Guild Wars 2

Strife.7860:

I would consider this a bug. Need to allow some ability to get back in when you crash. Even if it resulted in your character being killed and sent back the main way point, that would be a huge step forward in this process. Waiting for hours to get into a Borderlands then crashing and having to wait hours again is absurd.

this just happened to me 2 times in a row.

Takes a good hour to get into a wvw, then after some time playing in it, crash. Then need to wait more.

Very, very lame.

FEAREDSHOOTER.3908:

i bought this game i bought tons of stuff and now its gone i suggest everyone goes and plays diablo 3 and also we should get our refund for the game since the makers of the game took some of the game away that we payed for i mean think if you played mw3 and half the guns where gone

Hell naw. D3 blows compared to this game..

They just gotta work out these balance problems and a few bugs.

I just don’t know why a mod or dev hasn’t answered about this topic yet. This is clearly an obvious problem. Why would you make this recipe that costs like 4g all together to make, plus 50 mystic coins, to get something that is ridiculously obsolete. Not even obsolete but that it just makes zero, ZERO sense. This should be a reward that lets you craft an entire set of armor for a lower amount of mats, not 2x the mats?

Like who in their right freaking mind would craft this bulk recipe when they could do it 2x easier just by crafting the entire set by crafting individual pieces. Sorry but does not compute.

Does not make sense.

let me say that one more time.

This. Does. Not. Make. Any. Sense. At. All. Rinse, and repeat until it sinks in.

I’ve had it man. If this game crashes one more freaking time I’m going to obliterate my keyboard over my forehead. Which would probably be a bad idea, but I’m so mad I don’t even care LOL.

Seriously, the crashing is really ridiculous. I’ve had at least 7 crashes today and that’s just for today. Combine that with previous crashes and it’s enough to drive a man off a cliff.

i7-2600k 3.8ghz
8GB ddr3 1600
Windows 7 64bit, sp1, updated.
ASUS P8P67 Deluxe Rev 3, bios 3207 (latest)
Radeon HD 5970, 12.8 // 12.8CAP2 profiles.
Latest chipsets, drivers, temps on cpu and vid card are all good.

In-game settings consist of 1920×1080 resolution, 1 monitor, maximum graphics settings. Sound quality is maxed, mixing buffer size is on “most stable” Not even sure what that setting is but yeah, it’s on “stable” so.. lol.

Out of the years that I’ve been gaming on the pc, I’ve never crashed this much in one game before.

Including the GW2 test file for more details about my rig.

still no takers? Should I just reroll at this point lol … ?

Corew.8932:

Wasn’t there a post about one of these things, I think it was “Box of berserker’s draconic armor” or something, that when opened produced a yellow set? Does that happen with these too?

I don’t know, I haven’t and won’t craft this bulk thing due to the ridiculous amount of mats it costs. It’s 50% cheaper to make an entire exotic set piece by piece rather than use this bulk thing.

Please tell me there is more information that this issue is even recognized as being a problem..

? still looking for more information about axe pvp necro.

what is the exact gear build and trait build for axe with necro ?

Malakree.5912:

Shelledfade.6435:

Honestly? Thief, or warrior. They do stupid, I mean STUPID amounts of damage.

Still waiting on their nerf Anet.

Other classes I’ve met that have done “stupid damage”.

1) Necro
2) Engineer
3) Guardian (best player I’ve ever met)
4) Ele.

In fact the only class I’ve never gone "wtf where is my kitten " was a ranger. Oh and a mesmer, but I play that so I know how strong they can be.

clearly you haven’t played a necro if you think they have anything close to the damage that a warrior or a thief has.

Hm yeah, I knew axe was the best in terms of raw damage (other than condition dmg), for necro at least.

But what about the gear for pvp with this? What are the exact traits and gear for axe build ?

Malakree.5912:

Shelledfade.6435:

Malakree.5912:

Met a dagger/staff necro who was able to pump increadible amounts of damage into me using the well of….the damage well. He is still in my top 5 of players as far as those I’ve faced.

If a well drops on you, simply run out of the circle. The well your talking about does around 1500-2000 dmage and adds vulnerability which is why it does so much.

