Guild Wars 2

colesy.8490:

The meta isn’t elitist, it’s not a belief in superiority, it’s a fact that the meta is superior, or would you say “completing a dungeon faster using build X versus build Y” means that it isn’t superior? This is from an efficiency standpoint of course.

The meta is superiour if your goal is to break time-records while doing dungeons. It’s NOT superior if you just want to do the dungeon, maybe take a couple minutes longer and just have fun while doing so. Also, while the meta isn’t elitist, people who strongly believe that everything that’s not the meta isn’t worth it at all surely are. And reading your posts, I can’t help but get the impression that you’re one of those people.

colesy.8490:

Actually it won’t be more efficient because they’ll be using bad builds, bad rotations and will be eating the floor while I will be trying to maintain an effective rotation. Pugs will just be pressing buttons, kiting, doing whatever. Therefore, me on my warrior going 4 sig is actually less selfish since not only will they probably be out of banner range anyway, but I’m buffing my DPS more so that I can carry the party better, provided I haven’t just ragequit.

Like I’ve said before; I’ll just have to believe you this one. However, instead of possibly ragequitting; have you ever thought about explaining them what they could/should improve? Of course not all will be willing to listen and try what you’re saying, but many will. Some may even be grateful that you’ve teached them something new.

colesy.8490:

And again; ethereal fields are NOT bad.

They are.

They are in speedrun-groups with lots of firefields and blastfinishers. Everywhere else, they are nice or at the very least okay.

colesy.8490:

Chaos armour obscures my view. How am I meant to dodge Alphard when there’s a bunch of glowing pink circles on my screen?

If it’s an attack that’s so hard to see coming that you can’t dodge it anymore as soon as there are a couple chaos armors on the screen, then the group meleeing it is probably kinda pro (otherwise people would get downed frequently), and thus nobody will be using ethereal fields. Make sense, right?

colesy.8490:

Phantasmal warden?

If traited, yes. Not every Mesmer has a traited Warden, though. And yes, that person is one of “the bads” then in your opinion, but that doesn’t make this possibility non-existent. Also, iWarden doesn’t always spawn where you want it to. Sometimes it spawns in front of the mob, sometimes next to it, sometimes even behind it. Also, iirc Lupicus’ AoE ranged projectiles go in all directions, thus iWarden can’t reflect all of them. Feedback can, and thus does much more damage. Am I missing something?

Last but not least… how are your feelings about timewarp? Will you ragequit if a Mesmer casts it all over your party? After all, it’s an ethereal field too. An ETHEREAL FIELD! No Might, but chaos armor for you. Evil Mesmer.

colesy.8490:

Banner of strength is like a ~6% DPS increase in a berserker group, in a group full of PVT, it’s even less. banner of discipline, well you won’t be doing crits anyway so it’s pointless, so it won’t be 1 good DPS and 1 decent DPS, it remains 1 great DPS + 4 bad DPS. And take a look at obal’s most recent youtube video, a zerker guardian on magecrusher fully buffed deals the same damage as a whole party of full buffed cleric guards.

Well okay, I’ll just have to believe you that one, I guess.

colesy.8490:

Take staff to Lupicus and try phase retreat, tell me what happens.

Let’s see… if I remember correctly, it moved me out of circles, improved my ability to kite greatly and even helped saving the day once.

colesy.8490:

The point is that shadow stepping reduces group DPS uptime and is infuriating when trying to melee because he keeps chasing the bads who are ranging.

Well yes, IF someone’s trying to melee. “Bads” will usually range Lupicus, and with 5 partymembers ranging, shadowstep doesn’t matter much. Not everyone is running with pro-groups who know the dungeon better than the inside of their trouser pockets.

colesy.8490:

Path one. Guard puts up block for burning, or you cleanse it. Count to two, dodge the teeth attack. Path two and three, dodge the massive AOE attack, count to two, dodge teeth. Is it really that hard?

