Guild Wars 2

MrHarses.6801:

iroh.2871:

SPLIT THE SPECS BETWEEN THE MODES ARENANET!!!! PLEASE!!!!! THIS INSANITY HAS GONE ON LONG ENOUGH!!!

I can’t agree more on this ^

unfortunately ANET are too stubborn to do this, and won’t simply because this might create confusion amongst people wanting to dip their toes into PvP. -_-

Onto the topic, I think revenant’s biggest problem right now is a case of loose ends and unfinished concepts. Shiro is fine in his trait line and skills. Jalis though is severely lacking in the tank department, being outdone by glint. Inspiring reinforcement needs to be faster in the road construction. In fact rather than the rain of bricks, I think it should be a rolling out the red carpet where your character points and the road unfurls. And yes, make it a stunbreaker. Retribution also needs some adjustment, as it doesn’t really do anything to increase your tankiness outside of Jalis apart from one or two traits. Plus you have the mandatory Fall damage reduction and Stun Protectjon traits in his line. Take the fall one and put it in mallyx.

Mallyx is my favorite legend, but after he got gutted he needs some love in his trait line horribly, as it’s still set up to run based on old mallyx. I think something that’d be cool with embrace the darkness would be that with every pulse, you’d draw conditions from allies onto yourself and gain 1 second of resistance, then when you end the transformation, your character sort of explodes, releasing all those conditions he has on him back onto his enemies. Might need some work but I think it’s doable. Corruption needs mainly bug fixes I think, like pulsating pestilence. Also that heal on incoming conditions trait could use some love? Maybe ditch the ICD, I mean Comon, you’re a lightning rod for conditions and if your resistance gets corrupted you’ll go down quick.

Ventari….not gonna touch on him as there are a lot of topics on ventari already.

i think herald might have been better off letting us us the Glint facets as f1-f5 abilities. Which I know sounds crazy, but herald is supposed to be more about you having upkeep and managing your abilities, rather than switching back and forth constantly between legends. Glint herself would needs one redesigns but I think that wouldn’t be too hard.

Doggie.3184:

I like the new sword 2 but really; I’d prefer the orbs weren’t aoe seeking anymore and rather they always went to the target and just did their own little explosion aoe on them. If the explosion AoE is considered too much then I can just live w/o any aoe on the orbs at all.

Really I’d just like one attack, not 3 separate strikes. Maybe turn it into a leap, that’d give an indirect buff to sword/sword as well since you could combo 2 then use five to pull them away. The way the attack works goes completely against its description, especially now.

Don’t think it’ll happen, dungeons are dead content in ANET’s eyes. Too hard to do new things with and changing one path can possibly affect other paths. In fact I’m sorry to say it, but if it wasn’t for story mode and dungeon tokens and armor, they’d probably take em out entirely.

I follow this motion, really want it for my rev and even my necromancer but that bundle price….nope.

Azure.8670:

It only took the necro over 3 years to finally be a good condi class. Heck, it only took the necro 3 years to become a good power one as well

And all of that is threatened to be undone by ANET pouring too much boon corruption in one patch. I love my necro, I don’t wanna go back to being a class that people say gtfo. ;-;

Going back to my Smite days, for me it is all about the fight. I enjoyed being ganked by assassins and burst builds only to survive and turn it back around on them, jumping into the middle of an enemy team to lay down the hurt on their glass built damage dealers, as they frantically try and push me off. For me it wasn’t about waiting for the right time to strike but rather making it the right time.

And that’s why in WvW I will usually leave people alive when I beat them so long as they don’t turn tail and run the first few seconds into a brawl.

DeoDose.4237:

Burtnik.5218:

DeoDose.4237:

Usually a class is played more when damage gets buffed but rev seems to be different

What damage buff you speaking about? I missed something?
Its rare to see rev nowdays btw let it be pve or pvp.

sword #2 guarantees 3 projectiles whitch is a big dps gain, even with the sword #1 nerf

That would be the case if the projectiles didn’t have a mind of their own and decide to fly off and hit everything in the radius of the skill.

