Guild Wars 2

Everyone who thinks Necromancer shouldn’t be Sylvari cause of the lore probably forgot that Trahearne is a Necromancer too. And he’s not evil. Also not some other Sylvari Necromancer I remember having seen during the personal storyline.

And then there are also Necromancers of other races (Priestess Rhie for example, or Soure Doomsday) which aren’t evil at all.

So yeah, Sylvari is perfectly fine for a Necromancer. But in the end it’s your choice.

P.S.: My Necro is Sylvari as well. I like to think that he’s actually a good guy, but just happens to have a special talent with manipulating the forces of life and death. And he obviously decided to use that talent to fight evil and support people who need help.

Edit: Oh lol, that Sheep above me posted while I was typing and said similar stuff. ^^

Bump because I’ve just encountered this bug and found this thread thanks to Google.

Edit: Talking about this event.

Just for the sake of it; I’d like to add that other classes can get a bit of stealth as well… Rangers and Engineers for example. ^^

And of course everyone who happens to get it with the help of another class.

The level of your ignorance is beyond belief. Or to use a common meme: It’s over nine-thousand!!!

You can not compare SAB or the playhouse to the other dungeons. The other dungeons are designed for groups. Sure, some players can solo some of them, but that’s indeed very hard to do. However, SAB and the playhouse both are designed to be beaten SOLO with the option to take your friends with you. It’s not any harder solo than it is with a group. So there actually IS solo content in this release. You’re just to ignorant and stubborn to play it, that’s all.

That being said, if you’re so against grouping up with other players, I wonder why you play a multiplayer game xD. Of course the game is also nice solo, but yeah. You’ve got no right to complain about not enough solo-content being available. Especially not, when there actually IS solo-content.

Whatever. Why am I even posting. You’ll once more ignore everything and continue to claim there’s no solo-content in this release. Typical troll.

Lord Kuru.3685:

Saturn.6591:

eekzie.5640:

If you completed the events the gauntlet would’ve been open for you. There was plenty time to use them when they were switched back to account bound, if you needed them.

What?!?

Are you saying the tickets were switched back from soulbound to accountbound? When? I’ve spent quite a bit of money buying tickets from the NPC’s, when I still had around 40 tickets scattered over my other characters. I’ve never seen any announcement that they were changed back to accountbound.

o.o

When they nerfed the Gauntlet into the ground, they didn’t need the tickets to be soulbound anymore so they stealth changed them to accountbound. A few people on the forums noticed it.

Uff. Just why did I buy like 40 tickets then, when I could just have taken those from my other characters. -_-

Such changes should be communicated. I would have saved some gold, and also, I would have had an use for the remaining tickets. Well, I can just hope that the Gauntlet will return anytime soon.

Edit: Bad enough that I did not just forget to convert my Karma in time, but also forgot to do the torch runs because I was so focused on beating Liadri. Especially the latter one is bugging me quite a bit, since it’s content I’ve completely missed. I don’t care as much about the Karma.

Yupp yupp; I’ve noticed it yesterday or the day before. Was gonna make a post as well, but then I kinda forgot to do so. Thanks! ^^

Lol okay; nice! ^^

For me, the logo looks more like some kind of collosseum, though… well, an arena that is. But the bridge you’ve made out of it looks cool. ^^

eekzie.5640:

If you completed the events the gauntlet would’ve been open for you. There was plenty time to use them when they were switched back to account bound, if you needed them.

What?!?

Are you saying the tickets were switched back from soulbound to accountbound? When? I’ve spent quite a bit of money buying tickets from the NPC’s, when I still had around 40 tickets scattered over my other characters. I’ve never seen any announcement that they were changed back to accountbound.

o.o

Hm, I dunno… I daresay that Centaur or Air runes are still better for power-builds, and maybe Centaur even are still better for a condition build.

…how can you possibly be that cruel to me?