If everyone in the party knows the boss very well, then no. But if all the party knows is that meleeing is supposed to be easy, then it’s indeed a bit harder. At least hard enough to make ranging much easier in comparison and also less frustrating. And more fun. Just takes a little bit longer than melee-ing like the pros do it, but at least it’s going down. Of course, in an experienced party it would be silly to range it. But assuming that every party is always experienced is something you apparently love to do when writing down your arguments. On the other hand you keep talking about “bads”… that’s like contradicting yourself in a really weird way.

colesy.8490:

If it’s more than two people downed, res’ing will probably just cause a wipe, depending on the boss. Whenever that happens I generally just carry on doing my own thing while they all die since most the times i’ve tried to res I end up getting hit.

Now it would be interesting to see what’s faster: Meleeing a boss with 3 or less people, or ranging it with all 5 of them.

colesy.8490:

The point is that you don’t “tank” the damage, you dodge it. Chaos armour promotes sustaining damage, and in the case of the effigy you would 10 times out of 10 just sidestep or dodge it.

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Right, let’s make it clear.

Operating under the assumption that a party is utilising combo finishers, you want a fire field over an ethereal. Would you disagree? Do you feel “tanking” hard hitting attacks and getting protection is better than higher DPS and dodging hits?

Having Chaos Armor doesn’t mean you need to tank. It just means that if you should get hit, it gives you a bit of a benefit while giving the mob that hits you a bit of a “punishment”. And yes, “operating under the assumption that”… but that’s by far not always the case. I’d even go as far as to say that in pug groups or casual groups, it’s very rarely the case. And thus, ethereal fields don’t hurt at all most of the time. Also, if you get chaos armor instead of might, the fight takes a little bit longer. Unless you’re doing speed-runs, nobody will care.

“Just flip a few mats”… yeah, and possibly (or: probably) lose more money than I make. Don’t misunderstand me… I COULD buy them. Many people can’t. But I just like centaur runes so much more; they are way better imo. And spending 70 gold on a set of runes just to get 25% increased movement speed would seriously be bugging me even if I would own like 5k gold or so.

Centaur runes. <3

^^

Nice website.

Never heard of it before.

Freedan.1769:

A permanent increase in movement speed can be argued to be better than perma-swift since you can’t remove the effect. I already had Runes of the Traveler back from when they were cheap, so the cost was very low for me. Were you trying to show its too difficult to get good runes so we should get SoI adjusted, or that Runes of the Traveler along with speed runes don’t count, which would also support the argument that we should have SoI made into an out-of-combat speed buff? Just trying to get some clarity on the point Saturn.

I just wanted to say that it’s NOT perma-swiftness. Not argue about which is better. Also, it’s fine if the traveler runes were really cheap for you. But for everyone buying them now, they’re not. I’ve never said they don’t count; I just said that many people simply can’t afford to pay 70 gold (6 armor-pieces + aqua breather) just to get what others get much easier. As it is now, centaur runes are still the best option for Mesmers to get around quickly.

Jester.1236:

And some people’s builds use SoI in it’s current form, and they shouldn’t have to respect just because others want speed.

I can almost guarantee you that nobody really uses SoI for its passive effect. The active is what it’s all about. Nobody would have to respec if they would change the passive effect to make us a bit faster, even if it would just be out of combat.

I’m maining a Mesmer, and all I can say is that Thieves have some really awesome condition removal.

Define “best Thief”.

The one with the most achievement points? The one with the most won tournaments? The one who has the highest dungeon experience? The one with the most WvW-kills? The one with the highest WvW-rank? The one who’s highest up in the PvP leaderboards? The one with the most forum posts? The one who brags the most about how skilled he is? Or maybe a mix of all of those? Or something else?

Well, since the question was “are you one in a million” and you replied “no…… because I don’t like stuff I don’t 100% like”, I got a bit confused. I mean, you playing and all but not really liking it… but now with the additional info that you almost never use Facebook, it makes a lot more sense. ^^

And yes, I’m well aware of those like-junkies. They are just pathetic. But what arenanet did is something completely different, and in no way even remotely similar to those like-junkies. It wasn’t a “pleeeeaaaaaaaasse like us, we give you cookies if you do!”, it was a “let’s see if we can get 1 million until then; if we do we’ll celebrate it a bit (and if not, it doesn’t really matter)”.

If I reach the next 500-step of AP, I generally think “Oh, cool! =D”.

