Guild Wars 2

arrownin.3128:

Not really anything that significant has changed

What.

We got like 50 nerfs in these 4 months.

Did this with a normal D/D burster, just whirl the hell out of the mobs and kite boss with P/P.

I wonder why people keeps throwing tons of stuff in the mystic toilet and then comes here complaining.
It’s like spending all your money on lottery tickets and complain you didn’t win.

Just hold off until Anet implements a better way to obtain precursors, the famous “scavenger hunts”.

It’s been tested already, just like Sigil of Accuracy it actually adds the crit chance but it won’t show up in the hero panel.
Gotta bug Anet until they fix the bug.

I use a boon uptime build, the idea is getting near-perma SoR, very high damage and good survivability.
This is gear: http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/warrior/?8|1.1g.h1|0.0.0.0.0.0|1g.71g.1g.71g.1g.71h.1g.71h.1g.bw.1g.bw|3v.0.2v.0.3v.0.1i.67.1i.67.2s.0|k59.k5a.0.a2.k65|e

A normal zerker has 13% damage reduction, I prefer to sit on 28% while barely sacrificing anything.
I trade some Precision for Toughness but due to H.Power, Sigil and Permafury my crit chance is still sitting at 76% so I’m effectively losing little to no DPS.
Runes are 2x Sup Monk 2x Sup Water 2x Maj Sanctuary

Using Axe/Axe with the build actually gives you better survivability because you can use Sigil of Blood and lifesteal food to get tons of self-healing without sacrificing the crit Sigil.
Damage-wise if you spam Evis and recover the lost adrenaline fast (WA or SoFury) you’ll be dealing more DPS than GS.

Noooo then all those shout healing wammos will spread that bad build even more…
I’m already tired enough I have to team with Warriors dealing half my damage just to toss 1.2k heals.

Agony is simply a gear check, the classic invisible wall to lock people out of content until they have certain gear.
Actually it’s a stronger form of usual gear checking because while you can still complete dungeons in other MMOs with lower gearcheck than required, you cannot complete say frac 18 with a zero agony resistance team, agony will simply down the entire team.

Do I mind it? No, as long as it’s just a fractal thing.
Could difficilty be made so it’s actual difficulty (+dmg +mobs +cc +mechanics) instead of a gear check? Definitely, look at GW1 HM.

But ultimately I believe it’s needed.
Admit it or not the majority out there wants a gear progression and won’t climb fractal levels just for the hell of it.
Overall they combined increased real difficulty with gear checking so they made most people happy.

Spencer.1386:

I like your idea. I had originally hoped that they would add multiple attacks that could be placed into each slot. Your idea sounds a lot like what Diablo 3 did with skill runes which also would be cool. Diversity like this would add fun without upsetting balance too much.

Yup.

On top of that it wouldn’t require a lot of work since things like adding a minor effect like poison or +5% dmg are worth 5 lines of code.
I’d really rather have this than Keg Brawl and whatnot.

I agree with this.

We keep getting new stuff which is awesome but I’d rather the more useful depth to what we have and fixes to skills/traits.

Hi all, I’m very interested in getting Cavalier gear, especially trinkets.
What are the known ways to get it?
I know I can get the Fractal versions for Amulet/Rings but what about Exotics?
Earrings? Back items?

Since character depth is very stagnant how about implementing a system that allows us to customize skills deeply like D3 runes?
For those new to D3, it’s basically just a number of skill mods, you can pick one for each skill you have slotted.

Example using the skill “Swoop” of Ranger GS:

Swoop: Run and leap at your foe, hitting them and nearby foes.
Poisoned Blade – Also causes 10s of Poison.
Broad Swing – Increased dmg by 10%.
Lunge – Increased range by 100.
Tendon Slice – Also causes cripple for 2s.
Lightning Speed – Evade attacks while channeling.

This way you give a ton of depth to the current skill system while also keeping it easily balanced (if something is off you simply balance the rune itself).

Of course the necro can offer a number of things.
Other classes simply have more powerful/useful versions or just “more” of the same to offer, if not better tools.
A necro can reduce enemy damage but not remotely as good as a Thief can.
A necro can improve team’s offense / deal damage, but not remotely as good as Warrior can.
A necro can protect team but not remotely as good as a Guardian can.
A necro can AoE but not remotely as good as an Ele.
All he can do others can do better, so we’re back to OP’s initial question: Why would anyone want a necro over others?

