Guild Wars 2

i’d rather flush my money down the toilet.

24 hour wait period? That is stupid lol.

Kaderin.7584:

I’m not talking nonsense, I’m completing it as is, unless you suggest certain servers are bugged, didnt have a problem doing it yesterday, not having a problem today either

Then certain servers are obviously bugged. No one is “missing” people are literally bouncing off the broken class and falling, or are getting kicked out of the chest room.

Kaderin.7584:

I did this 3 times just now and its fine, once I even screwed the timing and the clock face was over 80% gone to the right side and i still got in, I think the problem is most likely people needing to jump farther ahead from the ledge than where they actually do currently, some puzzles have places where this is a issue and i wouldn’t be surprised if it was so here aswell..

I understand problems may arise but I just need to point out that its hard to believe when I never failed that jump, I have fallen everywhere possible in the tower but never there

you’re talking nonsense.

I’ve done it 30 times no problem, now it seems to be blocked all of a sudden.

sucks, went inside, opened a chest that i realized i couldn’t open again for 24 hours and got nothing for it.

Killed some enemies and got some equally as useless trick or treat bags.

Who cares about visuals if they don’t have any substance to them.

May as well have made more desktop backgrounds instead for all it was worth.

They do not drop in the labyrinth off normal enemies.

Also, when I opened the chest for the first time I got some crappy level 76 trident, did not get a mad king armor item.

Who cares if they are tradeable? Who want’s to pay gold for something that they should be able to earn themselves?

This event will be over before anyone can actually get a full set due to the 24hour wait period. The clock tower only gives you boots and nothing else.

mjsko.7029:

Andronis.3926:

You have to wait for the lightning to strike

This. If you don’t see the lightning strike and the glass break, you’re either too early and will have to wait for another rotation or two, or you’re too late and are screwed.

that’s not the issue.

The issue is with the fact that it doesn’t let you inside even if the glass breaks. I’ve done it 20+ times and it will not let me back in anymore.

<— here’s proof. And don’t tell me i missed the window, because I literally bounced off of the glass.

doesn’t work for me

come on tell me already -_-

Where do you get the mystic tonic recipe, or do you have to discover it with 400 artificer?

or can u buy them from a vendor or something, or can u buy the recipe somewhere.. ?

Morgoth.4573:

They seem determined to nerf into the ground anything that might allow the common man a way to get good loot. Only people who noticed and farmed it for a few hours or whatever win in this game. Mind boggling.

been like that every time. Happened with CoF, Arah, mystic forge. Ect ect ect.

At least they fixed this one relatively quickly…

I don’t have alts nor do I want alts.

I shouldn’t have to wait 24 hours in an attempt to collect a special seasonal event of gear, in which I only have a small chance of collecting 1 piece every 24 hours.

Good god come on now. You know it’s crap, I know it’s crap. Where’s ANET’s response already?

this has been the worst seasonal event in any game i’ve ever played.

honestly a 2 hour, or even a 5 hour time limit for this would be acceptable but 24 freaking hours is outrageous…

rollback the exploiters please.

This is total bullcrap. How are you supposed to get the full mad king set with the current restrictions? Is it even possible? Lol this is straight up lame.

Revan.2461:

Good luck trying to get the rest of the Mad King Set with this BS restriction. 24 hr limit is a complete joke!

This.

How are we supposed to collect the set with a restriction such as this? I looted the chest and didn’t even get a mad king piece of armor either lmao… i got some kinda lvl 76 exotic trident that blows.

Killed the champion again, tried to loot chest. INSERT TROLL .JPG yeah, couldn’t loot the chest.

Good job Anet.

Same here. This is totally lame.

Lucas Ashrock.8675:

Carrion set of this skin is not even 80 haha

too true. I looked at it again and this stuff is like level 76 or something?

so this is not intentional from anet then? It’s a bug?

okay? ??? anyone ??

anyone else clearly made the jump but it doesn’t let you in if you have already done it?

i’ve made around 600 candycorns doing the tower. But i guess they won’t let you do tower runs anymore.

It’s not like you can do much with these candycorn anyway. I got personalized bags with them in lions arch, but literally got nothing out of the personalized bags aside from some more candycorn and some lame skin tonics.

I made the jump clear as day a few times and every time it won’t let go through the broken window.

So I guess they put a block on how many times you can run it.

It’s not like you can do much with these candycorns anyway. I don’t see the reason for the block.

