In the future ANet you may want to include a few more things to do in your stress tests. I completed all the actual content is under 20 minutes. Even though I stayed around a bit longer, many players must have grown bored because there were less and less as time went by (not very stressful on the servers).
1.5 years to fix getting stuck in siege.
2 years to fix falling damage on an incline
Not holding my breath for the lag issues.
I know I don’t speak for many here, but I like the chance as a necro. My spectral wall is actually useful for those times I need a quick escape or when I want to separate the front from the backline. I do notice I get tossed around a bit more when I run with a guard in my party, but that is the price you pay for having my CC be much more powerful.
YMMV but I personally don’t care about a bit of ping pong when not in plague form, although foot in the grave needs fixing IMO. Solid change.
If you ever want to know what your odds of winning against the house are just check out the opulence in Las Vegas. Many many tears went into the cement of those multi-million dollar buildings.
Bottom line is if you like a skin, dye, node or anything else wrapped behind a RNG wall your best bet is to just buy it on off the TP outright. If however you like to gamble then by all means give it a shot, but just remember the house always wins in the end.
I will never give up on the necro class, no matter how bad it gets. I may throw my fits about it, maybe occasionally offer helpful comments, but I won’t give up no it. I honestly don’t think we’re in the horrible place so many people say we are. Yes we have problems that need fixing. No we are not a totally broken class. Boycotting necros will accomplish absolutely nothing.
I was mistaken…badly. After this latest debacle I don’t know if I can ever go back….
This is one year old. Talk about necro’ing a thread…
He does have a point and necro’ing a year old thread only shows how long MANY of us hoped it would get better; myself included. Sorry to say but I have already given up (short of being a well bomber in WvW) fortunately I have all the tomes I will need for leveling my revenant.
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Apples and oranges.
Stability changes have little to nothing to do with your ability to wipe a 2 or 3 times your number if you are a even a half descent WvW guild in eotm. Sorry but if you are out to show us the difference in pre and post stability changes you had best use a more level environment.
Heavy armor, check.
Attrition based, check.
Hasn’t been tweaked into the ground, check
Should be viable in ALL game modes, check.
Speculative, sure, but looks like I’m in.
You know, I have over 3k hours now on my WvW necro, I have a ranger for pve because you know, damage, but this may finally make me put the old fellow out of his misery (loot mule). From what I am hearing the revenant will be much more along the lines of what attrition should have been for us and it even gets heavy armor.
At this point even a greatsword with godly abilities would still not make up for the total and complete deconstruction of this class from the beta weekend onward.
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I used to battle between using fitg or death perception, at least thats cleared up.
My only battle between the two was if I had a guard in my party in WvW. This change kinda clenches it though as I am not gonna have to make the decision again.
RIP FitG, your usefulness was questionable, situational, and will be easily forgotten.
P.S. to those that didn’t partake of the first beta weekends DS used to offer stability (unlimited) whenever you entered it. Although this was over powered, it amazes me how far anet is willing to turn down the dial in the name of “balance”.
Meh, as has been said you can do 99% of the content with exotics, and 99% of my characters do. Self imposed grinding to get a very minor increase in your stats is your choice, but still still only a self imposed barrier. If it is that important that you have ascended gear then just play the game normally, salvage everything and eventually it will come to you.
With my (lack of) the ability to jump well, I guess I for one will now have a reason to defend more.
I have 18k ap and if I even went into an explorable dungeon I would not know what to do. I avoid the explorables (I will do story occasionally) for the same reason I avoid PvP, I WANT to play my build my way and 90% of the time is not the meta. No worries though I don’t see me tarnishing the experience of those that want a certain player in their dungeon, I am quite happy just doing my own thing.
There is nothing I like better than 1 hit kills and jumping, take a guess at the number of fractal skins I have. Tried them a few times, still didn’t like them, went back to other things.
Your guess is as good as anyone else at this point.
But with the way they like to balance the necro, it will only cleave 2 enemies, have an insane casting time for all the skills and generally make you as mobile as a mountain.
Maybe Anet can make a server just for them. That way they won’t have to deal with us at all.