If someone has really a lot of AP (and I happen to see that or if I check out of curiosity), I think “lol wow, he must have played a lot (or be quite dedicated to farm them)”.

Other than that, I don’t really care about how many AP someone has. I can understand if some people prefer to only take people to dungeons who have at least 1k achievement points, though; because you get those kinda fast while making your first experiences with the game. With 1k AP, you are way more likely to have a general understanding of how the game works than if you’re below that (because as I’ve already said, you get those first 1k kinda fast).

Sunshine.4680:

No, begging for likes is like being the drunk, scantly clad girl at a party seeking acceptance and looking for attention. It’s sad. So no, I never like anything unless I’m 100% sure I really do like it.

They weren’t begging for likes. They just said if they reach one million in a certain amount of time, they’ll celebrate it with a little giveaway for everyone. That’s all.

Also, since you’re playing this game and reading and posting in the forum, I assume you like Guild Wars 2. Otherwise you wouldn’t be here… or would you?

So, I was checking something at dulfy.net and clicked an ad (greetings from Google) that caught my interest (due to nice artwork, and I wanted to see if I can somehow safe it haha), and ended up on a website where you can chose between 4 goddesses. They all seem to have 4 abilities, and those abilities use symbols from… yeah, you guessed it. Most of them are actual skill-symbols from Guild Wars 2. Weapon skills and utility skills. Now I wonder… should I report this to anet? And where? Here? Or to support?

Freedan.1769:

Your ignoring Runes of the Traveler, a very nice rune set to be honest that gives perma-swift, which is awesome.

Well. They don’t give perma-swiftness, they give permanent 25% increased movement-speed. Also, they cost 10 gold each.

Of course there are also runes of speed, but they are a really defensive option.

Miku Lawrence.6329:

Saturn.6591:

we tried and found that killing it ranged is so much quicker and easier for us).

But yeah… from an elitist side of view, staff is utterly useless. After all, EVERY party that’s made ALWAYS has a hammer-ele with them and also melees every boss. Oh, and of course nobody ever gets downed.

Bolt part is totally wrong. You can’t just pull stuff out of thin air and pretend it’s an argument in your favour.

No, the bold part is NOT wrong. I said it was quicker and easier for US. US. That’s not YOU. Not everyone is pro enough to range it, I know.

Miku Lawrence.6329:

Regarding your arah anecdote, remaining the last alive =/ being better than others (cf. Cleric guardians or any PVT spec that stays at range), this can’t count as an argument either.

I know that. But you can also be the last one alive because you actually didn’t fail some important dodges, you know. And if you are the last one alive because of that, staff is actually useful to the point where you can safe the day, even though Lupicus is chasing you all over the place (zomg; he even shadowsteps!) That’s all I’ve been saying. Stop pulling stuff out of thin air and pretend it’s an argument in your favor, when I’ve actually never said such a thing.

Miku Lawrence.6329:

You should also get your definition of elitist straight. I don’t think you know what it really means. (it’s just an advise, don’t use words you don’t know the meaning of, or words that do not correspond to what the deal is about)

As I’ve already pointed out before, you and colesy both seem to think you’re superior to everyone who doesn’t do things exactly the way you do it. Also, you’re being very condescending, which actually supports my claim of you being elitists.

Miku Lawrence.6329:

If the OP wants a clear answer, Colesy gave it to him – staff is not a pve weapon as it is less efficient, cripples your party and has no practical use beside well excuted Staff 2 on skipping mobs .

OP asked how he can get the most benefit out of staff. You are telling him to not use staff (except in very few cases for skipping mobs). I’m afraid that’s not really an answer to OP’s question.
Also, phase retreat for skipping mobs is a bad idea imo, because it’s not necessary in 99% of all mobskip-situations and it also puts you into combat, thus you run slower and might as well get caught by the mobs you’re trying to skip.

colesy.8490:

Also, not every party has a hammer-ele perma-blasting fields, you know.