Literally all you gotta do is step out of the circle though, unless they have grasp which pulls you to them, but by the time they pull you in again, it’s probably nearly over anyway and it has a large cooldown.

Necro’s barely do any damage at all compared to the other classes. The only time we can actually deal out as much damage as other people is in lich form and it has a 180 cooldown. Staff is slow and is weak compared to axe. So, you probably just played against a guy who had way better gear than you.

Yeah I’m aware, he was also applying roots and kitten so even if I stealthed (to break it) and dodged to try and crawl out of it I was still taking 6-8k damage from it. That combined with his very hefty damage from his auto attacks and the high survivability his death shroud(?) granted him made him incredibly hard to deal with. My guild mate got his build off him since he’d been lamenting how bad the necro was, he then spent a day wrecking face with it.

ah… roots? Musta been one of those wood classes. We don’t have anything that can root you, so wouldn’t be able to do it in structured pvp. This must have happened in WvW.

After hearing this, I… really wish I hadn’t rolled asura for necro.. lmao.. Wonder if they will let us change race for a price lol …

Malakree.5912:

Met a dagger/staff necro who was able to pump increadible amounts of damage into me using the well of….the damage well. He is still in my top 5 of players as far as those I’ve faced.

If a well drops on you, simply run out of the circle. The well your talking about does around 1500-2000 dmage and adds vulnerability which is why it does so much.

Literally all you gotta do is step out of the circle though, unless they have grasp which pulls you to them, but by the time they pull you in again, it’s probably nearly over anyway and it has a large cooldown.

Necro’s barely do any damage at all compared to the other classes. The only time we can actually deal out as much damage as other people is in lich form and it has a 180 cooldown. Staff is slow and is weak compared to axe. So, you probably just played against a guy who had way better gear than you.

There is no hot spot for this item. Your absolute best chance at all is salvaging lvl 80 cloth items with a decent salvaging kit.

So go to a level 80 location with a ton of events, like ruins of orr or whatever it’s called, so you can get a lot of drops from a lot of mobs, and hope for cloth drops.

That’s about it, sadly.

Honestly? Thief, or warrior. They do stupid, I mean STUPID amounts of damage.

Still waiting on their nerf Anet.

I agree with feast of corruption. It is only good in a group when there’s a long list of conditions on an enemy. Currently if you used this skill in a 1v1 or in solo play it’s completely 100% useless, as the scepters 3rd attack (if it crits) almost always does more damage than this ability does, which is basically right around 500 damage with 3 conditions. It’s a wasted skill slot, and it probably should add burn/or more bleeding damage. Or maybe leave it as is and add a chilling affect to it or something.

I disagree 100% with warriors not having enough damage. I’ve seen many 2handed greatsword warriors doing ridiculously massive amounts of damage. A warrior did about 20,000 damage to me in under 6 seconds. I can’t even do that much damage in lich form. They have more dps than necro, so I don’t see why that should get buffed.

I also don’t feel like necro is balanced. I honestly feel like we should be doing more damage, and that we have a plethora of useless abilities or abilities that don’t fit the weapon type, feast of corruption is just one example you could use, we have several like this that are just as useless, and dagger builds only have 1 leaching ability, that’s lame.

Im Too Godlike.5629:

I wouldn’t bet on them getting fixed any time soon.

In guild wars one, and update was released to increase the viability of elementalists. One skill, shockwave, was ridiculously OP and accepted as OP by every1 in the game and it hasnt been fixed or nerfed in the slightest, to this date.

Considering they want guild wars 2 to be balanced in terms of PVP, maybe become an esport, or if not an esport then at least a basic tournament level of play, well then it’s not really acceptable at all.

There’s a few things in the game that are currently imba that need fixing.

Ok. first picture is my gear statistics for pve so you can see that.
2nd picture is my solo traits/skills I use when soloing.
3rd picture is my group traits/skills I use when grouping.

These screenshots are PvE related of course so you can give me any tips or suggestions. No idea what I’m gonna do for pvp at all, which is my biggest concern at the moment.

Tl/dr is located at the bottom, but I encourage you to read this.