Brilliant! Add a different economy (with its own TP and different prices between one and the other) and the inability to move between servers, and I would pay for that. Does anyone else feel like opening a Kickstarter?
Calling it now – 200k superior sigils for energy.
To OP: nope, check boxes are just another way to grieve your fellow man, no thanks.
Duel option won’t bring any harm into the game (IMO). (I) Don’t see any reason why we still don’t have it. And I’m pretty sure that (some) people want duel option. At least (all those remaining) would have fun
FTFY
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Find a guild of friendly like minded players to play with that understand your limitations and will work with you.
Asked and answered, AP is meaningless when you have a good group of friends with you.
Wildstar has open world dueling and I hear it is doing well. /sarcasm
I’ll see myself out….
Sure, wildstar. The only MMO out there today with open world duelling. I think your comment speaks for itself.
Actually my point was that if you want to kill the true PvE crowd just add in open world dueling, hence the Wildstar reference. There are many games that offer open world grieving, sorry I mean dueling, so why should we have it here? I for one would leave this game, regrettably after 3000+ hours if they added it, as I am sure would many others.
Edit to add: the answer is probably greed, but then again I won’t blame them for not hurting their bottom line, as I enjoy the freedom of adventuring without being bothered by certain players.
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Wildstar has open world dueling and I hear it is doing well. /sarcasm
I’ll see myself out….
… I would leave the game.
I finished the sentence for you. Honestly if I wanted another gear grinder I would be playing it, as it sits I was not happy they added ascended.
As a PvE person, I don’t have any objections to ANet trying to get me to do PvP or WvW in hopes I’ll try it and like it. What I do dislike is making the PvE dailies so super specific. This map, not any map. This harvest in this region, not all harvests anywhere. This meta boss, not any boss. I wp to a map, harvest as little as possible then wp to the next for events, get event run to next, get and run to next….. If I want to do the boss, I might have to wait up to 2 hours.
I’m not a person who worries about immersion, but this negatively effects my enjoyment of the game. I’m checking off someone else’s list rather than playing and getting things done while enjoying what I’m doing.
I used to be able to pick my map and get things done there. Doing events I ran across on my way to harvesting, rezzing NPCs, killing ambients, etc. I might be doing the same things as the current dailies but it felt less forced and artificial.
I agree completely, if they had kept the original 10 salvage anywhere, 10 gathering anywhere etc. and still reward the 10 achievement points for doing any 3, the system would be perfect.
That would however not be a gold sink for waypointing as many (myself included) could do some of them in our own home instance; you know like what I thought I would have permanently with the purchase of the home nodes.
Lesson learned, I’m never buying anything again for my home instance when they can change the rules when they feel like it.
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And I forgot the part about people pinging a waypoints for events only to get there just as it ends. I end up spending as much time porting all over the map as doing them lol.
I’m quite sure this was planned. The combined gold sink for just the wasted waypoints I have taken could have bought me a superior strength rune by now.
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Yep, went to the designated festival area; btw what the kitten is with all the festivals only being in DR now? I took one look around and saw that the only mini game being offered involved (yet again) beating on my fellow man, and decided that silverwaste farming was gonna have to tide me over for a while longer.
C’est la vie, but it would have been nice to have even a simple ring toss for a stuffed ram as a prize added.
TBH, I am not a fan of the new dailies either, and with the way they are spread out I believe them to only be a waypoint goldsink.
Forgot what topic i was viewing.. lol, please ignore.
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No thanks, it is bad enough this festival offers nothing of value to those that don’t want to beat on their fellow man.
I gave myself Elite: Dangerous for Xmas seeing as I played the original in 1984 I was/am stoked. I find myself just logging in to gw2 to get my daily reward and do 3 chores for the achievement. I sometime rally with my guild during the week in WvW and generally do guild missions on Saturday, but my playtime has decreased significantly from what it once was.
My hope is that in 2015 they do something about the missing crafting professions and add more real content than they did in 2014. If not I now have another game I am playing to fill the hours.