Let’s take something like COF p1’s searing effigy. Say someone blasts the time warp and everyone gets chaos armour. Now when the effigy does its tremor attack, would you rather get hit by it or would you rather reflect it for ~50k damage? When it casts its giant PBAOE burning skill, would you rather dodge it or proc protection? When it casts its burning attack in front of itself, would you rather take the hit and proc protection or sidestep/dodge it? That’s faceroll COF. Now go in to Arah. Would you want to proc protection against the abomination in p2? No, not really. What you would actually want is a fire field down so that you can get blast finishers to have longer uptime on group might.

Even if you have chaos armor, you can still reflect the damage. Also, I find it funny, but… AMAGAWD! Feedback is an ethereal field too!!!! That makes it totally useless now. I mean, imagine… CHAOS ARMOR! The world will end.

Also, not every party is spamming blast finishers all the time. Actually, in most non-speed-clear parties, blast finishers are something you won’t see often. Also, usually you don’t use blast finishers while you’re attacking… there are exceptions of course. Like hammer-eles for example. Which aren’t in every party. I’ve actually yet to see one ingame.

colesy.8490:

But yeah… from an elitist side of view, staff is utterly useless.

Why? Why “elitist”? How does me calling out a weapon make my view elitist? Do you know what that word means or do you use it against anyone who has even the slightest interest in playing properly? And no, I already told you, it can work for trash skipping in Arah.

elitist
1. A person who believes that they are superior to others (and thus deserve favored status) because of their intellect, social status, wealth, or other factors.

You prefer being selfish over increasing the whole groups DPS if you think they are bad, even though that would probably be more efficient than being selfish.
You think that a weapon is bad in most situations because you assume that the party-composition of everyone looks exactly the way you run it (e.g. blast finishers everywhere, everyone meleeing etc.)
Everyone who doesn’t run it like you is automatically bad, thus you apparently think you’re superior. See also the last part that I quote from you…:

colesy.8490:

. After all, EVERY party that’s made ALWAYS has a hammer-ele with them and also melees every boss. Oh, and of course nobody ever gets downed.

Running with bads doesn’t make ethereal fields any better, and players should be meleeing bosses too, it really isn’t as harmful as it seems if you pay attention to mechanics.

And again; ethereal fields are NOT bad. Especially considering that in most parties you don’t have a permanent uptime of blast finishers and/or firefields. And a chaos armor is indeed better than nothing, don’t you agree? And skills like chaos storm and feedback still can be very useful, even though they are (AMAGAWD!) ethereal fields. Or wait… better don’t reflect those 50k damage, because the ethereal field will totally ruin the fight and make it half a minute longer than necessary…

colesy.8490:

but its not as useless as you think, especially with pugs.

No, it’s useless. And to hell with pugs, the only time I’ll slot in utilities which will help them (and don’t help myself) is when they’ve shown to be semi-competent. Take Arah for example, I’ll roll 4-sig on my warrior to basically give myself the str/disc banner bonuses on a passive because pugs are mostly bad. If their DPS is bad, why help bad DPS when I can go fury/might sig and give myself full uptime on 180 power and precision?

Because 1x great DPS + 4x bad DPS is worse than 1x good DPS + 4x decent DPS?

colesy.8490:

Why would you die because of using phase retreat?

Is it an evade? The projectiles basically fill the room, so if it’s not, you’re eating damage, and multiple projectiles can hit one spot too (note that the AOE will look brighter as two circles will overlap each other) which is instant death.

Phase retreat isn’t an evade, but it lets you evade red circles by instantly moving you out of them without needing to use an actual dodge. And not standing in circles indeed helps you to not get killed, which I hopefully don’t need to explain to you.

colesy.8490:

Not everyone kills Lupicus in melee, you know. In fact, every time I was in Arah until now, it was killed from range.

You do know that retreating away from him just makes him shadowstep?

So what? If you keep moving, he won’t really hit you with shadowstep. Also, it’s not a onehit-kill, and you can dodge away (or use phase retreat) and be safe again. He doesn’t perma-shadowstep either.

colesy.8490:

. There are also other fights where phase retreat can be handy (Subject Alpha for example; and yes I know you’re probably supposed to melee it, but we tried and found that killing it ranged is so much quicker and easier for us).