I mean, I’ve spent probably a couple of gold for food, tickets, repairs and waypoint. I’ve tried it with my normal condi-build many times and didn’t get her below 50%. Then I switched to a phantasm build and got her to 5% a couple of times. But then…

…less than 5 minutes until restart; I enter the arena again and it goes well… yeah… oh nice she’s actually very low… iDuelist…. lower, but duelist dead… nice; she’s at like 3% or so! iSwordie… meh too bad; she’s not dead yet but at 1%. But if just nothing really stupid happens, I will make it! Despite those constant reminders that the game will restart in 2 minutes and 40 seconds now. Okay… now… FAAAAAAA…eh…kitten… what just happened… I’m downed… she’s running towards me, 3 clones too…. pressing downed-skill 1 like a madman, but my Mesmer looks into the wrong direction… TURN! TUUUUUURRRNN!!! My character turns, I press the ke…..y…. dead. DEAD! AT ONE PERCENT! Yeah, 2 minutes and 30 seconds until restart, I know. ONE PERCENT! T__________T

/me goes and cries in a corner. Q.Q

On a sidenote, I also failed to convert my Karma stuff in time, haha. Oh well, I don’t really care as much about that (still bugging me a bit, though xD). ONE PERCENT! Or maybe even less, haha… I mean, her health bar was all empty. -_-

See you next time Liadri. And then I will spank your kitten until you say that you’re sorry. ò_Ó

Peacemaker Xeranan.4508:

For Example: With the trait Compounding Power equipped- +3% additional damage for each active [sic] illusion in the world:

3 Illusions ordered to Mind Wrack-> Damage from each illusions’ Mind Wrack packet:
First gets a +9% damage bonus, Second gets +6% damage bonus, Third gets +3% damage bonus

3 Illusions ordered to Mind Wrack THEN a fourth illusion is summoned -> Damage from each illusions’ Mind Wrack Packet: First gets a +9% damage bonus (NOT +12%), Second gets a +9% damage bonus (the first illusion shattered but fourth, active illusion now counts towards the bonus damage limit), and third gets +6% damage bonus.

Oh; didn’t know that (new illusions keep the damage-bonus at 9%). Though it makes sense somehow… I guess. ^^

I never understood what problem some people have with Jennah and/or her outfit. It’s perfectly fine. You know, it’s perfectly acceptable if a queen decided to NOT wear some fugly-looking designer-outfit just because it’s supposed to be the greatest thing currently and “stylish”. Imo, she looks pretty as well as noble now. Just not snobby, which makes her even more likeable.

Edit: Also, lol @some of the replies here xD.

Mogsterfortytwo.6712:

Not even downed? Wait, was this only tested with Warrior and Guardian again? I play a pretty defence heavy Elementalist, and downing is common. No wonder I didn’t get this class biased achievement!

I’ve done it with my condition Mesmer. Wasn’t really that hard to not get downed, unless when I was trying to get the achievement for saving Faren within 3 minutes. While doing so, I did get downed once or twice (but I made it in the end). But yeah… it’s not that hard to play it safe (for the “don’t get downed” achievement); just skip the mobs in between the fights. Oh, and you should kill those mobs that are already with Scarlet when you reach Faren first, before you start to extinguish the fire for the first time. This way, it will also be a bit easier as you won’t have as many mobs on you at once.

ArmageddonAsh.6430:

phokus.8934:

ArmageddonAsh.6430:

keenlam.4753:

Any gear with MF stat, the MF stat component will be replaced with something else, hopefully interesting for us. I read it somewhere that Rune of Scavenging gets life steal or something but we’ll see.

You got any Links for that? from what i heard gear with Magic find is just getting the Magic find removed and no other stats added or increased. Guess it would be impossible for the same to happen to some of the Runes due to the fact they have so much of it as part of the set.

Read the front page of GW2, it outlines it clearly as to what is happening with Magic Find.

I remember reading it was getting removed, nothing about it being replaced with anything.

You really should check out the stuff that appears in your game launcher after typing in your login-data, you know… ^^

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/economy-report-brace-yourself-disequilibrium-is-coming/

It’s almost at the bottom.

Edit: Just saw you’ve already read it by now. Nvm then. ^^

Edit 2: It appears the forum is not able to quote more than two posts at once… I’ve actually quoted the whole post with the quote of the quote in it, but it only shows the “outer two quotes” outside of editing mode. -_-

Yupp; just got online again. I hope it stays like that.