IMO IF they are ever added as a node you can place in your home instance, you can bet your kitten they will be added as an extremely rare drop from a black lion chest. Many players, myself included, have wanted one of these for quite some time and I am sure ANet knows this as well.
If they are ever introduced, a TP near you will have them at 5000 gold initially I’m sure.
Well seeing as we crafters have been waiting apx. a year now for jewelery and cook professions to be updated, I can’t see any hope for precursors.
Just play the mystic toilet trading game for now and maybe (lol) within the next 5 years it will get added.
Well if they decide to keep the change it will only mean that they want to turn regular WvW into EotM mk2. Since having players scout is the most unrewarding activity in the game (thanks bots) upgrades ares kinda pointless. As it sits even after a week even t1 is just one big karma train.
Honestly though I could care less if they keep it as I am usually one of those traveling with my guild and love running into small flipping parties.
buy other gear if you cant handle no salvaging
Too true.
Whenever i get a character to lvl 80 no I just buy (or craft) a set that can be salvaged if and when I want the rune/sigil back. Karma/badge gear is good for experimenting but you need to purchase it with eyes open knowing whatever you put into it cannot be removed easily (cheaply). There should be a disclaimer whenever you purchase said items, but alas you are kittened.
2 words; masking tape.
I set up my camera facing down, I anticipated the notes hitting the center just fine and I tried to pick anything but the middle platform (too many notes IMO).
But it wasn’t until I placed masking tape on my monitor at 1,4, 6 and 9 (5 is not used) that i was at least able to do a few rounds. I always skip the hard songs regardless , but the easy ones aren’t to bad. No guarantees it will work, but it made my ability to pick the right lane much easier for me so I hope it helps someone out there.
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I predict that WvW will get no real love in 2015, but PvP and PvE will.
Not much of a prediction I know, but I always was one to pick the low hanging fruit from the tree.
Proud to be one of the players that just hit keys till he got his 500 notes.
If I ruined your song it may be due to the fact that I turn off players instruments in game, and for that I offer no apologies.
Edit: and you can blame ANet for making it mandatory this year to get the achievement for all the players not doing well, or in my case utterly terrible.
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I’m fairly sure the meta would get more interesting IF the monsters you face were to target (agro) the guy doing the most damage as opposed to the guy wearing the toughness gear. I’m sure if I was getting targeted by five players and one of them was hitting like a tank on steroids I would not be targeting the guardian. Even if we don’t have a trinity here, monsters seems to be quite stupid in this genre.
How is this point relevant to meta groups where everyone is wearing glass?
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It would not help nor hinder them, however those of us that like to wear more toughness gear would feel safer; or at very least be the last targeted. Although as has been pointed out the wiki does say that those that do more damage are targeted first (so it says) so my point is mute.
That is not to say I would not like to see more I in the AI used in these games.
I’m fairly sure the meta would get more interesting IF the monsters you face were to target (agro) the guy doing the most damage as opposed to the guy wearing the toughness gear. I’m sure if I was getting targeted by five players and one of them was hitting like a tank on steroids I would not be targeting the guardian. Even if we don’t have a trinity here, monsters seems to be quite stupid in this genre.
Aww I bought all the home gathering nodes just to faceroll my daily gatherer. That was my favorite daily.
If it’s “Gather in Ascalon” for the daily, maybe going to the Black Citadel and doing your harvesting in the home instance there will still count?
Small hope, I know, and nowhere near as convenient.
Although this would be a step up from having to port all over the kitten map, some of us don’t even know the layout of the other home instances. A better way to not make those of us that paid for the home nodes feel left out would just to allow them to be used no matter the daily region.
On topic. I will hold judgement for when it is released, but if it means it will cause me to do very specific things in very specific areas, I can’t say it will be a step forward at all. Currently I can pop off 70% of the daily without having to do or go anywhere special and although there will be rewards for doing so it will feel more like a chore this way for me to complete.
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I actually makes karma-trains less viable…
and scouts could form up to a guild and charge a price for their service…
just a thought^^
Good luck retiring on the profits, just saying.
