Guild Wars 2

Lopez.7369:

Today’s changes are a step in the right direction. Lower damage, more survivability.

People who insist on sticking to weaker, outdated builds should probably get used to being weaker. ArenaNet can’t balance around mediocrity.

Not trying to argue just trying to understand the survivability point because I do not play sPvP. Does the increased survivability come from the fix of the increased damage from attacks while in death shroud? Just taking a cursory look at the patch notes, it seems like the damge overflow from ds to health pool along with internal cooldowns on ds generation with spectral skills will actually decrease survivability.

Again, not trying to be argumentative but just trying to understand how this will play out. Was the increased damage taken while in DS so powerful that we will see a big difference? It seems like the ICD on ds generation with spectral skills but with increased ds generation per hit will help in 1 v 1 settings or with slow hits but will hurt with focus fire

cubed.2853:

Still dont get why… Maybe its all because of sPvP? Dont see any other reason for those nerfs…

Haha I am not an sPvP er but reading through their forums, our forums and talking to people in game, the things that they nerfed this patch were things that people tended to not complain about (other than terror) and the things that everyone thought needed buffed (survivability, mobility) were the things that were (likely, I havent had a chance to play with the patch yet) nerfed

Daemon.4295:

Damage taken while in death shroud will now overflow to the necromancer’s health pool if the damage taken is greater than the remaining life force.

:(

I guess I’ll have to use Spectral Walk to leap off mountains now.

I was about to say the same

That sucks

How about a trait like:
Ritual of the Lich – gain stability while standing inside a well

This would be pretty powerful but would allow necros to stay ‘in the pocket’ but punish them for chasing someone outside of that circumscribed area

I am sorry if this question has already been asked but if not, I was wondering if the new legendaries are going to use new precursors or if they will use the same precursors with a different recipe

sorrow.2364:

Lucas.9162:

I don’t know about Soul Feast. Necros would be OP in situations where LF can be shot up to full, like in Zerg fights and mass mob fights.

With 1000 healing power, the healing is about 500 per dying entity (not including minions, phantasms, pets and all the AI entity that does not generate Life Force). It is less than half the healing of Parastic Bond.

What would the numbers look like for spectral walk, spectral armor etc

My fear with greatsword is that they would make it into a ranged weapon like mesmer greatsword. I think we can all agree that we need a weapon with cleave auto attack so ANet, if you decide to go with gs, please make it melee!

Main hand sword:
1. Auto attack with cleave, has chance to apply chilled on third attack
2. Burst skill that does more damage if target is chilled
3. Leap finisher

“Why are we being viewed as OP”

It was probably initially the terror / fire combo. Now, it is likely shifting to some degree to bandwagon. Last night I was told by a guild member that warhorn 4 is op and that we are basically immune to conditions because of dagger 4.

Really?

Kravick.4906:

Considering that thieves can burst upwards of 8k DPS, and warriors churn out a consistent 4k DPS if in melee range… thats pretty low.

But its a NECRO, theyre not supposed to kill anything…

Agreed. I would love to have a sword with cleave

Theres a secret in the necro community

How to beat a necro:
Attack. Get into melee range, cleansing conditions if you are against a condition necro. CC. Damage.

Necros cant blink, teleport, invis, etc. Once you are in melee you are pretty much good. You will lock them down and kill them. If the necro tries to run away at any point, you have already won.

I know this is an oversimplification but this is a way to start to adapt your play style to fighting a necro. Like I have to adapt my play style to fighting a mesmer, thief, etc.

Adapting playstyle does not mean a class is OP. It means they have different vulnerabilities and strengths than your class

Totally off topic, but I like the use of the word obfuscation

Balkanwarrior.5132:

Ahaha OP got infracted for this post. That’s sad

It was because he used the word “gay” to describe the game, not for the overall message of the post.

Ah ^ beat me to it :-p

Has to appeal to a broad range of players as an MMO. Some dark stuff for people who like that. Some funny/kiddie stuff for people who like that.

Eddie G.8731:

Sepreh.5924:

Random Number Generator

Huh. What’s that got to do with what people in the community are talking about? Is that just a fancy way of saying “I’ve got bad luck, but it must be the game’s fault?”