Simply, the Necro has yet to find a niche role he’s best at and everyone -want- him for.
That’s why I suggested MM buffs, it’s something original and unique of the Necro so if he was really good at that role everyone would actually want one in their teams.
As it stands now, I have no reason to grab a Necro when other classes can do the same and much better, sadly.

Dear necromancer wannabes, this thread is 5 months old.
HS isn’t half of what it was 5 months ago.

I once wondered if buying keys.
Then I’ve seen the chart with the % chances to get things on wiki, I realized chests are merely a gold sink/cash grab.

You’re probably better off converting gems to money if you want a return.

New gen gamers want everything easy, never die, never be remotely annoyed by any degree of challenge, always winning, always getting shinies, feeling heroes for doing nothing and showing off items they achieved through farming as if they were proof of skill.

After launch, dungeons were much harder than now, and now not only dungeons are easy but even Orr became so (not that it was hard before lol).

Luckily we still have PvP.

This game is not the classic rotation-based MMO, you use skills when they are the most necessary.
All skills are situational, you just need to practice and learn when to use what.

Prezzy.2783:

10/25/5/30/0 – Might stacking healing shouter. Search the ‘sonic boom’ build on the internet if you wish for more information -

Sorry i do not have time to go into detail now as i am @ work.

Yeah let’s create another wammo… nah he’s already sacrificing damage, no need to go even worse with such a poor build imo.

OP go with 20/20/0/10/20 it fits all situations.

MiLkZz.4789:

You get rooted, knocked down and chained cc’ed before you get out.

L2P issue, Mobile Strikes removes immob and gap openers are unaffected by slowdowns.
You can have all the debuffs in the game but as long as you have MStrikes WA/Rush/Leap will get you out of any situation.

MiLkZz.4789:

Thiefs come in, you activate EP, thief pops out and goes stealth waits 3s and does burst. Repeat if you aren’t dead yet.

L2P issue, GC Thief has at least 39s CD on steal so the “burst” is down to CnD (which is only one since he wasted 6 init on EP) and Backstab which you can avoid.
As a general rule, a Warrior dying to a direct damage Thief is a shame to the class who should avoid talking until he learnt to play.
I never died to a non-condition Thief in 1400 hours and so other Warriors.

Now it’s not like I expected someone named MilKzZz to be decent at this game, but you could at least know the BASICS before going in the forums to state wrong things.

edjahman.9104:

He’s jelly bro. Thats all.

Nah I actually solo’d it on my War, you can find some pics over here: http://s1221.beta.photobucket.com/user/Fabio_Facchetti/library/
Surprisingly the fight vs shaman/rabbit which I feared the most etc is the easiest and shortest, kite in circle while combustive spam (you must dodge shaman’s knockdown tho).
Tommy is harder because he spams pulls sometimes which can be really annoying and high damaging you need to dodge them, but still easy.
The only hard fight is the final boss because the asura spams those balls faster than your endurance regen (even with +50% regen), but after a few tries I did it.
I used life stealing food / sigil and bleedkite with rifle.
Now should any team fail you in that fractal you can tell them “really? falcon did this alone you nubs!” haha.

I think water fractal might be even easier, especially considering the last boss is the easiest videogame boss I’ve ever seen.

Not to rain on your parade but, Harpy fractal, especially on low level, is probably the easiest of all dungeons existing in GW2.
I’m pretty sure it can be solo’d pretty easily.

Rukia.4802:

There is a problem when you can gear up in WoW 50x faster than you can get full exotics in GW2.

In GW2 you get a full exotic set by simply completing 70+ maps and selling their rewards.
Each char I bring to 80 and complete maps with ends up with at least 40g total, which is enough for an exotic set.

I never heard of WoW tossing max gear at you as soon as you hit 80.

Ratphink.4751:

I’ve said this once and I’ll say this again. The best MM’s in GW1 were Heroes. The Computer’s ability to handle all the enchantments from AotL or Jagged Bones (mutually exclusive) to appropriately using Death Nova (until the last few years with no Minion AI it was down right impossible to cast this on the Minions close to death) along with the change to Masochism (another enchantment). No player could juggle this as effectively as a computer. Then of course you know, there’s the whole endgame PvE that was impossible to bring an MM to because the end bosses would destroy all the minions, and with no corpses available make them useless in a boss fight, left swating at bosses with a staff or scepter. Oh yeah. Real useful.