I mean I’ve made at least 80 personalized bags from all the candycorn i got and literally got nothing in them aside from some more candycorn and potion skins.

like i’m getting really mad now. I’m falling cuz other people in my way. This is seriously making me mad.

wow this is effing dumb i literally can’t see crap cuz other people in my way…

This is the dumbest thing ever.

this is not fair…

I literally cannot see my character when jumping. There’s too many people, why would you do this?

Why can’t I run a solo instance of it?

Again, why do this.. ?

Lame. I am mad. I can’t seem my kitten character cuz too many people.

No sound at all when playing guild wars 2. I haven’t played the game in about a month now since I hit 80 with my necro. Halloween event came up and figured I’d get into the seasonal spirit.

I duno what update broke it but yeah I have no sound at all while in-game with my logitech g35. Used it previous without problems.

-edit- Sigh.. well I’m dumb. Apparently I had turned the volume off in-game when I had last logged out.

I award myself with -5 internet points. I reject your reality, and substitute my own.

Where does it drop? I doubt you know, and if you do, you get a cookie if you tell me. Cuz I sure as hell don’t know, lol.

nvm i found the little button thing…kittenthat thing doesn’t even look like it’s clickable…

I placed 2 orders for 2g 50s each on 2 different items.

Yet I don’t see these orders I placed in my transactions, so I have no way to cancel them.

If nobody does the order, I can still get my gold back right ?? or how does this work ??? I should be able to cancel the order… right?

Beeceebee.4973:

Like i said i bought my dagger for 2.5g. Use buy orders and such. This 30-35g you are speaking of is laughable. Karma is extremely easy to get in cursed shore and WvWvW.

30% condition duration isn’t huge. You do know you can eat food which gives you 40% condition duration right? Condition damage is such a better stat anyways as most of the necros bleeds don’t last close to the full duration on smart players. I’ve dropped all my duration traits and spite because 40% duration from food is plenty.

You must be dreaming because all of the khils set is 5g each, and weapons 5g each, also if you think getting 42k karma is easy you must be delusional. It would take a week or more to get that much, even playing all day long. I really don’t give 2 craps about how easy it was for you, it’s not that easy at all, so stop playing it down. There’s also the large issue of how we only have 1 decent build which is condition damage and you have to go through all of this to make it better. That’s just dumb and other classes don’t have to go through this much difficulty.

Beeceebee.4973:

So ridiculously hard it took me 2 days with buy orders and 18g which i farmed in a few days. You don’t even need to buy all the pieces like i did. Like he said you can get 4 of them for 42k karma which is easy to get while farming for the rest or just general pvp.

You need to buy 2 weapons that have tough/prec/cond which alone is basically 10g. Plus the rest for whatever you paid for your gear. Plus the rune of undead to even make it work properly. So you’re looking at like what, 30-35g actually.

42k karma is a lot to acquire, considering that’s all I had up until a couple of days ago. Then again I haven’t been doing wvwvw everyday.

Also, we don’t actually know if going rabid set gives you more overall damage or not over rampagers depending on which traits you go for condition spec.

You could go toughness traits, but you lose power and in doing so you lose 30% condition duration which is huge.

Or you could simply stay power/curses with the toughness set, however that wouldn’t make the rune of the undead all that fantastic, but I guess this would make more sense for more damage. You would have to stay spite/curses for more damage.

Beeceebee.4973:

If you add up how much it costs to craft the regular exotics its really not much more expensive buying the khilbron and such. Other classes have problems with the limited crafting gear too, it is not just necros.

Other classes being superior really have nothing to do with the so called “gear problem”

They have builds they can go into though effectively with gear. We have 1 effective build, condition, and the gear is ridiculously hard to get.

Point is Beeceebee, why should we really dish out 15g if other classes have an infinitely easier time getting gear, as well as having a superior overall class to boot? It’s lame on top of lame.

Currently my traits are setup like this.

30 spite.
30 curses.
Due to frequent crits with scepter because of rampagers set, I put 10 in soul reaping to give a bit more damage with scepter basic attacks.
I picked these options
Spite – Reaper’s might – Spiteful marks – Close to death
Curses – Hemophilia – Master of Corruption – Lingering curse
Soul reaping – Unyielding blast

So, why 30 spite… Well basically 30% condition duration is really a must if you don’t have higher condition damage because we can’t get rabid set easily. Secondly the way I calculated dps was basically this, if you can stack 9 bleeds and can do around 90 condition damage at lvl 80, that’s around 810 damage per second, along with your scepter attacks which crit for around 400 to 600 damage, so that’s also per second (each hit being 1 second). So overall I do around 1310 dmg per second to a single target, and around 810 damage per second when not hitting something with a scepter.

