With full zerk gear/trinkets, power runes, bloodlust stacks and guard stacks, I sit at 3k power, 210% crit damage and 100% crit chance in DS. However, my Lifeblast only hits for 1.6k – 2k on 99% of my enemies. These are ALL Crits. However, other necros around me with less power, less crit damage, and not wearing zerk gear/trinkets are doing 5k – 10k every hit with lifeblast. I use Close to Death for the 20% increased dmg when enemy under 50% life as well…
I would like to point out this only started after the patch, post patch I saw Lifeblasts upwards of 10-12k… What’s up Anet?
Last Specialization reveal was on May 14, 2015… When can we expect a new specialization reveal? Originally I thought every 2 weeks as others expected as well, but so far it has been 2 months since the last reveal and I do not know about others, but I am curious to see what ANet has been creating.
Been playing almost every day, for just under 6 months and have only got one ascended weapon (which I was grateful for) and a few rings.
I only really do WvW, because I don’t enjoy the way dungeons are designed and/or the way people tend to play them and I just can’t go on like this, financially.
I hear PVE-only players say they can make 70g a day; whereas, I only normally make about 5g, if I’m lucky.
I didn’t mind ploughing real money into the game, to begin with, but I have to draw the line somewhere.
So, if I can’t make some kind of in-game “living” from playing the parts of the game I enjoy/can tolerate, I will just have to play something less expensive instead.
6 months and you got an ascended… Lol, try playing from headstart and main WvW only, no fractals, no dungeons… Gold is hard to make, gear is hard to get, and oh yeah, not one ascended armor/weapon chest. Guess I need to leave the part of the game I like and try fractals, oh wait, people are a** holes and judge by achievement points, which if you only WvW is not very high. Yet, my account seems to have permanent bad luck.
Something seems wrong with Toughness. I have ~2400 armor, which I don’t consider glass…and I’m still getting hit for 7k rushes by Warriors, and 4-6k Heartseeker’s by Thieves.
So…how much toughness should I shoot for not to get 2 shot?
3667 Armor, taking 5k heart seekers, 4k fireballs, 2.5k Long Range Shots, 4.5k Reckless Dodges… Toughness is broken, no point in using it. If you are a Low health class, you are screwed… A warrior can dodge roll 2x and basically do 80% of all but Necros HP. I reiterate… Something is terribly wrong with Toughness.
The biggest problem with MM is still AI, and wonky interactions. Things like their abilities being a bit off, Necromantic Corruption taking too long to start procing (and being worse condi removal than it should be), and base issues with the profession.
This… 1 out of 10 battles 4/5 pets would not attack, they just watched…
Problem with this is in WvW you do not have time for things to still be broken like this 3 years into the game… I was hoping with the new trait lines they would have fixed this… But playing in WvW watching my minions stand there doing nothing really irks me.
So we got this nice little announcement from ANet to all the complainers and whatever. I’m cool with it, I’m getting another slot, those are always useful.
But there is a very big thing for me in their date ranges. All of their future date ranges end on July 31st. Those ranges are based on pre-release sales. If it were still possible to pre-purchase after July 31st, why would this goodwill end then? The only conclusion I can come to is that August 1st will no longer be pre, but post-release.
Is this faulty logic? Did I miss an announcement and this is already common knowledge? What’s up?
Based on previous release dates and major patch releases from the past, between August and October is usually major release dates for GW2. Living world, etc. So I expect it between those months.
I haven’t yet, because I’m not sure where to pre-purchase a boxed version (I like having a physical copy). It is much nicer that the character slot will be granted, but if I have to wait until after launch there isn’t much skin off my nose since I bought a slot for a Rev long ago anyway… though the lack of veteran perks (I don’t do Betas) for standard to pre-purchase compared to newcomer was a reason why I wasn’t even considering it before.
Engineer can reveal for 6 seconds every 23 seconds with analyze… Sic Em is on a 40 second recharge (32 traited), soooo Muddy terrain reveal 1 player for 6 seconds is about the same as Analyze on Engineer?
@Brandon Gee… This… It will make ur game like TERA basically. It is basically a toggle to make the Right mouse button be held down and adds a visual retical to center of screen for easy fast-targeted ground AoE’s.