Honestly I love the content of HoT and what it added, it’s just things you have to do to get to play the content.

Megaservers constantly putting you in maps without that many people is depressing, and yes I could look for a taxi but that is no guarantee either. These maps were designed to be always populated and playing, and most of the time I can’t find any even worth organizing because of no people.

Timers too long or too short. DS’s reward phase should be something like 30 minutes for you to run around and enjoy all the map has to offer. Instead you’re in an all out mad dash and if you fall or get hurt nobody is gonna stop to help you. Tangled depths has way too much downtime between lane events and the Gerent event. Tarir I think is in a good spot though as well as verdant brink.

Timegated and account bound materials for almost everything endgamewise. Charged crystals, mithrilium, etc. etc. beforehand it was ok but now we need them for a lot of things from ascended and legendaries to guild upgrades I think it’s time to get rid of the dang timegate.

Inclusion of more and more gold and crafting sinks.

Buran.3796:

The key of the delays isn’t in the design of the weapons: is in the design of the grinding to get the precursor.

Probably at this time Anet is thinking that the path for the three new ones “wasn’t grindy enough”, so it’s keeping them busy to figure how the hell timegate new ones that rich people couldn’t complete in a few weeks…

I know twilight isn’t a new one but I was trying to help a friend craft it the other day by doing dusk’s journey. At first everything went well and I thought, it was pretty fun making me go through and learn more about tyria and its lore and giving a real story behind whey this is a legendary weapon/precursor….

THEN I found out that I needed 90 deldrimor ingots instead of 30 because the wiki is insane to navigate and a guy pointed out a cool feature on the bltc website letting me see all the components. 30 would’ve been fine, I have no trouble crafting 30 ingots as that’s one a day, but 90?! I mean if you need that many than take away the kitten timegate on mithrilium and the rest of the ascended mats!

Fade to Black.7042:

Conditions? leave that crap to necros… i wan’t my dps back >.>

I want my beta mallyx back! Minus the displacement because that was just annoying.

As far as dos, if they’d fix sword It to work as advertised I think we’d all be hunky dory. Get rid of the 3 projectiles on two and give unrelenting assault a tiny bit more range and only attack the one guy we have targeted, rather than anything in range after the first strike.

Crafting exp got nerfed hard, I remember crafting to get my guardian level up and I think I only got about ten levels? I still recommend learning crafting but don’t expect it to level you from 1 -80 right quick.

You could do PvP and get tomes of knowledge, maybe even a level 20 scroll. If you have laurels you could also get exp boosters from the laurel vendor or a few off the TP.

My biggest advice to you is that if you see an event, do it, usually rewards you with a large amount of exp and some area level dependent items, plus with map rewards you stand to make a good bit of coin if shiny bauble is in the reward rotation.

Kastiel.1947:

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/hot-new-legendary-weapons/
“rather than take the time to develop the full set before releasing any of them, we will be releasing new legendary weapons in small groups at regular intervals until the full set of sixteen has been added to the game”
4 months, no news – how is that a regular interval? For kitten’s sake..

Just seems like ANET keep on biting off more than they can chew. I mean, heck look at the hype surrounding HoT, they gave a release date about 6 months ahead of time but just kept giving us nibblets of information every few weeks, with extra padding in statements. Reminds me of writing a paper really.

Well I think I decided after using that tool I’d just be better to buy dusk off the TP since we’re already this close and I still need 500 weaponsmithing. Plus I can always come back and finish the dusk collection at a later date. If we weren’t already like right at the door I would say just wait but since everything else is good to go, I figure why not.

Thanks again man!

Varezenem.2813:

TheLastNobody.8319:

Varezenem.2813:

TheLastNobody.8319:

outgoing healing modifiers also affect us

This is the real problem. Ofc combined with a higher amount of cleanses and considerable increase in CC defense.