So I’m a level 80 necro. Pretty tired of farming CoF and was looking to get into some structured pvp.

I’ve mostly been doing PvE with some wvw on the side. Right now I’m a conditionmancer spec, currently have a end-game gear set consisting of condition damage-precision-pwr, with full 30/30 in power/condition traits using scepter/dagger and staff. It seems like decent damage, hell, it’s not that bad at all in wvw in zerg groups, but I know that this would be dominated in s-pvp.

So right now I’m 30/30 pwr/condition spec, with scepter/dagger and staff, with pwr-prec-cond gear. I’m not even sure if this is the correct gear for this build lol.

At this point I still haven’t decided if this is actually the best or not in terms of overall dps either, and am wondering if there’s something else I could be doing for more overall damage in PvE. Since necro’s don’t really hit that hard even with axe or staff, I’m not sure if getting %crit damage gear would benefit the class at all like it does a thief so I would like to hear anyone else’s thoughts on this that play a necromancer in PvE.

I’m also sort of confused on what to do for PvP. Obviously you would need toughness or vitality traits for pvp. I’m just kind of confused on what the “best” build is for this category and play style.

Is it axe/horn with dagger/dagger? The staff seems really useless, since it’s base attack is mediocre even compared to a scepter, and the marks are kinda meh all around to be honest. Also not sure what traits you get for pvp. Do you go vita/pwr? or vita/tough?

Also, what gear do you use if you go axe/horn with dag/dag in pvp? PwR would make each hit harder, so I’m guessing pwr but what would the other stats be? +healing? Or vit/tough ? No clue.. because +healing benefits dag/dag and life leach right? Just really confusing.

I was also watching a toughness necro with max minions in structure pvp which looked rather good in the video, considering you get toughness from more minions and they can also leech life to you and whatnot and have some decent abilities however I heard if you get turned into an animal by that guardian or mesmer or whatever that ability is, that it basically removes all your pets or something like that which pretty much shuts that build down completely, so yeah, that would be lame and a waste of time lol.

So yeah I’m just really confused right now on what to do. I’m not even sure if I have the proper gear for conditionmancer in PvE. The class is just really confusing to play. It seems that if you go fully into something, you are still hindered in some way badly.

Necromancer almost seems like a fish caught out of water if you get my drift. The traits and things you can go into only “sort of” make sense for whatever you want to go into, meaning you don’t fully get the benefits out of the traits no matter which weapon selection you choose to play with, or which gear you decide to go with it. At least that’s what I’ve been able to get out of this, which is why I’m so confused here.

Basically I just want to know what the best possible PvE build and gear is for a necro, and what the best possible PvP build and gear is for a necro.

I thought I had the PvE gear and build down, but I’m not so sure. As for the best pvp build/gear for necro, well I just don’t know.

I just want some confidence going into pvp with an idea of what I want to accomplish in terms of build/gear so I don’t waste a considerable amount of time doing it, by going in clueless.

Help would be appreciated.

TD/DR:
What is the best possible PvE build/gear for Necromancer?
What is the best possible PvP build/gear for Necromancer?

If you at least “think” you know, that would at least help me look at this at a different angle, cuz right now I’m thinking about just rolling thief to simplify all my problems…

Rage The Numbers.7943:

Was the ability to purchase butter from the Master Chef removed intentionally or is it a bug that it doesn’t show in the menu items?

it’s freaking lame, cuz all I find out of bags now is chocolate and butter -_- ….

There’s something seriously wrong with the droprate of these things. I mean, all you get is chocolate and butter out of bags lol.

Bags were my main source of farming for cloths for tailoring, now all I get is chef stuff. LAME. .. and completely broken.

So I’m a 100% condition mancer spec, with nearly all exotic gear equipped.

I can only get like 10 bleeds max on a mob when fighting them, that’s with using a scepter.

Is this normal? I’m pretty sure the thief gets more than this don’t they?

Minions aren’t attacking normally as people have stated. Would be nice if we could get a control feature for our minion… especially in WVW… they just run off and die… it’s lame.

Surprised more people aren’t reporting this.

Guess a lot of people don’t use crossfire.