Nope, best Necro build as far as DPS and general Utility throughout the game was the SS Curses Necro hands down. Spiteful Spirit was virtually unchanged throughout the entire game. The only change being, I believe, that the enemies were given better AI to deal with the damage. Which didn’t even matter because going to Hard Mode (enemies attack faster) actually improved the Elites ability to doll out damage. The SS Necro was pretty much required in all high end farming that (save for a few Dungeons that were relegated to the A/P Shadow Forms).

So can we all stop putting on our rose tinted glasses about how uber the MM was? The change to the skills was to prevent the very thing I mentioned and nobody wants to address it. By removing the Corpse spell cost from the Minion Spells, Anet is trying to make the class actually viable in high-tier PvP (ie not JQ and FA and AB which were largely considered PvE missions with other people since the points were all acquired by killing NPCs) as well as Endgame content boss fights. But by removing the corpse requirement the had to make the number of minions more manageable because if you could just continually spam a minion skill for Minions you’d have an infinitely large army at your advantage (one that doesn’t have health degen might I have).

No, I’m not saying the current system is perfect but it’s definitely a step in the right direction to make Minions more accessible to players in more formats of the game.

Well, that is, like, your opinion, man.

From my experience, in a lot of content MMs were a lot more useful than SSs in GW1, simply because it would prevent a lot of wipes/DP by absorbing damage.
I’m not talking about 2man 55/SS UW teams, but the 5-10 man content.
I’ve been MMing a lot in GW1 and I could get a team to survive anything with my minions, but can’t say the same for SS as it doesn’t really prevent your team from failing, it’s more of a damage setup.

Saintly.8062:

Red Falcon.8257:

Necro = Low DPS, shallow support

Multiple darkness fields (lifesteal/blindness), poison, weakness, condition control…

Poison/weakness can be done by everyone, condition control same and better, darkness fields are worse than water ones for healing and worse than smoke ones for team protection.

But hey, if you want to be the devil’s advocate and say Necro is on par with other I’m not really stopping you.
I have other, much better classes to fall back on… all I want is have necros on par with others.

Unless you give proper reasoning to your post OP, you don’t really deserve a proper answer honestly.
You just threw a generic statement that some content cannot be completed by casuals but dont bring any evidence/example.

I’ve had no problems mostly with PuGs in any place beside Volcano.
When I get Volcano with a PuG I already know what will happen; people will somehow die at Imbued, maybe try once again then leave.

What’s up with this?
The encounter does not really seem to be too hard to me.
Everyone just needs to DPS and move, when adds pop you AoE them in a second, then continue DPS and move.
If you’re focused too much you’ll go down and if you’re really unlucky he will place AoEs in your face and defeat you, but outside this there is no gimmick that should wipe a team so easily.

Please don’t post things like “lol I beat imbued with 3 people while watching animes and standing still” elitist falsehood, just give me some real pointers to make PuGs not fail me on this one every single freakin time.

Not realizing why this is supposed to be so rare and hidden.
It’s just a scythe, no fancy animations or spectacular effects. shrugs

Tobias Trueflight.8350:

Red Falcon.8257:

Dailies are traditional MMO fetch quests.
I always adapted to changes until this one, because it goes straight against the fundament of GW2.
Kill ten rats and other 0/10 fetching should just stay out of GW2.

. . . I feel compelled to point out it was always in GW2, just hidden behind obfuscation with the Renown hearts and Dynamic Events where you’re supposed to gather ground spawns or specific drops to fill a bar. The only difference with DEs is that everyone is contributing, so as long as you just do one you can technically leave it alone and others will finish it.

Nope.
All hearts can be completed by doing many different tasks they don’t force you to repeat the same stuff over and over, while kill 25 aquatic mobs can only be completed by killing 25 aquatic rats.

I agree with this.
In GW1 MMs were almost mandatory for a lot of content because minions made great meatshields and were readily available.
I also believe a way to sacrifice your health to heal minions should be re-introduced, along with some ways to give minions Aegis/Protection.

Drarnor Kunoram.5180:

It’s called hyperbole. I know that thieves offer a lot to a party, but on paper, they don’t look that great for group support. Likewise, on paper, a necro doesn’t look that great for bringing stuff to a party, but in reality, they do.

They do, but what they bring is severely UP compared to what other classes do.
Thief = Stealthrez (most of OP all), regen, blind spam, perma AoEweakness, high DPS
War = Mega DPS, major DPS buffs
Guard = Walls/bubbles, major support buffs/heals
Ele = High AoE DPS, major support (water megaheals/prot)
Ranger = Water field for megaheals, mid-high DPS, spirits
Engi = Elixir gun, bandages, elixirs
Mes = Reflections, portals, AoE DPS, Time warp
Necro = Low DPS, shallow support

Imo they just need to fix MM.
MM was the way to go in PvE in GW1 but with the cooldown on minions and lack of minion healing system it isn’t viable.