We already have some really strong active defenses. Our heals are fairly strong on others with that change you would literally be able to self heal for more than 3k/sec on a profession with high power damage mitigation and active defenses. Example EE fragments would heal you for around 3.5k each NH and envoy would heal for 4.5k-5k (and you even lowered the cost on NH….).

True the modifiers might need some adjustments, but You’d still need to go into a line and choose those specific traits, giving up whatever else salvation would give you as well as 1 of the other trait lines. Plus while you’d have a stunbreaker on a potential 2 second cooldown, it’s still 20 energy (if you implement my suggestion) or 30 if you don’t. And with all the CC people have nowadays, coupled with ventari’s lack of movement you can be focused down.

Also hope I’m not coming across as standoffish in my posts, do apologize if I do.

You might be confusing Natural Harmony with Purifying Essence .
Ventari isn’t about self sustain, Jalis is, therefore increasing our self-sustain at the cost of our support wouldn’t be a good idea either. Before they nerfed all revenants our self sustain was about what we needed to do our job as a support/point holder in conquest. What we were missing was burst healing and reliability.

Eh true. I’m just gonna come out and say you’re right, my biggest peeve is just how unwieldy the tablet can be and how vulnerable ventari is to CC, plus the fact he is the majority of our cleansing.

….holy crap on a cracker. Ok well than…I got a big decision to make tonight.

If we sold the deldrimor I have right now, I could get around 240g off the TP, minus whatever taxes, and we have all the other mystic forge gifts already, just dusk is holding us up…plus I still need 500 weapon smithing to finish it which will cost a nice chunk of money too. Ugh this is so hard. >_<. Realistically I’d say my group could get 6 deldrimor a day from crafting and buying off the TP.

That’s what I thought too, but does that include the collections I have to go through? the dang wiki has like 5-6 different pages with collections and recipes and crafting which is why I’m having so much trouble. >_<.

Trying to help a friend make dusk and currently have 30 deldrimor ingots. But I’m not sure how much I need exactly. I thought 30, friend of mine said 60, and I’ve found things on the internet telling me various things anywhere from 90-120.

So how many ingots will it take to finish all three tiers of dusk?

Varezenem.2813:

TheLastNobody.8319:

outgoing healing modifiers also affect us

This is the real problem. Ofc combined with a higher amount of cleanses and considerable increase in CC defense.

We already have some really strong active defenses. Our heals are fairly strong on others with that change you would literally be able to self heal for more than 3k/sec on a profession with high power damage mitigation and active defenses. Example EE fragments would heal you for around 3.5k each NH and envoy would heal for 4.5k-5k (and you even lowered the cost on NH….).

True the modifiers might need some adjustments, but You’d still need to go into a line and choose those specific traits, giving up whatever else salvation would give you as well as 1 of the other trait lines. Plus while you’d have a stunbreaker on a potential 2 second cooldown, it’s still 20 energy (if you implement my suggestion) or 30 if you don’t. And with all the CC people have nowadays, coupled with ventari’s lack of movement you can be focused down.

Also hope I’m not coming across as standoffish in my posts, do apologize if I do.

Varezenem.2813:

TheLastNobody.8319:

I think making the tablet appear when you switch ventari, and changing energy expulsion to where after it explodes it reforms at your location would help, and when you hit the leash range, it appears at you would help too.

Agree that natural harmony is fine really, just needs an energy cost reduction, possibly make it a stunbreaker?

Protective solace is great.

Purifying essence is fine.

Energy expulsion I think make it so the shards also cleanse conditions. Maybe 1 so that way the GM trait for shards is also fair.

Salvation line could also use some help to buff ventari and staff even. Make the outgoing healing modifiers also affect us, change that dodge trait to make it so the tablet cleanses 1 condition every 3 seconds, make it so the blind and protection on heal traits happen at the tablet’s location as well as ours.

You do realize that this would be completely broken in conquest right? And that it would result in a heavy nerf in less than a day.