Oh boy. Count to 2 and dodge isn’t that hard. The only thing you want to watch out for is the teeth of mordremoth (and you just count to two after he does his massive AOE or PBAOE burn). Funnily enough it becomes deadlier the further away you are. The last time I ranged Subject Alpha was like … almost a year ago when I was a bad player playing in a guild full of bads and we wiped on first Alpha repeatedly.

Back then, we tried meleeing it, because that’s supposedly the faster and easier way. Much easier. We died. Tried again. We died. So we thought “f…. it, we’ll do it our way”, killed it from range without dying and rather quick. So apparently you are the pro if it comes to meleeing it, we were the pros if it comes to ranging it. Since according to you, ranging it is harder… does that now mean we were more pro than you are?

colesy.8490:

Also, Chaos Storm can help a lot while ressing, as the Aegis is REALLY helpful in getting not interrupted and/or killed with some big hit while ressing

What if you were all stacked and then all went to res? They’d get up so quickly you wouldn’t need that at all. If you’re kiting a boss in circles at range, then well the only thing I can say is “get good”. I did story mode Arah today and went full melee on the mouth of Zhaitan. It literally baffles me that I could evade all of the attacks (I have footage I might upload and stick it in my guide actually) while there were rifle camping warriors with me who saw the giant red circle and still took the hit despite having an eternity to dodge.

Well, what if more than one person at a time gets downed? Would it still be faster? Also, Arah storymode is very easy. Compared to the explorable paths even moreso.

colesy.8490:

Staff gives you the highest possible dps if you’re fighting a boss with lots of unique conditions on it. It’s also a really nice weapon for fights with lots of red circles all over the place, as it can really save your… meow. ^^

I’m sure it’ll prove very useful when I solo Lupicus on my mesmer and I immediately faceplant by using phase retreat.

Why would you die because of using phase retreat? Not everyone kills Lupicus in melee, you know. In fact, every time I was in Arah until now, it was killed from range. And phase retreat once even has proven to be useful to the point of me kiting Lupicus while ressing my teammembers (since the others all failed to dodge at some point and were defeated (not just downed)). There are also other fights where phase retreat can be handy (Subject Alpha for example; and yes I know you’re probably supposed to melee it, but we tried and found that killing it ranged is so much quicker and easier for us).

Also, Chaos Storm can help a lot while ressing, as the Aegis is REALLY helpful in getting not interrupted and/or killed with some big hit while ressing. Also, not every party has a hammer-ele perma-blasting fields, you know.

But yeah… from an elitist side of view, staff is utterly useless. After all, EVERY party that’s made ALWAYS has a hammer-ele with them and also melees every boss. Oh, and of course nobody ever gets downed.

grave of hearts.7830:

And what do you when your ds is as usual empty because you are all out after a fight?
Which is most of the time unless you go each time to refill stacks and waste time there.

Your Axe 2 skill, your dagger auto-attacks, your staff-autoattacks, spectral skills, focus 4, warhorn 5… hit the Thief a few times with some of those, and you’ll have enough lifeforce. Especially axe 2, focus 4 and warhorn 5 shouldn’t be that hard to land, since they are either channeled or AoE.

Staff gives you the highest possible dps if you’re fighting a boss with lots of unique conditions on it. It’s also a really nice weapon for fights with lots of red circles all over the place, as it can really save your… meow. ^^

What I find a bit annoying is, that the autoattack doesn’t trigger until you stand inside the closer radius, even if traited. So this trait is semi-useless, unless you spam your number 1 key (or whatever your keybind is).

Figerion.6159:

Edit: What does it mean the arrow from Shadowstep to Shadow Return?

It means that if you cast Shadowstep, the skill will change into Shadow Return. In this case, that’s until 10 seconds are over or until you use the skill (Shadow Return); whichever happens first. After that, it will change back to Shadowstep and be on cooldown.

Edit: Merry christmas to you too!

Yes, I’m one of those who liked the page for quite a while already.

And I really don’t know how someone would actually EXPECT them to give out a prize for reaching a set goal months after the deadline.

Anyway; congratulations to 1 million likes! Oh, and merry christmas!

^^

Los Re.4607:

doesn’t arcane thievery fits better than mantra of resolve?