Well, not like it would be needed… but yeah; gonna put my info here as well. ^^

Server: Far Shiverpeaks
Location: Switzerland

I just came home (had to go somewhere) and thought “oh cool; just in time… gonna check if I’m lucky and finally one of those two maps I still didn’t see invaded even a single time is invaded this time (those two which even have a separate achievement)”. Well, turns out I can’t log in. And (probably due to everyone accessing it now) the forum is laggy as well, with occassional 502-errors. Speaking of which… disconnects (ingame) and 502-pages started to happen from time to time recently. No idea why, though.

IGN: Alusia Alate
Server: Far Shiverpeaks, EU
Role: Scholar, I guess. I’ve got 928 hours on my Mesmer, but I’m still trying to learn more.
Playing: Mostly PvE and some WvW. I sometimes play a bit PvP as well, but not really a lot until now.

Edit: Oh, and… nice idea!

Hmm… 75 people have no opinion about this build. Well, maybe someone out of the next 75 people does.

What Pyro said.

Oh, and also… I totally love (hint: I don’t) how you keep saying that nobody tells you why we think your build won’t work, when it’s obviously not true. I myself did so two times already (and I’m not the only one); go read my posts (especially the first one) again if you’ve missed it.

I’ve already tried to make it work myself, but I quickly noticed that it doesn’t work out in practice (for the reasons I’ve explained in my first post in this topic). And yes, trying it did cost me a nice amount of gold back then, only to notice shortly after that it was a failure.

Recently I’ve come up with this build for my Necromancer, and I’d like to know what you think about it:

http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/necromancer/?5.0|b.1b.h16.8.1h.h5|6.1b.h5|1h.7i.1h.7i.1h.7g.1h.7g.1h.7y.1h.7y|4w.0.2w.0.3w.0.2w.0.3w.0.1b.62|0.u46a.k52.0.k49|31.e|3r.3x.49.48.0|e

I wanted to have a high uptime of swiftness and a good survivability while still dealing decent damage, and I think I managed to do so. I think; I don’t know yet because my Necro is just lvl 36 as of now, haha. However, I will have nearly 100% swiftness uptime, and I’ve also got +100% fear duration (and +56% on every other condition) (with food, that is). Depending on the situation, I’ll slot corrupt boon. Maybe I’ll even switch Greater Marks for Fear on CC depending on what I do.

So yeah; what do you think?

Aberrant.6749:

matemaster.2168:

Auto dodge bot ? Are you serious ? Who the hell would need bot for doubleclick ??

The pros use things like shift + wasd to prevent accidental 2x clicks. In this instance pros =’s people with hands like big bear claws like me.

Mousewheel-click all the way. =)

Crawford.4135:

and yes WE ALL see players using Auto-MinionDodge Bot being used left and right in this game

Huh; what? I’ve never seen or heard about something like an auto-dodge bot. What’s that even supposed to be? A bot which presses your dodge-button if an attack is going to be lethal otherwise? I doubt that’d even be possible to code.

Crawford.4135:

(Oh, it has also been over a year now that you have not fixed Infiltrator’s Strike. GG)

I’m not aware that this skill is buggy. There’s also no mention of a bug in the wiki. So… what were they supposed to fix? Judging from the tone of your post, it wouldn’t surprise me if you’d answer “I told them countless times that it should work completely different and they just decided to not follow my advice!”

o.o

themenaceofseventhdimension.2075:

Plz stop spamming at me. I have had with it. You act like this build is complete fail when it has potential to be great. you also act like I always cause the problem in all my threads. You guyz just won’t stop reminding me about my past mistakes. And you keep telling me that I am posting terrible builds. PLz pray explain to me why all of my builds suck. plz explain. Most of my builds are hybrid. Thats why they seem to look funny, but you have to go over taht wall to see why the heck I even chose the build. Plz Plz stop spamming verbal abuse at me.

Saturn.6591:

I’ve once had the idea to go hybrid with my Mesmer as well, and I (very) quickly noticed that it was a bad idea. While you’re in “condition mode” (meaning you use staff), you don’t do enough condition damage to be dangerous for anyone who’s not afk. And while you’re in power mode (using sword/x) you won’t do enough direct damage to be dangerous.