Luterin.9876:

I just finished it and I got 5 Exotic Loot Bags and was all excited, but when I opened them all up I got 4 blue and 1 green item. Lowest one being LEVEL 19 !!!!

So no, this is NOT fixed, unless it’s intentional, but then it’s a very very bad joke,

You get better reward from jumping around and exploring in a zone than killing the very final superboss?!?!?

Come on, this cant be right.

Same thing happened to me.

100% junk came out of those bags. All blue’s too..

/gate of madness

This doesn’t make sense. Why did we spend 50 coins, nearly 3-4g in mats, just to get something that is completely obsolete?

This seriously needs to be looked at. I see that the leatherworking one requires 2 more insignia than is normally needed. Why’s the tailoring one 11 lmao?

Gate of Madness, same problem. Took me around 3 hours to get into eternal battlegrounds.

An asura necromancer such as myself, has a similar problem. I don’t have a elite skill that I can use.

See attachment for specs.

The problem is pretty simple to describe, objects on the ground such as plant life will flicker all over the screen.

This happened noticeably after I upgraded to the 12.8 cap 2 crossfire profile. Zoning into a different location will almost always reproduce the issue.

I didn’t really notice this problem at all before until I got the new cap profile. I would switch back but the performance gain from this update is really nice.

I already reported the issue to AMD but who knows if they actually read those.

Also, on an unrelated note to the flickering grass, the game has been crashing very frequently. I’ve been sending in the error reports so hope that helps.

I am sad. I wasted an exalted chest armor (cost like 2-3g to make) and 50 mystic coins that I earned myself for this.

:( Any information at all that this is a clear typo or something in the mats required to make this, would really be appreciated.

So… any information on this?

Fury of Balthazar.2694:

Hello,

I’ve been having this really annoying sound bug issue with Guild Wars 2.
This problem occurs during large battles with a lot of people.
The sound overrides all sound and the only solution at this time is to stop the software and restart it. What is causing this?

Apparently, it is a common issue.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNPC3Pm8y00&feature=player_embedded

this happened to me as well.

Um hm.. So me and my guildies wanted to see what this bulk recipe was all about that you can make using the mystic forge. So we went ahead and made one.

50 mystic coins
20 crystal
5 wine
Whatever chest armor you want. I used rampager exalted chest armor.

So… here we go. We’re all a little confused on this.

I used the forge and it gave me a recipe which I consumed. However this says….

Recipe: Satchel of Rampager’s Exalted Armor (Exotic)
Ingredients:
11 Rampager’s Intricate insignia
18 Bolts of Gossamer
10 spools of gossamer Thread
6 cured hardened leather squares.

Everything looks good, aside from the 11 rampagers insignias. It only takes…. 6 insignias to forge a full set of exotic rampagers armor…. o.O ???

This basically makes no sense at all.

It means that you would need 25 MORE globs of Ectoplasm and 25 MORE powerful venom sacs than you would normally need if you just crafted the pieces of armor individually. This means that crafting this “bulk” recipe would… literally make no sense. I mean isn’t this supposed to make crafting a full set easier? Not… almost 2x harder?

I mean… my guildy gave me 2g in mats, and I used 50 of my mystic coins to get this, and its 100% utterly worthless.

Please tell me this is some kind of mistake….

SCREENSHOT PROVIDED.

On Gate of Madness server. Which is sort of fitting when you think about it, because this sure is about as maddening as you can get.

zTales.4392:

Shelledfade.6435:

lol? R u serious? That would be insanely lame… barely an upgrade.

I don’t think you’re right. I’m pretty sure these runes stack.

Sorry, but I am right. (Though it’d be cool if I was wrong.)

If you don’t believe me, go into The Mists, apply the set, and look at your Condition Damage in relation to your Toughness. It’ll be a 5% increase.

Like I said, I can help you out if you want me to. Just tell me what you want your stats to be like.

yeah i think you’re right these things do not stack they just unlock with more like a set bonus. hm… not much of an upgrade.

zTales.4392:

Shelledfade.6435:

lol? R u serious? That would be insanely lame… barely an upgrade.

Well, that’s how it is. ._.