You also need 30 in curses because of lingering curse and target the weak, I tried using only 25 in curses and without the 33% longer condition effects with scepter you simply CAN NOT stack adequate condition damage. It’s 30 or nothing in curses.

Currently if I was to put a rune into my full rampagers set, I would likely use Rune’s of the Afflicted. That would be by choice.

Sadly, due to me personally feeling like I am wearing kittened armor set for a kittened class due to the way rabid end-game is so hard acquire, I haven’t runed it at all yet and I’m not sure if dumping that much gold into these end-game runes would even be worth it if rabid is truly better (which it probably is for a conditionmancer). I am only using gems that I have found which add condition damage. I use scepter/dag with pwr/prec/condition dmg, and staff 2ndary.

Also to note, in curses, I use master of corruption trait option, which is corruption skills recharge 20% faster. So because of that, for my optional skills I use corrosive poison cloud, blood is power, and epidemic. I also use consume conditions instead of well of blood, because well doesn’t heal adequately enough unless you have healing gear on for other party members or players, so you may as well heal yourself more if you can.

Plague is virtually useless to be quite frank, unless you intend to tank with it in s-pvp or tank with it in pve, so normally I just use flesh golem for extra damage and as a tank in pve while I spread conditions.

So, I use blood is power, which poisons yourself, then I follow that up with deathly swarm (dag skill), so the 2 bleeds I put on myself, go right back to the target I’m singling out. Then I use the aoe’s on it, then epidemic on it if there’s enemies around what I am targeting. Epidemic is also insanely useful when grouping as ALL the conditions everyone in the group puts on a single target, spreads to any in the area.

Carrion set, sadly, is utterly useless. We already have high vitality, and the vitality trait line is basically obsolete as a condition spec the way our traits are set up. Due to having high vitality if you were in fact looking for more survivability in WvW or in s-pvp toughness/rabid set, would be miles better for the build. You would also survive better and do better condition damage over carrion due to the rune of the undead.

More vitality for a necro ultimately only helps with being able to survive condition damage longer. However if you use consume conditions to heal, you do not need more vitality anyway. This is why dagger build is so utterly pitiful in every way you look at it.

I mean considering necromancer has high vitality, it’s almost mind-blowing to me that there isn’t a rune in the game that turns overall health/vita into condition damage consider one of our biggest features as a class are conditions.

I feel they released this game a bit too soon or didn’t stop and take a long look at the necromancer overall, by overall i mean available runes, traits, and gear, especially tailoring. Which should an elementalist be able to use tailoring to craft a perfect set for them, while a necromancer can not? That is simply unfair.

Short answer – Don’t.

Long answer – Don’t. Other classes with out-DPS you by miles in PvE.

You will get outplayed regardless of how good you play in pvp due to other classes simply being that much better. It’s an uphill fight every time.

Theorgen.1362:

After reading lots of post on the forum I’m unsure whether or not its worth my time continuing my Necro,

Just reroll until they acknowledge the fact that this class still needs a lot of work.

I do not, because it is terrible.

I agree. Necromancer seemed to have been boned regarding gear if you decided to use rabid set, along with an undead rune (i think its undead) which gives cond dmg/toughness and 5% condition dmg becomes toughness so if you wanted pure condition damage a rabid set seems like it would be the way to go.

I’m not exactly sure which gear setup does overall more damage; rampagers or rabid. In terms of condition damage, it seems like it would be good enough to at least try it out. Only problem is, it’s a pain in the eyesocket to get a exotic set of this stuff and I have no idea why rabid isn’t craftable. When I reached 400 tailoring with the intention of crafting the rabid set to begin with after I planned out what I wanted to do with the necromancer, it was like getting shot in the foot basically.

So far I’ve managed to acquire the end-game exotic pants and chest armor rabid pieces. I farmed Arah EM 330 tokens for chest (took 2 days non-stop all day), and spent 42k karma on the pants. Don’t feel like farming Arah anymore after that, and I have no karma left.

Twilight arbor gives the gear for tokens, but it is an insanely difficult dungeon and no one does it is too hard and time consuming vs the alternative options.