Drarnor Kunoram.5180:

Why would anyone choose a thief? They offer less group support, no group buffs, you spend more time reviving them than they spend dealing damage, so they cut your groups DPS to the point where they might as well not be there. What’s the point of playing a thief over these other medium armor classes? No one would choose a thief for their dungeon over a ranger or engineer.

See how easy this is? Reason why is because you are flat-out wrong on almost all of your points.

You’re kidding right?
Thief has access to stealthrez, anti-aggro with stealth, a wall that blocks projectiles on low CD, blind fields, blind spams, area weakness/poison… on top of high DPS.
You have either been playing with REALLY bad Thieves or you don’t know anything about Thieves if that’s what you know about them.
That’s one of the most, tide-turning classes in PvE.

Necro on the other hand really needs a good PvE builds.
In most dungeons they’re being carried as they deal low damage and don’t have many tide-turning tools.
You’re better off asking Anet to buff PvE necros because really… Minions are pretty useless (unlike GW1), conditions deal low DPS, the only thing left is power necro which is somewhat useful but still far from the usefulness of other classes.

Guardian sadly has little to no ways to keep a target from opening gaps and about zero ways to disengage.
It can be played as a line-holder but how effective is that offensively? This game is all about mobility.

Crystal Desert or Ring of Fire.
I miss hydras.

Hellkaiser.6025:

Question remains, is the achievement bad because it can be “grinded” or is it bad because it’s something that has no variety and has a huge kitten number which will take a stupid amount of time and resources, ie: a grind if you want to actually get it some time this year?

Neither.

Just because something can be used wrong it doesn’t make it “bad” in itself.
It’s like saying cars are bad because they can be used to kill.
Can’t always blame Anet for player’s exploitive usage of features, because realistically you can’t code everything in a way that it can’t be possibily used wrong.
Most times in life you’re given things you can use wrong or right, it’s up to the person to use things responsibly.
Take some freakin responsibility people, it isn’t really a bad thing to use common sense.

You do realize that all those people you call stupid are actually right?
Not only you’re wasting supply of your server just for your own “achievements”, but you’re trying to “grind” something that isn’t meant to be grinded, having the supplier title should mean you built a lot of useful siege.

You’re probably the worst player I’ve ever heard of OP, I’m astonished you had the guts to make a thread to confess such a shame, and even complain that everyone should help you at it.

This is why I hate traditional MMO players. They just want to grind everything to “show off” while actually being very terrible players at everything.

Anyone? /15char

Schwahrheit.4203:

@Eviscerate
Increasing the range by to 400 is pointless because its still not enough. If it was 600 range at the same smoothness as savage leap, that would make it better.

@Earth Shaker
Give it blind immunity on Burst. Also when you use frenzy with Earth Shaker, you don’t even smash the ground, you smash the air causing the stun or damage to not work. Fix it please ANET.

600 range is quite a lot.
Consider that heartseeker is 450 range and it’s a nice leap, 600 would be the same as Bull’s charge basically.

I’m not even sure why ES can be completely blinded btw… it’s an AoE skill which shouldn’t be really affected by blind as it hits the area not the player.

MiLkZz.4789:

100B is a noob slayer, that is all. Any experienced WvW player will dodge your entire combo and than just kills you.

Indeed, making a build around 1 skill is stupid imo.

Any experienced WvW Warrior will bait dodges before applying the 100B combo.
100B lands on anyone regardless of his skill, nobody has unlimited amounts of dodge and stunbreakers.

I believe I saw calculations once showing Sigil of Rage is overall the best DPS sigil.
I personally use it and I’m very satisfied with it.

Your build is fine OP, besides I would go 20/20 so I could save 10 points for leg specialist.
I would also really suggest using Surge instead of Healing Signet.

@milk
Stacking armor is not necessary to people who can swiftly disengage and avoid damage.
In zerg fights I jump into the enemy zerg (usually on a flank), down 3-5 people in a second then WA>Rush>Leap away as soon as I am focused.
Then I jump in again, blast some more people to the ground and leap away again.
No point for me in sitting there to take damage and deal none when I can do this.
Against Thieves I just pop EP and their burst is gone then I 3-shot them.