Other people already explained it as well. And nobody is verbally abusing you in any way. We’re just telling you our opinions on your build, which you don’t want to accept. We even tell you that we know from experience that it doesn’t work out. We all do. Yet, you keep claiming otherwise. So, how about you back this up? Proof us that we’re wrong and your build actually is that great.

I’ve once had the idea to go hybrid with my Mesmer as well, and I (very) quickly noticed that it was a bad idea. While you’re in “condition mode” (meaning you use staff), you don’t do enough condition damage to be dangerous for anyone who’s not afk. And while you’re in power mode (using sword/x) you won’t do enough direct damage to be dangerous.

The reason why hybrid works for Necromancers (as demonstrated by Nemesis) is, that they can apply conditions much better and quicker than Mesmers can. Thus, they will still have them ticking while bursting with power. Or like Nemesis said it (iirc)… around 60% of a condition build and 60% of a power build… alone they aren’t worth much (and for a Mesmer, you would just switch between them and always be at 60%), but if you manage to combine them, you’ll maybe not get 120% but at least 100-110%. If you can stick to your rotations, that is. And yeah, it won’t work for Mesmers, but it can work for Necros.

Though there’s one possiblity to go hybrid-ish with a Mesmer, and that’s with stacking Might. Osicat has already demonstrated this (with his Heavy Shattercat 2.0 and also 3.0 if I’m right). He focuses on power, but due to stacking lots of Might, the conditions he applies also tick for some nice additional damage.

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Finally a build that requires enemies to think instead of mindlessly spamming attacks. Seems like a good idea to me.

It existed before. And unlike with the runes, it required you to give up pretty much every other way to really do at least some damage. It was called Glamour-Mesmer. And as we all know, they nerfed that into the ground, or actually even below that. And then they made a rune which potentially can do much more damage (without taking away your other means of doing damage) than Glamour-Mesmers ever could.

And the sad part is, I don’t think many Mesmers will use this rune. Well, unless they can live with moving around like a snail while trying to get from one point to the other in WvW.

Gabesz.3895:

Use both sigil, stack with corruption then change weapon with Bursting contains.

Hm well. That’s an option, I guess. Though not one I really like a lot, but it’s an option. Prolly gonna do that once my Necro reaches 80.

Rennoko.5731:

The 6% is calculated after food and crystal buffs, but does not include stacks in the calculation. I was getting somewhere between 92 and 94 condition damage depending on what gear I was wearing.

A very nice offhand sigil now.

So that means it’s worth between 9 and 10 permanent stacks of the Sigil of Corruption. I’m not so sure if that’s really worth it. I mean… 94 condition damage isn’t that much. Even the 250 condition damage of the stacking sigil are just enough to make it a nice addition (as long as you don’t get downed, that is). Hmmmhmm. So, either Corruption or Bursting… meh. Decent-if-lucky vs not-really-good-but-always. Hmmhmm. Uff. -_-

Edit: At least we’ve got a choice now. Which is probably going to be decided by 1. how lucky you feel and 2. how high your condition damage already is.

Hm, I’ve got quite a good computer. If not to say, quite amazing… though it’s already around one year old by now. Anyway; I’m playing at high settings and just participated in an invasion event in Blazeridge Steppes on an overflow map. I had around 25 fps in those huge crowds I think; though I’ve seen it at 17 fps once. However, it was still playable; meaning I was able to use skills and stuff. I remember how that wasn’t possible in a Shatterer event some months ago (though again, it was possible in more recent Shatterer-events… so I think they already improved that earlier). But I also think that Shatter-event back then had me drop to like 2-5 fps. Anyway; as it is, I don’t really care about those fps-drops (since 25 fps seem to still be playable).

Oh, and my normal framerate is around 80 fps.

Edit: Lol; looking through my screenshots, I noticed that Tricksy Trekksa is on one of them. xD

knives.6345:

Nice idea. Maybe they could introduce a new race along? What’s the race of the blue assassin girl on the story? The friend of Treahearn (spell?)? The one with black wings?

