I can do to fix that effect?

I am playing a Norn Necromancer, and currently I am equiped with a Light Armaggedon armor.

I am currently using the back piece “Rampagers Spineguard of the Rampager”, and recently got the Live Story ones, the “Fervid Censer” and the “Sclerite Karka Shell”. None of those items show in any way on my character.

I know the back pieces have a checkmark to show/hide them: checked or unchecked, it’s the same: the piece can’t be seen. I un-equiped my armor, and still the back piece can’t be seen.

Is a bug with my character? Or anyone has the same problem? What can I do to fix it and see my equiped back piece?

+1 here

Please, make these guys worthy.

My only comment is that, for me, Norns are big humans. Playing my norn and my gf playing her human, I normally think that I am the human, and she is a halfling.

Talking not only about norns, I hope ANet add soon more body tipes: fat bodies, “old” faces, hunched bodies, more scars, more tatoos, and so on.

After all, any race should be able to get tattooed.

Zojja is the hottest… I can’t get over the fact that Felicia Day voicer her.

+1!!! Excellent idea!!!

You have a lot of options in this game:

If you want to play solo, then you can explore the map (hearts, views, etc), do the Jumping Puzzles, advance in your personal story, craft, do “solo” events…

But if you want to play in group, then do dungeons, fractals, group events, fight champions, and so on… You can do it with a group of friends as a guild, or with a group of unknown people.

Is perfectly ok that you can’t beat some of the worst enemies in Tyria all by yourself. afaik, the game offers you a lot of possibilities, and you only need to select those that best suits you and your play style.

Myramar.8657:

And again Rox and Braham are getting all the attention while players are more or less nameless supporters).

What about a system of Fame Points or something like that? So that the characters (not players!) that helped (fighted?) the most (best?) in some event or dungeon or Living Story arc win a lot of those Fame Points, and every month or so, the names of the characters with more Fame Points in the server (or zone, or city at least!) will be heard in gossip, or will be the stars of the next arc?

I prefer to follow some character played by a living person, given that he/she was the hero of the last great battle, that an imposed “Rox”.

Atlas.9704:

I just hate the dance honestly, the rest I can live with.

What? Oh, c’mon! It’s the Carlton dance!!!

Raven, to help my Necro connect with the spirit world!

GW2’s Necromancer is very different to necros from other games, but still is a good class, fun and easy to play with.

1) I had played all classes in GW2, and Necro is in my top three. I do mostly PvE, and you can solo easily, since you have good HP management, and a lot of minions to help you. At PvP, the worse thing that you can say about them is that they aren’t the top damage dealers: instead, they work from the shadows, supporting friends and hindering foes.

2) Minions and power/thoughness, in that order. The minions help a lot, tanking for you and keeping you alive.

3) The minions are waaay useful. In fact, 3 out of 5 of my skills (6, 7 and are minions (Shadow, Blood and Bone). They hit pretty fine, and are very good tanks, taking agro from you. The only problem is that you can’t really comand them: they will attack what you attack, as good as they can.

My weapon sets are Dagger/Focus (mostly for soloing: decent melee damage, vampire health, and some nice conditions) and Staff (mostly for party: good conditions, nice ranged damage)

When your necro level up, the Jagged horror starts to last longer, and being useful. Besides, remember that you can get traits to actually get bonuses or debuff enemies when they die.

SPOILERS AHEAD —-

GW2 made a good work with each order’s companion: I personally liked Order of Whispers’ Tybalt the most. And when they are killed, and suddently replaced by a plant, while you still are mourninng them, is natural that we hate the replacement.

To only members of each order be able to enter into each order’s HQ seems like a lovely idea. The more public ones (Priory being the first) should have a “public room” where players can go to ask for information.