Sometimes is a way of saying that. Sometimes occurs in the context of saying less things in the game should use RNG

Random Number Generator

Mine is Sepreh Thaed. Had to switch around the “T” and “h” so that it looked better but keeping this in mind, spell it backwards Great for a condition necro

The reason that the op is even posting this is that people are kittening kitten holes. It takes a long time to learn to play other humans as opposed to enemy AI. Not that one is better or worse, it’s a different skillset. It also takes a while to learn the OS map and JP. Some people probably have limited time in their day to log in and get the PvE achievement. The last thing they need is some piece of kitten kid who has the summer off and unlimited time specifically sitting in OS and trolling near the end.

This kitten come up all the time. The kittening trolls justify this kitten by saying “I am helping my server by preventing people from getting seige and BoH”. For starters, this is the weakest justification I have ever heard. People camp jps to be kittens and to farm unsuspecting players. If they actually did want to prevent people from getting seige and BoH, they would wait until the final chest and let people going for the achievement complete until that point. The problem with that idea is that JP campers are cowardly trolls and waiting until the end makes the fight too fair.

Btw, they changed my topic title

Gizmo.9178:

You might want to take a break for a while…

Haha I agree. Plus I main a necro. Wth am I going to do with an infinite light?

kitten it, I just realized that I had a dream last night that I got infinite light as a drop. I know that this is impossible, but when I woke up I though I had an infinite light in the bank. I dont :/

Has anyone else had GW2 dreams?

This is a troll thread.

Here are suggestions for all the heals.

1. Keep CC as is
2. You can sacrifice BF for heal (as it is now). If BF is killed, it heals for 1.25-1.5 times the sacrifice heal
3. Reduce cooldown on WoB

Rennoko.5731:

•Dark Path: This skill will now cause the necromancer to shadowstep the full 1200-unit distance when hitting at max range.

What was Dark Path doing before?

kishter.9578:

Bhawb.7408:

I would say we take the least amount of real effort yes. You can’t just walk around pressing 211111121111111211111 like a warrior, but you don’t have to worry about dying at all or anything, you just get mobs, drop AoE, they all die, repeat, and you take pretty much no damage. Its even easier now with DS 5.

you dont have necro, i Bet.

Hahaha best post ever Kish, listen to the necro podcast on SOAC

With regards to the topic at hand, necro was pretty easy to level. Warrior was easier. Guard was probably about the same.

Dalaen.1954:

Ok and if I target a mesmer, when he makes clones and whatever, the target shall remain on the genuine mesmer.
Think a little bit before…

You are presuming that I wasnt thinking before I posted. I agree with that, the mesmer should remain targeted even if he blinks, clones, etc and when a mesmer uses their stealth, they should be untargetted while stealthed and targeted when back

sorrow.2364:

I know that you guys are on the offensive because of all the people complaining about terror+burning, but don’t kittening start a kittenstorm that big each time you see “too strong” near something regarding necromancers.

Then why would you create a topic with a title like that? You knew it would be inflammatory prior to posting but still decided to post it. Of course people in here will freak out about it with all the “nerf necro” talk going around recently and you knew that beforehand.

2 things which would help to balance stealth in wvw::

1. Eliminate stealth stomp

2. If someone is targeted before entering stealth, that target comes back after they leave stealth

Hey all. I know this is a very minor request but I was wondering if we could possibly change the CoE light legs to allow for dyeing of the back panel. I love the look of those legs but the light gray back looks out of place with dark dyes

Again, I know it is a minor request but it would be much appreciated

Hey all!

So after playing this game for almost a year I have met a few new friends, spent way more time than I would like to acknowledge playing / reading about the game and watching videos, listening to podcasts, etc. My guess is that quite a few of us out there have made this game a part of our lives and would like to meet up with like minded people and thank the devs.

Now that we are nearing the game’s first year anniversary, is there any talk about having a gw2 convention? How cool would it be to meet your favorite podcasters, hang out with your guild and finally meet that thief from another server who ganked you right after a fight then laughed and danced. Personally, I’d be looking forward to the winged armor cosplay

Is the community here interested in a gw2 con?

Hey, have a solution. Griefers should camp between the aetherblade cache and the completion chest. That way, pve’ers can get the achievement and griefers can get their badges / prevent other servers from getting seige

Necro could use a sword as a cleave weapon.