It’s really annoying when you look at other classes though. Warrior gets a perfect gear set for them, berserkers set. Elementalist also gets a perfect set for them, rampagers, which is what necromancer is forced to use as a condition spec.

Carrion set simply isn’t good enough when you look closer at it for condition mancer. There is also no rune in the game which turns overall vitality into condition damage.

Carrion gives vita/pwr/condtion damage, however scepter doesn’t hit hard and the vitality trait line is 100% useless for a condition mancer so rampagers is actually better. With rampagers set you can crit frequently with scepter doing 400 to 600 dmg hits while stacking decent condition damage and you can spec into power which gives condition duration as well as slightly more damage with scepter. You simply can’t do this with carrion set.

Carrion set simply is not as good if you’re looking at damage on paper and doesn’t mingle as good as rabid/rampagers due to our traitlines. If there was a rune that turned overall vitality into condition damage, that would be acceptable over rampagers. However there is no rune in the game that does this and frankly that’s surprising to me.

Here’s a list of all the runes to see for yourself. http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Rune

Mean Mr Mustard.5704:

This is so frustrating, I don’t want to reroll, but I may have too.

I’ve already rerolled, just go for it and join the rest of the necromancer population who have realized this class is sub-par.

I did warrior, my close alternative was going to be ranger or thief. So far, liking the warrior.

Mainly went warrior because of high burst dps which the necro lacks completely.

They are hashes.4523:

@Angry Flying Squirrel : My mistake! Updated.
@ steveraptor : last player that tested it says they stack correctly (not on the tooltip) but on the monster bleeds. Can you re-check?
@ Shelledfade : Do you use Chill of Death?

• Chill of Death
  1. Slows down your auto attack speed whether it casts spinal shivers or its on cooldown when your target hits 25% health and until its dead.

@RashanDale : Yeah i forgot about that one. Both bugs added to the list.

I see. I didn’t realize it did that… time to get rid of spinal shivers……..

All I gotta say is I’m really enjoying my lvl 11 warrior, lol.

lately when I’ve been using scepter/dag inside arah explorer mode, my scepter basic auto attacks are going way out of sync and I have to manually press 1 repeatedly to get the attacks to function properly.

Something is obviously going out of sync as of late with the scepters auto-attack.

Anyone else notice this? It didn’t seem lag related at all, and seemed to happen every time at specific intervals during elite fights, as if it was going out of sync at a specific time; every time, after a certain amount of autoattacks had been made.

considering power line gives 20% condition duration, it’s better than going vitality if you’re looking to maximize damage.

you also do 20% more damage to enemies under 50% health with power tree. Overall vitality tree is honestly terrible for conditionmancer, thus that gear is pretty much obsolete. The only 2 sets for conditionmancer are rabid and rampager. Anything else either doesn’t make sense with our traits we can go into, or is obsolete for one reason or another.

You also can only really get away with rabid set by dropping power and going toughness, and getting the undead rune which turns 5% of toughness into condition damage. I’m not actually sure which build does more damage, but toughness would obviously keep you alive longer. Going vitality for anything else is obsolete unless you intend to use dagger.

Tony.2150:

So…. whats not balanced? about necros.. Please continue

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/necromancer/Rerolling-and-this-is-why-constructive-thread/first

This thread may help you.

scept/dag is all AoE conditions basically aside from it’s basic attack on a single target, and with epidemic you can single a target out and spread whatever conditions are on a single target, to other’s in the area.

scepter/dag with staff is the best possible weapon combination for conditionmancer.

As for gear it gets a little more complicated, but the easiest set for the build is probably rampagers set.

You can also drop power and go toughness, then use a undead rune in gear for 5% toughness becomes condition damage, if you’re looking at an alternative end-game build and gear rather than going rampagers. However, you cannot craft anything with prec/toughness/condition damage so you need to grind for that gear if you wanted to try that build instead.

High health is worthless if you can’t do anything with it, especially when you wear light armor.

I think 236 hours giving the necromancer a chance would have been time better spent on a different class.

It’s not about, “if you don’t like it, don’t play it.” It’s more like the fact that it isn’t balanced and is mediocre overall compared to other classes.

I don’t like the fact that you’re complaining about people complaining about a broken class. It’s the diablo 3 forums all over again. If you like the profession you obviously don’t see the fatal flaws with it, or are willing to ignore them. Most people in an MMO, in a game designed around balance, are not willing to do so and WILL voice concern about it. If so many people hate death shroud then there’s obviously something wrong with it.