You guys should really use this site for PvE builds: http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/warrior/
You can add PvE items and see your actual PvE stats, damage reduction etc.

This is my build: http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/warrior/?8|1.1g.h1e|4.1g.h1e|1g.bw.1g.bw.1g.71g.1g.71g.1g.71h.1g.71h|1g.67.1g.67.1g.67.1g.67.1g.67.8g.67|k59.k5a.0.a2.k56|e
Near-permanent Signet of Rage, +265 power to all team.
Max damage and offensive support.

Loaded question, obviously everyone wants halls.
And you probably won’t get a more definitive answer than the tens of times they already told us we’re getting them when they’re ready.

From both a PvE DPS and WvW perspective Sigil of Rage is mathematically the best.

I prefer permaSoR with boon duration runes over ruby orbs any day.

Assuming 10 tactics, SoR is down 31% of your time (15s), which means in that time you’re not getting the 5 might from it (-175 power) nor fury (-20% crit chance).
Even with FGJ you’d be 7s off with Fury and -5 might compared to a FGJ boon build.

Sure, we could put on our theorycrafting blinkers and only consider perfect favorable situations where others always provide you with Fury on a gold plate, Might is permanently stacked at 25 and everyone holds hand singing Kumbaya.

But I personally prefer to consider real in-game scenarios which rarely meet the requirements mentioned above, so I’m taking permaSoR over situationally useful Ruby Orbs.

I definitely hate how sylvari say “shake it off”.
It’s a very lazy/annoyed tone, while trying to shake away an harmful condition should be yelled with force.
FGJ isn’t any better, it sounds like a nobleman asking the waiter for a coffee.

People who want to do daily dodges alone can enter a dungeon alone and do exactly that while no one can disturb them.
If they aren’t smart enough to do this and they do it in PvE it’s ok for you to do anything.
I would even report them for harassing me if they were to harass me because I killed a mob.

Frega.9247:

Gold is farmed by CoF path 1 ad nauseum or ori nodes farming(?).

Why can’t I just play the game and be rewarded? I wanna just play WvW, and maybe get 1g (selling junk from bags) after an hour of playing, and not worry about trying to maximize my bags by tagging as many people as possible in zergs. The issue here is with tagging in WvW probably. And TP inflation.

I’m rambling. This isn’t the first time I’m revolted by the game because of the grindiness / economy.

I want to do one simple thing. Get some alternative stats gear to try out a build. I don’t think I want to grind 50g (exotic armor/runes) to get the pieces from the TP to try out a build.

I play normally and make 5-10g a day.
Couple dungs, couple fracts, hour of wvw, and maybe some events.

And if you want to try out builds there is sPvP.
You can’t just demand that you get an exotic set of everything easy just because you want to try builds.
Even in GW1 you needed a lot of skill unlocking (tons of money), sub-class unlocking, elite-capping and whatnot to try new builds.

My gf and I got maybe 200 charged lodestones in fractals.
They are pretty common, we usually get at least one every other run.

This sounds like another of those doomsaying threads full of tinfoil hate conspiracies if not absurd scenarios that will never happen.
GW2 will live years and years like GW1 simply because it makes money, and it will make them for many many years to come.

And it’s surely not some “ESO” with clunky 1990 combat to draw a player who really likes GW2 away.

You’re basically proposing an entire overhaul of the class system.
It’s simply not going to happen in this game; not only it isn’t happening because it would require major re-cording but also because Anet is terribly scared of giving us more than a limited and very controlled customization option for classes in order to preserve balance.
Plus they make money out of char slots so that’s even more out of discussion.

Me and my gf are looking for a large guild that focuses on fractal/dungeons so that we can get decent people for dungeons quickly and have fun.
We’re from FS but considering Guesting any EU server the guild is in should do.

Simple: It’s not with stats that you survive in GW2.
This is also true for Warriors, and there is absolutely zero reason need to go P/V/T in any content unless you want to gimp yourself.
Actually, having high armor seem to be an aggro magnet.

To prevent damage you must use your defensive CDs (Endure Pain mostly), dodge the big hits and it helps a lot to use food/sigil that steal health on crit.
In this game you must actually pay attention to what’s going on, look at the animation of mobs to see if they’re channeling some big hit, look at AoE circles, predict incoming spike damage and prevent it, etc.

It takes some time to learn this when you’re new but then it gets pretty automatic.
It’s pretty funny tho that people is so used to traditional MMOs where you simply buy all defense gear and you don’t die even if you stand still.