Should be a pretty simple feature to be added to game to make it more of an ARPG type playstyle. Also, might make the game a bit more challenging, if you do not auto-target monsters in this way you have to physically aim your skills. I do this already with no retical by holding right mouse and shooting people with my bow. It also allows me to shoot players on keep walls who are otherwise OBSTRUCTED by normal targeting. I can physically aim at their heads and hit them, it is nice! (Does not work on classes that requires a target for skills, example, Mesmers Greatsword 1, Necro Scepter)
Would it be possible to get the option to make items that don’t belong to a character (soulbound) in the bank to be dimmed so it is easier to find gear… I have 8 level 80s, all with gear in my bank and when you are searching through to switch gear, it can be quite annoying. Especially since the skins are mostly the same!
Also, arrows are staying about utility skills… This makes determining when you are in and out of combat a pain. Please revert whatever you guys changed to this system.
Before the introduction of this exotic spoon, I used to receive exotic drops on average of 1 per day in WvW. Since this silly collection of spoons started I don’t believe I have received a single drop of an exotic that was not in a bonus chest while in WvW. Please fix this. We do not need these spoons. They are beyond useless.
Thank you.
Must of been soooo nice.. I get 1 exotic a month lol
The pets, everything from Ranger pets to Minions cannot hit a moving target… I have tested this extensively and the only way my Rangers pet can hit someone is if they are standing still, channeling a non-moving skill, or immobilized… I just wanted to get this out there again…
I’ve seen an increase of Thieves going invisible without using any skills in WvW. I believe this is what the OP is referring to. I do not know how they are going stealth as I have a level 80 thief myself and cannot go into stealth as much as these enemies are. No targets around them not even rabbits for them to CnD, they do not cast a skill, yet they are going invisible. You can also tell which thieves are doing this and which ones aren’t.
Lol @Baldrick, not everyone just spams 1. We don’t all run GWEN. I play all classes (thief and mesmer less than others though, still not used to them).
In some areas of WvW when you try to click enemies, all you get are yellow walls / siege. So to use the alternative TAB targeting, it still targets the yellow objects instead of red enemies.
Could there possibly be a fix for this in the near future with the ability to “prioritize” tab targeting? Like “Do Not Target Yellow Objects”, “Target Nearest Enemy”, etc
lol, you mean the backstab you do with no animations or tells the opponent can see because you are invisible?
And you can’t do backstab from range? Are you a moron? Backstab animation into steal is a ranged backstab.
Thief and warrior both have defensive abilities that allow them to melee, either via blind spam or target drops from stealth or healing signet and plate armor.
Ranger melee defensive boils down to signet of stone every 60 seconds. Then he dies.
Ok then Thief Backstab needs more than 4 second cooldown, Warrior F1 abilities more than 7 seconds CD, Mesmers clones for shatters need to be changed so they cant chain shatter… you get the point?
Did you knew that the total damage from Rapid Fire is more than the Thief damage from C&D chained into a perfect Backstab? I think having a “4s” CD on Backstab is waranted to go with the 8s CD on Rapid Fire then.
False…
Thief C&D BS combo can do 12k instantly, whereas RF has 2.5 second cast time and can be dodged. Thief can spam 11111111 while stealthed until they hit, because being dodged/blocked does not reveal and prevent their burst.
@Wethospu: Adrenaline can be regained in under 7 seconds.
I’m all right with the burst. While the damage potential was basically increased by 150% (extra time to fire extra arrows compared to old Rapid Fire), the actual damage it does… still the same.
What’s really annoying, and no amount of reflect bullcrap sorcery will ever beat, is its really low cooldown. It’s 10 seconds, 8 with the trait. Most longbow rangers will go secondary GS or S/D, both of which are used to create distance easily.
Rapid Fire needs to have it’s CD increased by at least 60%, to 16s untraited, 13s traited, lowering its downtime but keeping its burst.
Ok then Thief Backstab needs more than 4 second cooldown, Warrior F1 abilities more than 7 seconds CD, Mesmers clones for shatters need to be changed so they cant chain shatter… you get the point?
have same issue:
I bypass this with the -emal email@blabla.com -password passwordhere -nopatchui
Tried it,it’s what i used to do with Gw1 to autologin.
Doesn’t work here though(it used too!),which kinda sucks for those of us with super long passwords with capitol letters mixed in,like we were advised for “security”.