It’s like the “5% of x is given to y” traits.

that’s pretty bad then lol, actually that completely changes what I would have done now. Now there’s no reason to go toughness… hurraaayyy

lol? R u serious? That would be insanely lame… barely an upgrade.

I don’t think you’re right. I’m pretty sure these runes stack.

not 5%, it stacks. It’s 30% of toughness if all undead runes in gear.

If I can craft the token equivalent of power-precision-condition then why not the other one? The F ? No, that is actually their fault. Should be able to craft this crap at 400 tailoring, this is just bad game design at this point.

This is just lame, I would have liked to craft some of this stuff instead of running CoF another 400 times.

zTales.4392:

Shelledfade.6435:

zTales.4392:

From what I understand, you cannot craft or obtain Rabid armor. There is a “Seal of the Rabid [level 50]” and level 65/80 upgrades of it, but no armor. I’m not sure why.

… whaaaat ?

If it really doesn’t exist then… I really did just waste my time leveling tailoring.

I think I’m quitting this game at this point. Too much time invested lost. I leveled tailoring so I could run CoF with my guild for weapons instead of twilight for the armor. I was going to craft my armor, and run CoF with them for the weapons.

ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh……… no one runs twilight arbor. -_- this is ridiculous.

There are the Carrion (Cnd , Pow = Vit) and Rampager (Pre , Cnd = Pow) sets, however.

I’m a Warrior and I use Rampager’s stuff.

I think there’s only one rune though that turns % of another stat into more condition damage, and that stat is toughness, which is why I need that set. Unless there’s another rune I can use…. I just checked the trading post and I think this is the only rune that does this. – superior rune of the undead.

Which is what a condition mancer needs anyway, cuz you can’t stack bleeds that high anyway so duration runes are pointless.

So yeah… I just completely wasted my time leveling 400 tailoring lol… wow… great game.

zTales.4392:

From what I understand, you cannot craft or obtain Rabid armor. There is a “Seal of the Rabid [level 50]” and level 65/80 upgrades of it, but no armor. I’m not sure why.

… whaaaat ?

If it really doesn’t exist then… I really did just waste my time leveling tailoring.

I think I’m quitting this game at this point. Too much time invested lost. I leveled tailoring so I could run CoF with my guild for weapons instead of twilight for the armor. I was going to craft my armor, and run CoF with them for the weapons.

ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh……… no one runs twilight arbor. -_- this is ridiculous.

Like literally just screwed conditionmancer over completely if roll tailoring.

I got the worst luck when it comes to picking a class in games, but this is ridic…

I mean the gold and time I put into leveling tailoring for my condition necro at this point is pretty much a complete waste of time if I cannot craft this set.

I feel like I just got punched in the stomach.

There is no rabid intricate gossamer insignia recipe from vendor ??

condition damage – toughness – precision ??

Can make the power-perc-condition equivalent of token armor, but not the condition-toughness-precision one?

Only complaining here because the condition-toughness-precision pieces give slightly more condition damage than the condition-perc-power one gives. I only leveled tailoring to make the toughness set at 400.

I don’t understand why this insignia is missing from the regular vendor when ALL THE REST are made available?

WHY??????

I was going to use Superior runes of the undead, which does adds condition damage and more toughness, but also has 5% of toughness becomes condition dmg (Per rune, total of 30%).

But now I can’t do that because as a 400 tailor I can’t craft cond-toughness-precision gear ?

I don’t get it. This is like game breakingly lame. I’m a condition necromancer, why’d I even roll tailoring if I can’t make this set ?

Why doesn’t the vendor sell a rabid intricate gossamer insignia ? ? You can buy everything else except the rabid one. Wtf is this?

yep, it sucked. Was pretty much waste of time.

Agreed. Sometimes the flesh golem just sits there and does nothing. This actually happens quite frequently.

Game crashed after 2nd boss was down, was fighting a champion flyer guy.

Game crashed, so I tried to re-launch to get back in fast cuz it was a pub group. But now it crashes every single time when trying to get into the game.

omg…

It’s never done this before.

try crafting, also you may have to simply travel to other areas sometimes that are in your level range if you’re suddenly running into enemies that are 3+ levels higher than you.