Giganticus lupicus

Rfreak.6591:

I think the main problem would be… non-soulbound back items don’t exist, as such even if you transmute to a White/blue backpiece the result would be the same …

What about gem store back items. For example, the quaggan backpiece. When you buy this in the gem store, there are two parts – a statless backpiece and a quaggan skin. I do not know for sure, but I am pretty sure that the statless backpiece is accountbound. Theoretically, you should be able to transmute the wing skin to that.

If I am completely wrong, let me know. I am at work so cannot test for myself

I think it needs to be a “white” item. Not sure if it works with blues. If you are really in a bind, I think the gem store backpieces come with a default “statless” backpiece that you should be able to transmute to to accountbound rather than soulbound the item

Rahveiz.7461:

I was just wondering about it, 30/25/0/0/15 can be a good build, you have the 25 in Curses and the 15 in SR for the spectral armor

This is the build I have been playing recently and it’s great. Good mix of a high crit chance plus some extra survivability from 15 in soul reaping

TheMightyAltroll.3485:

OH Dagger 5 should be a blast finisher.

This would be epic

Kryptonite.9376:

There is an RNG chance that we will receive it soon.

+1. I loled at work

Tentonhammr.7849:

Quick suggestion for the gate controller though: target it before the door closes, summon flesh golem, use BiP as it opens, flash deathshroud, ghastly claws while approaching, drop WoS, weapon swap dagger auto. Instead of the other minion use Signet of Spite. Its the only instance in the game where that kittening signet is useful. Then just swap it back out before the effigy. Give it a try, I melt the controller with this combo.

I have been doing this only dropping both WoS and WoC instead of using Signet of Spite. Do you get more total DPS from the power boost with spite?

Hey Nemesis – already posted this on your reddit post but it is awesome that you guys did this. I have been loving playing gc necro since watching your build video (although I changed a couple things for my playstyle – eg. Superior Rune of Lyssa b/c getting 5 seconds of all boons with fleshy’s charge is awesome) and am glad that people can see that a necro can put out a decent amount of DPS

Bhawb.7408:

I might not agree with excluding burning because I believe it helps gameplay, and for me gameplay > lore (although I can totally see why people would disagree), I love reading these threads because the lore for this game is interesting (shame they did such a terrible job presenting it).

Agreed man. Lily, is there a decent way to catch up on the lore or did you just learn it all from GW1?

Necromancer. I honestly find the necromancer to be most fun which is why I keep coming back to it

Ah good to know. To be honest, I know little to nothing about GW lore but think that it is extremely interesting and would add an awesome aspect to the game if it was more promenant

Softspoken.2410:

Lily, I’ve already read the blog post. It’s kind of short on exact details. I mean, technically Necromancers ‘have access to’ confusion and vigor already. I get that you’re pretty mad, I’m just saying you shouldn’t do anything drastic before they throw back the curtain completely.

And burning, on corrupt boon, when it works…

Pandabro.8743:

Sepreh.5924:

Hehe – I can just see a sweet bursty rotation forming….

(while running in) Focus 5, Focus 4, Axe 3, Axe 2, DS5, WoC, WoS, Dagger 1

I see it synergizing with well power builds VERY well. Right now there’s not loss for stepping out of a well, but the new condition has potential to put people in a lose/lose situation.

And can you imagine with the buff to weakness, combining this with weakening shroud and offhand dagger (with the mainhand dagger) to mitigate damage when you have them trapped in a well and are dagger auto attacking!

I’m excited

Hehe – I can just see a sweet bursty rotation forming….

(while running in) Focus 5, Focus 4, Axe 3, Axe 2, DS5, WoC, WoS, Dagger 1

I am very much looking forward to this – hopefully it will allow me to keep people in wells and get a couple dagger auto attacks off

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/upcoming-skill-and-trait-changes/

Discuss

I know this is a different point, but one thing I can say about playing a glass cannon necro in PvE is that it is much more fun (at least for me) than playing other “more effecient” PvE classes. I finally picked up those Lyssa runes and it is unbelievely fun to be able to run up to a mob, use fleshy’s knockdown for both the knockdown and ALL BOONS, throw down WoS and WoC and watch the mob melt with my dagger #1 and fleshy’s extra DPS

ColinJohanson.2394:

If you just died in PvP or WvW, it was probably me who killed you. GG!

He was the one who danced on your body, laughed, then teabagged you