The -email -password -nopatchui must be outside of the quotes. If your password has any spaces in it, then it would look like this, -password “PaSSwOrD 1456eFt” (example password with space)
Might this be part of the “use best textures”-Bug? Try turning this of, if it is enabled at the moment and tell me if it helped, plz…
Don’t use it. But thanks anyways!
Update: I lowered the screen resolution, set a frame limiter of 60 (no need for it to be higher in my case- on laptop). This has lowered the temp to 70 now, still get frequent lag and stuttering in zerg balls, but not nearly as bad. Giving ANet time to fix the performance issues for sure.
I run on a laptop as well, prior to patch I had constant 50 – 60 fps (have it limited to 60 fps in options), gpu temperature never got above 65 degrees C in WvW 3 way battles in SMC. Since patch I am getting FPS drops to 10 or so, massive lag, skill delay, and GPU temps up to 79 degrees C. They did something in the update, just not sure what yet. Also, if you have High Resolution Textures checked, uncheck it. This may help a bit.
Edit: just read your last post about textures, so ignore that part.
The amount of healing it adds with 1500+ healing power is less than Healing Signet base passive heal… The “activate death shroud on lethal blow” even more pointless… Damage goes THROUGH Deathshroud and usually when this trait goes off, you will be out of Life force.
1) Party dots appearing above commander tags.
2) Elementalist Vapor Form, is not CC’able as explained in the Ready Up videos…
3) Skill lag/FPS drops since patch.
4) Unable to Revive / Stomp due to # 3, downed players different location than appear.
5) (idk if this is bug but mentioning it anyhow) Some players with swiftness can outrun other players with swiftness, have tested in several scenarios, all my characters run slower than others in WvW, like 5% even with swiftness everyone just pulls away from me. (without using any other movement skills-been around before patch)
My graphics card never went over 60 degrees celsius prior to patch and had constant 60 fps… Now I am getting fps drops to 10-15 constantly and GPU his now running at almost 75 degrees C? What did you guys change????
Public Test Server/Realm… Every major MMORPG has had one to test changes on a large scale. Plenty of players would make characters on the PTR to test incoming changes, they would expect frequent changes as it is a test server, and the dev’s could get a ton of feedback based on the changes. Not to mention the numbers and data they can get from just observing the changes on their side.
Considering it is the one passive agressive defensive boon that some professions have access to.
I mean if you see someone with retal does it stop you from attacking?
Just curious because with the recent changes i feel retaliatio was nerfed in the wrong way.
Terrifies me when I run full glass cannon Elementalist build in WvW… 1 Meteor or 1 Ice Bow and I can kill myself pretty easily.
Considering there really is no good way to obtain keys currently, if this does in fact remove them from story rewards, it’ll feel like an intentional slap in the face.
1. Pull out credit card
2. Open Gem store
3. Buy pack of Black Lion Keys
Keys are supposed to be their main source of RNG revenue… it was never intended for people to get them for free.
You mean OUTFITS are their main source of income. I would have loved to get the new greatsword skin from in-game stuff and no, farming gold is not what I mean (gold > gems).
Graphics have nothing to do with this topic. People are just being insulting. :/
Wasn’t being insulting… as I was quite impressed with the graphics on your PC… and to quote myself, “But I could see why you want to hide them. Hope they add the option to mix and match / hide certain parts of costumes sooner rather than later.”
I was actually being sympathetic to your post. I agree that they need a way to hide the shoulder pieces, or to at the very least correct the scaling/attachment issues.
I’m sorry I took offence! It’s just that this topic is really important to me and I didn’t want it to be overlooked.
Completely understandable. You have invested money into your PC to be able to have nice graphics and visuals, and when something is improperly implemented that messes with the visuals you prefer to see, it can be frustrating. I hope they fix this for you and the rest of the players who have a “look” that they prefer.
I have a bad seed and would pay to be re-seeded… I almost bought a second account just for this, but decided against it since i have put so much time and money into my current account. It would just be nice to get more drops. When you see ppl getting ascended chests all the time in WvW and PvE, it would be nice to know what those are. Although, I have gotten a few Exterminator’s, Guild Defender’s, and Truth’s…
I loved to run in the middle of people dropping bombs for 2 – 5k damage while healing as well…