That race.

Largos.

I’m kinda tempted to try those runes at some point (though I’d wait some time to see if they’re getting changed). But… I also don’t really want to give up on my centaur runes. I feel they are pretty much necessary for me, haha. I don’t want to walk around like a snail in WvW. -_-

Blood Red Arachnid.2493:

You read that in Professor Farnsworth’s voice, didn’t you?

Nope. I have not the slightest idea who that is. Never heard or read that name before.

And yeah, like Rennoko said… I also thought this was always the case. Actually, I think I remember reading that a couple of times in different threads in the last uhm… 1-2 months.

eldenbri.1059:

I’m assuming the duelist change was that previously you could cast it from 1200 range even if you didn’t have it traited.

Iirc you could cast it at 1200 range, but it could only shoot for 900 (no matter if traited or not), so it had to run a bit after casting it at max range. Now you can only cast it at 1200 range if you’ve traited for it (like it was intended), and then the phantasm also shoots at a range of 1200 like it’s supposed to (bugfix). That’s how I understand it.

Xavi.6591:

Zen.4678:

Also undocumented change- double blink with Far Reaching Manipulation switching no longer works.

Ha, it’s like Anet wants to slow Mesmer OOC down even more.

It’s more like they fixed an exploitable bug.

Did you take the breather off before you tried to put the rune inside? I just noticed this week that this is necessary for back-items… so maybe it counts for the breather as well. I know that I’ve put my superior rune inside my breather before I equipped it and I think many people (maybe all of those that already posted here?) did so… so yeah… try to unequip the breather and then put the rune inside.

Elidath.5679:

shimmerless.4560:

deceptive evasion clones go for the nearest hostile

As has been said: they go for the closest attackable, not hostile. What mesmer never pulled angry moas or boars in a fight just by dodging ? ^^’

Those that don’t use the clone on dodge trait. ;D

Well, your main damage while playing as a condition Mesmer will come from Winds of Chaos and staff clones (who also cast Winds of Chaos). Especially in PvE.

For the actual build, there are many possibilities. However, you’ll (usually) want to have condition damage being the highest stat on your equipment.

Well, just that Gandalf would have had to get there himself first. And then the range of the skill, haha. But! Funny idea. ^^

Bailey.6892:

Rennoko.5731:

TheAgedGnome.7520:

What is your build?

I have been waffling between wasting some fear duration (going over 100%) using master of terror to make sure I get a 3 second close range fear, and getting soul marks living with shorter fears. I find I don’t really use staff much at all except to fear thieves out of houses, and the base marks are bigger, but still hard for me to get used to.
I am on Maguuma

What is the 3 second close range fear?

Doom. That’s the 3rd skill of DS. It has a 1,5 seconds base duration if casted from closer than 600 units, which goes up to 3 seconds if you have +100% fear duration.

I wish I had some. For unknown reasons, I didn’t get to run fractals anymore ever since I’ve reached reward lvl 10, haha. And that even though I’ve ran lvl 10, 12, 14 and 16 before I’ve reached that level.

Uh well. I hope I’ll find the time for fractals again at some point. Also because I really do want to get more 20-slot bags.

I’ve used it for a while, but at some point I changed it to (clicking) the mousewheel, because I often dodged when I didn’t want to. I didn’t have any difficulties with adapting. In fact, my fights started to feel much smoother and controlled. One of the reasons for that might be, that I now can dodge without having to stop running for a moment (you know… get your finger off the key, double-tap it, press the key again…). With double-tapping, I sometimes was unable to dodge in time because of that short stop in movement. And double-dodging was pretty much impossible to be done successfully.

Rennoko.5731:

•Rune of Melandru: Fear duration is now only reduced once by this rune set. The negative stun duration bonus no longer reduces incoming fear duration. This is also true for food consumables that offer a negative stun duration bonus.

I love when I make a video and someone cares.

:)

I instantly thought of you when I’ve read that part of the patchnotes. ^^

TheStarflyer.9641:

Saturn.6591:

Necros can’t suicide-jump off cliffs anymore. That’s about the only real DS-nerf here.