Eh quite possibly, but with ANET you never know. Looking back I think you’re right when I say to make the energy expulsion fragments cleanse conditions. And if the tablet became instant cast to move, the blind and protection traits might warrant a slight ICD.
Of what…. 5 seconds?

I think making the tablet appear when you switch ventari, and changing energy expulsion to where after it explodes it reforms at your location would help, and when you hit the leash range, it appears at you would help too.

Agree that natural harmony is fine really, just needs an energy cost reduction, possibly make it a stunbreaker?

Protective solace is great.

Purifying essence is fine.

Energy expulsion I think make it so the shards also cleanse conditions. Maybe 1 so that way the GM trait for shards is also fair.

Salvation line could also use some help to buff ventari and staff even. Make the outgoing healing modifiers also affect us, change that dodge trait to make it so the tablet cleanses 1 condition every 3 seconds, make it so the blind and protection on heal traits happen at the tablet’s location as well as ours.

Burtnik.5218:

Yep.. pretty much sword is not viable anymore nor pwoer rev in general. Atm condi is the way to go as they completely broken sword. Its the only weapon in game that deals less and less damage when more than 1 target shows up. You can also forget about shield or hammer. One patch ruined viability of 3 weapons which leaves us with mace/axe being the only viable set now. Build diversity ftw

I do agree, which is why I again don’t understand their reasoning when they say they want sword to be good for single targets when it seems to want to be a multi target weapon, but doesn’t have the damage to do so since it relies on multihit skills. Heck sword 5 only really goes with their philosophy because of its ability to drag people out of position.

Hammer, nerf again is understandable, except for the can only be hit once every .5 seconds thing. That has to be a bug….as for giving it more gap control, I’d say make 3 and actual leap and hammer 5 to be more like a home run hit that sends people flying back instead of the knockdown it has now, and of course lessen the cast time to something reasonable.

I think I lost several in points from reading this thread, dear lord it’s like playing Superman 64 all over again.

Ah true we might need to add in a nyquil boon.

I know! This is just ridiculous with all the blocks, blinds, dodges, evades,leaps and teleports we have! I mean it’s be one thing if we didn’t have any and had to eat the whatever was thrown at us.

How about chill just makes your character sneeze, would that make everyone happy?

Manasa Devi.7958:

In my experience, the system is terrible. One of the many black marks against HoT.

I did the first tier for Dawn. Colossal waste of time. A lot of WP-ing around the world and standing around waiting for specific events to spawn. Events I’ve done dozens of times before. Often waiting 20-30 minutes for events that last no more than a minute, if that. It was one of the most boring things I’ve done in this game.

It would be a fine system at launch, in august 2012, when everything involved with it would’ve been new and exiting. Now? It’s a dreadful bore, waiting around to repeat content I’ve chewed all the flavor out of long ago.

And then I saw the materials required to continue. I laughed, and bought Dawn on the TP. 650 gold at the time.

What’s a good general rule for buying precursors off the TP? trying to help a friend craft twilight but debating on buying dusk or crafting it. And I mean putting up buy orders really.

Trepidation Lost.3469:

We also have no clense i thought this was why we had good damage output…but guess not

Kinda false, ventari has decent cleanse and then of course the Jalis heal, the problem with ventari is the dang tablet and its energy consumption seems too high for the abilities it has, and salvation of course just kinda sucks, one of the traits should give the tablet pulsing Condi cleanse I think And Jalis…well he only has his heal, plus you have staff but again, energy and cooldowns.

Hexalot.8194:

Shovel Face.4512:

Imperator totius Sylvari.9164:

The sword nerf was uncalled for, oh well Necro here I come! (Jks Ill still play my rev, but necro now…. really? )

Uncalled for? What game are u playing? The consensus was that sword auto was doing too much dmg for an auto. Now it’s on par with most classes.

Rev sword auto was too high ?

So what’s the Thief class excuse then ?