From my personal experience, Arcane Thievery is very unreliable. If you’re running away, you can’t use it. If you’re fighting, you can use it but often it won’t do anything because it missed for some reason and then goes on full cooldown. On top of that, the mantra cleanses more conditions on a shorter cooldown and it also supports allies around you. So I personally would only ever us it (Arcane Thievery) for boon-stealing in PvE.

That might be different for a player with the skill-level of Osicat, though; so maybe he’s got different reasons. ^^

Maybe it also was unpinned because the OP says “last time edited 8 months ago”. So some moderator happened to see that, thought those videos are probably outdated and unpinned it.

While already posting here anyway, I want to use the opportunity to thank you as well for your many great guides, Nemesis. I always enjoyed watching them (and of course I still do when I see you’ve made a new one).

Thorp.7982:

Don’t play a condition Thief unless you like being useless in groups and never killing decent players.

I’ve been bursted down with conditions by P/D-thieves before. Like, from 100% to 0% HP in around 7 seconds (or less). Sometimes I didn’t even get to use my cleanse fast enough, and sometimes I did but it didn’t help much. And sometimes I managed to run away.

Don’t even get me started about P/D-thieves using venomshare with thieves guild. That’s more cheesy than Mesmer PU ever was, haha. ^^

That being said, I’m stalking this topic because I’m still trying to find out what build I should go for with my Thief.

Andrige.5609:

ZeftheWicked.3076:

That’s basically because lvl 1-30 is the “getting used to the game” stage. You unlock weapons skills, 2nd weapon set, slot skills, start with traits, and at magical level 30 your last ulitity slot (elite) becomes unlocked and usable.

Before that it would be like sending a first day recruit to the front line.

I might not have explained this well enough in the OP, but my friends are not those with time to spare to go from level 1-30, just to see that there’s dungeon content. That could take weeks.

So I guess your friends are like “I want everything now, and I don’t have the patience to wait a little bit longer to get to it”.

Show them some nice event chains. Point them towards the personal story. Show them some nice jumping puzzles. Kill some champions. Show them some places with nice scenery (which is almost everywhere actually, if you mind taking a closer look). Show them NPC’s with funny dialogues, and/or funny events. Seriously; dungeons aren’t that different from open world to make them necessary to be able to decide if you like the game or not. If you really want to see the dungeons badly, take your time to level to lvl 30. It’s not like that takes very long.

Also, why is it that your friends need to know if they like dungeons that early? “Show me the dungeons NOW or I’ll not bother playing this game at all!”? “Let me wear exotics and have all traits and skills NOW or I’ll not continue to play!”?

I really don’t get it. Maybe MMORPG’s aren’t the right games for your friends at all. They should try Ego-shooters instead. Oh wait; in some of those you can actually unlock better weapons later in the game. Be sure to avoid those.

If someone WANTS to learn to dodge, he can also do that in open world. Go to a mob of your choice, try to kill it without getting hit once. Feeling good? Try killing it in melee-range without getting hit once. Done? Go to a more difficult mob, try the same. Why would you need a dungeon for that? Especially given the fact that if you fail to dodge in the dungeon and are instantly dead like someone proposed here, it would become very frustrating over time. In open world, that problem doesn’t exist unless you really overestimate your skill.

Also, no group content below lvl 30? Ever tried solo-ing the Krait witch in Caledon Forest? I’ve found myself or others asking for assistance in map chat more than once before. Same counts for other bosses and/or events. Of course that’s not a fixed party like in a dungeon… but if you want to do that together with friends, nothing stops you. You don’t need a dungeon to form a party with friends.

Probably for the same reason as me.

I mean, centaur runes really fit well in my build (I think). However, I would also like to try out perplexity runes. Or maybe a build using runes of the noble. Or maybe try out a lockdown-build, using runes of the mesmer. Or maybe go all tanky with melandru runes for a zerg-build. Or or or or or… but I do NOT want to move around like a snail. I do NOT want to be unable to escape if needed. I do NOT want to always use focus for every build (with that being said; focus alone would often not be enough to keep up with your zerg… that’s why I’ve initially began to use centaur runes). I also do NOT want to be unable to get to a keep that’s being attacked before it’s lost, just because I took forever to get there.