New wvw scenario:
1) Blob up an entire map queue (can’t let em have any kills)
2) Go to nearest keep/tower and drop siege (don’t even need superior as time is no longer important)
3) only use siege to hit tower/keep while everyone else chats about inane stuff on teamspeak (can’t let yourself get orange swords on gates afterall)
4) wait till gate/wall drops and kill lord
5) rinse and repeat, profit
EOTM mk2.
After seeing all the legendaries, both in preview and on other characters I must agree.
The problem as I see it is that some of the designs may suit your character but you are stuck with the footprints/glow and special effects of the model. I personally would love to see a model system introduced that allows us to “personalize” the glow/footprints and effects of your own legendary. It is after-all your legend you are trying to convey, why must we be stuck with what that particular designer thought of as legendary.
Either way adding a few more options IMO wouldn’t be a bad thing after 2 years.
I must agree with the OP for the same reasons I despise picking up an environmental (branches etc.) weapons and dropping them as if they are on fire. I understand ANet wants us to see and do things through the eyes of another, but I didn’t spend as much time as I have learning exactly what my skills can do in a certain situation to have them scrapped at the drop of a hat.
I also don’t play a thief and as such the play style is foreign to me even if her skills are op as some have said. As an older gamer it isn’t as easy as most would think to abandon all my hard learned rotations and abilities just to try and learn a new set at the drop of a hat; hence the reason I have only one main and a few crafting mules.
Please in the future give us the option to choose, Thanks.
Everyone, except for the absolutely tiny minority of players who are happy with the objectively lethargic output of content by ANet, agrees with you.
Citation needed for the opinions stated as facts in this post.
I am sure he could have have put an IMO in there somewhere, I too thinks the actual content of these patches are lacking. I want the last two professions to be implemented already, with or without precursors is fine just add them. I want to see more meaningful changes to WvW, not only just PvP. I want to see rebuilding being done in LA and possibly Kessex Hills too.
Not once did I speak for the majority here, but IMO many would like to see these changes implemented also; I know many in my guild would.
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I love my necro in a WvW zerg where you can replenish your life force very quickly and are a god of laying down pain with wells and marks. However if I am roaming I use a mesmer, and if I am doing any PvE content I stick with my warrior. However, if the fight is not going our way in WvW the lack of mobility, vigor, blocks ect. makes us an easy target for cc and focus fire and we seldom get away; my guild has the saying you just need to outrun the necros.
IMO Necro’s are fine for what they can do, mind you they are quite limited in most areas of the game compared to other classes and as has been said the build diversity is quite lacking.
I do take my hat off to any roaming necros I see in WvW though simply because you need to be very good. Otherwise you are usually just troll bait for mesmers and thieves.
When I get my cape and am able to ride off into the sunset on my unicorn, then of course you can have open world PVP. Mind you it will still be the last time I log in, but who wouldn’t want to ride a unicorn into the sunset as they’re leaving.
I’d recommend just giving up on WvW and going to sPVP at this point. At least in their forums you will not only get noticed, but the devs might even perform a miracle and reply in the thread.
For an intended game mode, this forum sure does seem to get less traffic than an Arby’s in a Hindu temple.
Pretty kitten good when it is a lone necro against a fellow thief and myself. If you can’t beat em, join em. If you meant how well can I take on 2 others, then I can escape just fine when needed on my thief thanks for asking.
My solution with the latest patch:
Lay there dead while your companions (Rox etc.) defeat the bosses. They don’t res you, but you still get the completion and who doesn’t need a snack now and again.
Wonder when wvw players get free ascended armor. Kind of silly that PvE players always get super rewards.
Or reward tracks, or defense perks, the list goes on.
Honestly if you play WvW you had better be there for the fun, because if you are there for the rewards you will be SADLY disappointment.
On topic, the motes do indeed help, but the entire thing needs to be made into 2 separate instances IMO as it is FAR long.
And now I can’t get to the middle??? Wtf.
You are not alone…..
Got all the heroes and now I may as well leave the instance.
EDIT: HEY ANET maybe put the flashing RED CIRCLE in the right place!!