I know I did.

I am also crashing. Not as frequently as every 40 minutes, but usually every 2-4 hours the game will crash.

I have sent the error report every time it happens. Sometimes I do not get any error at all.

My specs:
Windows 7 64bit
8GB DDR3 1600
Radeon HD 5970 12.8 /latest cap
i7-2600k 3.8ghz

Max settings in-game.

This is definitely not just nvidia or 32bit os’s getting the crashing. I can vouch for that, so can the 50+ error reports I have sent in.

Just my overall feedback from playing the game so far. Was not sure where to post this, I do have some “issues” especially with some of the gameplay so I figured I’d post this here.

I play a level 80 necromancer.

1. Cultural tier 2-3 weapon karma prices are way too high, tier 2-3 gold prices too high for armor as well. They seemed reasonably priced before the change, then after the change, you need like 60k karma for tier3. I am level 80 and I haven’t even broken 30k karma yet. The prices before the change made sense, these new prices don’t though. They’re just ridiculous. You could probably get 400 crafting in something and make something better long before you would get that much karma to even buy it…

2. Token prices for dungeons are way too high. From what I gather, in some of these dungeons you only get 5-15 tokens max per run. Some of these items require 280-500 tokens for just 1 thing. Let’s say you actually had a life (lol), and you were able to run this 2 times a night (even that’s stretching it), you could get 30 tokens a day hypothetically. That would take you 7 days (A full week), just to get 210 points, which wouldn’t even get you anything considering the lowest prices for these items are like 280 tokens, some even cost up to 400+.

I’m in a very large guild, and most of them (the ones that are 80 with me) who have no lives at all like I do, have basically lost all desire at this point to actually want to achieve getting this gear or play that much of a grindy end-game. Even the guys with no life look at this and say “wow that’s ridic” lol…

This game was amazing in every aspect, right up until you hit this point. There’s just too big of gaps in rewards at the end game, I honestly think they’re asking way too much out of the player for some of these rewards.

I mean think about it. I play a condition necro, so I’d obviously like to have that nightmare token set. However, you’re asking me to play for like 2-3 months (assuming I’d be able to run this dungeons 2 times a night, every night) to get that gear. Which is the same thing as saying, run that dungeon 140+ times. Which probably still wouldn’t actually be close to enough. It’s more like 220-250 times (guesstimating).

You can’t even do this token thing in WvWvW either. I’ve spend a large chunk of time in wvwvw and I’ve only attained 51 tokens from it. 9 times out of 10 you don’t even get any tokens at all from the player you killed and looted, I know, because I’ve killed about 600 players and have only received 51 tokens.

I simply do not understand this at all. It’s simply too grindy. I understand you need some from of longevity at the end game, but it doesn’t have to be this ridiculous. If you want the player to keep playing then give them some rewards here and there, don’t give them 1 reward every 9 days. That’s just insanity and I know this team can make this game better than that. Most people quit diablo 3 (for example) because the effort wasn’t worth the reward. That’s basically exactly what this is in guild wars 2 end game as well. The effort put forth right now doesn’t seem worth the miniscule of a reward that you’re getting.

I mean by the time anyone has a full token set of armor/weapon, or gets epic/legendary armors or weapons, or a full pvp set, the expansion pack is probably going to be out for this game and they probably won’t even get to have any fun with it at all lol…

That’s my overall feedback so far from playing the game. I absolutely love the art style and everything else. Game could use some dungeon group finders though. I love the pve systems and I do really enjoy the pvp as well. But man oh man, this end game grind may even be more ridiculous than vanilla WoW. It is just too ridic. Like I said, I know a lot of 80’s who don’t really know what to do at the moment because they’re not even sure if they want to attempt grinding for the pvp or the pve and may be leaving for different games. Some already are playing diff games because they just don’t know what to do against this deep of a grind. I mean, it just doesn’t seem worth it and a lot of us have realized that. We just look at it and say … “yeah…. that’s ridic” Lol… duno what to tell you.

That’s my best feedback I can give you, the grind is just too extensive. Love everything else. Would give it 10/10 easily if end game wasn’t so bad.