So ya. Centaur runes are great, I really like them in my build. But I would also like to try other things, but I really… can’t. I need centaur runes badly; it’s like they are absolutely necessary to make myself feel viable/competitive. So I can simply not try out all the other nice options, because without the swiftness from centaur runes, I simply would not even get to try them… because I’d simply be way too slow.

Conclusion: I love my centaur runes. Still, I sometimes look a bit sad at all the other amazing runes out there, knowing that I’ll never be able to actually try them out. Because as it is, centaur runes are an absolute necessity for me.

Omg; cool!

How comes I’ve never heard of this, haha. I don’t think anyone made such a thread last year… or do I just not remember anymore? o.o

Pyrasia.9281:

So, upscaled char has upscaled damage from current weapons and upscaled stats from current armors ?

Pretty much, yes.

That’s why you’ll often not even be able to hit a lvl 32 champion mob if you try to attack it with a lvl 16 (upscaled to maybe lvl 28 or so) character wearing lvl 6 equipment. However, if this character wears lvl 14 equipment, it will be a whole different story.

And yeah, as was said: True lvl 80s will always have the advantage of having all the traits, equip with three stats and a higher rarity (thus higher stats) as well as having more of their skills unlocked. And also, they normally —>should<-- be more experienced with playing their characters already.

K U T M.4539:

not sure if he was SD, but he is rifle.

Well; if he’s HGH, he’s certainly not S/D. ^^

borrok.9267:

Kododie.3974:

One advice: try to think about name of the topic you choose next time. 1st it inappropriate to name you topic like this, 2nd it doesn’t even make sense.

Translation = Hello fellow necromancers. No need to take yourself so seriously.

What Kododie meant was, that Necrophilia = Pedophilia, just with corpses instead of children…

And no, I’m definitely not a necrophilia-lover. I do like my Necromancer, though.

Oh; so that was the reason why I someday suddenly noticed that I get much more runes and sigils from salvaging the blues and greens that I get dropped, haha. Didn’t even notice that it went from white to yellow, but now it all makes sense.

And no, I don’t think anyone should get a refund because (apparently) a bug was fixed. At least not a full refund; I think I could live with it if they would decide to give a partial refund. I doubt that they would do that, though; since it’s clearly not their fault.

Yeah, I’ve had it happen too. Though, to be fair, you can actually see the timer on top of the screen. So if you start jumping with little time left, it’s your own fault… kinda. At least that was my second thought when it first happened to me (first thought was something like “Lol; great…” because I was kinda busy anyway haha). ^^

The reason why that didn’t happen during jumping in the clocktower is, that the actual jumping-part just didn’t start anymore when the timer went below a certain point.

Welcome back, Osicat!

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/necromancer/Merged-Signet-of-Vampirism-and-related-changes/

There you go. Actually, it’s equally bad no matter what build you’re using. Even if you’d chose traits and gear randomly 10000 times, it would always be the worst option.

But again; nice if you like it.

That being said; some of the other new healing skills actually look very nice.

PeterThomas.7243:

Saturn.6591:

I can tell none of the posters above play a Necro; especially not the OP.

I am the OP, and my main is a necro.

Signet of Vampirism works with my build absolutely perfectly, almost to the point where I feel overpowered.

Wait; so that means that all the well-known Necros on the forum actually are wrong when they say that even Blood Fiend is way more useful than the new signet? Hmmhmm; nice if it works for you, but looking at the numbers and everything, I heavily tend to share the (apparently at least in the forum) general opinion about the signet.

Andele.1306:

The better question is why would you? I mean with consume conditions and well of blood, picking SoV seems… lets just say a single skritt not a horde of em.

Haha; awesome comparisation. ^^

Well, maybe it’s not part of the trait because it already has a healing-field.

Off topic but fun: Valar Morghulis… funny that you play on NSP. On FSP, there’s a guild with that name. ^^

Guardian.5142:

May you all have a very unfortunate day.