From what I’ve seen on other threads and posts asking similar questions, it’s because they’re squishy, lack utility, don’t bring much else but stealth to the table, and are by design supposed to do higher than average damage. Rev meanwhile just farts boons and might all over the place and able to bring a lot of team utility with its various legends.

I do think the auto was dealing too much damage, but they should’ve thought precision strike and unrelenting assault through better considering the nerfs, especially precision strike, that dang thing is as buggy as release day fallout, and also fixed mallyx back to his beta day glory (minus displacements), Jalis to be better at tanking damage, and ventari to be more user friendly.

Alrighty, I’ll stay civil and concise, got I Demerit apparently today.

Overall, decent amount of content for PvE, my main mode of choice so good there. Love gliding, brand new way to experience core tyria.

Main classes I can talk about is probably revenant and necro. Only thing I have to say about necro is THANK YOU FOR ALL THE ATTENTION. But we really don’t need that much boon corrupt, it’s great, it’s awesome, but if I had know how much you planned to give us I wouldn’t have been fine with saying boon corrupt on scepter is ok. So maybe scale it back juuuuust a hair. Teeny tiny bit.

Revenant. Umm, ok yeah the sword AA giving us high dps was just bad, but precision strike is buggy as can be with the projectiles flying every which way, and unrelenting assault…no qualms about that. Just you say the rev sword is helping to single out targets but precision strike and unrelenting assault go against this concept so much. Please reevaluate.

Revenant trait wise, please move the ICD on unwavering Avoidance to Enhanced Bulwark. That’s the trait that is causing the most problems I feel. Other than that, just bug fixes really and a look at the shield.

Oh Jalis and ventari could use a little love, please consider making his heal/tablet movement skill have no energy cost to use, or instant cast with energy cost. And Jalis could REALLy use a stunbreaker and more access to retaliation.

….so elementalists are masochists now?

Brighteluden.2974:

There really isn’t much sympathy for eles, or mesmers at this point coming from a necro player. I’ve clocked in roughly over 2k hours on my necro and we have been just kind of pushed around and never really had a time to shine in Spvp. I’m sure in due time there will be more adjustments to be made, but until you’ve played necro for as long as I have you’d never understand the struggle.

I’ve played necro as long as you, and let me tell ya, these buffs have me edgy as can be. I’m glad we got buffed but this much boon corruption is gonna put us front and center for nerfs next patch, I guarantee it.

If we just got the scepter auto buff I would say no…but after all the additional boon corrupts but on other necromancer skills yes, it’s a bit overwhelming really.

Yeah I’m using this thing in PvE and it’s just borked to beat hell, if it’s more than 1 enemy the projectiles go flying in all directions and this I loose all the supposed damage buffs. On another note, unrelenting assault seems to hit harder in the shorter timeframe but getting to the point….

Wtf are they thinking saying “sword should be for singling out targets.” When precision strike and unrelenting assault, EVEN THE AA all go against this concept, but they’re trying to shoehorn it in. The sword does anything but help to single out targets!

Zoltar MacRoth.7146:

As someone who’s just made a revenant and is learning to play it, I have to ask….. can you shed some light on what exactly you don’t like about it? You don’t offer any details in your post.

Sword AA got nerfed hard, supposedly the power got moved to the 2 and 3 skills but they bug out so much it won’t matter. The facet of light got a cast time meaning you can’t use it when CC’d now, despite the obvious animations and icon, shield 5 healing was nerfed, the teait that granted stab after dodge was given a 5 second ICD, when really it was the GM trait in Herald that gave an extra stack of stab when you got stab that needed the ICD.

In addition, thief and necro were buffed, necro Moreso and as a necro main I can say we didn’t need THaT MUcH boon corrupt. Since rev has next to no Condi clear and relies on resistance for fighting condies he’ll be eaten alive by necromancer. And with thief damage buffs he won’t be able to trade with a thief much anymore. Finally ventari and Jalis, the two legends who need buffs to be usable, received none, which sucks because ventari is just a couple small buffs away from being a good legend (needs his salvation line cleaned up) and Jalis had no stunbreaker unless you burn 50 energy for a 1.25 second cast time for Rite of the Great Dwarf. And again with us necros getting so much boon corruption, a Hearld rev is just a ticking time bomb for us.