On the other hand, they fixed a bug that apparently was letting Necros take more damage from direct attacks while in DS. So I’d say the survivability is now INCREASED. Not even talking about the faster generation of life force through spectral skills and axe 2.

Spoken like someone who has never played a necro… go back to ele or guard, leave the skilled players alone…

Actually, Necro is one of the classes I play quite frequently. I didn’t touch my lvl 30 Ele or my lvl uhm… 14 (I think) Guardian for at least two months.

Edit: Talking about skilled; it appears to me that you’re not one of the “skilled players” if you don’t see the facts. Even if you should have to face-tank a big attack of a boss for some weird reason, it will actually do less damage as before, because they fixed the bug that did make you take more direct damage while you are in DS.

Fubar.8413:

Afya.5842:

It now makes DS more useless in PVE. Without Vigor, in some boss fight where endurance can’t regen fast enough, I use DS to soak it up. now it will eat into my health NOT COOL.

Especially for Lupi

I’ve done Arah path 1 for the very first time last sunday evening. It was the first time for the whole party. None of us has encountered Lupi before. I actually didn’t dodge very much; yet I only got downed like 2 times and killed one time (which was when we wiped). We only wiped once at Lupi; in the second try it went quite smooth.

I don’t see why you would need vigor (or DS) for Lupi unless you insist on melee-ing him.

Necros can’t suicide-jump off cliffs anymore. That’s about the only real DS-nerf here.

On the other hand, they fixed a bug that apparently was letting Necros take more damage from direct attacks while in DS. So I’d say the survivability is now INCREASED. Not even talking about the faster generation of life force through spectral skills and axe 2.

Just a thought that came to my mind this evening while I was experiencing the joys (and annoyances xD) of Arah path 1 (yes I’m aware that this information wasn’t really necessary haha).

Since WoC counts as a projectile (as it can be blocked/reflected by skills that do so with projectiles)… why not add a 20% chance for a projectile finisher to it?

Someone already made a thread about this some time ago… well, quite some time ago, that is.

Anyway; thanks for sharing I guess. Even though I won’t bother to use this to my advantage. Not even sure if that’d be exploiting or not.

LudCreed.3170:

can someone please give me any tips on how to beat priestess lyssa in the mission ‘’ossuary of unquiet death’’?

Hm… I didn’t really have any problems with it on my condition Mesmer like uhm… well, quite some time ago (1-2 months I think). But then again; I already was lvl 80 for a long time when I’ve done that mission.

What class are you playing, what level are you and what skills/traits/equipment are you using?

Also, if you keep having trouble, you could try and ask some friends if they’ll help you with the mission.

Setun.4368:

Just wanted to say of all the musical instruments you guys have put out, this one is by far the best sounding and animated. Also the note transitions are markedly smoother as well. Very well done.

Made a video of the first song I could recreate with it. I’m having a freaking blast with it.

Sadly, those NPC’s talking are VERY distracting. I can’t really listen to your flute-playing like that.

Well, people say that you can actually lay down temporal curtain, begin spawning iWarden and then use Into the Void before the cast for iWareden finishes. This way, it spawns on the knocked down target. However, I’ve tried it and never could get it to work like that… iWarden ALWAYS spawned where the target was before I used Into the Void; no matter if I used it mid-cast or when it was at like 90% of the castingtime.

Another option would be immobilizing with sword 3. I guess you can also knockdown with the pull from Into the Void, then cast iWarden and while doing so immobilize with sword 3. Oh, and while you’re at it, you’re of course free to use Blurred Frenzy after iWarden spawned (and if the target isn’t running away already).

Well, there’s that image of an Asura Necromancer, which you see quite often. Most Charr aren’t really into magic anymore; though you can actually meet a Charr Necromancer in your personal story. As for armor, people usually complain that you can’t see armor on Asura very well; but they also complain that most armor looks bad on Charrs.

So yeah; I guess it’s up to you. Though, since your Asura Necro already is lvl 40, I’d suggest you stick with it. Unless you really feel like you want it to be another race/gender.

Try this website here:

http://www.gw2state.com/temples.html