Did you just wish us all a day with lots of bad luck? o.o

~throws potatoes at you~

Oh, and I don’t have any evil-looking characters, because I don’t have any evil characters. And yes, I’ve got one of every character class.

FlamingFoxx.1305:

Nevermind that there have been(and usually are) multiple Friday the 13th’s each year…

Iirc, I’ve once read that the 13th of a month is most likely to fall on a friday, thus the most common date for a friday is the 13th.

Edit: Did anyone notice the awesomeness of wednesday’s date (11.12.13)? ^^

I can tell none of the posters above play a Necro; especially not the OP.

Pyroatheist.9031:

The only time you’ll see chaos storm tick for greater than 5000 is if they screw up descent into madness again…

Haha; that’s similar to what I’ve thought when I’ve read this statement. Too bad I’ve never gotten to actually see such a chaos storm, though. Would have been hilarious to watch.

Magnus Steelgrave.6580:

Saturn.6591:

There’s such a portal in Rata Sum as well, and it’s there for as long as I can remember. Dunno about those portals, though.

Are you talking about the portal to the polymock arena?

I don’t really remember if it says where it leads to; I just know that you can’t use the portal. Can’t really check right now, because I should go to sleep haha.

Palador.2170:

Donari.5237:

we only have her word for it that she’s nude, too. She could be teasing Marjory.

I’d be betting on this one. I think she’s wearing some practical but ugly clothes under the illusion.

That’s my guess as well. Maybe not ugly clothes, but not that special ones. ^^

There’s such a portal in Rata Sum as well, and it’s there for as long as I can remember. Dunno about those portals, though.

^ I think what you’re saying is similar to a rule we’ve had in the server rules of another MMORPG I’ve played. That rule was “Do not act stupid”, and some people were afraid to get banned with this rule as a reason. However, it was never meant to be a ban-reason, but more like “do not think you won’t get punished if you do something that’s clearly not allowed (common sense) but is not listed exactly in this way in the rules”.

Azo.5860:

Sword #1 chain dps has ~%12.5 nerf (no boon target)(and confused about ``condition removed``on tool tips?)

I think what you’re refering to are changes that were made in June and August this year. And while I didn’t specifically check the tooltip since the patch (and I can’t do it now, because I’ve gotta go sleep now haha), I think you meant “boon removed” and not “condition removed”. Yes, the third skill in the sword auto-attack chain removes a boon. And yes, it does more damage if the target doesn’t have a boon.

Hm, I don’t know… I’ve actually never seen Feedback doing that much in WvW. People move out of it way too fast (not like everyone’s standing still during a fight), and also they’re usually only standing really close to eachother at the beginning of a fight… and while re-stacking and healing up with waterfield-blasts. But during the latter, they don’t attack you, and the beginning of a fight isn’t a beginning for very long. So yeah, in my experience, feedback usually ends up being not nearly as useful as I would wish it would be.

Maybe I was just unlucky, though.

hammer.9721:

Me thinks people should look at the post date

Me agrees. Me also thinks people should read before posting.

Seriously; OP said in the very first sentence of his post that he’s looking for the armor on the LEFT side. He also said it again in a later post, because there already was someone else who didn’t read all too well.

And now… a year later… again someone who didn’t even read the first sentence of the OP.

Ugh.

I appreciate that you’re trying to help this person, though. ^^

Edit: erythro actually got it right.

http://www.gw2spidy.com/item/36358

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Deathly_Bull%27s_Shoulder_Skin

Edit 2: I’ve really liked Rhie whenever I’ve encountered her during my personal story.

Solstice.1097:

Chaos storm hits for up to 5k per pulse, per player.

Wat?

In full zerker gear, chaos storm does somewhere between 1 and 2k per pulse per player. Maybe around 3k if upleveled and exremely lucky (never saw that happen, though). Now YOU claim to be wearing full dire gear and getting 5k per pulse and player? Show me your secret please! I want to do more direct dmg with full condi-tank than with full glass cannon too!

^ Because you won’t make much use of static discharge if you only have one targetted skill in your toolbelt. At least if you’re not lucky/skilled enough to always face EXACTLY in the direction of your target while using those toolbelt-skills. I’ll just go ahead and say that’s nearly impossible, though.