Oi, yep you can really tell thieves are back in force.

jonnoy.1748:

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But I am disappointed with the mesmer scepter changes.

“Additionally, we’ll be improving upon the scepter, which will be receiving updates through skills, functionality, and traits.”

I believe they changed one trait related to the scepter.

This is something I hate about their patch notes previews. They say they’re going to do these things, but we know from their history it’s about maybe a 50/50 shot, and worse, it leaves us wondering wtf they could be talking about. Just go down the list and tell us the dang notes, we don’t need banter, we don’t need overly long detailed explanations of WHY you’re doing this that and the other, we need/want the patch notes. You can take questions and do banter towards the dang end.

XxsdgxX.8109:

And wait for the biased cancerous players come defend thief.

Guarantee this will be the defense

“We’re squishy.”

I have to agree the need to unwavering avoidance need to be put on enhanced bulwark, I don’t really understand this change at all. Not sure about sword damage as I’m not home to test, but do agree that Jalis and ventari still need help, along with their respective lines.

Really, I think they should just let us use all legends like the elementalist attunements, as its clears that they seem to have no idea how to balance all the legends around you only having two at a time equipped.

thewaterguy.4796:

mexay.3902:

I agree with the general sentiment of your post.

I’d personally like to see the following basic changes made.

Inspiring Reinforcement
Instant Stability, Stunbreaker.

Alternatively, completely rework the skill into a short burst AoE stability skill, perhaps a couple stacks for maybe 3 or 4 seconds.

Rite of the Great Dwarf
Remove stunbreaker and either make it instant/near-instant or increase the duration to 8s.

Honestly my two biggest gripes with Jalis are those skills.

Absolutely agree, those 2 skills desperately need help, I think either of our ideas would work to fix him

Couldn’t they also just make rite of the Great Dwarf an upkeep skill, similar to Mallyx and glint? It would also balance out the burst elites to the upkeep elites of the core legends.

Arnath.2319:

Guardians are in the same boat, not meta since HoT launch.

We should team up to kidnap all the Chronomancers in the game, combine their time powers and go back in time to stop Revenants from ever being implemented.

How is this even revenant’s fault?!

Everyone into the nerf bunker, GO GO GO GO!

Yeah this kinda sucks….I mean we don’t have much of any stability anyways, and to get the stability we had to burn endurance. I’m starting to think the whole revenant design itself is flawed and revs need to be given access to all their legends at one time, similar to an elementalist attunements.

As a necromancer main who is currently loving revenant, I have one thing and one thing only to say.

May Grenth have mercy on our souls.

Eh, think abaddon would be possible?

Well based off your suggestions, as well as my own judgement, here is what I have so far.

Shiro-Dragon’s jade lacierators (going to shoot for Mordrem Berserker if I ever get lucky)
Jalis-Magmaton
Ventari-Gnarled walking staff….if I could get it! ;_; Bramblethorn I guess.
Mallyx-Tormented axe and Mace

Claw of jormag could use some love I think.

I know it’s not too orginal, but human is still my favorite, I love my Grenth Priest themed necromancer/reaper.

While reaper is all about getting on top of and staying on your opponent, I feel Deathshroud should be more about zoning and controlling the space between you and your opponent with a combination of fears, pulls, and immobilizes.

DS1 could be fired at twice the speed for half the damage.

DS2 either should be a teleport, or even better I feel, a pull to keep in line with the core necromancer theme.

DS3 really I think is fine.

DS 4 I think could stand to be an AoE pull if you get the full channel off.

DS5, I think is fine.

Hm, did not know sylvari did not have a surname, might need to rename my revenant now….but onto your problem, you might try a name generator, or look into Celtic lore and see what you can find, that’s usually how I name my characters.